Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures Thames & Hudson – Book Review
Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) This is the First Critical Biography and Retrospective of A Provocative Visionary. It is now twenty-five years since her untimely death…
24 April 2025
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Esther Mahlangu: To Paint is in My Heart – A Celebration of Ndebele Artistry – Thames & Hudson
Few figures in contemporary art currently stand out as much as Esther Mahlangu. With her customary bright geometric patterns inspired by the traditional Ndebele style…
24 October 2024
Craxton’s Cats by Andrew Lambirth – Artlyst Book Review
Andrew Lambirth’s Craxton’s Cats explores John Craxton’s enduring passion for cats, illustrated with a wealth of vibrant images.
26 June 2024
In the Beginning: Anselm Kiefer & Photography Thames & Hudson – Book Review
“In the Beginning: Anselm Kiefer & Photography” is a luminous exploration delving into the arcane layers of Anselm Kiefer’s artistic practice.
14 February 2024
Casa Susanna – A Chronicle of Trans Liberation – Artlyst Book Review
Casa Susanna was an alluring utopia. It was the first trans network in the US, born out of the need to find a safe haven to be oneself. The record of this hidden community has now been published in a new book by Thames & Hudson.
10 January 2024
Modern Painting: A Concise History (World of Art) Paperback – Simon Morley
A new concise history of modern painting, offering an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium.
27 July 2023
Surrealists In New York – Charles Darwent – Thames & Hudson
An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought Surrealism to America, helping to shift the centre of the art world from Paris to New York
13 July 2023
Judy Chicago Unleashes Her New Autobiography – Edward Lucie-Smith
The dust-jacket of this handsome new book proclaims that ‘Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist’.
6 July 2021
Architectural Envelopes: The Modern Art Museum – Charles Saumarez Smith
The underlying momentum of this remarkable and provocatively thoughtful book, The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith
28 March 2021
Vincent Van Gogh A Durable Art Legend – Two New Books – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two books from Thames & Hudson about Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most durable legends in art. One offers his life-story, as told in letters written by himself, most of them to his brother Theo, who became a moderately successful art dealer. The other, by Mariella Guzzoni, is entitled Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him.
17 June 2020
Piranesi Drawings – Neoclassical Visions – Edward Lucie-Smith
This handsome soft-cover catalogue published by Thames & Hudson for the British Museum was intended to commemorate an exhibition that hasn’t in fact taken place, due to the coronavirus.
9 April 2020
Kelly Grovier On 57 Ways Of Seeing Art – Interview Sara Faith
Kelly Grovier discusses his new book A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works with Sara Faith.
3 December 2018
Josef Albers Life And Work – A New Book – Review Edward Lucie-Smith
Once you struggle through the fairly formidable Introduction to this biography – a chapter devoted to orientating the reader concerning Josef Albers’ major achievement, the long Homage to the Square series of paintings
20 November 2018
The Only Word Is Art – Michael Petry Interview – Paul Carter Robinson
Michael Petry is a visual artist whose works often leads him to write about the topics of his artistic attention.
8 November 2018
Bruegel The Painter Who Painted Things That Couldn’t Be Painted
Few painters have fascinated and enthralled over the centuries as much as Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30‒1569) Now, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has unveiled the most comprehensive exhibition of this 16th-century Netherlandish painter ever compiled.
7 October 2018