Steve McCurry's Advice for Young Creatives #2

There's nothing like practice, practice practice! for becoming the best at what you do says the Magnum photographer

Photographer Steve McCurry

Arriba! This Mexican best-seller is now in English

And René Redzepi has written the foreword for Tacopedia - everything you ever wanted to know about the taco

Tacopedia: The Taco Encyclopedia

René is in Bangkok, Massimo is in New York...

It's time for the The Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle. Can you work out where the world's great chefs are tonight?

Redzepi at Namh, Bangkok. Image courtesy of Lara Dunston's Instagram

If you could build your house on the side of a cliff. . .

Would it look like this one? Click through to see OPA's 'subterranean Casa Malaparte' proposal, Casa Brutale

Casa Brutale - Open Platform for Architecture

The playfully productive world of Mario Bellini

New book captures the childlike imagination of a designer responsible for inspiring the ubiquitous people carrier

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

Stephen Shore and Martin Parr hang out at Arles

The two great Phaidon photographers enjoy signings and retrospectives at the world's greatest photo festival

Stephen Shore and Martin Parr chat during a signing session at the Rencontres d’Arles

Looking back at Castro's Cuba

The International Center of Photography’s ¡Cuba, Cuba! show surveys half a century of revolutionary life

Andrew Moore, Torreon de Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, 1999. © Andrew Moore. Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. From ¡Cuba, Cuba!

Time to take a new look at our world?

The picture below is a map - Map: Exploring the World features 300 more, just as unusual, exciting and beautiful

Mapping the Brain, 2014, Human Connectome Project  Digital, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project. From Map

Can you guess who's playing the Migrant Mother?

Sandro Miller has recreated a series of classic photographs with a certain Hollywood actor taking the lead role

From Left: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 by Dorothea Lange; Dorothea Lange / Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936), 2014 by Sandro Miller. From the Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich - Homage to photographic masters series. Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.

RIP Juli Soler the man who launched Ferran Adrià

We're sad to report the death of the author, elBulli owner and Honorary President of the elBulli Foundation

Juli Soler in the kitchen of elBulli photo by Pere Duran

How Marc Chagall painted his own birthday - inspired by the love and gifts of his muse Bella

To mark the painter’s date of birth, 6 July, we look back to an early anniversary celebrated in this lovely painting

The Birthday (1915) by Marc Chagall. As reproduced in our Art & Ideas book dedicated to the artist

One show - 325 Chinese artists!

And you don't need to visit the People's Republic to see them all. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see the likes of Zhang Xiaogang Yin Xiuzhen, Zhang Huan, Xiao Xioaogang and Ai Weiwei courtesy of the M+Sigg Collection

On The Wall Shenzhen (2002) - Weng Fen image courtesy of the artist

Make your own Ai Weiwei original for just $15!

Or stretch out on a Konstantin Grcic sound system for $40 - you can make these and more in our new book DIY

Do It Yourself: 50 Projects by Designers and Artists

Right! Who wants dinner in under thirty minutes?

Quick and Easy Italian Recipes features world famous Silver Spoon meals in an even easier to use format

The Silver Spoon: Quick and Easy Italian Recipes

Danny Lyon's Conversations with the Dead

Danny Lyon spent 14 months photographing inside the Texas penitentiary system - this is what he found

Visiting Room - Danny Lyon from Conversations with the Dead

Preserving - another foodie trend we've got covered!

Learn how a perfectly conserved French cookery book from 1948 inspired our great forthcoming title

Preserving by Ginette Mathiot and Clotilde Dusoulier

Sarah Lucas makes 'marrow' for US embassy gardens

The Venice Biennale artist is creating a gourd-shaped work for Vauxhall at the behest of Norman Rosenthal

Installation view of NOB + Gelatin (2013) by Sarah Lucas. Photo by Wolfgang Thaler. Image courtesy of Sadie Coles

Festival design that lets the music do the branding

Swiss designer Alexandre Pietra's treatment for this summer's For Noise festival puts the headliners centre stage

Alexandre Pietra's treatment for the For Noise festival

Moon Hoon's display of brotherly love

Korean architecture practice creates a brace of lunar landscape-inspired properties for two brothers

Two Moon - Moon-Hoon

Introducing the amazing Modernist Cuisine!

