• Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2023

    Our critic’s highlights included spotlit Vermeer, mouse-fur beauty spots, Donatello saints, Alice Neel’s New Yorkers and the reopening of an underloved institutionRead the Observer critics’ review of 2023 in full1. Vermeer
    Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; FebruaryShow of the year, if not the decade: 28 of the 37 known works spotlit in a sequence of darkened chambers, some of them beautifully solo, this was the chance of a lifetime to see Vermeer’s mind laid out in his painting. Ex

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