TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Among Putin’s Russians’…
The ideology behind Hitler’s assault on the Soviet Union By Richard J. Evans
Previously unseen letters between Ezra Pound and Gladys Hynes By Ed Vulliamy
The rise, fall and survival of open-air swimming pools By David Horspool
Video games and political violence By Regina Rini
Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World by Anupreeta Das
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates
The US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.
In Everthing Is Now, J. Hoberman chronicles a radical avant-garde’s attempts to jostle New York City out of its postwar complacency and moral retrenchment.
Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman
Walter Lippmann was the most influential political commentator of his generation, but behind his preternatural confidence was a far more complicated and unsettled character.
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster
The Burlington Magazine: The latest issue features….
“The Consolidation of Collections: New Light on the 18th-Century British Art Market” An in-depth study by the editorial team and guest contributors exploring how major British estates restructured their private galleries during the mid-1700s. The article utilizes newly discovered ledger books to trace the provenance of several key Italian Baroque works.
“Paolo Veneziano and the International Gothic in Venice” Following the research trends seen in the early part of the year, this feature provides a technical analysis of recently restored altarpieces attributed to Veneziano, focusing on the use of ultramarine and gold leaf techniques that defined the Venetian style in the 14th century.
“Nicholas Lanier and the ‘Star’ Drawings: New Discoveries” Building on recent scholarship (featured in related symposiums), this article identifies several previously unrecognized drawings from the collection of Nicholas Lanier (1588–1666). It specifically examines the “star-shaped marks” used by Lanier and his uncle Jerome to catalog their sixteenth-century Italian acquisitions.
Editorial and Shorter Notices
Editorial: “The Future of Art History in the Digital Age” Editor Christopher Baker discusses the balance between traditional archival research and the integration of AI and digital imaging in art historical authentication.
Object in Focus: “George Frederic Watts’s Satan (1847)” A specialized notice providing a new interpretation of Watts’s massive canvas. The author argues that the figure’s pose was inspired by the Monte Cavallo Horse Tamers in Rome rather than the Apollo Belvedere, as previously thought.
Exhibition and Book Reviews
The Farnese Gallery Drawings (Musée du Louvre, Paris): A critical review by Ketty Gottardo on the exhibition focusing on the Carracci brothers’ preparatory works.
Studio Prints: A History, 1968–2011: A review of the new publication by Paul Holberton Publishing, detailing the impact of the London workshop on 20th-century printmaking.
Modernizing the Catalog: A review of the Patek Philippe exhibition and the intersection of fine horology with decorative arts history.
The small town of Weimar is overladen with historical associations. Goethe spent more than fifty years there as an employee and friend of Duke (later Grand Duke) Karl August. After the last grand duke abdicated in November 1918, the National Assembly met in Weimar to draw up a new republican constitution for Germany. Other symbolically charged venues considered were Nuremberg (home of Dürer) and Bayreuth (because of Wagner), but it was Weimar that gave its name to the period of German history from …
Having been named for her father, Louis, a mere dealer in antique tapestries, seemed insufficiently romantic to Louise Bourgeois, who was born on Christmas Day in 1911. She preferred the idea that her namesake was Louise Michel, ‘the red virgin of Montmartre’, an anarchist heroine of the Paris Commune. It wasn’t true, of course, but …
A phrase like ‘fortress England’ seems to echo down the centuries, and turns up again in This Little World, Nandini Das’s new study of identity and belonging, cross-border migration, assimilation and estrangement in the period between 1500 and the restoration of Charles II. Das seeks to unmask the period’s most fundamental assumptions about English … read more
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘A View of Her Own’….
Tracey Emin’s self-fashioning By Sophie Oliver
Women landscape painters reconsidered By Jenny Uglow
Mankind has escaped nuclear war, for now By P. D. Smith
Mexico’s challenge to received historical ideas By Benjamin T. Smith
The bittersweet contentment of old age By Rory Waterman
APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Inside the crisis at the Louvre | how Marcel Duchamp invented modern art | an interview with Abbas Akhavan | Whistler shows his metal
FEATURES | Valeria Costa-Kostritsky explores the crisis at the Louvre; Hettie Judah talks to Abbas Akhavan before the artist represents Canada at the Venice Biennale; Ana María Bresciani of the Munchmuseet on Edvard Munch and the chocolate factory; Nicole Rudick on how Marcel Duchamp has been misunderstood; and Tara Contractor takes a closer look at Whistler’s love of metallic surfaces
REVIEWS | Sheila Barker on Raphael’s interest in women – and their interest in him; Zachary Ginsberg takes the temperature of contemporary American art at the Whitney Biennial; Digby Warde-Aldam admires Hurvin Anderson’s tricky balancing acts; Robert Hanks on the role of man’s best friend in art history; and William Aslet on the craftsmen behind some of Britain and Ireland’s best buildings
MARKET | Jane Morris on the status of online auctions; Emma Crichton-Miller on the mid-century French designers who married form, function and fun; in New York fair previews: Fatema Ahmed picks highlights from TEFAF; and Arjun Sajip looks ahead to Frieze
PLUS | Charles Darwent salutes the subtleties of Jasper Johns; Samuel Reilly on the threat to one of Glasgow’s most unusual attractions; Will Wiles applauds the witty architectural cartoons of Alan Dunn; Ivan Day on extravagant banquets in the Georgian era; Christina Makris visits the vineyard of Château La Coste; Helena Attlee is fired up by a depiction of Mount Etna; and Edward Behrens on a sale that shines new light on Gerhard Richter
In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality. By Fintan O’Toole
The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.
On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser
Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.
The Poems of Seamus Heaney edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue, with Matthew Hollis
An important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself.
Manet and Morisot – an exhibition at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, October 11, 2025–March 1, 2026, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 29–July 5, 2026
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How The General Strike Changed Britain’….
The General Strike of May 1926 was quickly defeated, but it would rupture and recast the landscape of British politics. For some, the strikers’ failure was an opportunity.
The Slavery Abolition Act was passed by Parliament in 1833. What was really behind Britain’s moment of moral enlightenment?
The Exclusion Crisis of the late 17th century posed a question of national importance: should the Catholic duke of York be allowed to succeed to the throne? And should he be subject to the same law as everyone else?
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated republic, and the Reich that replaced it.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The many faces of Shakespeare’….
China, America and the danger of war By Philip Zelikow
Discovering exactly what Shakespeare owned By Lucy Munro
Blake Morrison’s guide to life writing By Joyce Carol Oates
Writing about others as a means to write about yourself By Catherine Taylor
Archaeology Magazine: The latest issue features ‘Exploring the World of the Odyssey.
Discovering the surprising inspirations behind Homer’s great tales of the Trojan War. By The Editors
Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on stilts
On the shores of a lake in Guatemala, the Itzá people defied the Spanish for nearly 200 years
A surreal style of painting endured for 4,000 years in the canyonlands of West Texas
The Yellow River brought both prosperity and calamity to China’s dazzling medieval capital By Ling Xin
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