Greta Thunberg to headline the London Literature Festival in world exclusive launch of The Climate Book
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Tag: Books
Don’t look now: the artists who turn their backs on the world
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’
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rude, hilarious, eloquent, but never petty … the Australian writer, who has died aged 74, made criticism look like literature
Books for giving: art
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
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