It's always interesting to dive into the diary of a great artist. It's especially interesting when that artist is the erotic Austrian painter, Egon Sc...
Steve McCurry's photographs are nothing short of iconic, evidenced by his 1985 image of a green-eyed Afghan girl that graced the cover of National Geo...
In "Weiwei-isms," we see Ai Weiwei at his best; the upcoming pocket-sized account on Princeton University Press features nearly 150 pages of the Chine...
The mention of their names is sometimes met with uncertainty, even though their photographs are not. I realized that many people know the pictures, but not the names, or, in some case, the reverse.
You might think silhouette portraits are thing of the past, but artist Olly Moss would certainly disagree. His upcoming book, "Silhouettes from Popula...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: "What is done in love is done well." Over the years, it seems like the art world took his wor...
Kissing -- the act of pressing one's lips against the surface of another object or person -- is a simple gesture acted out between lovers, a mother an...
Art classification is not for the weary-hearted. Sure, sorting the Impressionists from the Cubists might be a task worth little debate, but what happe...
I found I had a whole host of these postcards of famous writers in my room and before long I'd set myself the task of covering every last one with my scribblings.
Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), over 15,000 people are injured annually from house fires. Almost 400,000 house fires occu...
I started this project because when I am 90 (if I live that long), I want to have a library in my house (if there are still books) where every book jacket is designed by me. That is my long-term plan.
As part of the London 2012 Festival, Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo sculpted a maze made out of books. The instillation, called aMAZ...
"Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz" is paying tribute to the artist, writer and AIDS activist whose name entered headlines in...
Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...
Later this month, Taschen is releasing an incredible new two-volume compilation, titled, "100 Interiors From Around the World", which lets us enter th...
Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...
Rather than taking the traditional route and simply printing catalogs for their fall list, Hachette Australia has put together a stunning and inspirat...
No formal training needed, just a willingness to create art with anything at hand using offbeat techniques. Once you tattoo a banana, print on marshmallows, or mold a Mona Lisa sugar cookie, you'll definitely be curious about what else is possible!
As Clement Greenburg so astutely put it, "All profoundly original art looks ugly at first." Like Picasso's The Young Ladies of Avignon, great works of...
The discipline of conventional history has attempted over the years to classify the trajectory of the art world into neatly constructed movements and ...
My journey began on May 25th, 2011, while sitting at the dinner table looking through old photographs that my mom had carefully placed in countless albums and suddenly I was struck by a familiar scene.
A man with an afro breathes volcanic heat. An intergalactic meet-up of tigers, wizards and egyptian emperors takes place in a vibrant nebula. These im...
NEW YORK, NY.- After becoming an internet sensation, Marco Anelli's powerful portraits of sitters in the historic 2010 Marina Abramovic performance at...