Suggestions for Reviews 2025
Book and Exhibition Review Suggestions
Book and exhibition review proposals will refer to books published in 2024 and exhibitions ideally either still open at the time or one month prior to the journal's publication (October 2025). Accepted reviews should be between 800-1,000 words in length and must be finished by 1st August 2024.
Book review proposals should include: author’s/editor’s name, complete title of book (with a colon between the main title and the subtitle), place of publication, publisher, date of publication, total number of pages (including all front matter and illustrations that do not carry page numbers), number of illustrations (black and white and colour), price, as well as a short description (300 words max) on the text’s significant contribution to its field and/or why a review of the book is necessary.
Exhibition review proposals should include: title of the exhibition, location, exhibition dates, curators’ names, and a short description (300 words max) on the exhibition’s significant contribution to its field and/or why a review of it is necessary.
This list is only a starting point, and the Aspectus Team would be happy to receive proposals for reviews of books not listed here.
Books
Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript Illumination
By Dominique DeLuca
Published 27th March 2025
ISBN: 978-9004547155
Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens
By Nancy Locke
Published April 2025
ISBN: 978-0271099552
Animals in Eden: The Fall of Man in the Early Modern Art and Literature of Germany and the Low-Countries
By Paul J. Smith
Published 19th February 2025
ISBN: 978-9004184602
Art and Artifice in Visual Culture: Eighteenth Century to the Present
Edited by Sonia Coman, Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean and Michael Yonan
Published 30th January 2025
ISBN: 978-1032756783
Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and its Empire
From the 18th to the 20th Century
Edited by Filipa Lowndes Vicente and Leonor de Oliveira
Published 18th February 2025
ISBN: 978-1032843292
Landscape and Nature in Scandinavian Art
Edited by MaryClaire Pappas and Tonje Haugland Sørensen
Published 15th April 2025
ISBN: 978-1032806105
Bernini Ephemeral and Preparatory Sculpture
By Genevieve Warwick
Published 29th April 2025
ISBN: 978-1032499185
Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics
By Hal Foster
Published 25th February 2025
ISBN: 978-0262552356
The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art
By Jonathan A. Anderson
Published 1st April 2025
ISBN: 978-0268209186
Wonder Women: Art of the Asian Diaspora
By Kathy Huang
Published 1st April 2025
ISBN: 978-0847845729
Vermeer’s Love Letters
By Robert Fucci
Published 29th April 2025
ISBN: 978-0847845941
The Ecology of the Performance Art Process: Fragmentation, Union, Reconfiguration
By Angela Viora
Published 25th February 2025
ISBN: 978-1032684109
The Creation, Diffusion, and Reception of Italian Art in the Early Modern Iberian World
Edited by Corinna Tania Gallori and Benito Navarrete Prieto
Published 23rd May 2025
ISBN: 978-1032815459
Conceptual Art After Modernism: Reconceiving Art and Art History
By Robert Bailey
Published 30th May 2025
ISBN: 978-1032882543
Exhibitions
Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun
Tate Britain, London
13 June – 19 October, 2025
José María Velasco: A View of Mexico
The National Gallery, London
29 March – 17 August, 2025
The World of King James VI and I
National Galleries of Scotland: Portrait, Edinburgh
26 April – 14 September, 2025
Albert Richards
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Prenton
February 12 – December 20, 2025
JWM Turner: In Light and Shade
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
7 February – 2 November, 2025
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
April 11 – 7 September, 2025
Harland Miller: XXX
York Art Gallery, York
14 March – 31 August, 2025
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur
Wallace Collection, London
28 March – 26 October, 2025
Giuseppe Penone
Serpentine Gallery, London
3 April – 7 September, 2025
Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures
Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
17 May – 27 October, 2025
Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
12 April – 12 October, 2025
Movements for Staying Alive
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
28 June – 7 September, 2025
Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
23 May – October, 2025
Kiefer / Van Gogh
Royal Academy of Arts, London
28 June – 26 October, 2025