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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
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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
A 60-year “obsession” began when Michael Peppiatt set out for Paris with a letter of introduction from Francis Bacon
All you ever wanted to know about Lichtenstein, from an encyclopaedic career survey to a collection of his unexpectedly witty mirror paintings—selected by the art dealer Irving Blum
Our roundup of the latest art publications
An extract from a new publication about collectors by Dani Levinas features rare insights from the chair of Qatar Museums
The designer and editor also reveals the famous writers he will be collaborating with for the next editions of his popular diary series
The art critic Laura Cumming tells us about her new book interlacing art history and memoir
Our roundup of the latest art publications
Prosper Assouline also tells us about doing everything in-house and how 80% of a book is what is on the outside
From dystopian biography and intelligent plants to “monstrous mothers” and the underwater world, avid readers share their top tips
The writer and art historian Nick Trend tells us how he chose the art for his new book and why such choices can often be subjective
Our roundup of the latest art publications
Four excerpts from a book by Lauren MacDonald exploring the myths and origins of familiar colours
The UK artist explains the thought process behind the publication and the joy of “putting in crazy chapter headings”
A story set in Barcelona plays with the "mirror image" aspects of the Spanish artist's work
Our roundup of the latest art publications
In an extract from an essay accompanying a newly published facsimile, Peter Walther tells the story of how this remarkable publication came about
In his book inspired by the Getty Museum Challenge, Brathwaite recreated portraits by artists such as Georges Trubert and Sonia Boyce
All you ever wanted to know about Haring, from his personal journals to interviews with the likes of Roy Lichtenstein and Madonna—selected by the curator Sarah Loyer
An extract from an essay by the art historian Rye Dag Holmboe explains how the US artist’s works ended up in the Umbrian city of Spoleto
Our roundup of the latest art publications
A new publication looks at the Spanish artist’s alienating experiences as a young man in Paris, including police harassment and stigmatisation as an anarchist
All you ever wanted to know about Basquiat, from his best quotes to an “intimate insight” from his family—selected by the curator Dieter Buchhart
Our roundup of the latest art publications
Ahead of a new show of dog portraits at London's Wallace Collection, we round-up some publishing treats for you to paw over
All you ever wanted to know about Hokusai, from a history of The Great Wave to a novel about the artist's daughter—selected by the curator Sarah E. Thompson
A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Our roundup of the latest art publications
An excerpt from one of Thiebaud’s final interviews, which features in the catalogue of a survey at the Fondation Beyeler, reveals how the US artist arrived at his signature style
András Szántó spoke to 21 architects about how museum architecture is shaping up, here are some of his findings
The former editor of Frieze magazine says the idea that modernity had to be rational, cool and atheist was detrimental to art