Sterling Ruby puts his workwear on show

A new Sprüth Magers exhibition in London shows how the artist extends his practice right into his wardrobe

Sterling Ruby, 306 Hooded Coat (Orta), 2014 © Sterling Ruby Studio. From his new London exhibition

Watch the new Mapplethorpe documentary trailer

Robert Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures features contributions from his friends Debbie Harry and Brice Marden

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait, 1982. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers, Phaidon

What will JR do to the Louvre pyramid?

He plans to turn the I M Pei landmark into an optical illusion as part of a new show - just how remains to be seen!

JR au Louvre by JR. Image courtesy of the artist's Instagram


Who wants to help Christo with his next artwork?

The artist wants to employ 500 people to help install and oversee his Floating Piers project in Italy this summer

Drawing for the Floating Piers (2104) by Christ. Photograph by André Grossmann

On International Women's Day meet Sarah!

Learn how the New York artist Sarah Sze choreographs her fabulous, constellation-like installations

Sarah Sze - photo courtesy John D. & Catherine T MacArthur Foundation

On International Women's Day meet Annabelle!

Learn how architect Annabelle Selldorf introduced classicism, utility and restraint into today's art galleries

Annabelle Selldorf. Photography by Brigitte Lacombe

On International Women's Day meet Solla!

We trace Solla Eiriksdottir's journey from textiles student to leading light of the raw food movement

Solla Eiriksdottir

Wilhelm Sasnal on migrants, movies and The Cure

The Polish painter and filmmaker describes how pop, existentialism and politics informed his new exhibition

Palm Bay (2013) by Wilhelm Sasnal. From his forthcoming exhibition

You can own a Nan Goldin limited edition print

Share in the touching lives of Nan Goldin's family of subjects by buying one of these three limited edition prints

 Jens' hand on Clemen's back, Paris, 2001, by Nan Goldin. One of our limited-edition prints

Kim Cadmus Owens - Affordable on Artspace

Her stretched out, glitched lines of frozen computer screens are imposed on mid-century American landscapes

Study For Lounge - Kim Cadmus Owens

How Phaidon helped Noma find this Aussie forager

When René Redzepi arrived in Sydney, the Australian chef, forager and book lover Elijah Holland was ready for him

Chef Elijah Holland foraging mirebelle plums near Canberra, 2016. Image courtesy of the chef's Instagram account

The London playground inspired by a Japanese photo

Look at these Hélène Binet images of Asif Khan’s new playground inspired by a Rinko Kawauchi photograph

Chisenhale Primary School playground by Asif Khan. Photograph by Hélène Binet

An Artspace take on the Armory Show

The best place to buy art on the web explains what to look out for and which satellite events to visit this week

The Armory Show. Image courtesy of Roberto Chamorro for The Armory Show

A Chef's Shelfie on World Book Day!

Gabriele Corcos sent us this photo of his home office shelfie. We counted 27 Phaidon books - now show us yours!

Gabriele Corcos's home office shelfie. Can you do better? We'd love to see yours. . .

Still wondering about Adele's Brits backdrop?

Here’s how a little bit of Yayoi Kusama made it into the British singer’s awards performance

Adele inside Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) at the Broad, 16 February 2016. Image courtesy of Adele's Twitter

George Condo on his Warhol days (and nights)

The painter recalls his time on the Factory production line and his 80s friendship with the Pope of Pop

George Condo and Andy Warhol - photo by Andy Warhol

Isa Genzken unveils monumental fake flowers in NY

To mark the arrival of Two Orchids in New York, we examine the artist's take on nature, art and architecture

Two Orchids (2016) by Isa Genzken. Image courtesy of Public Art Fund

Sou Fujimoto and David Chipperfield reinvent Paris

Fujimoto’s Thousand Trees scheme wins one of the 23 sites earmarked for, ahem, root-and branch regeneration

The Thousand Trees - Sou Fujimoto and Manal Rachdi OXO Architectes

A history of the modern world in 7 haircuts

Learn how civil rights, war and economic boom and bust shaped the hair on our head in The Barber Book

Wally’s barber shop after the London Blitz, 1940. As reproduced in The Barber Book. © Getty Images / Hulton Archive / Fox Photos

Take a look at these tiny kaleidoscopic buildings

New book Nanotecture brings together some of the smallest best built things including these playful creations

Snowcone, Toronto, Canada. From Nanotecture

NASA creates mid-century space travel posters

The space agency hope its Visions of the Future posters will inspire a new generation of cosmic explorers

Nasa's Visions of the Future posters

We join Charlize Theron backstage at the Oscars!

