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
Preserving Louis Kahn's Salk Institute
The Getty Conservation Institute has worked hard to ensure a modernist masterpiece is restored to former glories
Have you seen Jean Jullien’s summer collection?
The French artist and illustrator has collaborated with the designer Jae Huh to create a new clothing line, NouNou
Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans and Phaidon artists create ES covers to celebrate London's resilience
Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing, and Jamie Hewlett make up all star cast of contemporary art talent
Enrique Olvera wins the Global Gastronomy Award
White Guide praises the Mexican chef for elevating lowly street food and unearthing ancient delicacies
Finally, the perfect scent to accompany our new book!
Commes des Garçons has launched a scent in a concrete bottle - the ideal accompaniment to our mini-format book
This LA concrete classic is the star of this new xx video
Alasdair McLellan makes a video for The xx with help from Raf Simons, Calvin Klein and a little LA modernism
Why this French chef thinks French food is overcooked
Vegan author Jean-Christian Jury explains how his countrymen pack in the taste, but leave out the nutrients
Summer with Warhol and the Kennedy kids
What happened when Jackie O’s kids came to stay at Warhol’s summerhouse? Lots of fun, says to Jonas Mekas
Bad colour is like junk food says Hella Jongerius
Dutch designer and Phaidon author argues for a new view of colour in Design Museum show
U2 screen JR’s new Syrian refugee film
The band have worked JR’s latest video piece into their current 30th anniversary Joshua Tree world tour
Joel Meyerowitz talks French nonchalance
As Joel's Arles show opens, we look back at his earlier photographic jaunt around Europe, half a century ago
How tennis changed the way we dress
As Wimbledon begins, Colin McDowell explains how an elitist sport's high-class clothing hit the high street
Want to try René Redzepi’s new foraging app?
The Noma chef has just launched a new wild food initiative, helping inexperienced foragers identify foodstuffs
A Sottsass penthouse in New York - yours for just $19m!
OK, it's pricey, but then again it is a perfectly preserved example of the Memphis founder’s interior design
Restaurant André reaches for the (Michelin) stars
Chef André Chiang’s eight-point culinary philosophy wins him two Michelin stars in the new Singapore guide
How Paul Klee remained creative until the end
On the anniversary of the artist’s death, we look back at how Klee didn’t let illnes or Nazism degrade his talents
Kengo Kuma's plans for Paris
The Japanese architect’s new renderings introduce naturalism to France’s most philosophical quarter
The elBulli guys just made the perfect beer for Mexican food
Or Peruvian, Chilean or any Latin cuisine for that matter. It's fresh, red, flavoured with corn and is called Unloved'
Our Magnum book has made it to Arles!
Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné has been shortlisted for Rencontres d'Arles’ Historical Book Award
The painter who escaped Memphis
Artist and founder member of the Memphis group Nathalie Du Pasquier adds model-making to her practice
Can you spot Utopia in among this wreckage?
Monika Sosnowska’s new show at Hauser & Wirth LA looks back at a hopeful world that was built, then destroyed
Time to grow your own insects?
The Austrian designer Katharina Unger thinks you might pay over $500 to have beetle larvae living in your kitchen
Why the Whitney is making its Calder show move
The NY museum has taken the unusual step of animating Calder’s mobiles, with a little bit of help
Walt’s first map of Disneyland sells for $708,000
Drawn up for an investment pitch, the map bearing Disney’s own annotations has just been auctioned in LA
BIG, Adjaye and Sou Fujimoto vie for a Scottish bandstand
The world-famous architecture firms are all shortlisted for Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion Design Competition
Meet the same-sex couple who got married 14 times
Two years on from the same-sex marriage ruling, we look back at one couple whose wedding vows knew no bounds
Erik Kessels Fails It in Europe
Curator and creative director shares some of his favourite mistakes with Europe’s gallery-goers this summer
Dan Hunter rounds off his Asia tour in style
The Brae chef creates some incredible dishes at André Chiang's Restaurant André
Magnum’s American Crisis
Here’s how the world’s leading photo agency pictured the US in earlier troubled times
Do you know LA’s Cool School?
