Interweaving visual language of the spiritual and the secular : Goya, Spanish spiritualism, and the sublime.

Fantastic beasts of the Eurasian steppes : toward a revisionist approach to animal-style art.

Resettling Hope.

Velleity.

Looking forward through the past : an analysis of the past, present, and future of the contemporary Indian art market.

The shojo within the work of Aida Makoto : Japanese identity since the 1980s.

Mike Parr : the body, identity, and the element of time in performance art, 1970's to the present.

In search of the city : power, identity, and narratives of urbanization from Stendhal to Zola.

New wine in old bottles : the figure painting of Ren Bonian (1840–1895) in the context of nineteenth century Shanghai.

Contesting categories of the 'fantastic' and 'surreal': A visual reading of Tilsa Tsuchiya's and Francisco Toledo's multidimensional and complex artistic visions.

Representational realism in cross-cultural perspective : changing visual cultures in Mughal India and Safavid Iran 1580-1750.

Art verging on the religious : threads of the spirit in minimal art and beyond.