ReviewBook Shorts
Degas’ love of the Paris opera house is brought to the fore in this catalogue
The artist used a variety of devices to explore the interior of the Opéra Garnier throughout his career
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Brighton Pavilion gets its glitter back as fanciful treasures return on long-term loan from the Queen
More of the startling objects collected by George IV will return from Buckingham Palace in early 2020
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
A missing chapter in the history of the decorative arts: the Restoration and July Monarchy
Louvre-organised show at the Grand Palais of neglected period of production
ArchiveMetropolitan Museum of Art
Star exhibit at the Met: the Christopher Dresser album the V&A could not afford
Modern designs at the Met
ReviewBook Shorts
Children’s portraits without shadows: new book on painting childhood
No Chucky or Lord of the Flies in portraits by British and British-based artists
ReviewBook Shorts
Boilly, prolific portraitist and genre painter
Almost unknown in Britain, his work was secretly amassed by Harry Hyams, the billionaire property developer
ReviewBook Shorts
William-Adolphe Bougeureau: tasteless, sentimental, soft-porny, but French above all
Book looks at the former official darling of the American republic
ReviewBook Shorts
A collection of Romantic 19th-century German illustrations
Book looks at narrative cycles by Edward von Steinle and Leopold Bode
NewsConservation & Preservation
Warship figureheads restored ahead of opening for new Plymouth arts complex
Royal Navy statues are being made shipshape and ready for installation at The Box, opening in 2020
ReviewBooks
A monumental study of the heyday of Historicist painting
This comprehensive volume looks at a genre popular in 19th-century Europe but long scorned in the art world
NewsOpenings
A bigger splash: France's expanded La Piscine museum reopens after makeover
Former Art Deco swimming pool in Roubaix dives into Modern French sculpture
NewsDiscoveries
Courbet's model for the Origin of the World discovered
It is now “99% certain” that dancer Constance Quéniaux is depicted in the infamous nude
PreviewExhibitions
Looted ‘cannibal’ bowl served up in Royal Academy of Art’s Oceania show
Artefact is one of around 200 on show in largest exhibition on the region in almost 40 years
ReviewBooks
How to force historians to use their eyes: book urges academics to 'take art more seriously'
Princeton University's Theodore K. Rabb says more visual materials—not only written records—should be explored
ReviewExhibitions
Louvre’s Delacroix exhibition uncovers France’s superstar of the Romantic era
His boundless inventiveness as a painter—and not only—shines through in this ambitious survey
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How Delacroix went from lycée dropout to establishment favourite
Exhibition at the Musée du Louvre is first major survey of the painter’s work in more than 50 years
ArchiveExhibitions
Rijksmuseum explores how botany helped give birth to photography
the New Realities of 19th-century photography shows key developments in scientific and artistic endeavour
News19th century
Why Courbet's The Origin of the World is so popular—and it's not what you think
Our most-read story of 2016 was about Facebook's legal battle over the French master's work. Here's why it still causes a stir, 100 years on
News19th century
London version of Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe predates the bigger picture in Paris
Research supports theory that Courtauld’s painting is preparatory sketch for version in the Musée d'Orsay
NewsReview
Frivolity, hedonism, sensuality and sex—OK!
The 19th-century revision of received perceptions of French Rococo art
ArchiveCollectors
The forgotten collectors: Five significant 19th-century collectors
The contributions of tobacco heiresses and banking magnates explored
ArchiveNational Gallery
The big hole in Britain’s National Gallery: Bring back the Victorians
The omission of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood could be rectified by judicious loans
ArchivePhotography
New Met exhibition explores pre-digital manipulation of photography
Photographers began manipulating their work long before the digital era
ArchiveBooks
Books: Rossetti’s fascination with women’s bodies and Dadd’s madness are investigated
Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Original 1860s decor has been restored at the V&A
Victorian collectors’ pictures back on display
ArchiveDante Gabriel Rossetti
Books: The end of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The complete correspondence of the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet has reached the last of its nine volumes
ArchiveExhibitions
Queen Victoria & Albert: Art and Love
An exhibition catalogue continues the trend of challenging the dour image of Victoria
ArchiveBooks
Books: What does Pre-Raphaelite mean?
This collection of essays questions how we understand the terms Pre-Raphaelite, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement
ArchiveCollectors
Collector Richard Driehaus's private museum gets a classical makeover
Who said it was all about modernism?
ArchiveImpressionism
Books: Impressionist women and Impressionists’ women
New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men
ArchiveCommercial galleries
Former fugitive opens decorative arts gallery
Roberto Polo, once the toast of Paris, returns in style
ArchiveAuctions
November auctions of Important British Pictures failed to stir collectors leaving slew of unsold lots
Collectors shunned many 18th- and 19th-century works
ArchiveChristopher Dresser
From flea market to Manhattan penthouse: the revival of Christopher Dresser
Gilbert and George and Mickey Wolfson are among the enthusiastic collectors
ArchiveExhibitions
New exhibition 'The pre-Raphaelite dream' rocks the Art Gallery of Western Australia
The paintings and drawings on show in Perth are on loan from the Tate collection
ArchiveBooks
A story of politics and class in a new biography of Henry Cole
An exhaustive treatment of the man behind the Great Exhibition, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Prince Albert and much, much more
ArchiveArt dealers
Diary of a New York dealer, Hans Kraus, Jr: “The old medium has died and digital has taken over”
Why collectors of 19th-century painting are crossing over into photography
ArchiveNational Trust
National Trust buys William Morris’s house
Red House, Bexleyheath, to be preserved for the nation
ArchiveBooks
Book review: 'For the King’s pleasure' is a meteorite of a book
This account of George IV’s decorations and furnishings is a landmark in the history of writing about the decorative arts
ArchiveExhibitions
Decadent collection of English art enthusiast and eccentric William Beckford to go on show at Bard Graduate Center
A sample of the collector's princely taste
ArchiveJewellery
Books: Henri Vever's Bible of French jewellery studies
The Vasari of his field, Vever was himself a jeweller—though like Vasari he is better known for his writing
ArchiveConservation & Preservation
The Hereford Screen, the V&A’s greatest hidden treasure, to be revealed this month
Gilbert Scott’s massive Gothic Revival screen has been restored for £750,000 and goes on public view for the first time in over three decades
ArchiveExhibitions
Queen Victoria’s Centenary at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Conspicuous by her absence
A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book
ArchiveBooks
William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the reticent collectors
A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
ArchiveCollectors
A London Victorian watercolour collector sells up. “With contemporary art you know there will be another work around the corner”
An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.
