
Greta Thunberg to headline the London Literature Festival in world exclusive launch of The Climate Book
The Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival – the longest-running celebration of the written and spoken word of its kind in… Read More
The Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival – the longest-running celebration of the written and spoken word of its kind in… Read More
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
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
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
Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion
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 year saw contemporary art stars prove thoughtful in print while Whistler and Rembrandt drew perceptive analysis
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
Could these sweets, inspired by great artists, be the perfect thing to round off a stylish dinner party?
Miniature showing an unfamiliar view of the poet, probably painted from life, to go on sale next month
This account, based on illicit interviews, reveals an artist weakened by incarceration, but a figurehead still for China’s vital cultural movement
Actor Sir Patrick Stewart and author Sarah Waters also offer prizes at party’s first annual arts dinner
The late photographer Eliot Porter has left a stunning record of the shrinking American wilderness
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
Annual picks out 40 of the most promising graduates from art schools across the UK – and a quarter of them are painters
Australian writer whose TV series The Shock of the New took modern art to a mass audience
Rude, hilarious, eloquent, but never petty … the Australian writer, who has died aged 74, made criticism look like literature
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
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