Darktown

One of the most popular and influential British artists of our times, David Hockney has never ceased to change his style and ways of working, always re-energizing his art with new solutions, fresh ideas and technical mastery. Now excitedly embracing his ‘late period’, Hockney remains as engaged as ever with the questions he has always […]

I Ai Weiweis memoarbok skildras hundra år av Kinas historia – genom berättelsen om hans eget, extraordinära liv, och genom arvet efter hans far, landets mest hyllade poet.

Adding. Extending. Transforming. Upgrade breathes new life into forgotten architecture. Past structures are consciously preserved and revamped, expanded and altered, to create something exciting and enticing. Upgrade explores architectural and design concepts that seek to enhance and repurpose our surroundings from slight changes to complete renovations. Extensions upon a rooftop. Factories turned into relaxing retreats. […]

For most films, it’s a long, strange road from concept to screen, and sometimes those roads lead to dead ends. In Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, screenwriter and filmmaker Joshua Hull guides readers through development hell. With humor and reverence, Hull details the speed bumps and roadblocks that kept these films from ever […]

‘Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing’ Observer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human’s. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most […]

The way apparel has been worn and created by skateboarders has had a tremendous impact on popular culture at large. Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion documents all aspects of this aesthetic movement; from its roots in the 1950s as an offshoot of surfing culture, to the 1980s. Nearly every area of garment design was touched […]

Det svenska filmmanusets historia kastar ljus på ett bortglömt kapitel i vårt svenska kulturarv. Vi får möta såväl berömda som bortglömda manusförfattare som skrivit internationella framgångar, skapat rasande debatter och utvecklat berättartekniska landvinningar för filmkonsten från slutet av 1800-talets stumfilm till 2000-talets fokus på serier. Under dessa år har filmmanus både följt trenderna och skapat […]

Klas Östergrens Två pistoler är en roman på historisk grund om en av de mest omvälvande epokerna i Sveriges historia, Gustav III:s regeringstid och det långa och oroliga efteråt som präglade