The painter who escaped the School of London
Find out why Michael Andrews' landscapes have broken the £1m mark and landed him a show at the Gagosian

A look back at glasses
A new show at Design Museum Holon examines the history of spectacles through one remarkable collection

OMA and Prada create domestic bliss
Rem Koolhaas’ firm built a decidedly homely setting for Prada’s Men’s and Women’s Fall/Winter 2017 show

Shepard Fairey’s plan for Trump’s inauguration
The street artist and creator of the Obama HOPE image has some new posters ready for the Jan 20 event

Theaster Gates adds new colour to old data
The US artist moves into poetry and data visualisation for his new LA exhibition at Regen Projects

Grace Coddington remembers Lord Snowdon
The fashion icon recalls working with the society photographer both as a model and as a creative director

Josef Albers at Zwirner kicks off 2017 Sunny Side Up
A new show of the Bauhaus legend's yellow squares is the perfect antidote to a grey London January

Bold new stadiums for Chelsea FC and the Raiders
Two world-class sports brands are teaming up with equally prominent architects to oversee new homes

Peter Marino designs major Mapplethorpe show
Opening in Tokyo in March, Memento Mori will feature more than 90 photographs curated by Marino from his own collection in a space he himself designed. It's the first Japanese show of Robert Mapplethorpe's work in 15 years

Rem Koolhaas creates a new Factory for Manchester
OMA leans on the city's legendary televisual and musical heritage for its huge new cultural venue

A Marina Abramović space odyssey
Ever wondered what an interstellar flight with the world-famous artist might be like? Of course you have!

Screensavers as folk art?
Should we regard these functional, visual loops as valuable artifacts? Yes, says Rotterdam’s Het Nieuwe Instituut

New designs for old age
Design Museum exhibition examines contemporary design solutions to the problems we'll all face in later life

Did you spot JR in the 72nd Street station?
See how Vik Muniz, fellow artist and friend of the French photograffeur, sneaked JR into his NY Subway art

How artist co-ops created NY’s downtown scene
A new show looks at how artist-run galleries helped create an astonishingly varied Sixties art scene

The High Line gets a London-style art plinth
New York’s linear park will soon have its first dedicated public art space, inspired by Trafalgar Square

Nocturnal Animals' hidden art stars
Did you spot the Sterling Ruby, Mark Bradford, John Currin and Alexander Calder works in Tom Ford's new film?

JFK airport gets a $10 billion upgrade
Could a huge cash injection turn this 68-year-old entry point into the kind of airport New York deserves?

What are you doing up there Massimo?
Discover why the Phaidon author and world’s greatest chef began this year with a high-altitude dinner over Mexico

Stephen Shore's snowy American Surfaces
The 69-year-old New York photographer reprises his cross-country road trips for a winter in the Instagram age

Fredrik Berselius on nature, food and Michelin stars
The founding chef of Aska in New York describes how he went from would-be architect to Michelin-star winner

Juan José Cambre - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Elemental Living - Down Under
Resembling an ancient settlement and built using rammed earth and local crushed rock, Earth House comprises a series of living and sleeping spaces, all connected by a corridor the architect calls the 'disappearing street'

Christie's Strangest Sales – Raphael’s Muse
The stakes were high when this sublime Renaissance sketch came up for sale at the venerable auction house

Déborah Pruden - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Grace's greatest photographers – Demarchelier
To celebrate the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue's Grace Coddington recalls some of her favourite photographers, including the long-standing consummate professional Patrick Demarchelier

Ahmed Alsoudani - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Sarah Sze goes underground in New York
The artist joins Chuck Close, Vik Muniz and Jean Shin to create public works for the city's new subway line

Christie's Strangest Sales - Where Relativity Began
What happened when 54 pages of Einstein's theoretical mathematical processes went under the hammer?

The Art of the Plant – Yayoi Kusama
Find out why the Japanese artist regards her work as a means to heal both herself and mankind

When James Franco spanked Paul McCarthy
The Hollywood actor tells Stephen Colbert how McCarthy helped him drop his pants in public

Yu Hong - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Steven Holl’s wave-like library for Malawi
The brilliant US architect brings his contemplative building design skills to one of the poorest areas of Africa

The search for Darwin's moth
Why was Darwin convinced this long-tongued moth existed even though it wasn't discovered until after he died?

