A Jutaku-style home for Main Street America

One New Orleans architect finds a distinctly east-Asian way to make America’s starter-homes affordable

3106 St. Thomas by the Office of Jonathan Tate. Photograph by Will Crocker. Image courtesy of officejt.com

Expect Vegemite and crocodile at Noma Australia

Redzepi says they will not serve carrots, beets or cabbage at the pop-up “because we do that everyday at home”

René Redzepi prepares an exotic monstera deliciosa fruit at Noma Australia. Image courtesy of Khanh Nguyen's Instagram

Yet another Phaidon author curates Venice Biennale!

Centre Pompidou chief curator becomes the fifth Phaidon author in a row to head up the prestigious art event

Phaidon contributor and the artistic director of the Venice Biennale 2017, Christine Macel

A new studio for firework artist Cai Guo-Qiang

Old meets new as Rem Koolhaas and OMA dramatically rework the artist's New York studio complex

Cai Guo-Qiang in his new studio's library, by OMA. Photo by Brett Beyer, brettbeyerphotography.com

Why Mark Grotjahn swapped his art for shop signs

Learn how the Gagosian artist overcame artistic difficulties by exchanging his paintings for grocery store notices

From Mark Grotjahn, Sign Exchange, 1993-98. Image courtesy the artist and Karma, New York

The only time you'll see a cat story on Phaidon.com

Probably. Nanotecture is packed with very small houses - here are some that only the smallest can fit into

From Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things

Raf Simons channels Cindy Sherman in Paris show

The Former Dior Creative Director pays homage to the photographer in his Paris menswear show


Elmgreen & Dragset create a fake art fair in China

For their debut solo show in Asia at Beijing's UCCA, the European duo spoof the ever expanding sales events

Tanya! Tanya! Tanya! (2004) by Elmgreen & Dragset. This work will feature in The Well Fair

A futuristic treatment for a Texan library

Could this strikingly modern take on a public book-lending institution touch down in Houston some time soon?

Renderings or MA2's Houston Library and Exhibition Center. Image courtesy of MA2

OMA rework a Bowie Berlin landmark

Referenced in the Where Are We Now? single, Berlin’s iconic department store KaDeWe is about to get a new look

OMA's renderings for KaDeWe. Image courtesy of OMA

Eddie Redmayne just loves the Bouroullec Brothers

Find out why the French designers behind our Works monograph are a big hit with the star of The Danish Girl

Eddie Redmayne

Gregory Crewdson returns after 5 years in the forest

Renowned photographer returns with new work after collapse of marriage and period of creative renewal

Gregory Crewdson, Beneath the Bridge, 2014, Digital Pigment Print, 37 1/2 x 50 inches ©Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

The Steven Holl sculpture that will become a home

The work, going on show in NYC, forms part of Holl’s mission to rethink the way a building's space is used

Steven Holl Architect's Ex of In XII; its submission for Unpacking the Cube. Image courtesy of Steven Holl Architects

BIG 's new twist on The High Line

Danish architecture practice's pair of contorted skyscrapers are destined for Manhattan's Meatpacking District

New renderings of 76 Eleventh Avenue by BIG. Image courtesy of BIG

Today's graphics gurus inspire tomorrow’s

Paula Scher, Mike Dempsey, Bob Gill and Phaidon's own Julia Hasting all design posters for Spain’s LAUS Awards

Ivan Chermayeff (left) and Wieden+Kennedy's (right) LAUS awards submission

When Marcel Breuer built a brutalist ski resort

The Bauhaus founder's work in Flaine still inspires - just ask our brutal architecture book author Peter Chadwick

Marcel Breuer’s ski resort, Flaine. From This Brutal World

Was Cézanne really the father of modern art?

On the anniversary of his birth, we look at why the 19th century French artist still influences painting today.

Still life, peppermint bottle (1895) by Paul Cézanne

Jacques-Henri Lartigue's rarely seen colour archive

The photographer who influenced the look of Wes Anderson's films gets a rare showing of his colour work

Florette, Megève, 1965 Photographie J. H. Lartigue © Ministère de la Culture - France /
AAJHL

Ellsworth Kelly on Monet, painting and his chapel

The late, great US artist discusses his art, influences and his spiritual beliefs in these wonderful new videos

Ellsworth Kelly

Olafur Eliasson wins award for improving the world

Artist, social entrepreneur and author is honoured alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, at The Crystal Awards in Davos

Olafur Eliasson

Viewing Robert Mapplethorpe through his friends

A current exhibition of the late American's portraits brings the photographer’s social circle into sharp focus

Robert Mapplethorpe, Grace Jones (1984). Black and white silver gelatin print on paper support: 374 x 375 mm. Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.

