Art and Design

Recent movers and shakers in Art and Design.
Updated March 26, 2026
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Art Work: On the Creative Life
Sally Mann
Paper Book
"A big and beautiful gift-worthy holiday art book" (New York Times), this new bookby artist Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process, is now a New York Times bestseller. "Erudite, frank,...
Great Art Explained: The Stories Behind the World's Greatest Masterpieces
James Payne
Paper Book
'James Payne's YouTube Channel "Great Art Explained" gained a huge and appreciative worldwide audience. This beautifully put-together book is simply the best introduction to the lifelong pleasure and rewards of looking at pictures since Gombrich. An instant classic' Stephen Fry
Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
Elaine Sciolino
Paper Book
The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress. Exploring galleries,...
Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age
Henry Wiencek
Paper Book
How the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens transcended scandal to enrich their times.Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur--the creator of landmark buildings that elevated American architecture to new heights. Augustus Saint...
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
Anika Burgess
Paper Book
Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous--and many of the innovators,...
The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris
Jennifer Dasal
Paper Book
"Through masterful research and sparkling prose, The Club feels like an exclusive invitation to a Parisian enclave during an era of artistic and social transformation." -Michael Finkel, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Art Thief A...
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
Brian Eno
Paper Book
Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated,...
Draw Your Adventures: Making Art to Celebrate Everyday Experiences and Travels Near and Far
Samantha Dion Baker
Paper Book
Capture the details of your unique and remarkable experiences with this illustrated guide to drawing your travels and adventures, whether close to home or around the world. In Draw Your Adventures, artist and illustrator Samantha Dion Baker invites you to savor moments and...
Dear New York
Brandon Stanton
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE ULTIMATE UPLIFTING GIFT BOOK OF THE YEAR Dear New York is a breathtaking new book from the #1 bestselling author of Humans of New York and one of the great storytellers of our time. Dear New...
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland―A True Account of Her Fight Against Art theft and Tyranny in WWII Paris
Michelle Young
Paper Book
A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, THE ART SPY uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West. On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position...
The Forever Home: Classic, Clever Design to Help You Put Down Roots
Mikel Welch
Paper Book
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . This stunning, easy-to-follow design book shows homeowners and renters how to maximize their budget and create a space that is functional, timeless, and uniquely their own-from the co-host of Netflix's Hack My Home and in-house design expert...
Reflections: On Cinematography
Roger Deakins
Paper Book
From a two-time Academy Award winner widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time--a one-of-a-kind visual memoir, telling his life's story by way of his iconic, beloved films. Cinematography is both an art and science--capturing motion requires a...
The Great Chinese Art Heist: Imperialism, Organized Crime, and the Hidden Story of China's Stolen Artistic Treasures
Ralph Pezzullo
Paper Book
The extraordinary story of the theft of priceless Chinese antiques around the world and the connection to crimes spanning more than two centuries--with present-day implications. For the past decade, the art world has been rocked by a series of very costly and elaborately planned...
Art Fraud: 50 Fakes That Fooled the Art World
Susie Hodge
Paper Book
Step inside the astonishing world of art forgery, where masterpieces are faked, fortunes are made, and almost no one is who they seem. Art Fraud reveals the true stories behind some of the greatest scams in art history, where con artists forged their way to fame, fortune or infamy. ...
The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s
Paul Elie
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times | Named an Essential Read by The New Yorker This enthralling group portrait brings to life a moment when popular culture became the site of religious strife--strife that set the...
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent, From the Bestselling Author of ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost’
Iain Pears
Paper Book
Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet Union, and the even stranger world...
The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
Paul Fischer
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Riveting, grade A smack for cinema junkies...Fischer's writing pulsates." --Steven Soderbergh, filmmaker The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries--Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg...
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
Nicole Nehrig
Paper Book
Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting--throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating...
Birth Flower Embroidery: A Month-by-Month Celebration of Floral Embroidery
Amy L. Frazer
Create personalized, floral embroidery projects with Birth Flower Embroidery, featuring unique designs for every month's birth flowers. Celebrate every month of the year with stunning floral embroidery patterns in Birth Flower Embroidery. This beautifully curated...
Stories From a Stranger: Every person has a story.
Hunter Prosper
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A collection of one hundred deeply personal stories--covering love and heartbreak, growth and resilience--brought to life by the creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @HunterProsper. Every person has a...
Patchwork Granny Square Blankets: Learn to Crochet Quilt-Inspired Throws, Home Décor & More
Anita Gibney
Paper Book
Patchwork Granny Square Blankets combines classic granny square motifs with quilt block design to create colorful and unique patchwork blankets for every home.
The Harmonious Home: Designing Peaceful, Personal Spaces Inspired by Nature
Rebecca Atwood
Paper Book
A holistic approach to creating a home using the colors, patterns, and textures found in the natural world, from the author of Living with Color and Living with Pattern. Hailed by Vogue for her "approachable patterns and textiles" Rebecca Atwood shares a new...
Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life
Mason Currey
Paper Book
"Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age." --Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work...
Albrecht Durer: His Life and Works: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist and his Context, with a Gallery of his Paintings and Drawings
Rosalind Ormiston
Paper Book
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), Renaissance genius - artist, poet, writer, and theorist - was acknowledged across Europe. He was praised as the Apelles Germaniae ('German Apelles'), honoured by noble patronage, commissioned by the Elector of Saxony, Frederick the Wise and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I...
Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future
Caitlin Vincent
Paper Book
Blunt, irreverent, and at times wittily subversive, Opera Wars spotlights opera's colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic future. Drawing on interviews with dozens of opera...

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