Martin Parr launches Real Food at E. Tautz
Parr's Boring Postcards inspired Patrick Grant's latest E. Tautz collection - last night he hosted the Magnum legend
What makes Stefan Sagmeister happy?
Watch the graphic designer do drugs, therapy and don a pink bunny outfit in new cinematic work, The Happy Film
A Phaidon guide to the Royal Collection
On Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday, we take a look through her art collection, from Rembrandts to war photos
Is Kerry James Marshall about to take on Star Wars?
The celebrated US artist says he wants to see his Rythm Mastr comic book turned into a feature film
Wolfgang Tillmans takes over the Tate
He'll get a solo show at Tate Modern in 2017 and will also take over the South Tank. So what can we expect?
A Movement in a Moment: Conceptual Art
Find out how a group of 1960s artists stripped art down to nothing in a kind of Modernist nervous breakdown
Get to know the US artist for the 2017 Biennale
Find out why Mark Bradford's abstract works are rooted in the real world, via our contemporary art title Vitamin P2
Could this Dubai tower become the world’s tallest?
The Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava hopes his structure will top the Burj Khalifa once it is completed
Have you met Daniel Burns?
Get to know the mathematician, Michelin-starred chef and co-author of new book Food & Beer (he's on the right!)
JR creates a new world for kids in his hometown
The artist’s Vous êtes ici exhibition at the Centre Pompidou offers a high tech 'model village' of his work
The Insider's Guide to Philadelphia
Fashion designer Bela Shehu shares her favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide
Will this wooden supertall rise above London?
The world’s tallest timber structure has been proposed for the iconic brutalist Barbican estate
One thing not to miss in San Sebastián
Construcción Vacía, featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide, is a fine example of Spain's fight for artistic freedom
Buy rare design classic - help the Design Museum
The museum is staging two auctions of great lots from famous donors to raise money for its new home
The Art of the Map - Leonardo da Vinci
On his birth anniversary learn why he crafted this stealthy city map for one of Europe's most violent rulers
Elmgreen & Dragset turn a pool into Van Gogh's Ear
What does this swimming pool readymade say about the difference between Van Gogh's time and our own?
Asako Iwama on the 'small universe' of the body
Artist Asako Iwama cooked at Studio Olafur Eliasson for a decade - this is what she learned along the way
How Peggy Guggenheim made Jackson Pollock
As Pollock's mural for Peggy heads to London we look at how it ushered him into the ranks of the avant-garde
Can you spot Noma on Olafur Eliasson's shelfie?
Hands up who spotted this picture in our new book Studio Olafur Eliasson The Kitchen
5 Indian garments with hidden meanings
From the Mughals to the Independence movement, the history of India has been captured in its clothing
Have you met Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø?
Get to know the champion runner turned international brewer and co-author of new book Food & Beer
Why Sarah Sze’s words are as intricate as her art
Intrigued? Then come to the New York Public Library to hear the artist in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Ferran Adrià puts Disney on the dinner plate
The elBulli chef teams up with the entertainment giant to create healthy-eating content aimed at families
5 Phaidon artists - 5 great Robert Storr lines on them
As the author/ curator is made Officer of France's Order of Arts and Letters we pick out some of his best writing
Why did Oscar Murillo destroy his UK passport?
Did the artist really flush his passport down an aircraft toilet mid-flight in an attempt to shake off western identity?
Lost art of letter writing makes post office go digital
Toronto Architects RDH are bringing 21st century technology into a 19th century public building
5 things that might help you believe
A glimpse of the rich historical and contemporary design of India where belief plays an important daily role
The artwork that got JR arrested
These faces were only revealed as the block was torn down - here's how JR did it and what happened next
How a horrific childhood accident led Chris Burden to employ extreme personal danger in his artworks
Kids books go on the menu at the Park Hyatt NY
Phaidon’s Feed Your Mind hotel programme gives younger guests culinary adventure and intellectual nourishment
Volker Giencke's glazed orange cone rises in Latvia
Over 100 years after funding began the 'Genius of Graz's' glazed amber concert hall opens in Liepāja
John Baldessari - Affordable on Artspace
In his Double Motorcyclists and Landscape piece the grainy image of the bikers contrasts with the Icelandic wild
Annabelle Selldorf remembers Zaha Hadid
'She didn't represent the conventional model' says the New York-based architect and Portfolio and Projects subject
John Pawson does Jutaku!
