The poignant truth behind Kerry James Marshall's new $21 million Sotheby's auction record
Here's why Marshall's work, Past Times, embodies the artist's struggle to place black people in grand paintings

D.O.M. - Where Chefs Eat in São Paulo when they dream of rainforest ingredients reassembled as art
At D.O.M. Alex Atala has single-handedly put experimental, fine-dining Brazilian cuisine onto the world stage

Betak turns a Berlin power station into a maze for Omega
And Cindy Crawford's daughter was the star of the fashion show master's dazzling party set

However you're feeling today Jean Jullien has a badge for you!
Express yourself courtesy of the illustrator with these brass pins that put a face to every feeling

The decline and fall of the gentlemanly art thief
In The Museum of Lost Art Noah Charney explains why today's criminals favour car bombs over cunning

Pineapple and Pearls - Where Chefs Eat in Washington when a fennel absinthe bonbon and potato ice cream are called for
The bill is paid upon reservation here, removing the pain of settling up at the end of a great dining experience

A bite (and byte) sized take on Photo London
The fair takes in every continent and technological period in a wide-ranging survey of global image making

Did Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman share some moves?
An upcoming Tate show brings the two artists together, drawing out some surprising parallels in their work

Massimo and friends launch first televised restaurant awards
Founded by Phaidon author Joe Warwick, The World Restaurant Awards aims to mirror the glamour of the Oscars

Want to go vegan, Coachella style?
The rock festival’s food event Eat Drink Vegan, comes to Los Angeles at the end of the month

Naoto Fukasawa helps Muji launch its first hotel
Fukusawa’s minimal product designs gild this paired-down new Japanese hotel in China

Ferran Adrià went back to school to launch this restaurant
The elBulli chef who celebrates his 56 birthday today, is about to open a new Italian restaurant in Turin with Lavazza

London's turning Japanese this summer
Japan House London is set to turn us all on to Japanese cuisine and culture when it takes over the old Biba store

The Nordic Cookbook is on Meghan and Harry’s wedding list
The Sunday Times reports that the Royal couple have put Magnus Nilsson's cookbook on their wedding list

Sex, madness and the Met’s summer show
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection, showcases one man’s tastes

Sustainability, shoes, celebrity and why a book should be like a magic box - Anna Dello Russo at Central Saint Martins
The editor turned social media star tells an eager crowd why she thinks paper’s still important

So why do artists destroy their own work?
In The Museum of Lost Art Noah Charney explains how vanity and reinvention lie behind the urge to slash and burn

Is this Stephen Harris and The Sportsman's BIGGEST book award yet?
The Sportsman won Cookery Book of the Year at last night's Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards

Wolfgang Tillmans is working on a World War II Requiem
The photo artist has teamed up with ENO to stage a production of a Benjamin Britten choral masterpiece

How, after death, Hokusai changed art history
On the anniversary of Hokusai’s death, we look at how his work altered the course of Western art

De Kooning's great, late period tops Christie’s sale
Unfairly criticised when it was exhibited 20 years ago, Untitled XIX went for a cool $14m at auction this week

The posters that populated Paris in May '68
On the 50th anniversary of the street protests, we look back at the chief image-makers of the age, Atelier Populaire

Chris Noey and Hank Willis Thomas do Bottega Veneta in style
The artist and The Artist Project founder were on fine form at our canapé reception in New York on Tuesday!

Where in the world is this ghostly Klimt portrait?
Scholar and sleuth Noah Charney takes us on the hunt for lost, stolen and destroyed art in The Museum of Lost Art

Frieze VIPs taste the fine art of Aska
Artists, writers, gourmets and gallerists joined us at the Michelin-starred Williamsburg restaurant to toast Frieze NY

Why Industrial Facility treated their book like a movie
Kim Colin and Sam Hecht were at the Design Museum last night talking about the creation of their new book

Erik Kessels talks about making a success out of mistakes
The ad man, curator and photo collector shares his wisdom with fellow creatives in Munich, Zurich and Hamburg

Pray Tell - Where Chefs Eat in Toronto when they want an intimate setting for enjoying small plates and shareable platters
The ambience is fantastic in this cozy snack bar and the cocktails are on point too. Be sure to try the pizza pocket!

What’s inside Snarkitecture’s Fun House?
The art, architecture and design practice will create a weird domestic environment in their first museum retrospective

The incredibly imaginative world of Frank Stella's prints
New Princeton show reveals how Stella threw every reproductive process known to art into his printmaking

The British camera that helped Winslow Homer capture the US
A new show looks at how Homer's first camera, made in England, helped the American artist loosen up

Can you spot an Anish Kapoor among these record sleeves?
Secret 7", the art, music and charity show, returns to London this summer with another sale of fine-art singles

How Tina Barney pictures great artists
Frieze visitors get a closer look at Barney's remarkably intimate images of the world's greatest artists

This is what Doctor Who looks like as Robert Mapplethorpe
Or is it the Duke of Edinburgh? The star of the Crown and the sci-fi series plays the photographer in a new movie

