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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.

AN ILLUMINATING HISTORY OF BRITAIN FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR ALICE LOXTON The past is like a dark forest. Most of the details of our ancestors’ lives are forgotten, lost in the mists of time. Yet there are many sources – fireflies – that survive to illuminate our understanding of the past...

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 these objects say about the artists who create them and the...

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...

An impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our values It’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory...

World-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for the first time grants a private view of his life, and his journey towards art and artists When Hans Ulrich was six years old, he was knocked down by a speeding car as he was crossing the street. Hospitalized for weeks, a sense of urgency was...

Vinyl records. Board games. Paperback books. Film. A philosopher dives into the analog world to show what it offers us and what it says about our values. Packed with first-person anecdotes, hand-drawn illustrations, and extensive scholarship, Darren Hudson Hick takes us through the pleasure of...

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...

In this accessible, story-led journey into the heart of sculpture, renowned art historian and curator Jo Baring explores creativity, memory and why we have been driven to make art in this medium since the very beginning of humanity. She examines sculptures from the pre-historic Lion Man figure found in a German cave to an ancient Mayan pyramid that conjures a serpent made of shadows and icons of the Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo's devastating Pietà.

The story of the making, loss, and recovery of some of the greatest treasures of antiquity, raising questions about ancient mosaic art and its creation, the work of archaeology, and museum practice. In 1932, after years of fundraising and flurries of letters back and forth, an archaeological...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the magic, power and craft of one of the world's most significant art forms: the woodcut. For almost two thousand years, artists have transformed a piece of wood into meaning by cutting its surface, inking the block and transferring the image to paper...

Brought to you by Penguin. A deeply personal, first-hand account of art, survival and resistance in wartime Ukraine Charlotte Higgins never imagined she would report on a war. But in the autumn of 2022, seven months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she travelled there to cover a...

“Sparklingly smart. . . For anyone who wants to place the culture wars in their historical and philosophical context.”—Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Henry V A bold, expansive argument for a new way to understand immoral art in our time of cultural and...

The connoisseur has been an influential, if somewhat mysterious, figure in the history of art, responsible for making or breaking high-profile collections and reputations and influencing taste, the art market and the field of art history with their pronouncements. But what did it take to become...

Bloomsbury presents How to Think Like an Artist by Catherine Daunt, read by Olivia Darnley. An illuminating guide to history’s most influential and inspiring artists – from Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo – and how they can teach us to see the world more clearly. How did the greatest...

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most compelling artists, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.

In Depraved, philosopher of art Daisy Dixon takes the listener on a journey through some of the most volatile and contentious works ever produced - from prehistoric sculpture to extreme metal music, Renaissance paintings to videogames. She reveals how beautiful art can sometimes be the most insidious, and why the greatest threat might lie in our own judgements about the art we censor or condemn.

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.