At the end of June Amy Meyers stepped down as Director of the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, after seventeen years. Her appointment in 2002 coincided with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Center in its purpose-built home on Chapel Street, designed by Louis I. Kahn.

Over the past decade the State Tretyakov Gallery has had great success in reviving the popularity of Russian painters of the pre-revolutionary era. So high was attendance at the Valentin Serov exhibition in 2016 that a new phrase was coined (‘to queue for Serov’ means to wait an awfully long time).

A more recent development than is often realised, and historically imposed in a variety of ways, peer review is a fundamental but rarely discussed aspect of academic life. What impact does it have on publishing in art history?