Published: November 2012

Publisher: Yale University Press

Kazimir Malevich and Suprematism have not been deprived of attention—at least not in Western scholarship and exhibition practice.

Published: April 2013

Publisher: Doubleday

Besides Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), who had a retrospective at New York's Whitney Museum in 1978, only a few 20th-century cartoonists (e.g., Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb) have been accorded exhibitions of their works in major art institutions.

Published: March 2013

Publisher: MIT Press

REMEMBER A TIME in the New York art scene when money talked but did not drown out every other sound? When “uptown” and “downtown” signified not just geography but lifestyle? When a clash between establishment artists and younger avant-gardists was a rite of succession? While these characteristics were commonplace throughout the 20th century, by its end a new (art) world order was firmly in place.

Published: February 2013

Publisher: Pantheon

PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906), the subject of Alex Danchev’s sympathetic, well-researched biography Cézanne: A Life, was the quintessential artist’s artist.

Published: November 2012

Publisher: Blue Kingfisher Ltd

This book was written for me-or those like me who wish they better knew the ins and outs of the Japanese art world of the last 20 years.