Katie Paterson
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
Rosie Goldsmith
14, Jun, 2022 @2:51 PM
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
Alison Flood
25, Aug, 2021 @6:00 PM
'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
Sian Cain
19, Aug, 2020 @8:53 AM
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
Jonathan Jones
25, Oct, 2019 @11:46 AM
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
Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson & Lyndsey Winship
25, Oct, 2019 @9:06 AM
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
Alison Flood
20, Oct, 2019 @12:30 PM
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
Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship
05, Apr, 2019 @8:00 AM
'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
Patrick Barkham
28, Jan, 2019 @2:01 PM
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
Jonathan Jones
25, Jan, 2019 @4:22 PM
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
Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship
25, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM
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
Alison Flood
27, Oct, 2017 @5:00 AM
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
Alison Flood
27, May, 2015 @1:36 PM
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