The Art of the Map - Jasper Johns

Maya Lin, Alighiero Boetti, Leonardo da Vinci, Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei - great artists who've also created great maps. In a new series we take a look at the ones featured in the new book Map Exploring the World

Map 1961 - Jasper Johns - as featured in Map Exploring the World

How Diller Scofidio + Renfro put hidden art on show

At LA's new museum the Broad, visitors can see the works in storage, thanks to the building's ingenious design

The Broad. Photo by Iwan Baan. Courtesy of The Broad

Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor go walkabout

We join the Phaidon artists as they walk through London today to highlight the plight of refugees

Ai Weiwei, Haymarket, London September 17 - photo Mat Smith

Have you seen the Bouroullecs' new TV?

The brothers' Serif TV for Samsung is designed to fit into our homes like a piece of contemporary furniture

Samsung's Serif TV by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Watch René Redzepi talk about the new Noma

Chef explains why he's relocating the restaurant and building an urban farm in this new video

Redzepi (far right) and the Noma staff on the roof of their new property

Bosco de Lobos hosts Wallpaper* City Guide launch

Madrid's creatives descend on hip restaurant to celebrate the publication of the new Wallpaper* City Guide

Guests at the Wallpaper Madrid Guide launch party at Bosco De Lobos

Happy Mexican Independence Day! Now cook this!

It’s September 16, so it must be time for Chiles en Nogada - and you can rustle it up with this recipe

Chiles en Nogada as featured in Mexico: The Cookbook

How Mike Kelley got from school to Superman

In honour of the late artist's new Hauser & Wirth show, we look at the genesis of Kelley’s Kandors series


Drone targets BIG's first New York building

Drone footage captures the scale and unusual beauty of Bjarke Engels' Via 57 West as it rises above Manhattan

Via 57 West, New York - BIG

Catch this footloose suburban gallery before it goes

The Suburban has shown Björk, Matthew Barney and Pierre Huyghe and now it's at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Michelle Grabner’s The Temporary Suburban, 2015, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Photo: Nathaniel Edmunds Photography

Tim Marlow describes Ai Weiwei’s imprisonment

Watch the Royal Academy’s Director of Artistic Programmes reveal the full horror of Ai's 2011 detention

S.A.C.R.E.D (2013) by Ai Weiwei, as installed at the Royal Academy

The face of America in the Fifties

The International Center of Photography looks back at the group shot in early 20th century America

Bell Telephone Department, New York World’s Fair, 1939, by The Press Department. From Hunt’s Three Ring Circus.

Understand the 20th century via Warhol’s prints

Sotheby’s Prints and Multiples sale majors on the pop artist’s printed editions, with over 80 works up for auction

Marilyn (1967) by Andy Warhol

The story behind the other Noguchi Museum

You probably know about the New York Noguchi museum, but did you know the artist founded one in Japan too?

The Noguchi Museum, Japan. Courtesy of the museum. Photograph by Yukio Futagawa

Pharrell and David Blaine join JR in Paris

The French artist called on a few famous friends to help with the launch of his new show, film and book

JR, Ladj Ly and mayor Gilles Catoire at Les Bosquets premier, last Thursday. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Why do Japanese houses look so unusual?

That's the question Naomi Pollock asked herself on arriving in Japan - 27 years later she answers it in Jutaku

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


The quiet passing of a great designer

Even in death Irving Harper, the man behind the marshmellow sofa and the sunburst clock remained in the shadows

Marshmallow Sofa (1956) - Irving Harper George Nelson Associates

Enrique Olvera wins lifetime achievement award

The chef and Phaidon author is to be honoured at the 50 Best Restaurants Latin American awards ceremony

Enrique Olvera

COS + Phaidon + HAY = design heaven!

See how our titles compliment a great new collaboration from two design-conscious Scandinavian brands

Lessons in Art + Life at COS courtesy of HAY and Phaidon

JR's life in black and white

Get to know the French artist and activist via a suitably graphic medium - the comic strip


How Sol LeWitt broke art apart from its ideas

The US artist was born on this day in 1928. This is how he distinguished a work from the concepts behind it


Egyptian street art versus the riot squad

How the protestors of Tahrir Square used paint and stencils to avenge the crimes committed by Mubarak

Samira Ibrahim and soldiers. Egypt 2012. Photograph by mia Gröndahl. From Visual Impact

How is JR using his new Phaidon book?