Isn't this the perfect crown for Tomi Ungerer!
The French-born artist was made an honorary member of his adoptive nation’s guild in Dublin this week

The New Museum is heading to London
One of our favourite New York art institutions will host its first UK show at The Store during Frieze week in October

Don't miss this if you're visiting New York City!
Going to Frieze in NYC? Destination Architecture recommends you check out this Manhattan marvel

Maison Publique - Where Chefs Eat in Montreal when Welsh Rarebit and an all Canadian wine list seems like a good thing
This Jamie Oliver backed pub is a popular weekend brunch spot for local hipsters and Brit-food fans alike

Frieze New York goes back to the Eighties
2018 gallerists go back three decades, courtesy of work by Richard Prince, David Byrne and David Sedaris

Enrique Olvera just opened a cool little tortilla place
And if you're going don't bin the packaging - the food is wrapped in vital info on Mexican culinary culture

Slow food, fast cars and now perfect timing - Massimo Bottura teams up with Florentine watchmaker Panerai
Hear the chef talk about tradition and innovation in this new video

How Marlene Dumas sees Venus and Adonis
The artist’s new show offers a contemporary, explicit take on Shakespeare’s version of the classical myth

Take a look at the photos from our Where Chefs Eat launch!
The great and good of the food world joined us to celebrate the new edition of our global restaurant guide last night

Why Usher loves Snarkitecture
Discover how the R&B singer developed a long-term collaborative relationship with Snarkitecture's Daniel Arsham

Modernist Bread rises to the top of the James Beard Awards
Nathan Myhrvold's five-volume baking study won best Restaurant and Professional book at this year's awards

Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen: Where Chefs Eat In Memphis and where southern Italy meets the American South
Find out why this place puts out 'the most innovative and delectable cuisine in town' according to chef Ryan Trimm

JR just sent this guy to pick up his latest award
Going to Mexico’s exclusive Costa Careyes resort any time soon? Then look out for a diver gracing its brutalist folly

Grafton Architects find their happy place (and ours too)
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell explain why generosity of spirit should be at the core of architecture

Bread & Butterfly - Where Chefs Eat in Atlanta when they want a sophisticated (but unpretentious) breakfast
Bitter salad greens, sliced cured ham and fried egg with gruyere makes for a great French bistro experience

Sterling Ruby on Raf, fashion and 'messing' with Americana
The artist was at Harvard on Monday, talking with the Calvin Klein boss and Phaidon author Jessica Morgan

What is it with Snarkitecture and white?
Find out here, as the trio talk through their minimal look and forthcoming summer show

The bird painter who helped Ellsworth Kelly to imagine
John James Audubon was born today, 26 April, in 1785 - Ellsworth Kelly was a big fan, you might be too

Burrasca: Where Chefs Eat in Portland when they want La Francesina - leftover boiled beef stewed with tomato and love
Burrasca is a step back in time, as if you are walking into a 1970s Florentine trattoria according to our new guide

Abbas 1944 – 2018
We look back at the life of the great Iranian Magnum photographer who died earlier today in Paris

Martin Parr’s Real Food photos win him another award
Parr's all-too-real images won him an Outstanding Achievement prize at last night's Food Photography Awards

The best installations at Milan Design Week
Couldn’t make it to the fair this year? Don’t worry, we'll walk you through the best bits

Will Goldfarb’s 5 rules for creativity in the kitchen
The pastry chef runs through his rollercoaster career in great Tedx talk - and his philosophy of 'making things nice'

Why Gillian Wearing put a sign on her Millicent Fawcett statue
It bears Fawcett’s words but alludes to Wearing’s photo series from the 1990s - here’s how she made them

Bufalina: Where Chefs Eat in Austin when they just want pizza
Sometimes it pays not to stray too far off-piste - especially when there are simple delights this good on offer

Massimo Bottura and Maurizio Cattelan's degree show
The chef and the artist just got honorary degrees. Can you guess which one wore a phone advert on his forehead?

The strange story behind Willem de Kooning’s Woman I
On the anniversary of the Dutch abstract expressionist's birth, we tell the tale behind one of his infamous works

Massimo Bottura is looking to open a refettorio in Philadelphia - and he wants the Super Bowl-winning Eagles to help him
Can the Super Bowl champions help our Skinny Italian Chef score a winning touchdown in America?

Why the Tripp Trapp chair matters
A desirable designer item and sturdy launch pad for the new royal baby to flick peas at his grandmother from

France calls Peter Marino 'officer class' in the art world
The American architect and art collector has just been made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters!

What early morning looks like at Aska
Chef Fredrik Berselius reveals how, in the quietest moments, a strange magic occurs. . .

