His father, Ai Qing, was China's most celebrated poet. This epic story of his father's legacy and his own life is a window onto 1000 years of Chinese history. (A new selection of his poems a... read more
Blackwell is a remarkable artist who creates astonishing tableaux made of cut-out paper; many of her subjects are taken from fairy tales and she often works with the pages of old books. This... read more
A global approach coinciding with an exhibition at the Met which is coming to Tate Modern in 2022. Looks at Colombia, Turkey, the Philippines etc, as well as the US, France and the UK, from ... read more
The stunning new installation of the Frick's collection of Old Masters etc in Marcel Breuer's Brutalist bulding a few blocks away from its usual home, now in the process of restoration. Beau... read more
Carves out a space in modern British art history for Helen Sutherland, Myfanwy Piper and a host of lesser known female collectors, gallerists and friends.
Published in association with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which houses a superb collection of the ingenious printmaking technique that was so important in Enlightenment Europe... read more
To work with oil paint on copper was typical for Rembrandt and early Dutch flower painters, but not for a C20th painter. Freud produced just over a dozen such works in the 50s and this volum... read more
His paintings of irises and plum blossoms on gold-foiled folding screens are still exquisite after 400 years. This book offers the first detailed presentationof his work in English.
Exquisite paintings of birds' nests - she is careful in her obsession never to disturb the inhabitants, depicting only those from which the birds have flown or have been displaced by wind an... read more
A new edition of the extraordinary pictures taken during 'The Artist Is Present', where Abramovic invited MoMA visitors to sit opposite her in silence for 30 charged seconds. She summoned te... read more
Despite often possessing cameras, grand tourists persisted in using watercolours. This fascinating, wide-ranging illustrated book explores attitudes towards the picturesque, Empire, the Orie... read more
The 'secret' refers to how obscure she was until very recently. Published alongside a new show at her eponymous foundation in Sweden, this rides in the wake of the Guggenheim's 2019 exhibiti... read more