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Find daily inspiration for every day of the year in a joyful collection of quotes and ideas from artists, brought together by the founder of The Great Women Artists.The year ahead is a gift that has been given to you. What might you do with it?Dive into the year with the wisdom of artists. Gathered ...

An experimental work of creative non-fiction that challenges art history, confronts colonial ableism, and reclaims a stolen spirit.In , the dominant narratives surrounding Paul Gauguin’s famous painting Annah la Javanaise (1893-94) are turned upside down. The book argues a simple point: what if th...

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation in words and pictures on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory.Maira Kalman’s most autobiographical and intimate work to ...

During the past half-century, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged intently with notions of the postnational. Nonetheless, the presence of the nation-state and nationalisms in art history remain steadfast. In posing the question ‘What is postnational art history?’ this...

Few subjects encapsulate the interplay of the corporeal, personal, and political as powerfully as hair. Throughout history, it has carried deep significance, conveying ideas about gender, mythology, status, power, psychology, feminism, and beauty. At once radiant and repellent, hair holds a unique p...

From bestselling author Juliette Aristides comes an inspirational guide to thinking, making, and embodying the mind of a creative personThe third Monacelli Studio title from Juliette Aristides, The Inner Life of the Artist contains a series of short, insightful essays and significant, meaningful quo...

The 5th issue of ‘The City Is Ours' focusses on manhole covers, each uniquely designed, revealing stories about civic identity, history, and utility. This edition showcases their evolution from mere functional objects to forms of artistic expression, featuring everything from ornate covers in Japa...

A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year. This is a unique and compelling journey through five centuries of the city known as 'La Serenissima' - a perfect companion for both lovers of and lovers of its art.was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the...

Despite what society says, human beings were born to create and have been doing so since ancient times. Beginning with cave paintings, people have documented their culture and heritage regardless of geography, as seen in intricate Indian miniature paintings, awe-inspiring African mural masterpieces,...

Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles.Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the ...

In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings...

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year Matar was nine...

Art appreciation made fresh, relevant and exciting; writer, curator, and YouTube sensation James Payne demystifies great works of art.Based on the enormously popular YouTube channel of the same name, Great Art Explained unveils the fascinating stories behind some of the world’s most iconic paintin...

The first biography in more than a quarter century―based on more than 100 interviews―adds significant new information to the story both of Jean Michael Basquiat's life and to the extraordinary journey of his art.In a resurrection few could have predicted, Jean-Michel Basquiat joined Picasso, Mod...

'This is a jewel of a book: an invitation for us to practise the essential art of looking, of slowing down. An animate celebration of nature and the myriad ways we have interpreted it across history.' - Edmund De Waal'The only way to see something is to look more slowly. That's what this book is sho...

A series of fascinating, well-illustrated biographies that offer insights into the women and men whose work in the applied arts represents the very pinnacle of their craft.This fascinating, richly illustrated anthology of the lives and careers of some of the most accomplished craftspeople represente...

A lifetime’s learning about art, from one of Britain’s leading artistsWe are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older – but David Gentleman kept going. For over ninety years he has been drawing, painting, engraving and printing, rising to become...

How six extraordinary women artists of the twentieth century reframed the narrative through their art and lives.When a woman makes art, what does she see? When she picks up her brush and looks in the mirror? When she takes off her clothes and paints herself naked? Or when she raises her camera and t...

A revelatory new biography of the enigmatic Dutch artist, published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of his deathThe paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art. Yet like the life of Vermeer himself, they are mysterious and have fo...

What is art, where do I find it, and once I'm in front of it, what am I supposed to think about it?Kate Bryan is a self-confessed art addict who has worked with art for over twenty years. But before she studied art history at university, she'd been into a gallery just twice in her life and had no id...