Books
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
Three-part Vuillard catalogue compiled by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts published after 50 years in production
The volume aims to be totally immersive, images rooted in their biographical context with detailed annotations
Lifting the lid on François Pinault’s empire
A new book traces the entrepreneur's rise and potential fall
Klaske Muizelaar and Derek Phillips, Picturing men and women in the Dutch Golden Age
A review of the new volume on Dutch painting
The story of the great Augustan collectors of antiquities
An explanation, an adoration and a lament
Germaine Greer’s synopsis of pubescent males in art is flawed, but fun
Beautiful boys—now available for women, too
A rich harvest for medieval art enthusiasts that includes the V&A’s exhibition catalogue, a study of stained glass, and a survey of folk art
A Medieval Renaissance for art of the Middle Ages
Shortlist chosen for “best catalogue” prize
Last year, the winner of The Art Newspaper/AXA Art prize was The American Sublime, held at Tate Britain
Christie's offer complete set of record holding Audubon classic, 'The Birds of America'
Set at the estmate of $5/7 million,the Providence Athenaeum Library is launching this deaccession to maintain landmark building
Books: Liszt, the nineteenth-century celebrity's life in photographs
A new photo-documentary of the pianist and composer Franz Liszt
Super sculpture scholarship collections in quick succession
The Victoria and Albert Museum has published its catalogues of the British, German, and Netherlandish collections in quick succession
Books: Leonardo as larger-than-life, but also human
Two studies of the Renaissance artist’s works reveal divergent assumptions about interpretation
The Scottish garden hawk flies into New York, Louise’s new love, the youngest collector, and where to buy a book
Raising the flag in the West (Village)
Sir Paul Getty’s library to live on as part of a charitable foundation
The American-born benefactor bought rare books and manuscripts for over 20 years