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

Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Giacometti

How did a con man and a teacher strike one of the most successful forgery partnerships ever? Our author tells all

From left: Diego (1959) by Alberto Giacometti; John Myatt, in the style of Giacometti, Portrait of Samuel Beckett, dated 1961

A+ Architecture - House in Tamatsu

This residential house by Ido, Kenji from our Architizer A+Awards book is a truly captivating piece of microtecture

House in Tomatsu, Osaka, Japan - Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio as featured in the book Architizer A+Awards 2015

Zhang Xiaogang and the green wall

How the painter turned a ubiquitous element of 70s Chinese life into a powerful series of works

Zhang Xiaogang - Green Wall Series Father And Daughter

Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Matisse

The Art of Forgery author on the infamous Elmyr de Hory, a man who could copy a Matisse in under an hour

Elmyr de Hory's Odalisque in the style of Henri Matisse. 1974

How this floating prison could power a small town

Zaha Hadid protégé Margot Krasojevic says her sea jail could generate enough electricity for 2000 homes


Who is showing what at Photo London

The British photo fair opened yesterday and already looks like a success. Here’s what’s drawing in the crowds

Untitled, from Tokyo Parrots (2013) by Yoshinori Mizutani. Image courtesy of Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp

New Sufi centre channels Philip Johnson's spirit

This Californian Sufi sanctuary draws inspiration from one of the Pritzker laureate’s earlier Islamic-influenced works

Renderings of Sufism Reoriented's new sanctuary, courtesy of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie.

A+Architecture - Ice & Snow Apartment

Architizer+Awards 2015 features 100 of the best buildings in the world today including this Chinese ski chalet

Ice & Snow Apartment, Zhangjiakou, China - Penda Architects

Well what did you expect the 1stdibs HQ to look like?

One of our favourite websites has a new office - and it's in keeping with their upscale offering

1stDibs New York - photo by Joshua McHugh (www.joshuamchugh.com)

Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Dürer

Infamous art sleuth Noah Charney on how a stray logo led to the first ever artistic intellectual property lawsuit

From left: Christ Among the Doctors in the Temple, plate 15 in Life of the Virgin (1503) by Albrecht Dürer; Christ Among the Doctors in the Temple, (c. 1506) by Marcantonio Raimondi, after Dürer

Howard Hodgkin creates new WW1 stamps

The Turner Prize winner joins other creatives in the Royal Mail's ongoing philatelic commemoration

Hat-Trick's latest WW1 Royal Mail stamp range

JR brings The Wrinkles of the City to Istanbul

If you're in Istanbul over the next few days look out for the latest iteration of the artist's international series

JR's portrait of Ali, an old fisherman from Istanbul, and his wife Sukran on the Old Docks, as part of the artist's latest iteration of The Wrinkles of the City. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney - Van Gogh

Infamous art sleuth Noah Charney talks about the first forgery case to be solved using forensic science

Left: Vincent van Gogh's Self-portrait (1889). Right: a forged version of the painting, shown, via forensic testing, to have been created in the early 20th century

Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece explained

To mark her MoMA show, we examine the moment the artist invited her audience to cut off her clothes

Cut Piece performed by Yoko Ono on July 20, 1964 at Yamaichi Concert Hall, Kyoto, Japan. Photographer unknown; courtesy Lenono Photo Archive.

The childlike visions of Zhang Xiaogang

Adrift from his family, the painter began a series of complex, emotional portraits of his daughter

My Daughter No. 1 (2000) - Zhang Xiaogang

A great night at the Architizer A+Awards

Architizer's A+Awards celebrate the diversity of the world’s architecture at New York gala

The stage is set at the Architizer A+Awards. Courtesy of Jenna Bascom Photography.

