Books
Many pictures but no big picture: book struggles to capture the extraordinary life of Harald Szeemann
Volume on pioneering curator takes an admiring, rather than a critically analytical, approach
Pull up a pew: vast volume surveys church cabinetmaking in 17th- and 18th-century Austria
Illuminating historical overviews and a mass of documentary research covers an under-studied subject
Thinking with pictures: how images were used for philosophical thinking in the Early Modern period
A rich and fascinating book on what can rightly be called the art of philosophy
A Käthe Kollwitz renaissance is under way (and about time, too)
A pair of publications shed new light on profoundly socially committed artist
Before gardens had capabilities: book explores English landscaping in the 17th and early 18th centuries
After “Capability” Brown’s tercentenary in 2016, this volume looks at the places the landscape architect is often accused of destroying
Cottaging—an acquired taste? New book looks at England’s once-popular Cottage Orné style
An enlightening survey on the story of English architecture and the quintessential country house
Revealed: Van Gogh's failed attempt at art dealing
New book argues that artist bought Japanese prints “not for pleasure but to deal in them”
Drawing the mercurial mind: book poses Michelangelo’s draughtsmanship as the key to his life and works
Volume produced for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of the artist is "a lasting contribution to scholarship"
‘Believing is seeing’: Tom Wolfe on Modern art
The novelist and journalist was also an outspoken art critic
The best new books to buy at the Frieze bookstore
For those looking for something a little more pocket-sized to take home from the fair
Modernist artist Paul Feiler’s legacy reassessed in new shows and publications
The German-born artist was a key member of the St Ives artistic community—but why does his work matter?
Rodin revealed as daring experimenter in centenary book
More than just bronzes, this collection of essays captures 100 years of scholarship on the 19th century's most famous sculptor
Books essay: naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian was a woman in a man’s world
Her work straddles the territories of art and science, bugs and flowers
Podcast episode 24: Mural-gazing with the Dalai Lama, plus Michael Rakowitz
We speak to Thomas Laird about his new book on the murals of Tibet and to Michael Rakowitz about his fourth plinth commission unveiled next week
The commercial rape of Venice is the result of a moral failing in the Italians
This is the view of a former Getty chief, who says the problems of the Serenissima are a paradigm for other historic cities
Peter Wilson: The man who invented modern auctioneering
Buccaneering, brilliant, art-loving—he created the power of Sotheby’s (and Christie’s learned by imitation)
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