Happy New Year - very best wishes to all our readers for 2014

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Happy New Year! The January issue is on its way (we've been on holiday too!) - please be patient.

Did you have a good Christmas? If your presents included book tokens, take a look at the books we have reviewed in this issue, and look back at our Archive for more ideas.

This December issue has an eclectic mix of contents for those who would like a little respite from the pressure of Christmas.  Barnaby Norman talks to Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson of London Fieldworks. They have recently collaborated with Gustav Metger - the artist who reputedly influenced the early guitar-smashing stage performances by Pete Townsend of the Who. Lindsey Shaw Miller interviews Jeremy Gardiner, the contemporary landscape artist whose work she wrote about in last month’s issue. Jeremy Gardiner now lives in a house once occupied by Paul Nash, who as a new book reveals was much else besides a painter. Jenny Kingsley writes about the Wellcome Institute,the renowned museum and library devoted to improving health founded by Henry Solomon Wellcome (1836 – 1936). Exhibitions  reviewed cover a wide range: the Surrealist Magritte at  the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York,  ‘Shunga, Sex in Japanese Art’ at the  British Museum, ‘Sarah Lucas SITUATION Absolute Beach Man Rubble’ at the Whitehapel Gallery, and ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keefe’ at MoMA New York. 'Degas' in Copenhagen is now closed; as Alexander Adams reports, there have been a number of shows of his work in recent years and Edgar Degas remains unfailingly popular,

Reviews include books on Keith Vaughan,  Francis Bacon’s interest in Nazi propaganda,  Giovanni Bellini's Dudley Madonna, and several books on advertising. Finally I would like to extend my very best wishes for a peaceful and happy Christmas and holidays to all our readers and site visitors and let’s all look forward to a happy and healthy 2014.

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