This “alternative” history navigates the medium through artists on the margins, as well as established practitioners

Historical fiction on the famed bohemian collector brings her relationships to life but leaves out much of what she actually achieved

An authoritative and engaging read for fans of the UK's mute monoliths—be they academic or sentimental

The self-proclaimed atlas gives voice to works from often overlooked global-majority cultures but tends to favour mainstream over more challenging works

An intimate photographic essay by Gilbert McCarragher examines the film-maker’s Prospect Cottage

This entertaining satire combines liberal quantities of sex, violence, money and drugs with the Britart scene

Fifteen art capitals are captured at their brilliant apogee in Caroline Campbell's book

A level-headed survey of the rise and fall of anthropological and ethnographic collections and what their futures may hold

The publication explores the collector’s gift for friendship, but is oddly reticent about the man himself

From a fifth-century influx of refugees to the arrival of “grazing dinosaur” cruise ships

Eden Collinsworth tells a breathless, flowery tale of the celebrated Cecilia Gallerani portrait

Book tells a tangled personal narrative through the Louvre's 1819 painting Raft of Medusa

Vo’s work offers a fresh perspective on the Western modernist tradition of “organic” architecture

From geodesic domes in South Colorado to the Calais Jungle in Europe, this provocative work studies 60 structures that were built according to values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid and self-organisation