Grace's greatest photographers – Mario Testino
To celebrate the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue's Grace Coddington recalls some of her favourite photographers, including this Peruvian master who “manages to keep the mood up, up, up”

The Art of the Plant – Emily Dickinson
What did the American poet see in this simple page of pressed flowers?

Great recipes deserve great ingredients
Couple our great new book Eataly with one of the regional gift boxes from the Italian food company this Christmas

BIG to rebrand the Nordic countries
Bjarke Ingels’ practice joins Area9, Ole Lund Creative and Mensch in an ambitious rebrand of the region

David Diao - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Can you see Beirut in Mona Hatoum’s metal blocks?
How the Lebanese artist looked back to her shattered home town via this brutal, evocative steel installation

Plant and BloomsyBox – the gift that keeps on giving
If you’re gifting our great book Plant this holiday season why not couple it with a year’s worth of blooms?

Christie's Strangest Sales - An expensive egg timer
Find out how the world's most expensive timepiece weathered the revolution and winged its way back to Russia

A Movement in a Moment: Post-Impressionism
Discover why Virginia Woolf pinpointed a 1910 painting exhibition as the starting point for the modern life

Rose Wylie - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

How Ettore Sottsass took a shine to glass
A new show in the designer's centenary year looks at his fascination with, and dedication to, the material

MAD's Fake Hills solve real world problems
Our new book shows how this coastal block draws on the local geography to bring nature into its residents’ lives

Robert De Niro’s favourite new painter
Find out more about the New York painter RH Quaytman, winner of the 2016 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize

How designers take a lead from the natural world
Evolution details the natural phenomena aiding designers - and how some designs have changed the animal world

Grace's greatest photographers – Tim Walker
To mark the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue's Grace Coddington recalls some of her favourite photographers, including this tenacious, quintessentially English fashion image maker

Genieve Figgis - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

The Art of the Plant – Leonardo da Vinci
Artist or scientist? Discover why da Vinci's botanical drawings lie at the very heart of this Renaissance Man's work

Sasha Petraske's 8 rules for drinking decorously
Find out how Milk & Honey's Sasha Petraske changed the bar culture of New York using this list of simple rules

Grace's greatest photographers – David Sims
In honour of the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue's Grace Coddington recalls some of her favourite photographers, including the Nineties minimalist who reminded her of David Bailey

Gift the Book - and the Look! #3
Regarding Cocktails is a great book and an even better gift when paired with a Williams-Sonoma shaker set

Unveiling the New York City AIDS Memorial
Jenny Holzer and Studio ai collaborate on a monument to those who died and those who continue to fight AIDS

Fäviken heads for the slopes
Next year one of the world’s greatest chefs is hosting a ski resort supper club - here’s how you can snag a table

Helen Johnson - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Olafur Eliasson turns to ice (again)
The artist and activist has put his Greenland icebergs to work - this time to create a new Berlin show

Memphis does Hanukkah
Ever wondered what a Sottsass-influenced menorah looks like? Find out at the Jewish Museum, New York

Christie's Strangest Sales - Hercules and the Duke
The auction that signalled a turning point in the high esteem in which the British Royal Family were once held

Wolfgang Tillmans returns to magazines
The photographer turned musician shoots the cover of Pop and appears on the cover of Arena Homme +

Ryan Mosley - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

The dirty politics in Mona Hatoum’s Cube
This Lebanese-born artist took US minimalism and added in a heavy subtext, as this book explains

The meanings in Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram
Sexual metaphor or a religious offering? Here’s how to examine one of the key pieces in the Tate’s new show

Gift the Book - and the Look! #2
If they’ll like A Hard Day’s Night they’ll love this Magnum contact sheet of the Fab Four at Abbey Road too

Can you see the music in these patterns?
Could fabric design and music share some unlikely common ground? Yes, judging by our new book Patterns

MAD's twisted home for traditional wooden art
Our new book describes how MAD architects created a polished steel home for a wood museum

Valentina D'Amaro - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Magnum's moving photos of refugees
The photo agency teams with Amnesty International to highlight refugee crises past and present

