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
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
A glimpse at David Wojnarowicz’s Sex Series
Ahead of the Whitney retrospective, we uncover his great X-rated and oddly liberating photo montages
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
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
Viktor, Rolf & Alexandre stun Paris
Fashion designers and stars of our Cover Cover book team up with Alex de Betak for an Immaculate Collection
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
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
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
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
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
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?
Politics, patriotism, sex and balloon dogs
On Independence Day this is how four free-spirited, contemporary American artists see their country
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
Annie Leibovitz just shot Kendrick Lamar for Vanity Fair
Leibovitz’s portrait of Lamar graces the cover of the magazine’s August 2018 issue
When the Venice Biennale went PoMo
New book Exhibit A looks at ground breaking architecture shows - including one that introduced post modernism
Martin Parr goes back up North
The veteran British photographer returns to Hebden Bridge - site of one of his best-known photographic series
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
Watch Trevor Paglen’s AI concert
Can you handle a spooky string quartet recital where the machines are silently judging you?
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
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 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
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. . .
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
Lauren Greenfield wins Photographer of the Year
Greenfield took the top prize in this worldwide photography competition for her work, Generation Wealth
How does photography shape architecture?
A new show examines why the appeal of architecture is changed by how it's photographed
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
Why a 1965 Sottsass living room is being recreated in Basel
New show suggests that the Beat generation helped Ettore Sottsass break away from modernism
Massimo and Alex Atala star in JR's Paris Refettorio film
Watch this day in the life of a haute-cuisine soup kitchen - from rough sleepers to 3-Michelin-star-chefs
How Industrial Facility do more with less
In an age of plenty Sam Hecht and Kim Colin always look for ways to simplify and improve the landscape of objects
Elmgreen & Dragset set a vulture loose in Regent’s Park
The bronze bird will join pieces by John Baldessari and Tracey Emin in this year's Frieze Sculpture installation
Shore and Mapplethorpe's Warhol photos feature in new show
Museum exhibition includes wallpaper, posters and candid snaps to capture Andy’s production line approach
Why Snarkitecture look to Georgia O’Keeffe and Eero Saarinen
The New York studio draws on the work of two 20th century greats when developing its contemporary designs
The buried pleasure palace loved by Michelangelo and Raphael
Emperor Nero's Golden House was buried after his reign but it didn't stop these Renaissance masters getting in
Trevor Paglen’s surveillance-free safe space
The artist’s Autonomy Cube lets gallery goers go online anonymously
Olafur Eliasson creates a brick tower for the Lego family
The Fjordenhus is the first building designed entirely by Eliasson and his team and it opens on Saturday
What would Fredrik Berselius bid for at the Phillips design sale?
The Aska chef and design enthusiast picks out his highlights from the auction house's New York lots
'This is probably the first instance in the art world where a black person took part in a capital competition and won'
Kerry James Marshall on why Sean Combs paid $21m for his painting Past Times at Sotheby's the other week
Your presence is required at the Swedish Residence. . .
The Swedish Consul threw a party for Aska chef and author Fredrik Berselius last week - here's what it looked like
Wolfgang Tillmans and Rem Koolhaas rebrand the EU
The photographer and architect are in Amsterdam this weekend dreaming up ways to give Europe a bit of TLC
Fredrik Berselius wows diners in London and Amsterdam
Brooklyn's hottest chef wins over Europe's diners, VIPs, the press and key influencers
The monk who made Botticelli burn his paintings
Meet the Italian friar who's one of the worst villains in art history and popularised the phrase, Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Jullien gives a face to a brainy plant
How do you explain plant neurobiology? With a little help from a great artist and illustrator, that's how
Trevor Paglen’s robot revolutionary
The artist says his portrait of a dead revolutionary shows how tech may come to be used to kill off dissent
Viktor&Rolf get dolled up for new show
The Dutch design duo mark 25 years in fashion with a show of life-sized and miniature haute couture
Where Ellsworth Kelly’s colours came from
On the 95th anniversary of his birth, we examine how he was inspired by European painters and American birds
Here's Jean Touitou 'trying so hard not to be negative'
The outspoken APC founder was in London last week and he just couldn’t let it go – from instagram influencers to booking agencies, fashion parties ('an abyss of sadness!') to Jane Birkin referencing CVs...
Grace Coddington puts her cats on the catwalk
The Vogue creative director puts her pets Pumpkin and Blanket at the centre of her new Louis Vuitton collaboration
The man who turned Robert Ryman onto jazz
On the artist's 88th birthday we look back at the influence jazz teacher Lennie Tristan had on his art
Picasso joins Ferran Adrià in the kitchen
The elBulli chef’s paintings and drawings form part of a new show examining Picasso’s enduring interest in food
5 Chairs that matter to the Homepolish team
Awesome and aesthetic seating chosen from our new book Chair by five interior designers with attitude
JR buddies up with Pace to change our cities
The artist joins FuturePace, a new place-making partnership which uses art to invigorate the urban environment
Martin Parr’s very British Brexit show
The photographer sizes up Brexit Britain in a sharp show timed to coincide with the UK’s exit from the EU
California Captured in LA (and New York!)
Take a look inside our launch events with Theory ahead of our interview with Creative Director Martin Andersson
Why Theaster Gates believes black magazines matter
He's staging a show examining the Johnson Publishing Company, once the largest African-American publisher
Ferran Adrià will reopen the elBulli site next summer
The chef and Phaidon author plans to open his research lab elBulli 1846 in June 2019
Massimo brings in new faces to combat London's food waste
The chef cooked up some surprising treats, and dreamed of a time when drones might serve food to the needy
Olafur Eliasson is opening a pop-up restaurant in Iceland
The artist plans to open in Reykjavik with his sister, serving the kind of food his studio workers enjoy every day
Why Andy Warhol started Interview
As the magazine Andy launched finally goes down the tube we look into why he set it up in the first place
High-speed photo pioneers inspire Sarah Sze's new show
The artist looks back to Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton in her new work, Images in Debris
A birthday cake fit for Martin Parr
As the great British photographer celebrates his 66th birthday, we take a look at his best baked goods shots