Did you spot the ultimate Phaidon shelfie in the green room at last night's 88th Academy Awards?

Charlize Theron speaking to ABC’s Michael Strahan in the Oscars green room, at the 88th Academy Awards, February 2016

Guy Fieri loves Enrique Olvera's tacos

The Food Network star stopped by Enrique's Miami taco stand to enjoy his innovative take on Mexican street food

Enrique Olvera with Guy Fieri and Jose Andres at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, 2016

Steven Holl updates Mumbai’s oldest museum

Architect cuts apertures into gallery spaces allowing exactly 25 lumens of light to flood interior spaces

Mumbai City Museum North Wing by Steven Holl Architects. Image courtesy of Stevenholl.com

Modern new look for folk museum

This timber-clad extension to the Romsdal Museum is designed to complement some far older local buildings

Romsdal Folk Museum by Reiulf Ramstad Architects. Illustration by Erik Hattrem and RRA.

Gombrich Explains Renoir

On the French Impressionist’s birthday a look at why his paintings have divided art lovers for over a century

Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) by Renoir. As reproduced in our new monograph

More from the book that inspired Mad Men's credits

Greg Quinton describes how he updated our inspirational design primer, A Smile in the Mind

Detail from Zeit Magazin cover, 2012. From A Smile in the Mind


Martin Parr’s outsider view of Britain

The UK photographer and Magnum Vice President curates a new show offering an overseas view of his country

Candida Höfer,  Liverpool XIX, 1968. © Candida Höfer, Köln; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2015. From Strange and Familiar

Take a look at these shiny, tiny buildings

Our book Nanotecture brings together some of the smallest built things, including these great reflective dwellings

Mirrored Tree House. From Nanotecture

A Fergus Henderson dish for National Toast Day

Cook beef mince on toast courtesy of the carnivorous UK chef and restaurateur

Beef mince on toast. From Toast

Going back to Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places

A new exhibition brings high-fidelity reproduction to Stephen Shore’s large-format 1970s American road trip

Merced River, Yosemite, National Park, California, August 13, 1979 by Stephen Shore. From Uncommon Places. Image courtesy of Galerie Edwynn Houk

How Paul McCarthy keeps the resistance up at 70

The US artist tells his audience at Whitman College that he mistrusts the world, and that we don't see who we are

Paul McCarthy speaking at Whitman College, February 2016. Photograph by Anna Dawson

JR puts a face on the TED 2016 Virtual Reality event

Well, a set of eyes at least. Find out how the artist buddied up with Chris Milk to help VR users gain a little empathy

JR's eye prints on Google Cardboard sets at TED 2016. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Massimo Bottura’s soup kitchen goes international

After Milan, Bottura aims to open another Refettorio Ambrosiano in Bologna, then Brazil in time for the Games

Massimo Bottura at Refettorio Ambrosiano, Milan, 2015

A slice of Lucio Fontana

On the anniversary of his birth, we examine how Fontana’s slashed canvases led the way for a generation of artists

Spatial Concept (1968) by Lucio Fontana, from his 'tagli' series. From Painting Beyond Pollock

The World Press Photo goes back to Black and White

Does this, the first monochrome image to win the prize for seven years, signal a change in photo reportage?

World Press Photo of the Year. Warren Richardson, Australia, 2015, Hope for a New Life. A man passes a baby through the fence at the Serbia/Hungary border in Röszke, Hungary, 28 August 2015.

Animating Frank Lloyd Wright

Hear the great architect talk religion, nature and money, in this little-seen, newly animated 1957 interview

A still from Quoted Studio's Frank Lloyd Wright film, for PBS

OMA make a Prada movie

Well, the architecture firm's design studio do, placing the brand's 2016 collection in a colourful, kinetic setting

A still from AMO's new Prada film

Paula Scher paints info-maps of the USA

The masterful graphic designer calls her painterly take on digital maps abstract-expressionist information

U.S.A. Interstates (2015) by Paula Scher. Image courtesy of Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery

Were US artists just as Modern as Europeans?

