A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said

A popular, non-technical explanation of the physical composition of paintings is not easy

Increased attendance, sales, and quality marks a good year for the fair

Three books show that the depiction of war in art is as various as other human responses to the phenomenon

This handsome overview spans the celebrated photographer's entire career

A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement

Abstract Expressionism in the Hebrides

“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”

The Imperial War Museum's exhibition is intended as a reminder of past evil

"Women and art: Contested territory" and "Great women collectors"

Admired by Van Gogh and an enormously successful artist in his lifetime, Herkomer was a polymath and man of action

The Spanish involvement with Nazi-looted art and the part played by the Austrian resistance in saving works of art are among the revelations in this book

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

The latest volume in the catalogues of the Khalili Collection describes the art of the Muslim courts of India

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

The progress of Modernism in the Communist States and the response of the French Avant-garde to World War I are examined in these two books

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

The Royal collection of drawings by Raphael and his circle to cross the Atlantic

The book forms part of the museum's paperback photography series

A new study of the Surrealist painter's life and work

Thumbs down and up

The state of the trade according to Lisson, Besson, Colnaghi and others

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

Catherine E. King's book reviewed

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

A Review of Mora's new book on photography

“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?” and other pointers on the good, the bad and the ugly of women in art

Ian Gibson on Surrealism as an escape and the façade of eccentricity