Having the last laugh

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market to tell the true stories of the world’s most thrilling frauds, forgeries and heists

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

Together with ancient armour, Egyptian cats and illuminated manuscripts, this year’s Frieze Masters sees a colourful work by an even more colourful character, a Nigerian prince who set out to make ‘contemporary Yoruba traditional art’

Who Owns Beauty? Bénédicte Savoy (Polity, £25) ...

The ‘Pelican’ portrait , attributed to Nicholas Hilliard