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.
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
29 October 2020 • Mark Westall
HENI Publishing launches Shantell Martin: Lines, the first monograph on the contemporary British artist Shantell Martin. Created in close collaboration with the artist herself, the beautifully designed coffee table book features her work across drawing, performance, music, technology and fashion.
16 September 2020 • Mark Westall
‘Accidental art dealer’ Steve Lazarides has launched Laz Emporium, an “eclectic bazaar” reinventing the curiosity shop for our post-Covid age.
16 September 2020 • Mark Westall
Exhibition and book launch at GALLERY46, documenting life within a circle of independent young Londoners; gifted in music, the arts and the illicit. It’s contents are the visual culmination of a lifestyle; photographed over 5 years, which developed into a long-term project as Matt’s experience and interest in photography grew parallel.
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.
19 August 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent
It did mean that the end of Parasol unit at Wharf Road programme in London came rather unnoticed, but a handsome tome* now commemorates more than 50 major exhibitions held over the sixteen years 2004-20.
24 July 2020 • Mark Westall
This week we have five great art books about the amazing career and art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
17 July 2020 • Mark Westall
This week we have five great art books & stuff you can get right now featuring or about Jean-Michel Basquiat.
14 July 2020 • Hector Campbell
Delphian Gallery co-founder and co-director Benjamin Murphy recently sat down with art historian, writer and curator Hector Campbell to discuss their annual Open Call, the Delphian Podcast, their Lockdown Editions initiative and their inaugural publication ‘Navigating The Art World: Professional Practice for the Early Career Artist’, supported by Foolscap Editions.
10 July 2020 • Mark Westall
To celebrate the reopening of Tate Modern and the Andy Warhol exhibition on 27th July, FAD has chosen 6 great Andy Warhol books and stuff you should buy
6 July 2020 • Mark Westall
A World Heritage landmark, this SUMO-sized publication presents the most precious surviving murals of Tibetan Buddhist culture.
3 July 2020 • Mark Westall
We have been browsing Taschen’s online book staore for the best limited edition art books and here they are, beautifully produced.
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?
27 May 2020 • Staff
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.
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.
19 March 2020 • Mark Westall
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
29 May 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
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
4 March 2019 • Tabish Khan
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?
4 February 2019 • Irene Machetti
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.
22 October 2018 • Mark Westall
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.
