What to expect when Jeremy Fox cooks at Lyle’s in London

The Rustic Canyon chef and Phaidon author promises to bring a slice of California to London next month

Jeremy Fox

What do you get if you cross brutalism with skateboards?

LA architect and designer J. Byron-H's new line of stools draw on concrete buildings and skateboard decks

Concrete Stools by J. Byron-H. All photographs by Samuel McGuire, courtesy of byron-h.com

Want to have a drink with Elmgreen & Dragset?

The European art duo will upset gallery conventions when they stage their retrospective in London this year

Elmgreen & Dragset

Three London gardens to cool off in this lunchtime

Beat the heat in these chilled public gardens, all of which feature in our new book, Green Escapes

Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London from Green Escapes

Some birthday advice from Alex Katz

The painter celebrates his 91st birthday today - he has some wise words for those a long way behind him

Here's to You (1961) by Alex Katz

Jonathan Gold on food and California

The acclaimed LA food writer died on Saturday - here’s why he loved the Golden State's singular cuisine so much

Jonathan Gold at Sundance 2105. Image by Mark Hendricks, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

What does Rose Wylie love about the Sportsman?

Chef Stephen Harris and the fact that 'it’s the right colour for the edge of the sea' attract the local Vitamin P3 painter

Rose Wylie. Photo by Joe McGorty

What to expect from the BBC's new Gombrich documentary

Archive recordings, interviews and granddaughter Leonie describe the remarkable life of The Story of Art author

Art historian EH Gombrich. Image courtesy of the BBC

Peter Marino shows us his most personal possessions

The architect, artist and collector on the sensual link between the Mapplethorpe photos and bronzes in his collection

Peter Marino pictured in front of one his Damien Hirsts ©Peter Marino Architect/ Photo: Manolo Yllera

Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden comes to New York

The Japanese artist's 52-year-old work is born again in a derelict train garage in Fort Tilden, Queens

Rockaway! 2018 featuring a site-specific installation of Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama. Artwork ©YAYOI KUSAMA. Artwork courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London/Venice; and David Zwirner, New York. Photo: Pablo Enriquez

Grace's great photographer Tim Walker gets a V&A show

Described by Coddington as the most English of Englishmen, Walker is the star of a V&A exhibition next year

Sethu Ncise, Jermaine Downer, Will Sutton, Zuzanna Bartoszek and Sara Grace Wallerstedt. Fashion - Moncler 1 by Pierpaolo Piccioli. London, 2018. © Tim Walker Studio, London. Image courtesy of the V&A

Britain's new Brutalist gallery looks back at social housing

Sheffield's S1 Artspace, newly opened in the city's Park Hill estate, offers a balanced view of high-rise life

Bill Stephenson, ‘Tony the Ton’ and Martin age 8, outside the Pop In Centre. Hyde Park Flats, Sheffield, 1988 © Bill Stephenson. Image courtesy of S1 Artspace

Martin Parr goes around the world for Gucci

The British photographer gives the Italian brand's new watch campaign a distinctly international feel

One of Martin Parr's new Internationally themed campaign images for Gucci timepieces. This particular image was taken in Florence, Italy, in 2018. All photos by Martin Parr, courtesy of Gucci

How was Pharrell when he came to Yardbird in Hong Kong?

Matt Abergel on the stars he’s impressed by and the ones he’s a bit meh about - you may be surprised. . .

Pharrell Williams

Sir Kenneth Grange reshapes the British beer glass

The acclaimed designer combines two distinct drinking vessels into one contemporary, pint-sized classic

Sir Kenneth Grange's new glass, the Kenneth. Image courtesy of Camden Town Brewery

Who knew Degas did erotica?

