Bob Ross: The Joy of Painting

On a winter’s night in 1949 in New York City, young marketing student and budding photographer Walter Chandoha spotted a stray kitten in the snow, bundled it into his coat, and brought it home. Little did he know he had just met the muse that would determine the course of his life. Chandoha turned his […]

Bibbs ska precis fylla trettionio år. Samtidigt finns det andra som fyller tjugosex eller nitton. Trots att Bibbs saknar talang har hon varit känd ett tag, men det enkla livet håller på att glida henne ur händerna. Och hela tiden kommer det oväntade utgifter. Som hyran. Den fasta punkten har varit Baby, och Bibbs kan […]

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists – he a photographer, she a dancer – trying to make their mark in a city that

The debut short story collection by the author of Eileen, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There’s something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh’s stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful – and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment, in very different ways, […]

In Love, Cecil, Lisa Immordino Vreeland offers an evocative por­trait of this talented whirlwind whose creative work captured many facets of the 20th century. Using photography, drawings, letters, and scrapbooks by Beaton and his contemporaries, along with excerpts from his sparkling diaries and other writ­ings, Immordino Vreeland brings his spirit to life in a way […]

I en tid då rapporterna om sambandet mellan världens köttproduktion och det växande klimathotet duggar tätt börjar allt fler blickar lämna charkdisken och söka sig mot grönsakshyllan. Men för många slutar det vid den där sneglingen. För vad sjutton lagar man, när man ska laga vegetarisk mat? Kommer alla att bli mätta? Kommer barnen ens […]

Andy Warhol “Giant” Size is the definitive document of this remarkable creative force, and a telling look at late twentieth-century pop culture. A must-have for Warhol fans and pop culture enthusiasts, this in-depth and comprehensive overview of Warhol’s extraordinary career is packed with more than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, […]

Britain’s most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art recounts what the Parthenon and its sculptures meant to the citizens of 5th-century BCE Athens. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, […]