Gwen John in Wales
An outstandingly well-designed retrospective exhibition of the work of Gwen John – in her native land of Wales – marks the 150th anniversary of her birth
Regency Collectors by Peter Humfrey
Peter Humfrey’s Regency Collectors brings together seven very different individuals in a scholarly, beautifully illustrated publication
Michelangelo’s Puzzle
Did Michelangelo forge the Laocoön? Ae there many references to it in the artist’s Sistine Last Judgement? Did he create this fresco as a form of intellectual Renaissance puzzle?
‘Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Arts’
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is now the venue for the first major exhibition of art works from the ancient world and Renaissance to modern times inspired by Ovid’s classic. It features works by Bernini, Brancuşi, Caravaggio, Correggio, Delvaux, Magritte, Poussin, Rodin, Rubens, Tintoretto, Titian and Veronese.
Sir Don McCullin at 90
‘Broken Beauty’ was a fine exhibition at the Holborn Museum, Bath, to celebrate the 90th birthday of Sir Don McCullin (b 1935)
Leonora Carrington’, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
The surrealists English artist Leonora Carrington is the subject of a large exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
Edna Clarke Hall (1879–1979): from Slade Student to Studio Destruction
Edna Clarke Hall (1879–1979) was one of the most dazzling students ever to attend the Slade School of Art: she enrolled there at the age of fourteen. Max Browne reveals the desperately sad story of what went wrong – at the hands of her distinguished husband
Women artists
The primary revelation of two exhibitions of work by women artists is the outstanding quality of so much of it – whose makers were renowned in their lifetimes and celebrated in contemporary written sources, but who have gradually been erased from the record by subsequent generations of (overwhelmingly male) art historians
‘Seurat and the Sea’
The first-ever exhibition devoted to Seurat’s marine subjects – although more than half of his final output was made up of them
Alfred Morrison (1821–1897) – millionaire shopping
Alfred Morrison (1821–1897) is the subject of a new book edited by Caroline Dakers, which explores the vast wealth of this ‘Vicorian Maecenas’, identifying what he spent his money on, what he collected, and the artists and craftsmen he patronised