Books
The very first Monuments Man
Alexandre Lenoir, the founder of the Musée des Monuments Français
The changeable Californian: on Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn’s four-volume catalogue raisonné reveals his variable styles
The Storr story: how Paul Storr designed and orchestrated the production of silverware
For 45 years in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the silversmith made exuberant work
Remains of Gauguin’s father found near Tierra del Fuego
Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson
Catalystic collecting
This Festschrift for Peter Hecht illuminates the transformative powers of museum acquisitions
Blockbuster on a manageable scale: on Richard Dorment
A farewell collection of reviews by the American-born, British art critic
Glocal dynamics versus the R-word
Roman art shared a common visual repertory throughout the Empire, but there were significant variations in local styles
Tracey the Tory: on the YBAs
A new history of Britart is long on anecdote but short on critical insight
Many strategies for survival: Barbara Rose on painting after Postmodernism
Rumors of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated
Small but perfectly formed
A complete historical catalogue of the Wallace Collection’s Italian sculptures
Long may he continue: on John Berger at 90
Writings, new and old, by the nonagenarian, Marxist and self-confessed “stop-gap” storyteller
Poop and pray: on domestic devotion in ancient Greece and Rome
New discoveries are changing how we understand ancient domesticity
'Art too is just a way of living': on Rachel Corbett's You Must Change Your Life
A splendid new book examines what the poet Rainer Maria Rilke learned from Auguste Rodin
Oiseries work both ways: on exchanges between China and the West
Goods and culture traveled in both directions
Porcelain’s poor relation
Chinese painted enamels on copper are now valued in their own right
Kissin’ and collectin’ cousins
How one branch of a German noble family married into every European royal family and acquired spectacular works of art
‘We’re a part of American art too’: Black artists speak on their roles in art history
A new book surveys four generations of abstract art in the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
Grand melancholy and class: on Anthony van Dyck
The artist’s soulful portraits conferred high status on his sitters—and on subsequent owners
How Jewish identity shaped artistic patronage in turn-of-the-century Vienna
A new book offers a study of Jewish patrons in fin de siècle Vienna
Not a step wrong: on Pompeo Batoni
A revised catalogue of the artist's work brings his achievements into view