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

How Georgia O'Keeffe saw the night sky
Here's why Georgia O’Keeffe imposed a little human order on the heavens in her painting Starlight Night

For sale: an audacious rendition of a Frank Lloyd Wright
There may be cheaper ways of owning a Frank Lloyd Wright but few that will satisfy your inner Bond like this

Looking back at NY’s leading African-American art museum
A new show at The Carnegie Museum of Art showcases works from the Studio Museum in Harlem

Massimo goes head-to-head with the world’s greatest sushi chef
The skinny Italian chef and Phaidon author will cook alongside 91-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono in November

It’s the Gutenberg Bible’s birthday
Born from wine presses 561 years ago, Gutenberg's first major publication changed the world forever - here's how

Steve McCurry ‘You need to be in the conversation’
'I try to show people what life is like,' says Magnum and Phaidon photographer in our insightful video clip

Selldorf and Diller’s rival plans for UK's national treasure
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and Selldorf Architects have unveiled two very different visions for a UK stately home

Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech takes shape
The city that the designer took as his second home will house a sleek, red-brick museum dedicated to his work

Why Mark Bradford thinks the Robert E Lee statue should stay
The artist says if the conversation is about the history of the US then you have to talk about that history

Have you seen Jean Jullien’s iPhone stickers for Vogue?
The French-born illustrator and author has created these cute iMessage images for Vogue’s app users

Steve McCurry 'You have to follow your passion'
"We need to get involved in situations that give purpose to our life," the photographer says in this Phaidon video

We're looking forward to the eclipse!
In the US on Monday there will be a total solar eclipse. This is how one photographer captured the 2008 one

Your chance to be a ceramic artist courtesy of The Tate
Clare Twomey opens a fascinating installation at Tate Modern next month - and you can take part

Steve McCurry 'It's the journey not the destination'
And how right he is! Watch Steve capturing one of his most iconic shots in this previously unseen Phaidon video

Ten Questions for Wolfgang Tillmans
On his 49th birthday here's another chance to read an interview we did to coincide with his latest Phaidon book

A Movement in a Moment: The International Style
Discover how a 1932 MoMA exhibition helped introduce the entire world to the joys of modern architecture

The amazing story behind this stolen Willem de Kooning
Woman-Ochre found on the wall of a New Mexico couple's bedroom where it had hung for the last 32 years

Yayoi Kusama gets her own museum
Tokyo structure that began taking shape in 2014 is at last revealed to be a shrine to the octogenarian's work

Annie Leibovitz shoots Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue
The photographer shot the highest paid actress in the world for the cover of the 125th anniversary September issue

Random International release a drone swarm
The makers of the worldwide hit Rain Room return with another interactive artwork in London

Massimo Bottura on meeting Michael Schumacher
He may love Maserati now but he still has a soft spot for the rubber burning Ferrari drivers of his youth

Why is Mary Beard planning a fake Bronze show for Frieze?
Hauser & Wirth has teamed-up with the classicist for a faux show placing Paul McCarthy beside real artefacts

Pentagram does Shake Shack's new locavore logo
Danny Meyer calls on his friend designer Paula Scher to rework her Shake Shack magic

When Pablo Picasso made textiles
As art prices spiral could textiles forge a way into collecting? A forthcoming exhibition takes a look

Peter Chadwick’s beautiful Brutalist car parks
Though some are threatened by the wrecking ball - in the designer's posters these concrete beauties live on

Edmund de Waal is working on a Wayne McGregor ballet
The ceramicist and Phaidon author is designing a new production based on Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms

Why ceramics are so this season!
From the windows of Fifth Avenue to the side projects of Hollywood’s elite, clay is making a comeback

The killer in your cat's eyes
The one part of the human body that gave Darwin a 'cold shudder' still supports his theory of evolution

Charles and Di, Prince William and North Korea
How did the Duke of Cambridge end up on a series of North Korean stamps? Our new book explains

Could this bendy skyscraper take shape in New York?
Can Manhattanites bear another super-scraper? Architects Oiio think so if the idea is original enough

Massimo Bottura and his brigade just broke for the summer
Here’s how the world-famous chef and his Osteria Francescana staff wished each other buone vacanze!

What to expect from the Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion designer’s incredible archive to be put on display in the building where he created his best-known pieces

Snarkitecture are going to build COS a giant marble run
New work inspired by the clothing brand’s autumn collection opens in South Korea this coming November

Have you actually seen Cindy Sherman’s Instagram?
The US fine-art photographer just switched off her privacy settings, and boy, is there a lot to see!

