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We’ve done it again. Our bookstore is dazzling with cutting-edge gems! With just the turn of a page you can enter the mind of bees or of the world’s second richest man. Drag your finger along the glossy spines of the latest catalogues, monographs and biographies of contemporary artists from around the world.

Young, Gifted and Black. A new generation of artists (2020) R675

This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art. As mission-driven collectors, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have championed emerging artists of African descent through museum loans and institutional support.

EXPLORING EXCEPTIONAL MINDS

THE COMPLETE MAUS (2003) R380

Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story.

Funny Weather, Art in an Emergency (2021) R150

In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.

NATURE ALWAYS KNOWS

Our bookstore is every librarian’s sweetest dream and worst nightmare. How can you logically explain such a vast and incredible collection of books? But who needs logic when the goal is to be inspired, to expand the mind and to lose yourself down endless avenues that lead to all walks of life!