Books
From the archive | A challenge to time: Frank Auerbach's building site paintings
A review of the Courtauld Gallery catalogue of Auerbach's early London works and a new monograph by William Feaver
Books: A girl’s own 18th-century art adventure as Grace Mashall strives to be a painter
The Fraud, by Barbara Ewing, spins a tale of lies and intrigue
Books: Material culture and medieval "Hindu-Muslim" encounter
Objects of translation and the cultural interactions of Muslims and Hindus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries
Books: The cautionary tale of America’s other “Leonardo”
The painting that still languishes in a vault, despite nearly a century of squabbling
Thomas Kabdebo's "Tracking Giorgione" reviewed
The author is hindered by his own technique
Books: How America took on the propaganda war in occupied Germany
A study of US arts policy and the ideology of denazification in post-war Germany
Books: Who should artifacts really belong to? And why?
A collection of essays by museum directors worldwide on restitutions and ownership
Books: French culture under the Nazis
How artists and the arts fared under the Vichy regime and the German occupation of France, 1940-44
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?