Art

A moving portrait of friendship by Elyce Arons as she reflects on her long relationship with Kate Spade, whom she met in college and with whom she cofounded the multi-billion-dollar fashion company as they came of age in 1990s New York.

The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. In this edition, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained....

One of America's greatest living literary legends invites you think for yourself in this compelling narrative of manipulation, power, and the human condition.

The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works.

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser....

It’s an audio compilation of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work and Keep Going, the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stay focused, creative and true to yourself—for life....

David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker’s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.

What is art? Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.

This comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of The Simpsons combines incisive pop culture criticism and interviews with the show’s creative team that take listeners inside the making of an American phenomenon during its most influential decade, the 1990s.

Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

Wild Thing upends much of what we thought we knew about artist Paul Gauguin through new primary research.

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry

James Rolfe is an independent filmmaker and creator of the Angry Video Game Nerd web series and feature film. A Movie Making Nerd is a personal account of his origins, starting with an early love of making home movies before the rise of the internet and digital video....

More of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists - painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work and the choices they have to make....

An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family - adapted by David Lynch from the print book especially for this audio program....

Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show....

Award-winning celebrity stylist and the world's only image architect Law Roach provides a groundbreaking guide to becoming your ultimate, confident self.

The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them....

A former New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation.

Every person is born a creator, but the world has conditioned us to believe that we are not. Most of us are not fulfilled because we have forgotten who we truly are and what we were created to do — create....

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress....

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this “vivid, engrossing” (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography “that reads like a propulsive novel” (Oprah Daily) revealing the mutual attractions—and antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.

This audiobook is a quick and easy guide that will make your video better instantly - whether you hear it cover to cover or just listen to a few chapters....

Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture....

Dan Nadel, a curator and writer specializing in comics and art, delivers the first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most influential artists of the 20th century—whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists.

We Might Just Make It After All brings us on the rollercoaster of adventures (and misadventures) that the best friends embarked on, from transferring colleges on a whim, to falling in and out of love with suitors, cramming into roach-infested Hell’s Kitchen apartments, and eventually designing the chic, simple bag that would launch the pair to global fame. Through it all, Katy and Elyce’s friendship remained unshakeable.

"Government, like Circe, turns men into swine," David Mamet writes in his latest political tour de force. Prepare to be challenged, enlightened, and entertained by The Disenlightenment as Mamet dissects the modern world with enthusiasm, wisdom, and lots of references to movies about the mafia. Once a stalwart of liberal thought, Mamet now turns his penetrating gaze on the cultural milieu that nurtured his artistic growth, revealing how America's elites have twisted our institutions into tools of manipulation.

This comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of The Simpsons combines incisive pop culture criticism and interviews with the show’s creative team that take listeners inside the making of an American phenomenon during its most influential decade, the 1990s.

In Artists, Siblings, Visionaries, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell turns her attention to British brother and sister artists Gwen and Augustus John. In many ways they were polar opposites. But as this vivid and insightful account of their lives shows, they were also remarkably alike, sharing a striving for escape, a commitment to their work and a profound if sometimes exasperating kinship throughout the course of their adult lives.

Imagine this: It’s your big moment. Your novel just gained another glowing review or a deal for a Netflix series. Exciting, yes? How about feeling amazing because you’re consistently writing your novel? What you’ll learn: Write your novel today and feel great as you do it Use techniques to quickly get started with each writing session Overcome fear Beat procrastination Handle perfectionism Create great characters, dialogue, and plot twists Use techniques to overcome writer’s block Learn how to get unstuck Use structure to energize your novel and create great pacing Complete your ...

Threads of Empire is a spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets. Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans, and samurai crave them as symbols of earthly domination. Shamans and priests desire them to evoke the spiritual realm. The world's 1% hunger after them as displays of extreme status.

In How Catholics Encounter the Bible, award-winning biblical scholar and historian Michael Peppard explores the paradoxical role of the Bible for Catholics—a book central to their tradition, but not usually in the form of a book. Biblical ideas and beliefs are more often mediated through diverse modes of storytelling, artistic imagination, and ritual.

What does it mean to call something "new"? Why is Western art and culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the consequences of relying on culture to bring about social change? In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was never designed to produce truly new or original artifacts. Rather, we move from fixation to fixation, trend to trend—a cycle of creation and destruction with deep origins in Judeo-Christianity and the paganism that preceded it.

In 2008, academic and scholar Susan Gubar was told by a trusted oncologist that she had only a few years left to live. Though she outlived that dire prognosis, this brush with mortality refocused her attention on the boons of a longevity she did not expect to experience. She began to think: In the last years of our lives, can we shape and change our creative capabilities? The resulting volume, Grand Finales, answers this question with a resounding yes.

Women artists face particular pressure to give up their artistic goals in favor of motherhood, supporting a partner, or finding economic stability. Throughout her 20s and 30s, Stephanie Elizondo Griest could not help worrying if constantly prioritizing her writing over everything else—from postponing children to living nomadically to save on rent—was leading her to fulfillment or regret. The year she turned 40, she turned to other women artists around the globe for answers.

Our world is full of colors. Everywhere we look, we find beautiful shades that make life more pleasant. However, we are rarely aware of the origin of the colors we see. What are colors, really? Why can we see in color? More importantly, we must understand how colors can change our perception of things, our judgment about something or someone, and how they might be used to influence our decisions, even without us realizing it. In this book, we will learn all these interesting things and much more about colors. From what they are and how they originate, to their uses and psychological ...

