Why Snarkitecture look to Georgia O’Keeffe and Eero Saarinen

The New York studio draws on the work of two 20th century greats when developing its contemporary designs

O’Keeffe in New Mexico , overlooking Chama River, 1961. © Todd Webb, Courtesy of Evans Gallery and
Estate of Todd & Lucille Webb, Portland, Maine USA. As reproduced in our Georgia O'Keeffe book

The buried pleasure palace loved by Michelangelo and Raphael

Emperor Nero's Golden House was buried after his reign but it didn't stop these Renaissance masters getting in

Ceiling fresco with grotesques in the form of imaginary sea creatures and bulls, from the emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea, ‘Golden House’, c. ad68, rediscovered in the Sixteenth Century

Trevor Paglen’s surveillance-free safe space

The artist’s Autonomy Cube lets gallery goers go online anonymously

Autonomy Cube (2015) by Trevor Paglen

Olafur Eliasson creates a brick tower for the Lego family

The Fjordenhus is the first building designed entirely by Eliasson and his team and it opens on Saturday

The Fjordenhus by Olafur Eliasson. All images courtesy of Studio Olafur Eliasson

What would Fredrik Berselius bid for at the Phillips design sale?

The Aska chef and design enthusiast picks out his highlights from the auction house's New York lots

Fredrik Berselius of Aska

'This is probably the first instance in the art world where a black person took part in a capital competition and won'

Kerry James Marshall on why Sean Combs paid $21m for his painting Past Times at Sotheby's the other week

Kerry James Marshall

Your presence is required at the Swedish Residence. . .

The Swedish Consul threw a party for Aska chef and author Fredrik Berselius last week - here's what it looked like

Fredrik Berselius and Anders Isaksson at the Swedish Residence - photo by Lauren Silberman/Consulate General of Sweden in New York

Wolfgang Tillmans and Rem Koolhaas rebrand the EU

The photographer and architect are in Amsterdam this weekend dreaming up ways to give Europe a bit of TLC

Wolfgang Tillmans and Rem Koolhaas at Tate Modern, 2017

Fredrik Berselius wows diners in London and Amsterdam

Brooklyn's hottest chef wins over Europe's diners, VIPs, the press and key influencers

Fredrik Berselius with the Rijks executive chef Joris Bijdendijk. Photo by Rinze Vegelien

The monk who made Botticelli burn his paintings

Meet the Italian friar who's one of the worst villains in art history and popularised the phrase, Bonfire of the Vanities

Primavera (c.1482) by Botticelli

Jean Jullien gives a face to a brainy plant

How do you explain plant neurobiology? With a little help from a great artist and illustrator, that's how

Jean Jullien's illustration for the new edition of Télérama

Trevor Paglen’s robot revolutionary

The artist says his portrait of a dead revolutionary shows how tech may come to be used to kill off dissent

Fanon (Even the Dead Are Not Safe) Eigenface (2017) by Trevor Paglen

Viktor&Rolf get dolled up for new show

The Dutch design duo mark 25 years in fashion with a show of life-sized and miniature haute couture

Viktor&Rolf Action Dolls, haute couture collection, AW 2017 Photo © Marijke Aerden

Where Ellsworth Kelly’s colours came from

On the 95th anniversary of his birth, we examine how he was inspired by European painters and American birds

Ellsworth Kelly, Spencertown, NY, 2012. Photo credit: © Jack Shear

Here's Jean Touitou 'trying so hard not to be negative'

The outspoken APC founder was in London last week and he just couldn’t let it go – from instagram influencers to booking agencies, fashion parties ('an abyss of sadness!') to Jane Birkin referencing CVs...

Jean Touitou founder and Creative Director of A.P.C.

Grace Coddington puts her cats on the catwalk

The Vogue creative director puts her pets Pumpkin and Blanket at the centre of her new Louis Vuitton collaboration

Grace Coddington's cat design for her 2019 Cruise collection for Louis Vuitton. All Louis Vuitton images courtesy of Louis Vuitton's Instagram

The man who turned Robert Ryman onto jazz

On the artist's 88th birthday we look back at the influence jazz teacher Lennie Tristan had on his art

Lennie Tristano, ca. August 1947. Photography by William P. Gottlieb.

