Reviews
A pristine heritage
Gillian Darley visits the new incarnation of France’s museum of architecture.
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BOOKS
Old Masters underground
A 40th anniversary history tells the story of Christ Church Picture Gallery with engaging lightness, writes Michael Hall.
BOOKS
View from the box
This analysis of a celebrated masterpiece by Renoir depicting a couple at the theatre opens up a major theme in Impressionist art, writes Paul Bonaventura.
Flakes of light
John Russell Taylor welcomes an exhibition in London that proves the Italian Divisionists were more than a dead end.
Longing & constraint
A survey of women artists of the Impressionist movement reveals many similarities in their depictions of women who seem both at ease and subtly confined, writes Jeffrey Meyers.
Art in an age of ease
An exhibition organised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and now at the Nasher Museum of Art, makes a bold and persuasive case for the artistic achievements of the neglected reign of Philip III of Spain, writes Jonathan Lopez.
A family enterprise
The De Brays are a largely forgotten family of painters, but this fine exhibition reveals their outstanding contribution to Dutch art of the golden age, writes Jörg Zutter.
Picture perfect
This survey of Robert Adam’s houses offers new insights into buildings that might have been designed for photography, writes John Martin Robinson.
Raising the bar
The first volume of the Getty Museum’s sumptuous catalogue of its French furniture sets new standards of information and analysis, writes Carolyn Sargentson.