Pentagram's 70s rebrand modernises Mastercard

New typeface, new logotype and new colour but the look remains original for agency's latest great rebrand

Pentagram for Mastercard

Massimo Bottura and Robert De Niro feed the Bronx

The world's greatest chef and the actor and restaurateur plan to open a Refettorio Ambrosiano in 2017

Robert de Niro and Massimo Bottura, July 2016. Image courtesy of Massimo Bottura's Instagram

One thing not to miss in Barcelona

If you like tapas and vermouth you'll love Mitja Vida - a classic tavern reborn in a contemporary concrete cube


Gary Hustwit 'My Dieter Rams film won't be messy!'

Director says upcoming Rams documentary won't feature a parade of famous designers but will keep it simple

Dieter Rams

OMA rework a brutalist Paris warehouse

See how Rem Koolhaas has helped turn Entrepôt Macdonald into a welcoming urban environment

Entrepôt Macdonald, photo by Cyrille Weiner. Image courtesy of Entrepôt Macdonald

Martin Parr's Brexit buffet

The Magnum photographer photographs the food under threat from the UK's impending EU exit

Stilton Cheese by Martin Parr. Martin Parr / Magnum

Rough round the edges - punk London in print

The Michael Hoppen gallery's forthcoming Punk photo show will display vintage 70s prints, wrinkles and all

Ray Stevenson, Sex Pistols, 1970s, 26755-RYS, © Ray Stevenson. Courtesy of Rex Shutterstock and the Michael Hoppen Gallery

Classic interiors meet modern Miami

Look at what happens when French interior designer Jean-Louis Deniot works with the architects Arquitectonica

Renderings for Elysee Miami

David Bowie's Sottsass collection is up for sale

The auction house has just announced a sale of David Bowie's Ettore Sottsass collection - here's what to expect

Ettore Sottsass, 'Casablanca' Sideboard, 1981. Estimate £4,000–6,000. From the collection of David Bowie. Image courtesy of Sotheby's

Theaster Gates throws a fine-art house party

For his Canadian debut, the Chicago artist is creating a series of house museums (and booking a house DJ)

Still from House Heads Liberation Training (2016) by Theaster Gates

Grace Coddington's hair: a visual history

Watch the Vogue creative director's charming, hand-drawn hair animation, covering 57 years-worth of styles

One of Grace Coddington's Instagram self portraits

The power of Piero Manzoni and his Merda d'Artista

In canning his own excrement, Manzoni created fertile ground for a subsequent generation of like-minded artists

Artist's Shit (1961) by Piero Manzoni

How Lucas Samaras manipulated the Polaroid age

Lucas Samaras pushed film beyond its limits, opening new creative opportunities, but Polaroid did not approve

AutoPolaroid, 1969-71. Dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid film), 3-3⁄8 x 4-1⁄4 inches (paper). © Lucas Samaras

Zaha Hadid's hyacinth hotel blooms in the desert

The architect may have passed away but plans for this flower-inspired structure have just been unveiled in the Gulf


Ron Arad has reinvented the Watergate Hotel

Sinuous motifs, richly patinated metals and layered woodwork all on offer (and not a bugging device anywhere)

Watergate Hotel, Washington DC - Ron Arad (photo courtesy Ron Arad associates)

How to stare at the sun from The High Line safely!

Artist Eduardo Navarro's latest project, We who spin around you, allows you to do just that for 3 days next week

We who spin around you - Eduardo Navarro

Álvaro Siza's latest project is tinged with sadness

Portuguese artist Nadir Afonso never lived to see the brilliant new museum dedicated to his work

MACNA - Nadir Afonso Contemporary Art Museum, Chaves - Álvaro Siza

Robert De Niro takes JR for a spin round New York!

The native New Yorker and star of JR’s Ellis film helps the artist with latest iteration of his Migrants project

Robert De Niro and JR in New York, July 2016. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Have you heard Wolfgang Tillmans’ house record?

The five-track record includes work from the 1980s and a track sampling his favourite printing press!

