Unicorn Press

We all consume architecture – it’s the one art-form we can’t avoid. So it’s hardly surprising that the finest writers have applied their minds to it. Most of them aren’t architects, but their powers of perception are such that what they say gets under...

describes himself first and foremost as a sculptor and his trademark is a celebration of colour, in whatever medium he is working in, with the primary aim to create beauty or bring joy. Told in his own words, in response to questions from the writer and art critic...

The painter and collagist Wilfred Avery (1926-2016) tackled just two subjects in his career: landscape and the male body. A sixty-year investigation into both developed out of his fascination with the unconscious mind as well as an exploration (and acceptance) of his own sexuality....

Countless dollars of art are stolen or looted every year, yet governments often consider art theft a luxury problem. With limited public law enforcement, what prevents thieves, looters and organised criminal gangs from flooding the market with stolen art? How can theft victims get...

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and its charity CW+ have been pioneers in the Arts and Health field for over 25 years. By bringing music, performance and the visual arts into the hospital, they have created an extraordinary environment and transformed the experience of countless...

Rare & Collectible For years, Chinese photographer Zhong Weixing has been dedicated to shooting the very best portraits of international masters of photography. Through his lens he has captured the faces of many of the world's foremost contemporary photographers, including Sebastião Salgado, William Klein,...

Starting in 1966, Thea Porter designed clothes for the rich and famous for nearly two decades. Her creations were made from sumptuous fabrics that drew inspiration from the Middle East, combining richly patterned silks with antique fabrics. Her clothes were a must for music...

Rare & Collectible Many of the most inspiring characters in comics and graphic novels began their epic journeys as orphaned or abandoned children. In these stories, the loss of a parent inflicts challenges that even superpowers cannot easily resolve. For over a century and...

Bob Mazzer, born in 1948 in the East End of London, has lived both in and out of London since the late '60s, and his East End roots are a key ingredient of his work and character. He was given his first camera, an...

Coinciding with the iconic magazine’s fiftieth anniversary, Time Out: 50 years, 50 covers draws on Time Out’s incredible archive of front pages and the stories behind them. Via 50 stunning, arresting, beautiful and bizarre magazine covers, from its first issue in 1968 to 2018, this book...

What started as a personal project, photographing a few artists whose work he admired,developed into a major undertaking when Dennis Toff realised that no single painting or series of images had been produced which attempted to include all of a current membership or group...

An illustrated history and portrait of the Jerwood Foundation, a major UK funder of arts, education and science. This is a very readable history of enterprise, inspired investment decisions and enthusiastic support of the arts with strategic funding. But more than that, it can be...

This is Dennis Toff's second book of portraits of the members of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Academicians. Together with the first book, The Painter RAs, it completed his project to produce a record of the membership in 2008. At the time there...