Collecting oneself—and a few others besides in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographic Department

When artists subcontract technicians to make the works they design, who’s the artist?

The complete correspondence of the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet has reached the last of its nine volumes

Collecting outside of the box

The National Portrait Gallery director had a sensitive, secret role in recovering the stolen paintings

An institution and her ex

The studio as stage, incubator and archive

Andréi Nakov, a leading expert on Malevich, has produced a large-scale study of the Russian avant-garde's art and life

A visually rich if somewhat repetitive account

The Pre-Raphaelites: three down, two to go as Ford Madox Brown joins Rossetti and Holman Hunt as fully documented

Despite some factual inaccuracies, this is a refreshing and invigorating presentation that challenges assumptions

The “discoverer” of animal locomotion influenced artists including Francis Bacon

A study of the women who had the greatest impact on the life and work of Ford Madox Brown

The director of Turner Contemporary chooses her favourite works from the fair—and reveals a very British preoccupation with the weather

The summation of a lifetime’s work and a triumph of scholarship

The polymath performer has written a novel set in the art world -should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?

The fate of esoteric books and illuminated manuscripts hangs in the balance

Invitation to a hanging

Giving things back—the how, when, where and why

However, too much knowledge can be confusing... even when it is as well selected as this

Soldier and collector Prince Eugene of Savoy’s role in the rise of the Austro-Hungarian empire

While one may not be familiar with some of the book's more niche digressions, Eigner's dexterity in referencing the ancient past never fails to impress

Oxford’s greatest treasure trove

A deep look into the remarkable objects now on display in the museum's recently opened galleries

Diggers, dealers and dilettanti

The perfect reference book for those of us who cannot just offhand distinguish a gambeson from a hauberk

This collection of essays questions how we understand the terms Pre-Raphaelite, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement

A review of the Courtauld Gallery catalogue of Auerbach's early London works and a new monograph by William Feaver

The Fraud, by Barbara Ewing, spins a tale of lies and intrigue