Stan Douglas shoots a spy film

The artist retells Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent on the turbulent streets of 70s Portugal

Stan Douglas The Secret Agent, 2015, Six-channel video projection with sound Courtesy the Artist, David Zwirner, New York / London and Victoria Miro, London

The photos that spread Martin Luther King's message

On Martin Luther King Day we look back at two powerful images from the 20th Century Civil Rights movement

Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, by Charles Moore. As reproduced in The Photography Book

When catastrophe leads to creative design

A new RIBA show looks at the wealth of architectural creativity that springs up in the wake of natural disasters

Makoko Floating School, Lagos, Nigeria by NLE. Image courtesy of RIBA

Why 2016's Pritzker winner makes half-built houses

The Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wins praise for the parts of the building he chooses to leave out

Villa Verde, Chile, 2013, by Alejandro Aravena's Elemental practice

Albert Adrià brings Cornish pasties to London

The Spanish chef and Phaidon author says his forthcoming 50-day Café Royal residency will be like "elBulli 2016"


The capsule hotel with a sea view

Gianluca Santosuosso's MORPHotel concept offers a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to cruise ships

Gianluca Santosuosso’s MORPHotel

Meet the artist selling shadows of famous works

LA-based artist Ana Prvacki will offer shadows cast by the works of Koons, Duchamp and Bourgeois at new show

A promotional image from Ana Prvacki's forthcoming Stealing Shadows exhibition, featuring the shadow in the shape of Jeff Koons' Rabbit (1986). Image courtesy of anaprvacki.com

Steve McCurry fashion shoot hit by dust storm

His Valentino fashion shoot was almost marred - but in the end made - by a ferocious dust cloud in Kenya

One of Steve McCurry's photographs for Valentino's Spring/Summer 2016 campaign. Courtesy of Valentino and Steve McCurry

Picasso’s private works go on show

Sotheby’s sale includes drawings, sculptures and ceramic works that the artist kept behind in his studio

Picasso and the architect Jacques Couelle, 1960. Photograph illustrated by Picasso. Part of Sotheby's Picasso in Private: Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

André Courrèges, inventor of the mini skirt, dies

Designer created the 'space girl' look and dressed Brigitte Bardot during a career that began at Balenciaga

Andre Courreges - Space Age Designs 1964, photograph by William Klein from The Fashion Book

Do you know about this photography pioneer?

Saul Leiter shot in colour years before William Eggleston. A new retrospective reassesses his work

Taxi, 1957, by Saul Leiter. © Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Shigeo Anzaï's pictures from an exhibition (or two)

A new show features the photographer who documented the nation's art movements including Mono-ha

Shigeo Anzaï, Daniel Buren’s Show, ICA Nagoya, Aichi, April 14, 1989 Courtesy the artist, Zeit-Foto, Tokyo and White Rainbow, London

New Warhol Mapplethorpe show celebrates gender

Guise and Dolls reveals the way each artist dealt with sexual orientation and gender in their portraiture

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self- Portrait, 1980. Gelatin silver print, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, N.Y. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.

Bowie songs that inspired contemporary art

Elizabeth Peyton, George Condo, John Pawson and Wilhelm Sasnal on their most inspirational David Bowie songs

David Bowie (2012) by Elizabeth Peyton

Yves Béhar reworks the Super 8 camera for Kodak

Spielberg, Tarantino, Steve McQueen and JJ Abrams all approve of the return of this 20th century classic

Kodak's new Super 8 camera designed by Yves Béhar

What links MAD and Benjamin Britten?

MAD's new music venue in China has something in common with composer's one in Suffolk. Can you guess what?

Harbin Opera House - MAD photo courtesy Hufton+Crow

Why Tomas Maier loves Dieter Rams

Bottega Veneta’s creative director says the designer’s rules for design are “like honey water when you read them”

Tomas Maier

Op Art - you don't need to be an expert to get it

New Danish exhibition looks at the democratic drive behind the movement named by TIME magazine in 1964

Current (1964) by Bridget Riley. From Eye Attack - Op Art and Kinetic Art 1950-1970

Why is Erik Kessels’ dad’s car up for a photo prize?

How the famous photo curator's 2015 exhibition Unfinished Father made the Deutsche Börse Prize short list

Installation shot of Unfinished Father, 2015, by Erik Kessels

Is this New York's strangest new supertall?

