A heavyweight volume exploring Magnum Photos goes in between the contact sheets to celebrate a dying technique

The history and scholarship of art forgery, and a faker’s delighted account of a life of deception

This book is a welcome reinterpretation of Nash for contemporary audiences

Christian, Jewish and Muslim anxieties about images

Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists

An excellently wrought assessment of the cast of characters that defined the mid-19th century

Records, celebrations, denunciations

An exhibition catalogue that is erudite, sound and elegant—but for scholars, not the general reader

Poignant footage of Reverón's twilight years, Hockney playing the documentarian and Jeremy Deller in conversation with Anthony d'Offay on Warhol's transformative power

The studio as stage, incubator and archive

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film is an invaluable historical record of the feminist art movement in the US

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

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

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

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

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

Objects of translation and the cultural interactions of Muslims and Hindus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

The author is hindered by his own technique

How artists and the arts fared under the Vichy regime and the German occupation of France, 1940-44

Ostensibly disparate films illuminate art after the end of World War II

A look at 'Guernica: Portrait of War' and 'Love You More'

Hadrian was a politically savvy, calculating, vicious, lion-hunting, married, gay general in the best tradition

New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men

Sorry tales of devastation and waste, with little hope on the horizon

The Cranach exhibition catalogue and a book on technical aspects of his work

An overview of what's on the world of Klimt

Not about faith or folly, but film as reality

A collection of interviews with museum employees—from director Philippe de Montebello to a café waitress—reveals few secrets