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Picasso and his art are known the world over and have been studied in numerous exhibitions and publications. But how did...
07/11/2025

Picasso and his art are known the world over and have been studied in numerous exhibitions and publications. But how did this global recognition spread? And how does Picasso influence the work of contemporary artists working in other parts of the world, such as Asia?

Out now, ‘Picasso/Asia: A Conversation’ by François Dareau (.dareau) and Doryun Chong () explores these questions through two intertwined narratives. The first interprets Picasso’s life and practice through four archetypal identities, and the second considers his oeuvre ‘in conversation’ with works by Asian and Asian diasporic artists.

A bold exploration of the complex relationships between origin and reception, invention and adaptation, and West and East, this book enriches the discourse on transnational contemporary Asian art and visual culture, while contributing to the growing critical literature on global art history.
‘Picasso/Asia’ is published to accompany the exhibition, ‘The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation’ at M+ (), Hong Kong. The exhibition is running until July 13, 2025.

畢加索及其藝術作品聞名世界，在眾多展覽和出版物中都有所研究，他是怎樣在全球變得家喻戶曉？畢加索又是如何影響亞洲、以致世界各地的當代藝術家作品？

由法蘭索瓦．達羅和鄭道鍊撰寫的《畢加索：與亞洲對話》現已出版，本書透過兩個相互交織的故事來探討上述問題。第一篇透過四個原型身分詮釋畢加索的生平和創作，第二篇故事則將他的作品與亞洲及海外亞裔藝術家的作品進行「對話」。

本書大膽探索起源與迴響、發明與適應、西方與東方之間的複雜關係，豐富了跨國當代亞洲藝術及視覺文化的論述，同時為日益增長的全球藝術史批判文獻作出貢獻。

《畢加索：與亞洲對話》隨附M+展覽「香港賽馬會呈獻系列：畢加索──與亞洲對話」出版，展期至2025年7月13日。

Born on July 9, 1937, David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth and twenty-first cen...
07/09/2025

Born on July 9, 1937, David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He has produced work in almost every medium—painting, drawing, stage design, photography, and printmaking—and has stretched the boundaries of all of them.
Today, we celebrate Hockney’s life, his relentless practice of and innovation in his art, and our longstanding collaboration with the artist.
Swipe through to see some of the books we’ve published with and on Hockney more recently.

Image credit: David Hockney. Self Portrait IV, 25th March 2012. iPad Drawing. © David Hockney

Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the “traditional” or “...
07/01/2025

Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the “traditional” or “beautiful.” Her sculpture, performance, and photography is radical, provocative, and often steeped in humor, and employs unusual, sometimes grotesque materials—bodily fluids, meat, flowers, chocolate, and compost among them.

Although Chadwick’s work was widely exhibited during her lifetime, attention to it declined following her unexpected death in 1996. Coinciding with a major retrospective at the Hepworth Wakefield (), this publication acknowledges the significance of Chadwick’s work afresh.

Merging art and life, with a focus on her interdisciplinary interests and engagement with education, music, and politics, as well as an in-depth study of her art and ideas, “Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures” is a fitting tribute to her vital impact on social and cultural history.

The book is edited by Laura Smith, assisted by Farah Dailami, with contributions from Katrin Bucher Trantow, Maria Christoforidou, Philomena Epps, and Marina Warner, and interviews with Louisa Buck and David Notarius.

Available today at the thamesandhudsonusa.com.

Images:
Helen Chadwick, The Oval Court © Estate of Helen Chadwick © Victoria and Albert Museum, Lo, Kardum, Maja
Helen Chadwick, Viral Landscape 2 (yellow) © Estate of Helen Chadwick

How far back does a history go? What will we find if we return to the beginning?In “The Making of the Middle Sea,” profe...
06/26/2025

How far back does a history go? What will we find if we return to the beginning?

In “The Making of the Middle Sea,” professor of archaeology Cyprian Broodbank explores how the societies, culture, and economies of the Mediterranean region first came into being, starting from prehistory through to the beginning of the Classical period.

Extensively illustrated and ranging across disciplines, subject matter, and chronology, this award-winning history has been updated with a new preface by Broodbank interpreting the latest archaeological research on ancient Mediterranean history.

We recently partnered with historian and content creator David Miano () who spoke about “The Making of the Middle Sea” on his YouTube channel, World of Antiquity, while discussing trade in the ancient world. Learn more via the link in our bio.