No, not as a pair of glasses. The Parisian artist explains how it's helping him to win over wary subjects

JR who's just made TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential list

Ai Weiwei comes to London

The great Chinese artist and dissident is in Britain, helping to oversee his new UK shows

Ai's pro-freedom baggage tags, originally produced for his Alcatraz exhibition. Image courtesy of Ai Weiwei's Instagram

Understand all art via one canvas - the human body

Our new book is the first to celebrate the ways artists have represented and utilised the body over the centuries

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976, gelatin silver print, 14 x 14.1 cm (5 ½ x 5 ½ in), private collection. Courtesy George and Betty Woodman. From Body of Art

The unusual evolution of graces and gods

Two sculptures from very different cultures and how they deviated from their respective traditions

The Three Graces (c. 1813) by Antonio Canova. From 30,000 Years of Art

How JR found heroism in the faces of these women

From Braziian favela to Kenyan settlement the artist humanises urban environments with faces of the oppressed

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

James Corner's High Line vision

The landscape architect and co-creator of the High Line’s unique design recalls his first trip to the abandoned railway - and the ways in which he helped transform it into a work of art that attracted six million visitors last year

James Corner


When Pussy Riot 'covered' The Beatles

Visual Impact examines how supporters of latterday rock rebels drew from the graphics of an earlier generation

Free Pussy Riot with a Little Help from my Friends collage by Jorge Artajo. From Visual Impact

How René Redzepi fell in love with tacos

Read his introduction to Tacopedia, the ultimate guide to all the taco traditions of Mexico's diverse regions

René Redzepi - courtesy of his Instagram

Frank Gehry's vision for Sunset Boulevard

Could this development of 249 residential units create a “walkable community” in LA? Gehry thinks so

8150 Sunset Boulevard by Frank Gehry. Rendering by Visual House

The death of a Tsar and the birth of modernism

Two contemporaneous artworks reveal two very different histories, as outlined in 30,000 Years of Art

Lilies of the Valley Egg (1898) by Peter Carl Fabergé. From 30,000 Years of Art

Chile’s answer to Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye

What do you make of this Latin American architect’s interpretation of modernism's greatest country house?

Casa Mirador by Victor Gubbins. Photography by Marcos Mendizabal

Did this forger actually want smarter art experts?

A manuscript by forger Eric Hebborn calls for greater expertise. But is he laughing at us from beyond the grave?

Hebborn in a 1991 TV documentary

The skyscraper that aims to open up Africa

Could the Casablanca Finance City Tower by Morphosis prove to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?

Renderings of the Casablanca Finance City Tower by Morphosis

Spot the US icons in Pentagram’s food truck livery

The brilliant design agency drew up these patriotic pictograms for the USA Pavilion at this year's Milan Expo

48 of the 160 circular pictograms that make up Pentagram's designs for the USA Pavilion's Food Truck Nation

When Mario Bellini saw the future

The designer’s new monograph shows how his mid-century electronics foreshadowed later tech developments

Mario Bellini's Olivetti TVC 250 video terminal. From Mario Bellini


Eight facts for Ai Weiwei's 58th birthday

We shed light on the artist's half-brother, his card skills, and the Beijing art district he more or less designed

Ai Weiwei, Self Portrait (1987)

Planting a forest in one of America's dirtiest cities

Could this proposal to bring an arboreal landscape into the centre of Cleveland help fix the city's problems?

