A well-written history of art in North America for students

Wayne Koestenbaum's new book looks at Warhol's films

Nudes with Phaidon and Tate, painted ladies with HarperCollins and the National Portrait Gallery going abroad with Thames & Hudson, Ashgate, Lawrence King, the British Museum and Cambridge University Press

Something for everyone: “animalcules”, Baltic art, the Cecils, CD-Roms, Cézanne, Chinese furniture, Clement Greenberg decadence, Holbein, Japanese design, Kahn, Leonardo, Millais, Modernism, Palladio, Tiffany silver, terracotta sculpture

Good value and good quality with Thames & Hudson, and Tate Publications launch a raft of titles in connection with the new museums

As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship

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

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

The recent biographies of these art-world giants promise much but aside from anecdotes little is shown of the subjects’ inner lives