How was 2014 for Bob Nickas?
The great New York critic and curator delighted in the Optical Unconscious but despaired in Cooper Union
Gombrich Explains Edvard Munch
The Norwegian painter, born today, 12 December, in 1863, detached fine art from its conventions, to great effect
How was 2014 for Alex Katz?
How wraparound landscapes, billboards and regular gallery going all inspired the New York painter this year
Is this the smartest railway ticket office ever?
Designed to look like a jewel, the greenest building in Sweden breaks ground in the new year
Reviewers love Phaidon's Christmas crackers
In the run up to the festive season, we’d like to share some of the praise our titles have garnered across the world
How was 2014 for Martin Parr?
A beach in Benidorm, the film Leviathan and the City of London all inspired the photographer and Phaidon author
Gary Nader's Latin American Art Museum unveiled
FR-EE's irregularly stacked floor plates will each accommodate around 25 of the collector's sculptures
How was 2014 for Stephen Shore?
The legendary New York photographer on Instagram, Anselm Kiefer and what's coming next
One thing not to miss in Berlin
The city is finding fresh, refined ways to engage with its past according to our new Wallpaper* City Guide app
Photographer commissions 'Dracula castle' in Seoul
Does Seoul's SangSang Museum capture the spirit of the famous vampire, as Moon Hoon architects intended?
How was 2014 for Tomi Ungerer?
The octogenarian artist, illustrator and author takes a look back at this and reveals what's happening next
What did Éric Kayser bake for Cambodia?
When he opened his Phnom Penh branch, the baker and Phaidon author added a hot, local surprise to menu
Jockum Nordström's Muse Music
The Swedish artist on the punk, classical, gypsy and blues music that inspired his new David Zwirner show
John Pawson’s pared-back furniture range
It might look modern, but the noted British designer says his new table and bench collection is, in a sense, medieval
Oh Ettore, put it away!
What drove Sottsass to create a vase shaped like this, and why has BD reissued a gold version of it?
The 2015 Serpentine Pavilion architects in 3 works
Want to know about SelgasCano, who'll be doing next year's Serpentine Pavilion? Let the Phaidon Atlas guide you
How Danny Lyon spent New Year's Eve 1966
Great photos, all shot on one night, go on show at Atlantic Avenue subway station later this week
What else is happening at Art Basel Miami Beach?
Leo DiCaprio, Miley Cyrus, $3 billion-worth of art, and a pop-up sanitarium: it's looking like a vintage year. . .
Dive into Warhol in Miami
Your chance to buy an Andy Warhol that's only had one previous owner - Andy himself!
Would you live in this Japanese underwater city?
The Shimizu Corporation believes its Ocean Spiral proposal could overcome key urban challenges
Memo to art forgers - don’t flaunt it in a submarine
John Re could face 20 years in jail after allegedly pimping out his sub on forged Pollocks and de Koonings
How Renoir captured the countryside in the city
The painter, who died 95 years ago today, used new paint technology to depict Paris as it changed
How to understand this year’s Turner Prize winner
Duncan Campbell’s film essay It for Others is complex, but you can get your head round it via these Phaidon books
Martin Parr's Italian roadtrip
What happened when the Magnum and Phaidon photographer visited the Amalfi coast?
Gombrich Explains the Death of Marat
Lady Gaga recreates the French Revolution work at Art Basel, what does our legendary art historian think of it?
Olga Chernysheva's spheres of influence
Contemporary Russia as seen through the eyes of one of the last generation of artists to grow up in the Soviet Union
Andean volcano gets high tech viewing platform
Smart architectural intervention gives viewers the sensation of flight
Have you seen Cornell's bright new Gates Hall?