Re-Cultivating The Forest City in Cleveland, Ohio by Christopher Marcinkoski, for Port. From 30:30 Landscape Architecture

Theaster Gates: Art, lies and pottery

Gates might be known for his real estate projects, yet his first show featured ceramics with a shady back story

Theaster Gates. Photo by Sara Pooley

How China's regulations gave rise to this building

Dutch NEXT firm have created this undulating exterior to fit this apartment block into a crowded city centre

Fuzhou Shouxi building by NEXT Architects

Propaganda gets dirty in Map

Our new book features maps drawn up not to define borders, but to prevent existing ones from being overturned

Death to Fascism, 1941, Vasilii Vlasov, Teodor Pevzner and Tatiana Vladimirovna Shishmareva. From Map

Liz Diller on the High Line’s surprising success

The architect and co-author of our High Line book describes the park’s conception and its subsequent popularity

From left: Elizabeth Diller, Matthew Johnson, James Corner, Ricardo Scofidio, Lisa Switkin

Billy McCune – Danny Lyon’s most tragic subject

Prison may have taken away this man’s adult life, yet it didn’t break his creative spirit, as Lyon’s book makes clear

Billy McCune's rap sheet. From Conversations with the Dead

What is Massimo Bottura doing at the White House?

When it comes to nutrition, healthy eating and food waste, the First Lady chooses to trust this skinny Italian chef

Massimo Bottura with his wife Lara and his children Alexa and Charlie, at the White House. Image courtesy of Bottura's Instagram

Ai Weiwei’s bicycles come to London

The artist's famous Forever sculpture will be installed in the British banking district at the beginning of next month

Forever (2013) by Ai Weiwei

Ellsworth Kelly, bird watcher

Can ornithological practices shed light on the great American abstract artist’s works?

Yellow with Red Triangle, 1973, oil on canvas, 2 joined panels, 119 x 145 1/2 inches, 302.3 x 369.6 cm. Photo credit: courtesy Corcoran Gallery of Art. From Ellsworth Kelly

Putting spiritual back into our cityscape

Can plants bring harmony to our fast-urbanising world? The designers in 30:30 Landscape Architecture think so

Cutty Sark Gardens by Martin Knuijt, from 30:30 Landscape Architecture

Zaha Hadid’s world-record breaking bridge

The firm’s winning competition entry looks beautiful, and it could also prove to be an engineering marvel too

Zaha Hadid's Danjiang Bridge

Discover a world of contrasts in our new book, Map

By pairing apparently unrelated cartographic works together our new overview reveals some telling similarities

John Auldjo’s map Of Vesuvius (1832). From Map

China's caveman capital gets a new look

HASSELL Studios finds novel ways to display and preserve China's prehistoric heartland in Nanjing

 The Fangshan Tangshan National Geopark by HASSELL. Image by Studio Odile Decq

Zaha Hadid's High Line installation

The British-Iraqi architect has turned her firm's protective site hoarding into a swooping sculptural tunnel

Allongé by Zaha Hadid. Photo by Scott Frances.

Mario Bellini’s roadmap for the future

Learn how the architect and designer saw a route out of mid-century gridlock with his prescient people carrier

MoMA Kar-A-Sutra, 1972, from Mario Bellini

Is there a serious message behind Bread and a Dog?

Well, sort of. Find out in this interview with its author, the animal lover and culinary specialist, Natsuko Kuwahara

Cream cheese on fig bread baked in the bread maker, orange juice, and a dog that has become a permanent fixture under the table. Hey, be nice. From Bread and a Dog

Anish Kapoor’s artfully filthy Instagram account

The British sculptor has recycled the title of his controversial Versailles piece for his new Instagram handle

An image from Anish Kapoor's new Instagram account @dirty_corner

Here's the Mumbai Wallpaper* City Guide!

Designers, architects and artists joined us at Café Zoe to mark the publication of our guide to India’s biggest city

Revellers at the launch party for the new Wallpaper* City Guide to Mumbai

Looking back at Danny Lyon’s convicts

What are the prisoners trying to tell us in Lyon’s seminal 1960s prison book, Conversations with the Dead?

