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FT’s art critic turns curator
Being a ‘discerning eye’ for an annual event gave Jackie Wullschlager a chance to play fantasy collector – and to be judged by display of her chosen pieces
Playing Stravinsky with a full orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s installation ‘Re-Rite: Be the Orchestra’ targets newcomers to classical music, says Hannah Nepil
Putting LA at the heart of world culture
The philanthropist and collector Eli Broad tells Peter Aspden he wants his city to become a must-visit cultural destination
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A huge redevelopment of the self-proclaimed “world’s oldest public museum” has increased the floor area by 50 per cent, rethought the method of display and flooded the place with light and colour, writes Robin Blake
Points of View, British Library, London
The real purpose of this show is not so much to tell us about early photography as to let us know that the British Library is one of its great treasure-houses, writes Francis Hodgson
Arshile Gorky, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artists are supposed to be oppressed by the anxiety of influence, but this whopping survey shows that Gorky didn’t rebel against his forebears; he revered and emulated them, writes Ariella Budick
Sculpture in Painting, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
The sculpture gallery’s first show devoted to painting explores the links between the two forms, writes Humphrey Ocean
Radical interests of 20th-century sculptors
Two new exhibitions explore works that exploited primitivist themes of fertility, sexuality and maternity, reshaping representation in shocking fashion, writes Jackie Wullschlager
Odilon Redon at the Fitzwilliam Museum
An exhibition of lithographs presents startling visions that make this artist look like a prophet of the ideas of Jung, says Robin Blake
Art and Illusions, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Rachel Spence visits an exhibition dedicated to trompe l’oeil from antiquity to the contemporary




