Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, Tate Modern

That is quite a harsh assessment, but having seen the show I don't think it's entirely unreasonable. Miro comes across in so many instances as a kind of Picasso-lite. I found myself wondering if he'd lived to day, would he have been a computer animation designer? Those squidgy little characters would have worked great in Pixar (and I don't mean that as a compliment). I was relying on the pre-war stuff to lift it, but a lot of the paintings were disappointingly small. The question is would a different show have given us a very different sense of him? The rooms at Tate somehow didn't feel they had quite enough in them. I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt - just.