Books
From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich brought into focus in the first reliable catalogue raisonée of his drawings
The catalogue promises to be definitive and demonstrates why Friedrich was one of the most significant draughtsmen of his era
Books: The National Gallery’s latest Technical Bulletin makes some great discoveries
The volume is a compendium of papers presented at the Gallery in September 2009
Impressive publication on the anonymous 'RA' collection of Chinese porcelain
Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos' three-volume catalogue is painstakingly researched and beautifully presented
Books: A personal reflection on artistic responses to war
Records, celebrations, denunciations
The mysteries of Leonardo: A review of the National Gallery's new exhibition on the master
An exhibition catalogue that is erudite, sound and elegant—but for scholars, not the general reader
Books: Lee Krasner biography shows her at the centre of her own life, for once
Krasner was more than Pollock’s acolyte, argues Gail Levin
A first-rate history of photography, the V&A museum and its pioneering collecting
Collecting oneself—and a few others besides in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographic Department
Books: Art not made by artists and trends in art production
When artists subcontract technicians to make the works they design, who’s the artist?
Books: The end of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The complete correspondence of the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet has reached the last of its nine volumes
Books: The amazing and flamboyant career of the US collector Norton Simon
Collecting outside of the box
Sandy Nairne and his life as an undercover negotiator: The ethics of retrieving Tate's Turners
The National Portrait Gallery director had a sensitive, secret role in recovering the stolen paintings
New book by Michael Peppiatt interprets Giacometti through the multi-functional nature of his workplace
The studio as stage, incubator and archive
"Painting the Absolute": Four volumes on Kazimir Malevich, the pioneering painter-priest of abstraction
Andréi Nakov, a leading expert on Malevich, has produced a large-scale study of the Russian avant-garde's art and life
Books, Anna Jackson, Japanese country textiles
A visually rich if somewhat repetitive account
The Pre-Raphaelites: three down, two to go
The Pre-Raphaelites: three down, two to go as Ford Madox Brown joins Rossetti and Holman Hunt as fully documented
Books in brief: British and Irish Art, 1945-51
Despite some factual inaccuracies, this is a refreshing and invigorating presentation that challenges assumptions
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge subject of new biography and exhibition catalogue
The “discoverer” of animal locomotion influenced artists including Francis Bacon
‘I’ve never met anyone who collects cynically’: an interview with Steve Martin
The polymath performer Steve Martin has written An Object of Beauty, a novel set in the art world. So should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?
Books: A portrait of Ford Madox Brown through his four 'loves'
A study of the women who had the greatest impact on the life and work of Ford Madox Brown
Victoria Pomery: An expert eye on Frieze
The director of Turner Contemporary chooses her favourite works from the fair—and reveals a very British preoccupation with the weather
New definitive catalogue published on the V&A’s magnificent ivories
The summation of a lifetime’s work and a triumph of scholarship
Interview with Steve Martin: "I’ve never met anyone who collects cynically”
The polymath performer has written a novel set in the art world -should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?
The obsessions and follies of the charismatic Joost Ritman
The fate of esoteric books and illuminated manuscripts hangs in the balance
Books: A history of the development of an international restitution ethic
Giving things back—the how, when, where and why
New books on art investment aim to capitalise on the emerging field
However, too much knowledge can be confusing... even when it is as well selected as this
Books: Saviour of the Habsburgs, richly rewarded
Soldier and collector Prince Eugene of Savoy’s role in the rise of the Austro-Hungarian empire
Indefatigable enthusiasm in Saeb Eigner's book "Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran"
While one may not be familiar with some of the book's more niche digressions, Eigner's dexterity in referencing the ancient past never fails to impress