On the artist's birthday, we look at how Degas moved away from Impressionism to pursue a private take on pleasure

Edgar Degas, Femme nue couchée, c.1888–90

The skate artist who branded Hong Kong’s hottest restaurant

Matt Abergel got Evan Hecox to brand Yardbird - and learned an important lesson on how to approach your heroes

Yardbird, Hong Kong, with Evan Hecox's logo on the glass

Oh dear, Maurizio Cattelan has killed Banksy!

His new work Eternity, sees him fill a Tuscan garden with gravestones for 100 artists - some dead, some alive

Eternity (2018) by Maurizio Cattelan. Image courtesy of Forme nel Verde

An iPhone doesn't make you a filmmaker says Danny Lyon

The veteran photographer, documentary maker and Phaidon author calls unedited phone uploads 'visual pollution'

Self portrait by Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the photographer

Kerry James Marshall's 30-foot tribute to black lawyers

'Every brick had to be hand cut to make that form consistent' he says of monument referencing talking drums

Kerry James Marshall with his work A Monumental Journey (2018). All images courtesy of The Des Moines Public Art Foundation's Instagram

How Apple made us all talk 'emoji'

On World Emoji Day, we look at how California’s free-spirited culture gave rise to the new way of communicating

Smile emoji, as published in California: Designing Freedom

The Brutal Chicago landmark that's always been cool

Born on this day, Bertrand Goldberg combined brutalism with the kind of amenities we now take for granted

Marina City, Chicago by Bertrand Goldberg, as reproduced in Atlas of Brutalist Architecture

Matt Abergel's one thing to make your BBQ better

Is it a sauce, a skewer or simply a way of not setting yourself on fire? Read what our Chicken and Charcoal chef says

Matt Abergel cooking at Shoreditch House during his trip to London last week

This was the best thing René Redzepi ate all year

It's a honey ant and it's popular in many indigenous people’s diets. René says it’s 'seriously amazing'

A honey ant. Image courtesy of René Redzepi's Instagram

Buying a Kusama bag? There's a book for that!

Walk the walk and talk the talk with the Kusama x Louis Vuitton bag and our new book at Kith SoHo

Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton red Speedy 30 and a spread from our book showing the artist's 1998 Dots Obsession installation in Toulouse, France. Image courtesy of Hypebae

Matt Abergel came to London this week!

Our Chicken and Charcoal chef cooked on the roof of Shoreditch House and nearby Lyle's

Matt Abergel cooks on the roof of Shoreditch House, London, July 2018

How The French Revolution influenced the painting of heroes

EH Gombrich explains the work of Jacques-Louis David - ‘official artist’ of Revolutionary France

Detail from The Death of Marat (1793) by Jacques-Louis David

Barber and Osgerby revisit Ronchamp

We love these shots of Le Corb's Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, taken by the British design duo

Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France. photo by Barber Osgerby. Image courtesy of their Instagram

What Robert Mapplethorpe's mother called Patti Smith

A touching new interview with the artist's sister sheds light on the photographer's suburban family beginnings

‘I had my look in mind. He had his light in mind.’ Patti Smith remembers the 12 photographs Mapplethorpe took for her 1975 album Horses at Sam Wagstaff's studio. Photograph © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Meet the artist brightening up NYC's hottest restaurants

Lucas Beaufort might be better known in the skater community but he's also turning NYC diners' heads


The sad story behind Modigliani's portrayal of lust

Born on this day 12 July, in 1884 and among the most highly valued artists today he lived a short, wild life in poverty

Nu couché (1917–18) by Amedeo Modigliani, as reproduced in The Art of the Erotic

How Britain changed Breuer (and his Bauhaus buddies)

You might have seen the Blue Plaque go up in London. But did you know how the capital changed Breuer's designs?

