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The Top Art Books to read this Spring

15 April 2024 • Tabish Khan

Creative children, abandoned places, computing, war, Play-Doh, Warhol, masterpieces and social media.

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Unveiling Inspiration: Top 5 Must-Read Books for Art Students

20 December 2023 • Gaston La-Gaffe

When you are an art student, you have to find inspiration basically anywhere. If you are watching movies to get… Read More

The Top Art Books to read this Winter

7 December 2023 • Tabish Khan

Creativity, satire, protest, a thriller, art history and making art.

Top 5 books for the holidays picked by Magnum

16 November 2023 • Mark Westall

Top 5 books for the holidays picked by Magnum- Cameron Foxhall is Magnum’s Operations Manager; beginning her career in 2018… Read More

INVADER- 4000, Exhibition & Artist Book, a complete guide to the Space Invaders.

19 December 2022 • Mark Westall

Over The Influence Gallery has opened 4000, Invader’s first official solo show in a Parisian gallery since 2011 and Invader 4000- The Complete Guide to the Space Invaders,1998 – 2021 has been released.

Out of the Box, celebrates objects, assemblage & the lost art of collecting in an increasingly digital world.

14 December 2022 • Mark Westall

A fascinating journey into a labyrinthine world, this is an inclusive, in-depth compendium of artists’ imaginations from very different walks… Read More

Andy Warhol Pop-Up Pop-Art collection from Popositions

29 July 2022 • Mark Westall

Proving the interactive potential of analog mediums, Pop Art and Pop-Ups come together to create an epic moment in both… Read More

The Top 7 Art Books to read this Summer

20 July 2022 • Tabish Khan

The top art-y reads for summer, from novels to artist biographies.

The Top 6 Art Books to read in Spring 2022

31 March 2022 • Tabish Khan

Art-y reads to put a spring in your step.

Welcome to Communist Utopia

7 February 2022 • Mark Westall

Peasant workers, production lines, and eager schoolchildren: this rare and fascinating publication brings together key artworks from Max Gottschalk’s vast collection of… Read More

Gagosian to Launch Picture Books Imprint in Collaboration with Emma Cline

17 November 2021 • Mark Westall

Gagosian is launching Picture Books, a new imprint launching in December that publishes fiction by leading authors alongside contributions by celebrated… Read More

Ai Weiwei new memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows out in November

26 April 2021 • Mark Westall

Ai Weiwei’s new memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows is coming out on 2nd November 2021 with a cover designed by the… Read More

How Old Am I? 1-100 Faces From Around the World By JR / Inside Out Project and words by Julie Pugeat

29 March 2021 • Mark Westall

Created in collaboration with the Inside Out Project, a global participatory art project with which he won the TED Prize and has since drawn over 400,000 participants internationally, How Old Am I?: 1—100 Faces from Around the World showcases the faces and lives of 100 people from around the world via evocative photographs of faces taken by the featured individuals themselves with simple, poignant text

The Top 5 Art Christmas Gifts

13 December 2020 • Tabish Khan

Beginning a week-long look at art gifts for Christmas on FAD magazine Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic has picked 5 Christmas gifts – no need to blow the budget and great gifts for even those who don’t celebrate Christmas.

5 great books to get for Lockdown II and Christmas

9 November 2020 • Mark Westall

5 great books to get for Lockdown II and Christmas featuring Basquiat, Helmut Newton, Star Wars, Ai Weiwei and Wolfgang Tillmans

The Top 5 Art Books to read this Autumn

7 September 2020 • Tabish Khan

The Top five art books include Practical tips for artists, a gallery’s history, a year in the art world and a surreal London.

TOP 10 Art Books to BUY on Awesome Books

5 June 2020 • Mark Westall

Do you remember how cool it used to be to rummage around in a second-hand book shop? Finding books on crazy art subjects, trying to work out how these things were ever published?

The Top 5 Art Books To Read While Self-Isolating

30 March 2020 • Tabish Khan

The Top 5 Art Books To Read While Self-Isolating Excerpt: Steal like an artist and spend seven days in the art world.

OPEN CALL – Artists Re:thinking The Blockchain

18 July 2016 • Mark Westall

Futherfield want your submissions for a landmark publication Artists Re:thinking The Blockchain marking and augmenting the arrival of a new technology on the cultural landscape.