Art is part of our lives from the monuments in our communities to the fashions we wear and the media images we take in to the exhibits on displa...
A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unparalleled insight, authority, and range of refe...
This enthralling book is the first biography in English of Bill Evans, one of the most influential of all jazz pianists. Peter Pettinger, himsel...
A mother’s advice to her daughter—a guide to daily living, both practical and sublime—with full-color illustrations throughout. One sleepless nig...
During his lifetime, Keith Haring's spontaneous, archetypal creations won both a street audience and the respect of the art establishment. Kept f...
Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed, and daring of its practitioners. In a richly ane...
Written by a former editor of Warhol's celebrity-celebrating Interview magazine and packed with names, this hard-hitting memoir presents an insid...
A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work―the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our s...
Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging ...
Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? ‘Curate’ is now a buzzword applied to every...
Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Since then he has staged more than 250 shows inte...
How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts profes...
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