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At the age of 65, inspired by a visit to Rome, Willem de Kooning switched from painting to sculpture. An upcoming exhibition in Venice allows us to see the connections [...]

In the dying days of 1962, the art historian Dora Vallier went to the Mark Rothko exhibition that had recently opened at the Musee d'Art Moderne (MAM) in Paris. This [...]

XANTI SCHAWINSKY Play, life, illusion: A retrospective Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, until January 5, 2025 That Xanti Schawinsky may be an unfamiliar name calls for an explanation. Born [...]

In the Victoria and Albert Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings is a small watercolour on paper called Roses in a Vase (Fig. 2). It is, on the face of [...]

Seventy-five years ago, in his studio in a Long Island barn, Jackson Pollock made the first of the works that would come to define him. These were (and are) known [...]

Sixty years after its last Saturday night hop, the hall of the St Ives Palais still yearns to be danced in. 'The finest sprung floor in the south-west, it claimed [...]

INTERACTING WITH COLOR A practical guide to Josef Albers's color experiments FRITZ HORSTMAN 144pp. Yale University Press. Paperback, 16.99 [pounds sterling] (US $20). It is possible that 'playful' is not [...]

Andre Masson: There is No Finished World 29 March-2 September Centre Pompidou-Metz Catalogue by Chiara Parisi (ed.) ISBN 9782359830736 (paperback), 40 [euro] (Centre Pompidou Metz) Perhaps the best place to [...]

THE OTHER SIDE A journey into women, art and the spirit world JENNIFER HIGGIE 320pp. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Paperback, 12.99 [pounds sterling]. If you are of a certain age--mine, say--it [...]

PHILIP GUSTON Tate Modern, London, until February 25 PHILIP GUSTON HARRY COOPER ET AL 320pp. Tate/National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 30 [pounds sterling]. In Time magazine on April 1, [...]

HILMA AF KLINT A biography JULIA VOSS Translated by Anne Posten 440pp. University of Chicago Press. 28 [pounds sterling] (US $35). HILMA AF KLINT & PIET MONDRIAN Forms of life [...]

Milton Avery never quite settled on a style. So is he really a forgotten American great, asks Charles Darwent Milton Avery: American Colourist 15 July-16 October 2022 Royal Academy of [...]

THIS IS TOMORROW Twentieth-century Britain and its artists MICHAEL BIRD 342pp. Thames and Hudson. 30 [pounds sterling]. In August 1956 an exhibition called This Is Tomorrow opened at the Whitechapel [...]

FORESHADOWED Malevich's 'Black Square' and its precursors ANDREW SPIRA 144pp. Reaktion. 16.95 [pounds sterling] (US $25). In 1915 Kasimir Malevich killed art stone dead. Or not quite. He described his [...]

I PAINT WHAT I WANT TO SEE PHILIP GUSTON 288pp. Penguin. Paperback, 9.99 [pounds sterling]. For the most part, the history of modernism in painting is written as an unwavering [...]

THE LOFT GENERATION From the De Koonings to Twombly--portraits and sketches, 1942-2011 EDITH SCHLOSS Edited by Mary Venturini 336pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 23.45 [pounds sterling] (US $30). When the [...]

ANDY WARHOL Tate Modern, until September 6 WARHOL A life as art BLAKE GOPNIK 976pp. Allen Lane. 35 [pounds sterling]. The following review was written in mid-March, shortly before Tate [...]

Jan Sluijters: The Wild Years 17 November 2018-7 April Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch Catalogue (in Dutch) by Helewise Berger and Karlijn de Jong (eds.) ISBN 9789462582910, 24.95 [euro] (WBooks/Het Noordbrabants Museum) [...]

LONDON'S NEW SCENE Art and culture in the 1960s LISA TICKNER 416pp. Yale University Press. 35 [pounds sterling]. The so-called long Sixties are held to have begun in 1954 with [...]

HUMILIATION WAYNE KOESTENBAUM 216pp. Notting Hill Editions. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. I can think of few books with a sharper divide between cover and content than Wayne Koestenbaum's new work, Humiliation. [...]

ARTHUR JEFFRESS A life in art GILL HEDLEY 384pp. Bloomsbury. 25 [pounds sterling]. In April 1945, a youngish man called Arthur Jeffress went to see the art historian, Bernard Berenson, [...]

THE LIFE OF BRYAN A celebration of Bryan Robertson ANDREW LAMBIRTH 320pp. Unicom. 30 [pounds sterling] Some time in the late 1990S, I found myself sitting next to a man [...]

Jori Finkel, editor IT SPEAKS TO ME Art that inspires artists 168pp. Prestel. 19.99 [pounds sterling] (US $29.95). 978 3 7913 5659 4 'You want to paint?' snapped Matisse. 'Then [...]

KEITH HARING Tate Liverpool, until November 10 Darren Pih, editor KEITH HARING 128 pp. Tate. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 8497 6627 2 Fittingly, the best known of Keith Haring's [...]

Sara Sinclair, editor ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG An oral history 328pp. Columbia University Press. 27 [pounds sterling] (US $35). 9780 231192767 In middle age, Robert Rauschenberg liked to say, 'If ever I'm [...]

LEE KRASNER: LIVING COLOUR Barbican Art Gallery, until September 1 Gail Levin LEE KRASNER A biography 592pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback 12.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 500 29528 1 Early [...]

Lee Beard, editor BEN NICHOLSON Writings and ideas 160pp. Lund Humphries. 35[pounds sterling]. 978 1 84822 241 0 In December 1933, the painter Ben Nicholson sent a letter from Paris [...]

Gary Indiana VILE DAYS The Village Voice art columns, 1985-1988 Edited by Bruce Hanley 600pp. MIT Press. 24 [pounds sterling] (US $29.95). 978 1 63590 037 8 For three migrainous [...]