Take a trip through Yin Xiuzhen’s Ruined City

How cement covered furnishings let this artist express the distress she felt at China’s breakneck modernisation

Ruined City (1996) by Yin Xiuzhen

Who is showing what at Frieze New York

$20 Dots, punk rock and Arte Povera - here's what to look out for in the booths at the New York art fair

Giuseppe Penone's work in Mariam Goodman's booth. Image courtesy of Frieze

From Book to Bid - Jeff Wall's The Bridge

His landscape photo is at auction tonight but why does he think a cemetery is the ‘perfect’ type of landscape?

The Bridge (1980) transparency in light box - Jeff Wall

Yin Xiuzhen and the Chinese art revolution

How the hopeful mid-Eighties years helped shape one of China's greatest contemporary artists

Yin Xiuzhen inside her installation Heterotopic Cavity, 2009

The Phaidon guide to art speak - Social Practice

Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time

Rafael Lorenzo and Obdulia Manzano Wrinkles of the City (2012) - JR

From Book to Bid - Ed Ruscha's Whiz Kids

The tension between visual and textual understanding lie at the heart of this work, on sale at Christie's tonight

Whiz Kids (1987) by Ed Ruscha

Zhang Xiaogang and the 'nightmare' of Tiananmen

Images of decapitated bodies and severed limbs - how China's foremost artist reacted in paint to the events of 1989

Nightmare Series No. 1, 1989 - Zhang Xiaogang

JR on his new movie with Robert De Niro

The artist tells us about The Ghosts of Ellis Island, 'a fiction, that slowly connects to the reality'


A Movement in a Moment: De Stijl

How a group of artists in Holland tried to find a universal way to show the human experience

Lozenge Composition With Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow and Black (1925) by Piet Mondrian

From Book to Bid - de Kooning's Pink Angels (study)

Renaissance allusion and sexual imagery abound in this study for a later masterwork on auction at Sotheby's

Study for Pink Angels (c. 1945) by Willem de Kooning

Backstage at Massimo Bottura's Grazia photo shoot

Our Skinny Italian Chef is shot and interviewed by Grazia magazine in Paris at the prestigious Galerie Perrotin

Massimo Bottura is ready for his close up courtesy of photographer Jérôme Bonnet

Zhang Xiaogang's light bulb moment

How does this bare bulb symbolise the father son relationship of one of China's most famous artists?

Amnesia And Memory No. 21 (2003) by Zhang Xiaogang

Picasso's Women of Algiers smashes auction record

Eleven minutes of frenetic bidding at Christie's sees $160 million Picasso become world's most expensive painting

Christie's New York as the final bid comes in for Picasso's Women of Algiers

From Book to Bid – Alexander Calder's Untitled

At auction tonight - the Calder mobile loved by Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Léger

Alexander Calder's untitled (c. 1937)

Wes Anderson designs retro Milan café for Prada

The US director hopes his Bar Luce will prove to be a great place to spend some 'non-fictional' afternoons

Wes Anderson's Bar Luce. Photo: Attilio Maranzano. Courtesy Fondazione Prada

Chris Burden R.I.P.

Following the US artist's death on Sunday,we examine the key pieces that made him such a unique talent

Chris Burden Shoot 1971

Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Jo Stella-Sawicka

The Artistic Director of the fair on how to turn curious visitors into lifelong collectors

Jo Stella-Sawicka at Frieze London, 2012. The background image formed part of Thomas Bayrle's Frieze Project.

From Book to Bid – Andy Warhol’s Fright Wig

The loss of friends and failing health inspired his most iconic portraits - one of which is up for auction at Sotheby's

Self-Portrait 1986 - Andy Warhol up for auction at Sotheby's (photo courtesy Sotheby's)

The things that made up James Irvine

The brilliant Alessi, B&B, IKEA and Mercedes designer died in 2013. His wife remembers what made him unique

James Irvine in 1965 with his first design

Could Ellsworth Kelly get a World War II medal?

