Henri Cartier-Bresson’s decisive legacy
Here’s how the surrealist turned photojournalist created the most important photobook of the 20th century
Was Arthur Dove America’s first great abstract artist?
Why this artist and part-time chicken farmer is the missing link between Cézanne, Rauschenberg and Frank Stella
JR takes to the high seas!
The French artist's image will grace the sails of this yacht when it races from France to Brazil this autumn
5 key points for the Tate’s new Bruce Nauman show
Tate Modern’s Nauman exhibition has just opened. Here’s a handful of things to think about when you visit
Sterling Ruby reworks the Calvin Klein flagship store
Ruby’s new Madison Avenue installation serves to herald the arrival of his friend Raf Simons’ Fall 2017 collection
Liz Diller on the successes, flaws and laws of the High Line
The US architect says everyone in her profession should consider the unwanted effects of outrageous success
What your fridge has in common with this Jean Dubuffet show
On the anniversary of the French artist's birth, we look forward to a new exhibition of his Théâtres de Mémoire works
What Millais thought of Beatrix Potter
On the 151st anniversary of her birth, we look back at Potter's art and the admiration it drew from one Pre-Raphaelite
JR gives Cara Delevingne a late-night French rooftop tour
The artist and activist joined the movie star high above the streets following her movie’s French premier
Does Raf Simons’ new campaign echo this Stephen Shore shot?
Simons’ new Calvin Klein campaign is shot on a road not dissimilar to the one Shore photographed 44 years ago
Have you seen Elizabeth Peyton’s portrait of Angela Merkel?
The US artist has painted a tender picture of the German Chancellor for a profile in the August edition of Vogue
The English paintings that inspired Stanley Kubrick
On the 89th anniversary of the director’s birth, we look at how eighteenth-century art found its way into his work
Pentagram creates a new brutalist logo for London
The world-famous design agency draws inspiration from the Barbican for London’s new Culture Mile identity
What we learned from Massimo Bottura’s new Netflix film
The chef’s new feature-length documentary, Theater of Life, shows how he took waste food and fed the homeless
Is Google going vegan?
It’s certainly trying to get its cafeteria diners to eat less meat, via tasty new tacos and other "power dishes"
Who wants a pop-up, mobile beach house?
A British firm has developed a mobile, self-assembling holiday home, which pops up in around 10 minutes
Did Alice Cooper’s ghoulish live show help him snag a Warhol?
The US shock rocker’s electric chair routine may have prompted his girlfriend to buy a print from Andy for just $2.5k
How a lost suitcase helped launch A.P.C.
Jean Touitou’s new capsule collection recalls the label’s beginnings, with a return to its seminal HIVER 87 line
Barber Osgerby talk travel, relationships and design
In this new video the acclaimed design duo also describe how form doesn’t always follow function
5 art inspired chess sets on International Chess Day
From Memphis to the Bauhaus, here’s how the modern and contemporary art world has reworked the game
MAD’s sci-fi base for a truly futuristic car company
Faraday Future’s space-age facility might help usher in an age of superfast, zero-emission self-driving vehicles
Virgilio Martinez is building a restaurant beside this Inca ruin
The chef’s 60-seat establishment and food lab references the region’s pre-Columbian place within the Inca Empire
These Magnum winners echo the best of the best
Magnum LensCulture Photography Awards show the influence of Greenfield, Parr, McCurry and Eggleston
Have you seen the art of Evelyn Waugh?
New show draws together wide array of the novelist’s little-known, surprisingly expressive and funny visual works
What will art look like in the age of AI?
A new show wonders what life and art might be like when mankind takes its anticipated big leap forward
When Georg Baselitz painted his Heroes
A new exhibition looks at how the artist reinvented German painting to suit a post-war perspective
A sax-shaped tower for Rotterdam's skyline
MVRDV says its twin-tower and connecting bridge “represents musicality, character and elegance”
A Movement in a Moment: Precisionism
How photography, the Ford Motor Company and Cubism shaped America’s first truly modern art movement
A brief history of French Fries
On National French Fries Day here’s a fast-food style overview, courtesy of our book The World is Your Burger
Frank Lloyd Wright's smart plan to fix the great depression
The architect planned to create prefab farming units - complete with crèches and beauty parlours
Can you make out Basquiat’s name in this abstract art show?
McArthur Binion includes pages from his address book in works that contradict perceived truths about abstract art
Did you know the Woolmark was made by an Italian Futurist?
