This comprehensive reader on the second edition in 2020 considers how the independent-minded institution is placing Pakistan’s artists in an international context as well as helping them thrive in a complex political environment

Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead

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Gareth Harris, author of ‘Towards the Ethical Art Museum’, shares advice on how museums can ethically navigate increasingly tumultuous times

The managing director of one of the most admired imprints for illustrated art books, who has died aged 84, was a master of the integration of text and pictures with a beatnik streak and a desire to democratise access to the arts

A revised edition of a 2020 book looks at the problems associated with a "white, male and middle class" cultural arena in the UK

The book explores how the British artist's mother was her most trusted sitter and Paul's thoughts on Lucian Freud’s depictions of her during their relationship

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An exclusive extract by Adam Gopnik on the Armenian American painter, taken from a collection of essays about the artist’s time in New York City

The best publications to learn all about the artist, from a renowned novelist's essay to a comprehensive catalogue raisonné—selected by the Munch museum curator Trine Otte Bak Nielsen

Objectionable Cubist collector used skills developed in an elite network to become a tenacious “Monuments Man”

Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles’s treatment of mental illness at the institution included art—and was championed by Jean Dubuffet

The critic J. Hoberman’s take on Manhattan counterculture charts the rise of artists such as Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono

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The author of a new book, Jeff Koehler, tells us about the French artist’s fruitful but sometimes tricky sojourns in Tangier

New analysis considers the artists’ common cause as champions of landscape alongside their renowned differences

The often violent history of public statues and museum collections—including that of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum—is told in this biographical book that energises and exasperates in equal measure.

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from a pivotal novel to a book on how Postmodernism “shapes all aspects of contemporary life”—selected by The Cosmic House director Eszter Steierhoffer

A round up of recent publications and upcoming events to deepen your knowledge

A survey tracing the city’s greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures

Our round-up of the latest art publications

Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations

A new volume details a chance meeting that liberated art scholars Francis Haskell and Larissa Salmina in very different ways

The new study of the Da Vinci brand uses historical context to debunk the artist’s cult status and present him as a man of his time

The “provocative, punky, perverse” artist died far too young but her work’s influence endures, argues a new biography

All you ever wanted to know about artists' books on the eve of a major exhibition at London’s Warburg Institute—selected by the show's co-curator Arnaud Desjardin

The writer and artist’s delightful illustrated correspondence chronicle a long friendship

James Stourton's new book explores changes from the power shift to the auction houses in the mid-20th century to the excesses of the 1980s and 90s

A large-scale study of the stories behind these buildings, their architecture and collections

Arab art expert Saeb Eigner explores the work of more than 250 Modern and contemporary artists spanning diverse art movements across 22 countries in the Middle East