The cover of 2016/1986 by Wolfgang Tillmans

Annabelle Selldorf reinvents another London gallery

The architect is set to incorporate a modern art space into historic Ely House for Thaddaeus Ropac

The exterior of Ely House, London, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's new London site. Image courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Le Corbusier's Brutal rooftop is now a trompe l'oeil

Xavier Veilhan’s Open Sky exhibition aims to re-engage visitors with Le Corbusier’s “monumental” housing block

 Felice Varini's À ciel ouvert at MAMO. Photograph by Olivier Amsellem. Image courtesy of MAMO

Grace returns to modelling after half a century away!

Vogue’s creative director at large steps back in front of the camera - 47 years after going behind it

Detail from Grace Coddington by Tyrone Lebon for Calvin Klein. Photo: Tyrone Lebon / Courtesy of Calvin Klein

Would you let Vito Acconci follow you home?

The new MoMA PS1 exhibition looks back at some of the New York artist's most challenging early works

Installation view of Vito Acconci: Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976 at MoMA PS1, 2016. Image courtesy of Acconci Studio and MoMA PS1. Photo by Pablo Enriquez.

James Corner brings icebergs to Washington DC

The British-born landscape architect’s new installation at the National Building Museum mimics a glacial ice field

ICEBERGS by James Corner Field Operations. Photography by Timothy Schenck. Image courtesy of the National Building Museum.

Wallpaper* City Guide launches in Tel Aviv

The Norman hotel provided a swanky White City backdrop to celebrate the publication of the new guide

The Wallpaper* City Guide launch at The Norman hotel in Tel Aviv

A movement in a Moment: The Mexican Renaissance

On Frida Kahlo’s birthday, discover how she and her fellow Mexican artists redefined their nation through their work

The Two Fridas, (1939) by Frida Kahlo. As reproduced in Great Women Artists

Ralph Rugoff's brutal music mash-up

The Hayward director and Paul McCarthy author talks us through his new audio visual show in a brutalist building

Still from Everything and More (2016) by Rachel Rose

Sex, Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe

The photographer helped launch her career, yet he also pushed one very specific interpretation of her paintings

Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932) by Georgia O'Keeffe. Oil paint on canvas48 x 40 inchesCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, USAPhotography by Edward C. Robison III© 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London

Erik Kessels Failed It! in Arles

The photo curator has installed a wonderfully mistaken ridden exhibition at France's leading photo festival

Fabulous Failures by Erik Kessels art Les Rencontres d'Arles

When Bacon went to Monaco

A new exhibition looks at how the high life on the Mediterranean informed Francis Bacon’s greatest artworks


The new $1 million Ellsworth Kelly award

Kelly's foundation has passed on $1m to fund an annual award for a mid-career artist’s museum exhibition

Ellsworth Kelly in his studio, Spencertown, New York, 2009. Photo by Jack Shear.

When Warhol painted Uncle Sam

This Fourth of July discover how, in his Uncle Sam silk screen, Andy Warhol captured some deep American truths

Uncle Sam (1981) by Andy Warhol. From his Myths series. The image appears in Andy Warhol

Happy 4th of July from Joel Meyerowitz

The photographer tells us how he captured a monad of American life one 4th of July, nearly four decades ago

July 4th, Provincetown, 1983, by Joel Meyerowitz

How to picnic like Olafur Eliasson

Preparing a Fourth of July picnic? Or planning to enjoy an al-fresco meal? Then why not prepare it the Eliasson way

Studio Olafur Eliasson's summer picnic. Image courtesy of @soe_kitchen's Instagram

Magnum member Abbas on the agency's new talent

The Magnum photographer describes what he and his members see in the work of new nominee Diana Markosian

Genocide survivor Movses Haneshyan looking at a picture of his former home in Armenia, by Diana Markosian. Image courtesy of Magnum

Make time today to watch this Wilhelm Sasnal film

Online art film streaming service Vdrome is screening the painter's film Aleksander for a limited period

A still from Wilhem and Anka Sasnal's film Aleksander (2013)

Barbican set to get all Jutaku next year

Gallery endorses Phaidon’s love of East Asian architecture in forthcoming show The Japanese House

House NA, Sou Fujimoto, 2011, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture. From Jutaku

It's horse v dolphin in new Francesco Bonami show

The acclaimed curator and Phaidon author talks us through Melodrama, his new, oppositional two-part exhibition

Untitled (2007) by Maurizio Cattelan and Coda di Delfino (1966) by Pino Pascali. Painted canvas stretched on wooden structure. Private Collection. Photo courtesy Luxembourg & Dayan. Photo © Will Amlot

Why Frieze is remaking this Wolfgang Tillmans show

The London fair will re-stage the photographer's first exhibition, held in Cologne in '93, as part of its new 90s section

Installation view of Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at Daniel Buchholz’s gallery, 1993. As reproduced in our monograph

Theaster Gates installs hardware store in Prada

New project True Value takes place across Milan in what curator describes as 'a call to arms'

Halsted Hadware Store, Chicago, 2014. Photo by Sara Pooley. Courtesy of Theaster Gates and Sara Pooley


You can now turn your voice into a typeface!

