Lens on two wheels: photographer Ricky Adam’s love letter to Leeds

All images © Ricky Adam After years spent cycling through terraced streets, the Northern Irish photographer’s latest book offers an intimate portrait of community in Yorkshire’s biggest city. Two decades ago, photographer Ricky Adam swapped the rolling...

How Jane Austen’s novels got a brand new look for 2025

Bringing together woodcuts, watercolours and silk-weaving, these designs for Folio Society’s luxury 250th anniversary edition are simply stunning. So we couldn’t wait to find out how they were made. When illustrator and printmaker Sarah Young received the...

Art Loves You Back When People Don’t

Obsession often does an artist good. That idea she can’t stop thinking about, that uncompleted project that keeps her up at night — such fixations compel her to create, focus her efforts, and keep her returning to the desk, the stage, the studio. But not all...

Art Loves You Back When People Don’t

Obsession often does an artist good. That idea she can’t stop thinking about, that uncompleted project that keeps her up at night — such fixations compel her to create, focus her efforts, and keep her returning to the desk, the stage, the studio. But not all...

What Does Anselm Kiefer Have to Do With Van Gogh? 

LONDON — Demonstrating “influence” between artists is a thorny enterprise. Side-by-side comparisons can often reveal how one individual or movement’s technical practice or iconography was taken up and/or further developed by another, furthering art historical...