Stars of the 56th Venice Biennale, selected by David Ebony
Our special correspondent David Ebony is recently returned from Venice where he took in the sights and sounds of…
Galleries and Museums
The Birth of the People’s Galleries
Too often we take for granted the vast number of impressive museums and galleries to be found throughout…
The Letters of Bernard Berenson & Kenneth Clark, 28 August 1933
As the National Gallery London appoints new director Gabriele Finaldi, we look back at a fascinating correspondence between two art…
China: Through the Looking Glass – Catalogue to the Show
China: Through the Looking Glass opens this week at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition…
Tate Liverpool: Bookshop of the Month
The Shop at Tate Liverpool is our Bookshop of The Month for February, boasting a wide range of gorgeous art books…
Two American Photographers, Britain and Ireland: A Meeting
Today, courtesy of our colleagues at the Huntington Gallery, the Yale Books Blog shares a guest post from…
Summer Art Selection
Is there a finer season than summer? The sun is presumably shining, work is in relatively short supply…
Michael Landy: Saints Alive. A first hand experience of the National Gallery exhibition
British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an installation artist. His work, along with others…
Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
For the May 13 centennial of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth, Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern, the first biography of Joseph Pulitzer,…
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art offers a new…
Edwardian Opulence: ‘The Gown’ by Angus Trumble
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial…
Arthur Danto on What Art Is
Arthur Danto, the influential art critic and a professor emeritus of aesthetics and history at Columbia University, once famously…
Ginkgo: A Few Amazing Facts
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years….
‘Salvaging The Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts’
Georges Hoentschel (1855-1915) was a leading French interior designer in historic styles, head of a decorating firm, and…
Extract from ‘Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century’, edited by Angus Trumble and Andrea Wolk Rager
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial…