Four excerpts from a book by Lauren MacDonald exploring the myths and origins of familiar colours

The UK artist explains the thought process behind the publication and the joy of “putting in crazy chapter headings”

A story set in Barcelona plays with the "mirror image" aspects of the Spanish artist's work

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In an extract from an essay accompanying a newly published facsimile, Peter Walther tells the story of how this remarkable publication came about

In his book inspired by the Getty Museum Challenge, Brathwaite recreated portraits by artists such as Georges Trubert and Sonia Boyce

All you ever wanted to know about Haring, from his personal journals to interviews with the likes of Roy Lichtenstein and Madonna—selected by the curator Sarah Loyer

An extract from an essay by the art historian Rye Dag Holmboe explains how the US artist’s works ended up in the Umbrian city of Spoleto

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A new publication looks at the Spanish artist’s alienating experiences as a young man in Paris, including police harassment and stigmatisation as an anarchist

All you ever wanted to know about Basquiat, from his best quotes to an “intimate insight” from his family—selected by the curator Dieter Buchhart

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Ahead of a new show of dog portraits at London's Wallace Collection, we round-up some publishing treats for you to paw over

All you ever wanted to know about Hokusai, from a history of The Great Wave to a novel about the artist's daughter—selected by the curator Sarah E. Thompson

A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

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An excerpt from one of Thiebaud’s final interviews, which features in the catalogue of a survey at the Fondation Beyeler, reveals how the US artist arrived at his signature style

András Szántó spoke to 21 architects about how museum architecture is shaping up, here are some of his findings

The former editor of Frieze magazine says the idea that modernity had to be rational, cool and atheist was detrimental to art

All you ever wanted to know about Vermeer, from a “legendary” show catalogue to an illustrated book for kids—selected by the curators Pieter Roelofs and Gregor J. M. Weber

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An extract from a biography of the US collector and museum founder looks at how her modest taste was transformed by her inheritance and why her husband was not pleased by a revealing painting

The Art Newspaper’s books editor Jacqueline Riding selects spring and summer publications to look out for, from the Surrealism of Leonora Carrington to 100 years of Black figuration

The artist, who is now in her 90s and voluntarily living in a psychiatric hospital, has a major retrospective under way in Hong Kong

Struggling for Christmas gifts? Take a look at the publications we enjoyed over the past year—from an exploration of art and motherhood to an interrogation of the culture wars

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The British artist gives us an insight into the work behind his latest publication, which brings together more than 200 recent drawings

This except from Taschen's new book The Gourmand’s Egg: A Collection of Stories and Recipes shows how artists including Judy Chicago and Sarah Lucas have used egg imagery

All you ever wanted to know about Matisse, from a definitive two-volume biography to the writings of the artist himself—selected by the curator Dorthe Aagesen

The curator has brought together the work of 50 artists from across the continent for his new book African Art Now