The story behind Sterling Ruby's Stoves

Art, craft, or something else unprecedented? Read how the artist collapsed the wall between art and non art

Sterling Ruby - Black Stoves 1, 2, 3, 4 painted stainless steel - installation view at La Museé de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris

When Magnum captured a moment in Manhattan

The dreadful events of September 11 were recorded in countless images - none more powerful than these

From Magnum Photobook The Catalogue Raisonné

Aliza Nisenbaum - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Aliza Nisenbaum photographed by Brad Ogbonna

Christie's Strangest Sales - A Rembrandt Rumpus

How one buyer's complicated bidding signals backfired badly when a Rembrandt was auctioned at Christie's

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), Portrait of the Artist’s Son Titus, c.1655, oil on canvas, 65 x 56 cm (24½ x 20½ in) SALE 19 March 1965, London
SOLD 760,000 guineas/ £798,000/$2,234,400 EQUIVALENT TODAY £13,800,000/$19,905,000

Virgilio Martinez and friends give food for thought

Food on the Edge festival plays host to nourishing bites from Massimo Bottura, Daniel Burns and Will Goldfarb

Virgilio Martinez of Central and Matt Orlando of Amass at Food on the Edge photo Declan Monaghan

Marwan 1934 - 2016

We look back at the work of a veteran Syrian painter whose work many were only just beginning to appreciate

Marwan. Image courtesy of The Mosaic Rooms

Daniel Boyd - Why I Paint

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Daniel Boyd in the studio 2016

A high-rise for Africa's slums

Nigerian designer Olalekan Jeyifous envisions a multi-storey dystopia for Lagos’s poorest citizens

Shanty Mega-structures by Olalekan Jeyifous

The dark heart of Nigel Cooke’s Bathers

Discover how this lush, lewd painting by the UK artist examines the ultimate mystery that lies at the centre of his art

Bathers (2011) by Nigel Cooke. As reproduced in our new Contemporary Artist Series book devoted to the painter.

When Picasso met René Burri

On the anniversary of Picasso's birth, we take a look at a momentous meeting of two impressive talents

Pablo Picasso, Villa la Californie, Canne, 1957 - René Burri

Andy Warhol’s body of art

The Andy Warhol Museum’s new show looks at how the artist examined his body and others in a series of works

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (Passport Photograph with Altered Nose), 1956, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Have fun at Annabelle Selldorf’s YMCA

Reworked by Selldorf Architects the YMCA where Warhol was once a member is on the market for $14.5m

213 West 23rd Street. Photograph: Tim Waltman Courtesy of Compass

Laura Lancaster - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Laura Lancaster, East Hampton residency, 2015

Danny Lyon and the New Journalism

A new exhibition shows why we should view the photographer’s 20th century shots as faithful first drafts of history

SNCC staff sit-in, Atlanta, Georgia, 1963 © Danny Lyon. From the Seventh Dog

Oscar Murillo - Why I Paint

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Oscar Murillo 2016

MAD's glowing home for China's leading orchestra

China Philharmonic Orchestra has just revealed its brilliant new Beijing concert hall designed by MAD Architects

A rendering for the new China Philharmonic Concert Hall by MAD Architects. Image courtesy of MAD

Watch Pharrell kiss Agnès Varda in JR's new film

The artist introduced francophone audiences to a few of his famous pals in a new Canal + video, Carte Blanche

Agnès Varda and Pharrell Williams, as posted on JR's Instagram

Happy birthday Arita!

Nestling among rice fields the Japanese town, famed for the purity of its porcelain, is 400 years old this year

From Arita/ Table of Contents

Massimo and Kerry James Marshall are NYT Greats

The chef and the painter join William Eggleston, Lady Gaga, Junya Watanabe and Michelle Obama on Greats List

Massimo Bottura photographed by Bea de Giacomo and Kerry James Marshall's self portrait on the cover of this Sunday's New York Times' T Magazine. Images courtesy of the New York Times

Phaidon authors dominate ArtReview's Power 100

From Ai Weiwei to Yayoi Kusama, Hans Ulrich Obrist to Isa Genzken, Phaidon folk feature highly in this year's list

Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries and Phaidon author tops the ArtReview Power 100 2016

Brooklyn's in bloom!

