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'I was transfixed by Portrait' HANNAH ROTHSCHILD ‘Imaginative, absorbing, very moving’ MICHAEL PALIN 'Quietly beautiful, deeply felt' JOANNE BURN Between 1898 and his death in 1916, the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi painted more than two dozen pictures of his wife, Ida, seen only from...

From the acclaimed author of The King’s Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. In the late autumn of 1789, two of Europe’s most celebrated painters met in Rome. One, Angelica Kauffman, was a...

The riveting life of Dina Vierny, a muse, fearless Nazi resistor, and art collector who dedicated her life to fighting fascism. In the summer of 1940, as France succumbed to Nazi Germany, Dina Vierny posed for famed sculptor Aristide Maillol on the French-Spanish border. Dina was the muse who...

Ten years ago, art students Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad started a website, posting irreverent reviews of exhibitions every Sunday under the playful moniker ‘The White Pube’. The duo emphasized the emotional and physical experience of seeing art over the cold analysis typical...

What motivates an art forger? How easy are they to catch? And to what extent have AI and other technologies changed how we approach matters of authenticity, derivation and forgery? In The Art of Forgery Noah Charney, celebrated art historian and the world’s foremost art-crime specialist...

A globe-spanning, never-before-told epic history of the garden—from antiquity to present Gardens have always been sacred spaces, allowing humans both to return to nature and to tame it. Avid gardener and literary historian Jonathan Bate traces our fascination with gardens across four millennia...

The enchanting story of La Maison du Pastel, a tiny shop in Paris that has been providing pastels to artists since the eighteenth century, and the two women who fell in love and brought it back to life.

'Paul Morley is my kind of critic.' - Grace Jones From the swimming pools of Los Angeles to the hills of Yorkshire, from the bright light of California to the changing skies of Normandy, David Hockney spent a lifetime seeing the world differently. One of the most celebrated and influential...

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.' 'But there is also another...

Avant de connaître la gloire, tous ont un jour commencé par une toute première œuvre qui n'a pas toujours rencontré d'emblée le succès. Des débuts modestes au triomphe, en passant parfois par des périodes moins glorieuses, Alex Vizorek retrace la vie de 30 artistes qui ont marqué notre culture, toujours avec une pointe d'humour, pour faire rire en apprenant. Peinture, musique, cinéma, littérature… aucun art n'a été oublié. Un ouvrage kaléidoscope qui brosse le portrait de 30 génies, à travers le prisme de leur première et de leur dernière œuvre.

A LIVELY AND ILLUMINATING HISTORY OF BRITAIN FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELEANOR AND EIGHTEEN, ALICE LOXTON From an image carried by St Augustine when he landed on our shores in 597AD and a glittering portrait of a Tudor queen to Stubbs’ majestic rendering of Whistlejacket and L.S...

Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Renoir, Gauguin, and Picasso have long been considered essential figures in the history of modern art. But these six men were also unrepentant misogynists. In The Misogynists, art historian and professor Allison Leigh delves deep into the lives of these figures to show...

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images that have passed into our national imagination. WINNER of the National Biography Award...

A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 A story-driven meditation on one of the oldest art forms and what it reveals about memory, creativity, and being human Why have we always made sculpture? What draws us to carve, cast, and mold forms from the materials around us? What do...

Paru le 11 mars 1905, ce numéro de L’Illustration saisit, au fil de reportages, chroniques et échos du temps, l’esprit d’un début de siècle en mouvement. On y entend la rumeur de l’actualité, les regards sur la société, les curiosités d’alors — un instantané du monde tel qu’on le racontait au jour le jour.

Plongez dans l’été 1913 avec ce numéro de L’Illustration: reportages au plus près des événements, images fortes et échos de la vie publique. Les correspondants couvrent la seconde guerre des Balkans, soudaine et violente: la Bulgarie, encerclée, étant hors d’accès, Alain de Penennrun gagne la Serbie puis la Macédoine, tandis que Jean Leune poursuit depuis la Grèce. À la revue de Longchamp, l’émerveillement de nos braves Sénégalais devant le monstre volant et le casque qui flamboie est saisi par les photographies de J. Clair-Guyot.

Instantané sonore d’une date précise, ce numéro de L’Illustration du 31 mai 1913 rassemble articles et illustrations qui parcourent les goûts et les préoccupations d’alors: culture et arts, conseils et plaisirs du jardin, échos des événements du moment. Dans cette adaptation audio, une prose claire et élégante fait revivre une époque curieuse de tout, entre savoir-vivre et nouveautés. On y découvre un panorama vivant et varié de 1913, raffiné sans emphase, fidèle à l’esprit de la revue: informer, étonner, divertir.

'Sitting down at the wheel and grasping a ball of clay, I can travel back in time. I'm compelled to slow down to the pace of my ancestors.' Firing Earth is Pottery Throwdown judge Keith Brymer Jones's very personal journey through the history of ceramics. From wine jars to ink pots, Keith...

A sweeping and cinematic narrative history that follows Renoir’s La Petite Irène, tracing its theft from one of Paris’s wealthiest Jewish families during WWII and the fate of the girl it immortalized. “A vivid and deeply reported portrait of looted art, memory, and one family’s struggle...

The art historian, poet, and novelist close-reads images, moving and still, canonical and lesser known, that have shaped her evolving identity as an American “Mulatta” lesbian born at the end of the Civil Rights Movement in this singular blend of life-writing and cultural studies. The...