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Among all the new developments in the museum world, one of the most keenly anticipated must be the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. The date for its opening has not yet been announced but is likely to be soon. Drawing is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). He is known as a sensualist who gave himself over to colour and who revelled in the luscious materiality of his oils.

March 2026 Vol. 168 | No. 1476 Discoveries A number of admirable scholarly initiatives exploring Spanish art in international contexts are coming to fruition, so a brief survey of some of these projects is timely. The year 2024 marked the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York – now the Morgan Library & Museum – which transformed the private collection of J.

by Jack Barron Reviews / Books • 11.09.2025 In 2014 the French-Norwegian poet Caroline Bergvall published Drift, a wayward translation of the tenth-century anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer anda response to the tragedy of the so-called ‘left-to-die boat’, a vessel carrying seventy-two migrants from Libya towards Italy.

by Tom Hastings Reviews / Books • 14.08.2025 The Man Who Envied Women comprises seven texts about the practice of Jimmy Robert (b.1975). Alongside essays by Karolin Meunier, Magnus Elias Rosengarten, Elisabeth Lebovici and Bart van der Heide, it includes a conversation between Robert and Kirsty Bell, a joint reflection on the artist’s work by the curators Çağla İlk and Misal Adnan Yıldız and a letter written by Robert to his late friend and collaborator, the artist Ian White (1971–2013).

National Gallery, Singapore, 2nd April–17th August Paris figures prominently in the art-historical imagination. Beginning in the 1850s, the transformation of the city into a model urban environment laid the stage for an affinity with modernist and avant-garde art that was to continue into the mid twentieth century. This exhibition examines its artistic life in the interwar years from an alternative perspective: that of outsiders and recent arrivals.

interviewed by Emily Steer Articles / Interview • 30.07.2025 Fiona Tan (b.1966) FIG.1 brings emotional complexity and technical prowess to expansive works that broaden the experience of seeing. Her projects are rich with research; she frequently delves into museum archives, bringing still and moving imagery together in unusual ways.

The serious study of the decorative arts and the pleasures that derive from it have been an important feature of The Burlington Magazine since the early twentieth century. But how healthy is this field of research today?

You will be signed in for 6 hours upon logging in New to The Burlington Magazine? July 2025 Vol. 167 | No. 1468 Art of Northern Europe The gallery of honour in the heart of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, has recently welcomed an impressive painting to its walls: Vanitas still life by Maria van Oosterwijck (1630–93). In a compelling sense the artist has long had a place in galleries of honour, as works by her were acquired by Emperor Leopold I, Louis XIV of France and Cosimo III de’ Medici of Tuscany.

by Valentina Bin Reviews / Exhibition • 27.06.2025 The unpredictable course of life often flattens into fundamental, dualistic choices: yes or no, follow or lead, stay or go? Navigating such binaries means, more often than not, being haunted by the unchosen option. And yet, at certain moments, the burden of decision lifts: we find ourselves at a threshold where choice does not foreclose possibility, but instead invites multiplicity.

by Tom Denman Reviews / Exhibition • 18.06.2025 Among the texts laid out at the entrance to the mid-career survey of Ed Atkins (b.1982) at Tate Britain, London, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit’s Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais (1993) stands out as the most illuminating in relation to the artist’s intentions. In it, the authors theorise an aesthetic of ‘failure’, which they associate principally with the writing of Samuel Beckett.