On International Women's Day meet Sarah!
Learn how the New York artist Sarah Sze choreographs her fabulous, constellation-like installations
On International Women's Day meet Annabelle!
Learn how architect Annabelle Selldorf introduced classicism, utility and restraint into today's art galleries
On International Women's Day meet Solla!
We trace Solla Eiriksdottir's journey from textiles student to leading light of the raw food movement
Wilhelm Sasnal on migrants, movies and The Cure
The Polish painter and filmmaker describes how pop, existentialism and politics informed his new exhibition
You can own a Nan Goldin limited edition print
Share in the touching lives of Nan Goldin's family of subjects by buying one of these three limited edition prints
Kim Cadmus Owens - Affordable on Artspace
Her stretched out, glitched lines of frozen computer screens are imposed on mid-century American landscapes
How Phaidon helped Noma find this Aussie forager
When René Redzepi arrived in Sydney, the Australian chef, forager and book lover Elijah Holland was ready for him
The London playground inspired by a Japanese photo
Look at these Hélène Binet images of Asif Khan’s new playground inspired by a Rinko Kawauchi photograph
An Artspace take on the Armory Show
The best place to buy art on the web explains what to look out for and which satellite events to visit this week
A Chef's Shelfie on World Book Day!
Gabriele Corcos sent us this photo of his home office shelfie. We counted 27 Phaidon books - now show us yours!
Still wondering about Adele's Brits backdrop?
Here’s how a little bit of Yayoi Kusama made it into the British singer’s awards performance
George Condo on his Warhol days (and nights)
The painter recalls his time on the Factory production line and his 80s friendship with the Pope of Pop
Isa Genzken unveils monumental fake flowers in NY
To mark the arrival of Two Orchids in New York, we examine the artist's take on nature, art and architecture
Sou Fujimoto and David Chipperfield reinvent Paris
Fujimoto’s Thousand Trees scheme wins one of the 23 sites earmarked for, ahem, root-and branch regeneration
A history of the modern world in 7 haircuts
Learn how civil rights, war and economic boom and bust shaped the hair on our head in The Barber Book
Take a look at these tiny kaleidoscopic buildings
New book Nanotecture brings together some of the smallest best built things including these playful creations
NASA creates mid-century space travel posters
The space agency hope its Visions of the Future posters will inspire a new generation of cosmic explorers
We join Charlize Theron backstage at the Oscars!
Did you spot the ultimate Phaidon shelfie in the green room at last night's 88th Academy Awards?
Guy Fieri loves Enrique Olvera's tacos
The Food Network star stopped by Enrique's Miami taco stand to enjoy his innovative take on Mexican street food
Steven Holl updates Mumbai’s oldest museum
Architect cuts apertures into gallery spaces allowing exactly 25 lumens of light to flood interior spaces
Modern new look for folk museum
This timber-clad extension to the Romsdal Museum is designed to complement some far older local buildings
Gombrich Explains Renoir
On the French Impressionist’s birthday a look at why his paintings have divided art lovers for over a century
More from the book that inspired Mad Men's credits
Greg Quinton describes how he updated our inspirational design primer, A Smile in the Mind
Martin Parr’s outsider view of Britain
The UK photographer and Magnum Vice President curates a new show offering an overseas view of his country
Take a look at these shiny, tiny buildings
Our book Nanotecture brings together some of the smallest built things, including these great reflective dwellings
A Fergus Henderson dish for National Toast Day
Cook beef mince on toast courtesy of the carnivorous UK chef and restaurateur
Going back to Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places
A new exhibition brings high-fidelity reproduction to Stephen Shore’s large-format 1970s American road trip
How Paul McCarthy keeps the resistance up at 70
The US artist tells his audience at Whitman College that he mistrusts the world, and that we don't see who we are
JR puts a face on the TED 2016 Virtual Reality event
Well, a set of eyes at least. Find out how the artist buddied up with Chris Milk to help VR users gain a little empathy
Massimo Bottura’s soup kitchen goes international
After Milan, Bottura aims to open another Refettorio Ambrosiano in Bologna, then Brazil in time for the Games
A slice of Lucio Fontana
On the anniversary of his birth, we examine how Fontana’s slashed canvases led the way for a generation of artists
The World Press Photo goes back to Black and White
Does this, the first monochrome image to win the prize for seven years, signal a change in photo reportage?
