Art History Notes

Richard Dorment for the Telegraph, 15 February, Charles Darwent for the Independent, 21 February, and James Hall,"Michelangelo and the mastery of drawing," Guardian, 6 March, review"Michelangelo's Dream," an exhibit at London's Courtauld Gallery.

Maya Jasanoff reviews Holger Hoock's Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 for the Guardian, 6 March.

Sarah Boxer,"The Dark Art of Cut and Paste," Slate, 3 March, has slides from and notes on"Playing with Pictures: The Victorian Art of Photocollage," an exhibit at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Rachel Wolff,"Did Monet Invent Abstract Art?" Daily Beast, 4 March, reviews"Monet and Abstraction," an exhibit at two venues in Madrid, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Fundación Caja Madrid.