Two years, burglary, by Danny Lyon. From Conversations with the Dead

A space-age home with aircraft stairs

This sleek suburban Spanish home by Barcelona firm NOEM packs includes some innovative, recycled features

The Spaceship Home by NOEM

Mary Ellen Mark’s last assignment

The great US photographer’s final commission proves she was a wonderful documentarian right up until the end

Sam and Ben Will by Mary Ellen Mark for CNN

Martin Parr shoots himself (again)

Are these ‘autoportraits’ a becoming way to regard the president of Magnum Photos? Well, he certainly thinks so

One of Martin Parr's autoportraits

How Theaster Gates saved a ‘maimed’ King

We take a closer look this key political work by one of America’s most exciting contemporary artists

A Maimed King (detail), 2012, photograph, metal, glass, dust, chair, 61 x 91 x 6 cm. From Theaster Gates

Visit the world's wildest domestic environment

Our new book Jutaku illustrates just how varied, innovative and beautiful Japanese housing stock has become

HOJO, Architecton, 2009, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Prefecture. From Jutaku

Look who Ai Weiwei hung out with at the weekend

Film stars, politicians, and fellow artists have all welcomed Ai upon his recent arrival in the German capital

Ai Weiwei and Pussy Riot’s Nadia Tolokonnikova at Pauly Saal, Berlin. Image courtesy of Ai's Instagram

Danny Lyon looks back at his powerful prison photos

The brilliant photographer describes the how he got into Texan prisons and why the experience still haunts him

Seven years flat on a twenty-year sentence. The Walls. From Conversations with the Dead

Fantastic Man - now available in book format!

Learn how a Dutch duo ditched catwalk models and embraced real manhood in the book of the magazine

Our new Fantastic Man book

Why artists, architects and designers love Daniel Ost

He's created displays for galleries, Royal weddings and fashion shows - now you can get to know him too

Erasmus Foundation, Brussels, Belgium. From Daniel Ost

Alessi invites Memphis co-founder for coffee

Sottsass student Michele de Lucchi designs Pulcina, which means ‘chick’ in Italian, hence the beak-like spout

Coffee Pot - Michele de Lucchi for Alessi

Spilling the beans (and other ingredients) on Toast

Toast author Raquel Pelzel on how to to make a humble snack food as highbrow or lowbrow as you like

Hakurei Turnips, Poached Chicken and Apple Butter Toast

Daniel Libeskind’s Pyramid for Jerusalem

The architect hopes his 26-storey tower will provide “a vibrant public space in the heart of the ancient city”

The Pyramid, Israel by by Studio Libeskind and Yigal Levi. Image courtesy of Vigntsix

Is Theaster Gates America's most exciting artist?

Our new monograph lays bare the civil, spiritual and capitalist components that make up this extraordinary artist

Theaster Gates creating one of his tar paintings, Chicago, 2012

Check out the concert hall that thinks it's a castle

Mies van der Rohe Award given to Barcelona duo Barozzi Veiga's new fortress-like Philharmonic Hall

Szczecin Philharmonic - Estudio Barozzi Veiga - photo by Iñigo Bujedo-Aguirre - www.inigobujedo.com

Seeing Picasso in three dimensions

Could MoMA’s forthcoming show prove that Pablo’s sculptural works were as innovative as his paintings?

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) Bull. Cannes, c. 1958. Plywood, tree branch, nails, and screws. 46 1/8 x 56 3/4 x 4 1/8″ (117.2 x 144.1 x 10.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jacqueline Picasso in honor of the Museum’s continuous commitment to Pablo Picasso’s art. © 2015 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Get lost and found with the USA's leading map man

John Hessler, one of the US government’s foremost cartographic experts, on brain diagrams, big data and GPS

The Wind Map, 2012, by Fernanda Bertini Viégas and Marten Wattenberg. From Map

The final days of Jackson Pollock

On the anniversary of his death in a car crash we look at the last months of the great abstract expressionist

Jackson Pollock

The fine art (and design) of protest

Angry imagery is aesthetically pleasing in Liz McQuiston's Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century

From Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century

Learn how Ellsworth Kelly changed abstract art

You'll find all you need to know about how the 92-year-old painter impacted US art in his first full-career monograph

Ellsworth Kelly, Broad Street studio, New York, 1956. Photo credit: © Onni Saari. From Ellsworth Kelly

Snøhetta takes to the mountains in style

Scandanavian superstar architecture practice turns its attention to the Italian Alps - just in time for winter

Mountain funicular, Bolzano - Snøhetta

Tina Barney on shooting at the Noguchi Museum

The photographer spent 18 months at the museum but when she saw what she wanted - "it was like a bullet!"

