Much has been said about the lives, work, and motivations of artists, curators, and art historians. Much less attention has been devoted to the art public, which Oskar Bätschmann defines in The Art ...

A new book highlights 100 artistic curiosities, from the nude “Mona Lisa” to portraits of a dog-headed saint Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital Editor, History In the last years of his life, ...

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Fairy tales continue to nourish artistic invention because their characters embrace continual metamorphosis, discovering yet ...

This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s Suffrage Song. I first encountered an artwork by Audrey Flack in ...

A new pocket edition of the art history classic was recently released by Phaidon, as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations. The Story of Art. E.H. Gombrich, with a new preface by Leonie Gombrich, ...

Winter is the perfect season to slow down, seek inspiration and lose yourself in books that expand your creative world. This year’s standout art and culture releases span great works of art, feminist ...

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from Botticelli to Vermeer, Lucy Lippard’s memoir, and Wade Guyton’s intelligent rereading of Manet. Share full article Clockwise from top left: ...

Our staff shared their favorite books on art of all time—from a gothic-tinged memoir by Sally Mann to a rollicking, research-rich portrait of the artist’s psyche across centuries. Gyula Benczur ...

Queer Art, by curators Mollie E. Barnes and Gemma Rolls-Bentley, isn’t afraid to ask questions: what queerness is, what queer art can be, and why queer art matters. The book’s introduction states that ...