How Buzz Aldrin saw the night sky
This Apollo 11 star chart served as a route map of the heavens for the lunar pilot and American hero
Who knew John Singer Sargent did erotica?
The sensual portraitist and war artist combined his two interests in this tender painting of two British soldiers
Anders Ruhwald - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
How Annie Leibovitz captured Barack Obama's unease
In Portraits 2005–2016, Annie Leibovitz photographs the President in the White House - hours before Trump's arrival
Massimo Bottura and the Adriàs create kitchen alchemy
The elBulli brothers, Ferran and Albert, reunited to cook for Milan's poor at Bottura's Refettorio Ambrosiano
Discover Patagonia with Boragó’s Rodolfo Guzmán
From pink apples to tangerine fungi, this wild tip of Chile yields some surprising ingredients for the pioneering chef
How Annie Leibovitz captured Stephen Hawking's willpower
In Portraits 2005–2016, Leibovitz visualises the professor's sheer determination to push his life's work forward
Massimo Bottura and Tsumura Mitsuharu's kitchen alchemy
Trash-bound ingredients take on a whole new life in the Skinny Italian chef's Bread is Gold book
The Artist Project: Raymond Pettibon on JMW Turner
Why the contemporary artist appreciates the 18th century painter for his ability to go beyond mere representation
Annie Leibovitz's London takeover!
Legendary photographer wowed the crowd at Paul Smith, The Royal Festival Hall and Waterstones this weekend
When Yayoi Kusama created her first ever Infinity Room
Going to her show at the Broad? Then uncover the history behind these hugely popular artworks before you do
How Annie Leibovitz captured Rachel Feinstein's virtuosity
In Portraits 2005–2016, Leibovitz presents the sculptor and installation artist as both mother and muse
5 shows that transformed fashion: Betak and Hussein Chalayan
In 2000, Alexandre Betak took Chalayan's most challenging garment - the Airplane Dress - and made it soar
Meals that made America great – Mexican Slaw
How food from around the world found a welcome home in the US - as featured in America The Cookbook
The Artist Project goes back to the Met
The book that gets contemporary artists to talk about classic works returned to the source for our launch
Ghada Amer - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
No one did Polaroids like Yves Saint Laurent
For the designer, instantaneous prints served both as documentary device - and vital creative tool
Meals that made America great – Portuguese Clams
How food from around the world found a welcome home in the US - as featured in America The Cookbook
How Annie Leibovitz captured Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Portraits 2005–2016, she highlights the novelist and campaigner's multidimensionality in a rare photo pairing
The Artist Project: Kehinde Wiley on John Singer Sargent
Obama’s new portraitist takes his inspiration from some of the most aristocratic works in the Met's collection
Discover the Atacama Desert with Boragó’s Rodolfo Guzmán
It’s one of the driest places on earth but Rodolfo still found beautiful ingredients for his restaurant
When Kerry James Marshall learned to love Warhol
He celebrates his 62nd birthday today but it was on his 18th that Kerry began to understand Andy's talents
How Annie Leibovitz captured Lin-Manuel Miranda’s vision
In Portraits 2005–2016, Leibovitz photographs the Hamilton star who updated the 18th century
How we squeezed Versailles into The Art Museum
This Baroque masterwork will never leave France but we've found room for it in our brilliant museum-in-a-book
Ai Weiwei returns to New York
Artist scatters 300 works across the city he called home for a decade in Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
Jessica Harrison - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
How Annie Leibovitz captured Rihanna's sexuality
In Portraits 2005–2016, Annie Leibovitz emphasises the singer's sex appeal without reducing her to a sex symbol
Elizabeth Street Cafe comes to New York
The French-Vietnamese cafe made some friends in NYC, including editors, chefs and a President's daughter
How Trevor Paglen saw the night sky
The MacArthur Fellow is less interested in space's beauty - more in the sinister man-made objects in our heavens
André Chiang shock: Restaurant ANDRE to close
Chef announces he will close his Michelin-starred Singapore restaurant next Valentine's Day to return to Taiwan
When Ward Bennett met Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ wanted either a saddle or a bar room chair to sit on - the mid century modern designer created a clever hybrid
How Annie Leibovitz captured Ellsworth Kelly's place of work
In Portraits 2005–2016, Annie Leibovitz reveals how Kelly created his calm canvases amidst everyday clutter