The British architect discovered his love of simplicity in Japan - now he’s returned to build a house there
Cindy Sherman's hooked to the silver screen
The artist’s new exhibition, opening in May, draws inspiration from Hollywood publicity stills of the 1920s
Gaudí-inspired house perches precariously
Some people might resist pitching their home on a 42 degree angle - but not this young Spanish couple
5 things not to miss in Milan next week
Here’s what to look out for at Salon del Mobile, the world’s largest furniture and design fair opening on April 12
It's New Beers Eve at Tørst and Luksus!
Ahead of National Beer Day, spend 24 hours at the bar and restaurant pairing beer with fine dining
What lies behind Jeff Wall's Door?
How to get a grip on, and to buy a limited-edition print of, a quintessential work by one of today's greatest artists
How Raphael won his place within the Renaissance
On the anniversary of his birth, and death, read how his easygoing nature helped him secure a place in art history
The man who sees art in a pizza box
This pizza lover says take-out boxes are the most overlooked artistic medium of the 20th century. Is he right?
How our Botticelli writer snubbed Mussolini
Lionello Venturi was forced to leave Italy after refusing to sign allegiance to Il Duce - here's what he did next
The devilish images that made Mapplethorpe a saint
The New York Times's Holland Cotter explains why Robert's hard-to-handle erotic pictures keep him relevant
Another best cookbook win for Tacopedia!
The International Association of Culinary Professionals bestows best Reference & Technical Award 2016
'Mum I DO want to go to school today!'
Studio 505 split in two earlier this year but they've left us with some great work - including this school in Singapore
Richard Serra on Ellsworth Kelly
The great artist remembers being blown away when he saw Kelly's Colors for a Large Wall the first time
5 great ways to get around India
Actually we're not sure about how far you'd get on number 5 - but you'll certainly look cool on the way. . .
Take a look at the Smithsonian's incredible collection
126 million wonderful artefacts, most of which have been kept from public view - until now
Herzog & de Meuron design new gallery for Vitra
Swiss architecture practice complete second project in Germany for giants of the design world
Hito Steyerl - Affordable on Artspace
The Berlin artist's 2005 work Gosprom is today's highly prized piece of art available from Artspace
Foster pays homage to Mies with Manhattan tower
Foster + Partners' new tower slips neatly into the space next to Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building
The fascinating story of the first Pizza trucks
How the Type H Citroën or 'tubes' as they came to be known ushered in a new era of eating on the go
Zaha Hadid 1950 - 2016
Dame Zaha Hadid died of a heart attack today. here are some of the great buildings she's left us
Zaha Hadid by Sir Peter Cook
'She ventured where few would dare, if Paul Klee took a line for a walk, Zaha took the surfaces for a dance'
How Alfred Stieglitz invented the modern photograph
In his uncompromising 1907 group portrait of the poor the photographer confronted life and reality head on
Discover the big ideas behind some tiny architecture
Come to our RIBA talk next Tuesday and find out just what goes into making today's tiny buildings a big surprise
Sarah Sze and Paul McCarthy return to the 90s
The Phaidon artists join Christian Marclay, Do-Ho Suh and others in Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA
6 things we learned from the Mapplethorpe show
From flowers to fetish wear, here’s what we've gleaned from Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium
How a Phaidon book made Van Gogh's reputation
On his birth anniversary, how a monograph changed his standing - from inspired illustrator to master painter
Stuart 'Tank Man' Franklin's 3 fave Artspace photos
Beaches, blasts and branches! The Documentary Impulse author and Tank Man photographer makes his choice
A Movement in a Moment: Surrealism
How sex, war and psychology gave rise to one of art's longest-lived and most influential movements
Steve McCurry 'This is what I saw while I was alive'
The Magnum photographer opens up on his life and legacy during great PBS interview
Lunch is a tall order at this Mexican restaurant
Tall Arquitectos has designed this cantilevered restaurant for a ravine four times the size of the Grand Canyon
What Joel Meyerowitz shot after Cape Light
A current exhibition looks at the great American photographer's summer work after his seminal Cape Cod series
Warhol on Mapplethorpe
Warhol confidant Bob Colacello recalls Andy's reaction to his friendship with the late, great photographer
Look who visited Phaidon X The Met Bookstore!