Phaidon teamed up with Garden Collage in a horticultural paradise to celebrate our new book Plant

How Garden Collage welcomed guests to the Botany Salon. Photograph by Andreana Bitsis

Madame Tussauds is building a Yayoi Kusama zone

A replica of the Japanese artist will go on display inside a polka-dot themed room in the Hong Kong branch

A Madame Tussauds employee takes measurements for the new Yayoi Kusama zone.


Virgilio's brush with Gwyneth Paltrow on US tour

The Peruvian chef mingled with authors and even a Hollywood star during his book tour of North America

Virgilio Martinez works alongside Corey Lee at InSitu, San Francisco

Rafael Vega - Why I Paint

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Rafael Vega

Wallpaper* City Guide launches in Paris

The Amastan hotel provided a cool, polished setting to celebrate the publication of the new guide

Ahnna Lee, Zied Sanhaji (Owner, Amastan) and guest. Photograph by Thomas Smith

What did David Bowie write on this design classic?

Discover the stories behind this Sottsass piece and others in the singer's collection on sale at Sotheby's

Valentine portable typewriter by Ettore Sottsass with Perry King. Image courtesy of Sotheby's

When Abbas shot the Islamic Revolution

The Iranian photographer is one of the many greats featured in Magnum Photobook The Catalogue Raisonné

Abbas  - Revolutionary Iran, 1979

The story behind Sterling Ruby's Super Max

With typical sleight of hand Ruby uses minimalism and landscape while at the same time critiquing them

Sterling Ruby - Exhibition View, Supermax 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008

Alex Katz is designing an H&M collection

The artist is offering his images on womenswear, menswear, accessories, and home décor this Christmas

Ada with Bathing Cap (1982) by Alex Katz. As reproduced in our book


Toby Mott on the punk poster that caused a car crash

The Oh So Pretty Punk In Print 1976-80 compiler on the distraction a risqué Slits poster caused one London driver

The Slits - Cut

Ulrike Müller - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Ulrike Müller - photograph courtesy of the artist and Callicoon Fine Arts, NY. Photo: (c) eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler

How Aussie builders could save this Brutalist gem

Sydney's construction unions ban their members from knocking down architecturally important Sirius building

The Sirius apartment building in Sydney. Photograph by Craig Hayman, courtesy of craighayman.com

Martin Parr turns his lens on Belfast

In a new exhibition the Magum President photographs Northern Ireland’s burgeoning tourist boom

A photograph from Welcome to Belfast by Martin Parr. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

Zbigniew Rogalski - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3


Dad lost his £3m Warhol work? Then make a movie

Lisanne Skyler’s new film Brillo Box (3¢ Off) traces her dad's pop art bargain from the streets of NY to Christie's

A still from Lisanne Skyler’s new film Brillo Box (3¢ Off)

The school that linked the Bauhaus to the iPhone

New London show looks at the Ulm School which brought scientific thinking to 20th century design

Advertisement for Erbotherm, heat therapy unit. Designers: Tomás Maldonado, with Gui Bonsiepe and Rudolf Scharfenberg. 1962, Manufacturer: Erbe Elektromedizin. Photo by Wolfgang Siol. Courtesy HfG-Archiv / Ulmer Museum

Why Obama just visited Theaster Gates' arts centre

The President came to the Stony Island Arts Bank to help a local politician, and warn against bad election choices

Barack Obama at the Stony Island Arts Bank. Image courtesy of the Rebuild Foundation's Twitter

Christine Streuli - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Christine Streuli photographed by Benjamin Zibner

Toby Mott on the punk poster every collector wants

Punk graphics archivist and Phaidon author shares another highlight from his new book in this short video

Toby Mott at the John Varvatos store in London for the launch of Oh So Pretty Punk in Print 1976-80

