Cradled in Caricature: Visual Humour in Satirical Prints and Drawings
A serious survey of a comic art form.
High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson
A rich and multifaceted exhibition, perhaps deserving of a better subtitle.
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
An exhibition that would have pleased the great diarist himself.
Black Georgians: The Shock of the Familiar
A sensitive and challenging consideration of Black lives in eighteenth-century Britain.
Goya: The Portraits
A superb display of Goya's works.
The Fallen Woman
A nineteenth-century trope enriched by eighteenth-century contexts.
Vivienne Westwood: Cut from the Past
Danson House provided a fitting and ironic background for Westwood's innovative designs.
Drawing in Venice: Titian to Canaletto
Giorgio Vasari asserted that Venetians did not draw. The Ashmolean proves him wrong with an engaging exhibition.
Jean-Etienne Liotard
An exhibition that succeeds in capturing the breadth and importance of Liotard's oeuvre.
Drawn from the Antique: Artists and the Classical Ideal
A thought-provoking examination of artistic processes and pedagogy.