Mark Foster Gage's proposed Manhattan structure looks like it was created by a modern day Michelangelo

41 West 57th Street Manhattan - Mark Foster-Gage

Get to know Robert Longo’s Men in the Cities

The artist celebrates his 63rd birthday today and his Men In the Cities series mark their 35th anniversary on Sunday

Men in the Cities - Men Trapped in Ice 1980. Charcoal and graphite on paper. 60 x 40 inches/152.4 x 101.6 cm, each panel. Collection Mera and Donald Rebell, New York. Image courtesy of Robertlongo.com

Edmund de Waal's homage to John Cage in LA

For his debut Los Angeles exhibition the British writer and ceramicist draws on LA’s modernist past

Floor plan of the Schindler House, including gardens. Courtesy of Friends of the Schindler House, gift of Mrs. Richard Neutra. Image courtesy of the MAK Center

Ray Pettibon, Marcel Dzama and an exquisite corpse

The artists team up to employ a surrealist technique in their new show at David Zwirner in New York

Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon, Back in the land of the cat, 2015 Pencil, ink, gouache, and collage on paper 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm) Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London

Ferrari designers take to the skies

Pininfarina and AECOM beat Zaha, Fuksas and Grimshaw to create towering tulip design for new Istanbul airport

ATC Tower Istanbul - AECOM and Pininfarina, image courtesy AECOM and Pininfarina

100-year-old church reinvented as skateboard park

'It’s my personal Sistine Chapel' says street artist San Miguel of Manuel del Busto's Romanesque Revival church

Kaos Temple - Okuda San Miguel - image courtesy La Iglesia Skate

The architects creating 2016's landmark art spaces

John Pawson, Annabelle Selldorf and co. ensure that 2016's new exhibition spaces look as good as the art on show

Tate Modern's new expansion, viewed from the south at dusk © Hayes Davidson and Herzog & de Meuron

Time for a trip to Japan?

If you want natural beauty as well as an exciting built environment we have an idea for your 2016 break

A rising sun, constructed from red and green cornus flowers, Daniel Ost's in the Tokyo Ginza Shiseido Building, 2005. From Daniel Ost

Theaster Gates on the real meaning of gentrification

The artist explains how you can improve a neighbourhood and still look after its existing inhabitants

Dorchester Projects, Chicago, 2014. Gates acquired this abandoned property in 2009 for reuse as an alternative cultural space. As reproduced in our new Contemporary Artist Series book

The camera that captured Cape Cod Light

A new show reveals how when Joel Meyerowitz began working in large-format he had to take in the view

Joel Meyerowitz with his Deardorff view camera, Cape Cod, 1978. Photo by Max Kozloff. From Taking My Time

Richard Sapper 1932 - 2015

The industrial designer passed away on New Year's Eve leaving behind a legacy that continues to enthral

Richard Sapper

How Paris Changed Ellsworth Kelly

Understand why the late great American abstract artist abandoned figurative painting during a trip to Europe

Ellsworth Kelly, Spencertown, NY, 2012. Photo by Jack Shear

Ellsworth Kelly - 'It's been a long fun life'

In his last Artspace interview the late artist discussed Picasso, nature, and the fragments of life that inspired his art

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly 1923 - 2015

Groundbreaking artist who bridged European and American modernism passed away at the weekend

Kelly in his Broad Street studio in New York, 1956. Copyright Ellsworth Kelly

Enrique Olvera's Cosme is 2015's top NYC restaurant

The NY Times ranked Cosme its number one restaurant, thanks to Enrique's innovative take on Mexican cuisine

Cosme, New York

What's Ed Ruscha saying with his "word" works?

Learn how the artist, who celebrates his 78 birthday today, puts the "noise of everyday life" on to his canvases

Another Hollywood Dream Bubble Popped (1976) by Ed Ruscha

Our Wallpaper party comes with a great silver lining

Danish jewellery brand Georg Jensen hosted a lavish party to launch our new Copenhagen Wallpaper* City Guide

Tony Chambers (far left) at the Copenhagen Wallpaper* City Guide launch in London, December 2015

Around the world in 9 cookbooks

Travel the globe without leaving your kitchen, courtesy of our International Cookbook Collection

Phaidon's International Cookbook Collection

How to put Thanksgiving on toast

Our new book Toast outlines a great way to cook and serve leftovers from America's most important meal

Thanksgiving Toast, from Toast

Grace Coddington on her next Phaidon book

US Vogue's Art Director tells NY Magazine about her follow-up to Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue

Grace Coddington with Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Bookmarc in New York

A great photo overview in 7 classic books

Buy our Classic Photographers Collection and gift a trove of images by Martin Parr, Steve McCurry and others

Phaidon's Classic Photographers Collection

How Diego Rivera tried to paint the future

On the anniversary of the artist’s death, we look back at one his most prophetic and infamous works

Diego Rivera with a photograph of his destoryed Rockefeller Center work, c. 1933

When Grace went to Bookmarc

Did you catch US Vogue’s Creative Director signing copies of her new monograph at Marc Jacobs’ NYC bookstore?

