Books
Art consultant Philippe Segalot reveals his views on the market and which contemporary artists he thinks will stand the test of time
In the second extract from Adam Lindemann’s Collecting Contemporary, we learn that the most committed collectors also make the most money
Queens in their castles: Photographic studies of gay men’s homes
Tom Atwood's new book reviewed
Books: The life, times and conversation of Maggi Hambling, “the female Francis Bacon”
The first chart of Hambling’s extraordinary 60 years
Author chosen for Bacon catalogue
Diplomacy will be required to deal with warring factions
Interview with Roger Ballen on his new book Shadow Chamber: Going fishing, metaphorically speaking
The South African photographer talks about his work, techniques and latest book
Books: Less opportunism and more rigour in study of Rothko, please
The 10 essays of Seeing Rothko are distinctly varied in quality
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish: The details
Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years
Books: The autobiographies of Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin
Sex, art and turmoil, revealing very little
'The destruction of memory: architecture at war', by Robert Bevan
This book argues that the deliberate destruction of buildings and cultural artefacts is a human rights issue
No simple explanation of Bacon's works to be found in his sources, as explained by Bacon authority Martin Harrison
Not least due to the flawed description of the contents of the artist’s studio
Book review: The complex political and artistic cross-currents of East and West, between 1750 and 1850
Why Napoleon became a Muslim
The art world’s Christmas reading
Artists, collectors, critics, museum directors and auction house executives pick their holiday books
An exhibition at the Getty Museum and the V&A reveals how an illuminated manuscript mystery was solved
Scholars have reassembled the Hours of Louis XII
Book review: 'English Pottery 1620-1840' is the harvest of a long and fruitful career:
Robin Hildyard’s book on English pottery is a fitting culmination of his distinguished V&A curatorship
Books: Sutherland and Bacon, a story of friends disuniting
Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon compared and contrasted
Commercial publishing: Would you pay $250 for this Hirst catalogue?
Published to accompany his show of paintings at Gagosian in New York, it promises much but delivers little
Books: Two books attempt to correct views of pre-Raphaelite art—held by no one
Traditional understandings of the brotherhood are addressed, again
Books: Analysis of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act a self-righteous attack on the temple
Essays explore US museums’ responsibilities to religious groups
Books: Francis Bacon’s passion for the camera
This is the first study of the painter’s use of photography
Books: Mark Rothko himself provides an important piece of the Ab Ex jigsaw puzzle
Rothko’s meditation on how to reconcile physical experience with ideas
Simple, small, silent: A celebratory history of the Leica camera
A new book explores the history of the first truly portable camera
Books: What is all the fuss about Leonardo? Martin Kemp and Charles Nicholl try to decipher the master
Two books try to shed new light on why Leonardo continues to exert a fascination for scholars, art historians and the public
The new Dictionary of National Biography is much more comprehensive than the Victorian original it replaces
More artists, more women, more sex
Stained glass, from a Romanesque nave to a Canadian airport
A comprehensive history, and catalogues for collections in the Metropolitan and the Victoria and Albert Museums
A portrait, person by person, item by item, of a society wiped out
This important book gives a full documentation for the Jewish art collectors of Vienna whose goods and lives were targeted by the Nazis
The ex-ceo of Phillips de Pury talks about her plans to create a group of art publications and to make an “Art Davos”
Louise MacBain: “a Bloomberg of the arts”
News from the US: Museum acquisitions and sales, refurbishment highs and lows, and fabulous manuscript donations
Nine Modern paintings from the MoMA collection go on sale at Christie’s this month - is it to fund the purchase of the Hirsts at Tate?
New book and DVD explore the work of Joseph Cornell
Cornell's influence is traced to a breadth of modern art and poetry
New V&A contemporary design series
Includes titles exploring fashion, photography, craft and architecture