Edmund de Waal was browsing the books (including his own signed edition) when we bumped into him this week
How Edward Weston went from door-to-door portraitist to 20th century photographic pioneer
On his birth anniversary, discover how he learned to capture the beauty in nature's ripples and curves
A Movement in a Moment: Brutalism
All you need to know about a hard, unforgiving style of architecture that many of us have grown to love
Warhol's Shoes go for twice the price at Sotheby's
And this is how those infamous shoe drawings helped him on his first steps to becoming a world renowned artist
Olafur Eliasson gives a Green Light to refugees
Find out how the artist's Viennese project helps new arrivals settle in, and create some beautiful lamps too
How this Japanese chef mastered Neapolitan pizza
The amazing story of how Japan became one of the best places in the world to enjoy 'real' Neapolitan pizza
You can own a Danny Lyon limited edition print
We're offering two of the legend's groundbreaking photographs shot in the early 1960s in Chicago
Is this Francis Bacon painting an all time great?
Find out why a Sotheby's specialist says it's 'number one of all the paintings I’ve handled in my career'
Olafur Eliasson shows Ryan Gander the art of lunch
The Berlin-based artist explains to Gander and BBC TV viewers how cookery helps make him creative
Looking for the perfect Brutalist getaway?
Fresh air! Restored concrete! Good reasons why brutal architecture lovers should stay at Van Wassenhove House
Phaidon x The Met Bookstore is open!
Today we open our latest pop-up store at The Met Breuer - the Met's new modern and contemporary art space
Martin Parr talks about Real Food
The photographer on his new food photos book, Magnum's future and which actor he'd (not) like to play him on TV
A Brutalist guide to the film High-Rise
The architecture that informed the new movie adaptation, courtesy of This Brutal World's Peter Chadwick
Bowie and Nan Goldin together at auction
Rare Helmut Newton Bowie contact sheet and signed Nan Goldin artist proof go under the hammer later today
Fancy cocktails at this Frank Lloyd Wright gem?
Wright's early masterpiece, the Robie House in Chicago, is playing host to a drinks party every Friday in April
The good and evil in Mapplethorpe's flowers
The photographer's lover Jack Fritscher recalls how, in his flowers, Mapplethorpe saw both beauty and the devil
Bring a surfboard to BIG’s new Redskins stadium
And your skates in winter, all thanks to a new plan to add watersports to this Washington football facility
Anish Kapoor comes out of the dark into the light
He's just bought the rights to the darkest black in the world - now he's moved into the lightest studio in the world
Sou Fujimoto creates timber tower French vineyard
The Japanese architect spearheads revamp of Bordeaux as it opens a high speed train link with Paris
IKEA's Billy Bookcase designer dies
Gillis Lundgren, the fourth person to join IKEA in 1953 and creator of its most iconic products, passes age 89
Phaidon’s new pop up shop opens tonight
We’ve buddied up with the Koppel Project to open our own retail space inside this new contemporary art gallery
Remember this? We've a book by the guy who did it
Jean Jullien, the illustrator behind the Peace for Paris design, has created a playful new title, This is Not A Book
How Detroit’s car industry helped shape its pizzas
Where To Eat Pizza author Daniel Young on how the trays on Ford’s production lines inspired pizza in the city
You can own a limited edition Martin Parr print
Parr's pictures of Christians, street parties and equestrian events, record the changing nature of British society
A mosque for Foster's World Trade Centre
British architect Amanda Levete's new religious building combines Islamic traditions with 21st century technology
‘There's a spiritual quality about looking at art you don’t want to undermine’ - Annabelle Selldorf
On the opening of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel the architect describes the power of sculpting art spaces
The phantasmagorical world of Vasily Klyukin
Has this Russian-born banker turned design dilettante created the architectural equivalent of outsider art?
A truly transparent Islamic Centre for NYC
Designing an Islamic Centre for NYC was not an easy commission but we think Koray Duman has pulled it off
Dada's birthplace to be recreated for Manifesta 11
Cabaret Voltaire will be recreated with a 21st century twist for the Christian Jankowski-curated event this summer
Stan Douglas on why phone photos all look the same
The artist says our phones are programmed to make the same image and little distinguishes one from another
Sterling Ruby puts his workwear on show
A new Sprüth Magers exhibition in London shows how the artist extends his practice right into his wardrobe
Watch the new Mapplethorpe documentary trailer
Robert Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures features contributions from his friends Debbie Harry and Brice Marden
What will JR do to the Louvre pyramid?
He plans to turn the I M Pei landmark into an optical illusion as part of a new show - just how remains to be seen!
Who wants to help Christo with his next artwork?
The artist wants to employ 500 people to help install and oversee his Floating Piers project in Italy this summer
