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
The ancient inspiration behind Peter Marino's Gagosian debut
Discover how a pre-Christian shipwreck led the architect and fine-art collector to create a series of beautiful boxes
A culinary guide to Donald Trump’s first foreign trip
His love of fries is well established, so how will he get on with Middle Eastern, Italian, Belgian and French cuisine?
The tank that inspired Cartier
A new Design Museum exhibition looks at the influence of heavy industry on one of the world’s finest jewellers
Korea joins The High Line club
The Dutch architecture practice MVRDV has created a linear park for the South Korean capital Seoul
In Production - Kerry James Marshall
Contemporary Art Editor Michele Robecchi gives us a sneak peek at a book about to leave our shelves for yours
The Pope guided Massimo Bottura to feed the poor
Here’s how divine intervention led the chef and Phaidon author’s philanthropic Food for Soul initiative
Why John Pawson is the ideal Noguchi Award winner
Everyone from Ian Schrager to Deyan Sudjic thinks the architect is an apt Isamu Noguchi Award honouree
Watch Lauren Greenfield at the Design Museum in London
See the photographer talk about why Generation Wealth is not just about the wealthy - but all of us
Would you wear Tank Man on a t-shirt?
That’s the question photo-loving followers of fashion will be asking themselves at Dover Street Market
Lauren Greenfield - 'I want to photograph Trump!'
Our Generation Wealth photo author made a surprise revelation at last night’s Design Museum talk. . .
When Eve Arnold met Malcolm X
On Malcolm X Day, we look at the events surrounding an iconic shoot by the Magnum photographer
JR and Agnès Varda’s small-town film comes to Cannes
The documentary Visages Villages follows the pair aboard JR’s mobile photo booth as they drive into rural France
How Walter Gropius made the modern age
On the anniverary of the Bauhaus founder's birth we look at how his school helped form modern functionalism
Philip Guston versus Richard Nixon
On the 44th anniversary of the Watergate hearings a new show looks back at the artist's take on Tricky Dicky
Paul Smith takes Martin Parr to the beach
The Magnum photographer lets the designer reproduce his beach photographs on a suitably summery range
How drinks with Erik Satie helped Man Ray make this 'gift'
On the 151st anniversary of the minimalist composer’s birth we look back at his little-known surrealist collaboration
Grace Coddington styles Elle Fanning for Vogue cover
Vogue’s creative director at large teams up with Annie Leibovitz for the June issue - two Phaidon authors!
How Aziz Ansari ended up at Massimo Bottura's place
"It was one of the greatest meals of our lives that we happened to capture on film!" says co-star Eric Wareheim
Art inspired by the Cultural Revolution
On the 51st anniversary how the generation it affected incorporated their experience into great artworks
A pen fit for Peter Marino
The architect and art lover collaborates with Caran d’Ache to produce a new range of writing implements
5 reasons to look again at Las Vegas architecture
Vegas was founded 112 years ago today. Here’s how to love it, even if you’re not a slots and Cirque du Soleil sort
Nicholas Fahey on why he loves Lauren Greenfield
The respected LA photo gallerist on what to look for in a Lauren Greenfield picture, how she's turning on a new generation to photography and why he thinks she's a little bit like Henri Cartier-Bresson
What was the Target in Jasper Johns' paintings?
On the artist’s 87th birthday, we look into the hidden meanings in one of his best-known series of works
Joel Meyerowitz - in black and white and full colour
Witness the moment when the pioneering American photographer began depicting his world in two ways
A Movement in a Moment: The Pre-Raphaelites
On Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s birthday, we look back at the original band of revolting London art students
JR’s mercy mission to Somalia
The artist and activist joins social media-stars Jérôme Jarre and Juanpa Zurita on their aid trip to East Africa
Richard Tuttle's Critical Edge
Richard Tuttle first came to prominence in the 60s with a body of work that used mundane materials such as textile, paper, wire, and rope – materials he still works with today as a curent show of recent work at Pace London reveals
Pentagram gives Margaret Howell a makeover
The London fashion designer's studio gets an interior refresh courtesy of the international design practice
Inside Mark Bradford's US pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Why the LA artist is drawing on classical mythology, Marilyn Monroe and prison reform in his installation
Ferran Adrià has just announced his first US venture
The elBulli chef will work with José Andrés to launch an Eataly-style Spanish food hall under the High Line
Four ways of looking at Giacometti
Heading to the Tate show? Then here are a few tips for getting the most out of the great man’s art
Massimo Bottura breaks bread with Obama in Milan
Food and climate change brought the chef and the former President together in northern Italy earlier today
How Sottsass and Scarpa pushed back against modernism
A new ceramics exhibition sheds light on the ways these two Italians subtly rejected modernism’s restraints
What to expect from Bruce Nauman in the Tate Turbine Hall
Nauman's 2004 sound piece Raw Materials returns to the Tate next week. Here are some key insights into the work
René Redzepi has just cooked a Mexican wasps nest!
It was harvested on a full moon, in accordance with local tradition, and cooked whole over a bonfire
Ellsworth Kelly’s last paintings meet his early plant art
Here's why the late artist's gallery chose to pair his final abstract works with his earlier botanical drawings
A Phaidon guide to Brad Pitt’s favourite sculptor
Here’s what you need to know about the British-born LA-based artist Thomas Houseago
