A frequent corporate sponsor of leading art fairs, BMW's new art guide focuses exclusively on the identity and acquisitions of wealthy art collectors, who-with-whom, how much, where and why?
Patricia Boccadoro on Tobias G. Natter's mammoth new monograph of Austrian art star Gustav Klimt whose voluptuous naked women in blatantly erotic poses caused constant scandal and controversy in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
The Mantuan sculptor and goldsmith Antico's bronzes are currently so rare that the 40 works on view constitute over three fourths of the sculptor's extant oeuvre.
Given the sheer physical size, architectural diversity and cultural significance of Harlem, small wonder the real estate of this legendary community is among the most coveted in New York.
Photography critic Alan Behr reviews a new book devoted to 46 photographers and their pictures of street life in New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Mumbai, Istanbul, Dakar, Britain and Eastern Europe.
In her new biography Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli, Annie Cohen-Solal recounts how an unlikely, gadabout immigrant should be both credited and blamed for the crackling paso doble being danced by Art and Commerce.
The sleek, cool aesthetic we associate with the Bauhaus group sprang from a surprisingly passionate, troubled and messy group of artists and visionaries. Alan Behr reviews the new book that traces that particularly unique nexus of art, design, politics and romance.
Should antiquities be returned to the countries where they were found, or are they the property of all mankind? A review of James Cuno's new book, 'Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage'.