Stephen Hawking’s former research scientist will blow your mind with this 2438 page study of how cookery works

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. Photo by Ryan Matthew

First look inside the new Design Museum

John Pawson's minimalist masterpiece is taking shape inside London's former Commonwealth Institute

Work gets underway inside the new Design Museum. Photography by French + Tye

Introducing Magnum Photos' new members!

The photography cooperative has just added six new members to its ranks. Do you know their work?

Nominee Lorenzo Meloni sprays the celebratory champagne at Magnum Photos' 2015 AGM. © Jean Gaumy/Magnum Photos

Takashi Murakami joins Ferran Adrià in Ibiza

Take a look at some of the contemporary art on show at the elBulli chef's amazing new Balearic venture

Sage (2014) by Takashi Murakami, on show at Heart in Ibiza this summer

Jacob Kassay’s comeback — as an architect

The hot young artist fell from favour last year. Yet he seems to have reinvented himself with this new Belgian show

Installation image from Jacob Kassay's HIJK exhibition. Photo credit: Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

News of our Grace Coddington book has leaked!

It's true! We're publishing the BIGGEST book in fashion - think of it as Phaidon's September issue

Grace Coddington

Steve McCurry's Advice for Young Creatives

Legendary Magnum photographer's advice for graduates this summer: #1: 'Be proactive!'

Steve McCurry - photograph by Bruno Barbey

Berlin looks back at queer art and culture

Homosexuality_ies, a wide-ranging show, opens at two museums in the German capital this Pride weekend

Walpurgis Night demonstrations, 1983, Berlin - photograph by Petra Gall From Homosexuality_ies

Name the architects behind the Serpentine Pavilions

Pentagram helps the Serpentine launch its 2015 Build Your Own Pavilion project by illustrating every one of them

Pentagram's Serpentine Pavilion illustrations. Image courtesy of Pentagram

JR helps Baltimore students say #BlackLivesMatter

Students at the city's Morgan State University use the artist's Inside Out project to express an important truth

Morgan State University’s Inside Out project, #BlackLivesMatter, at 1400 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore. Photography by Kelli Williams and Christopher Metzger

The Ai Weiwei and Luc Tuymans bromance!

What did the talk turn to when the Belgian painter visited Ai Weiwei's first ever show in China?


Why we love this award-winning photo by a teenager

Yong Lin Tan won Youth Photographer at the Sony World Photography Awards - we asked him how he did it

Back Alley, Alor Setar, Malaysia, 2015, by Yong Lin Tan, winner of the Youth Photographer of the Year award at the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards

Gillian Wearing and Tacita Dean on their art schools

The Phaidon artists remember what they made for their degree shows and why they didn’t expect great success

From left: Gillian Wearing and Tacita Dean's work from their degree shows. Images courtesy of the artists

Whatever you do, don't look down!

The Inside Awards in Singapore celebrate the world's best interiors - take a look at these great images

Medibank Workplace by HASSELL

MAD build hilltop village in Beverly Hills

Chinese practice reinvents the Mediterranean hill town for 21st century LA - complete with vertical garden

Renderings for 8600 Wilshire by MAD

From Real Estate to Surreal Estate

MoMA's latest exhibition looks at one of the most radical reinterpretations of domestic architecture ever

Exterior view of the Endless House model (1958) by Frederick Kiesler

A+ Architecture – the Grotto Sauna

This Canadian sauna uses modern technology and age-old craft to create a breathtaking, lakeside interior

The Grotto Sauna, Georigan Bay, Ontario, Canada by Partisan Projects. From our new Architizer A+ Awards 2015 book

McDonald’s targets cyclists with mobile packaging

Restaurant giant hops on the bike boom with a nifty way of transporting burger and fries - without risk of flipping

An end to flipping over? Cyclist friendly packaging from McDonald's

'What's going on in Chinese photography? A lot'

The director of Photo Shanghai on Asia's rising stars, censorship and what to watch out for when buying a photo

Photo Shanghai Director Alexander Montague-Sparey - photograph by Sean Cunningham

When Pollock stopped dripping and splashing

A new Tate Liverpool show looks back at a lesser-known period in Jackson Pollock's creative output

