James Cahill presents a review of a new exhibition by the renowned artist Francesco Clemente,(b.1952) exploring his first show in London for seven years. The monograph includes a conversation recorded with the artist in which he discusses the new paintings, and the ideas which grounded their development.

Documents media studies by N.P.James in the collection of Cv/VAR archive. Beginning with split second scans of TV transmissions in 1976, the series progressed to xerox collages and carbon trace drawings. The studies are light and elusive, read slant-wise across images, texts and borders, like blind drawing that produced unpredictable results. From tabloid headlines of UK power shifts in 1977-79 the series moved through the Falklands War 1982, to catch the booming 1980s. Resumed in July 2003 a random trawl of 250 collages scanned fragments of newsprint: arenas of gossip, fashion,...

Cv/VAR series 152 publishes an anthology of essays and reviews by the eminent art historian and writer, Edward Lucie-Smith. The articles cover a broad span, from the Italian Renaissance of Giotto and Antonello da Messina, Leonardo and Michelangelo, progressing to Rubens, Velazquez and Ingres, with essays on William Hogarth, John Constable and John Everett Millais for British Art. With the experience of his landmark publications on modern art, which remain in print; the author sweeps the reader on a fabulous journey of perception, disclosing the strands that bind the continuum of classic and...

Renowned artist Damien Hirst (b.1965) is reviewed in an exhibition of works spanning twenty years, held at Tate Modern from April to September 2012.

Cv/VAR 156 presents a study by Anne Blood the pioneering artist Kurt Schwitters (b. June 20, 1887, Hannover, d.January 8 1948 Lendal) which reviews an exhibition 'Kurt Schwitters in Britain at Tate Britain, January to May 2013.

Descriptions of human physiology are illustrated with ninety panel paintings by N.P.James ROI, which construct a detailed metaphor for the body. A viscous surface of pulped and washed colour interprets the intricate framework of muscles, arteries, bone and soft tissue, all infused with an internal dynamic of potent nervous energy. First published in 2001, the volume carries colour images with descriptions of the location and function of portrayed parts.

Cv/VAR Series 177 publishes a study by the celebrated art historian and writer Edward Lucie-Smith of the leading American artist Chuck Close. Finding his early impetus in the photorealistic works by Richard Estes, as well as the surface shocks of Jackson Pollock's 'Tachiste' paintings,

Reviews 'Jammers' by the celebrated American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), in an exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street London, from 16th February to 28th March 2013. The series comes from a month in 1975 when the artist worked in an Ashram (textile factory) in Ahmedabad, India.

Documents works exhibited at The Gallery London, based at 65a Lisson Street NW1, 1973-78 Projects devised between artists included leadingfigures operating at the cutting edge of British art of the time: JohnLatham, Rita Donagh, Stephen Willats, Vaughan Grylls, Gerald Newman,Jonathan Miles. Texts place the art and events within the context of theemerging creative tendencies, and the cultural base and ideas from whichthey formed.

In this study 'Art, Poetry and WW1, by Edward Lucue-Smith of writing, poetry and painting In the Centenary Year of the outbreak of the First World War the author considers the historical impact on the general psyche of the calamitous events, reflected in the expression of poets and visual artists. The volume includes Eric Kennington, CRW Nevinson, John Singer Sargent, William Orpen, Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash; and writers Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas and T.S. Eliot. In Europe the painters: Otto Dix, Max Beckman, Franz Marc, Gino Severini, Ernst Ludwig...