The Burlington Magazine

The Burlington Magazine is a monthly scholarly publication focused on fine and decorative arts. Founded in 1903, it holds the title of the oldest art journal published in English. Since 1986, it has been produced by a charitable organization.

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May 2025, #1466 - Vol 167

1 month ago | burlington.org.uk | Christopher P. Baker |Mary Shepard |Yuriko Jackall |Michael W. Cothren

The costume institute and its annual gala in May at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the Met), have become fixtures on the museum world’s map and calendar. Whether you delight in them or are bemused by the spectacle they provide, or indeed try and take no notice at all, they are hard to ignore. The alignment they represent between fashion history, contemporary celebrity and the gravitas of a major museum is immensely beneficial in terms of fundraising and profile.
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Jun 27, 2024 | burlington.org.uk | Peter Cooke

Palazzo Roverella, Rovigo, 24th February–30th June This is an exceptionally interesting exhibition on a perennially popular artist. A clue to the curators’ approach is given in the subtitle, ‘Paris 1886–1901’. A more accurate but less appealing choice would have been ‘Toulouse-Lautrec and his Milieu’. Of the two hundred works exhibited, only sixty are by Toulouse- Lautrec (1864–1901).
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May 30, 2024 | burlington.org.uk | Lynne Cooke

Bard Graduate Center, New York, 23rd February–7th July Visionaries are fundamental to the avant-gardes that appeared in Europe in the inter-war years. Few, however, were as prescient, pragmatic and tactical as Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979). Over the past decade, the artistic achievements of the Ukrainian-born, Russian-educated and German-trained pioneer have been radically reappraised.
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Apr 4, 2024 | burlington.org.uk | Elizabeth Goldring |Emma Rutherford

A newly discovered cabinet miniature by Nicholas Hilliard By Elizabeth Goldring and Emma Rutherford Nicholas Hilliard’s production of cabinet miniatures spans a roughly ten-year period, from c.1585 to c.1595.[1] Too big to be held in the palm of the hand, these works were designed not for insertion in bejeweled lockets, but rather for display in cases or cabinets or occasionally hung on a wall. The sitters are depicted full length, often in an outdoor setting, and are surrounded by objects...
April 2024, #1453 - Vol 166

Mar 28, 2024 | burlington.org.uk | Elizabeth Goldring |Emma Rutherford |Theodore Mould |Barbara Bryant

Securing acquisitions for museums and galleries is a complicated business at the best of times. Inflationary pressures, heavy demands on limited resources and restraints on what funders can provide all make the process a unique challenge to navigate. Success requires deftly balancing the expertise and creativity of curators and directors with the generosity of collectors, as well as the knowledge and assistance of colleagues in the art market.
March 2024, #1452 - Vol 166

Feb 29, 2024 | burlington.org.uk | Rebecca P. Daniels |David Franklin |Maria Clelia Galassi |Reinier Baarsen

Two hundred years ago, in the spring of 1824, British enthusiasts for European painting had good reason to feel optimistic. In a House of Commons debate that took place on 2nd April the government was praised for agreeing to acquire for the nation thirty-eight paintings from the collection of the discerning banker John Julius Angerstein, in order to establish a new National Gallery in London.
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Feb 29, 2024 | burlington.org.uk | Mary Ann Caws

Edited by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang, with essays by Simonetta Fraquelli, Cindy Kang, Jelena Kristic, Christine Poggi, Rachel Silveri and contributions by Corrinne Chong and Oriane Poret. 208 pp. incl. 112 col. + 64 b. & w. ills. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, 2023), £40. ISBN 978–0–30027–363–2. Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), a model free spirit, danced among the sexually fluid circles of 1920s Paris.
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Oct 7, 2023 | burlington.org.uk | Zahra Khan

The Box, Plymouth, 17th February–2nd June This exhibition boldly and gracefully traces the impact of Britain’s colonial rule in South Asia on the arts, culture and society of both regions. The transfer of knowledge and culture between the East and the West has long been studied and variously vilified and celebrated.
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Sep 5, 2023 | burlington.org.uk | Richard Williams

By Suzaan Boettger. 440 pp. incl. 30 col. + 90 b. & w. ills. (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2023), $34.95 ISBN 978–1–5179–1354–0 The foundation myth of this compelling psychobiography of the American artist Robert Smithson (1938–73) occurs early on in the book. It is 1936 and the artist’s older brother Harold has just died of leukaemia at the age of nine. At this time such a diagnosis meant death; and what a horrible death it was.
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Jul 3, 2023 | burlington.org.uk | Joseph M. Connors

On the 400th anniversary of the election of Maffeo Barberini as Pope Urban VIII, an exhibition at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, has brought together examples of the spectacular patronage of the arts for which he and his three nephews were responsible.In 1625, two years after he had been elected as Pope Urban VIII, Maffeo Barberini (1568–1644) made the unusual decision to leave Rome’s densely populated Campus Martius and to build a new family palace on the Quirinal Hill.