Gift the Book - and the Look!
If they like Grace they'll love these Paul Smith accessories - so don't just gift our books, gift the world within them

The Art of the Plant – Vincent van Gogh
Though better known for his Sunflowers, the artist drew this Hyacinth during his struggle with mental illness

80-year-old Ingeborg Lüscher – Art needs courage
The artist on life with Harald Szeemann, how the Prague Spring changed her, and what young artists should do

A few of Sarah Sze's favourite things
A Vermeer, a Japanese shrine, Rauschenberg's bed - and toilet paper - are among the artist's most-loved objects

Music to watch Agnes Martin to
The New York contemporary composer John Zorn sets the artist's abstract work to music at the Guggenheim

Ma Yansong on his MAD Tiananmen Square forest
The MAD Architect looks back on his scheme for Beijing and wonders whether he could improve Western cities

Christie's Strangest Sales – the Hand of God
How two Polish politicians' protests actually pushed up the price of this Maurizio Cattelan work

Virgilio Martínez goes to Attica
The Peruvian chef teams up with Ben Shewry to prepare dinner at his world-beating Melbourne restaurant

Toby Mott - Joe Corré’s punk bonfire was wrong
Punk In Print author says Sex Pistols' manager's son went against punk's spirit by burning cultural ephemera

Grace's greatest photographers – Mert and Marcus
To herald the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue's Grace Coddington runs through her favourite photographers, including this pair who use digital techniques to get the perfect picture

How this rural retreat mimics its environment
Look what happens when contemporary architecture meets splendid isolation via our book Elemental Living

The tiny hole that shed light on all of us
Our new book Evolution looks at the team of 'underground astronauts' who added weight to Darwin’s theory

The books beside Jonathan Ive
Did you catch our book cameo in the BBC interview with Apple's Chief Design Officer and Phaidon author?

Happy 85th birthday Tomi Ungerer!
Eric Carle, Jean Julien, Milton Glaser, Oliver Jeffers and Stefan Sagmeister all pay tribute to the 85-year-old author

Julia Rommel - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

A Vitamin P3 guide to Art Basel Miami Beach
Want to understand what's on display at next month’s art fair? Then get our new painting survey Vitamin P3

Eataly is opening a theme park!
FICO Eataly World will take Italian food fanatics on a culinary roller coaster ride all in one ambitious new venue

How Massimo Bottura's family do Thanksgiving
Look at how the world’s best chef brings together the two sides of his family over a pumpkin-infused tiramisu

Grace's greatest photographers – Ellen Von Unwerth
Ahead of the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue's Grace Coddington runs through some of her favourite photographers, including fellow ex-model turned fashion professional Ellen von Unwerth

Cui Jie - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

The Art of the Plant – Rob Kesseler
This hand-coloured electron microscope scan shows how beautiful tiny pieces of the natural world can be

Christie's Strangest Sales – The Lady in Disguise
Discover the tragic tale behind one of Christie's earliest consignors, courtesy of our new book Going Once

How Monica Bonvicini put the sex into construction
The artist's first UK retrospective demonstrates how this Italian artist finds erotic charge within the built environment

Can you guess what this new Pentagram logo is for?
Paula Scher turns pictures into words in this new identity for a Canadian healthcare charity

Take a look at Paul McCarthy's tortured dwarves
Artist's latest show demonstrates just how he can't leave these pop-cultural obsessions alone

Dive into Doug Aitken’s Underwater Pavilions
Discover why the Californian artist's latest installation lies under the waves 22 miles off LA's coastline

Caragh Thuring - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

When Mies went wild in the country
Our new book Elemental Living looks at the great modernist’s bucolic getaway project, the Farnsworth House

Bob Nickas on his genre-busting new painting show
Are the pictures in Nickas’s exhibition figurative? Are they abstract? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’ and also ‘maybe’

Herzog & de Meuron mix art and science at the RCA
Discover how a Phaidon author is helping the Swiss practice rework the Royal College of Art Campus

The Art of the Plant – Marc Quinn
Best known for Self - a cast of his blood-filled head, the sculptor has also found inspiration in the natural world