So what does your voice 'look' like? Find out on a site closing the gap between written and spoken word

Typevoice's calibration page

Failed It! photographer Matt Stuart joins Magnum

Congratulations to the street photographer who was made a Magnum nominee at the agency's AGM

Moorgate Tube, 2005 - Matt Stuart

David LaChapelle is selling Keith Haring’s last painting - because he can’t display it properly

'A dark living room is no place for a masterpiece' he says as he consigns The Last Rainforest to Sotheby's

The Last Rainforest (1989) by Keith Haring

Helvetica director turns his camera on Dieter Rams

Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanised focuses on the 84-year-old Braun legend

Dieter Rams, London 2015. Image courtesy Gary Hustwit's Kickstarter page

Wolfgang Tillmans writes on Brexit in Zeitung

'It’s now the duty of us all to defend the pillars of the free world order - to hold the centre ground'

Wolfgang Tillmans and one of his EU Referendum posters


Sterling Ruby at the Ronald Reagan library

The US punk-skater-turned-artist talks art and politics at Ronnie's memorial library in California tonight

Sterling Ruby

Raymond Pettibon goes back to the Steam Age

Our Contemporary Artist Series star now lives on the East Coast but there’s a Californian aspect to his new show

No Title (Never had a...) (2016) by Raymond Pettibon ink and acrylic on paper 129.5 x 140.3 cm / 51 x 55 ¼ in. Copyright the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Jenny Holzer goes to Ibiza

The US artist has etched a series of smart literary quotes onto rocks and cliffs along the clubbing island’s coastline

For Ibiza, (2016) (detail) by Jenny Holzer. Text: “The Pool

How icebergs shape this Olafur Eliasson building

He hopes his Ice Void will make the experience of visiting a Greenland glacier more understandable for all

Rendering for Ilulissat Icefjord Park, Greenland, by Olafur Eliasson's Studio Other Spaces. Image courtesy of studiootherspaces.net

10 'Euro things' that will always be near and dear

Whether or not Britain votes to leave or stay in the EU these continental cultural niceties will prevail

The Court Game of Geography (c.1840-43) by W & Rock. From Map: Exploring the World


Sou Fujimoto rethinks the rented apartment

Fancy sharing a TV with everyone in your block? Take a look at Sou’s radical ideas at Tokyo's House Vision show

Rent Space Tower by Sou Fujimoto. Image courtesy of house-vision.jp

Why Steven Holl punched holes in his library

The architect's wall cuts add drama to this Hunters Point building while also paying tribute to a local landmark

Hunters Point Library by Steven Holl. Images courtesy of Stevenholl.com

André Chiang's American Hustle

The chef celebrates his rise up the 50 Best Restaurants list, inspires local chefs and delights NYC tastemakers!

André Chiang and fellow chef Massimo Bottura after the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards in New York, June 2016

Raf Simons creates Robert Mapplethorpe collection

Belgian fashion designer collaborates with photographer's estate for Spring 2017 men's collection

Raf Simons' Spring 2017 collection at Pitti Uomo; this garment features Robert Mapplethorpe's famous 1975 self portrait. Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni, courtesy of Pitti Uomo

One thing not to miss in Marseille

If you're visiting for Euro 2016 get up early and visit this Corbusier-inspired gem by Fernand Boukobza

Le Brasilia - photo by Olivier Amsellem

The story behind this Brutalist beauty

The structure on This Brutal World's cover may look mid century but it was actually built by Herzog & de Meuron

Reading Space, Jinhua Architecture Park, Jinhua, China, 2006 by Herzog & de Meuron. From This Brutal World

Hannah Whitaker - Affordable on Artspace

Silent landscapes, geometric illusions and abstracted textures abound in beautifully manipulated photo

Hannah Whitaker - Three Winter Landscapes (2013)

A Movement in a Moment: Postmodernism

Discover how a group of late 20th Century artists undermined fast-held beliefs about meaning and authorship

Untitled (cowboy) (1989) by Richard Prince

Marc Jacobs pays homage to Robert Mapplethorpe

Can you detect the late photographer's influence in Marc Jacobs' androgynous Fall 2016 campaign?