Number 8, 1951 (Black Flowing) by Jackson Pollock. As reproduced in our Jackson Pollock Phaidon Focus book

Foster banishes the car underground in China

Architect's new project cleverly relocates traffic beneath the feet of Wuhan residents and workers


Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Vermeer

Our author recalls the time a Dutch forger had to recreate a work sold to the Nazis in order to get off death row


A first look at the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion

A gallery of images detailing the construction of this year's pavilion by Madrid architects SelgasCano

Serpentine Pavilion 2015 - SelgasCano photograph courtesy NAARO

Dan Graham’s playful critique of Le Corbusier

The artist has deconstructed social architecture for decades - so what has he made of Le Corb’s famous rooftop?

Dan Graham at MAMO. Photograph by Sébastien Véronèse

The typeface that comes with its own spy film

Fontsmith has enlivened the launch of its new 'enigmatic type' FS Silas by giving it its own mini-movie

Fontsmith's FS Silas - The first typeface with an accompanying spy movie?

Anish Kapoor - attack on Dirty Corner ‘a tragedy’

Sculptor says spattering of Versailles sculpture with yellow paint is ‘extremely sad’ and 'a political act'

Paint splatters on Anish Kapoor's Versailles work, Dirty Corner. Image courtesy of Sophie Walker's Instagram

MoMA buys the Rainbow Flag

We explain the strong message behind a simple piece of cloth that's now become a National treasure

The rainbow flag waving in the wind at San Francisco's Castro District. Photo by Benson Kua. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

Libeskind and Hadid remember their childhoods

New show sees prominent architects and designers reflecting on their formative experiences as kids

Daniel Libeskind playing his accordion in Lodz, Poland, 1955 aged 9; right: Jewish Museum Berlin (2001), photo courtesy Daniel Libeskind Studio, New York

Katy Grannan’s fallen stars on the highway

Photographer’s new series looks at the fortunes and misfortunes of the overlooked and undervalued

Inessa Waits Near South 9th Street, Modesto, CA, 2012 © Katy Grannan, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Salon 94, New York

Is this ex-OMA architect 'doing a Dujardin'?

Ole Scheeren's Vancouver skyscraper reminds us of the work of Shooting Space photographer Philip Dujardin

1500 West Georgia by Buro Ole Scheeren and a photo from Filip Dujardin's Fictions series (2007-11) as featured in the book Shooting Space

Thea Westreich Wagner on who to buy at Art Basel

'The artists of moment are the ones engaged in expanding our understanding of our time on this planet' she says

A still from Hito Steyerl's video How Not to Be Seen (2013) - 'a majorly important artist' according to Collecting Art for Love, Money and More co-author Thea Westreich Wagner

René Redzepi joins Massimo Bottura’s soup kitchen

The Phaidon chef is feeding discarded food to Milan's poor and he's asked his famous friends to help out

René Redzepi and Massimo Bottura, Milan, June 2015. Image courtesy of Sarah Canet's Instagram

The photo that made Elliott Erwitt a vegetarian

Magnum photographers pick the photo that 'changed everything' (or, just for a little while, in Elliott's case)

Venice, 1949 by Elliott Erwitt

Marlene Dumas takes it to church

South African painter will recreate the creation myths on an 18th century altarpiece in Germany

Broken Mirror (1988-89) by Marlene Dumas

Pentagram gives Shakespeare a makeover

The agency has reworked its Shakespeare in the Park designs into something rich and strange for the 2015 season

Shakespeare in the Park 2015 poster in the New York subway. Photo by Claudia Mandlik. Image courtesy of Pentagram

The antique art technique finding new favour

What is metalpoint? And why are two NYC galleries showing great new drawings using this old method?

SP. 5 (2010) by Michael Kukla

'What’s that thing doing, blocking the view?'

Anish Kapoor on the strange things people say about his new Versailles exhibition

Dirty Corner (2015) Courtesy Kapoor Studio and Kamel Mennour. Photo: Fabrice Seixas © Anish Kapoor 2015

Martin Parr's first fashion collection

Martin Parr does 'oh so British' fashion shoot for Henry Holland's House of Holland label (sandals not included)

Martin Parr for House of Holland

Margot Krasojevic's Himalayan snow shelter

Zaha Hadid protegé's latest structure boasts a sci-fi power system to warm the heart of any lost trekker

The artificial snow cave hut emergency shelter - Margot Krasojevic

The Simpsons-inspired site predicting the art market

Art Rank's founder explains how Instagram and Google Trends let him forecast the rise and fall of new artworks

Art Rank founder Carlos Rivera

Art + ice cream - does it get any better?

