The Burlington Magazine

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.

You will be signed in for 6 hours upon logging in New to The Burlington Magazine? December 2025 Vol. 167 | No. 1473 Collecting in the UK William Hogarth (1697–1764) is chiefly known for his richly satirical paintings, which pricked the pretensions and highlighted the weaknesses of his age, as well as for his characterful portraits. Only on rare occasions did he attempt monumental ‘grand manner’ projects in sacred or secular contexts.

This Editorial went to press three days before the events in Paris on the 19th of October 2025. It is striking that in an age when deference to traditional institutions is declining, the interest in the trappings of monarchy is flourishing. Three contrasting examples illustrate this phenomenon particularly well: the French Crown Jewels in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; the United Kingdom’s Crown Jewels in the Tower of London; and the Honours of Scotland in Edinburgh Castle.

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.

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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.

by Chris Townsend Reviews / Exhibition • 25.07.2025 Khorós by Berlinde De Bruyckere (b.1964) at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR), is a highly discomfiting exhibition that, through an original and incisive engagement with the Western European canon, challenges traditional frameworks for the interpretation and reception of fine art.