From artist and world-builder Ben Mauro comes HUXLEY, a gripping novel set in the aftermath of planetary war and nuclear...
06/24/2025

From artist and world-builder Ben Mauro comes HUXLEY, a gripping novel set in the aftermath of planetary war and nuclear devastation.

In a society enforced by cloned and AI-bred elite humans known as Ronin, two soldiers—Max and Kai—stumble upon Huxley, an ancient sentient robot. What begins as a routine mission quickly turns into a mystery of galactic scale, as the robot’s true purpose is revealed. . .

Mauro’s thrilling sci-fi debut sets the stage for an immersive postapocalyptic adventure that will leave you captivated and hungry for more.

Order your copy at the link in bio.

06/17/2025

Take a helter-skelter ride through more than a decade’s worth of high drama, hedonism, high tech, and musical genius as told by the insiders at the heart of one of the most prolific recording factories of all time.

Founded by charismatic audio engineer Gary Kellgren and ace businessman Chris Stone, Record Plant Studios was everywhere there was music, starting on the west side of New York City in 1968 and then expanding into California.

“Buzz Me In” offers an inside look at music history in the making, detailing everything from the studio’s first clients and the studios outfitted to satisfy the artists’ every desire to the very last autograph John Lennon signed before his death in December 1980.

Featuring behind-the-scenes photography and contributions by over one hundred studio employees, music producers, and some of the greatest recording artists of the twentieth century, this is the untold story, in all its brazen glory, of how the greatest music of the seventies was recorded.

“Buzz Me In” is out today.

🔗 Order your copy now via the link in our bio.

We are saddened to learn about the passing of Sly Stone (stage name of musician Sylvester Stewart), frontrunner of the b...
06/12/2025

We are saddened to learn about the passing of Sly Stone (stage name of musician Sylvester Stewart), frontrunner of the band Sly and the Family Stone, on June 9th. Sly was a key figure in the music scene of the ‘60s and ‘70s in particular, contributing to funk and rock music like no other.

We’re glad to be able to look back on that era and the pivotal role that Sly played in it through the stories told in “Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios,” detailing behind-the-scenes stories of the studios where Sly mixed, recorded, and created for performances like his Woodstock concert in 1969 to the album “Fresh” in 1975. In it, the authors revisit moments like the building of “The Pit,” designed especially for Sly at Record Plant’s Sausalito outpost, and Sly’s clever handling of the drug bust at his Beverly Hills mansion in 1973.

Here’s to an icon.

“My picturebooks are about storytelling, and my art is generally about question-asking, though they are both about my tr...
06/11/2025

“My picturebooks are about storytelling, and my art is generally about question-asking, though they are both about my trying to make sense of the world around me.” — Oliver Jeffers ()

Beloved for his collection of picturebooks, including titles like “How to Catch a Star,” “Begin Again,” “Here We Are,” and “The Day the Crayons Quit,” artist, illustrator, painter, designer, and activist Oliver Jeffers is a phenomenon of twenty-first-century bookmaking. Over the course of his career, he has tirelessly pushed the boundaries of what a picturebook can be, influencing many other picturebook authors in the process.

In the latest title in The Illustrators series, Martin Salisbury () explores Jeffers’ life and work thus far, and gives us an inkling of what might lie ahead.

All images © 2025 Oliver Jeffers.

Image captions:

1 - p81. Interior spreads, “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth,” 2017 (cropped)

2 - p92–93. Original artwork, “What We’ll Build: Plans for Our Together Future,” 2020 (cropped)

3 – p63. “Understanding Everything,” oil on canvas, 2004 (cropped)

4 - p60–61. “Protracted Landscape No. 6,” from the “Measuring Land and Sea” series, Lazarides Gallery, London 2015 (cropped)

5 - p37. Interior illustrations, “The Incredible Book Eating Boy,” 2006 (cropped)

John Walker’s prolific painting career, spanning over sixty years, should be understood in the context of his simultaneo...
06/10/2025

John Walker’s prolific painting career, spanning over sixty years, should be understood in the context of his simultaneous years as a teacher.

He paid close attention to his students—taking note of which ones would work directly on others’ canvases—and invited groups to stay at his Maine property, on the condition that they spend all daylight hours painting outside.