On the 103rd anniversary of the Armory Show, a new book reassesses the development of Modernism in America

Evening North Sierra (1910) by Leon Dabo. As reproduced in Modern Art in America 1908–68

Saving Noguchi’s dance sets

To mark its 90th anniversary, the Martha Graham Company is restoring the Modernist sculptor's stage sets

Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins on Isamu Noguchi's set for Night Journey, c. 1984. Image courtesy of the Martha Graham Company

COS and Sou Fujimoto plan a light forest for Milan

The architect and the clothing brand will create an arboreal-themed installation at this year's Salone del Mobile

Rendering for COS and Sou Fujimoto's Forest of Light. Image courtesy of the architect

The Tate celebrates 150 years of faking it in photos

Tate Modern's Performing for the Camera shows how performance and photos have always gone together

Simmon: A Private Landscape, 1971, by Eikoh Hosoe. courtesy of the artist, Akio Nagasawa Gallery | Publishing (Tokyo) and Jean-Kenta Gauthier (Paris). From Performing for the Camera

Albert Adrià goes neo-classical in London

Expect high-quality produce, not high-tech trickery, from the elBulli chef's new London pop-up restaurant

Albert Adrià's take on oysters. Image courtesy of the chef's Instagram

Remaking the Dadaglobe

How did one art historian reassemble this lost Dada compendium, 95 years after it was supposed to be published?

Tristan Tzara, c. 1920

The van Gogh copy that became a 21st century classic

Learn how this monumental oil painting by the Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie serves to vindicate 21st European art

The Sunflowers in 1937 (2014) by Adrian Ghenie. Image courtesy of Sotheby's.

The romantic world of Paul McCarthy

On Valentine's Day a conversation about beauty and truth with an artist always ready and willing to surprise. . .

Paul McCarthy - Caribbean pirates, 2005 (with Damon McCarthy) Performance, video, Installation, photographs

Wilhelm Sasnal - Affordable on Artspace

Damned Youth uses ambiguous text to ironically lament the passing of youth - sounds heavy, looks cool!


Cindy Sherman mimics fashion Instagram poseurs

'Who travels with hair and make up just to see their sister in LA?' she asks. 'They're not even selfies they're setups'

Cindy Sherman dressed in Chanel for Harper's Bazaar - from Project Twirl for Harper's Bazaar

Kim Gordon and Larry Gagosian open a record store

Sort of. She'll host a booth at the LA Book Fair, selling records with cover art by Richard Prince and others

Kim Gordon, with Edward Lee and Byron Coley, co-owners of Feeding Tube records at the LA Art Book Fair. Gordon holds a copy of Living on the Edge of Obscurity. Photo by Ben Lee Richie Handler. Image courtesy of Gagosian

Now that's a pretty neat looking shelfie!

Designer Kwangho Lee curates a great selection for his favourite publisher (that's us) and gallery (that's Chamber)

The moment of eclipse - modular bookshelves for chamber, NYC, 2015 acrylic plate - Kwangho Lee

Rent Van Gogh's bedroom in Chicago for $10

Airbnb is offering this recreation (with wi-fi) of Vincent's Arles room alongside a new Chicago show

The Art Institute of Chicago's mock-up of Vincent Van Gogh's Arles bedroom

Arne Jacobsen - Architect, designer... gardener?

we look at how horticulture and the natural world helped inform some of this great Dane's best-known creations

The architect, designer and gardener Arne Jacobsen. Trowel not pictured

BIG goes small for Serpentine Pavilion

Bjarke Ingels joins Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi, Barkow Leibinger and Yona Friedman in Nanotecture celebration

BIG to go small? 79 & Park in Stockholm by BIG, image courtesy of Oscar Properties

MoMA hosts anti-starchitect show

A Japanese Constellation demonstrates how architecture is best viewed as a collaborative enterprise

Toyo Ito. Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan. 1995–2001. Image by Naoya Hatakeyama. From A Japanese Constellation

Frieze is bringing this Mario Bellini car back to NY

The designer's shagadelic MPV is returning to New York City, with its mime artists, courtesy of Frieze Projects

Next stop Randall's Island. MoMA Kar-A-Sutra, 1972, from Mario Bellini

How Gerhard Richter reinvented painting

On the German artist's birthday we look at how he changed both figurative and abstract painting

Two Candles (1982) by Gerhard Richter

At home with Louise Bourgeois

What to expect when the West 20th Street townhouse where the artist lived and worked opens for tours this year

Louise Bourgeois in her home studio in 1974. Photo: Mark Setteducati, © The Easton Foundation

What Andy Warhol saw in Joseph Beuys

A new exhibition of Andy's works focuses on his enduring respect for his German 'counterpart'

Joseph Beuys (1980) by Andy Warhol

So what does Naomi Watts read in bed?

