5 BOOKS from the TASCHEN SALE
TASCHEN’s biannual sale opens online and in their Chelsea store (12, Duke of York Square, London SW3 4LY) from tomorrow Thursday 2nd February through to Sunday the 5th.
Art books are discounted from 25-75%
Art Books
The best most interesting and most popular art books around, Reviews, Top 5’s, what to read during lockdown. Books to make you think, books to help you escape, books to help you learn.
Revelatory insights in new Vermeer biography
In the lead up to the opening of Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition on 10th February 2023, a new biography published… Read More
Julia Laird, Here & There book launch
Photographer Julia Laird is launching her first photobook published by Snap Collective Publishing at Photobook Cafe in London. Here & There is a retrospective of her work over the last 10 years.
The Top Art Books to Read in 2023
The top art-y reads to pick up in the new year.
INVADER- 4000, Exhibition & Artist Book, a complete guide to the Space Invaders.
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.
A fascinating journey into a labyrinthine world, this is an inclusive, in-depth compendium of artists’ imaginations from very different walks… Read More
New Banksy graphic biography published
Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all time. But we don’t actually know who he is. This is just one of many contradictions that are addressed in this enormously compelling graphic biography.
What did Gavin do during lockdown?
This week sees two projects from Gavin Turk that were started during lockdown
Conor Mccreedy- Blue Sultan
From its beginnings as an unassuming color, blue has become a magic formula through the ages, a sensory experience that entices and calms, that makes us dream and creates inner clarity. When looking at Conor Mccreedy’s paintings today, he plays with the nuances of only a single color.
Andy Warhol Pop-Up Pop-Art collection from Popositions popping up soon.
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
The top art-y reads for summer, from novels to artist biographies.
Ossian Ward’s Marina Abramovic is an accessible overview of Marina Abramovic’s incredible life and work.
Ossian Ward’s Marina Abramovi? is an accessible, completely up-to-date and expertly written introduction and overview of Marina Abramovic’s incredible life… Read More
Find Art’s Next Generation of top artists in new book.
Prime: Art’s Next Generation, features more than 100 of the most distinctive and innovative artists working today, all born between 1980 and 1995, nominated by a jury of the same age group from the world’s premier art institutions.
The Top 6 Art Books to read in Spring 2022
Art-y reads to put a spring in your step.
Better Photographs?
Like almost everyone, I guess, I take lots of photos with my phone without worrying too much about how I do so. Might I benefit from a book of photographic instruction? David Yarrow, known for his stunning black and white wildlife shots, has just published ‘How I Make Photographs’*, so here was a chance.
READ UKRAINIAN NOVELIST & PHOTOGRAPHER YEVGENIA BELORUSETS WAR DIARY
Yevgenia Belorusets (International Literature Prize Winner) is writing a remarkable war diary from Kyiv, updated in real-time and published by ISOLARII.
If you have ever wondered what makes artists tick the new book ‘artists on art’ could be for you.
Holly Black Managing Editor at Elephant magazine has a new(ish) book out artists on art: How They See, Think and… Read More
Just dropped exclusive limited-edition of Warsan Shire’s hugely anticipated debut poetry collection.
With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood.
Welcome to Communist Utopia
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
Brian Blomerth’s Mycelium Wassonii
Brian Blomerth first fused his irreverent underground comix style with heavily-researched history in his 2019 Technicolor retelling of the discovery… Read More
Gagosian to Launch Picture Books Imprint in Collaboration with Emma Cline
Gagosian is launching Picture Books, a new imprint launching in December that publishes fiction by leading authors alongside contributions by celebrated… Read More
The Top 6 Art Books to Read this Autumn
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his top art books to read this Autumn. Women In The Picture: Women, Art and the Power… Read More
Rough Trade Books has releases The ‘ART’ Series featuring The White Pube, Wilfrid Wood, Robert Rubbish & Babak Ganjei
Rough Trade Books has just released The ‘ART’ Series a series of Pamphlet books and a Card Game -. Full… Read More