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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
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
All you ever wanted to know about Vermeer, from a “legendary” show catalogue to an illustrated book for kids—selected by the curators Pieter Roelofs and Gregor J. M. Weber
Our roundup of the latest art publications
An extract from a biography of the US collector and museum founder looks at how her modest taste was transformed by her inheritance and why her husband was not pleased by a revealing painting
The Art Newspaper’s books editor Jacqueline Riding selects spring and summer publications to look out for, from the Surrealism of Leonora Carrington to 100 years of Black figuration
The artist, who is now in her 90s and voluntarily living in a psychiatric hospital, has a major retrospective under way in Hong Kong
Struggling for Christmas gifts? Take a look at the publications we enjoyed over the past year—from an exploration of art and motherhood to an interrogation of the culture wars
Our roundup of the latest art publications
The British artist gives us an insight into the work behind his latest publication, which brings together more than 200 recent drawings
This except from Taschen's new book The Gourmand’s Egg: A Collection of Stories and Recipes shows how artists including Judy Chicago and Sarah Lucas have used egg imagery
All you ever wanted to know about Matisse, from a definitive two-volume biography to the writings of the artist himself—selected by the curator Dorthe Aagesen
The curator has brought together the work of 50 artists from across the continent for his new book African Art Now
A new book brings together letters and postcards that the artist sent his lovers, friends and fellow artists
All you ever wanted to know about King Tut, from CT scans and DNA studies to the perfect book for “any little pharaohs that you might know”—selected by the biographer and journalist Garry Shaw
A new publication unpicks how becoming a parent can detrimentally affect an artist’s career and suggests ways the art world can do better
To mark 100 years since its discovery, Garry Shaw, the author of a new biography of the Egyptian Boy King, reveals some little-known facts about the world’s most famous death mask
Our roundup of the latest art publications
New version published by The Folio Society includes new insights from curator Mia Fineman who has selected key accompanying images
Our roundup of the latest art publications