Picasso joins Ferran Adrià in the kitchen

The elBulli chef’s paintings and drawings form part of a new show examining Picasso’s enduring interest in food

Menu for the Quatre Gats, Dish of the Day Pablo Picasso  c 1900, Wax and ink on paper, 45.5 × 29 cm
The Hunt Museum, Limerick, MG145, © Succession Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid 2018

5 Chairs that matter to the Homepolish team

Awesome and aesthetic seating chosen from our new book Chair by five interior designers with attitude

Steltman Chair 1963 by Gerrit Rietveld featured in Chair 500 Designs That Matter

JR buddies up with Pace to change our cities

The artist joins FuturePace, a new place-making partnership which uses art to invigorate the urban environment

JR surveying the cityscape in our book JR: Can Art Change the World?

Martin Parr’s very British Brexit show

The photographer sizes up Brexit Britain in a sharp show timed to coincide with the UK’s exit from the EU

St George's Day, Stone Cross Parade, West Bromwich, 2017. © Martin Parr

California Captured in LA (and New York!)

Take a look inside our launch events with Theory ahead of our interview with Creative Director Martin Andersson

Theory's Martin Andersson photographed at the Los Angeles store

Why Theaster Gates believes black magazines matter

He's staging a show examining the Johnson Publishing Company, once the largest African-American publisher

Theaster Gates with part of the Johnson Archive

Ferran Adrià will reopen the elBulli site next summer

The chef and Phaidon author plans to open his research lab elBulli 1846 in June 2019

Ferran Adria in the elBulli kitchen back in the day, as reproduced in A Day at elBulli

Massimo brings in new faces to combat London's food waste

The chef cooked up some surprising treats, and dreamed of a time when drones might serve food to the needy

Giorgio Locatelli, Massimo Bottura, Francesco Mazzei, and Robert Chambers at Refettorio Felix, London. Image courtesy of Massimo's Instagram

Olafur Eliasson is opening a pop-up restaurant in Iceland

The artist plans to open in Reykjavik with his sister, serving the kind of food his studio workers enjoy every day

Olafur Eliasson and his sister Victoria Eliasdottir. Image courtesy of Studio Olafur Eliasson's Instagram

Why Andy Warhol started Interview

As the magazine Andy launched finally goes down the tube we look into why he set it up in the first place

Andy Warhol on the cover of Interview

High-speed photo pioneers inspire Sarah Sze's new show

The artist looks back to Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton in her new work, Images in Debris

Images in Debris (detail), 2018, mixed media: mirrors, wood, stainless steel, archival prints, projectors, lamps, desks, stools, ladders, stone, acrylic paint, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

A birthday cake fit for Martin Parr

As the great British photographer celebrates his 66th birthday, we take a look at his best baked goods shots

A cake in Kolkata, India, 2005, by Martin Parr. As reproduced in Real Food

See red (and blue, green, yellow) with John Pawson in London

Photos from the architect's exquisitely colour-banded book Spectrum stand out in a hit new exhibition

Installation view of John Pawson's Spectrum exhibition. Exhibition photo by Jack Hems

Fire Island and Pet Shop Boys made Tillmans groove again

The photographer describes getting back into making music - now he plans to include some in his next exhibition

Wolfgang Tillmans (centre) with his band Fragile

Trevor Paglen subverts classified military insignia

Why does the artist collect secret military patches? And what do they tell us about warfare today?

Trevor Paglen, Symbology, Volume III (detail), 2009, fabric, framed, 305 x 30 cm. © Trevor Paglen

The hidden message in Robert Indiana’s Love

Following his death, we look at how this work evolved from a Christmas card into an appeal to Ellsworth Kelly

Love (1966) by Robert Indiana

Our exciting California Captured collaboration with Theory

We've teamed up with the fashion label to showcase the vision of mid-century master photographer Marvin Rand

The install at Theory, New York

Nancy teaches America to cook authentic Japanese cuisine

Japan: The Cookbook's author shares her knowledge with everyone from Google to the New York Times

Nancy Singleton Hachisu, author of Japan the Cookbook

The exhibition that pushed NYC to the art world's centre

The Ninth Street Show opened 67 years ago today. Here's how it focussed and clarified the city's art scene


Pope Francis agrees with Massimo - Bread is Gold!

We cannot fault the Papal choice of inflight reading - Massimo Bottura's latest cookbook is a great read

Pope Francis with Il Pane è Oro, the Italian language version of Bread is Gold. Image courtesy of Massimo Bottura's Instagram

Fredrik Berselius takes Aska on the road

If you're in Europe here's your chance to sample Brooklyn's hottest chef without taking a transatlantic

Fredrik Berselius with fellow chef Niklas Ekstedt in Stockholm

'And now ladies and gentlemen... Heeere's Grace!'

Did you know that the Phaidon author and Vogue creative director at large is planning her own talk show series?