The Blue Plaque on the Isokon Building. Image courtesy of English Heritage

Yayoi Kusama is painting again

Look out for flowers and phallic shapes when the artist shows her new work (and some old) this autumn

Portrait of Yayoi Kusama, © Yayoi Kusama. Image courtesy of Victoria Miro

The Thai comfort food we're all drawing comfort from

Celebrate the Thai cave rescue with a bowl of pad kra pao - the basil-based dish all the boys have been craving

Pad kra pao - featured in Thailand The Cookbook

Why Whistler sued Ruskin for libel

On Whistler's birthday, the story of the paintings that became the subject of a court case which bankrupted him

Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (c. 1872-5) by James Whistler

What Aldo Rossi gave to Grafton

How the brilliant Irish practice draw from one of the greats of yesteryear when creating buildings for the future

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

A glimpse at David Wojnarowicz’s Sex Series

Ahead of the Whitney retrospective, we uncover his great X-rated and oddly liberating photo montages

House from Sex Series (for Marion Scemama) (1988-89) by David Wojnarowicz. As reproduced in The Photography Book

Ralph Rugoff on what can happen when art meets brutalism

The Hayward Gallery director describes the challenges and opportunities presented by his beautiful, brutal institution

Ralph Rugoff. Photograph by Cesare de Giglio. Image courtesy of the Hayward Gallery

Did you see Mark Bradford at the roller disco?

Here’s how the LA artist drew on club culture and the AIDS epidemic to create one of his most moving works

Installation view of Deimos (2015) by Mark Bradford

Viktor, Rolf & Alexandre stun Paris

Fashion designers and stars of our Cover Cover book team up with Alex de Betak for an Immaculate Collection

Viktor&Rolf The Immaculate Collection, Haute Couture FW18 - photo by Marie-Laure Dutel

3 Jerry Seinfeld cafés recommended in Where to Drink Coffee

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee returns today. Here's what our guide thinks of some places Jerry's visited so far

Jerry and Sebastian Maniscalco at Intelligentsia, Los Angeles. All stills courtesy of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Why did Frida Kahlo cut off her hair?

It was one of her most effective works of self-portraiture - on her birthday we look at its hidden meaning

Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) by Frida Kahlo, as reproduced in 500 Self-Portraits

Where to see Generation Wealth this summer

Lauren Greenfield's award-winning, definitive statement on the influence of affluence is at a cinema near you

Lauren Greenfield catches herself in the mirror in the Presidential Suite at the Burj Al Arab hotel, Dubai, UAE, 2009. A still from Generation Wealth

What Le Corbusier gave to Grafton

How the brilliant Irish practice draw from one of the greats of yesteryear when creating buildings for the future

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

Jennifer Lawrence checks out the new JR show

The Red Sparrow star dropped by New York's Perrotin gallery to take in her friend’s show

Jennifer Lawrence at JR's exhibition in New York. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Barnett Newman’s creative heart

The artist died this day in 1970 but did you know the condition that killed him also led to his best work?

First Station (1958) (from the series Stations of the Cross, 1958-66) by Barnett Newman. As featured in our book Abstract Expressionism

Politics, patriotism, sex and balloon dogs

On Independence Day this is how four free-spirited, contemporary American artists see their country

WS (2013) by Paul McCarthy - as feature in our Contemporary Artist Series book

A Movement in a Moment: Luminism

As fireworks light up the sky this Fourth of July, we look at another light that is uniquely American

Lake George (1869) by John Frederick Kensett

Why the American Lawn Chair matters

On July 4 celebrate an American icon by sitting in the sun, sinking a cold beer and breathing in that smokin' BBQ!

American Lawn Chair 1940s, Designer unknown - as featured in Chair: 500 Designs that Matter

Viktor&Rolf launch their new book in Paris

The designers met fashion lovers in the French capital last night to celebrate the publication of Cover Cover

Viktor&Rolf in Paris last night

When the West Coast Case Study houses were an exhibition

In July 4 week we're looking at some of the best American architecture exhibitions from our new book Exhibit A

Craig Ellwood's Case Study House #16, Bel Air, 1953, photographed by Marvin Rand and featured in California Captured

When Kerry James Marshall painted the 4th of July

In Independence Day week we look at how the painter’s work Bang subtly subverts an all American holiday

Bang (1994) by Kerry James Marshall. Courtesy the Artist and the Progressive Corporation. As featured in Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Did you spot Mark Bradford on the basketball court?