A new exhibition traces the progression of Franco Grignani from the avant-garde to slick commercial design
How Emory Douglas branded the Black Panthers
Douglas's engaging designs have earned a place at Tate Modern and the Design Museum this summer
How Italian family life inspired this artist
Emma Hart created her new show during a six-month trip, taking in ancient Rome, family therapy - and pottery
A 21st century winter garden for Denmark’s chilly new city
COBE plans to carve out a leafy public park inside this windswept block on the edge of an old port
When Joseph Beuys boxed for democracy
A new London show looks back on the German artist’s pugilistic performance at Documenta VI
A Movement in a Moment: Pointillism
Discover how an upset at a tapestry factory gave rise to one of the most striking artistic techniques
Monica Bonvicini thinks Toni Schmale is one of the best new artists in the world right now
Machines that serve no function, ferociously hot metal, psychoanalytic theory - the italian artist says Schmale is the one to watch at new BALTIC Artists' Award show
Preserving Louis Kahn's Salk Institute
The Getty Conservation Institute has worked hard to ensure a modernist masterpiece is restored to former glories
Have you seen Jean Jullien’s summer collection?
The French artist and illustrator has collaborated with the designer Jae Huh to create a new clothing line, NouNou
Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans and Phaidon artists create ES covers to celebrate London's resilience
Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing, and Jamie Hewlett make up all star cast of contemporary art talent
Enrique Olvera wins the Global Gastronomy Award
White Guide praises the Mexican chef for elevating lowly street food and unearthing ancient delicacies
Finally, the perfect scent to accompany our new book!
Commes des Garçons has launched a scent in a concrete bottle - the ideal accompaniment to our mini-format book
This LA concrete classic is the star of this new xx video
Alasdair McLellan makes a video for The xx with help from Raf Simons, Calvin Klein and a little LA modernism
Why this French chef thinks French food is overcooked
Vegan author Jean-Christian Jury explains how his countrymen pack in the taste, but leave out the nutrients
Summer with Warhol and the Kennedy kids
What happened when Jackie O’s kids came to stay at Warhol’s summerhouse? Lots of fun, says to Jonas Mekas
Bad colour is like junk food says Hella Jongerius
Dutch designer and Phaidon author argues for a new view of colour in Design Museum show
U2 screen JR’s new Syrian refugee film
The band have worked JR’s latest video piece into their current 30th anniversary Joshua Tree world tour
Joel Meyerowitz talks French nonchalance
As Joel's Arles show opens, we look back at his earlier photographic jaunt around Europe, half a century ago
How tennis changed the way we dress
As Wimbledon begins, Colin McDowell explains how an elitist sport's high-class clothing hit the high street
Want to try René Redzepi’s new foraging app?
The Noma chef has just launched a new wild food initiative, helping inexperienced foragers identify foodstuffs
A Sottsass penthouse in New York - yours for just $19m!
OK, it's pricey, but then again it is a perfectly preserved example of the Memphis founder’s interior design
Restaurant André reaches for the (Michelin) stars
Chef André Chiang’s eight-point culinary philosophy wins him two Michelin stars in the new Singapore guide
How Paul Klee remained creative until the end
On the anniversary of the artist’s death, we look back at how Klee didn’t let illnes or Nazism degrade his talents
Kengo Kuma's plans for Paris
The Japanese architect’s new renderings introduce naturalism to France’s most philosophical quarter
The elBulli guys just made the perfect beer for Mexican food
Or Peruvian, Chilean or any Latin cuisine for that matter. It's fresh, red, flavoured with corn and is called Unloved'
Our Magnum book has made it to Arles!
Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné has been shortlisted for Rencontres d'Arles’ Historical Book Award
The painter who escaped Memphis
Artist and founder member of the Memphis group Nathalie Du Pasquier adds model-making to her practice
Can you spot Utopia in among this wreckage?
Monika Sosnowska’s new show at Hauser & Wirth LA looks back at a hopeful world that was built, then destroyed
Time to grow your own insects?
The Austrian designer Katharina Unger thinks you might pay over $500 to have beetle larvae living in your kitchen
Why the Whitney is making its Calder show move
The NY museum has taken the unusual step of animating Calder’s mobiles, with a little bit of help
Walt’s first map of Disneyland sells for $708,000
Drawn up for an investment pitch, the map bearing Disney’s own annotations has just been auctioned in LA
BIG, Adjaye and Sou Fujimoto vie for a Scottish bandstand
The world-famous architecture firms are all shortlisted for Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion Design Competition
Meet the same-sex couple who got married 14 times
Two years on from the same-sex marriage ruling, we look back at one couple whose wedding vows knew no bounds
Erik Kessels Fails It in Europe
Curator and creative director shares some of his favourite mistakes with Europe’s gallery-goers this summer
Dan Hunter rounds off his Asia tour in style
The Brae chef creates some incredible dishes at André Chiang's Restaurant André
Magnum’s American Crisis
Here’s how the world’s leading photo agency pictured the US in earlier troubled times
Do you know LA’s Cool School?
