The humble button goes from mere fastener to a place on the gallery wall
Inspired by the work of ceramicist Lucie Rie, Ai Weiwei and other top artists are telling deeply personal stories on a tiny ‘canvas’
October 2021
On my radar
On my radar: Edmund de Waal’s cultural highlights
The ceramicist and writer on the poetry of Louise Glück, the music of Max Richter and the best secret meeting spot in London
May 2021
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal review – Proustian evocation of the belle époque
The potter and memoirist’s exacting study of a Parisian family’s collection of art objects is an exquisite coda to The Hare With Amber Eyes
April 2021
Books that made me
Edmund de Waal: ‘If I need to forget everything, I read Lee Child. Honestly’
Book of the week
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal review – a superb, sensitive account
July 2020
'The nearest to God we get': stars pick the Beethoven work they cherish
Ali Smith does an opus a month, Tony Hall saw Fidelio on Robben Island, and Lady Brenda Hale used to march to his Grosse Fuge. As the Proms celebrate Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, stars reveal a favourite work
March 2020
Library closures are 'violent and vile', says Edmund de Waal
Artist criticises ‘heartbreaking’ loss of libraries as he opens installation at British Museum
February 2020
‘It changed my life’: Edmund de Waal on writing The Hare With Amber Eyes
Before writing his bestselling memoir, the potter and author had not realised that losing the thread of a family was so universal
September 2019
Edmund de Waal: ‘The Nazis banished my family from Vienna. Now we are returning’
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best books of the 21st century
April 2019
A library of exile: Edmund de Waal on Venice's Jewish Ghetto
In 1516, Venice’s Jewish population was forced into one small area of the city. Now the writer and artisthas created artworks expressing a history of displacement and loss
January 2018
Unmissable culture of 2018
Beauties, beasts and a midlife crisis for Romeo and Juliet: 2018's top dance
Northern Ballet’s Jane Eyre will make your heart leap, Pina Bausch’s Roman dream returns to London and the Royal Ballet salute Macmillan and Bernstein
April 2017
Royal Ballet gambles on new talent and competitive spirit to invigorate classics
For its 2017-18 season, the Royal Ballet pays tribute to Kenneth MacMillan and Leonard Bernstein – and brings in Liam Scarlett, Edmund de Waal and a take on a deranged silent movie
September 2016
Nicola Jennings's caricatures
Edmund de Waal
Artist
October 2015
Life on a plate
Edmund de Waal: You know what you should eat off? White plates
Mild-mannered ceramicist and best-selling author Edmund de Waal knows a thing or two about plates. Just don’t make them square
The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts review – Edmund de Waal’s fascinating but frustrating history
The ceramic artist’s highly personal history of porcelain is marred by self-indulgence and irritating grammatical habits
The White Road by Edmund de Waal review – incidents, marvels and misery
The renowned ceramicist’s elegant, even spiritual account of his pilgrimage to the three most important sites in the history of porcelain – Jingzedhen in China, Nazi Dresden and Cornwall
September 2015
Critical eye
Books reviews roundup: The White Road, Reckless, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
What the critics thought of: Edmund de Waal’s The White Road, Chrissie Hynde’s Reckless and Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
May 2014
Porcelain ghosts: the secrets of Edmund de Waal's studio
For AS Byatt, De Waal's clay pots evoke everything from Malevich's constructivism to the poetry of Wallace Stevens. Here, she visits his studio to see how they come to life with chemistry, alchemy and an element of hazard
November 2013
TV review
Imagine – Edmund De Waal: Make Pots or Die; Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners – TV review
John Crace: Alan Yentob followed Edmund De Waal for a whole year – and didn't ask a single interesting question
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