Animating Frank Lloyd Wright
Hear the great architect talk religion, nature and money, in this little-seen, newly animated 1957 interview
OMA make a Prada movie
Well, the architecture firm's design studio do, placing the brand's 2016 collection in a colourful, kinetic setting
Paula Scher paints info-maps of the USA
The masterful graphic designer calls her painterly take on digital maps abstract-expressionist information
Were US artists just as Modern as Europeans?
On the 103rd anniversary of the Armory Show, a new book reassesses the development of Modernism in America
Saving Noguchi’s dance sets
To mark its 90th anniversary, the Martha Graham Company is restoring the Modernist sculptor's stage sets
COS and Sou Fujimoto plan a light forest for Milan
The architect and the clothing brand will create an arboreal-themed installation at this year's Salone del Mobile
The Tate celebrates 150 years of faking it in photos
Tate Modern's Performing for the Camera shows how performance and photos have always gone together
Albert Adrià goes neo-classical in London
Expect high-quality produce, not high-tech trickery, from the elBulli chef's new London pop-up restaurant
Remaking the Dadaglobe
How did one art historian reassemble this lost Dada compendium, 95 years after it was supposed to be published?
The van Gogh copy that became a 21st century classic
Learn how this monumental oil painting by the Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie serves to vindicate 21st European art
The romantic world of Paul McCarthy
On Valentine's Day a conversation about beauty and truth with an artist always ready and willing to surprise. . .
Wilhelm Sasnal - Affordable on Artspace
Damned Youth uses ambiguous text to ironically lament the passing of youth - sounds heavy, looks cool!
Cindy Sherman mimics fashion Instagram poseurs
'Who travels with hair and make up just to see their sister in LA?' she asks. 'They're not even selfies they're setups'
Kim Gordon and Larry Gagosian open a record store
Sort of. She'll host a booth at the LA Book Fair, selling records with cover art by Richard Prince and others
Now that's a pretty neat looking shelfie!
Designer Kwangho Lee curates a great selection for his favourite publisher (that's us) and gallery (that's Chamber)
Rent Van Gogh's bedroom in Chicago for $10
Airbnb is offering this recreation (with wi-fi) of Vincent's Arles room alongside a new Chicago show
Arne Jacobsen - Architect, designer... gardener?
we look at how horticulture and the natural world helped inform some of this great Dane's best-known creations
BIG goes small for Serpentine Pavilion
Bjarke Ingels joins Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi, Barkow Leibinger and Yona Friedman in Nanotecture celebration
MoMA hosts anti-starchitect show
A Japanese Constellation demonstrates how architecture is best viewed as a collaborative enterprise
Frieze is bringing this Mario Bellini car back to NY
The designer's shagadelic MPV is returning to New York City, with its mime artists, courtesy of Frieze Projects
How Gerhard Richter reinvented painting
On the German artist's birthday we look at how he changed both figurative and abstract painting
At home with Louise Bourgeois
What to expect when the West 20th Street townhouse where the artist lived and worked opens for tours this year
What Andy Warhol saw in Joseph Beuys
A new exhibition of Andy's works focuses on his enduring respect for his German 'counterpart'
So what does Naomi Watts read in bed?
Architectural Digest takes a tour of her and Liev Schreiber's Manhattan home - but what's that in the bedroom?
What's Cara Delevingne been doing with JR?
Look who our favourite contemporary French artist has been hanging out with in Paris this month
Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israel host Oscars show
The novelist and the visual artist's show for the LA Gagosian will open just before the 2016 Academy Awards
Álvaro Siza takes to the stage in Catalonia
Red brick building in small town is latest example of the slow burn architect's mastery of simple, austere beauty
Chris Johanson - Affordable on Artspace
The Sunlight of the spirit is the Warmth of Love is the perfect Valentine's Day gift for a loved one
Tokyo’s cloud-harvesting vertical commuter town
Kohn Pedersen Fox and Leslie E. Robertson Associates aim to build it by 2045. Will they succeed?
