Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo
David Mitchell, Sjón, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Karl Ove Knausgård join inaugural celebration of project housing works that will remain unseen until 2114
August 2021
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s next work won’t be read by anyone until 2114
The Zimbabwean writer joins authors including including Margaret Atwood and Ocean Vuong who have agreed to lock away new writing in the Future Library
August 2020
'You'll have to die to get these texts': Ocean Vuong’s next manuscript to be unveiled in 2114
Vietnamese-American author and poet joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in Norway to be published in 94 years’ time
October 2019
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Posh frocks, space oddities and Lucian Freud – the week in art
Pit yourself against Freud’s pitiless gaze, step into the 1920s wardrobe of a well-to-do woman or shoot into space, via Edinburgh
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Monos to Charli XCX, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work to remain unseen until 2114
After concluding his bestselling My Struggle sequence, he will write a work for the Future Library, alongside previous contributors Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell
April 2019
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Pet Sematary to Edvard Munch, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
January 2019
'I've breathed in some crazy things from outer space' – Katie Paterson's cosmic art
The artist who once sent a meteorite back into orbit is now looking for the heavenly in Turner’s paintings, in a show that explodes with moonlight and gamma ray confetti
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Ruskin blazes and the Queen unleashes the end of the world – the week in art
Her Majesty’s Da Vinci drawings of everything from anatomy to armageddon go on tour, the might of Michelangelo is challenged, and science washes up in Margate
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Vice to John Ruskin, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
October 2017
Elif Shafak joins Future Library, writing piece to be unveiled in 2114
The Turkish novelist follows Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Sjón in creating work for publishing project that will only be printed 97 years from now
May 2015
Into the woods: Margaret Atwood reveals her Future Library book, Scribbler Moon
We follow Atwood through a wet forest in Norway as she hands over the manuscript for a book that won’t be read for 100 years. Plus: David Mitchell is named as the project’s next writer
September 2014
Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century
Novelist says it is ‘delicious’ to be first contributor to the Future Library, which will compile 100 texts for publication in 2114
January 2014
Jonathan Jones on art
Katie Paterson's award-winning Fossil Necklace will fail the test of history
Jonathan Jones: Arts prizes are nothing without controversy – but this South Bank Sky Arts award-winning piece represents all that is safe, slight and of the establishment
August 2013
Jonathan Jones on art
Artist sends new moon into orbit for a year – via FedEx
Jonathan Jones: Katie Paterson is boldly going where art hasn't been before. But is her idea too earthbound?
May 2013
Exhibitionist
Rena Effendi, Karin Ruggaber, Katie Paterson: the week's art shows in pictures
From Rena Effendi's portraits from the most polluted areas of the former Soviet Union to Katie Patterson's cosmic installation in Coventry, find out what's happening in art around the country
July 2012
When a young artist meets an ancient meteorite
This lump of iron took 4.5bn years to reach our planet. Now Katie Paterson wants to send it back, writes Vanessa Thorpe
April 2012
Katie Paterson, the cosmicomical artist
At her shows you can hear the sound of a star dying. Brian Dillon on the surprising charms of her art
August 2011
Artist of the week
Artist of the week 149: Katie Paterson
Skye Sherwin: Whether she's burying sand grains or moonbouncing Beethoven, Paterson's work brings home the immensity of the natural world
April 2011
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When art meets astronomy
This sweet video shows the brilliant creative synergy that can happen between science and art when a university astronomy department is joined by its first ever Artist in Residence