Grace Coddington and tricky first guest - photographed by Fabien Baron

How Yardbird gave a home to Hong Kong's 'transient regulars'

Chef, Phaidon author and restaurateur Matt Abergel tells us one of the secrets of his success

Chef Matt Abergel, from Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong

The poignant truth behind Kerry James Marshall's new $21 million Sotheby's auction record

Here's why Marshall's work, Past Times, embodies the artist's struggle to place black people in grand paintings

Past Times (1997) by Kerry James Marshall

D.O.M. - Where Chefs Eat in São Paulo when they dream of rainforest ingredients reassembled as art

At D.O.M. Alex Atala has single-handedly put experimental, fine-dining Brazilian cuisine onto the world stage

D.O.M. Restaurante, Sao Paulo - recommended in Where Chefs Eat

Betak turns a Berlin power station into a maze for Omega

And Cindy Crawford's daughter was the star of the fashion show master's dazzling party set

Kaia Gerber at Omega's Trésor event in Berlin. Image courtesy of Omega

However you're feeling today Jean Jullien has a badge for you!

Express yourself courtesy of the illustrator with these brass pins that put a face to every feeling

Jean Jullien's new face badge set

The decline and fall of the gentlemanly art thief

In The Museum of Lost Art Noah Charney explains why today's criminals favour car bombs over cunning

Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1787) by Thomas Gainsborough

Pineapple and Pearls - Where Chefs Eat in Washington when a fennel absinthe bonbon and potato ice cream are called for

The bill is paid upon reservation here, removing the pain of settling up at the end of a great dining experience

Pineapple And Pearls, Washington - recommended in Where Chefs Eat

A bite (and byte) sized take on Photo London

The fair takes in every continent and technological period in a wide-ranging survey of global image making

Untitled 2001 by Daido Moriyama. Image courtesy of Hamiltons

Did Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman share some moves?

An upcoming Tate show brings the two artists together, drawing out some surprising parallels in their work

Self-Portrait (1914) by Egon Schiele. All images courtesy of the Tate

Massimo and friends launch first televised restaurant awards

Founded by Phaidon author Joe Warwick, The World Restaurant Awards aims to mirror the glamour of the Oscars

Members of the star-studded judging panel gather in Paris to announce the launch of The World Restaurant Awards (PRNewsfoto/IMG and World Restaurant Awards)

Want to go vegan, Coachella style?

The rock festival’s food event Eat Drink Vegan, comes to Los Angeles at the end of the month

Eat Drink Vegan

Naoto Fukasawa helps Muji launch its first hotel

Fukusawa’s minimal product designs gild this paired-down new Japanese hotel in China

Naoto Fukasawa's electric kettle in Muji's new hotel in Shenzhen, China

Ferran Adrià went back to school to launch this restaurant

The elBulli chef who celebrates his 56 birthday today, is about to open a new Italian restaurant in Turin with Lavazza

A rendering of Condividere at Nuvola Lavazza, Turin

London's turning Japanese this summer

Japan House London is set to turn us all on to Japanese cuisine and culture when it takes over the old Biba store

A selection of dishes from Akira at Japan House London, opening summer 2018

The Nordic Cookbook is on Meghan and Harry’s wedding list

The Sunday Times reports that the Royal couple have put Magnus Nilsson's cookbook on their wedding list

The Nordic Cookbook

Sex, madness and the Met’s summer show

Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection, showcases one man’s tastes

Standing Nude with Orange Drapery ​(detail) (1914) by Egon Schiele. As featured in Obsession

Sustainability, shoes, celebrity and why a book should be like a magic box - Anna Dello Russo at Central Saint Martins

The editor turned social media star tells an eager crowd why she thinks paper’s still important

Anna poses with Central Saint Martins students after her talk

So why do artists destroy their own work?

In The Museum of Lost Art Noah Charney explains how vanity and reinvention lie behind the urge to slash and burn

A still from the film Le mystère Picasso, 1956. The paintings that Picasso made on camera were destroyed after filming.

Is this Stephen Harris and The Sportsman's BIGGEST book award yet?

The Sportsman won Cookery Book of the Year at last night's Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards

Claudia Winkleman, Stephen Harris and Fortnum & Mason CEO Ewan Venters

Wolfgang Tillmans is working on a World War II Requiem

The photo artist has teamed up with ENO to stage a production of a Benjamin Britten choral masterpiece

Icestorm, 2001, colour photograph, by Wolfgang Tillmans

How, after death, Hokusai changed art history

On the anniversary of Hokusai’s death, we look at how his work altered the course of Western art

Mount Fuji from the mountains of Tōtōmi (c. 1830) by Hokusai. As reproduced in our Hokusai monograph

De Kooning's great, late period tops Christie’s sale

Unfairly criticised when it was exhibited 20 years ago, Untitled XIX went for a cool $14m at auction this week

Untitled XIX (1982) by Willem de Kooning. Image courtesy of Christie's

The posters that populated Paris in May '68

On the 50th anniversary of the street protests, we look back at the chief image-makers of the age, Atelier Populaire

Atelier Populaire's Compagnies Républicaines de Securité SS poster, 1968

Chris Noey and Hank Willis Thomas do Bottega Veneta in style

The artist and The Artist Project founder were on fine form at our canapé reception in New York on Tuesday!

