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…
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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…
James McNeill Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake
Daniel E. Sutherland’s biography of luminary American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is not only the first in…
Summer Art Selection
Is there a finer season than summer? The sun is presumably shining, work is in relatively short supply…
Available Now: Josef Albers’ ‘Interaction of Color’ iPad app
‘Color is really the mise-en-scène in which everything else takes place’. Peter Mendelsund, Graphic Designer