In this extract from her new book, The Art Fair Story: A Rollercoaster Ride, Melanie Gerlis examines the trajectory of these art world events, from the post-war European model to the global behemoths of the 21st century

The artist’s final period, marred by personal loss, saw him move away from topographical accuracy to embrace a more synthetic form of picture-making

The Minotaur Years relays the artist's strife as he entered his 50s and one of the most turbulent decades of European history

Countering settler narratives, Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition and catalogue examines the artistic contributions and experiences of marginalised groups

Iconotypes: a Compendium of Butterflies and Moths, the long-overdue publication of the naturalist William Jones's extensive illustrations, will enable further research

This analysis, while celebrating the skill of artists and artisans, does not ignore the exploitative practices of previous centuries

Historic texts by critic Robert Lebel in facsimile edition explore how the conceptual art pioneer adopted his female alter ego and cemented his reputation in America

The Book of Change includes almost 300 works, highlighting environmental challenges but giving glimpses of a better world

Young Bellini is a convincing recontextualisation of archival evidence suggesting artist's birth date and parentage are not as art historians once thought

Books that make connections between art and the current climate crisis, chosen by the curator and author Ben Tufnell

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Steven Naifeh, co-author of the best-selling biography, writes about the painters Vincent admired—and collects their pictures

Beautifully produced book of works by those who travelled abroad in around 1900 offers readers more than the standard views

Meditations on the afterlife are delivered in glorious pictorial representation by Rachel Owen and Agnes Miller Parker

Image taken at Neue Nationalgalerie moments before the 1988 theft features in a new book of the artist’s copper paintings

A study of Man Ray, best known for his photography but also a self-professed painter, explores his barely acknowledged Jewishness and his relationship with Marcel Duchamp

Our roundup of the latest art publications

This exploration of Mark Catesby is a rich and deeply researched account of his journey from amateur naturalist in East Anglia to intrepid observer in the New World

All you ever wanted to know about Dürer, from the Old Master’s own accounts of his achievements and mishaps, to a recent creative take on his travels—selected by the art historian Susan Foister

Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum

In this adapted excerpt from her new book, The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum, Georgina Adam examines the motivations of collectors who founded their own art spaces

More than 150 rarely-seen photographs chronicle the history of seminal earthworks in the landscape

In this adapted extract from his new book Van Gogh’s Finale, Martin Bailey examines the portrait of Marguerite Gachet in the Kunstmuseum Basel

Timely new book explores how Begum's approach to her multifaceted work defies any simple categorisation

The story of enigmatic artist Jacobus Vrel will be told in an exhibition scheduled for 2023 and in a book published this month

Plus, Van Gogh’s final months and master printer Kenneth Tyler on Helen Frankenthaler

A new book looks at the detailed preparations and 60 years of planning behind the work being unveiled in Paris

From geodesic domes in South Colorado to the Calais Jungle in Europe, this provocative work studies 60 structures that were built according to values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid and self-organisation

According to Noah Charney’s new book, infamy in the art world—be it contrived drama to drum up publicity or genuine artistic rivalry—is as old as art itself

A new book by the art historian Ben Street attempts to demystify how we look at art and argues for reacting instinctively to what we see