Grace Coddington with Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Bookmarc in New York

Why these two NYC art advisors have given away 850 art works to the Whitney and the Pompidou

The authors of Collecting Art for Love, Money and More describe the thinking behind their generous donation

Art advisers and authors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

Designer DIY with Yves Béhar

Learn how to make this award-winning pendant lamp as seen at Milan's Salone del Mobile

Amplify by Yves Béhar. As featured in Do It Yourself

My Body of Art - Hank Willis Thomas on Eadweard Muybridge's frozen movement photographs

The US contemporary artist admires Muybridge's pioneering work breaking down human movement

Eadweard Muybridge, A Man Sprinting, 1887, photogravure after collotype, 23.5 x 31.5 cm (9 1/4 x 12 1/2 in), Wellcome Library, London. As reproduced in Body of Art

'Did you pack the minimalist earthquake kit, dear?'

The earthquakes we hear about don't tend to be minimalist in nature, Nendo's aesthetic response is, however

MINIM+AID Kit for Sugita Ace - Nendo

Imagine Magnus Nilsson came to yours to cook. . .

The Nordic Cookbook chef began his US tour cooking at the NY home of Saveur's editor-in-chief this week

Magnus Nilsson and Joel Aronsson at work in the kitchen. Photograph by Michelle Heimerman

Steven Holl’s Copenhagen towers get the go ahead

Work will start on an ambitious harbour project - seven years after Holl got the gig

Copenhagen Gate by Steven Holl. Image courtesy of Stevenholl.com

OMA architects talk about their Prince Plaza project

OMA's David Gianotten and Bauke Albada tell us why the future for architecture in China might just be local

OMA's Prince Plaza, Shenzhen. Image courtesy OMA

At home with Grace Coddington

Watch Vogue’s Creative Director talk fashion, art and tricky celebrities with Phaidon's Billy Norwich

Grace Coddington with Phaidon commissioning editor

How Isamu Noguchi pioneered land art

On the anniversary of the sculptor’s birth, we look at how his land work served as an example for other artists

Tina Barney's photograph from The Noguchi Museum A Portrait

Fukasawa updates the Japanese dining chair

The star designer combines his signature minimalism with Japanese carpentry and craftsmanship

Naoto Fukasawa's Kumay range for Conde House. Image courtesy of condehouse.co.jp

Cosme is Eater's NY restaurant of the year!

Eater.com praises star chef Enrique Olvera's culinary skills as well as his detailed knowledge of Manhattan

Enrique Olvera's Cosme restaurant. Image courtesy of Cosmenyc.com

Pentagram brands Snoop Dogg’s weed

The agency eliminates the stoner clichés and replaces them with bright, geometric (and child-proof) packaging

Pentagram's chocolate bar designs for Leafs by Snoop. Image courtesy of Pentagram

The Art of the Map - Albrecht Dürer

Learn how the German Renaissance artist expressed both his love of art and science in this star chart

Map of the Northern Sky (1515) by Albrecht Dürer. From Map: Exploring the World

The original Desert Modernist house goes up for sale

The Palm Springs home once owned by the architect that defined this hot-and-dry style is on the market for $1.75m

The Wexler House, Palms Springs. Image courtesy of deasypenner.com

Designer DIY with Sam Hecht

Famous for his lighting, furniture and electronics, the Industrial Facility designer simplified things for our DIY book

Flowerpot Stand by Sam Hecht. As featured in Do It Yourself

From Book to Bid – Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #352

Understand the multiple roles the artist plays in this photograph, up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York

Untitled #352 (2000) by Cindy Sherman. As featured in our Phaidon Focus book

My Body of Art - Rashid Johnson on the hidden depths in Jackson Pollock's Full Fathom Five

The contemporary artist explains why he sees a thread between his work and that of the Ab Ex artist

Full Fathom Five (1947) by Jackson Pollock. As reproduced in Body of Art

We just launched The High Line book!

