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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
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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
A roundup of the latest art publications
The Accidental Collector features a wealthy heiress, jet-setting dealers and a Swiss-owned mega gallery in Somerset… sound familiar?
All you ever wanted to know about Hockney, from the best biography to the artist's “radical” investigations into art history—selected by the critic (and longtime friend) Martin Gayford
New book by Jennifer Higgie gives astute insights into brilliant women artists shut out of art history
New book by Martin Kemp considers the impact of poet’s vision of divine light on artists such as Michelangelo and Titian
As a biography on the US painter is republished, its author Phoebe Hoban tells us why Neel’s work is more relevant than ever
A roundup of the latest art publications
New publications cast a light on two formidable women artists and place them at the heart of Abstract Expressionism
All you ever wanted to know about Kusama, from a detailed study of her Infinity Mirror Room to illustrations for Alice in Wonderland—selected by the Gropius Bau director Stephanie Rosenthal
The Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko created 14 paintings for the chapel but did not live to see it completed
The latest art publications rounded up in our new book bag section
The feminist writer’s renowned essay ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ challenged the myth of male genius and called for a new way of thinking
The British fashion writer Simon Doonan speaks about his new book on the artist and describes his first encounter with Haring via a t-shirt
Artists including Rachel Whiteread, Ragnar Kjartansson and Roni Horn share texts ranging from 19th-century poetry to postmodern fiction on The Art Newspaper’s podcast
Although Guston's paintings of Klansmen “remain controversial today” they are also “deeply relevant”, she says
Exclusive extracts from a new book bringing together texts by 62 cultural figures describing their preferred works in the Frick Collection
A new book by Jonathan Petropoulos explores Bruno Lohse’s devotion to Hitler’s number two
All you ever wanted to know about the artist, from a deep dive into his chaotic studio to accounts of his exploits in seedy Soho—selected by the art historian Michael Peppiatt
A monograph on Catherine Opie, an analysis of museums in the 21st century and an overview of Joseph Beuys also make the grade
From the catalogue for a controversial Guston show to a four-volume tome on Leonardo Da Vinci—and some lighter reads too
A new book explores the long and changing history of how horoscopes were depicted, from 15th-century Bohemian scorpions to the abstract paintings of Hilma af Klint
The directors of the Met, Tate Modern, British Museum, Centre Pompidou and more, as well as artists such as Tracey Emin, tell us all about their favourite book—just in time for Christmas shopping
In a recently published Cahiers d’Art monograph, the US artist speaks about responding to “a tsunami of footage of Black people getting killed”
New book brings together hundreds of images of nude young men, which “are imbued with an emotional vulnerability that few of his later works exhibit”
As the Taschen publishing house turns 40, its founder talks about starting out in his parents’ kitchen and the importance of “planting seeds”
New book outlines the campaign led by the gender-fluid artists on the island of Jersey during the Second World War
All you ever wanted to know about Turner, from a “rollicking read” of a biography to a “picture book with a point”—selected by the Romantic period painting specialist David Blayney Brown
A newly republished book by the renowned Memphis photographer documents the Deep South in the run-up to the 1976 election
One of the most expansive museum surveys on the French artist in 50 years will present his book and magazine designs—and even some of his own writing
An exclusive excerpt and images from a new book chronicling 35 years of “creative complaining” by the US-based feminist art collective