Make Live Art!

Inspired by the boundless imagination of author David Mitchell comes a day of interactive, innovative art. Join Sceptre and Subject to Change in the top gallery at Candid Arts Trust and participate in the construction of your own miniature community.

Jonathan Jones on The Lost Battles

Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. Author Jonathan Jones discusses his new book The Lost Battles.

April non-fiction round-up – part one

Part one of our selection of fantastic non-fiction releases from April – from the West Coast of American to Africa, from Nelson Mandela to Bonnie and Clyde, there’s something here for all tastes.

Jonathan Jones on Michaelangelo and Leonardo’s great rivalry

Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. Here, Jonathan Jones talks about their great, and barely documented, rivalry, which is addressed in his new book The Lost Battles.

Art on an envelope from big name authors

A host of literary figures, including John le Carré and Andrew Motion, are helping to raise thousands of pounds for the National Literacy Trust by customising envelopes to create unique works of art for the public to buy.

Sarah Hall on How to Paint a Dead Man

Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man, her fourth novel, is one of the thirteen books longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize. She talks to George Miller about the process of creating her latest work.

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