In VE celebration week it's revealed that the great artist might receive a Congressional Medal for his WWII trickery

Ellsworth Kelly

Gombrich explains the Palace of Versailles

As the UK goes to the polls we look at how, 351 years ago, another European leader influenced the masses

The Palace of Versailles

From Book to Bid – Kusama's Infinity Nets (ZYA)

Damien Hirst asks the artist about the loneliness in her work on auction at Christie's, NY next week

Infinity Nets (ZYA) (1999) by Yayoi Kusama

Shanghai's History Museum has an organic form

Glass wall of atrium 'inspired by the cellular structure of plants and animals' say architects Perkins + Will

Shanghai Natural History Museum - photo courtesy Perkins + Will

From Book to Bid – Peter Doig’s Swamped

Adrian Searle reveals how horror film Friday the 13th inspired this painting up for auction at Christie’s next week

Swamped (1990) by Peter Doig

Phaidon's A-Z of The Venice Biennale

It only previewed yesterday and there's already a lot to read - here are 26 things you might have missed though

Okwui Enwezor Curator 2015 Venice Biennale

Phaidon's Frieze NY interviews - Cecilia Alemani

The High Line and Frieze Projects curator talks us through this year's Flux-Labyrinth and other fair attractions

Cecilia Alemani. Photograph by Tom Medwell

From Book to Bid – Cindy Sherman's Untitled #470

Phaidon Focus author Paul Moorhouse explains the artwork on auction at Phillips, NY next week - care to bid?

Untitled #470 Chromogenic Colour Print and ornate frame 2008 Edition of 6 - Cindy Sherman, image courtesy Phillips

Theaster Gates on his Venice Biennale show

He might be taking bits of derelict churches to La Biennale, but don’t call his new Venice show 'reclamation'

Theaster Gates

Magnus Nilsson - chef, author, photographer?

The Swedish chef and author tells us how he took the beautiful photos in his forthcoming book The Nordic Cookbook


A Movement in a Moment: Art Brut

How one French artist took the works of mentally ill patients and placed them at the forefront of Modernism

Deux visages (two faces) (1917-22) by Heinrich Anton Müller. From the Collection de l'Art Brut. As reproduced in Raw Vision

Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Allyson Vieira

The American sculptor uses recycled plastic to create works that bring to mind ancient civilisations


JR on his New York Times Magazine cover

Watch our video with the artist in which he reveals the thinking behind his New York Times cover at the weekend


Well, can you spot which one is the fake?

Artist and curator Doug Fishbone asked people to spot the fake in his new show, only 12% got it right

From right: the original Portrait of a Young Woman (c. 1769) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and the replica Fishbone commissioned for his exhibition

Unseen Bacons on show in London and New York

Did Francis Bacon really paint self-portraits such as these in later life because all his old friends were dying off?

A Sotheby's employee holding Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1975,  oil on canvas, 35.5 by 30.5cm, est. £10-15 million. Behind: Francis Bacon, Three Studies for Self-Portrait, 1980, oil on canvas, each: 35.5 by 30.5cm est. £10-15 million. Courtesy of Sotheby’s

Archive sketches inspire MoMA’s Italian range

Newly realised designs by Sottsass, Castiglioni and co. go on sale at the museum’s Design Store next month

Condiment Architecture by Aldo Cibic. Cibic's a condiment-holder collection was inspired by the Italian countryside. The Cypress-tree holds toothpicks, the houses are salt and pepper shakers and the smokestack is a vase.

OMA's 'race against time' for Venice Biennale

The architect overseeing OMA's work on the Chinese Pavilion tells us what to expect next month

OMA's rendering of its work on the Chinese Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. Image courtesy of OMA

Sonia Delaunay - Planes, Prints and Automobiles

In the second part of our chat with Juliet Bingham, the Tate curator talks us through Delaunay's later works

Two models wearing fur coats designed by Sonia Delaunay and manufactured by Heim, with the car belonging to the journalist Kaplan and painted after one of Sonia Delaunay’s fabrics, in front of the Pavillon du Tourisme designed by Mallet-Stevens, International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, Paris 1925. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Roger Ballen goes back to Outland #4

1998 photograph Cat Catcher conceals a tale of witch doctors, marginalised living and our destructive nature

