Books
Iran Foundation trustee found guilty of book theft from British Library and Oxford's Bodleian Library steps down from post
Farhad Hakimzadeh was given two years' imprisonment after it was learnt he had stolen volumes from the two UK institutions
Restoring Charles I's queen to her rightful place as a major collector and patron of the arts
Henrietta Maria: patron, collector and propagandist
Immortality, Roman style : Hadrian celebrated at the British Museum
Hadrian was a politically savvy, calculating, vicious, lion-hunting, married, gay general in the best tradition
Books: Impressionist women and Impressionists’ women
New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men
Two books survey the deterioration of Iraq's cultural heritage fives years after war took hold
Sorry tales of devastation and waste, with little hope on the horizon
Books: Sinuous nudes and protestant propaganda as English analytical works on Cranach increase
The Cranach exhibition catalogue and a book on technical aspects of his work
Book review: the history of Irish furniture in all its finery
An invaluable resource, lavishly illustrated
Two new catalogues and an exhibition on Klimt
An overview of what's on the world of Klimt
From the archive | A catalogue raisonné that shows why George Stubbs ranks among the greatest British artists
The elegance of the volume makes it a fitting tribute to a triumvirate—the collector Paul Mellon, and the scholars Basil Taylor and Judy Egerton—who will always be associated with the artist’s name
Books: “Spirit photography”, the paradoxical meeting point of technology and the paranormal
Not about faith or folly, but film as reality
Books: The latest volumes of the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo reassemble the collector’s botanic illustrations
Visual reproductions to capture nature
Book review: The trade in architectural salvages
John Harris investigates the mainly US market for parts of European buildings
Sotheby's James Stourton glazes over the more cut-throat tendencies of private collectors in new book
This account by the UK chairman of Sotheby’s is enthusiastic but superficial
National Gallery and British Museum follow V&A’s lead
Leading organisations to abolish reproduction charges for scholarly publications
New book gives an unsurprising look at the Metropolitan
A collection of interviews with museum employees—from director Philippe de Montebello to a café waitress—reveals few secrets
Books: Anselm Kiefer's engagement with the poetry of Paul Celan
“I myself would like to be a poet”
How the Verneys, whose seat, Claydon, is a National Trust treasure, fared in the turbulent 17th century
A true story of love, war and madness
Books: James Brydges, munificent benefactor or bad-taste merchant?
A reappraisal of the life of the first Duke of Chandos, patron, collector and philanthropist
Books: Basquiat from street artist to superstar
Banksy’s rise from street artist to gallery star, embraced by the commercial art world, is by no means unique
Letters to the Editor: Lee Miller at the V&A
Exhibition includes rare archival material
Former V&A photography curator Mark Haworth-Booth shines a spotlight on the photographer Lee Miller
Will he be rescued from obscurity?
Books: Is Hogarth the greatest British artist of all time?
Three publications illuminate the subject of Tate Britain’s major exhibition
Books: Kirk Varnedoe’s Mellon lectures prove to be a fitting swansong for the famous MoMA curator
Given three months before his death, these last lectures are now in print
News from New York: Larry Gagosian gets exposed while US presidents get hosed
Meanwhile, doctors form an art club and Mimran takes on Type A
Nazi crime revelations raise questions about the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The late collector Heini Thyssen forced himself to forget his family’s Nazi involvement, but so did the countries that vied for his and his father’s pictures in the 1980s. This well documented book gives the details
The Art of Domestic Life: This well-argued study considers the changing status of women in family portraits
'That’s no lady, that’s my wife…'
A clutch of books, generated by a V&A exhibition, on the use and function of fine and decorative art in the home
Investigations of domestic doings down the ages
Books: Two new books both fail to make a persuasive case for or against the status and quality of Modigliani’s art
Love him or hate him? Whatever…
V&A to scrap academic reproduction fees
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