Books Recommended by Famous Artists

When contemporary visual artist Ai Weiwei was just a year old, his family was exiled to a labor camp in…

Pioneering fashion journalist and longtime creative director and editor-at-large for Vogue André Leon Talley passed away yesterday at the age…

Multihyphenate mega-talent Michaela Coel first came to fame in 2015, when she adapted her one-woman show into the darkly comic…

Widely considered the most important children’s book illustrator of the 20th century, Maurice Sendak upended the staid and sanitized tradition…

In his short life, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a graffiti poet, political painter, and pop icon whose cult status and cultural…

Over a career spanning more than 40 years, world-famous magician David Copperfield has amassed 21 Emmy Awards, 11 Guinness World…

The multi-hyphenate Miranda July has been weaving together film, fiction, monologue, mixed media, and live performance art since her ’90s…

Russian feminist collective and punk rock group Pussy Riot gained global notoriety nearly a decade ago, when they staged a…

As the raconteuring half of magic duo Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette has dazzled and disoriented audiences since the mid-70s.…

Glamour icon, ’40s fashion sensation, and cabaret queen Dita Von Teese has spent three decades on stage, perfecting her Old…