Review
A uniquely powerful force: Kenneth Baker on Bruce Conner at SFMoMA
The critic examines a bracing and brilliant survey of the artist's work
The radiant future that never came: on Communist art from the 1930s to today
A show at Galerie St. Etienne in New York looks at how left-wing politics once animated culture—and how they no longer do
Glocal dynamics versus the R-word
Roman art shared a common visual repertory throughout the Empire, but there were significant variations in local styles
Tracey the Tory: on the YBAs
A new history of Britart is long on anecdote but short on critical insight
Many strategies for survival: Barbara Rose on painting after Postmodernism
Rumors of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated
Small but perfectly formed
A complete historical catalogue of the Wallace Collection’s Italian sculptures
Long may he continue: on John Berger at 90
Writings, new and old, by the nonagenarian, Marxist and self-confessed “stop-gap” storyteller
Who picks up the garbage after the revolution? On maintenance as art
A Queens Museum retrospective of Mierle Laderman Ukeles looks at how the artist made daily chores into art
Poop and pray: on domestic devotion in ancient Greece and Rome
New discoveries are changing how we understand ancient domesticity
'Art too is just a way of living': on Rachel Corbett's You Must Change Your Life
A splendid new book examines what the poet Rainer Maria Rilke learned from Auguste Rodin
Oiseries work both ways: on exchanges between China and the West
Goods and culture traveled in both directions
Porcelain’s poor relation
Chinese painted enamels on copper are now valued in their own right
Land ho: the flourishing of Flemish landscape painting
An exhibition in Dresden chronicles the emergence and variance of landscapes from Flanders
To recover history from peril: on the dealer Paul Rosenberg and the Nazi seizure of Modern art
An exhibition on Rosenberg in Belgium focuses on the story of his Paris gallery and the recovery of his looted art
Kissin’ and collectin’ cousins
How one branch of a German noble family married into every European royal family and acquired spectacular works of art
Grand melancholy and class: on Anthony van Dyck
The artist’s soulful portraits conferred high status on his sitters—and on subsequent owners
How Jewish identity shaped artistic patronage in turn-of-the-century Vienna
A new book offers a study of Jewish patrons in fin de siècle Vienna
Not a step wrong: on Pompeo Batoni
A revised catalogue of the artist's work brings his achievements into view
The bishop’s wine bath—with servants for show
A new book explores the social history of these homes
The Roman conquest of the past
Essays on the appropriation of cultural memory, identity and power
It's about time: Shelley Rice on Diane Arbus at the Met Breuer
The show, almost two-thirds of which is made up of previously unseen materials, reveals the first act of Arbus's career
Personal and quirky: an account of J. M. W. Turner
This volume falls short of the “definitive” one that was intended
Pierre Bonnard: easily misrepresented
Few books adequately explain Bonnard’s intentions and achievements. A new one is no exception
Despair, pleasure and pride: on the diaries of Eva Hesse
Her private writings are moving but share few of her ideas about art
