How to Write about Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, art professionals, and other aspiring writers, the first portion guides readers through the key elements of style and content; the second is organized around specific forms (academic essays, press releases, gallery guides, exhibition reviews, op-ed journalism and many more).

Author Gilda Williams provides advice on common challenges - such as avoiding jargon and developing structure - and shows how to deploy language effectively, develop new ideas, and construct compelling texts.

More than 30 illustrations throughout the book support closely analyzed case studies of the best writing in Source Texts by 64 authors, including: Claire Bishop, Thomas Crow, Hilton Als, Ben Davis, Roberta Smith, Rosalind Krauss and Lynne Tillman.

GILDA WILLIAMS is a London correspondent for Artforum and lecturer at Goldsmiths College and Sotheby's Institute of Art in London. From 1994 to 2005 she was Editor and then Commissioning Editor at Phaidon Press. She is a former managing editor at Flash Art International and her writing has appeared in Tate Etc., Parkett, Art Monthly, Art in America, and Time Out. Williams is the author of The Gothic (2007) and has contributed to catalogs for exhibitions at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; the 48th Venice Biennale; and the Stedelijk Van Abbermuseum in Rotterdam, among others.

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