And where better to do it than overlooking the park itself with some of the biggest names in architecture and art

From left: Robert Hammond, James Corner, Phaidon's Keith Fox, Ricardo Scofidio, Liz Diller

Designer DIY with Jean-Marie Massaud

The Parisian designer’s Magneto lamp suits the finest design showroom, yet originates in the hardware department

Magneto by Jean-Marie Massaud. As featured in Do It Yourself

Decoding the hidden meanings of Calder's mobiles

As Tate Modern opens the largest Calder show ever staged in the UK its co-curator Ann Coxon talks about how a meeting with Mondrian in his studio inspired the artist to create his most innovative and powerful work

Antennae with Red and Blue Dots 1953 - Alexander Calder Tate © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2015

From Book to Bid – Sugimoto’s Time Exposed

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger explain why these sea scenes, up for sale at Sotheby's, take time as their motif

From Time Exposed by Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1991

JR - 'Yes art CAN change the world!'

The artist and social activist answers the question posed by his new book in our exclusive video

JR with one of his pasted-up public art works, Manhattan, 2015

From Book to Bid – Agnes Martin’s Untitled #7

One of Martin’s delicate, detailed works is up for sale tomorrow. Understand how the artist created it, via our book

Untitled #7 (1991) by Agnes Martin is up for sale at Sotheby's contemporary art evening auction, 11 November, New York

Is it a stadium? Is it a swimming pool? No it's a mixed use surf park having an identity crisis!

'It’s not a crazy, billion dollar project, it’s feasible and we could get it going as soon as footy finishes' say MJA Studio

Mixed use complex with surf beach, Subiaco, Perth -  MJA Studio

Is Jeremy Corbyn enjoying an Enrique Olvera taco?

The Labour leader was trying the food on offer at the Day of the Dead celebrations in London this weekend

Jeremy Corbyn at Wahaca's Day of the Dead event in London

My Body of Art - Judith Zilczer on Brancusi, Léger and the mechanomorphic representation of the body

The renowned curator, art historian and writer alights on a few talking points from our new book Body of Art

Three Women 1921-2 Fernand Léger - as featured in Body of Art

Inside the Wallpaper* City Guide Paris launch

We launched our Paris Wallpaper* City Guide at the city's SOME/THINGS concept store - here's what happened

Alexia Tronel (right) from Atelier Bartavelle and guest, at the Wallpaper* City Guide party at SOME/THINGS studio and concept store in the 11e arrondissement of Paris. Photo by Camille Zerhat for tendaysinparis.com

Grace Coddington comes to Phaidon

The creative director of US Vogue takes a break from the Condé Nast offices to sign copies of her new book

Grace Coddington signs copies of Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue in Phaidon's New York office

From Book to Bid – Andy Warhol’s Electric Chair

One of Warhol’s Death and Disaster paintings is coming up for sale, but do you know what it is about?

Little Electric Chair (1964) by Andy Warhol

My Body of Art – Foam Photography Museum curator Kim Knoppers on Providence, Rhode Island

The Foam photography curator explains why Francesca Woodman's image is still so relevant 40 years on

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 - Francesca Woodman

Win Massimiliano Gioni’s 100 best-loved books

The New Museum's artistic director has chosen 100 Phaidon titles he deems essential - and you can win them all

Gioni (centre) with two titles on the list: our Dada survey and EH Gombrich's The Story of Art

Steven Holl’s dance project premiers on Friday

The architect’s collaboration with New York choreographer Jessica Lang opens at Chicago’s Architecture Biennial

Steven Holl and Jessica Lang's Tesseracts of Time

Why has an ad agency 'stolen' this JR artwork?

Relax! Deutsch's removal and sale of JR’s African banners on behalf of a water charity is an 'art heist for good'

JR's Women Are Heroes installation in Kibera, Kenya, January 2009

Jamie Hewlett’s erotic tarot pine tree show

The Gorillaz artist brings together three disparate sets of work which all, nevertheless, share suggestive qualities.

A composite image for Jamie Hewlett's Suggestionists exhibition

Peter Marino’s plans for Robert Mapplethorpe

On the 69th anniversary of his birth we look at a new show of the photographer’s best and least-known images

Tulip, 1984, by Robert Mapplethope. Image courtesy of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. © Robert Mapplethorpe

From Book to Bid - Gerrit Rietveld’s Berlin Chair

Learn how this chair in Christie's design sale embodied the De Stijl's designer's struggle with symmetry

The Berlin Chair, 1923, by Gerrit Rietveld

My Body of Art - Catherine Opie on Bandaged Ear

The photographer explains how Van Gogh's self portrait influenced what she calls 'the gaze' in her own work

Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) - Vincent van Gogh. As reproduced in Body of Art