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

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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

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All you ever wanted to know about Titian, from a biography fit for a king to an overlooked lecture essay from 1990—selected by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum curator Nathaniel Silver

Jacqueline Riding—The Art Newspaper's new Books commissioning editor—gives us her top tips, from important catalogues on artists like Paula Rego to a series of children's books for young art lovers

Volume is the debut instalment of a new series, Illuminating Women Artists, responding to the interest in those “who had nearly been lost to history”

Two decades after one of the most controversial exhibitions of recent times, Arnold Lehman, the former director of the Brooklyn Museum, reveals all in a new book

As we enter the final weeks of the season, check out these riveting reads, from “the best novel about painting” to a book with no words at all

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Officials cite a surge of Delta variant cases and the ongoing travel bans to the US, which blocked more than half of the event’s exhibitors from attending

This elegant and suggestively written monograph is the fruit of 70 years’ reflections on the Flemish artist’s portraiture

The text accompanied the group's only show and is now one of several texts about Black art brought together in a new book The Soul of Nation Reader

All you ever wanted to know about Taeuber-Arp, from a children’s book full of inspiring projects to a publication exploring the dynamics of artist couples—selected by the Tate curator Natalia Sidlina

If bodice-rippers are too boring for your summer reading, take a crack at these other books that have stumped researchers

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