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Valerya Milovanova is a UK-based illustrator who combines traditional materials with digital media like Procreate to make fun and heartwarming illustrations. She also loves screen printing, ...

Presiding over the exhibit (literally) is Maki Aizawa’s free-form “book” made from pieces of mulberry paper, stitched by 35 ...

To celebrate International Children’s Book Day on April 2, let’s acknowledge an array of books written for kids and young ...

Do they succeed? Apr 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Chihaya In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. Apr 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Edna ...

In this extract from the book, Tiatia takes us through some of her extensive and highly personal art collection, and how it shapes the mood of her home. A painting of Tony Albert by Vincent ...

The back cover of Yumna Kassab’s The Theory of Everything features a sly deconstruction of the art of the blurb. This book is reportedly, among other things, “either a monologue or a dialogue ...

By Janny Scott Janny Scott’s most recent book is “The Beneficiary ... Barnes, among the first major American collectors of modern art, barrels onto the page in Blake Gopnik’s vivid ...

During this period, books were for "the medieval ... been long debated by medieval art historians. Some say they're satire, others say they demonstrate the ideas of the manuscript, and others ...