Books
Collector profile: Abolala Soudavar – bibliophily in the blood
His great Persian manuscript paintings are now on loan to the Sackler
Books: Dutch colonialism comes home to roost as Indonesians buy back their own art
As interest in pre-colonial and colonial art grows, authors look to document Indonesian art
Books: Confiscated Malevich material to be revealed as his autobiography finally comes to light
First ever complete edition of avant-garde artist’s writings appearing in five volumes
Books: Stalin’s supermuseum
As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow
With the rise of the super-store, what will happen to the art book industry?
“The biggest change in the publishing business these days is the phenomenon of the super-store and the breakneck pace at which these stores are opening”
Novel approaches: Changes in the German art book market
As the recession begins to abate in Germany, the market for art books blossoms
Exploiting the exhibition catalogue: An assessment of art publishing today
How publishers are coping with changes in academic approaches to art and the buying habits of the public
Goodbye Gutenberg, hello Gatesburg
The future for art, books and education, as seen through the eyes of computer wizard Bill Gates, who last month bought the Leonardo Codex
Six-figure sum for Frida Kahlo’s journal
Abrams’s winning bid for 170-page illustrated diary
Books: A catalogue raisonné for Mark Rothko
Only Gorky and Pollock of his peers has so far been catalogued
Updated Getty Museum illustrated catalogue
Charissa Bremer-David et al Decorative Arts: an illustrated summary catalogue of the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum
V&A strangles its watercolours with artspeak
Illustrations partially compensate for jargon
Anthony van der Woerd Shaw and Copestake: the Collector’s Guide to early SylvaC 1894-1939
Illustrating the factory’s output from 1894 to the late 1930s
Abstract Expressionism at the Tate
“Myth making: Abstract Expressionist painting from the United States”
Useful dealers' survey responds to market interest in 19th-century ceramics
Outside the canon, but now bought by US Arab and Japanese collectors
At last we have a serious decorative arts show: John Channon at the V&A,
The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.
Guide to procuring arts sponsorship published
The text includes illustrative examples alongside practical advice
Books: Dangerous (artistic) liaisons examined
A poet married to a painter reviews a survey of creative partnerships including Ernst and Carrington, Pollock and Krasner, Rodin and Claudel, and more
Books: Tracing Francis Bacon and his lost Bohemia
Farson's biography of the tortured artist is a pub crawl around Fifties Soho
Dealers, collectors and Christie’s to fund Chatsworth book
New book will cover the 1,000 Italian drawings in the Chatsworth collection
430 unknown drawings by Modigliani brought to light as the son of the artist's best friend releases a new book
The works were collected day by day, from 1907 to 1914, by Paul Alexandre during the artist’s stay in Paris
A look at the best of new art books
Books on non-Western art, women artists, and from the new art history
Here we go again: books of Mapplethorpe photographs banned from sale at the V&A and Harrods
The episode had overtones of "An American were-wolf in London"
As the catalogue comes to Britain, James Hall slates “The Play of the Unmentionable”, the anti-censorship installation created by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum
Kosuth "keeps the ball rolling while not rocking the boat”
Agnew’s 175th anniversary: the memoirs of a senior partner, Dick Kingzett
A vanished variety of collectors: the priest, the Russian in exile, the actor, the V&A Keeper, the German and Dutch aesthetes—and a millionaire
Books: Spiegelman's comics come to MoMA
Maus, the highly successful re-telling of the Holocaust, uses mice, cats and pigs as the protagonists
Books: New 'comprehensive biography' fails to go beyond the public face of Joseph Beuys
Heiner Stachelhaus' book on the German artist leaves a lot to be desired
Hebborn the fake: everything we learned from the forger's autobiography
By his own claim, his forged oeuvre numbers some 1,100 works ranging from “Mantegna” and “Giorgione” to “Van Dyck” and “Piranesi”