Art World

Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, and part courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of the dark connection between money, power, and art. Critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication...

Rare & Collectible Beuys dog food, Goya Vienna sausages, Rembrandt tooth paste, Vermeer woodchippers, Leonardo adhesive tape, Michelangelo knives, Klein bikes, Duchamp wine, Lichtenstein vitamins, Fontana juice, Richter spicy fish rolls, Manet scooters, and Raffaello confectionery. In ArtBrands, artist and art historian Michael Klant presents...

Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) and Nelly van Doesburg (1899-1975) were vital participants in the De Stijl movement, promoting, exhibiting and buying De Stijl at a time when few had interest in the geometric language of forms being developed by Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian and...

In recent years, the boundaries between art and design have become more and more blurred. It is not the object itself, but rather its economic functionality that determines where design stops and art begins and this functionality is reassessed at every link in the...

Electronic communications have had a transformative effect on the public discourse on contemporary art by removing temporal and geographical barriers to the flow of information and, for the first time, putting local exhibition makers and institutions in contact with an international art public unmediated...

Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner's Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser astonished London with the artists he introduced: Andy Warhol, Peter Blake,...

Zwemmer's was a meeting place for a cross-section of the art world - artists, collectors, academics and laymen - attracted by a range of books covering all arts of all periods. Anton Zwemmer was a friend and patron of many leading artists, from Picasso...

The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater claim to have stimulated the taste that became British neo-romanticism in the mid-20th century. Oliver Simon, its editor,...

An illustrated history and portrait of the Jerwood Foundation, a major UK funder of arts, education and science. This is a very readable history of enterprise, inspired investment decisions and enthusiastic support of the arts with strategic funding. But more than that, it can be...

Exit Art is an intimate portrait of an institution that from 1982 to 2012 challenged social, political, aesthetic and curatorial norms. Committed to experimenting at the intersection of disciplines, publications and design, the gallery Exit Art remained steadfast in its mission to provide new possibilities...

Leading activist museum director Laura Raicovich explains why museums are at the centre of a political storm and how they can be reimagined. In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting...

In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan investigates the strategies African American artists and museum professionals employed as they wrangled over access to and the direction of New York City's elite museums. Drawing on numerous interviews with artists and analyses of internal museum documents, Cahan gives a...

Countless dollars of art are stolen or looted every year, yet governments often consider art theft a luxury problem. With limited public law enforcement, what prevents thieves, looters and organised criminal gangs from flooding the market with stolen art? How can theft victims get...

Rare & Collectible Whether you're a fan of Sean Landers's prolific, varied, purposely self-aggrandising and simultaneously self-puncturing career or not (and no one is neutral), there's one thing that's indisputable: He's wickedly funny. And nowhere is his humour sharper than in these previously uncollected...

Internationally renowned dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a lively and authoritative look at the financial and emotional value of art throughout history. In this newly revised, updated, and generously illustrated edition Findlay draws on a half-century in the business and a passion...

The Art of Love tells the stories of the most fascinating couples of the art world, exploring the passionate, challenging and loving relationships behind some the world's greatest works of art. Kate Bryan (broadcaster, writer and curator) delves into the complex world of artistic relationships, exploring the nuanced...

This book celebrates the life and achievements of the renowned art dealer and gallerist Robert Fraser, and the various artists with which he worked. It pays tribute to the legendary art dealer and maverick, whose Duke Street gallery was a hub of global cultural change...

Insiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom. In every field, émigrés arriving...

In this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity, while the qualities of the artist, nation, or period themselves became valuable properties. Joselit explores repatriation, explaining that this is not...