Chris Noey and Hank Willis Thomas at Bottega Veneta's new flagship store on the Upper East Side

Where in the world is this ghostly Klimt portrait?

Scholar and sleuth Noah Charney takes us on the hunt for lost, stolen and destroyed art in The Museum of Lost Art

Portrait of Trude Steiner 1898, oil on canvas, presumed destroyed - Gustav Klimt. From The Museum of Lost Art

Frieze VIPs taste the fine art of Aska

Artists, writers, gourmets and gallerists joined us at the Michelin-starred Williamsburg restaurant to toast Frieze NY

Hors d'oeuvres at Aska - photo Whitney Maxwell, Artspace

Why Industrial Facility treated their book like a movie

Kim Colin and Sam Hecht were at the Design Museum last night talking about the creation of their new book

Industrial Facility's preparatory, storyboard-style sketches

Erik Kessels talks about making a success out of mistakes

The ad man, curator and photo collector shares his wisdom with fellow creatives in Munich, Zurich and Hamburg

24hrs of Photos by Erik Kessels, Foam, Amsterdam, 2011

Pray Tell - Where Chefs Eat in Toronto when they want an intimate setting for enjoying small plates and shareable platters

The ambience is fantastic in this cozy snack bar and the cocktails are on point too. Be sure to try the pizza pocket!

Pray Tell, Toronto - recommended in Where Chefs Eat

What’s inside Snarkitecture’s Fun House?

The art, architecture and design practice will create a weird domestic environment in their first museum retrospective

Fun House rendering courtesy Snarkitecture.

The incredibly imaginative world of Frank Stella's prints

New Princeton show reveals how Stella threw every reproductive process known to art into his printmaking

Cantahar (1998) by Frank Stella. Lithograph, screenprint, etching, aquatint and relief on paper

The British camera that helped Winslow Homer capture the US

A new show looks at how Homer's first camera, made in England, helped the American artist loosen up

Mawson & Swan camera owned by Winslow Homer, ca. 1882. Gift of Neal Paulsen, in memory of James Ott and in honor of David James Ott ’74. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.

Can you spot an Anish Kapoor among these record sleeves?

Secret 7", the art, music and charity show, returns to London this summer with another sale of fine-art singles

A sleeve from the Secret 7

How Tina Barney pictures great artists

Frieze visitors get a closer look at Barney's remarkably intimate images of the world's greatest artists

Tina Barney, Ellsworth Kelly, 2002, archival pigment print, 48 x 60 inches, 121.9 x 152.4 cm, Edition of 5. © Tina Barney. All images Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery.

This is what Doctor Who looks like as Robert Mapplethorpe

Or is it the Duke of Edinburgh? The star of the Crown and the sci-fi series plays the photographer in a new movie

Matt Smith as Robert Mapplethorpe in the new Mapplethorpe movie

Isn't this the perfect crown for Tomi Ungerer!

The French-born artist was made an honorary member of his adoptive nation’s guild in Dublin this week

Tomi Ungerer with his Irish Illustrators' pencil crown in Dublin on Tuesday

The New Museum is heading to London

One of our favourite New York art institutions will host its first UK show at The Store during Frieze week in October

The New Museum, New York

Don't miss this if you're visiting New York City!

Going to Frieze in NYC? Destination Architecture recommends you check out this Manhattan marvel

The World Trade Center Transportation Hub, New York, as featured in Destination Architecture

Maison Publique - Where Chefs Eat in Montreal when Welsh Rarebit and an all Canadian wine list seems like a good thing

This Jamie Oliver backed pub is a popular weekend brunch spot for local hipsters and Brit-food fans alike

Maison Publique, Montreal - recommended in Where Chefs Eat

Frieze New York goes back to the Eighties

2018 gallerists go back three decades, courtesy of work by Richard Prince, David Byrne and David Sedaris

Untitled (fashion) (1982-84) by Richard Prince, as featured in Frieze's Feature Inc retrospective

Enrique Olvera just opened a cool little tortilla place

And if you're going don't bin the packaging - the food is wrapped in vital info on Mexican culinary culture

Molino el Pujol, Mexico City. Image courtesy of Enrique Olvera's Instagram


How Marlene Dumas sees Venus and Adonis

The artist’s new show offers a contemporary, explicit take on Shakespeare’s version of the classical myth

Venus in love (2015-2016) by Marlene Dumas, part of Myths and Mortals, currently on show at David Zwirner. Images courtesy of David Zwirner

Take a look at the photos from our Where Chefs Eat launch!