Architectural Digest takes a tour of her and Liev Schreiber's Manhattan home - but what's that in the bedroom?

photo courtesy of ArchitecturalCHKCHK Digest

What's Cara Delevingne been doing with JR?

Look who our favourite contemporary French artist has been hanging out with in Paris this month

JR shoots Cara Delevingne in Paris, 2016. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israel host Oscars show

The novelist and the visual artist's show for the LA Gagosian will open just before the 2016 Academy Awards

Bret Easton Ellis (right) and Alex Israel on Alex Israel's online talk show, As It Lays, 2012.

Álvaro Siza takes to the stage in Catalonia

Red brick building in small town is latest example of the slow burn architect's mastery of simple, austere beauty

Llinars del Vallès, Catalonia - Álvaro Liza photo Joao Morgado courtesy Álvaro Siza

Chris Johanson - Affordable on Artspace

The Sunlight of the spirit is the Warmth of Love is the perfect Valentine's Day gift for a loved one

The Sunlight of the spirit is the Warmth of Love - Chris Johanson

Tokyo’s cloud-harvesting vertical commuter town

Kohn Pedersen Fox and Leslie E. Robertson Associates aim to build it by 2045. Will they succeed?

Next Tokyo by KPF and LERA

Daido Moriyama returns to Shinjuku

Photographer returns to Shinjuku to create new series of work for first show at Fondation Cartier in 12 years

Tokyo Color, 2008-2015 - Daido Moriyama

How to get a grip on Anri Sala

To mark the New Museum show here's some insight into the best ways to appreciate a cool and important artist

Still from Ravel Ravel Unravel (2013) - Anri Sala

The serious silliness of Fischli and Weiss

Ahead of their Guggenheim retrospective, we explore the sincere amateurism at play in this duo’s art

Still from The Point of Least Resistance (1981) by Fischli and Weiss

Why Phaidon is going vegetarian in 2016

Well, sort of. Find out why, for the first time, we’ve chosen to publish three purely vegetarian books this season

From Studio Olafur Eliasson: The Kitchen

A bright new look for the City of Light

Peripheriques Marin+Trottin Architectes hatch multi-faceted, novel plan to deal with the density of urban Paris

Paris par Nous, Paris pour Nous (Paris by us Paris for us) - Peripheriques Marin+Trottin Architectes

Snøhetta gives Philly a Silicon Valley style library

This Philadelphia university's glass, stone and timber building majors on break-out spaces, not book stacks

Temple University Library by Snøhetta

Art experts are outdated Noah Charney tells NPR

The author calls for scientific authentication after experts fail to stop the sale of fake Pollock and Rothko works

Forgery expert and Phaidon Author Noah Charney. Photo by Urska Charney

The lost New York days of Candy Darling, John Waters and Susan Sontag captured in new show

New show of the late photographer Peter Hujar's work focuses on NY’s bygone downtown scene

Candy Darling on her Deathbed, 1973 by Peter Hujar. © The Peter Hujar Archive LLC. Image courtesy of the Paul Kasmin Gallery

Inspired by Sottsass - wrapped in Raf Simons

Toadstool collection by Masquespacio draws on the work of Ettore Sottsass with (a little help from Raf)

The Toadstool collection by Masquespacio for Missana


When Danny Lyon met Bernie Sanders

The photographer sends us the pictures he took of the Democratic Presidential Candidate as a student activist

Photo courtesy Danny Lyon

Watch René Redezpi’s mesmerizing shellfish videos

The Noma chef has been detailing some of the catches for his 2016 Australia pop-up in glorious detail

René Redzepi with foraged sea urchins in Australia, 2015, courtesy of the chef's Instagram

Massimo Bottura wins Chef of the Year

Find out how the Michelin-starred Italian chef won Madrid Fusion's top award for his Milanese soup kitchen

Madrid Fusion's Lourdes Plana with chef Massimo Bottura and his new award

Martin Parr has a thing about sausages and rhubarb

New shows and book from Magnum photographer shed light on enduring (and endearing) food fascination

