Review
A charmed couple: the art and life of Walter and Matilda Gay
A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement
How women and the Sound of Sleat were the inspirations for Jon Schueler's life and work
Abstract Expressionism in the Hebrides
Jane Evelyn Atwood's new book 'Too much time: women in prison' reviewed
“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”
Should the new Holocaust gallery be a permanent feature of this museum?
The Imperial War Museum's exhibition is intended as a reminder of past evil
Two books look at women in the art world and conclude from entirely different approaches that, even after thirty years, the struggle remains the same
"Women and art: Contested territory" and "Great women collectors"
Books: Hubert von Herkomer as an egotist with a warm heart
Admired by Van Gogh and an enormously successful artist in his lifetime, Herkomer was a polymath and man of action
Book Review: How we almost lost the Mona Lisa
The Spanish involvement with Nazi-looted art and the part played by the Austrian resistance in saving works of art are among the revelations in this book
The use of American art in the Cold War
This book reveals how the CIA’s promoted US artists as a way of stopping the spread of Communism in the years after World War II
Books: All the marvels of Mughal painting
The latest volume in the catalogues of the Khalili Collection describes the art of the Muslim courts of India
Books: Expanding on Hallmark's photographic collection
This second edition includes even more of the collection, providing a fine survey of the medium in America
Books: Modernism behind the Iron Curtain and in wartime Paris
The progress of Modernism in the Communist States and the response of the French Avant-garde to World War I are examined in these two books
Books: Essays on sex, gender and identity in Dada
Naomi Sawelson-Gorse edits this collection on the often overlooked women of Dada
The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany
Medieval German women’s art and spirituality examined with too much of the gender-studies approach
Two new books examine ceramics from different points of view
One is a technical and stylistic analysis; the other a cultural critique. Both are well worth a read
Raphael’s lines of influence at the Queen's Gallery
The Royal collection of drawings by Raphael and his circle to cross the Atlantic
Man Ray photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
The book forms part of the museum's paperback photography series
Books: Salvador Dalí’s art and writing receives refreshing review
A new study of the Surrealist painter's life and work
It was good for me: Seven London dealers review the past year
The state of the trade according to Lisson, Besson, Colnaghi and others
Giorgione: the painter of “poetic brevity”
This study is based on a close look at conservation and restoration research, a scientific examination of the artist’s technique, and new documentary evidence
"Renaissance women patrons, wives and widows in Italy, c. 1300-1550"
Catherine E. King's book reviewed
Books: Guido Reni, loved by the Victorians, despised by modernists and purists
Reni is in for a late twentieth-century treatment as political activist and secretly gay
Gilles Mora, Photospeak: a guide to the ideas, movements and techniques of photography, 1839 to the present (Abbeville Press, New York, 1998), 216 pp, 50 b/w ills, 13 col. ills, £20 (hb) ISBN 0789203707, £12.95 (pb) ISBN 0789200686
A Review of Mora's new book on photography
Guerrilla Girls: Rewriting art history from the distaff side
“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?” and other pointers on the good, the bad and the ugly of women in art
Books: Shame, shyness and self-obsession in new Dalí monograph
Ian Gibson on Surrealism as an escape and the façade of eccentricity
New Warhol exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum
The major show chronicles the many faces of Warhol's fascination with fame
Books: Looking at women in Paola Tinagli's "Women in Italian Renaissance art"
No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures
Books: Dr Milner struggles with Malevich's relationship with geometry
This study of the Suprematist artist fails to recognise that his mathematical games were metaphorical, not computational
Books: The Muslims’ transformation of Christian Jerusalem
Computer-generated reconstructions relate Islamic architecture to other key monuments
Documenta's journey from post-war to post-modern to pre-millennial
A history of how Documenta has changed with the times