Art book publishers must have spring fever because this month's new releases are filled with nudes, nudes, and more nudes. From Tom Bianchi's vintage ...
April ushers in lively spring, and the newest art books this month get us in the mood for warmer weather. From photography monographs gleaming with in...
Theron Humphrey has done what many of us only dream of doing. He quit his lucrative day job and rescued an adorable dog. Humphrey soon resolved to hit the road with his new best friend, setting out to visit all 50 states in 365 days.
From Jan Brueghel the Elder to pop king Andy Warhol, the tradition of still lifes has been an essential part of art history. But for as long as the pr...
It's part art project, part anthropological experiment -- and it has all the random, unedited charm of a second grader's colorful imagination. More...
"A public lettering is made unique by the relationships it sets up with what is around it: not a blank page, but the sky, the streets, the sunlight wi...
You may find it hard to believe that an artist hailing from Omaha, Nebraska would come to capture the aesthetic, landscape and vernacular of Los Angel...
If the chilly weather is keeping you indoors this month, what better way to stay warm than to cuddle up than with a brand new art book? Be amazed by t...
In Marc Spitz's new book, "Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s," the author offers a glimpse into the gritty beginnings of his life...
Guess which grunge god is getting his own sticker book? That's right, Nirvana fans, your favorite singer is the subject of a recently releas...
They make such easy and effective home accessories.
My choices include a beautiful coffee table tome, a local LA galley zine and three museum exhibition catalogs.
Like every other artist and writer on art I know, I have a precious collection of crumbling, yellowing old books and magazines about art on my bookshelves. And like my friends, I've hoped to see these talismanic texts back in print.
Hani Zurob is a Palestinian artist in exile, unable to return to his home in Gaza since a trip he made to Paris in 2006. He remains in France today, c...
The end of 2012 is nigh, so what better way to celebrate the countdown to the new year than with the books that made this year a little more interesti...
Not in the holiday spirit yet? Check out this stunning time-lapse video of one of the world's oldest Christmas markets.
We know a lot of people have mixed feelings about using books to create art, but we couldn't help but fall in love with Jodi Brown's book art that cre...
Sophie Calle has never been one to tip-toe around private matters. In 1981, the artist spent three weeks as a chambermaid in a Venice hotel rummaging ...
In 2003, the critic Martin Gayford began sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud. In 2010, Gayford published his journal of the sittings as a book. Among his reflections, we get glimpses of Freud's attitudes and methods that create a portrait of a great experimental artist at work.
Artists and writers have sworn by the aesthetic beauty of the Moleskine notebook for years. There's something about these small, hard-covered pads tha...
It took John Schabel three years to complete his voyeuristic portraiture project of anonymous airplane passengers. The New York-based photographer wou...
Those who appreciate allegorical works like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince are likely to feel the same way about The Conference of the Birds.
The title of Michal Chelbin's recent photography exhibit at Andrea Meislin Gallery is at obvious odds with the subjects that take center frame. Though...
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.
If the genius of Instragram had been discovered in imperial Russia, we imagine the result would have looked a little bit like this: Peasant girls...