ArchiveJ.M.W. Turner
Current exhibitions and publications on Turner: No stone left unturned
As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship
ArchiveExhibitions
“Art nouveau” at the V&A and “1900” at the Grand Palais. Unity of the arts
Artists and designers 100 years ago were united in their embrace of modernity
ArchiveExhibitions
Decisive moments: the history of photography at the V&A
How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time
ArchiveBooks
The Victoria and Albert Museum. The great Kensington Kunstkammer
The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books
ArchiveBooks
The lives of the collectors: J. Pierpont Morgan. Everything but the art
This blockbuster biography records the life of the American financier in exhaustive and exhausting detail, but fails to tell the story of his collecting
ArchivePhotography
“Private dreams and unknowable pleasures” in early photography
Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition
ArchiveBooks
Lives of collectors: a faux Frick biography
This biography of Henry Clay Frick takes a psychological approach that leaves much to be desired
ArchiveArt market
A river runs through it: Hanging around in New York, a monthly guide by Brook S. Mason.
Impressionist painters on the Seine at Wildenstein, the Gilded Age glows at Vance Jordan, exoticism at Mark Murray plus fine furniture and Picasso’s lino cuts
ArchiveBooks
Timothy Mowl's William Beckford biography casts the famed collector as "a sexual and architectural Lucifer"
The story of the Regency dilettante, eccentric and collector is told in all its scandalous detail
ArchiveConservation & Preservation
A campaign is underway to raise funds for the conservation of Sir George Gilbert Scott’s metalwork masterpiece, the Hereford Screen
Since its removal from Hereford Cathedral over three decades ago, it has languished in store, slowly deteriorating.
ArchiveBooks
Janet Myles, L.N. Cottingham, 1787-1874: architect of the Gothic Revival
Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position
ArchiveExhibitions
Biggest Art Nouveau show ever at the V&A
Exhibition promises to be “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Art Nouveau ever staged”
ArchiveDecorative arts
Interior architecture: a domestic model for intellectuals
Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies
ArchiveExhibitions
A trio of nineteenth-century paintings shows in England
The Tate Gallery proposes the origins in British art of Symbolism, the Royal Academy investigates fairies, while Manchester presents women Pre-Raphaelites
ArchiveBooks
Speaking prose all their lives: The relationship between art Victorian social mores explored
A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors
ArchiveBooks
New book demystifies nineteenth-century Pittsburgh collectors and how they rose out of the US's industrial centre
The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed
ArchiveExhibitions
Masterpieces of the Zuloaga family courtesy of a Middle-Eastern millionaire
From gunmakers to silversmiths
ArchiveBooks
Book review: Dutch decorative arts
Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940
ArchiveBooks
Books: Pugin’s Gothic genius
Two books accompanying recent museum shows
ArchiveExhibitions
V&A embarks on big loan show to Baltimore on the history of the museum itself
It will be the first time that an institution has allowed the story of its acquisitions to be subjected to such intense inquiry
ArchiveExhibitions
William Morris any way you like at the V&A
A major survey that leaves interpretation of his achievements to the visitor
ArchiveWilliam Morris
Victoria and Albert loses out on William Morris collection
Berger collection to go to Huntington after two-year silence from the London museum
ArchiveCollectors
Collection of interior design scholar Mario Praz reinstated to Palazzo Primoli apartment
Praz bequeathed the entirety of his collection to the Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna, in the hope that his home would become a satellite of the museum
ArchiveExhibitions
Pugin, founder of modernism, in a riot of polychromy at the V&A
A major survey of the high priest of the Gothic Revival
ArchiveBooks
Useful dealers' survey responds to market interest in 19th-century ceramics
Outside the canon, but now bought by US Arab and Japanese collectors
ArchiveExhibitions
Morozov's music room reconstructed in the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Exhibition of Russia's two most famous fin-de-siècle collectors now on in Moscow
ArchiveExhibitions
Classical taste in America, Washington's official style
Neo-classicism as expressed in painting sculpture and the decorative arts in a touring exhibition
ArchiveArt market
English Victorian painting index
Middle-of-the-range works have maintained their appeal, even as to the kind of collector who bought them when they were painted
ArchiveExhibitions
The collector who ushered the Impressionists into the Louvre
A collection of works donated to the nation by Etienne Moreau-Nélaton on display at the Grand Palais
ArchiveExhibitions
Schinkel: the architect who changed the face of Berlin
German reunification has made possible the first major exhibition,at the Victoria and Albert Museum, of all aspects of Schinkel’s work