Meet Tomi Ungerer (and his lost classics)

The author is coming to London next month to discuss his life and work. Find out how you can get tickets

Tomi with his new Phaidon book, Tomi Ungerer: A Treasury of 8 Books - photo by Herman Baily

Patricia Urquiola’s spiritual stainless steel collection

The Spanish designer’s new collection for Georg Jensen makes this simple material look remarkably luxurious

Patricia Urquiola’s Urkiola collection for Georg Jensen

Why the Queen just gave Martin Parr a bronze acorn

The photographer was honoured alongside Iwona Blazwick and Cornelia Parker at the Royal Academy yesterday

The Royal Academy's bronze acorn, London. Image courtesy of the Royal Academy

An art lesson from 'new' painter Etel Adnan (91)

An Artspace interview with the Vitamin P3 featured artist on how art feeds our spirit and humanises us

Etel Adnan in her studio. Photo by Fabrice Gilbert, courtesy Galerie Lelong and Artspace

Toby Mott talks us through his punk archive

Discover the impromptu ways Mott came by his peerless collection of punk graphic design collection in this video

Poster for The Clash’s On Parole tour, June/July 1978. Courtesy of The Mott Collection

COS brings its Agnes Martin line to the high street

The minimalist Swedish retailer has launched a capsule collection in honour of Agnes Martin’s Guggenheim show

COS x Agnes Martin Guggenheim 2016. Image courtesy of COS

Why does Cai Guo-Qiang like blowing things up?

A new Netflix documentary, premiering this Friday, examines the Chinese artist and his love of explosives


Steven Holl autographs his new Queens library!

Architect joins community leaders at the topping out ceremony for Hunters Point Community Library, NY

Steven Holl at the topping out ceremony for Hunters Point Community Library, Long Island City

Bartek Materka - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Baterka Materka

The dumb film behind Shepard Fairey's new print

The OBEY and HOPE artist draws from Mike Judge’s lost classic, Idiocracy, when drawing up this political work

Idiocracy (2016) by Shepard Fairey. Available for a limited time at mondotees.com

Vitamin P2 artist Adrian Ghenie breaks sale records

His 2008 work Nickelodeon went for over 4 times its estimate last night. Is it time you looked at Vitamin P3?


Meleko Mokgosi - Why I Paint

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Meleko Mokgosi

A kiln-style museum for porcelain's ancient home

The history of porcelain will be told in this extraordinary fired-earth structure destined for north-eastern China

Jingdezhen Historical Museum of Imperial Kiln by Studio Pei-Zhu

The hidden poetry in Edmund de Waal’s Frieze show

The artist and Phaidon author talks us through his new works which occupy all of the Gagosian stand at Frieze

Edmund de Waal at Frieze, London 2016

Toby Mott launches Punk In Print at John Varvatos

Punk graphics archivist teams up with John Varvatos, Phaidon and Artspace for launch party and exhibition

Nick Rhodes and Nefer Suvio at John Varvatos

The story behind that pink table at Frieze

Artist Portia Munson tells us how her love of pink led to this feminist work, which is proving to be a hit at Frieze

Pink Project: Table (1994/2016) by Portia Munson. Photograph by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/Frieze.

Could Atlanta build a High Line over this highway?

City planners hope to bring this linear park to a newly built space above a busy city freeway

Buckhead Park Over GA400 by Rogers Partners

Jamian Juliano-Villani - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Jamian Juliano-Villani photographed by Aubrey Mayer

A Movement in a Moment: The Harlem Renaissance

Discover how a group of artists in early 20th century Manhattan used art to forge a new African-American identity

Into Bondage (1936) by Aaron Douglas. From Color Line

5 things that could only happen at Frieze

Look out for Julie Verhoeven's fine-art lavatory intervention, chimps, puppets and Donald Trump in psychoanalysis

A still from Julie Verhoeven's Whiskers Between my Legs (2014)

Dexter Dalwood - Why I Paint

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Dexter Dalwood photographed by Paul McGeiver

