Books
Richard Avedon Foundation releases growing list of more than 200 ‘errors’ in unauthorised biography
Publisher’s lawyer says the foundation has provided “no evidence” and that memoir is a “subjective genre”
Author Don Thompson takes issue with 'the last Leonardo' tagline and casts 2018 market predictions
$450m Salvator Mundi sale too late to be included in new book, The Orange Balloon Dog, but would have filled several chapters, economist says
Flipping, freeports and fakers: the commodification of fine art
Second volume of Georgina Adam’s analysis of the art market looks at the darker side of the trade
How to read a Twombly
New book asks if late US artist’s work should be read literally or literarily
Histories of 16th-century French art have overlooked manuscript illumination—until now
New book is fruit of a lifetime’s research by the late Getty curator Myra Orth
How offsets on arms sales into Abu Dhabi have helped finance its Louvre
A French study of the Gulf museums sees them as the Versailles of the sheikhs—a step towards autocracy
Antena Los Ángeles: the secret engine behind Pacific Standard Time's bilingual outreach
The collective is helping art venues access a Spanish-speaking audience with translation and interpretation services—but they draw the line with museums they see as gentrifiers
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin's book on American identity revisited
A New York gallery show and new publication draw fresh attention to little known collaboration between the fashion photographer and African-American writer
Podcast episode five: what's the story behind the $100m Leonardo?
What will happen when the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction? Plus: the New Museum's big new show on gender, and our literary editor talks 18th-century princesses
Bibliophiles rejoice: New York Art Book Fair returns this weekend
Hundreds of exhibitors are due to take part and a slew of events are planned
An imitation, not a copy: Richard Shiff on what Bridget Riley learned from Georges Seurat
Riley had a formative encounter with the Pointillist's work early in her career
The hell of modern media: on Robert Rauschenberg's Dante series
A new book on the drawings synthesises a range of information, but leaves certain questions unanswered
Protean- rich: on the Gerhard Richter catalogue raisonné
The latest volume reveals Gerhard Richter’s variable but not always successful styles
Visions of 18th-century France: how the Goncourt brothers taught America about Rococo
A focused show in Washington, DC, looks at why US collectors had a passion for French painting
Lime, sand and animal hair: on 18th-century British interiors
There was an extraordinary flowering of stucco decoration in the period at hand
Art critic Michael Fried’s new poems dwell on past love, childhood—and his predilection for high Modernism
The poet draws parallels between making sculpture and writing verse
First renowned, then overlooked, now rediscovered: on Edme Bouchardon
The artist worked with obsessional care, but only now is his versatility being recognised
Towering triumph: on the scholarly resurrection of Joseph de Levis
The Renaissance bronze-founder has been brought back to life by scholarly research
Abstraction in reverse: how Latin American Modernists changed how we see
The art historian Alexander Alberro explains how action and participation drove new forms of art
A panoply of plastic poses: on Emma Hamilton
A new book explores her extraordinary personal and social transformations
The parrot point of view: on Edward Lear's natural history studies
Such works were the basis of his later landscapes
Vermeer and the masters of genre painting
The Dutch painter and his contemporaries could not resist the temptation to improve one another's compositions
The Donald Trump style of art history
The greatest works of Western art vindicate the US president’s ideas of democracy, according to his senior director for strategic assessments
Banking and benevolence: on the Rothschild family
A century and a half of generosity is recorded in a wide-ranging history of the family
Circumstantial evidence clinches the case: how careful archaeology corrects misunderstandings
A new book will undoubtedly change the way we talk and think about Early Cycladic objects
A bottomless repository of culture: on illuminated Medieval manuscripts
There are remarkable riches to be mined from a group of new books
What a Renaissance artist taught Freud about memory
A new book looks at the psychoanalyst’s favourite Old Master fresco—and his inability to remember the artist’s name
Dissatisfactions and aspirations in pen and ink
A multifaceted artist’s monumental engagements with drawing
Worth the detour: on the National Gallery's lesser-known Renaissance masterpieces
Works from Bologna and Ferrara are the subject of a comprehensive new catalogue