Book explores how museums can deal with colonial acquisitions and other problematic issues
A level-headed survey of the rise and fall of anthropological and ethnographic collections and what their futures may hold
Lively biography of Jim Ede puts visionary creator of Kettle’s Yard in the frame
The publication explores the collector’s gift for friendship, but is oddly reticent about the man himself
A sumptuous history book of Venice, reveals the ‘mythical creature’ in all her glory
From a fifth-century influx of refugees to the arrival of “grazing dinosaur” cruise ships
Stolen by the Nazis and a talking point in Cold War Poland: the strange journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine
Eden Collinsworth tells a breathless, flowery tale of the celebrated Cecilia Gallerani portrait
New memoir relays a traumatic family history through an intense obsession with a Géricault masterpiece
Book tells a tangled personal narrative through the Louvre's 1819 painting Raft of Medusa
Laminating, latticing and plaiting bamboo: New book on Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia looks at sustainability and spirituality
Vo’s work offers a fresh perspective on the Western modernist tradition of “organic” architecture
Squatters, desert cults and climate protestors: new book surveys the architecture of anarchist settlements
From geodesic domes in South Colorado to the Calais Jungle in Europe, this provocative work studies 60 structures that were built according to values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid and self-organisation