John Tuite and Carlos Santolalladressed in Marc Jacobs' Fall 2016 Women’s Collection. Photographed by David Sims and styled by Katie Grand. Image courtesy of TheMarcJacobs Instagram account.

Look what Olafur Eliasson’s kitchen did this week!

The artist’s innovative kitchen staff learned a natural, healthier way to hang on to a bit of summer's bounty

Studio Olafur Eliasson's kitchen make wild-fermented sauerkraut, June 2016

From Book to Bid – Paul McCarthy’s Mechanical Pig

At auction at Christie's, this animal sees McCarthy flirting with Disney, Willy Wonka and The Raft of the Medusa

Mechanical Pig (2003-2005) by Paul McCarthy. Image courtesy of Christie's


From Book to Bid – Andy Warhol’s Two Dollar Bills

It wasn’t Marilyn Andy silkscreened first but these dollar bills – they're at auction this month for a cool £6m

Detail from Two Dollar Bills (Fronts) [40 Two Dollar Bills in red] (1962) by Andy Warhol. Image courtesy of Christie's

Christie's marks 30 years in Hong Kong

The Asian arm of the world’s leading auction house celebrated its coming of age with a dedicated art sale

Parrots (Heaven of Parrots) (1994) by Wu Guanzhong. From Christie's Hong Kong 30 Years sale

André Chiang sets the table at Barneys

The brilliant chef and Phaidon author curates a chef's table for the New York department store

Chef André Chiang at Barneys, New York. June 2016

Paul McCarthy's Tomato Head just sold at Art Basel

A Mr Potato Head for adults? Read Ralph Rugoff on this seminal work by our Contemporary Artist Series artist

Paul McCarthy's 'Tomato Head (Green)' (1994) was on display as part of Art Basel Unlimited 2016

Why this Tillmans shot is being shared after Orlando

Find out why Wolfgang Tillmans' photo from a London club is being posted in defiance following the Orlando killings

The Cock (Kiss) 2002 by Wolfgang Tillmans as reproduced in our Contemporary Artist Series book by the artist

Massimo Bottura tops World's 50 Best Restaurants!

The Italian chef's Osteria Francescana took the top spot at the awards ceremony in New York City last night

Massimo Bottura at The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards in New York, June 2016

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura

We break The 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. Read about his love of music here

Massimo Bottura's Michell Transcriptor turntable and the Monk LP that inspired a dish in his Never Trust A Skinny Italian Chef book

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura #2

We break The 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. Read how art influences his cookery

A spread from Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef, featuring Maurizio Cattelan's Tourists (1997) Dursley-Pedersen frame readymade (2003) by Simon Starling

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura #3

We break the 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. How his family influences his cookery

Massimo Bottura with his wife Lara Gilmore and their children Alexa and Charlie, 2014

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura # 4

We break the 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. Read how Italy influences his cookery

Massimo Bottura shows his colours on winning The White Guide Global Gastronomy Award earlier this year

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura # 5

We break The 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. How fellow chefs influence his cookery

From left: Ferran Adrià, Katie Button, Massimo Bottura and Andoni Luis Aduriz.

3 Ice Pop recipes that are actually good for you

Try out these cooling, tasty, guilt-free summertime treats courtesy of Icelandic superchef Solla Eiriksdottir

Ice Pops by Solla Eiriksdottir, as featured in RAW by Photography by Simon Bajada

Meet Sarah Sze’s incredible, extended social circle

Pulitzer prize winning husband? Tick! Author Zadie Smith and poet Nick Laird as dinner guests? Tick! China’s ambassador to the United States as ancestral forebear? Tick! Isn't it time you got to know her better?

