The best children's books of 2018

The best children's books of 2018

5 books to add to your reading list this autumn

Acclaimed author Allison Pearson shares her literary recommendations as the nights draw in From Country Living

11 new good books to read this September

12 Books About Mental Health Everybody Should Read

Help to understand yours a little better. From ELLE

Inside Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

The exhibition's curators talk us through the enduring style legacy of Frida Kahlo From Harper's BAZAAR

The V&A’s Next Exhibition Is About Mary Quant

Celebrating the swinging 60s

V&A to open a second museum inspired by Balenciaga

The venue will be in Stratford

Five reasons to visit the RA Summer Exhibition

It’s the gallery’s 250th anniversary and they are celebrating in style

Books Of The Month: 'Florida' And 'Warlight'

A dark short story collection from Obama's favourite writer and a new novel from the author of 'The English Patient'

See a preview of the Azzedine Alaïa exhibition

The highly anticipated exhibition opens at The Design Museum tomorrow From Harper's BAZAAR

The Instagram book clubs you need to know about

From Emma Watson's and Reese Witherspoon's to the feminist girl gang From Cosmopolitan

7 books to read while you wait for Big Little Lies

Get ready to lose yourself in some amazing storytelling. From Cosmopolitan

Chanel Just Opened A Members-Only Club In New York City

Here's how to get into the Coco Club

There's an Entire Exhibit in Paris Dedicated to YSL's Most Gorgeous Designs and It's a Must-See

*Books ticket to France*

18 books to read before they're turned into films

So you can be the one who says "well, this wasn't the same in the original..." From Cosmopolitan UK

Dali/Duchamp, Royal Academy, review: A sometimes silly, sometimes lovely juxtaposition of the artists' work

Was there really much in common between that consummate, wax-moustachioed showman Salvador Dali and the cerebral, secretive Marcel Duchamp, founding father of conceptual art, and inventor of the idea of the ready-made? Things will be a little easier next year, when the Royal Academy finally expands into the space once occupied by the old Museum of Mankind on its 250th birthday.

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London, review: fascinating and necessary

This huge show is both a visual presentation and a densely worked, heavily documented argument. It is the story of the emergence of the black art of America during the fraught, politically contested era of 1963 and on. It takes in movements, key historical moments across the nation – the death of Martin Luther King (his soaring voice greets us as we walk into the first room), the Watts riots in Los Angeles, the emergence of the Black Panthers – and it shows us the art which emerged as a direct consequence of the struggle to create a black voice, a black identity.

Shaping fashion: Behold the V&A's 2017 Balenciaga retrospective

London’s Victoria and Albert museum has played host to some of the greatest fashion exhibitions of the past decade; from 2013’s David Bowie (which sold 311,956 tickets), The Hollywood Costume show in 2012 (251,738 tickets) and, of course, Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty expo that raked in half a million visitors. 

Could art classes be the new book clubs?

“Wow, that’s brilliant,” exclaims a tourist, cooing over my boyfriend’s easel, as we stand side-by-side painting the view outside’s Mayfair’s Connaught hotel. Who knew that a five-star art course would be the activity that pushed my previously happy relationship to the brink? In contrast, Terence, my beloved, spent his teens mooning moodily about an art room, and has been known to whip out a sketch pad while on hols.

A new Buckingham Palace exhibition will show off the Queen's royal gifts

Put the Palace’s latest exhibition on your summer to-do list now.

Le Sacre du printemps, Sadler’s Wells, London, review: This is the best staging of Le Sacre I know

Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is terrifying. It’s a coup for English National Ballet to acquire this production, another sign of artistic director Tamara Rojo’s ambitions for the company. Created in 1975 for Bausch’s own dancers, this Sacre has been danced by only one other ballet company, the Paris Opéra.

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, book review: Completely beguiling, a rich cacophony of voices (mostly dead, some alive)

“One must be constantly looking for opportunities to tell one’s story,” explains Hans Vollman, one of the restless spirits who’s responsible for much of the narration of Lincoln in the Bardo, a book that’s marked by an author who’s not only found an inventive way to tell his story, but has managed to weave something truly strange and enchanting in the process. Two days earlier, eleven-year-old Willie Lincoln, beloved son of the President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, died from typhoid fever, and now he’s been interred in a marble crypt in Georgetown cemetery. As his wife Mary remains at the White House, insensible with sorrow, sedated by doctors, Lincoln, weighed down by grief, visits his son’s body in its final resting place.

International Women’s Day: Celebrating real life heroes through comic books

On the night of the US Presidential Election, Shelly Bond had just returned from a comics convention in the UK to her home in Los Angeles. The news that Donald Trump had beaten Hillary Clinton to the White House gradually permeated her jet-lagged doze. The next night Bond was at LA’s El Rey Theatre to watch a solo performance by Moloko frontwoman Roisin Murphy.

Art Record Covers, book review: A comprehensive look at some of the most memorable artworks in music history

An insightful, intriguing and comprehensive look at the extensive history of album artwork arrives in the form of Art Record Covers [Taschen]. In its introduction, author Francesco Spampinato – who is currently completing a PhD at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris – explains how records are an opportunity to remove some of the sacredness from contemporary art and can be viewed as the artist’s way of escaping the constraints that are imposed by the art world. It examines a staggering array of covers by famous artists – from Banksy's graffiti for Blur, Damien Hirst’s skull for The Hours, Warhol’s Velvet Underground banana and the Dali butterfly on Jacke Gleason’s Lonesome Echo.

Wolfgang Tillmans, Tate Modern, London, review: Does he really deserve to be taken quite so seriously, not least by himself and this gallery?

Moving through an exhibition stuffed with 14 rooms of the photographs of Wolfgang Tillmans is a bit like eavesdropping on someone wondering about life as it passes by. The mood changes all the time, from the casual to the formal, as does the hang itself and the size of the image, from post-card tiny to full-screen cinematic. He pins to the wall, he tapes, he frames. There’s no chronology to speak of, merely thematic clusterings.