
Artists Remake the World – 50 Years in 50 Books
Vid Simoniti considers the complexities of political art and discusses how and when art became politicised.
Vid Simoniti considers the complexities of political art and discusses how and when art became politicised.
This month, Yale University Press London staff voted for their favourite book on the theme of ‘Travels’. Find out which books they recommended and…
‘This is not a book,’ the artist Paul Gauguin declared in the opening words of his unconventional memoir Avant et aprés, ‘I am not…
Glenn Adamson — ‘Keep the Corean pot in memory.’ With those words, the great potter Bernard Leach imparted one of his most treasured possessions…
During the second half of the nineteenth century, a remarkable number and variety of women artists were drawn to Paris. Featuring thirty-seven women from…
Joanna Marschner introduces her new book Enlightened Princesses, which accompanies a landmark exhibition showcasing the valuable and important possessions of three powerful and significant…
ARE you ready for the first Monday in May? The Met Gala is one of the premiere fashion events of the year. A star-studded…
Colleen Hill is associate curator at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. The exhibition catalogue Paris Refashioned, 1957–1968 is her…
As the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition America After the Fall arrives at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, we delve into the accompanying…
One of this winter’s landmark exhibitions has been Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. To accompany the show…
‘I have been praised but also punished. And it’s because I didn’t necessarily see this as a labour of commerce; I saw it as…
‘One of the things I say to people is that you can teach someone how to make a Cubist painting. It might not be…
As a new exhibition at the National Gallery London looks to our neglected woodland for inspiration, we ask its creator – National Gallery associate artist…
April 2016 marks 400 years since the death of Shakespeare, one of the greatest and most renowned poets that ever lived. Many events will…
Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky, the most important exhibition of Russian portraits ever to take place at a UK…