Art and Design

Recent movers and shakers in Art and Design.
Updated June 4, 2025
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Paris in ruins : love, war, and the birth of Impressionism
Smee, Sebastian
Paper Book
From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans--then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army...
Family romance : John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Strouse, Jean
Paper Book
Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by...
Art, annotated : your expert guide to 500 of the world's greatest works of art
Braine, Aliki
Paper Book
A stunning art gallery in a book, art, annotated spans more than 3,000 years of paintings, sculptures, and prints. Combining reproductions of each work of art with precise annotations and visual analysis, it is an expertly curated selection of the finest art ever created....
Great women sculptors
Clark, Olivia.
Paper Book
As seen in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and ELLE Decoration A celebration of more than 300 groundbreaking women sculptors that surveys 500 years of creative ingenuity from around the world Presenting a more expansive and...
We need your art : stop messing around and make something
McNee, Amie
Paper Book
From Amie McNee, the voice behind Inspired to Write, a manifesto on the vital, human importance of creating, with guidance for all artists in all endeavors, whether they're starting their journey or seeking a fresh perspective. In We Need Your Art, Amie McNee calls artists...
Drawn testimony : my four decades as a courtroom sketch artist
Rosenberg, Jane (Courtroom artist)
Paper Book
From America's top courtroom sketch artist, a penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about her dramatic four-decade career "A mesmerizing look at this rarest of professions..."-Bookpage STARRED review "Readers will be hard-pressed to...
YAYOI KUSAMA
Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
Paper Book
The universe in 100 colors : weird and wonderful colors from science and nature
Thrasher, Tyler
Paper Book
At the intersection of science, art, and design, this must-have coffee table book highlights 100 mind-blowing colors that you've likely never seen before. From Instagram sensation and self-described "mad scientist artist" Tyler Thrasher and creator of the popular Matter subscription...

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