The Old Master’s advice is among the fascinating facts and illuminating anecdotes gathered in a new compendium called Artifacts

In a new book of cultural essays, the Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan ponders whether we should change offensive names given to art—and what that might say about us

Our roundup of the latest art publications

All you ever wanted to know about O’Keeffe, including a comprehensive biography, the artist’s “perfect” novice recipe book, and her letters to photographer Alfred Stieglitz—selected by the curator Theodora Vischer

The book, coinciding with a retrospective exhibition at the Menil Collection, explores the “shooting paintings” Saint Phalle made between 1961 and 1963, called Tirs, and other areas of her practice

Doro Globus, the managing director of David Zwirner Books, tells us why she decided to write a book highlighting the many jobs that make a great exhibition

Leading directors, curators and artists reveal their favourite books of the past year

Our roundup of the latest art publications

Historic texts by critic Robert Lebel in facsimile edition explore how the conceptual art pioneer adopted his female alter ego and cemented his reputation in America

The Book of Change includes almost 300 works, highlighting environmental challenges but giving glimpses of a better world

Books that make connections between art and the current climate crisis, chosen by the curator and author Ben Tufnell

Our roundup of the latest art publications

Image taken at Neue Nationalgalerie moments before the 1988 theft features in a new book of the artist’s copper paintings

Our roundup of the latest art publications

We asked eight artists about the comic's influence ahead of a new exhibition exploring the publication's history and featuring contemporary art with that "Beano sensibility"

All you ever wanted to know about Dürer, from the Old Master’s own accounts of his achievements and mishaps, to a recent creative take on his travels—selected by the art historian Susan Foister

More than 150 rarely-seen photographs chronicle the history of seminal earthworks in the landscape

A new book looks at the detailed preparations and 60 years of planning behind the work being unveiled in Paris

According to Noah Charney’s new book, infamy in the art world—be it contrived drama to drum up publicity or genuine artistic rivalry—is as old as art itself

A new book by the art historian Ben Street attempts to demystify how we look at art and argues for reacting instinctively to what we see

Our roundup of the latest art publications

All you ever wanted to know about Titian, from a biography fit for a king to an overlooked lecture essay from 1990—selected by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum curator Nathaniel Silver

Two decades after one of the most controversial exhibitions of recent times, Arnold Lehman, the former director of the Brooklyn Museum, reveals all in a new book

As we enter the final weeks of the season, check out these riveting reads, from “the best novel about painting” to a book with no words at all

Our roundup of the latest art publications

The text accompanied the group's only show and is now one of several texts about Black art brought together in a new book The Soul of Nation Reader

All you ever wanted to know about Taeuber-Arp, from a children’s book full of inspiring projects to a publication exploring the dynamics of artist couples—selected by the Tate curator Natalia Sidlina

A roundup of the latest art publications

Whether you are lying on a beach or next to a paddling pool, sit back and let your mind soak up these inspiring reads

A new book by John Higgs paints a picture of the mixed reviews that the 18th-century artist received and touches upon the “Holy Grail of his lost works”