Reviews

Andrew Lambirth's The Life of Bryan, recently published by Unicorn, describes itself rather demurely as a celebration, rather than as a biography....

As the National Portrait Gallery closes its doors, not just in response to the Coronavirus epidemic, but in preparation for a three-year rehab, the...

The ways of the art market are pretty strange. Hamiltons, a leading gallery here in London that specialises in photography, have just put a new...

Home Alone Together: We are told that home is where the heart is, but also that, while we can travel the world in search of what we need, we must...

Spring 2020 was to have been an appropriate season for the launch of one of the Camden Arts Centre’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. The...

Ben Lewis’s book The Last Leonardo, subtitled ‘A Masterpiece, A Mystery and the Dirty World of Art’, has now appeared in paperback after its...

Here's a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international...

Darren Coffield’s well-presented Tales from the Colony Room, Soho’s Lost Bohemia, memorialises an epoch in the London world of the arts that now...

The much-anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery in London will open next week. Many were disappointed by its...

This handsome soft-cover catalogue published by Thames & Hudson for the British Museum was intended to commemorate an exhibition that hasn’t in...

Books! Thousands of books! Written by hundreds of authors from scores of countries, and countries not their own, forced by circumstance,...

The Titian show at the National Gallery in London has arrived at a particularly inauspicious moment. Major public galleries in Europe are...