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?
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Olivia Laing: Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Olivia Laing’s new book, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, couldn’t be more timely. Published in April, the book is a collection of Laing’s essays, profiles, book reviews, columns, love letters and more, positioning art as a reactionary tool and a source of healing in the wake of the ‘turbulent political weather’ that we endure, particularly since 2016.
Continue Reading...The Top 5 Art Books To Read While Self-Isolating
The Top 5 Art Books To Read While Self-Isolating Excerpt: Steal like an artist and spend seven days in the art world.
Continue Reading...Jeff Divine: 70’s Surf Photographs
Jeff Divine: 70’s Surf Photographs Edited by Tom Adler, Evan Backes. Foreword by William Finnegan. A colorful, insider portrait of ’70s surf culture, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author William Finnegan T
Continue Reading...Ravens and Red Lipstick: Japanese Photography since 1945
Why are there so many good Japanese photographers? Lena Fritsch, talking at the Japan Foundation launch of her impressive book ‘Ravens & Red Lipstick’ (Thames & Hudson, £35), didn’t feel any ‘national style’ could explain that – rather she cited the diversity of approaches and thought it more likely a numbers game
Continue Reading...Book Review: There is no F in art
The art world must appear truly bizarre to those outside it. It’s been recently sent up in satirical films such as The Square and Velvet Buzzsaw. Is art something to be poked fun of or something deeply profound … or both?
Continue Reading...Abuse II, The Uncanny. Alessio Bolzoni’s continuing (disturbing, positive!) project
Alessio Bolzoni is publishing the second part of his photographic project exploring abuse. Abuse II, The Uncanny which transforms dance and flexibility into a fierce critique of physical abuse.
Continue Reading...Iran Modern: The Empress of Art
During her reign as the first crowned Empress in Iranian history, Empress Farah Pahlavi amassed one of the world’s greatest collections of modern art for her country, including works by van Gogh, Picasso, Bacon, Rothko and de Kooning.
Continue Reading...ART BOOK : The Art of Not Making The NewArtist/Artisan Relationship Michael Petry
The Art of Not Making:The New Artist/Artisan Relationship is the first book to tackle these questions head on, exploring the concepts of authorship, artistic originality, skill, craftsmanship and the creative act
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