Cat Catcher, 1998 - Roger Ballen as featured in the book Outland

An AKADEMIE X reading list

On World Book Day, learn which books inspire Marina Abramović, Bob Nickas, Dan Graham and Miranda July

AKADEMIE X

All you need to know about Sonia Delaunay

Juliet Bingham, curator of a new Tate retrospective explains how the artist went from fine art to fabric and back

 Sonia Delaunay (right) and two friends in Robert Delaunay’s studio, rue des Grands-Augustins, Paris 1924. Image courtesy of Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Carol Bove and 'The Intimacy Gradient'

Our Akademie X artist's magnificent new show at Zwirner unfolds over three floors of varied yet related work

Carol Bove - Photo by Andreas Lazlo Konrath
Courtesy David Zwirner New York/London

The Winter Olympics resort that serves as a TV screen

LEDs set into the façade of this South Korean resort could allow its guests to watch the 2018 Games

Planning Korea's proposed resort in Gangneung. Images courtesy of Planning Korea

Steve McCurry and Stephen Shore at Photo London

Appearance of two world-class photographers set to raise the status of the photo fair to new heights

Steve McCurry. Image courtesy of EIZO

What we learned from Redzepi’s Reddit interview

The Noma founder on why he's becoming interested in native American food, how Gordon Ramsay hated Noma and why you should never eat anything from the forest unless you know what it is (or you're a masochist)

Oh, René, you are terrible. Redzepi finds new 'ingredients' on the Australian leg of his global book tour

Candy Crush's new office lacks a 'bored' room

'We didn't build an office – we created a kingdom' says Stockholm developer King of its playful new design

King's new offices, as designed by Adolfsson & Partners

Why Anri Sala is France’s leading artist (again)

The filmmaker is ranked 'most influential artist' by the leading French publication Le Journal des Arts

Untitled (Golf) (2006) by Anri Sala

Lost Ettore Sottsass designs go into production

Furniture and vases by the legendary Italian designer hit the high street courtesy of Kartell

The Colonna stool, Calice vase and the Pilastro stool, from Kartell's newly produced Ettore Sottsass plans

The snacks that work like airline tickets

Budget airline Transavia says its SnackHolidays campaign puts the fun back into buying a vacation

The Snackholidays range from Transavia

French architects plan a vertical city in the Sahara

OXO Architectes and Nicolas Laisne Associes' la Ville Tour des Sables will create a souk in the sky

La Ville Tour des Sables by OXO Architects and Nicolas Laisne Associes

A Movement in a Moment: Fauvism

How Henri Matisse founded a 20th Century art movement on the back of an art world scandal


Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Frank Castronovo

One of the Franks behind Frankies Spuntino talks coffee, collecting art, and what wine Larry Gagosian serves


Could Gurlitt’s art hoard be shown at dOCUMENTA?

Director Adam Szymczyk wants to display the collection of looted Nazi art in an 'almost neutral' way

Detail from Knight with Devil (1513) by Albrecht Dürer. Image courtesy of lostart.de

What's wrong with David Shrigley's calculator?

An adding machine that only subtracts and a set of rules forbidding German form part of new NYC show


Ellsworth Kelly to receive James Smithson medal

The 91-year-old painter will accept the accolade at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum tomorrow

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

Philip-Lorca diCorcia and the Kardashian implant

How does the photographer link the world's most famous fundament to the global financial crisis?

Abraham, 2010 - photo courtesy Philip-Lorca di Corcia and David Zwirner

Zhang Xiaogang on money, art and China

Why does one of the the world's most important artists say the Chinese art market is 'like a parasite'?

Zhang Xiaogang. Photo by Fu Chun Lai

Stories from the Secession - The effects of war

How the optimistic, hedonistic artists of the Viennese Secession responded to the horrors of World War One

The Nameless Ones (1914-16) by Albin Egger-Lienz

James Irvine honoured at Salon del Mobile

The late, great product designer’s monograph gets a custom-made display unit, and its on show in Milan

Our James Irvine book on show in Milan