Daniel Burns and Davide Balula on this week's art and artisanal ice cream Art Basel collaboration

A promotional image for Painting the Roof of your Mouth (2015) by Davide Balula; dimensions variable. Courtesy Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. With the support of Noirmontartproduction, Paris

Come and meet us at The Affordable Art Fair!

If you're near North London this weekend come and say hello and pick up some great books

Our stand at The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London

Roni Horn's Butterfly Doubt

Hauser & Wirth show serves as a testament to her practice of drawing which she likens to breathing


JR is making a film with Agnes Varda

The French artist is looking for funding for a proposed new venture with the 87-year-old New Wave director

Agnes Varda and JR. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Noah Charney- 'Hirst and Koons are like Old Masters'

The Art of Forgery's author discusses the knotty problems of art and authentication with WNYC's Leonard Lopate

Author Noah Charney

'Richard Prince is a jerk and he sucks'

As Prince's New Portraits series opens in London, we look at the diverse reactions the work has received

An installation shot of Richard Prince's New Portraits series. Courtesy of the Gagosian gallery.

Norman Foster remembers Louis Kahn

The Pritzker Laureate pays tribute to the pioneering architect on accepting The Louis Kahn Memorial Award

Norman Foster

Herzog & de Meuron’s forest-inspired stadium

Swiss architects draw inspiration from the slim trees in the nearby Landes Forest of Bordeaux

Herzog & de Meuron's Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux

A Movement in a Moment: Realism

How Gustave Courbet, born today, 10 Jun, in 1819, helped create a movement around the painting of ordinary folk

The Stonebreakers (1849) by Gustave Courbet

Ai Weiwei splits a temple at his debut Chinese show

The artist's first solo show on Chinese soil both asserts and undermines his country's national characteristics

Part of Ai Weiwei's 400-year-old temple, installed at the Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing. Image courtesy of the center

Live-sleep-eat-in-it office space unveiled

Hotel in a shipping container aims to capitalise on underused urban space - good bye work life balance. .

LOT-EK's renderings for Spacious's co-working hotel

6 artists who influenced the new Jeff Koons show

The Koons retrospective opens today at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Can you spot these artists among his influences?

Jeff Koons next to Puppy, Bilbao, 2015. Photo by Erika Barahona Ede

The illustrated guide to New York

New MTA show at the Society of Illustrators takes a look at the changing face of the city over the last 30 years

Embrace (2008) © Carlo Stanga image courtesy Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Hong Hao’s patterns of consumption

Meet the Chinese artist who scans and collages every consumer item that passes through his hands

My Things, Booking Keeping of (2007-08) by Hong Hao

New shopping mall resembles a flower display

Vincent Callebaut's latest development aims to up the feel good factor - good for consumers and retailers

Renderings for Wooden Orchids by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

A+ Architecture – Restaurant Steirereck

This winning Austrian restaurant manages to combine contemporary design with a high degree of cosiness

Restaurant Steirereck, Vienna, Austria

Agnes Martin the underrated Abstract Expressionist

Pace Gallery boss and friend Arne Glimcher has a theory why the artist is not as well known as her contemporaries

Agnes Martin at Tate Modern installation shot

Interior design with a sporting advantage

Jaime Hayón's Game On collection for the European design specialists Galerie Kreo is seriously playful

Small racket mirror from Game on by Jaime Hayón. Photo by Petter Hepplewhite

Philosophy, gardening and the French Revolution

Sculptor, poet and Gardener's Gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay reminds us of the bloody roots of artistic freedom

Urn / 1794 (1993) by Ian Hamilton Finlay

Breaking bread with Joel Meyerowitz

How did the legendary street photographer conjure such character from a staple foodstuff?