Here’s how this US artist combined basketball with a hoop skirt to create a gender-bending sporting performance

A still from Practice (2003) by Mark Bradford

If you're cooking on Wednesday you'll want this!

Give your Fourth of July celebrations some extra zing this week courtesy of America the Cookbook

Memphis Style Barbecued Pork Ribs - from America the Cookbook

Massimo and Lara on Gucci, Dylan and Dubai

The world’s greatest chef and his wife talk through their ambitious post-50 Best Restaurants plans with Forbes

Massimo and his wife and business partner Lara Gilmore share a joke following their 50 Best Restaurants win in Spain. Image courtesy of Massimo's Instagram

Annie Leibovitz just shot Kendrick Lamar for Vanity Fair

Leibovitz’s portrait of Lamar graces the cover of the magazine’s August 2018 issue

Annie Leibovitz's portrait of Kendrick Lamar on the cover of Vanity Fair. All images courtesy of Vanity Fair

When the Venice Biennale went PoMo

New book Exhibit A looks at ground breaking architecture shows - including one that introduced post modernism

Aldo Rossi’s Teatro del Mondo (Theater of the World)
anchored at the Punta della Dogana during the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale from Exhibit A Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture 1948-2000

Martin Parr goes back up North

The veteran British photographer returns to Hebden Bridge - site of one of his best-known photographic series

Martin Parr: Steep Lane Baptist Chapel, Yorkshire, 1978. From The Nonconformists. Buy this limited print in our store

It's caption competition time!

Damien Hirst will give you a free print if he likes what you have to say about this pic he just posted

Damien Hirst with his veil paintings. Image courtesy of Hirst's Instagram

Alicia Keys plays for JR and Massimo in New York

The Grammy star performed a special set for JR's opening and Massimo Bottura caught it on his phone

Alicia Keys playing at JR's New York opening. Image courtesy of Massimo Bottura's Instagram

From Book to Bid – Dieter Rams's RZ 57 cabinet

One of the designer's modular furniture units is up for auction - find out why it's exciting exacting collectors

Prototype RZ 57 cabinet, 1957 by Dieter Rams. Image courtesy of Wright auction house

How Bret Easton Ellis helped Lauren Greenfield shoot the rich

On the photographer's birthday, we examine how a chance encounter with an old novel changed her career

Mijanou, 18, who was voted Best Physique at Beverly Hills High School, skips class to go to the beach with friends on the annual Senior Beach Day, Santa Monica, California, 1993. From Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield

Diesel's latest look is inspired by a Phaidon book!

Italian fashion brand asked Hans Eijkelboom to shoot new lookbook after seeing People of the Twenty-First Century


Did you spot Mark Bradford at the comedy club?

This is how the stand-up routines of Eddie Murphy and other comedians fed into the LA artist’s work

Installation view of Spiderman (2015) by Mark Bradford

New record set for a Lucian Freud painting

Sotheby’s achieved a new British high for the great painter in London last night with this spectacular 2002-3 work

Portrait on a White Cover (2002-3) by Lucian Freud

Here’s why you can’t kayak to Noma

The acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant’s vegetarian season is open, and René Redzepi is being extra kind to birds

Noma's no-kayaking sign. Image courtesy of @reneredzepinoma's Instagram

“Barbie, Grace Jones or me?” Trevor Paglen on tech and sex

The artist digs into the power structures behind modern technology in his Smithsonian American Art Museum lecture

Trevor Paglen. Photo by Wendy Ewald. Image courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Noah Charney tells CBS viewers how one lost work was saved

The Museum of Lost Art author shared the miraculous story of Tullio Lombardo's Adam with This Morning's audience

The Metropolitan Museum's Carolyn Riccardelli,  Lawrence Becker, and Michael Morris re-attach the head of Tullio Lombardo's Adam, observed by director Thomas Campbell. Photograph by Chris Heins of the Met’s Photo Studio. Image courtesy of @metobjectsconservation Instagram

Massimo cools off after his 50 Best win!

