Dr Kenneth Wayne says scholarship is the way forward

Archaeologically, architecturally and art-historically, Iran is very much on the move

A commentary on the end of art

Renée Baigell and Matthew Baigell's book reviewed

An uncritical, adoring treatment of the artist has not served him well

A review of Judith Herrin's new book

Antonio Paolucci states he will halt the Uffizi’s planned restoration of the painting if he hears convincing arguments as to why it should not take place

Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?

Nine years of painstaking research have revealed this technically adventurous side of the artist’s work

This book reveals how the CIA’s promoted US artists as a way of stopping the spread of Communism in the years after World War II

This second edition includes even more of the collection, providing a fine survey of the medium in America

Naomi Sawelson-Gorse edits this collection on the often overlooked women of Dada

Medieval German women’s art and spirituality examined with too much of the gender-studies approach

One is a technical and stylistic analysis; the other a cultural critique. Both are well worth a read

Women and Surrealism at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

This substantial volume, predominantly photographic, is the comprehensive account of Joseph Beuys’s life and work

This study is based on a close look at conservation and restoration research, a scientific examination of the artist’s technique, and new documentary evidence

The relationship between painting and physiognomy explored in Milan, from Da Vinci to Bacon

Catherine E. King's book reviewed

Reni is in for a late twentieth-century treatment as political activist and secretly gay

Palazzo Schifanoia displays archive material from the Warburg Institute to commemorate her work

A Review of Mora's new book on photography

UK Charity Commissioners want access for women to Mount Athos

No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures

This survey covers everything from Impressionism to Damien Hirst. Have we moved from uniformity to diversity or to post-modern incoherence?

He died aged 87

Sainsbury money is helping restore the fifteenth-century, Venetian-style masterpiece shelled in 1991

We explore the rapid fall from favour of Symbolist art and its recovery in value after academic exposure

First ever complete edition of avant-garde artist’s writings appearing in five volumes

As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow