Love Is an Art is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, released in the US on March 27, 2020, through Dine Alone Records.

[7] She also noted songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Vashti Bunyan, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Philip Glass, Bill Withers, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mercury Rev, The Stranglers, and PJ Harvey as inspiration.

Pete Tosiello of Pitchfork wrote, "while she’s scaled back on her meticulous string arrangements, she fills her songs with winding asides and interludes, confessionals which build to rapturous climaxes and end with stray bars or abandoned verses.

"[7] Stephen Thomas Erlewine for AllMusic wrote, "Her songs are insinuating, not grabbing, slowly revealing their contours through the delicately interlocked keyboards.

It may take time for the songs to reveal themselves, but many build to a cathartic crescendo, like the cascade of volume that closes "Future Pain" or the pulse that pushes "The Only Way to Love" to its conclusion.