Photo Tina Barney from The Noguchi Museum A Portrait

Cindy Sherman stars in Rufus Wainwright's opera

Sherman plays legendary diva Maria Callas in a Francesco Vezzoli-shot film for new Wainwright opera

Cindy Sherman as Maria Callas while Rufus Wainwright tinkles the ivories - photo by artist and film director Francesco Vezzoli

Steven Holl designs expansion of Kennedy Centre

Architect breaks down the barriers between artists and public in Texas, Virginia, Iowa - and now Washington

Expansion for the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC - Steven Holl

One thing you didn't know about Raquel Pelzel

Our Toast author has a guilty secret - can you guess what it is?


Landscaping the cities of the future

30 30 Landscape Architecture author Meaghan Kombol gives us the lowdown on the new scenery of the city

Tilman Latz, Latz + Partner Kranzberg, Germany: Parco Dora, Turin, Italy (2012)  - photo courtesy Latz+ Partner

What's Victor Enrich done to the Spanish Pavilion?

Spanish photographer mashes up the building that showed Picasso's Guernica with NY's Storefront Gallery

Storefront and Spanish Pavilion - Victor Enrich

Richard Rogers divulges spy museum design

The most secretive industry in the world is about to get a more welcoming museum - feel free to share

International Spy Museum, Washington - Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Ettore Sottsass and his multi-coloured world

Design Museum Director Deyan Sudjic recalls the many shades of the maverick designer's genius

The Valentine typewriter by Etorre Sottsass

Classic Frank Lloyd Wright design reissued

Iconic American architect hits the high street in a (beautifully diffuse) burst of light

Taliesin 4 Lamp - Frank Lloyd Wright - Yamagiwa

Is this the first architecture CGI to feature a selfie?

BIG's Metzler Tower in Frankfurt is a graceful addition to the city's skyline - but what's going on at ground level?

Metzler Tower, Frankfurt - BIG

All you need to know about Landscape Architecture

It can make the morning commute bearable and downtime more up - but what exactly is landscape architecture?

Perry Lethlean, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Garden, Cranbourne, VIC, Australia (2012) photo courtesy John Gollings

Op artist creates eye-popping metro signage

Legendary Polish Poster School founder Wojciech Bangor returns to public art at the grand old age of 92

Signage for Warsaw Metro - Wojciech Fangor

Hadid and Libeskind give Le Corbusier a makeover

The architects are proposing additions to Villa Le Lac - the house Le Corb built for his parents by a Swiss lake

Daniel Libeskind's design for Homage to Le Corbusier

What Joel Meyerowitz learned in Cape Cod

The great American photographer looks back on the trip that produced his pivotal series Cape Light

Roseville Cottages, Truro, Cape Cod, 1976 by Joel Meyerowitz

What shall we make with this new Fukasawa toaster?

We can't wait to try out the tasty recipes in our great new book Toast in Naoto's new design for Muji

Naoto Fukasawa for Muji

Rich Torrisi and co. take over the Four Seasons

The Major Food Group trio promise continuity and improvement when they get hold of this New York institution

The Four Seasons restaurant, New York

Stephen Shore photographs Survivors in Ukraine

New book captures the lives of European holocaust survivors with remarkable power and grace

Lyubov Yankelevna, Boryspil, Kyivska District. From Survivors in Ukraine by Stephen Shore

The High Line - by the people who made it

Get a first-hand account of the inspirations and tribulations behind the creation of NYC's transformative linear park

The High Line, New York

Get ready Sydney, René Redzepi is coming!

The Noma chef will follow his successful 2015 Tokyo pop-up with a ten-week residency in Australia

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

Let Steve McCurry take you to India

William Dalrymple calls the photographer's new book 'a testament to a long-standing love of India'

Women participate in a laughter club at Mumbai's Hanging Gardens - Steve McCurry from the book India