TASCHEN SALE- up to 75% off NOW.
27 August 2024 • Mark Westall
The biannual TASCHEN Sale features iconic books across a wide array of categories at up to 75% off, including art, fashion, photography, design, architecture, travel, and more.
Tag: Books
The Top Art Books to read this Spring
15 April 2024 • Tabish Khan
Creative children, abandoned places, computing, war, Play-Doh, Warhol, masterpieces and social media.
Greta Thunberg to headline the London Literature Festival in world exclusive launch of The Climate Book
5 August 2022 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival – the longest-running celebration of the written and spoken word of its kind in… Read More
Don’t look now: the artists who turn their backs on the world
21 April 2017 • Syndicate
Stanley Brouwn had books about his work pulped, Cady Noland plagues anyone trying to sell or show hers … even in this oversharing, celebrity-driven age, some artists refuse to play to the gallery
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’
24 March 2017 • Mark Westall
The visionary historian, author of two dazzling bestsellers on the state of mankind, takes questions from Lucy Prebble, Arianna Huffington, Esther Rantzen and a selection of our readers
Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a look inside Houellebecq’s head
18 June 2016 • Syndicate
The art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on water
Jeremy Deller flies flag for Thomas More’s Utopia, 500 years later
26 January 2016 • Staff
Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion
Anish and Antony to the rescue! Can the sculptors gentrify Afghanistan?
2 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A merciless graphic novel imagines what would happen if Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley were dropped on Afghanistan. Its creator explains his hallucinatory romp
The best art books of 2014
7 December 2014 • Staff
The year saw contemporary art stars prove thoughtful in print while Whistler and Rembrandt drew perceptive analysis
Debbie Harry by Chris Stein: a life in pictures
3 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Blondie’s Chris Stein and Debbie Harry talk about a new book of intimate photos taken by Stein during the band’s post-punk glory days
The cake that looks like a Mondrian painting
17 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Could these sweets, inspired by great artists, be the perfect thing to round off a stylish dinner party?
Rare John Keats portrait comes to auction
10 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Miniature showing an unfamiliar view of the poet, probably painted from life, to go on sale next month
Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, by Barnaby Martin – review
6 April 2013 • Mark Westall
This account, based on illicit interviews, reveals an artist weakened by incarceration, but a figurehead still for China’s vital cultural movement
Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley donate works for Labour auction
22 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Actor Sir Patrick Stewart and author Sarah Waters also offer prizes at party’s first annual arts dinner
Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review
3 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The late photographer Eliot Porter has left a stunning record of the shrinking American wilderness
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Burroughs triptych to be sold at London auction
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Work by US artist, who died aged 27 in 1988, is tribute to his favourite writer and is valued at between £4.25m and £6.25m
Catlin Guide aims to catalogue Britain’s most intriguing new artists
10 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Annual picks out 40 of the most promising graduates from art schools across the UK – and a quarter of them are painters
Robert Hughes obituary
8 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Australian writer whose TV series The Shock of the New took modern art to a mass audience
Robert Hughes: the greatest art critic of our time
8 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Rude, hilarious, eloquent, but never petty … the Australian writer, who has died aged 74, made criticism look like literature
SATURDAYS SECOND HAND BOOK MARKET @ARBEIT FROM 1PM TO 5PM Saturday 28th January 2011
27 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Second Hand Book Fair
Books for giving: art
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
An exhaustive history of art proves more than a handful, Hockney is chatty but dotty – and genius springs from the man who gave us the shower scene in Psycho
When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists
22 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Science and art are often considered opposites – so what happens when top practitioners in each field collaborate? The results, finds Stuart Jeffries, can be seismic