Books
There is no single, global art market
New book explores some of the myths of the international trade
Inside an unquiet mind
Essays on the critic and curator Lawrence Alloway give a minor figure too much credit
How little man-made boxes are used to capture bigger ones
Great architectural photographers have moved far beyond mere documentation
A conceptual artist takes on his critics
Artist and teacher Michael Craig-Martin’s insightful and entertaining memoir provides sage advice to younger artists
The messiah complex is no coincidence
Bearded and berobed figures inspired artists including Schiele and Beuys
Cliché and a lack of feeling: Richard Shiff explains why critics have failed painting
Painting lives on, but the critical terms stagnate and slacken, the art historian says
Age of enlightenment: the religious power of Hagia Sophia
Lyn Rodley considers the relationship between Byzantine theology and the Great Church
Brian Sewell travels across India—with a donkey
Anna Somers Cocks is charmed by the story of Mr B, accompanied by a donkey and a stout umbrella
The ultimate dynamic duo: a new monograph surveys Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
David Ekserdjian learns more from a monumental monograph on father and son
Horns offer plenty in the Middle Ages
An exhaustive survey of medieval elephant ivories raises the question of what is the best way to convey complex information, says Jane Jakeman
High production value: how the Bohun manuscripts were made
The Bohun manuscripts demonstrate how illuminated manuscripts were produced, says David King
The powerful presence of Rubens in every age
Theodore K. Rabb looks at the Flemish artist’s “legacy” over nearly four centuries
The art of the teacher: on the work of Hans Hofmann
The artist at last gets the recognition it deserves, says Alexander Adams
Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portraits in focus, at last
His most important works now take centre-stage
Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick: one of Europe's greatest collectors
His outstanding collection secured his legacy, says Joachim Whaley
A new book on the art of forgery is deceptively slick
Clare Finn asks: What is forgery without the forgers?
The lives of the artists, according to Hans Ulrich Obrist
Artists and architects talk at length about their work
The classic work on Frans Hals, even better: Met curator Walter Liedtke’s last review before his tragic death
Liedtke reflects on the continued importance of the Dutch Baroque artist
Andrew Lambirth on the ‘only English Futurist's’ war works
There is much to admire in the catalogue raisonné of C.R.W. Nevinson's work
Sculptural portraits as commercial and aesthetic objects
Susan Jenkins in praise of Roubiliac
Moreau, the mystic of Montmartre, was an unheeded prophet
Alexander Adams looks at the mysterious proto-Symbolist painter
Mariette, prints and drawings supremo
Howard Coutts on the work of the 18th-century collector and connoisseur
Reflections on art as an (ineffective) social expression
Jane Jakeman on art since the Arab Spring
Coats of arms: a fashion must for the people of Shakespeare’s England
John Martin Robinson on the art of heraldry in the 16th century
Gothic and Baroque—the two Golden Ages of ivory carving
David Ekserdjian finds these new books timely and uplifting
Incense: the secret ingredient in G.F. Bodley's architecture
Kenneth Powell locates G.F. Bodley in the Aesthetic Movement
No country for an old artist: on Goya’s witches and old people
Elizabeth Clegg discusses a new scholarly catalogue