An exclusive extract from a new book by James Birch who helped organise exhibitions for the artist duo in Communist Russia and China

In this exclusive extract from a new book, the London-based artist explains why Piero’s painting is his favourite in the National Gallery collection

An extract from a new book by Sebastian Smee—about the Impressionists during the Siege of Paris and Paris Commune—brings to life the peculiar episode of artistic intervention

In this exclusive extract from a new book about Henry VIII’s six wives, the art historian Suzannah Lipscomb writes about “perhaps the greatest artistic patron of them all”

An exclusive extract from a new book by Bianca Bosker that lifts the lid on the secret life of the art world

This extract from a new book about works in the Dulwich Picture Gallery by Helen Hillyard and Jennifer Scott reveals the story behind the artist's 1663 portrait of Lady Digby

An extract from a new publication about collectors by Dani Levinas features rare insights from the chair of Qatar Museums

Four excerpts from a book by Lauren MacDonald exploring the myths and origins of familiar colours

In an extract from an essay accompanying a newly published facsimile, Peter Walther tells the story of how this remarkable publication came about

An extract from an essay by the art historian Rye Dag Holmboe explains how the US artist’s works ended up in the Umbrian city of Spoleto

A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

An excerpt from one of Thiebaud’s final interviews, which features in the catalogue of a survey at the Fondation Beyeler, reveals how the US artist arrived at his signature style

An extract from a biography of the US collector and museum founder looks at how her modest taste was transformed by her inheritance and why her husband was not pleased by a revealing painting

This except from Taschen's new book The Gourmand’s Egg: A Collection of Stories and Recipes shows how artists including Judy Chicago and Sarah Lucas have used egg imagery

The art historian Partha Mitter looks at Surrealism’s uneasy relationship with colonialism and primitivism in this extract from a catalogue accompanying a new Tate show about the movement’s worldwide impact

The Old Master’s advice is among the fascinating facts and illuminating anecdotes gathered in a new compendium called Artifacts

In a new book of cultural essays, the Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan ponders whether we should change offensive names given to art—and what that might say about us

A new book by the art historian Ben Street attempts to demystify how we look at art and argues for reacting instinctively to what we see

Two decades after one of the most controversial exhibitions of recent times, Arnold Lehman, the former director of the Brooklyn Museum, reveals all in a new book

The text accompanied the group's only show and is now one of several texts about Black art brought together in a new book The Soul of Nation Reader

A new book by John Higgs paints a picture of the mixed reviews that the 18th-century artist received and touches upon the “Holy Grail of his lost works”

New book by Jennifer Higgie gives astute insights into brilliant women artists shut out of art history

New book by Martin Kemp considers the impact of poet’s vision of divine light on artists such as Michelangelo and Titian

Exclusive extracts from a new book bringing together texts by 62 cultural figures describing their preferred works in the Frick Collection

In a recently published Cahiers d’Art monograph, the US artist speaks about responding to “a tsunami of footage of Black people getting killed”

New book outlines the campaign led by the gender-fluid artists on the island of Jersey during the Second World War

An exclusive excerpt and images from a new book chronicling 35 years of “creative complaining” by the US-based feminist art collective

An exclusive excerpt from a forthcoming biography by art historian Robert Storr looks at the influence of comics as well as caricatures that the American-Canadian artist made of his contemporaries

Excerpts from the expanded monograph include how he was inspired by outsider art and the stresses of building a “Taj Mahal on the River Stour”

An excerpt, photographs and collages from the photographer’s re-released book