GB. England. West Yorkshire. Martin Bramley. The Rhubarb Triangle. 2015. ©Martin Parr/Magnum Photos Courtesy The Hepworth Wakefield

Annabelle Selldorf talks galleries and garbage

The acclaimed architect discusses her wide-ranging portfolio of projects at Cooper Union this week

The Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility by Selldorf Architects. Image courtesy of Selldorf Architects

Hieronymus Bosch show has some big surprises

500th anniversary show features extensively restored work and throws new light on unattributed paintings

Visions of the Hereafter - Hieronymus Bosch - Venezia, Museo di Palazzo Grimani

How Ellsworth Kelly photographed abstraction

A new exhibition demonstrates the way the late, great American painter found his forms in the real world

Curve Seen From A Highway, Austerlitz, New York, 1970 by Ellsworth Kelly

Elliot Erwitt - Affordable on Artspace

The Magnum Photographer's contact sheet tells the story of his most iconic photo and is a piece of affordable art that will raise the cool factor of your living space - here's how to buy it and what to say when guests admire it

Chihuahua New York 1946 - Elliott Erwitt available on Artspace

Ettore Sottsass immortalised in new cartoon

Italian designer and Memphis founder gets animated series courtesy of contemporary furniture company Kartell

Ettore Sottsass by Massimo Giacon

Why Milos Raonic loves Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol

The tennis champ has been preparing for the Australian Open by taking in Melbourne's blockbuster show

Milos Raonic walks beneath Ai Weiwei's Forever sculpture at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Image courtesy of Raonic's Instagram.

Frank Lloyd Wright's $3m starter home

Learn why this LA house, originally built for middle-income Americans, has moved well into seven figure territory

The George D Sturges residence by Frank Lloyd Wright. Image courtesy of LA Modern Auctions

Ron Arad blacks out in Tokyo

Façade of his new D House comprises black patinated steel ribbons seemingly stacked on top of each other

D House, Tokyo - Ron Arad photo courtesy Ron Arad

The house that JR built (and then rebuilt!)

Why is the artist spending this month renovating a Latin American cultural centre in a Rio De Janeiro favela?

JR's Inside Out project on the side of Casa Amarela, Rio, 2011. Image courtesy of the Co Foundation's Instagram

The classical Pop Art of Tom Wesselmann

A new London exhibition reveals there’s more traditionalism in Tom Wesselmann's collages than meets the eye

Still Life #44, 1964 Mixed media and collage on board with plexiglass overlay. 48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm) Art © Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, Photo Credit: Jeffrey Sturges

A high-density High Line for Stockholm

Could this inspired residential railway regeneration project break ground in the Swedish capital?

Klarastaden by Anders Berensson Architects

The garden that nurtured Impressionism

Get to know Claude Monet's horticultural masterpiece ahead of a new Royal Academy blockbuster

Claude Monet's garden at Giverny. As reproduced in The Gardener's Garden

Matt Smith to play Robert Mapplethorpe

The Dr Who actor will star alongside the Girls actress Zosia Mamet in a new film chronicling the photographer's life

Actor Matt Smith as Dr Who

Will this cubist brutal building rise in Costa Rica?

Brooklyn architects CAZA propose new congress hall of enormous concrete cubes in the placid capital San José

Congress Hall Proposal San José, Costa Rica - CAZA

The art app that lets you try before you buy

Artspace’s new app lets you find shows and browse works - but there’s one other function we’re really taken with. . .

The Artspace app's new View My Room feature

A Mapplethorpe show without the moral outcry

The Perfect Medium will include the photographer’s explicit work but won’t dwell on the controversy around it

Tulips, 1988, by Robert Mapplethorpe. Gelatin silver print Image: 49.1 x 49 cm (19 5/16 x 19 5/16 in.) Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012.52.27 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

First look at the Noma Australia menu

Milk-dumping tacos, abalone schnitzel, Lamingtons and shards of croc meat all feature at Redzepi's new pop-up

René Redzepi at Noma Australia. Image courtesy of Nip of Courage's Instagram

Cool new look for Zurich's National Museum

Concrete and geometric abstraction delights in Christ & Gantenbein's new addition to Gustav Gull's original building

National Swiss Museum, Zurich - Christ & Gantebein

Delicious Churros

A recipe from Quick and Easy Spanish Recipes