Have art books, will travel. And this year’s prime selections clock up a lot of visual, historical and personal mileage. We get an up-close tour through the Vermeer extravaganza that became the ...

Books Our Writers Pick 20 Books About Art and the Art World to Keep You Reading Well Into the New Year. Our favorite biographies, memoirs, essay collections, and more.

Books 17 Riveting Books About Art to Read Right Now, From a Novel About the New York Art Scene to a Compendium of Startling Art Crimes. Here's what we're reading on the beach.

Books that delve into the making of art by the artists themselves are important and refreshing. Many know of The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, where he writes about his joys and struggles with both ...

"Life, as we find it, is too hard for us," writes Freud in "Civilization and Its Discontents." "Palliative measures" are required. One such measure is a receptivity to art. (Another is ...

Of my favorite art books this year, some are for looking, some for reading, most for both. All are on vital, return-to subjects, which is why I keep these precious things, in no particular order ...

Middleton credits the New York Art Book Fair, which was first held in 2006, with launching “this global movement.” The ...

As we enter 2019, there is a plethora of suggested “Best of 2018” books for the general public. The Vail Valley Art Guild and the Vail Valley Art Guild Photographers has compiled a list of the best ...

The picture book is a form, not a genre. If there’s an overabundance of simplistic picture books about cute animals learning ...

Say what you will about digital futures, print still rules when it comes to art books. And 2024 has brought us a batch of hold-in-your-hand beauties.