His uncompromising judgements infuse his work and are one reason he remains an artist respected and watched intently by many other artists, increasingly by younger admirers.

Including essays by Catherine Lampert and Alex Bacon, this immersive new monograph is a long overdue evaluation of the Walker’s work from the past half century.

Available for pre-order and in stores July 15th.

Image 1: Moonlight Low Tide 2000, Oil on linen, 100.97 x 76.2 cm (39 3/4 x 30 x 1 3/4 in). Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Museum purchase with support from the Friends of the Farnsworth Collection, 2005.17 © John Walker, Photography by Dave Clough

Image 2: © Ulrich Mack John Walker at Seal Point, Maine 2000

The buildings that made up Record Plant Studios – West 44th Street in New York City, West Third Street in Los Angeles, a...
06/10/2025

The buildings that made up Record Plant Studios – West 44th Street in New York City, West Third Street in Los Angeles, and 2200 Bridgeway in Sausalito, CA – were just as iconic as the musicians and artists who passed through the studio’s doors.

Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone, the co-founders of Record Plant Studios, found the winning formula, creating a creative space more like a living room than a traditional recording studio.

With new custom audio equipment, canteens, candy machines, showers, and group Jacuzzis, the studios were seductive, fun and comfortable. Kellgren was, as recording engineer Lillian Davis Douma describes, “an artist . . . genius at making ambiance and color and, always, a party.”

In “Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios,” veteran music journalists Martin Porter and David Goggin bring to life the vibrancy and energy of the three studios as they tell the story of every musician, producer, engineer, and track that passed through the doors.

Supplemented by interviews with over 100 studio employees, music producers and recording artists, this is the untold story of the recording of classic rock’n’roll through the eyes of the most prolific recording factory of all time.

Relive the wild stories from this incredible space in “Buzz Me In,” coming June 17.

🔗Pre-order now. Link in bio.



Image credits:

1 - The control room of Record Plant Sausalito featured a Tiffany-glass ceiling. Courtesy Chris Stone Archives.

3 -Studio co-founder and co-owner Chris Stone pictured in 1975 standing outside of the Third Street side of Record Plant LA. Courtesy Chris Stone Archives

5 - Staged photographs from the August 1975 People magazine article show Marta Kellgren in the “S&M Room” Photograph by Elyse Lewin (cropped)

06/05/2025

Available now, “Artists of the Middle East” is a beautifully illustrated and groundbreaking survey spanning diverse art movements and countries from Morocco to Iran.

Discover the innovative, spectacular, and at times politically resonant work of more than 250 modern and contemporary artists of the Middle East, including Shafic Abboud, Farid Belkahia, Marwan, Bahman Mohassess, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, and Ibrahim El-Salahi.

“Artists of the Middle East” forms a dialogue between works that engage with the prominent issues of our age and the ever-changing social, political, and religious context of their creation.

Order your copy at: https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/artists-of-the-middle-east-1900-to-now-hardcover .

Images: Courtesy Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation, Lebanon. Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Self-Portrait,’ 1943. / Courtesy of The Third Line, Dubai, UAE, and the artist. Farhad Moshiri, ‘Cherry Orchard (Bagh-e-Gilas),’ 2008–9 / Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Julian Honer. Louay Kayyali, ‘Maaloula Boy,’ 1973 / Image courtesy of Hamzah Seirafi, Jeddah. Etel Adnan, ‘Landscape,’ c.1990

Out today, “Black Earth Rising” by Ekow Eshun () presents a discourse around climate change that centers the voices of p...
06/03/2025

Out today, “Black Earth Rising” by Ekow Eshun () presents a discourse around climate change that centers the voices of people of color through the works of over 150 contemporary artists of African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American identity, such as Firelei Báez, Dawoud Bey, Frank Bowling, Teresita Fernández, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Sky Hopinka, Wendy Red Star, Pedro Reyes, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kara Walker, and so many more.

The artworks explore complex and intertwined concepts: forced migration and slavery, the environmental consequences of colonialism, the occupation of Native lands, the urban plight of Black and Brown communities, and how cultural practices and knowledge systems of indigenous peoples can change our perspectives of the natural world.

"Black Earth Rising” is also the companion catalog to an exhibition of the same name at the Baltimore Museum of Art (), currently on view until September 21, 2025.

Get tickets to the exhibition at artbma.org/blackearth.

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