The skinny Italian chef takes a 5:30am dip in the waters of the Adriatic with his Osteria Francescana staff

Massimo and co in Rimini at the weekend. Image courtesy of Massimo's Instagram

Why the Adirondack chair matters

Here's how a holiday in Upstate New York gave rise of one of the most popular seats in the great outdoors

The Adirondack chair, 1905, as featured in Chair: 500 Designs that Matter

Did you spot Mark Bradford at the beach?

Here’s how the Californian coastline - and ancient mariners’ myths - feed into the work of the LA artist

Let's Walk to the Middle of the Ocean (2015) by Mark Bradford

Why Trevor Paglen thinks the military will come to his show

The artist believes DC's government employees are likely to take an interest in his new anti-surveillance exhibition

Trevor Paglen

How to get a table at Massimo’s Refettorio Paris this Saturday

The Italian chef’s haute-cuisine soup kitchen opens its doors to regular diners, as part of the Refugee Food Festival

Refettorio Paris. Image courtesy of the Refettorio's Instagram

Did you spot Mark Bradford at the beauty shop?

Here's how the artist took the friendships and the materials from his mother’s workplace and fed them into his art

The artist working in his mother's beauty shop Foxyé Fair, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, c. 1980. Image courtesy of the artist, as reproduced in our new Mark Bradford book

How food waste propelled Massimo Bottura back to No. 1

With his second World’s 50 Best Restaurants win, the chef, philanthropist and Phaidon author proved Bread is Gold

Massimo Bottura

"It's about everyone!” Massimo shares 50 Best with the world

The chef will create “a revolution in the food world and beyond” following his second World's 50 Best Restaurants win


Massimo Bottura - back on top of the world!

Our Skinny Italian chef regained his 50 Best Restaurants crown in Bilbao tonight

Massimo and his wife Lara Gilmore

Watch Trevor Paglen’s AI concert

Can you handle a spooky string quartet recital where the machines are silently judging you?

Performance still from Sight Machine (2017) by Trevor Paglen

Did you know Betak did the bad fashion show in Ocean’s 8?

Discover how Alex Betak's airline-themed catwalk show turned Helena Bonham Carter's character to crime

Behind the scenes at Bureau Betak's fashion show for Ocean's 8. Image courtesy of Bureau Betak's Instagram.

The Palestinian Table wins coveted First Book Award

The Guild of Food Writers singled out Reem Kassis’s excellent debut at their awards ceremony in London last night

The Palestinian Table's author Reem Kassis

The Jackson portrait Warhol worried TIME would junk

As London's National Portrait Gallery opens its Michael Jackson show, we look at Andy’s 80s TIME cover

Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol 1984. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. / Gift of Time magazine © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London

Did you spot Mark Bradford at the airport?

If you’ve flown out of LA you’re probably more familiar with this American artist’s work than you may realise. . .

Bell Tower (2014) by Mark Bradford. Installation view at Los Angeles International Airport. As reproduced in our new Contemporary Artist Series book

When Ellsworth Kelly upsized in the Hamptons

A new summer show looks back at how the artist found space for his bigger works at the East End of Long Island

Ellsworth Kelly in Springs, East Hampton, NY 1960

Lauren Greenfield wins Photographer of the Year

Greenfield took the top prize in this worldwide photography competition for her work, Generation Wealth

Kailia Deliz, 5, receiving her cash award for winning the Ventura County “Summer Fun” Beauty Pageant, Oxnard, California, 2011. The following year Kailia won $10,000 at the Universal Royalty National Pageant, a competition that is featured on the TV show Toddlers and Tiaras. From Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield

How does photography shape architecture?