Take a look at this - another beautiful academic building from Morphosis, the firm behind 41 Cooper Square
Phaidon Outtakes #4 Massimo Bottura and poetry
Spend a little time in contemplation, and “the 25 cent glass can become a piece of art" says our skinny Italian chef
Gratuitous sex, death and Guy Bourdin
Why did the photographer only find true fame after his death? Our iBook author Alison Gingeras has the answer
Gombrich Explains Michelangelo
As the V&A prepares its cast of David for display, we look at why the human form held no secrets for the sculptor
Three things not to miss at Design Miami
A virtual coral reef, a celebration of Sottsass and Le Corbusier’s student digs all feature at next month’s fair
Jane Hornby’s failsafe Pumpkin Pie recipe
Our What To Bake expert offers a Brit view of Thanksgiving and remembers previous celebrations
Phaidon Outtakes #3 Massimo and the mozzarella
Our Skinny Chef has reinvented Italian cuisine, but he still delights in the arrival of some simple produce
War's effect on peace is examined in new Tate show
Tate Modern curator Shoair Mavlian talks us through the new exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography
Luisa Lambri opens a window into her soul
Shooting Space photographer makes herself comfortable in other people's homes - then photographs the results
The quiet rise of the photo fair photographer
The Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey on the artists who get ahead by working the circuit
One thing not to miss in Amsterdam
Set in a 20's greenhouse De Kas is one of many highlights in our newly released Wallpaper* City Guide app
How Toulouse-Lautrec mixed high art and low life
On the painter's birthday, learn how he made cabaret girls and prostitutes a worthy subject for fine art
Desert Modern Style celebrated in Palm Springs
New Architecture and Design Center housed in Marmol Radziner-restored E. Stewart Williams building
Gombrich Explains René Magritte
The surrealist, born on this day in 1898, didn’t break with artistic techniques, he employed them on his dreams
More than one Margarita at the ambassador's house
We launched Mexico The Cookbook at a select food and drinks party last night, here's what happened
Like clear answers? Then don't look at abstract art
A new Italian study suggests that a desire for ‘cognitive closure’ might limit our appreciation of abstract works
Rem Koolhaas building remade as a wardrobe
Naihan Li recreates iconic Beijing CCTV building as 1:100-scale rosewood cupboard - peak irony reached
Baz Luhrmann’s Art Basel Miami Beach booth
Why has the director teamed up with British music producer Nellee Hooper to host a stand at next month’s art fair?
Baby it's (really) cold outside!
How Emilio Pucci, born 100 years ago today, brought style to the slopes - and the city
Phaidon Outtakes #2 Bottura and the beautiful game
Could our skinny Italian chef have found fame on the football pitch, rather than in the 50 Best Restaurants list?
The Anatomy of an Album
Graphic designer Duane Dalton's pet project sees him reducing over 75 albums to their core elements
Ed Ruscha's road rage
Does this new set of paintings signal the end of the great American painter's love of the open road?
An Athens Modernist icon is reborn
Having languished for years, Greece's Doxiadis Building gets a sympathetic makeover and a new name
Phaidon Outtakes #1 Massimo Bottura on Picasso
Our Skinny Italian Chef tells a strange tale involving the painter, hare blood and Gertrude Stein
Photos that changed the world #8 Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple, Paris
On the anniversary of his birth, a look at how Daguerre took the first picture to feature a human
The coolest architectural drawings are in The Atlas
Online architectural resource focuses on architectural drawings changing the nature of building today
Dexter Dalwood's Muse Music
How artists as diverse as Lou Reed, Kanye West and Bach influence and inspire the painter's work
One thing not to miss in Riga
The National Library of Latvia is one of many highlights in our newly released Wallpaper* City Guide app
How Noguchi put eastern beauty into western design
On the anniversary of his birth, learn how the designer introduced Zen-like simplicity to western living rooms
Claude Monet and the birth of Impressionism
On the anniversary of his birth a reassessment of the public reaction to impressionism and the artist's role in it
Tadao Ando's thatched art retreat
The Pritzker laureate pairs Mexican vernacular building techniques with his signature concrete castings
The FT’s new font is on the money
New Zealand’s Klim Type Foundry overcomes traditional newsprint typography problems with new font Financier
Who to catch where at Paris Photo
The fair previews today, here's where to see Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, Roger Ballen, Martin Parr, et al
Watch Ferran Adrià at the FT dinner in New York
Last month Ferran hosted an FT dinner at Daniel Hum's Eleven Madison Park, here are the highlights
Introducing the new breed of photo manipulators
Our Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey on why he admires those who do more than just release the shutter
Our Design Classics App is back!
