German artist Tina Berning's paintings and drawings of women are expressive and beautiful. From nudes to fashion pin-ups, quick sketches to luscious portraits, her work is by turns playful, provocative, and just plain pretty. A lovely package from cover to cover, "100 Girls on Cheap Paper" is an alluring yet accessible volume for anyone who loves fine art, fashion, or girls.

4 Corners of the World is a work in four parts. These parts are in public collections in Reykjavik, Awaji City, Devonport and Porto Alegre, four cities edged by water and thousands of kilometers apart. Each collection houses 1 corner and photographs of each of the other 3 corners. Maria Lucia Cattani wanted to encompass a large part of the planet in this work, which is only completed, however, in the imagination of the spectator of one part of the work and/or the reader of this publication. Folded pages.

Dan Clowes meets Walker Evans in this collection of subway and street portraits by Adrian Tomine, whose work readers will recognize from Time, Rolling Stone, Dave Eggers's Best American Nonrequired Reading and the cover of The New Yorker. New York Sketches features 15 full-color reproductions of the beautiful ink-and-watercolor drawings that Tomine began after moving from California to the city.

Alchemy Arts is a community-based arts project in Edinburgh that collects scrap from businesses and households and uses it to create artworks, workshops, and parades in the city. This book takes their philosophy one stage further and offers projects in fashion, home design, and crafts for individuals to make or adapt themselves. Includes ingenious uses for packs of old playing cards (a top hat for fancy dress), old ties stitched into dresses, and many more ideas and suggestions. With the inclusion of American crafters' projects as well as those from the United Kingdom, this is likely to be a popular addition to the growing collection of books available for crafters.

This book is the result of the Leipziger Volkszeitung beginning a grant program dedicated to the promotion of young painters, sculptors, and graphic designers. They appointed art experts to discuss the identity of the recipient and they decided on Via Lewandowsky. Contains essays in German with English translation on opposing pages.