Poor Artists

our book Poor Artists is out now in hardback, audiobook and ebook. It is a fictional quest through the real art world. Using dialogue from anonymous interviews we did with people across the industry, we ridicule a contemporary art world that has turned art into artworks, art schools into art universities, and creative expression into cut-throat competition 👹 get it from an indie bookshop! or a big bookshop! or a library!

POOR ARTISTS HAS JUST BEEN LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

EVENTS 2024/25:

• Oct 3 — London Review of Books ✅
• Oct 15 — Crafts Council Book Club ✅
• Oct 24 — The Margate Bookshop ✅
• Nov 5 — Institute of Contemporary Arts, London ✅
• Nov 22 — Edinburgh’s Radical Bookfair @ Lighthouse ✅
• Nov 23 — Generator Projects, Dundee ✅
• Nov 25 – Central Saint Martins, London ✅
• Jan 8 – Academy of Fine Art, Munich
• Jan 24 – London Art Fair
• Feb 24 – Toppings, Bath

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK:

Legacy Russell said it is ‘an indispensible read’! Nathalie Olah said ‘this is a landmark for art writing’! Travis Alabanza said ‘I finished the book overwhelmingly grateful that it exists’! The Tate’s bookshop said ‘the most essential and significant story of Art in 2024’ hahaha. We’re tracking press on this page! it’s going WEIRDLY WELL

WHERE TO GET IT:

Still in the midst of putting this list together but besides the usual suspects, you can get the book from the following independent bookshops*

NORTH

• Dead Ink Bookshop, Liverpool
• unitom, Manchester
• Colours May Vary, Leeds
• West Kirby Bookshop, Birkenhead
• The Whitworth, Manchester

MIDLANDS

• IKON gallery, Birmingham
• Drop City Books, Stoke-on-Trent
• Lark Books, Lincoln

SOUTH

• Hastings Bookshop
• The Margate Bookshop
• Resident, Brighton
• Aspex, Portsmouth
• De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
• The Book Hive, Norwich

LDN

• London Review Bookshop
• Brick Lane Bookshop
• Donlon Books
• Pages of Hackney
• Artwords, London Fields & Hackney Central
• Whitechapel Gallery Bookshop
• The Broadway Bookshop
• South Kensington Bookshop
• National Theatre Bookshop
• Heywood Hill
• Stoke Newington Bookshop

IRELAND

• The Library Project, Dublin
• Hodges Figgis, Dublin

WORLD

• Shakespeare and Company, Paris
• Hafi Books, Austria
• De Groene Waterman, Antwerp
• University Book Store, Seattle
• Kunstsenter, Norway
• Type Books, Toronto
• City Lit Books, Chicago
• Skunk Cabbage Books, Chicago
• Prologue Bookshop, Ohio

*If you are a bookshop, a talking bookshop, and you have Poor Artists then please let us know so we can add a link on this page

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