Book Club
The Art Newspaper’s Book Club shines a light on art books in their myriad forms and brings you exclusive extracts, interviews and recommendations from leading art world figures. Sign up to our monthly newsletter above
Cameras, creativity and kids: Sally Mann on her ‘kind of how-to book’ that mixes memoir with advice for artists
The US photographer, whose images of her naked children sparked controversy, reflects on her life and practice
What is art for? A brush with… publication reveals artists’ favourite things
Book drawn from The Art Newspaper podcast includes 25 insightful interviews with key figures such as Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson
September Book Bag: from Arthur Jafa’s searing chronicles of Black America to a volume of Goya's prints
Our round-up of the latest art publications
The philosopher’s tone: Gilles Deleuze's lively painting lectures are published in English
The French thinker held seminars on painting and philosophy at the short-lived Centre Universitaire Expérimental de Vincennes
An expert’s guide to Indigenous Australian art: five must-read books on the subject
The best publications to learn all about the topic, from a concise overview to a ‘stunning illustrated publication’—selected by the curator Kelli Cole and the academic Jennifer Green
Ultimate reading lists
Interviews with writers
Features
Illustrator Clive Hicks-Jenkins on dealing with violent imagery and finding ways of ‘showing the impossible’
Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches mediums for different books
Rain, insomnia and finding a model: how Morocco challenged and changed Matisse
The author of a new book, Jeff Koehler, tells us about the French artist’s fruitful but sometimes tricky sojourns in Tangier
Sex, beauty and the body: how Helen Chadwick shaped British contemporary art
The “provocative, punky, perverse” artist died far too young but her work’s influence endures, argues a new biography