Reem Kassis tells the story behind The Palestinian Table
We launched our latest food book in a beautiful house, once owned by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, last night
No one did fake jewels like Yves Saint Laurent
Though he created clothes for the jet set, Yves favoured costume jewellery over genuinely precious stones
How the Soviets saw the night sky
It may have lost the race to the moon but in 1963 the USSR looked aloft and saw itself as the clear conqueror
JR’s new movie comes to the London Film Festival
Catch Faces Places, his Agnès Varda film about small-town life, in one of Europe’s biggest cities
How Annie Leibovitz captured Caitlyn Jenner’s big reveal
In Portraits 2005–2016, Annie Leibovitz accentuates Jenner's statuesque beauty and inner strength
Arlene Shechet - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
No one did Africa like Yves Saint Laurent
The designer was born in North Africa and worked a surprising amount of African culture into his collections
Massimo Bottura and Viviana Varese create kitchen alchemy
The Italian chefs turn trash-bound ingredients into beautiful food in Massimo’s new Bread is Gold book
Francis Upritchard - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
How Annie Leibovitz captured Gloria Steinem's courage
In Portraits 2005–2016, Annie Leibovitz offers us insight into Steinem's tireless campaigning for women’s rights
5 shows that transformed fashion: Betak and Rodarte 2016
Creating a visual presence on the catwalk proved tricky - until the sisters met fashion genius Alexandre de Betak
Clay and ceramics put a sheen on this year's Frieze
Once a mere decorative art, clay and ceramics find a place alongside painting and sculpture at this year's fair
Mary Beard talks us through her 2017 Frieze show
The classicist tells us how a chance meeting at an airport led her to stage a bronze show at this year's Frieze
The Sportsman’s winning ingredients: History
How times past and historical techniques enabled Stephen Harris to turn a grotty pub into a team GB champion
Massimo Bottura and Mario Batali create kitchen alchemy
Trash-bound ingredients take on a whole new life in the Skinny Italian chef's Bread is Gold book
JJ PEET - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Why Yayoi Kusama wrote to Richard Nixon
'I will lovingly, soothingly, adorn your hard masculine body,' she wrote as she invited him to an orgy
Will we all be eating Blade Runner-style insects soon?
The new film predicts a future of insect grub protein farms - did they get that from our book On Eating Insects?
How Annie Leibovitz captured Kim and Kanye's selfie side
In Portraits 2005–2016, Annie Leibovitz offers us a clear look into the lives of two huge social media stars
How we got Impressionism's first show into The Art Museum
It closed over 140 years ago but our new museum-in-a-book restages this seminal Parisian painting show
Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho on their Frieze Project
Why a strange settlement in the no man’s land between North and South Korea has found a new home at Frieze
The Artist Project: Jeff Koons on Roman sculpture
Here’s why America’s leading contemporary artist spends so much time among the Met Museum’s sculptures
How Barber Osgerby made their Sony exhibition
Was this British design duo’s sonic take on interior design a little too progressive for the Japanese giant?
SPIT! talk us through their Frieze Project
The US collective look back at queer manifestos for a new series of works addressing today's struggles
How Georges Méliès saw the night sky
Here’s how the pioneering French filmmaker's 1902 sci-fi classic influenced the way we view the moon
Alexandre de Betak wows Paris
Our author and runway legend took fashion fans to heaven (and Anna Wintour and Mario Testino to dinner) last night
Takuro Kuwata - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Georgina Starr talks us through her Frieze Project
Why has the artist brought in two experimental vocalists and "a magic table" for a reading from her new novel?
Colette goes crazy for Betak!
Fashion boutique draws inspiration from catwalk's backstage area for new Alexandre de Betak collection
Enrique Olvera gets Global Gastronomy Award
The Mexican chef was honoured at a gala reception at the Swedish Consul General’s house in New York this week
Meals that made America great – Hot German Potato Salad
How food from around the world found a welcome home in the US - as featured in America The Cookbook
Marc Bauer talks us through his 2017 Frieze Project
The artist explains why he has brought a little bit of Peckham, South London, to the entrance of this year’s fair
Massimo Bottura and René Redzepi create kitchen alchemy
Trash-bound ingredients take on a whole new life in The Skinny Italian chef's Bread is Gold book
Who knew Paul Klee did erotica?