Jean Jullien brands the Connaught’s new restaurant
The Phaidon author drew some beautiful goofy new pictures for the smart but informal new dining destination

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s decisive legacy
Here’s how the surrealist turned photojournalist created the most important photobook of the 20th century

Was Arthur Dove America’s first great abstract artist?
Why this artist and part-time chicken farmer is the missing link between Cézanne, Rauschenberg and Frank Stella

JR takes to the high seas!
The French artist's image will grace the sails of this yacht when it races from France to Brazil this autumn

5 key points for the Tate’s new Bruce Nauman show
Tate Modern’s Nauman exhibition has just opened. Here’s a handful of things to think about when you visit

Sterling Ruby reworks the Calvin Klein flagship store
Ruby’s new Madison Avenue installation serves to herald the arrival of his friend Raf Simons’ Fall 2017 collection

Liz Diller on the successes, flaws and laws of the High Line
The US architect says everyone in her profession should consider the unwanted effects of outrageous success

What your fridge has in common with this Jean Dubuffet show
On the anniversary of the French artist's birth, we look forward to a new exhibition of his Théâtres de Mémoire works

What Millais thought of Beatrix Potter
On the 151st anniversary of her birth, we look back at Potter's art and the admiration it drew from one Pre-Raphaelite

JR gives Cara Delevingne a late-night French rooftop tour
The artist and activist joined the movie star high above the streets following her movie’s French premier

Does Raf Simons’ new campaign echo this Stephen Shore shot?
Simons’ new Calvin Klein campaign is shot on a road not dissimilar to the one Shore photographed 44 years ago

Have you seen Elizabeth Peyton’s portrait of Angela Merkel?
The US artist has painted a tender picture of the German Chancellor for a profile in the August edition of Vogue

The English paintings that inspired Stanley Kubrick
On the 89th anniversary of the director’s birth, we look at how eighteenth-century art found its way into his work

Pentagram creates a new brutalist logo for London
The world-famous design agency draws inspiration from the Barbican for London’s new Culture Mile identity

What we learned from Massimo Bottura’s new Netflix film
The chef’s new feature-length documentary, Theater of Life, shows how he took waste food and fed the homeless

Is Google going vegan?
It’s certainly trying to get its cafeteria diners to eat less meat, via tasty new tacos and other "power dishes"

Who wants a pop-up, mobile beach house?
A British firm has developed a mobile, self-assembling holiday home, which pops up in around 10 minutes

Did Alice Cooper’s ghoulish live show help him snag a Warhol?
The US shock rocker’s electric chair routine may have prompted his girlfriend to buy a print from Andy for just $2.5k

How a lost suitcase helped launch A.P.C.
Jean Touitou’s new capsule collection recalls the label’s beginnings, with a return to its seminal HIVER 87 line

Barber Osgerby talk travel, relationships and design
In this new video the acclaimed design duo also describe how form doesn’t always follow function

5 art inspired chess sets on International Chess Day
From Memphis to the Bauhaus, here’s how the modern and contemporary art world has reworked the game

MAD’s sci-fi base for a truly futuristic car company
Faraday Future’s space-age facility might help usher in an age of superfast, zero-emission self-driving vehicles

Virgilio Martinez is building a restaurant beside this Inca ruin
The chef’s 60-seat establishment and food lab references the region’s pre-Columbian place within the Inca Empire

These Magnum winners echo the best of the best
Magnum LensCulture Photography Awards show the influence of Greenfield, Parr, McCurry and Eggleston

Have you seen the art of Evelyn Waugh?
New show draws together wide array of the novelist’s little-known, surprisingly expressive and funny visual works

What will art look like in the age of AI?
A new show wonders what life and art might be like when mankind takes its anticipated big leap forward

When Georg Baselitz painted his Heroes
A new exhibition looks at how the artist reinvented German painting to suit a post-war perspective

A sax-shaped tower for Rotterdam's skyline
MVRDV says its twin-tower and connecting bridge “represents musicality, character and elegance”

A Movement in a Moment: Precisionism
How photography, the Ford Motor Company and Cubism shaped America’s first truly modern art movement

A brief history of French Fries
On National French Fries Day here’s a fast-food style overview, courtesy of our book The World is Your Burger

Frank Lloyd Wright's smart plan to fix the great depression
The architect planned to create prefab farming units - complete with crèches and beauty parlours

Can you make out Basquiat’s name in this abstract art show?
McArthur Binion includes pages from his address book in works that contradict perceived truths about abstract art

Did you know the Woolmark was made by an Italian Futurist?
A new exhibition traces the progression of Franco Grignani from the avant-garde to slick commercial design

How Emory Douglas branded the Black Panthers
Douglas's engaging designs have earned a place at Tate Modern and the Design Museum this summer

How Italian family life inspired this artist
Emma Hart created her new show during a six-month trip, taking in ancient Rome, family therapy - and pottery

A 21st century winter garden for Denmark’s chilly new city
COBE plans to carve out a leafy public park inside this windswept block on the edge of an old port

When Joseph Beuys boxed for democracy
A new London show looks back on the German artist’s pugilistic performance at Documenta VI

A Movement in a Moment: Pointillism
Discover how an upset at a tapestry factory gave rise to one of the most striking artistic techniques

Monica Bonvicini thinks Toni Schmale is one of the best new artists in the world right now
Machines that serve no function, ferociously hot metal, psychoanalytic theory - the italian artist says Schmale is the one to watch at new BALTIC Artists' Award show