Sarah Sze 2016

3 Richard Sapper designs that stayed unmade

A bike that keeps you dry, a ship that stops you being seasick and Google glass - long before it came (and went)

Bicycle Umbrella Study - Richard Sapper

How you can save this Marcel Breuer building

The architect’s American Press Institute could be flattened – you can help hold back the wrecking ball

The American Press Institute by Marcel Breuer. Image courtesy of moderncapitaldc.com

Daniel and Jeppe set the table at Barneys

The Food & Beer authors dress Barneys' in-store table display in the style of Tørst and Luksus

Barneys' Food & Beer table display

Arne Glimcher talks Louise Nevelson at Pace

'She wanted the shadows cast to have the same power as the objects casting the shadow' he says

Louise Nevelson at Pace London installation shot - © 2016 Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

One thing not to miss in Basel

Heading to the Swiss city for Art Basel next week? Be sure to pack or download your Wallpaper* City Guide

 Gallery - Photo Andreas Hagenbach

This is Norman Foster's first building in Brooklyn

Up and coming Red Hook gets a glossy, glassy waterfront office block courtesy of the British architect

Red Hook - Foster + Partners

Watch out for this guy (and his limo) at Art Basel

A hippy commune, Warhol's dirty drawings and imaginary modernist sculpture also on the menu at this year's fair

Pope.L, “The Problem, Unlimited, Art Basel,” 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. © Pope.L. Photo: Christopher Burke Studio

How Marcel Breuer and his bike changed the chair

Discover how the young Bauhaus lecturer's steel-framed bicycle helped him create his famous Wassily Chair

The Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer

Bjarke Ingels talks about his Serpentine pavilion

The Danish architect told us about the cathedral-like qualities of his new creation at last night's launch in London

Architect Bjarke Ingels photographed June 8 in front of the Serpentine Pavilion 2016 designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

A first look at The Floating Piers by Christo

The veteran environmental artist's new Italian project opens in 10 days time and it's all looking pretty good so far

Aerial photograph of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Floating Piers, Project for Lake Iseo, Italy, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist's Twitter

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater explained

Discover how this perfect mid-century holiday home, kick-started the brilliant US architect's flagging career

Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. Image courtesy of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

When Breuer joined the Bauhaus

How a brilliant student made the cutting-edge products of the design school available to everyone

Man and Machine. Marcel Breuer typing at the Bauhaus Dessau, c. 1926

How clutter inspired Richard Sapper’s design classic

Learn why Sapper's own messy desktop spurred him to produce the Tizio lamp, one of today's best-loved designs

The Tizio lamp by Richard Sapper. Desk clutter not pictured

A first look at Olafur Eliasson's Versailles

The creator of the Little Sun takes on the Sun King, with an installation of clouds, mirrors and waterfalls

Olafur Eliasson and Catherine Pegard, President of the Château de Versailles, Versailles, June 6th, 2016

Danny Lyon's poignant memories of Muhammad Ali

'He was our king, our royalty, we will never have another like him. Goodbye champ - see you on the other side!'

Muhammad Ali, Miami, 1970, by Danny Lyon

Parr's Real Food and Kessels' Failures head for Arles

Magnum Photos president’s food van and curator’s failed photos to go on show at the French photo fair

Martin Parr inside his Real Food van at Photo London, May 2016

How a 91-year-old lecturer became a 2016 art star

Etel Adnan's new show at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery shows the fruits of a varied life, lived to the full

Untitled (Mt. Tamalpais 1), ca. 1983-86 by Etel Adnan; Oil on canvas 35 x 45.5 cm; Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg / Beirut

A Movement in a Moment: Land Art

Discover how a generation of artists swapped pencils for dumper trucks as they made the world their canvas


Alex Katz on his new Serpentine show

We join the painter at The Serpentine Gallery for a guided tour of what he says might be his best show yet

Our Alex Katz Contempory Artist Series book

8 more bites from André Chiang’s Asia tour

After wowing diners in Singapore and Taiwan, the Octaphilosophy chef moves on to the Philippines and Hong Kong

From André Chiang's Asian tour

Can the Venice Biennale change how the Brits live?

Forget the models and drawings the British Pavilion is addressing the UK's biggest challenge for young people

The months space at Home Economics, in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Enrique Olvera on how to build a better taco

The star Mexican chef appeared on Good Morning America to explain how he improved the famous street food

Enrique with anchor Sara Haines on Good Morning America