Books
A family affair: three generations of Weenix showcased in two-volume magnum opus
The new book features newly discovered appendices, including the profligate Jan Baptist’s three-volume bankruptcy file
Book review | Recent archaeological finds on Keros bring new authoritative scholarship on Cycladic art
Excavation campaigns on the Greek island have raised questions about our knowledge of Cycladic art and culture
A comprehensive survey of geometric forms in Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art
Twenty-four artists present their own works in new book, including the late Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Boilly, prolific portraitist and genre painter
Almost unknown in Britain, his work was secretly amassed by Harry Hyams, the billionaire property developer
Amassing a Frieze Library, book by book
Galleries donate publications for a collection that will go to the Metropolitan Museum
The art-historical treasures of Clementia of Hungary, Queen of France
Book looks at one royal's Medieval gifts, giving and inventories
New York’s gardens, parks, flower markets and florists captured in new book
Volume uncovers floral wealth of the US metropolis
A catalogue of break-throughs in the history of printing and books
Book collects the first illustrations, scores, maps and children's books
London's National Gallery defends inclusion of Salvator Mundi in Leonardo show after criticism in new book
The curator’s attribution to the Renaissance master helped Christie’s achieve a world record price for the painting
Bruegel: great research, great exhibition—shame about the catalogue
The Kunsthistorisches's Bruegel exhibition catalogue fails to include any scholarly information
Kings, queens but mostly lesser royal hangers-on: the art-historical story of Kensington Palace
The great building as seen through the generations of its occupants
William-Adolphe Bougeureau: tasteless, sentimental, soft-porny, but French above all
Book looks at the former official darling of the American republic
Discovery in a Toulouse attic is no Caravaggio
There are too many oddities in the painting discovered in France five years ago
A picture book of avant-garde gardens and gardening
Not a guide nor a history, but a collection of unusual gardens and their makers
David Bailey in focus, plus Picasso biographer John Richardson remembered
We meet the photographer David Bailey at his London studio to discuss his new book and we talk with Gijs van Hensbergen about John Richardson, who died aged 95 last week. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
A collection of Romantic 19th-century German illustrations
Book looks at narrative cycles by Edward von Steinle and Leopold Bode
Postcards as art and the art of the postcard
Book looks at British Museum’s contemporary artists' postcards from 1960 to the present
A book on birth and child-rearing before Dr Spock
The history—in images and works of decorative art—of giving birth and raising children before 1900
#Menudetoo: naked bodies in the Renaissance explored at the Royal Academy of Arts and in three new publications
Examining the many meanings—and inanities—ascribed to the unclothed human body in Western art
Dead kings and queens and where to find them
A dictionary of the burial places of the English and Scottish kings and queens (and their relations)
Scenography in contemporary Scandinavian opera and theatre take centre stage in new book
Lars-Ake Thessman on his set- and costume-designs
A hefty tome on the arts of the Austro-Hungarian belle époque
The extraordinary mitteleuropäische flourishing of all the arts from 1900 to 1914
Novelist Orhan Pamuk unveils photographs of Istanbul he took from his balcony
On show in Turkey this month, the images are an ode to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s hometown
Wish you were here: revolutionary postcards in Imperial Russia
Book collects pictorially subversive propaganda in a populist medium
The extraordinary cultural energy of 18th-century Venice
Art, music and architecture flourished in the Republic for the last time
Frida Kahlo's letters conceal nothing and reveal nothing
Kahlo’s communications with her mother are unsurprisingly banal
Complex, ingenious, emotional: the concluding volumes of Jasper Johns’s catalogues raisonnés
Two further volumes comprehensively cover the artist's drawings and monotypes
How to try to understand Jusepe de Ribera's many scenes of violence
The Spanish artist’s extraordinary paintings of tortured bodies and tormented souls
Clement Greenberg: still waiting for sympathetic treatment
On the 110th birthday of the great American critic, we delve into our archive and discover that writings about him are either too academic or too sensationalist
How the Mexican Stridentist movement tried to build a national identity following the Civil War
Art and social action after the Mexican Revolution