ARTBOOK LOGO

ARTBOOK BLOG

RECENT POSTS

DATE 2/13/2025

Rizzoli Bookstore presents John Dolan and Peter Hermann on 'The Perfect Imperfect'

DATE 2/12/2025

Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2025 CAA National Conference

DATE 2/11/2025

Skira presents Bonnie Clearwater, David Mirvish and Eric N. Mack launching 'Glory of the World: Color Field Painting'

DATE 2/1/2025

Celebrate Black History Month, 2025

DATE 1/31/2025

JRP|Editions and Tenderbooks present the UK launch of 'Derek Jarman'

DATE 1/26/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Tosh Berman and David Totah launching 'Wallace Berman: Off the Grid'

DATE 1/26/2025

'Tim Burton: Designing Worlds' is perfectly dark and strange for the moment

DATE 1/26/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Tosh Berman and David Totah launching 'Wallace Berman: Off the Grid'

DATE 1/23/2025

Hot book alert! 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' is new from DelMonico Books

DATE 1/20/2025

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

DATE 1/18/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'

DATE 1/18/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Sohrab Hura launching 'Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed'

DATE 1/16/2025

Books & Books Coral Gables presents an Evening with Jeff and Patsy Tarr


IMAGE GALLERY

Featured spreads are from
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/17/2022

Tapping into the joy of Cherry Blossom season

Featured spreads are from Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms, a book that is gorgeous and compelling on its own, but especially inspiring this week, as cherry trees come to life up and down the east coast. “Branches sprawl and spread all around, as if to entirely cover the surface of the painting, down to the smallest bit of space,” Emanuele Coccia writes. “A metamorphosis of sorts has modified their original purpose. No longer do they trace the modular architecture enabling a fair and balanced distribution of foliage, flowers and fruit. The brown lines now crisscross the canvas like the bones and sinews of some flying beast, magnetizing the most motley shapes and hues so as to aggregate, couple, support and prevent them from falling, from disappearing into the sky, into the background. Damien Hirst’s Cherry Blossoms series reads as an alternative treatise on botany: brought into the artist’s pictorial realm, Prunus serrulate—the cherry tree species from Asia that many actually worship, its blossoming prompting an array of social rites—seems to take on a novel shape and lead a different life, its silhouette still shooting up but as if altered. Such a metamorphosis, however, does not result from an arbitrary decision. It follows the rigorous and logical approach that Damien Hirst has fostered in his work since the beginning, while also taking into account the demands living beings impose on the world and its very matter whenever they need to transform these into simple images.”

Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms

Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Clth, 10.25 x 14.5 in. / 330 pgs / 200 color.





This week, we gather!

DATE 11/28/2024

This week, we gather!

Photorealism lives!

DATE 11/24/2024

Photorealism lives!

Know your propaganda!

DATE 11/11/2024

Know your propaganda!

Halloween reading

DATE 10/31/2024

Halloween reading

Denim deep dive

DATE 10/27/2024

Denim deep dive