The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

World-renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has worked in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, performance art, and installation. Kusama’s iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms, which originated with Phalli’s Field in 1965, situate viewers in kaleidoscopic spaces filled with multicolored lights or whimsical forms. These mirror-lined installations reflect endlessly, distorting rooms to project the illusion of […]

The Courage to be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free […]

Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next thirty years, this technology will itself change enormously. If Google get their way, are we all going to be ferried around in tiny electric bubble-cars? Or will we watch robots race […]

A big fat coffee-table book for anyone living in Copenhagen (or in love with it from afar) who considers themself a foodie. Mad About Copenhagen celebrates the madness of Copenhagen’s food scene via portraits, personal stories, essays and a few recipes thrown in for good measure. Lay it proudly on your coffee table, curl up in bed with […]

The Western world was in the throes of peace, love and flower power as Nigeria descended into Civil War in 1967. The rock scene that developed during the following three years of bloodshed and destruction would come to heal the country, help propogate the world-wide ideal of the Modern Nigerian, and propel Fela Kuti to […]

In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayford’s journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, which he makes as much a part of the […]

Vad är det att vara ett par? Vilket ansvar innebär det, vad kan man kräva av varandra? Tid? Sex? Trohet? Är det annorlunda om man gifter sig? Kan man leva ihop om man har olika ideal för hur ett förhållande ska vara? Sådant diskuterar Martina och Gustav med varandra och med andra, allt medan de […]

En inställd kärlekshistoria är också en kärlekshistoria! Au pair är en skruvad och rolig memoar med hög igenkänningsfaktor om ungdomens pinsamheter. Om en misslyckad kärlekshistoria i ungdomen som blir till en besatthet genom hela livet, och om att längtan efter något annat än det man får. Det här är ett boktips för dig som gillade I […]