Senior spy extraordinaire Jane Ponds is back. This time, she's tasked with stopping a psycho who's trying to take over the world via hair implants. Sound crazy? It most certain is. That doesn't make it any less of a threat. Jane loves her sparkly new fairy hair, but she's not interested in the upgrade that changes colors with an app, much less the super-deluxe version that claims to end bad hair days forever by using artificial intelligence. Jane thinks the aptly named HairBrain Corporation can only be for the birds (and the birdbrains), but the National Security Agency is convinced ...

Grammy-winning artist Kid Cudi took the stand in a Manhattan federal courtroom to deliver one of the most gripping testimonies of the decade — and it felt more like a scene from a psychological thriller than real life. Wearing a black leather jacket and blue jeans, Cudi recounted a chilling night in December: a panicked phone call from Cassie, a confrontation with Sean “Diddy” Combs, and a sequence of events that ended with his Porsche torched by what looked like a Molotov cocktail. Inside the courtroom, his voice cracked as he recalled: A midnight escape to the Sunset Marquis A call ...

📘 Inside the House of Combs: The Explosive Testimony of Capricorn Clark The Untold Truth. In Her Own Words. "If you fail the test, they’re going to throw you in the East River." That’s what Capricorn Clark was told while being held for five days in a windowless room inside Bad Boy Records—accused, interrogated, and terrified. This is not fiction. These are the real courtroom words of a former insider. On May 28th, 2025, in a Manhattan federal courtroom, Capricorn Clark—longtime executive assistant and brand director to Sean "Diddy" Combs—took the stand and unleashed one of the ...

No Cap Tao: The Tao Te Ching Remixed for Right Now A Gen Alpha remix of Lao Tzu’s classic wisdom text. If you’ve ever thought ancient philosophy was deep but dry, No Cap Tao brings the Tao Te Ching into the now—with slang, scrollable vibes, and no cap. Designed for middle schoolers, high schoolers, and young adults, this modern interpretation makes the Tao feel fresh, funny, and surprisingly real. This isn’t a direct translation—it’s a remix. Written for today’s generation, every chapter distills Laozi’s ancient insights into a voice Gen Z and Gen Alpha can feel: 🌀 Stay ...

Colors of Us is a captivating romance that blends passion, ambition, and the beauty of art into an unforgettable love story. Sienna Brooks is a fiercely determined art dealer with a sharp eye for uncovering hidden talent. Maurice Carter, a charismatic curator known for his bold acquisitions, has a knack for staying one step ahead of the competition. When a high-profile museum exhibition forces these two rivals to work together, their fiery professional tension quickly sparks into something deeper. As Sienna and Maurice collaborate to showcase groundbreaking works from African American ...

In an age when studio films, straight-to-streaming releases, and television have become so homogenized as to be barely distinguishable from one another, a fiercely independent filmmaker named Anna Biller reached back to classic techniques and thematic concerns to create an instant classic. With The Love Witch, Biller made a radical statement about how far off the path modern filmmaking approaches have taken contemporary cinema. In showing us what we've lost, Biller shows us what is still to be gained. When filmmaker Matt Latham saw The Love Witch, he fell in love with Biller's style, ...

What if the rumors that Paul McCartney really died in 1966 were true… and the cover-up was orchestrated by pigeons, psychedelic cults, and a sentient record player named the Vinyl Oracle? Welcome to The Fab Façade: The Rise of Faul, a kaleidoscopic fever dream of Beatlemania, brainwaves, and backmasked breadcrumbs. When a Scottish oddball named Billy Shears stumbles into a Paul McCartney look-alike contest by accident, he unwittingly becomes the linchpin of the most ludicrously elaborate conspiracy in pop culture history. Selected by a shadowy cabal known as the Order of the Saffron Veil...

In a captivating realm where cinematic narratives enchant countless viewers, how can one harmonize their faith with the craft of filmmaking? The Wages of Cinema encourages a deep dive into this relationship, drawing upon the significant reflections of Dorothy L. Sayers defending the authenticity of art and truth's manifestation.

The Psychic Lives of Statues explores both the toppling of colonial statues and the erection of postcolonial ones, illuminating how statues remain powerful and compelling forms of memorialization. Engaging with artists, scholars, and activists, Rao offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how we understand our past and present through iconography.

Threaded Dreams is more than just a sewing book — it’s your personal guide to stitching creativity, confidence, and style into every project. Whether you're threading a needle for the first time or returning to your machine after years away, this all-in-one resource is designed to meet you where you are and take you where you want to go. Inside, you’ll discover over 20 chapters packed with expert advice, step-by-step tutorials, and beginner-friendly projects to build your skills from the ground up.

Whether you're a beginner looking to explore your creative spark or a seasoned artist ready to rediscover the joy of simple tools, Color Alchemy is your complete guide to mastering the art of colored pencils and crayons. This vibrant, hands-on journey features 21 engaging chapters that cover everything from basic techniques and color theory to fantasy illustration, emotional expression, mixed media, and even building your own creative brand.

Whether you're a total beginner or a developing artist looking to sharpen your skills, Draw Like a Pro is your complete roadmap to mastering the art of drawing. This comprehensive 21-step guide breaks down everything you need to know—from foundational techniques to advanced methods—so you can draw with confidence, creativity, and purpose.

Brushstroke Mastery: The Ultimate Guide to Painting for Artists of All Levels is your all-in-one companion on the journey from blank canvas to bold expression. Whether you're picking up a brush for the first time or refining your artistic voice, this beautifully structured guide will take you through the essential techniques, tools, and creative mindsets you need to thrive as a painter.

Working through many commonly misunderstood topics, Think Twice encourages skeptics and freethinkers to consider--and reconsider--many shaky impressions and beliefs about the world in which we live.