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Jackson Pollock's art gets lost in academic theory in new book
This scholarly overview of the artist’s work is modishly opaque
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Reputations redeemed by art: two books examine what made Charles I and II great collectors but bad rulers
Despite the failings of the Stuart kings, their art collections stand in their favour, as exhibitions in the UK this year have shown
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Chicago’s art history, revised
An essay collection illuminates a rich and, ultimately, countercultural legacy
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Otto Marseus van Schrieck: introducing the inventor of the 'forest-floor' still-life
This splendid book uncovers the Dutch painter who brought the lowliest creatures of the forest ecosystem to life
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Prefab(ulous): the story of an 18th-century chapel made entirely in Rome for a church in Lisbon
This fascinating survey offers both detailed commentary and lavish illustrations
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Telling us why and how: a groundbreaking study of Veronese’s techniques and paintings
These two books—very different in approach—analyse the process and works of the Italian Renaissance painter
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Henry I of Haiti: the little-known story of a king and his amazing building spree
A short but fascinating book about a man immortalised through architecture
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The tortuous story of Gustav Klimt’s Nazi-looted, 100ft-wide Beethoven Frieze uncovered
New book exploring work's provenance is a must-read for those interested in the contentious field of art restitution
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Potty about pictures: ancient Athenian vases are an important historical resource—but this book fails to deliver
Large gaps in the material and a lack of thorough explanation make this volume less useful than it could be
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Jasper Johns show and catalogue raisonné open Menil Collection’s new Drawing Institute
The 88-year-old artist, who gets the institute’s inaugural show, was deeply involved in the drawings catalogue project
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Very much an acquired taste: how did so many Italian baroque paintings end up in US museums?
Book provides a sampling of personalities, acquisition strategies and collections that many Europeans may not know
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Picture perfect: a 'sumptuous' book on Pre-Raphaelite stained glass
While its terminology is unsteady, the scholarship and production values of this sequel volume are exceptional
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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
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Many pictures but no big picture: book struggles to capture the extraordinary life of Harald Szeemann
Volume on pioneering curator takes an admiring, rather than a critically analytical, approach
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Pull up a pew: vast volume surveys church cabinetmaking in 17th- and 18th-century Austria
Illuminating historical overviews and a mass of documentary research covers an under-studied subject
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Thinking with pictures: how images were used for philosophical thinking in the Early Modern period
A rich and fascinating book on what can rightly be called the art of philosophy
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A Käthe Kollwitz renaissance is under way (and about time, too)
A pair of publications shed new light on profoundly socially committed artist
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Baring all: undiscovered Kate Moss revealed in new Mario Sorrenti book
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Before gardens had capabilities: book explores English landscaping in the 17th and early 18th centuries
After “Capability” Brown’s tercentenary in 2016, this volume looks at the places the landscape architect is often accused of destroying
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Cottaging—an acquired taste? New book looks at England’s once-popular Cottage Orné style
An enlightening survey on the story of English architecture and the quintessential country house
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An artistic cookbook for the next generation
BlogIn the frame
Lacma’s new Collator platform allows visitors to create their own catalogues
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Revealed: Van Gogh's failed attempt at art dealing
New book argues that artist bought Japanese prints “not for pleasure but to deal in them”
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Drawing the mercurial mind: book poses Michelangelo’s draughtsmanship as the key to his life and works
Volume produced for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of the artist is "a lasting contribution to scholarship"
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‘Believing is seeing’: Tom Wolfe on Modern art
The novelist and journalist was also an outspoken art critic
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The best new books to buy at the Frieze bookstore
For those looking for something a little more pocket-sized to take home from the fair
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Modernist artist Paul Feiler’s legacy reassessed in new shows and publications
The German-born artist was a key member of the St Ives artistic community—but why does his work matter?
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Rodin revealed as daring experimenter in centenary book
More than just bronzes, this collection of essays captures 100 years of scholarship on the 19th century's most famous sculptor
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Books essay: naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian was a woman in a man’s world
Her work straddles the territories of art and science, bugs and flowers
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The commercial rape of Venice is the result of a moral failing in the Italians
This is the view of a former Getty chief, who says the problems of the Serenissima are a paradigm for other historic cities
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Peter Wilson: The man who invented modern auctioneering
Buccaneering, brilliant, art-loving—he created the power of Sotheby’s (and Christie’s learned by imitation)
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Kindred collage spirits John Stezaker and Georgie Hopton talk the dark side of the art form
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Richard Avedon Foundation releases growing list of more than 200 ‘errors’ in unauthorised biography
Publisher’s lawyer says the foundation has provided “no evidence” and that memoir is a “subjective genre”
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Author Don Thompson takes issue with 'the last Leonardo' tagline and casts 2018 market predictions
$450m Salvator Mundi sale too late to be included in new book, The Orange Balloon Dog, but would have filled several chapters, economist says
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Flipping, freeports and fakers: the commodification of fine art
Second volume of Georgina Adam’s analysis of the art market looks at the darker side of the trade
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How to read a Twombly
New book asks if late US artist’s work should be read literally or literarily
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Histories of 16th-century French art have overlooked manuscript illumination—until now
New book is fruit of a lifetime’s research by the late Getty curator Myra Orth
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How offsets on arms sales into Abu Dhabi have helped finance its Louvre
A French study of the Gulf museums sees them as the Versailles of the sheikhs—a step towards autocracy
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Antena Los Ángeles: the secret engine behind Pacific Standard Time's bilingual outreach
The collective is helping art venues access a Spanish-speaking audience with translation services
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Richard Avedon and James Baldwin's book on American identity revisited
A New York gallery show and new publication draw fresh attention to little known collaboration between the fashion photographer and African-American writer
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Podcast episode five: what's the story behind the $100m Leonardo?
What will happen when the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction? Plus: the New Museum's big new show on gender, and our literary editor talks 18th-century princesses
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Bibliophiles rejoice: New York Art Book Fair returns this weekend
Hundreds of exhibitors are due to take part and a slew of events are planned
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An imitation, not a copy: Richard Shiff on what Bridget Riley learned from Georges Seurat
Riley had a formative encounter with the Pointillist's work early in her career
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The hell of modern media: on Robert Rauschenberg's Dante series
A new book on the drawings synthesises a range of information, but leaves certain questions unanswered
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Protean- rich: on the Gerhard Richter catalogue raisonné
The latest volume reveals Gerhard Richter’s variable but not always successful styles
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Lime, sand and animal hair: on 18th-century British interiors
There was an extraordinary flowering of stucco decoration in the period at hand
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Visions of 18th-century France: how the Goncourt brothers taught America about Rococo
A focused show in Washington, DC, looks at why US collectors had a passion for French painting
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Art critic Michael Fried’s new poems dwell on past love, childhood—and his predilection for high Modernism
The poet draws parallels between making sculpture and writing verse
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First renowned, then overlooked, now rediscovered: on Edme Bouchardon
The artist worked with obsessional care, but only now is his versatility being recognised