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"The high dignity of the fire arts derives from the fact that their works bear the most profoundly human mark, the mark of primitive love. (...) The forms created by...

Artists' Corner in St Paul's Cathedral is the final resting place for some of the greatest artists working in the United Kingdom, including Turner, Leighton and Millais. British painters of...

In The Miserable Lives of Fabulous Artists, Chris Orr turns his humorous gaze on some of the most famous - and fabulous - artists of the past. With over 30...

A guide to the Freer/Sackler's richly diverse collection of Buddhist art fromJapan, China, and Korea, as well as Indian/South Asia. Paths to Perfection: Buddhist Art at the Freer Sackler introduces...

Calder Now documents an exhibition at the Kunsthal Rotterdam which explores the enduring influence of the work of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) on contemporary art. Shown alongside pieces by Calder himself...

British artist Christopher Winter (*1968) is a figurative painter, performance and installation artist. His work is influenced primarily by literature, film and politics. He has a particular interest in fairy...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS A thought-provoking, visual feast, which presents a diverse range of art objects to build emotional bridges between art objects and the viewer within a social history context. 100...

A guide to the Freer/Sackler's richly diverse collection of Buddhist art fromJapan, China, and Korea, as well as Indian/South Asia. Paths to Perfection: Buddhist Art at the Freer Sackler introduces...

Pencil in Hand, 20th-Century Drawings presents a considered selection of more than 100 drawings, providing a wide-ranging view of art from the past century, both from Spain and abroad. All...

In The Miserable Lives of Fabulous Artists, Chris Orr turns his humorous gaze on some of the most famous - and fabulous - artists of the past. With over 30...

With this book that uncovers and presents the topic for the first time, gain a deeper knowledge of 38 of today's top African American artists in clay, the earlier Black...

The de Young is San Francisco's oldest art museum, treasured in a unique verdant setting. Beginning as the Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum in 1895, the museum has been a...

A visual history of dissent, told through objects that challenge authority, published to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum co-curated by the satirist Ian Hislop Challenging authority is an...

A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard. ** THE NEW...

A visual history of dissent, told through objects that challenge authority, published to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum co-curated by the satirist Ian Hislop Challenging authority is an...

Wall or no wall? View the US-Mexico borderland saga through the eyes of artists who've lived it. More than 100 artworks represent a variety of mediums, from large paintings to...

This delightful room-by-room search for birds hiding in the galleries is a brand new way to experience the one-of-a-kind Barnes Foundation. Legend says that Dr. Barnes put a bird in...

Tools, pipes, pottery, scavenged wood, and doll parts are among the startling artifacts that have been exposed by the retreating tides in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the oldest continuous art colony in...

Initially, they were the waste product of wooden bowls turned in an ancient technique by Robin Wood of the United Kingdom, an expert pole-lathe turner and author. Known for his...

A miniature exploration of one of New York's most treasured museums Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is New York City's oldest museum, with a rich history of scholarship,...

Handsomely designed and produced, this stunning book highlights sensual paintings from the Spanish royal collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Many of the featured artists were court painters...

This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696 1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura, the...

It was not until Japan's opening to the West during the Meiji period (1868-1912) that terms for "art" (bijutsu) and "art museum" (bijutsukan) were coined. The Imperial Museums of Meiji...

The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and exciting ways Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and...

The Fogg Art Museum's silver collection is one of the most significant in America and includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such celebrated artists as Paul...

The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina was founded in 1997 by Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli and named for Professor Bruccoli's father, who...

This book showcases Julian Schnabel's diverse body of work from the past three decades and celebrates the scale and virtuosic materiality of his oeuvre. Julian Schnabel is one of the...

The Altering Eye marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the National Gallery of Art's photography collection, celebrating the vitality, breadth and history of its holdings. In 1949 Georgia...

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in...

Small China presents Chinese miniatures from 5,000 BCE up to the fifteenth century. The pocketsized representations of supernatural beings, people, animals, or everyday objects are virtually uncharted in East Asian...

This book, which accompanied a groundbreaking exhibition, presents a multilayered picture of influence and experimentation between a family of artists. A few years before his death in 1984, the conceptual...

A New HopeWhat is there to hope for today? How does hope manifest itself at a time when a linear understanding of the future, of growing prosperity, security, and progress...

The exhibition brings together five contemporary artists of international stature: Sam Gilliam (United States, 1933), Katharina Grosse (Germany, 1961), Steven Parrino (United States, 1958-2005), Megan Rooney (Canada, 1985), Niele Toroni...

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...

In the first exhibition highlight of the year, three outstanding artists - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Georg Kolbe, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - are being brought together for the first...

The Lahore Biennale 01 Reader assembles substantial scholarly and curatorial essays that engage with salient questions of cultural politics in the global South. The contributions are developed from the program...

Ivan Durrant is one of Australian art's great provocateurs. He first achieved widespread public attention in the 1970s with a series of controversial, politically inspired happenings, but in the ensuing...

A New HopeWhat is there to hope for today? How does hope manifest itself at a time when a linear understanding of the future, of growing prosperity, security, and progress...

Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World, was also the owner of one of the largest private...

The book features works from the Golda and Meyer Marks Cobra Collection, the largest CoBrA art collection in America. The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale collection of Cobra art includes...

Japanese-born artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's career and art evolved from innocence and early success to complexity and disillusionment. Born in Japan in 1889, Kuniyoshi arrived in the United States as a...

While the foundations of the Josette and Jean-Claude Weill Collection lie in painting, their passion for seeking out exciting new forms soon led them to embrace the infinite diversity of...

A companion to an exhibition inspired by the work of celebrated American painter and critic Manny Farber, this book explores Farber's concept of "Termite Art," an argument for the vital...

An in-depth examination of the crucial role that Amsterdam played in Rembrandt's evolution as an artist Around the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) moved from his hometown of...

As the opposition between illusion and reality dissolves and the boundaries between the world we inhabit and its virtual dimensions blur, Immerse! examines how computer-generated public spaces shape our current...

'Life is more important than art and that is why art is important' - James BaldwinLife is More Important Than Art is a summer-long, multidisciplinary programme of exhibitions, installations, participatory...