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A new publication unpicks how becoming a parent can detrimentally affect an artist’s career and suggests ways the art world can do better
A brisk but dense guide to the complex rules surrounding the removal of art from public and private spaces
An idiosyncratic Desert Island Discs of works, selected by 54 contributors, considers the role of “memory sites” in making sense of Indian output since 1900
To mark 100 years since its discovery, Garry Shaw, the author of a new biography of the Egyptian Boy King, reveals some little-known facts about the world’s most famous death mask
Our roundup of the latest art publications
Built for a booming population, their architecture has been unfairly maligned, argues this survey
Book tells tale of how Oliver Cromwell wiped Basing House—which provided shelter to the famous classical architect Inigo Jones—off the map
Objects and documentation collected by the Timm family offer a unique insight into a past world
New version published by The Folio Society includes new insights from curator Mia Fineman who has selected key accompanying images
Our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris will examine attacks on freedom of artistic expression and issues like ‘cancel culture’, providing valuable insights and context
Fifteenth-century edition of The Divine Comedy includes witty drawing of Renaissance master at work on a sculpture, claims James Hall
It may lie in a remote fjord but the Viking-built stave structure sits within a far wider context
Our roundup of the latest art publications
A study of four 20th-century artists concentrates on close examination of works and intentions, rather than grand simplifying narratives.
A new publication picks out art, artefacts and ephemera from the institution's collection that deal with occult themes, many of which have never been seen publicly. Here, the book’s author selects some of the highlights
The artist, musician and performer discusses ‘In Past Pupils and Smiles’, a performance she staged in Venice in 2019 that is chronicled in a new book
Research on the Chandayan of Mulla Da’ud has suffered ever since 24 folios narrating the love story were split up across the border in 1947
The late author’s sci-fi stories have inspired artists such as Alberta Whittle, Candice Breitz, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Precious Okoyomon
Our roundup of the latest and forthcoming art publications
Eden Collinsworth tells a breathless, flowery tale of the celebrated Cecilia Gallerani portrait
From artist biographies and essay collections to a dystopian novel, surf culture and a rock’n’roll autobiography
Some of the top titles scheduled for the autumn
The artist’s new book—the seventh in his career—chronicles his recent dance and sculpture-based projects at the Noguchi Museum, the Graham Foundation and the Whitney
Volume comprises superb black-and-white images of 68 shipwrecks off the notoriously treacherous south-west coast, beginning in 1871
Our roundup of the latest art publications
In her new book, Chloë Ashby explores the power of colour in art. Here, she takes us on a whirlwind tour and recommends four other fascinating new books on colour
New book collects the illustrator’s maps that range from UK political sleaze to the renaming of American states using cockney rhyming slang
All you ever wanted to know about Raphael, from a page-turner monograph to a tome of his “irresistible” drawings—selected by the art historian David Ekserdjian
This statistics-driven investigation shows that many of the hundreds of women exhibiting in London and Paris between 1760 and 1830 eschewed the still-life
Book provides excellent overview of the history of and meaning behind orders, tournaments and armour