A new show examines why the appeal of architecture is changed by how it's photographed

Iwan Baan Torre David #2, 2011. Chromogenic print, 49 x 73 in. Courtesy the artist and Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles. © 2018 Iwan Baan

Scholten & Baijings turn antique patches into a new collection

The pair's Maharam range takes old Dutch needlepoint swatches and reworks them into contemporary patterns


'Get your Indiana Jones on' - with Noah Charney

The Phaidon author talks us through some of the most highly prized lost artworks that are out there . . . somewhere


Theaster Gates cuts a live jazz record at his Swiss show

Gates' Black Monks of Mississippi record their performances directly onto disc and release them on his new label

Theaster Gates and The Black Monks of Mississippi performing at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Image courtesy of the Kunstmuseum Basel's Instagram

The painting that pushed Luc Tuymans to 'authentic forgery'

On his 60th birthday, we look at an early self-portrait and a crisis that led him to draw on a wide range of sources

Self-Portrait (1977) by Luc Tuymans

Phaidon triumphs in American printing awards

The Printing Industries of America has singled out three of our new titles in its 2018 Premier Print Awards!

A spread from Grace: The American Vogue Years, an Award of Recognition winner at the 2018 Premier Print Awards

John Lanchester on Andoni Luis Aduriz

On the Mugaritz founder's birthday, one of Britain's greatest writers sums up one of Spain's greatest chefs

Andoni Luis Aduriz  photographed by Per-Anders Jorgensen

Trevor Paglen’s Last Pictures

The artist’s selection of black-and-white photos aims to show future civilisations what life on earth was like

The Last Pictures (2012) by Trevor Paglen

Christo on Stalinism, Van Gogh and his new work in London

The artist explains how he went from the Eastern Bloc to building an oil barrel pyramid on a lake in London

Christo with his Mastaba plans. Photograph by Wolfgang Volz. Image courtesy of the Serpentine

Raf Simons reworks a Chair that Matters for Design Miami

The Calvin Klein designer is showing his version of the I Feltri Chair at the design fair's Basel event

Calvin Klein's debut installation at the Design Miami/ International Design Fair in Basel, Switzerland, as envisioned by Chief Creative Officer Raf Simons, featuring the I Feltri armchair, originally created by Gaetano Pesce. Image courtesy of Calvin Klein's Instagram

We have a right to good buildings say Grafton Architects

Architecture should be less about objects and more about subjects, according to the Venice Biennale curators

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects

David Hammons’ ghost pier gets the go ahead

The NY Senate changed laws to OK the artist's tribute to Gordon Matta-Clark and a former gay meeting place

Rendering of the proposed project as seen from the Whitney Museum. Courtesy Guy Nordenson and Associates.

Daniel Patterson remembers Anthony Bourdain

Patterson, Ferran Adrià and René Redzepi pay tribute to the US writer and TV presenter who died a few days ago

Anthony Bourdain, 2012. Image courtesy of Brooklyn Academy of Music/Fort Green Focus. CC licensing

How Marvin Rand's photos inspired Theory's new collection

Creative Director Martin Andersson tells us how he drew upon the horizontal lines of the mid-century LA buildings photographed by Rand to create Theory's elegant new collection

Theory's Martin Andersson photographed at the Los Angeles store

A different view of the RFK funeral train

A new show of vernacular photography marks 50 years since Bobby Kennedy's body was laid to rest

Annie Ingram, [Elkton, Maryland], June 8, 1968. From Rein Jelle Terpstra’s The People’s View
(2014–18). Courtesy Melinda Watson

Martin Parr takes a British summer holiday - in March

The photographer went to the English seaside four months too early to shoot his 2018 Farah campaign

Martin Parr's shoot for Farah X Martin Parr. All photographs by Martin Parr, courtesy of Farah