How Sasha Petraske reinvented the speakeasy

Our new book by the barman sheds light on how the native New Yorker changed the way we drink

Barman and Regarding Cocktails author Sasha Petraske

Take a listen to Toby Mott's punk playlist on Spotify

Oh So Pretty Punk In Print author and graphic archivist talks us through 15 songs that embody the punk spirit

The promo poster for Anarchy In The UK by Sex Pistols - From Oh So Pretty Punk In Print 1976-80

Louisa Gagliardi - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Louisa Gagliardi photographed by Adam Cruces

Could we shrink, curve or sink NYC's Bus Terminal?

We all know the Port Authority Bus Terminal is a little broken -opinions differ however, on how best it might be fixed

A rendering from Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects' Port Authority Bus Terminal

The fashion elite turn out for Grace’s Paris signing

Stars of our new book, Grace: The American Vogue Years, celebrated Coddington’s career at her Colette signing

Natalia Vodianova with Grace Coddington at Colette, Paris, 2016

Sascha Braunig - Why I Paint

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Sascha Braunig

Why is Johnny Depp hiding his art collection?

Which works occupy these obscured frames in Depp’s LA home, currently on the market for $12.78m?

Eastern Columbia Penthouse Collection Of Johnny Depp. Image courtesy of Partners Trust

How Warhol made Stephen Shore drop out of school

The veteran photographer tells WSJ why the Factory crowd caused him to take a less academic path

Stephen Shore: Rene Ricard, Susan Bottomly, Eric Emerson, unidentified woman; middle row: Mary (Might) Woronov, Andy Warhol, Ronnie Cutrone; background: Paul Morrissey, Edie Sedgwick. Paraphernalia’s opening and show (1966); clothes designer Betsey Johnson, store owner Paul Young, 1965-7 (page 113). © Stephen Shore

From Book to Bid – Agnes Martin’s Praise

At auction at Christie's, this deceptively simple grid-like work from 1985 describes a simple, meditative beauty


Sarah Cain - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3


Rem Koolhaas's EU lounge for the Design Museum

Discover why the lovely furniture, and scary crowd, suit the museum’s forthcoming exhibition Fear and Love

OMA's The Pan-European Living Room. Image courtesy of OMA and the Design Museum

Meet Peter Koepke and his secret pattern library

Discover how Koepke's Design Library has, for decades served as the fashion business's secret inspiration source

Peter Koepke at the Design Library. Photo credit: Mark Mahaney

Zach Harris - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Zach Harris

Ai Weiwei and Edmund de Waal’s ceramics show

The artists and ceramicists hope their new show will re-establish the medium's rightful place within fine art

The Wave (2014) by Ai Weiwei. © Ai Weiwei Studio

Phaidon chefs top the Latin America 50 Best List!

Virgilio Martinez, Alex Atala, Enrique Olvera and Rodolfo Guzmán all placed in top 5 at last night's awards

Virgilio Martinez at last night's Latin America 50 Best Restaurant awards. Image courtesy of 50 Best's Instagram

The truth about Sterling Ruby's electric chair

The artist explains why he remade an execution tool and why he associates it with movies and Modernism

Big Yellow Mama (2013) by Sterling Ruby, installed, alongside Stop Block (background, 2013) at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium, 2014. As reproduced in our new Sterling Ruby book

Anna Ostoya - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Anna Ostoya

Photos That Changed The World – Steamfitter

Discover how Lewis Hine’s power-plant worker captured the dignity of industrial labour for the first time

Steamfitter (1920) by Lewis Hine

Jack Whitten - Why I Paint

An interview with the late American painter and contributor to our contemporary painting survey, Vitamin P3


How Nigel Cooke pushes painting to its limits

The painter's smoldering new exhibition shows how he switched gallows humour for a sensual take on the form

Salome (2016) by Nigel Cooke. From the new Pace exhibition and our new monograph

A Movement in a Moment: Abstract Expressionism

As the Royal Academy show opens, we look back at the New Yorkers who remade painting for post-war America

Arshile Gorky Water of the Flowery Mill, 1944 Oil on canvas, 107.3 x 123.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2016 Digital image © 2016. The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence. Part of Abstract Expressionism, Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, 24 September 2016 – 2 January 2017

Paul Smith threw a party for Grace last night!

