General Art

You are doing it on your exercise book, beer coasters, the bench in the park, the school toilet, in the sand, during courses or while on the phone: to doodle, scrawl, scribble or just to daub is a basic need to express our creativity and sometimes the...

When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nine years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech. The paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, defended the decision...

Taylor is a writer who is well-known for his numerous graffiti works all around the world. In TRAIN STORIES he recounts twelve unusual and epic stories that take us to the strange universe of train travels and that of graffiti on trains and metros, from...

West Africa, 1971. Two old friends rendezvous in Black Star Square, the heart of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, to see Ike and Tina Turner, the Staples Singers, Roberta Flack, Wilson Picket, Santana and other black American performers at the mammoth Soul...

- Every street art hotspot in Paris collected in a handy guide- Includes detailed descriptions with helpful maps and pictogramsExperience Paris from a unique point of view and explore the city through its famous street art. In this handy guide, ten...

With current political and cultural climates across the globe growing more uncertain, a new generation of artists, designers, and communicators are using stencil art on the walls of towns and cities to voice thought-provoking messages and ideas...

Database logic nowadays appears to be imposed as a norm; its inclusion is visible in science, media, social networking, state governing, policy making, juridical processes, and military interventions, but also in a wider range of art practices, including...

What is graffiti? And why have we, as a culture, had the urge to do it since 30,000 BCE? Artist Fiona McDonald explores the ways in which graffiti works to forever compel and simultaneously repel us as a society. When did graffiti turn into graffiti art,...

Pushcart Prize Nominee, two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion, and winner of the World Cup Poetry Slam, Anis Mojgani captivates with The Pocketknife Bible, which builds the bridge between a grown-up book for children and a children's picture...

Are you traveling to Chicago? Or, are you a Chicago native and just want to know where all the cool Black-owned places are to shop fashion around the Windy City? Look no further! From the Bronzeville Neighborhood to the suburbs, this book offers places...

- A biography of Anne Eisner: from her early years and art in New York to the Ituri Forest in the Congo with Patrick Putnam, and back againThis biography traces Anne Eisner's life and art between cultures: from her early years and artistic career in New...

The Ghost of Cleopatra is a work of historical fiction by John Rice and Gail Tanzer. It tells the story of African-American/Native American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, whose masterpiece, The Death of Cleopatra, languished for over 70 years in obscurity.It's...