The director of Turner Contemporary chooses her favourite works from the fair—and reveals a very British preoccupation with the weather

The summation of a lifetime’s work and a triumph of scholarship

The polymath performer has written a novel set in the art world -should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?

The fate of esoteric books and illuminated manuscripts hangs in the balance

Invitation to a hanging

Giving things back—the how, when, where and why

However, too much knowledge can be confusing... even when it is as well selected as this

Soldier and collector Prince Eugene of Savoy’s role in the rise of the Austro-Hungarian empire

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

Oxford’s greatest treasure trove

A deep look into the remarkable objects now on display in the museum's recently opened galleries

Diggers, dealers and dilettanti

The perfect reference book for those of us who cannot just offhand distinguish a gambeson from a hauberk

This collection of essays questions how we understand the terms Pre-Raphaelite, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement

A review of the Courtauld Gallery catalogue of Auerbach's early London works and a new monograph by William Feaver

The Fraud, by Barbara Ewing, spins a tale of lies and intrigue

Objects of translation and the cultural interactions of Muslims and Hindus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

The painting that still languishes in a vault, despite nearly a century of squabbling

The story of the US Monuments Men

The author is hindered by his own technique

A study of US arts policy and the ideology of denazification in post-war Germany

A collection of essays by museum directors worldwide on restitutions and ownership

How artists and the arts fared under the Vichy regime and the German occupation of France, 1940-44

Farhad Hakimzadeh was given two years' imprisonment after it was learnt he had stolen volumes from the two UK institutions

Henrietta Maria: patron, collector and propagandist

Hadrian was a politically savvy, calculating, vicious, lion-hunting, married, gay general in the best tradition

New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men

Sorry tales of devastation and waste, with little hope on the horizon

The Cranach exhibition catalogue and a book on technical aspects of his work

An invaluable resource, lavishly illustrated