The great and good of the food world joined us to celebrate the new edition of our global restaurant guide last night

Bompas & Parr with illustrator Emma Rios - photo Bonnie Beadle

Why Usher loves Snarkitecture

Discover how the R&B singer developed a long-term collaborative relationship with Snarkitecture's Daniel Arsham

Usher beside a work by Snarkitecture's Daniel Arsham. Image courtesy of Arsham's Twitter

Modernist Bread rises to the top of the James Beard Awards

Nathan Myhrvold's five-volume baking study won best Restaurant and Professional book at this year's awards

One of Modernist Bread's cutaway photographs, in this case showing a slice of bread in a toaster

Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen: Where Chefs Eat In Memphis and where southern Italy meets the American South

Find out why this place puts out 'the most innovative and delectable cuisine in town' according to chef Ryan Trimm


JR just sent this guy to pick up his latest award

Going to Mexico’s exclusive Costa Careyes resort any time soon? Then look out for a diver gracing its brutalist folly

JR's installation at La Copa del Sol, Costa Careyes, Mexico. Photo by Kai Parlange for Arte Careyes

Grafton Architects find their happy place (and ours too)

Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell explain why generosity of spirit should be at the core of architecture

Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects. Photo by Andrea Avezzu, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Bread & Butterfly - Where Chefs Eat in Atlanta when they want a sophisticated (but unpretentious) breakfast

Bitter salad greens, sliced cured ham and fried egg with gruyere makes for a great French bistro experience

Bread & Butterfly, Atlanta - recommended in Where Chefs Eat

Sterling Ruby on Raf, fashion and 'messing' with Americana

The artist was at Harvard on Monday, talking with the Calvin Klein boss and Phaidon author Jessica Morgan

Sterling Ruby

What is it with Snarkitecture and white?

Find out here, as the trio talk through their minimal look and forthcoming summer show

Snarkitecture's Alex Mustonen, Daniel Arsham and  Ben Porto

The bird painter who helped Ellsworth Kelly to imagine

John James Audubon was born today, 26 April, in 1785 - Ellsworth Kelly was a big fan, you might be too

Trumpeter Swan (1838) by John James Audubon from The Birds of America

Burrasca: Where Chefs Eat in Portland when they want La Francesina - leftover boiled beef stewed with tomato and love

Burrasca is a step back in time, as if you are walking into a 1970s Florentine trattoria according to our new guide

Burrasca, Portland - recommended in Where Chefs Eat

Abbas 1944 – 2018

We look back at the life of the great Iranian Magnum photographer who died earlier today in Paris

Abbas. Image courtesy of Magnum

Martin Parr’s Real Food photos win him another award

Parr's all-too-real images won him an Outstanding Achievement prize at last night's Food Photography Awards

Martin Parr, Taunton, Somerset, England 1998 © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos. Real Food, Martin Parr, Phaidon

The best installations at Milan Design Week

Couldn’t make it to the fair this year? Don’t worry, we'll walk you through the best bits

3D Housing 05 by Massimiliano Locatelli

Will Goldfarb’s 5 rules for creativity in the kitchen

The pastry chef runs through his rollercoaster career in great Tedx talk - and his philosophy of 'making things nice'

Will Goldfarb at Tedx Ubud, Bali

Why Gillian Wearing put a sign on her Millicent Fawcett statue

It bears Fawcett’s words but alludes to Wearing’s photo series from the 1990s - here’s how she made them

Gillian Wearing's statue of Millicent Fawcett, as unveiled in Parliament Square today. Image courtesy of the Mayor of London's Instagram

Bufalina: Where Chefs Eat in Austin when they just want pizza

Sometimes it pays not to stray too far off-piste - especially when there are simple delights this good on offer

Pizza at Bufalina, Austin - recommended in Where Chefs Eat

Massimo Bottura and Maurizio Cattelan's degree show

The chef and the artist just got honorary degrees. Can you guess which one wore a phone advert on his forehead?

Maurizio Cattelan (left) and Massimo Bottura at the University of Carrara. Image courtesy of Massimo's Instagram