Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well accompanies the major retrospective of Goldin’s slideshows and films. Through sequenced images and newly commissioned texts, the book captures her raw exploration of intimacy, trauma, addiction, and survival, affirming her lasting impact on contemporary art.

Black Artists Shaping the World by Sharna Jackson introduces young readers to 26 contemporary Black artists from Africa and the diaspora. With curatorial insight by Zoé Whitley, the book celebrates diverse practices across painting, sculpture, sound, performance, and installation, inspiring a new generation of artists.

Anselm Kiefer’s The Women reframes the artist’s work through the lens of femininity, myth, and history. Richly illustrated, the book reveals how female figures—from Lilith to the Women of Antiquity—quietly shape Kiefer’s practice across painting, sculpture, and installation.It All Begins Here

Cindy Sherman – Anti-Fashion explores Sherman’s long engagement with fashion as a critical tool. Through costumes and personas, the book reveals how she uses clothing to question identity, gender, and the artifice of self-presentation, positioning fashion as central to her artistic practice.

Nigerian Modernism – Art and Independence, edited by Osei Bonsu, reclaims modern art history from a Nigerian perspective. Tracing postwar art to the late 20th century, the book presents Nigerian modernism as a self-defined, globally resonant movement shaped by independence, tradition, and innovation.

Judith Mackrell’s Artists, Siblings, Visionaries reexamines Gwen and Augustus John, revealing how bravado and quiet devotion shaped their art—and how art history decides who is celebrated and who is forgotten.

Esther Chadwick’s The Radical Print examines how British printmakers from 1770–1830 responded to revolution and war. Focusing on Barry, Mortimer, Gillray, Bewick, and Blake, the book reveals printmaking as a politically engaged, innovative force, long undervalued by the Royal Academy.

Published with The Courtauld’s Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life, this catalogue introduces Thiebaud to UK audiences for the first time. Focusing on cakes, diners, and everyday objects, it reveals his precise, painterly approach as a humane alternative to Pop Art irony.

Suzaan Boettger reflects on decades of research behind Inside the Spiral, tracing her lifelong study of Robert Smithson from a formative book delivery in 1979 to uncovering his work as covert autobiography. The talk leads to her lecture and book signing, Underground Before Earthworks, Courtauld’s Research Forum.

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories is the most comprehensive study of the artist to date. Through painting, comics, and public works, the book repositions Black life at the centre of art history, challenging exclusion and expanding the canon from the Renaissance to the present.

Joanna Moorhead’s Surreal Spaces is a richly researched biography of Leonora Carrington, tracing her journey from England to Surrealism and later life in Mexico. Blending personal insight with critical analysis, the book illuminates Carrington’s art, relationships, and lasting influence on 20th-century art.

My Life Through Art, Volume One is Alice Lenkiewicz’s intimate memoir-archive, tracing a life lived inside making. With 240 images, it blends memory, writing, and process, refusing to separate art from life.

Helen Chadwick’s first critical biography and major retrospective restore her as a feminist visionary. From In the Kitchen to Piss Flowers, the book reveals how her radical use of organic materials challenged body politics and reshaped contemporary art.

Paul Gough’s illustrated study shifts focus from Banksy’s anonymity to the work itself, reading his stencils, interventions, and spectacles as sharp cultural acts shaped by politics, media, and the contradictions of the art market.