A Book Lover’s Gift Guide: books for your coffee table
This winter we have gathered together some of our favourite books – books for Biography Buffs, History Lovers and…
Art
Ever Yours: the Van Gogh Letters
In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings Vincent van Gogh left behind a fascinating and illuminating body of…
Flora Illustrata
‘Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil. If you have a garden and a library, nothing will be lacking.’…
Out of the Shadows: E. H. Gombrich on Western Art
Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art is an example of the continued importance of discussing light…
Cubism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
As one of the most influential art movements of the early-twentieth-century, cubism holds its place as a heavyweight…
Bookshop of the Month: The National Gallery Bookshop
After a sojourn in the north, Yale’s Bookshop of the Month returns to London for October, with the National Gallery…
London Fashion Week 2014: A Celebration
In celebration of London Fashion Week, we have put together a collection of our most exciting fashion books…
The Scottish Colourists: ‘an unbroken friendship’
To mark the The Scottish Colourist: J. D. Fergusson exhibition showing at Pallant House Gallery from 5th July…
Emotional Robots and Erotic Dolls: Theories of Visual Culture
Using ideas from art history, visual culture, gender and sexuality studies with the medical humanities, Marquard Smith’s The Erotic…
The Zong: two paintings and the end of slavery
Did Dido Elizabeth Belle – the illegitimate child of John Lindsay, a Royal Navy captain, and an African…
Interaction of Color: Josef Albers at Somerset House
A new exhibition ‘Form through Colour: Josef Albers, Anni Albers and Gary Hume’ opened at Somerset House this month…
René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass
René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass is a major exhibition at The Corning Museum of Glass in New York…
Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower
This gorgeous book – one of our favourite publications for the summer – explores depictions of the natural world…
Georgian Fever
This year is the 300th anniversary of George I’s accession, and already Georgian fever is upon us –…
Whistler’s Mother
James McNeill Whistler shares his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts with some unlikely characters. Not least among them literary…