A new show brings together Ed Ruscha and others to look at how LA artists approached painting in the '60s
When Wolfgang Tillmans shot Pride
For Pride month we look back at Tillmans’ coverage of the 1992 event and the different ways he’s exhibited it since
Joe Bradley’s not too-mature mid-career show
Museum retrospectives usually mean artistic maturity but with Joe Bradley visitors expect, and get, goofiness
Anish Kapoor dyes this earth red in memory of refugees
The artist’s new exhibition, Destierro, encourages visitors to think about the changing nature of national borders
Were watercolours Sargent’s Instagram?
A new exhibition looks back at the way this master oil painter recorded briefer glimpses of life on paper
We found the perfect spot for our latest book launch!
Here’s why a gallery in a once-derelict London block proved the perfect fit for our new title, Ornament is Crime
Marina Abramović in the library, with the ancient manuscripts
That might sound like a Cluedo round, but it’s actually a good description of the performance artist’s new exhibition
Doug Aitken wants to you to smash up his garden
Why has the artist has combined a hothouse with a live-streamed wrecking room in a Danish warehouse?
Happy birthday Helvetica!
Javier Mariscal, Pep Carrió and friends mark the typeface's 60th with some specially commissioned posters
Want to buy Picasso’s consolation ring for Dora Maar?
When Picasso’s lover threw a ruby ring into the Seine he made her a new one - it's at auction at Sotheby's tomorrow
Elmgreen & Dragset pit Lee Miller against President Erdoğan
The curators of the 2017 Istanbul Biennial want to use neighbourliness to combat intolerance and inequality
Brae's Dan Hunter on tour in Asia!
Discover how, on his East Asian tour, the Brae chef's Kitchen Do's and Don'ts made it on to his fans' walls
Brae is now the top restaurant in Australia
Here’s how Dan Hunter’s locavore Melbourne establishment won over his fellow Aussie chefs and restaurateurs
Why American modernism is older than you think
A new show adds weight to the argument that modernism came to the US decades before the Ab-Exers
Meet the godfather of political memes
Decades before Corbyn and Trump fans shared their JPEGs - John Heartfield was cutting and pasting politics
How Barber Osgerby made an anti-office office chair
There are no levers sticking out of the Pacific chair - a minimalist approach prompting Norman Foster to order some
Looks like JR just made it into the dictionary
French artist joins Donald Trump and Youtube as new additions to the 2018 Le Robert Illustrated Dictionary
Don’t worry Matisse (probably) didn’t read Ulysses either
On Bloomsday we recall what happened when Henri Matisse illustrated James Joyce’s modernist classic
Why this summer is mushroom season at Gagosian
Carsten Holler returns with Reason, a new fungi-focused show at the Gagosian on West 24th Street
Was Eadweard Muybridge the first Silicon Valley pioneer?
On the anniversary of Horses Trotting, a brief look at how tech, cash and ambition first came together in Palo Alto
Pentagram designs graphics for Trumpian take on Shakespeare
Paula Scher produces series of Shakespeare in the Park posters befitting a distinctly 2017 take on Julius Caesar
Robert Mapplethorpe’s two American Flags
On Flag Day we look at his Stars and Stripes photos and ask what they reveal about the artist
Look at Theaster Gates’ incredible record and book collections
New video shows how the US artist and activist repurposes collections to uncover new perspectives on culture
The Sportsman wins Restaurant of the Year (again!)
Stephen Harris’s Kent coast establishment won in both the restaurant and gastropub categories last night
Jenny Holzer’s classified Constructivism
A new exhibition of the US artist’s work uses Rodchenko-style abstraction to illuminate shadowy documents
Dan Hunter brings Brae to Hong Kong
The acclaimed Australian chef joins Richard Ekkebus at Amber in Hong Kong for a stormy four-hands dinner
Bean burger or hamburger?