And to celebrate we focus on one of the 1000 timeless designs in it - Dieter Rams' 606 Universal Shelving System
Auguste Rodin’s battle with Balzac
On the anniversary of the sculptor’s birth we look at the botched commission that became a great work
Massimo Bottura drops the lemon tart on the BBC
For his Saturday Kitchen appearance the chef and Phaidon author prepared his infamous, deconstructed dessert
Ice cube refuge proposed for Slovak mountains
Atelier 8000 joins the likes of Hadid, Zumthor and Fantastic Norway in proposing eye-popping mountain retreat
What happened when Brazil took on Modernism
How a naïve, colourful, art movement created a counterpoint to the prevailing style of the military dictatorship
Photos that changed the world #7 Telephone Booth
Lee Friedlander's 1963 photo characterised the present as a mere staging point thus capturing the flux of the 1960s
Herzog & de Meuron design Israel’s national library
Sweeping curve of stone above four subterranean floors will nestle alongside the 1960s Knesset building
Can Dagarslani's search for identity
Istanbul-based architect says latest photo series is not about the people but the architectural spaces they're in
One Thing Not To Miss In Manila
The tetrahedral Church of the Gesù is one of many highlights in our Wallpaper* City Guide app released today
Piet Oudolf on The High Line and restoring prairies
The New Perennial Movement cultivator and discerning gallerist's go to gardener talks us through his life and times
Gombrich Explains Hogarth
On the anniversary of his birth we find out about the 'A Rake’s Progress' creator's appeal to Puritans
Massimo Bottura takes over Shake Shack London
Famous chefs, food critics and a rescue dog named Ginger brave a chilly Covent Garden to try The Emilia Burger
Paris Photo's Thomas Zander on this year's fair
The gallerist and committee member on picking the right edition and why everyone's mad for Garry Winogrand
5 young UK architects adapting to their environment
A Phaidon Atlas Focus on a group of projects that use local features to develop a subtle, contemporary language
Libeskind's cement chair for Marina Abramović
Not sure for how long the artist will be present if she has to sit on this - but we do admire the design
René Redzepi scoops another award!
And it's another big one. He's just been named WSJ Magazine Food Innovator at a star-studded MoMA ceremony
Gombrich Explains Manet
As the Getty buys Le Printemps for $65 million Gombrich explains why we still value this French master
What to expect from Art Basel Miami Beach
A ballet about The Internet, extra VIP days and a new art-historical strand are all part of the fun of the 2014 fair
World's tallest twin towers will go up in Dubai
But the architect for the The Dubai Creek Harbour at The Lagoons remains a mystery. Could it be SOM?
'I always go for places no one’s been before' Alex Katz
'You want to go there and see whether it’s possible, and adjust the technique to your ideas,' he tells Phaidon
The Picasso, the Thief, His Wife & Her Cousin
Could so-called friends of Picasso have conspired against him? The prosecution in a new case alleges so
MAD unveil their George 'Star Wars' Lucas museum
Mies van der Rohe-inspired Chicago building peaks in a ‘floating’ disc with a 360-degree observation deck
David Bowie's Mustique garden and other tales
Gardener's Garden designer Made Wijaya on working with the Thin White Duke, why 'anal architects' are ruining landscape gardening, his love of Bali and why he thinks the current craze for zen gardens is a bit 'tragic'
Milk bar is transformed for Warsaw’s bourgeoisie
Sojka & Wojciechowski rework an Eastern European Socialist staple for a 21st-century audience
Calling America! It's Margarita time!
We catch up with Margarita Carrillo Arronte, the acclaimed chef of Mexico The Cookbook, as she wows the US
Tropical Modernism is back in Puerto Rico
Fuster + Architects' new hotel in Puerto Rico leans on the work of Henry Klumb in the region
How Henry Moore inspired de Kooning’s Clamdigger
And why the abstract expressionist painter wore oversized workman's gloves to produce his life-size figure
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 80s notebooks revealed
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum includes 160 unseen sketch pages from 1980-87
Three new museums for major South China city
Guangzhou urban planners attempt to multiply the Bilbao effect by three with new cultural proposal
Photos that changed the world #6 Self-Portrait
How Gunter Brus and the Vienna Actionists responded to atrocity and remade photography as a result
Gombrich Explains Goya
A look at why the great painter of the Spanish court also depicted witches, giants and demons
How Bas Princen explains architecture in images
The Shooting Space photographer on recording places where urban expansion meets nature's contraction
Massimo Bottura's Emilia Burger heads to London
The skinny Italian chef brings his gourmet burger to Shake Shack in Covent Garden next month
What Ai Weiwei told The New Yorker
Why he thinks Warhol was 50 years ahead of his time and how Lego is the perfect tool for dissent
Watch the Magnus Nilsson Mind Of A Chef trailer!
New PBS clip outlines his 3 rules for life: Don't play it safe, don't try to control everything and limitation is good!
We love The Rijksmuseum’s new 3D visitors’ map!
Graphic designer conquers cartographical conundrum navigating 80 galleries 8,000 objects and 800 years of art
Laura Carlin's artistic exercises for young minds
The Phaidon author demonstrates how creativity comes from an active mind not an overly tutored hand
Pentagram's monotone MIT makeover
Pentagram partner Michael Beirut gives MIT Media Lab an all-encompassing new look
