All artists struggle with focus, fantasizing and faith, and these books share insight into exactly what it takes to make art. Courtesy the publishers In a culture inundated with the best of the ...

“I don’t like being a prisoner to the art market,” artist Ken Lum tells Observer. One of the most celebrated contemporary artists hailing from Canada, Lum has enjoyed a multifaceted career ...

The central thesis of Rosanna McLaughlin’s timely book is: should art be determined by political ideals? In the era of “wokedom”, she looks at the myths and messages that have built up ...

What could be better than curling up with a new book? Curling up with a new art book, of course. From weighty tomes delving into the iconic Surrealist manifestos to a raucous jaunt through a New ...

The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS ...

Our list includes contemporary prints by artists from the post-1980 American art scene gathered in Stars: Contemporary Prints by Derrière L’Étoile Studio (Part Two), forty years of work ...

An oil painting displayed at the first ever Group of Seven exhibition, in May 1920, fetched a staggering $589,000, including buyer’s premium ...

Darren Clarke, who has curated the show and is Charleston’s head of collections and research, has chosen five key books to get to grips with the colourful life and art of Vanessa Bell.

SINGAPORE – What started as a handful of doodles by Malaysian comic artist Cheeming Boey – secretly ... But in his latest book, How Was Your Day (2024), he leaves his childhood behind and ...

This sweeping family history, the culmination of forty years of research by acclaimed historian Ken Mather, will appeal to anyone interested in ranching history, Irish settlers to Canada ...

In Lucy Steeds’s debut novel The Artist, we are once again reminded that the successful exercise of substantial talent often rests on the crude but incontrovertible contingencies of having both ...

Mar 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Odell The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and resistance on the continent.