Books

Don’t buy this, buy that

Art collectors are “ruthless, greedy, tyrannical and disreputable” in the words of art historian Kenneth Clark and redeemed only by their possession of “one principle worth all the rest: the... MORE

Published online: 11 May 2013

 
Recently published

Conserving contemporary art: immortality starts here

Goats, guns and roofing sheets: how to look after art’s unusual materials

Published online: 09 May 2013

Do try this at home

Instructions for do-it-yourself art have been collected by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist

Published online: 09 May 2013

Bolognese answer to Vasari’s Lives published in English for the first time

First book is part a 16-volume edition of Malvasia’s account of the 14th- to the 17th-century school

Published online: 06 May 2013

All smoke and mirrors?

The many issues—the market, law, conservation, originality, reproduction and simulacra—bearing on the meaning of “authentic”

Published online: 12 March 2013

Books for Christmas

Recommended reads, old and new, from the great and the good of the art world

Published online: 17 December 2012

Gallery

Gallery:  Art books for under the tree

Each year, The Art Newspaper asks leading art writers, curators, gallerist and collectors to pick their favourite art books from the past year.

And best dressed goes to…

Sharp-eyed observers at Frieze may have noticed that über-curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is looking especially dapper, leaving art-world...

Sewell sounds off

Art critic Brian Sewell was on top form when he spoke at an evening event at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London earlier this month,...

There's no place like home

More than 40 artists, including big names such as Richard Prince, Glenn Ligon, Shirin Neshat and Chuck Close, have agreed to appear in...