Daido Moriyama returns to Shinjuku
Photographer returns to Shinjuku to create new series of work for first show at Fondation Cartier in 12 years
How to get a grip on Anri Sala
To mark the New Museum show here's some insight into the best ways to appreciate a cool and important artist
The serious silliness of Fischli and Weiss
Ahead of their Guggenheim retrospective, we explore the sincere amateurism at play in this duo’s art
Why Phaidon is going vegetarian in 2016
Well, sort of. Find out why, for the first time, we’ve chosen to publish three purely vegetarian books this season
A bright new look for the City of Light
Peripheriques Marin+Trottin Architectes hatch multi-faceted, novel plan to deal with the density of urban Paris
Snøhetta gives Philly a Silicon Valley style library
This Philadelphia university's glass, stone and timber building majors on break-out spaces, not book stacks
Art experts are outdated Noah Charney tells NPR
The author calls for scientific authentication after experts fail to stop the sale of fake Pollock and Rothko works
The lost New York days of Candy Darling, John Waters and Susan Sontag captured in new show
New show of the late photographer Peter Hujar's work focuses on NY’s bygone downtown scene
Inspired by Sottsass - wrapped in Raf Simons
Toadstool collection by Masquespacio draws on the work of Ettore Sottsass with (a little help from Raf)
When Danny Lyon met Bernie Sanders
The photographer sends us the pictures he took of the Democratic Presidential Candidate as a student activist
Watch René Redezpi’s mesmerizing shellfish videos
The Noma chef has been detailing some of the catches for his 2016 Australia pop-up in glorious detail
Massimo Bottura wins Chef of the Year
Find out how the Michelin-starred Italian chef won Madrid Fusion's top award for his Milanese soup kitchen
Martin Parr has a thing about sausages and rhubarb
New shows and book from Magnum photographer shed light on enduring (and endearing) food fascination
Annabelle Selldorf talks galleries and garbage
The acclaimed architect discusses her wide-ranging portfolio of projects at Cooper Union this week
Hieronymus Bosch show has some big surprises
500th anniversary show features extensively restored work and throws new light on unattributed paintings
How Ellsworth Kelly photographed abstraction
A new exhibition demonstrates the way the late, great American painter found his forms in the real world
Elliot Erwitt - Affordable on Artspace
The Magnum Photographer's contact sheet tells the story of his most iconic photo and is a piece of affordable art that will raise the cool factor of your living space - here's how to buy it and what to say when guests admire it
Ettore Sottsass immortalised in new cartoon
Italian designer and Memphis founder gets animated series courtesy of contemporary furniture company Kartell
Why Milos Raonic loves Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol
The tennis champ has been preparing for the Australian Open by taking in Melbourne's blockbuster show
Frank Lloyd Wright's $3m starter home
Learn why this LA house, originally built for middle-income Americans, has moved well into seven figure territory
Ron Arad blacks out in Tokyo
Façade of his new D House comprises black patinated steel ribbons seemingly stacked on top of each other
The house that JR built (and then rebuilt!)
Why is the artist spending this month renovating a Latin American cultural centre in a Rio De Janeiro favela?
The classical Pop Art of Tom Wesselmann
A new London exhibition reveals there’s more traditionalism in Tom Wesselmann's collages than meets the eye
A high-density High Line for Stockholm
Could this inspired residential railway regeneration project break ground in the Swedish capital?
The garden that nurtured Impressionism
Get to know Claude Monet's horticultural masterpiece ahead of a new Royal Academy blockbuster
Matt Smith to play Robert Mapplethorpe
The Dr Who actor will star alongside the Girls actress Zosia Mamet in a new film chronicling the photographer's life
Will this cubist brutal building rise in Costa Rica?
Brooklyn architects CAZA propose new congress hall of enormous concrete cubes in the placid capital San José
The art app that lets you try before you buy
Artspace’s new app lets you find shows and browse works - but there’s one other function we’re really taken with. . .
A Mapplethorpe show without the moral outcry
The Perfect Medium will include the photographer’s explicit work but won’t dwell on the controversy around it
First look at the Noma Australia menu
Milk-dumping tacos, abalone schnitzel, Lamingtons and shards of croc meat all feature at Redzepi's new pop-up
Cool new look for Zurich's National Museum
Concrete and geometric abstraction delights in Christ & Gantenbein's new addition to Gustav Gull's original building
A Jutaku-style home for Main Street America
One New Orleans architect finds a distinctly east-Asian way to make America’s starter-homes affordable
Expect Vegemite and crocodile at Noma Australia
Redzepi says they will not serve carrots, beets or cabbage at the pop-up “because we do that everyday at home”
Yet another Phaidon author curates Venice Biennale!
Centre Pompidou chief curator becomes the fifth Phaidon author in a row to head up the prestigious art event
A new studio for firework artist Cai Guo-Qiang
Old meets new as Rem Koolhaas and OMA dramatically rework the artist's New York studio complex
Why Mark Grotjahn swapped his art for shop signs
Learn how the Gagosian artist overcame artistic difficulties by exchanging his paintings for grocery store notices
