5 Art Books for August
2 August 2021 • Mark Westall
In these crazy times making the time to sit down with a book is a real luxury. So when you… Read More
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.
2 August 2021 • Mark Westall
In these crazy times making the time to sit down with a book is a real luxury. So when you… Read More
25 May 2021 • Tabish Khan
Tons of practical tips to get artists closer to success, and the data to back it up.
25 May 2021 • Mark Westall
In 1989, when Trip City was first released with a five-track cassette EP by A Guy Called Gerald, there had been no other British novel like it.
26 April 2021 • Mark Westall
From this week a new book will be made available online globally via key charities and organisations working with diverse communities in the UK and… Read More
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
22 April 2021 • Mark Westall
In 2014, England’s greatest portrait photographer David Bailey, shot the world’s most famous monarch, Her Majesty The Queen. Charming her to exude… Read More
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
24 March 2021 • Mark Westall
With an inventive page design that inspires kids to play, This Is Still Not A Book invites readers to question what usually lies between two covers by transforming its pages into …
9 March 2021 • Mark Westall
“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” — Jean-Michel Basquiat A compact edition… Read More
15 February 2021 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic normally picks five exhibitions to see in London, but as we’re in lockdown in the UK he has switched to books to read.
4 February 2021 • Mark Westall
Bringing together all the greats—from Air Jordan 1 to Air Presto—Nike and Virgil Abloh reinvent sneaker culture with the collaborative project The Ten and… Read More
28 January 2021 • Mark Westall
The TASCHEN sale has started with up to a 75% discount here are our Top 5 choices
26 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Parasol unit has launched an online project The Strangeness of Beauty which examines the notion of aesthetics in contemporary art
25 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Published to mark TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary, this special edition is an unprecedented year by year journey through the life and work of David Hockney.
7 January 2021 • Meike Brunkhorst
I first met Julie Umerle at an artist talk that accompanied her solo exhibition ‘Rewind’ at the Bermondsey Project Space in 2016.
5 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Julian Schnabel makes art out of life. He uses everyday materials in paintings that carry a rich sense of history
4 January 2021 • Tabish Khan
The top art books for the year ahead including Banksy, Basquiat and Emin.
22 December 2020 • Mark Westall
The Coronaville Artist Coloring Book was published with the goal of bringing artists together for the benefit of other artists
22 December 2020 • Mark Westall
Legendary Amsterdam tattoo artist and historian Henk Schiffmacher takes us on a personal journey through the history of tattooing from the 1730s to… Read More
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.
4 December 2020 • Mark Westall
‘VIRUS CLASSICS’, a collection of sculptures and prints, is a sharply humorous response to the current state of affairs by artist, photographer and historian Jolyon Fenwick.
19 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Well before Andy Warhol’s rise to the pinnacle of Pop Art, he created and exhibited seductive drawings celebrating male beauty
16 November 2020 • Tabish Khan
5 art books to get you through lockdown
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