Art for art’s sake, or for the sake of socioeconomic benefits? Two writers reach very different conclusions

On the eve of his 100th birthday, James Ackerman shows no signs of slowing down in this collection of essays

The influential “Etruscan” painter and Risorgimento patriot deserves our recognition

With John Cage and others, the choreographer invented a new way of thinking about movement

The first volume of a long-awaited work of scholarship

Science is the key to the story of the 16th-century aristocratic tombs in a Suffolk parish church

Medieval notions of bronze as a living, divine substance

A new books makes a passionate argument for museums

Not everyone could afford their own mortuary churches or chapels

This small book is ground-breaking, bringing to light Islamic beliefs and superstitions

Diana Widmaier Picasso, granddaughter of the artist, reveals this secret

Quite suddenly, a sophisticated and passionate discussion has sprouted about this fine needlework

The uses of magnificence at the Stuart Court is the subject of a new book

Alexandre Lenoir, the founder of the Musée des Monuments Français

Richard Diebenkorn’s four-volume catalogue raisonné reveals his variable styles

For 45 years in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the silversmith made exuberant work

Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson

This Festschrift for Peter Hecht illuminates the transformative powers of museum acquisitions

The art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Tankai

A farewell collection of reviews by the American-born, British art critic

Roman art shared a common visual repertory throughout the Empire, but there were significant variations in local styles

A new history of Britart is long on anecdote but short on critical insight