Review
Books: The ecumenicity of iconophobia
Christian, Jewish and Muslim anxieties about images
Books: Rossetti’s fascination with women’s bodies and Dadd’s madness are investigated
Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists
Book Review: A decade of change between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic movement
An excellently wrought assessment of the cast of characters that defined the mid-19th century
Books: A personal reflection on artistic responses to war
Records, celebrations, denunciations
The mysteries of Leonardo: A review of the National Gallery's new exhibition on the master
An exhibition catalogue that is erudite, sound and elegant—but for scholars, not the general reader
Review: Re-distributed films starring Armando Reverón and David Hockney and Londoners gather on Front Row to recall Andy Warhol encounters
Poignant footage of Reverón's twilight years, Hockney playing the documentarian and Jeremy Deller in conversation with Anthony d'Offay on Warhol's transformative power
New book by Michael Peppiatt interprets Giacometti through the multi-functional nature of his workplace
The studio as stage, incubator and archive
Art on the big screen: Documenting feminism and how women changed the (art) world
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film is an invaluable historical record of the feminist art movement in the US
Books in brief: British and Irish Art, 1945-51
Despite some factual inaccuracies, this is a refreshing and invigorating presentation that challenges assumptions
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge subject of new biography and exhibition catalogue
The “discoverer” of animal locomotion influenced artists including Francis Bacon
Books: A portrait of Ford Madox Brown through his four 'loves'
A study of the women who had the greatest impact on the life and work of Ford Madox Brown
Indefatigable enthusiasm in Saeb Eigner's book "Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran"
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
Books: The continuities in Medieval and Renaissance art at the V&A
A deep look into the remarkable objects now on display in the museum's recently opened galleries
Books in brief: the Medieval Warrior’s (Unofficial) Manual
The perfect reference book for those of us who cannot just offhand distinguish a gambeson from a hauberk
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
Thomas Kabdebo's "Tracking Giorgione" reviewed
The author is hindered by his own technique
Books: French culture under the Nazis
How artists and the arts fared under the Vichy regime and the German occupation of France, 1940-44
Art in the media: Light and dark after the war at the Ferus Gallery and in the art of Georg Baselitz
Ostensibly disparate films illuminate art after the end of World War II
Art on the big screen: The art of war and sex
A look at 'Guernica: Portrait of War' and 'Love You More'
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
Two new catalogues and an exhibition on Klimt
An overview of what's on the world of Klimt
Books: “Spirit photography”, the paradoxical meeting point of technology and the paranormal
Not about faith or folly, but film as reality
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: Kirk Varnedoe’s Mellon lectures prove to be a fitting swansong for the famous MoMA curator
Given three months before his death, these last lectures are now in print
The Art of Domestic Life: This well-argued study considers the changing status of women in family portraits
'That’s no lady, that’s my wife…'