A new show brings together Ed Ruscha and others to look at how LA artists approached painting in the '60s
When Wolfgang Tillmans shot Pride
For Pride month we look back at Tillmans’ coverage of the 1992 event and the different ways he’s exhibited it since
Joe Bradley’s not too-mature mid-career show
Museum retrospectives usually mean artistic maturity but with Joe Bradley visitors expect, and get, goofiness
Anish Kapoor dyes this earth red in memory of refugees
The artist’s new exhibition, Destierro, encourages visitors to think about the changing nature of national borders
Were watercolours Sargent’s Instagram?
A new exhibition looks back at the way this master oil painter recorded briefer glimpses of life on paper
We found the perfect spot for our latest book launch!
Here’s why a gallery in a once-derelict London block proved the perfect fit for our new title, Ornament is Crime
Marina Abramović in the library, with the ancient manuscripts
That might sound like a Cluedo round, but it’s actually a good description of the performance artist’s new exhibition
Doug Aitken wants to you to smash up his garden
Why has the artist has combined a hothouse with a live-streamed wrecking room in a Danish warehouse?
Happy birthday Helvetica!
Javier Mariscal, Pep Carrió and friends mark the typeface's 60th with some specially commissioned posters
Want to buy Picasso’s consolation ring for Dora Maar?
When Picasso’s lover threw a ruby ring into the Seine he made her a new one - it's at auction at Sotheby's tomorrow
Elmgreen & Dragset pit Lee Miller against President Erdoğan
The curators of the 2017 Istanbul Biennial want to use neighbourliness to combat intolerance and inequality
Brae's Dan Hunter on tour in Asia!
Discover how, on his East Asian tour, the Brae chef's Kitchen Do's and Don'ts made it on to his fans' walls
Brae is now the top restaurant in Australia
Here’s how Dan Hunter’s locavore Melbourne establishment won over his fellow Aussie chefs and restaurateurs
Why American modernism is older than you think
A new show adds weight to the argument that modernism came to the US decades before the Ab-Exers
Meet the godfather of political memes
Decades before Corbyn and Trump fans shared their JPEGs - John Heartfield was cutting and pasting politics
How Barber Osgerby made an anti-office office chair
There are no levers sticking out of the Pacific chair - a minimalist approach prompting Norman Foster to order some
Looks like JR just made it into the dictionary
French artist joins Donald Trump and Youtube as new additions to the 2018 Le Robert Illustrated Dictionary
Don’t worry Matisse (probably) didn’t read Ulysses either
On Bloomsday we recall what happened when Henri Matisse illustrated James Joyce’s modernist classic
Why this summer is mushroom season at Gagosian
Carsten Holler returns with Reason, a new fungi-focused show at the Gagosian on West 24th Street
Was Eadweard Muybridge the first Silicon Valley pioneer?
On the anniversary of Horses Trotting, a brief look at how tech, cash and ambition first came together in Palo Alto
Pentagram designs graphics for Trumpian take on Shakespeare
Paula Scher produces series of Shakespeare in the Park posters befitting a distinctly 2017 take on Julius Caesar
Robert Mapplethorpe’s two American Flags
On Flag Day we look at his Stars and Stripes photos and ask what they reveal about the artist
Look at Theaster Gates’ incredible record and book collections
New video shows how the US artist and activist repurposes collections to uncover new perspectives on culture
The Sportsman wins Restaurant of the Year (again!)
Stephen Harris’s Kent coast establishment won in both the restaurant and gastropub categories last night
Jenny Holzer’s classified Constructivism
A new exhibition of the US artist’s work uses Rodchenko-style abstraction to illuminate shadowy documents
Dan Hunter brings Brae to Hong Kong
The acclaimed Australian chef joins Richard Ekkebus at Amber in Hong Kong for a stormy four-hands dinner
Bean burger or hamburger?
That was the question being asked in New York last week when we threw launch parties for our new food titles
Looking back at the Pride Flag
This LGBT Pride Month we remember Gilbert Baker, the creator of one of California’s most potent protest symbols
Nendo turns tombs into a fun park in Japan
The Japanese architecture and design practice draws on ancient burial motifs (and pizzas) for its first park
How to get a taste of Massimo Bottura’s Refettorio food
Want to try Refettorio dishes, but don’t want to pretend to be homeless? Here's how you can do it
The altarpiece that helped art break away from the church
Duccio’s Maestà Altarpiece was unveiled 706 years ago today to some fanfare - here's how it heralded a new age
