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.
20 September 2023 • Mark Westall
Remember to Dream! 100 Artists, 100 Notes published 12th October 2023, is the ultimate artists’ notebook, featuring a curated selection of 100 handwritten Post-It notes selected by Hans Ulrich Obrist
19 July 2023 • Mark Westall
Isaac Julien and Andi Galdi Vinko Win the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards- The two winning titles of the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz… Read More
26 June 2023 • Tabish Khan
Art-y reads to keep you in books over Summer
28 April 2023 • Mark Westall
Living the War is a new book dedicated to documenting life during ongoing Russia’s war against Ukraine.
1 February 2023 • Mark Westall
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%
6 January 2023 • Mark Westall
In the lead up to the opening of Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition on 10th February 2023, a new biography published… Read More
4 January 2023 • Mark Westall
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.
28 December 2022 • Tabish Khan
The top art-y reads to pick up in the new year.
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.
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
7 November 2022 • Mark Westall
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.
1 November 2022 • Mark Westall
This week sees two projects from Gavin Turk that were started during lockdown
11 October 2022 • Mark Westall
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.
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
20 July 2022 • Tabish Khan
The top art-y reads for summer, from novels to artist biographies.
10 June 2022 • Mark Westall
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
1 April 2022 • Mark Westall
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.
31 March 2022 • Tabish Khan
Art-y reads to put a spring in your step.
23 March 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
7 March 2022 • Mark Westall
Yevgenia Belorusets (International Literature Prize Winner) is writing a remarkable war diary from Kyiv, updated in real-time and published by ISOLARII.
4 March 2022 • Mark Westall
Holly Black Managing Editor at Elephant magazine has a new(ish) book out artists on art: How They See, Think and… Read More
1 March 2022 • Mark Westall
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.
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