That was the question being asked in New York last week when we threw launch parties for our new food titles
Looking back at the Pride Flag
This LGBT Pride Month we remember Gilbert Baker, the creator of one of California’s most potent protest symbols
Nendo turns tombs into a fun park in Japan
The Japanese architecture and design practice draws on ancient burial motifs (and pizzas) for its first park
How to get a taste of Massimo Bottura’s Refettorio food
Want to try Refettorio dishes, but don’t want to pretend to be homeless? Here's how you can do it
The altarpiece that helped art break away from the church
Duccio’s Maestà Altarpiece was unveiled 706 years ago today to some fanfare - here's how it heralded a new age
Ai Weiwei turns the Armory into a surveillance play park
The artist and activist is reunited with Herzog & de Meuron for an immersive trip into digital mass monitoring
Who's the boss of mid-century design?
A new exhibition looks at the relationship between mid-20th century designers and their corporate overlords
Does democracy work in art?
As Britain goes to the polls, we look at the democratic processes within the artworld’s most prominent groups
Magnum Photos get closer (and cheaper)
The photo agency’s latest print sale focuses on ways in which photographers have got close to their subjects
A Movement in a Moment: Young British Artists
On Damien Hirst’s birthday, we look back at the London movement that propelled him and his fellow Brits forwards
How Charles Rennie Mackintosh changed the Vienna Secession
Discover the architect and designer's often overlooked influence on Austria’s famed art movement
Kathrina Grosse paints Denmark pink
Aarhus's coastline gets a dash of colour, courtesy of this wild, German site-specific abstract painter
A first look at Massimo Bottura’s London Refettorio
His Refettorio Felix just opened, serving fine food to the needy - here’s why he doesn’t mind being asked for chips!
JR does the cover of the new Arcade Fire album
The artist’s desert installation features on the band’s new record cover and in new video Everything Now
A Movement in a Moment: Social Practice
JR, Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson are at the vanguard of a new movement. But what exactly is it that they're doing?
This guy eats more plant-based protein for breakfast than anyone you've ever met - and he looks good on it!
On Meatless Monday meet Kyle Michaud, founder of VegFest Expo and champion of all things vegan
MAD make the walls come alive in this Beijing bathroom
The Chinese architects rethink art bathroom conventions setting LEDs into the walls of Roca Beijing
Elmgreen & Dragset’s Fjord focus
The art duo’s latest sculpture Dilemma recalls the early childhood urge to both leap and hold back
A Marilyn Monroe postcard from Ellsworth Kelly
On the 94th anniversary of the artist’s birth we look back at his little-known (and often stolen) mail art collages
Did you see us with Grayson Perry on TV last night?
The ceramicist is inspired by our books Body of Art and Map judging by his Channel 4 Brexit documentary
Annie Leibovitz shoots Star Wars for Vanity Fair
The brilliant US photographer shoots four different covers featuring the cast of The Last Jedi
A Phaidon guide to Mario Testino’s art collection
The photo legend is selling his collection at Sotheby’s - here’s all you need to need to know about the artists in it
The weird numerology behind Anselm Kiefer’s new show
Meet the poet who wrote a language for birds, predicted the web, and inspired Kiefer's new Hermitage exhibition
David Lynch's art, architecture and photography influences
As Twin Peaks returns we take a look at how the director’s life-long appreciation of cool stuff affects his vision
Photos That Changed The World - Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange's photo humanised the Great Depression and greatly influenced documentary photography
Grace Coddington’s part in Edward Enninful’s rise
Here’s how Grace Coddington encouraged the new British Vogue editor's progression to the top
You can see into North Korea from this very big wheel
But you'll have to have a really good head for heights - it's the biggest 'spokeless' one in the world
On Araki’s birthday why not invest in a limited edition print?
The photographer is 77 today, here’s how you can own one of his beautifully nuanced, erotic photographs
Amazon plants out its Spheres
The tech firm is bringing a little Amazonian-style biodiversity to Seattle as it propagates its new meeting space
How Apple’s 1984 ad rewrote George Orwell
As the Design Museum’s new California exhibition opens we look back at one seminal Apple Macintosh ad
Albert Adrià plans 'a surprising bath' for Ibiza
Chef, author and brother of Ferran returns to the party island with Cirque du Soleil for another mad season
Have you seen this new Wolfgang Tillmans video?
The acclaimed photographer has made a video with London producer Powell and will perform with him in August
