Heroes, but not trans heroes: How two female artists defied the Nazis
Jeffrey Jackson’s lively and compassionate account plunges readers into the depths of the Occupation and the Channel Islands’ resistance movement
The cost of being a lockdown sceptic
The British intelligentsia as a class has failed in the most public way possible to defend free speech
Francis Bacon’s love affair with France
Limited to only 206 copies, ‘Francis Bacon: Francophile’ is an attractive book sure to be snapped up by Baconophiles
Francis Bacon: A life lived to the full
While the authors of Francis Bacon’s latest biography deliver nothing new on the art, they do show how Bacon lived his life with a unique intensity
Francisco Goya: the embodiment of old Spain
Janis Tomlinson’s new biography of Francisco Goya is a well-informed, comprehensive biography that would make an excellent gift for any art lover
England’s Caravaggio
Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment
A life in miniature
‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life
Maggi Hambling’s Wollstonecraft is earnestly nonconformist
Hambling is like Wollstonecraft – a strong-minded, independent woman who has taken considerable public criticism over many years
Marxist Magic Realism
How Soviet society, gripped by political correctness, descended into madness
In search of Old Mistresses
The National Gallery is putting women artists centre stage