The Swiss artist only used a few abstract forms to effectively suggest the act of lovemaking in this drawing
Jesse Wine - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
No one did buttons like Yves Saint Laurent
Here’s why the designer saw a simple fastening as an opportunity to create 'a woman’s daytime jewellery'
How NASA saw the night sky
The Saturn probe sent back some truly awesome images packed with real scientific insight
Lucy Orta talks us through her 2017 Frieze Project
Artist and Phaidon author on her plans to distribute Antarctica World Passports at the London art fair
Discover Santiago with Boragó’s Rodolfo Guzmán
Can’t get to Chile? Then enjoy the second of our series of trips there, via this great chef's debut cookbook
Theaster Gates uses sculpture prize to fund literary venture
The Chicago artist plans to spend his $100,000 2018 Nasher Prize money on an antique mechanical printing press
Clare Twomey - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
The Artist Project: Swoon on Honoré Daumier
The contemporary artist explains why the 19th century caricaturist still offers 'something beautiful (and difficult)'
Martin Parr opens his own photography foundation
The photographer funded his new British photography foundation - by selling his library to the Tate
Stephen Harris - 'Adding a lemon is like turning up the treble!'
The chef behind The Sportsman made some fun punk analogies at the book's launch in London last night
How we relocated Easter Island to The Art Museum
The statues cannot be moved anymore but you can see them all in our impossibly good museum-in-a-book
Sahej Rahal - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
5 shows that transformed fashion: Betak and Dior 2015
How the fashion show pioneer Alexandre de Betak sprinkled fake snow over Raf Simons' Blade Runner collection
From Book to Bid – Steve McCurry’s India
A set of 20 McCurry India prints goes up for auction next month. But if you can't bid here's something to consider. . .
How Galileo saw the night sky
Here's how the astronomer's sketches changed our view of the moon and undermined the Catholic Church
The Sportsman’s winning ingredients: Sea Salt
How saline waters around the Sportsman enabled Stephen Harris to turn a grotty pub into a team GB champion
Take a look at these beautiful black buildings
Met Museum and LACMA's Stella Paul deconstructs architecture’s dark side in our new book Black
The Artist Project: George Condo on Claude Monet
The artist explains why the 'ugliest combinations of colours' he's ever seen makes for an exquisite experience
Happy birthday Tadao Ando!
As he turns 76 take a look at one of his most beautiful, best-loved buildings, Church of the Light
Discover the Andes with Boragó’s Rodolfo Guzmán
Can’t get to Chile? Then enjoy our series of mini trips to this beautiful country, courtesy of a great chef
Sterling Ruby - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
When Yayoi Kusama met Damien Hirst
She propositioned Nixon, held a gay wedding (and created cool art) so what happened when she met the YBA?
Massimo Bottura and Alex Atala create kitchen alchemy
Trash-bound ingredients take on a whole new life in The Skinny Italian chef's Bread is Gold book
How Barber Osgerby made their Tip Ton chair
Though they made it for a secondary school, this chair is so impressive the Royal College of Art bought a set
When David Rockefeller met Ward Bennett
The designer feared he was a 'stuffy Ivy Leaguer' - but the Chase Manhhatten boss put his work in MoMA
Paul Smith loves our new Barber Osgerby book!
And you will too! We celebrated its launch last night at Sir Paul's No.9 Albemarle Street store in Mayfair
Steve McCurry 'It's been an incredible run'
In this short video, the Magnum photographer reflects on a career spent ‘on the frontline of history’
How we relocated the Lascaux caves to The Art Museum
They've been closed since the Sixties but now you can visit them in our impossibly good museum-in-a-book
Meals that made America great - Korean Pancakes
How food from around the world found a welcome home in the US - as featured in America The Cookbook
Who knew Anselm Kiefer did erotica?
The great German painter mixed ancient sex myths with sensual female nudity in this watercolour
How Barber Osgerby made their Loop Table
Brutalist architecture, a boat and an expert plywood bender all fed into the pair's breakthrough design
No one did De Stijl like Yves Saint Laurent
How the designer took one of the most minimal arts styles, added accessories - and made it more chic!
Massimo Bottura and Daniel Humm create kitchen alchemy
Trash-bound ingredients take on a whole new life in The Skinny Italian chef's Bread is Gold book
The Sportsman’s winning ingredients: A punk rock attitude
How punk musician turned award winning chef Stephen Harris turned a grotty pub into a true team GB champion