A selection of images from Joel Meyerowitz's Milan Expo shoot

Arne Glimcher on Agnes Martin's disappearing act

The Pace Gallery boss on why she left the NY loft she shared with Jasper Johns and went missing for a year

The Sea (2003) - Agnes Martin installation shot from the Tate Modern show

Anthony Caro on his love of the Duccio Annunciation

We highlight the sculptor’s love for this work, due to be exhibited alongside his, in a National Portrait Gallery show

The Annunciation (1307-1308/11) by Duccio di Buoninsegna

JR wins Gordon Parks Foundation Award

The artist was among the laureates receiving Gordon Parks Foundation Awards in New York City last night

From left: Grace Hightower De Niro, Pharrell Williams, JR, Robert De Niro, Janelle Monáe at The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards, New York City, 2 June 2015. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram account

Gastón Acurio remembers his first Michelin meal

The Peruvian chef, restaurateur and TV host recalls his gastronomic turning points on National Public Radio

Gastón Acurio

What's Theaster Gates doing in a UK church?

The artist will stage his first UK public project as part of Bristol's 2015 European Green Capital arts programme


Arne Glimcher talks Agnes Martin at the Tate

On the eve of a huge retrospective, the Pace Gallery boss remembers the artist who shaped his aesthetic

Arne Glimcher by Weston Wells

BIG and OMA make Lego on the High Line

And you can join in and design your own city of the future at the Collectivity Project


Olafur Eliasson on art schools and the art market

The artist and Akademie X contributor loves risks, hates hierarchy and thinks Ethiopia makes Berlin look boring

Artist and Akademie X contributor Olafur Eliasson

Massimo Bottura one step closer to best in the world!

Congratulations to our Skinny Italian chef who jumps one place to number two in 50 Best Restaurants list

René Redzepi and Massimo Bottura. Image courtesy of Massimo's Instagram

Look what Jasper Johns has done to his spare room

The artist’s non-profit foundation has turned its meeting room into a 496-square-feet artist-run exhibition space

Installation view of Six Doors at the Other Room,  with Marianne Vitale’s Joint Fence (for Jasper) (2015)

New Orleans marks Katrina 10th anniversary

Ten Years Gone at the New Orleans Museum of Contemporary Art recalls the tragedy of the city’s floods

World Trade Center as a Cloud (2011) by Christopher Saucedo

Steven Holl keeps it in the family

How did a small gallery on the Hudson come to show works by the prominent architect - and his brother?

 Yishudao 9/22 (2013) by Steven Holl

The world's tax havens go on show at Arles

Photographers Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti grapple with the ephemeral nature of offshore banking

The swimming pool on the 57th floor at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore; Singapore's financial quarter is in the background. From The Heavens, Annual Report by Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti

Could OMA’s new hotel redefine Dutch architecture?

Rem Koolhaas’s firm hopes its plans for the Netherlands' largest hotel will shape a new look for Amsterdam

Renderings for Nhow Amsterdam RAI Hotel, by OMA

Redzepi, Atala and Bottura swap restaurants!

For one night only the Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle lets some of the world's best chefs cook in one another's kitchens

Some of the chefs lined up for the the Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle on 9 July

Tony Oursler's spooky archive is coming to Arles

What links Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle and Hans Ulrich Obrist to one of the world's foremost video artists?

An image from Imponderable, courtesy of Tony Oursler's archive

Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Dalí

How might one of the 20th century’s greatest artists have forged his own work? Our author takes up the story


A+ Architecture – The Three Cusps Chalet

This Portuguese renovation from our Architizer A+Awards book combines local styles with a Brazilian influence

The Three Cusps Chalet Braga, Portugal - Tiago do Vale Arquitectos

5 things we learnt from Alain Servais on Artspace

The iconoclastic collector talks history, art sharks and why the art world is so turning into the fashion world

The collector Alain Servais (Photo by Jean Leprini)

Mary Ellen Mark 1940-2015

'Her pictures were always unusual and beautiful, but so was she' - Francis Ford Coppola on Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark on the set of Apocalypse Now (1979)

China's art power couple collaborate over dinner

How for Yin Xiuzhen and Song Dong the chopstick became the perfect form for a new series of work

Chopsticks: Cut (with Song Dong), 2011, metal, used clothes, mirrors, wood, monitor, each 1200 x 40 x 40 cm, installation view at Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, 2011