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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
Our roundup of the latest art publications
Image taken at Neue Nationalgalerie moments before the 1988 theft features in a new book of the artist’s copper paintings
Our roundup of the latest art publications
We asked eight artists about the comic's influence ahead of a new exhibition exploring the publication's history and featuring contemporary art with that "Beano sensibility"
All you ever wanted to know about Dürer, from the Old Master’s own accounts of his achievements and mishaps, to a recent creative take on his travels—selected by the art historian Susan Foister
More than 150 rarely-seen photographs chronicle the history of seminal earthworks in the landscape
A new book looks at the detailed preparations and 60 years of planning behind the work being unveiled in Paris
According to Noah Charney’s new book, infamy in the art world—be it contrived drama to drum up publicity or genuine artistic rivalry—is as old as art itself
A new book by the art historian Ben Street attempts to demystify how we look at art and argues for reacting instinctively to what we see
Our roundup of the latest art publications
All you ever wanted to know about Titian, from a biography fit for a king to an overlooked lecture essay from 1990—selected by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum curator Nathaniel Silver
Two decades after one of the most controversial exhibitions of recent times, Arnold Lehman, the former director of the Brooklyn Museum, reveals all in a new book
As we enter the final weeks of the season, check out these riveting reads, from “the best novel about painting” to a book with no words at all
Our roundup of the latest art publications
The text accompanied the group's only show and is now one of several texts about Black art brought together in a new book The Soul of Nation Reader
All you ever wanted to know about Taeuber-Arp, from a children’s book full of inspiring projects to a publication exploring the dynamics of artist couples—selected by the Tate curator Natalia Sidlina
A roundup of the latest art publications
Whether you are lying on a beach or next to a paddling pool, sit back and let your mind soak up these inspiring reads
A new book by John Higgs paints a picture of the mixed reviews that the 18th-century artist received and touches upon the “Holy Grail of his lost works”
All you ever wanted to know about Paik, from a “deep dive” into a single work to the best biography—selected by the curators Rudolf Frieling and Andrea Nitsche-Krupp
The US artist’s images are joined by an extract from the book looking at how aspects of his painting and photography overlapped
A roundup of the latest art publications
The publication is released ahead of an exhibition of the US artist's works at the Kunstmuseum Basel this summer
A new book looks at the life and work of the Italian architect and designer, famed for his Pirelli Tower and Superleggera chairs
A roundup of the latest art publications
All you ever wanted to know about Hepworth, from a pictorial autobiography to a collection of her poems, notes and transcripts—selected by the curator and biographer Eleanor Clayton
The publication claims Nan Goldin may have been tailed by investigators and reveals how the Met lost out to the Smithsonian thanks to a lack of flattery from its director
The writer Ian Collins says that after his chance meeting with the British artist his “life changed forever”
A new memoir by curator Donna Stein reveals the story behind the creation of a Western art collection for the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in the 1970s
A new biography by Carol Jacobi explores the artist’s role in bringing the Paris scene to London and considers how frequent name changes and reinventions muddied her legacy