World Book Day according to Harland Miller
Discover how this acclaimed British artist gives new meaning to the classics by painting over literary history

When Raphael painted St George
On St George’s Day we look at the figurative abandonment that enabled Raphael to paint such fantastic scenes

JR is on TIME Magazine's 100 most influential list
He is commended for dedicating his career to bridging gaps - physical, cultural, spiritual - among all people

Robots in kimonos! The latest look from Alex de Betak
The world's greatest fashion show producer goes back to the future with traditional clothing and animatronics

When Larry Gagosian paid Peter Marino with a Brice Marden
An 80s New York article reveals how the art dealer got his rundown loft fixed via some smart negotiation

Another look at Stephen Shore's look at Israel
As the modern state turns 70, we look back at Stephen Shore's take on this country of contradictions

How Damien Hirst, Poussin and Maurizio Cattelan saw Midas
In an age of billionaire presidents and financial uncertainty, the king with a golden touch still speaks to us

The Ordinary - Where Chefs Eat in Charleston when they want to taste the best seafood in America - in a former bank
Cajun chef Isaac Toups praises its seafood dishes which are innovative but firmly in the Charleston cuisine tradition

By hook and by book, Industrial Facility take Milan
Sam Hecht and Kim Colin visit this year's Salone del Mobile with not one, but five sleek new products

Snarkitecture brings its fantasy kitchen island to Milan
The art, design and architecture practice creates a new installation called Altered States at Salone

Sou Fujimoto's vertical village for Paris
The Japanese architect’s new Parisian proposal is a winning, wooden fix for the city's urban sprawl

BIG turn a hotel into a ski run
By chopping the five storey block into a zig-zag of slabs, Bjarke Ingels and co. add a new piste to the Alps

How Peter Doig saw the night sky
It's Doig's 59th birthday - this is how he breathed new life into a celestial feature in his painting The Milky Way

Will Goldfarb makes his Chef's Table debut
'After el-Bulli, the new minimum standard was to be the best in the world,' he says of his early days in Spain

Harry Styles drops in on Massimo Bottura
The singer ate in the cellar at Osteria Francescana on the Italian leg of his European tour

Patois - Where Chefs Eat in New Orleans when they desire buttermilk biscuit and fried rabbit in a neighbourhood setting
Aaron Burgau's Louisianan take on classic French cooking makes it to the new edition of our restaurant guide

Phaidon and Free Arts NYC honour Lawrence Weiner
We joined Marian Goodman Gallery, Gagosian Gallery and Artsy in sponsoring a charity dinner and auction

Guess whose birthday it is today fashion fans
Can you name this onesie-shunning baby who grew into one of the fashion world’s most influential figures?

Bowie, Cobain and Cohen get their own typefaces
You may not be able to write like your heroes but your writing can look like theirs with these rock star fonts

Aina - Where Chefs Eat in San Francisco when they want a taste of the Hawaiian landscape in an urban setting
Big Island-born chef Jordan Keao describes his restaurant as a love letter to Hawaii - Where Chefs Eat agrees

A Movement in a Moment: Kinetic Art
The idea was that art should keep up with technology, so why did the movement become yesterday's futurism?

Why Will Goldfarb makes room for Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami, Oscar Wilde (and Jackie Collins)
The Room for Dessert chef on how the classics became key ingredients in his incredible desserts

Neptune Oyster - Where Chefs Eat in Boston when they're more than happy just to perch on a stool at the marble bar
Does this place in the north end of the city serve the best chowder in Boston? One chef in our guide thinks so…

How to do slogans in a social media age
New Design Museum show, From Hope to Nope, looks at how designers have navigated a choppy, political decade

James Corner's new High Line and Japanese garden for NY
The co-creator of The High Line revisits his old creation and draws on new inspirations for the Domino Sugar site

Boka - Where Chefs Eat in Chicago when they want a backdrop of North Carolina moss and living staghorn ferns
Kevin Boehm and Rob Katz's Chicago place is a great mix of elegant and quirky - and that goes for the food too

JR gives a face to the Dreamers
New film shows how the artist's Inside Out Project is putting a face to the immigrants trying to stay in the US

These waterside homes offer splendid isolation
Want to get away from it all? Then take a look at these perfectly isolated island homes, featured in Living on Water

How Hobbes first pictured the “monster” of good government
The political philosopher, born 430 years ago today, put a face to the-then novel theory of the ‘body politic’

Jeremy Fox turns carrots into everything from pasta to crumble
It’s International Carrot Day! Here’s why the award-winning chef and Phaidon author loves this versatile vegetable

What Bacon thought of Warhol and Jasper Johns
In a series of newly released taped conversations, Bacon can be heard dismissing these Titans of 20th century art

How Danny Lyon’s bike put him in jail with Martin Luther King
On the anniversary of MLK’s death, here's how shared jail time turned a student into a campaigning photographer

Otium - Where Chefs Eat in LA when they want trendy, sleek, modern - and a massive amount of sparkle
The dishes at this ambitious restaurant are unexpected but familiar, and straight from California’s open heart

The metro carriage that helped create Industrial Facility’s chair
Japan’s public transportation gave Sam Hecht and Kim Colin a bright idea for their award-winning furniture range

What to expect from Danny Meyer’s New York taco stand
The man behind Shake Shack promises to bring his take on Mexican food to the Williamsburg waterfront