'If you’re interested in fashion you’ve got to have her book!' says the legendary British fashion designer


Could the Bouroullecs help us create dreamier cities?

The French furniture designers turn their attention to urban reverie in a thought-provoking exhibition at Vitra

An installation view of Rêveries Urbaines by the Bouroullecs. Image courtesy of Vitra

How Richard Attenborough bagged $2m in Picassos

Ahead of its Sotheby's sale, discover how the actor director put together a highly valuable ceramics collection

From left: Pablo Picasso, Pichet à Glace (A.R. 142), 1952. Numbered 1/100 inscribed 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', with the Edition Picasso and Madoura stamps (Estimate £12,000–18,000) and Vase au décor pastel (A.R. 190), 1953. Numbered 9/200, incised 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', with the Madoura and Edition Picasso stamps (Estimate £5,000–7,000). Image courtesy of Sotheby's

This is why Owen Wilson loves Ed Ruscha's work

The Hollywood star reveals his love for the LA pop artist in his voiceover for this new mini documentary

Ed Ruscha, as featured in MOCA's new documentary

A giant cube will take shape on WTC site

Take a look at these newly unveiled designs for lower Manhattan's next arts venue - courtesy of ex-OMA architects

The Ronald O Perelman Performing Arts Centre by Rex

Why Jared Leto wants to play Andy Warhol

A clue to the Hollywood star's casting as Andy lies in a 2013 interview wherein he quotes the Pope of Pop

Andy Warhol c.1966 by Stephen Shore, from Factory: Andy Warhol; Jared Leto, 2016 by Gage Skidmore, via Wikipedia.

What the President ordered at Cosme

When it came to a final, post-UN meal, Barack Obama knew Enrique Olvera’s restaurant was the place to go

Barack Obama at Cosme, New York. Image courtesy of Tina Sanchoo's Instagram

4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #4 Laughing Donut Holes

Want a smile on your face throughout 2017? Then try this simple Chinese snack, believed to help you find happiness


4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #1 Soy Sauce Chicken

Could this tasty chicken dish bring you prosperity in 2017? Our simple recipe makes it fun to find out


4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #2 Lettuce Wrap with Oysters

Discover why, thanks to Chinese wordplay, a delicious dish like this could also boost your professional life in 2017

Lettuce Wrap with Dried Oysters from China The Cookbook

When Warhol painted the Hammer and Sickle

Did a working trip to Seventies Italy change Andy's political outlook?

Hammer and Sickle (1977) by Andy Warhol

Mecanoo’s wooden station is on track

The Dutch architects’ Veluwe National Park train station employs a suitably sylvan building material

Ede Wageningen Train Station by Mecanoo

Have you seen David Shrigley's cheeky pencils?

The British artist produces 30 new products - including an iPad case, notebooks and other stationary

David Shrigley's pencils for Flying Tiger Copenhagen

30 years of Grace in 3 cartoons

Vogue's creative director at large animates her looks, her favourite photographers and her closest colleagues

Grace and her new book. Image courtesy of Grace Coddington's Instagram

Why Cindy Sherman has just won a painting prize

The US fine-art photographer will be 2016's recipient of Japan's Praemium Imperiale prize in the painting category

Untitled (2016) by Cindy Sherman. Image courtesy of Metro Pictures

Massimo Bottura lures Aziz Ansari to Italy

After spending time with Bottura in Modena, the Masters of None creator will feature the chef in new series

Aziz and co filming in Italy earlier this year. Image courtesy of Aziz Ansari's Instagram

Wolfgang Tillmans has had a busy week!

The fine art photographer made his runway debut at NY Fashion Week and performed with his band in Brooklyn

Wolfgang Tillmans modelling for Hood by Air in New York, 2016