All you need to know about Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
The book is a timely exploration of the ways artists have grappled with race and grief in modern America, from the great curator Okwui Enwezor
All you need to know about Vitamin D3
This indispensable survey of contemporary drawing captures the beautiful range of new works created in this oldest of media
Have you seen Jim Hodges' and Elmgreen & Dragset’s new pieces in NYC stations?
The artists have installed two very different works across Manhattan’s public transport network
The Wall Street Journal identifies Anni and Josef Albers as the preeminent modernist power couple
For longevity and aesthetic give-and-take, no one beats Anni and Josef, argues the newspaper’s Ann Landi
2020 in 20 stories
Here are the things we learned, that surprised us, that made us laugh, (or stifle a tear) and generally got us through this year - all from Phaidon.com
Now Available - Rihanna: Queen Size
The statement volume for Rihanna fans, this new luxury edition is limited to just 500 copies worldwide
The Haas Brothers line up an exhibition, a bar and an adult cartoon for 2021
The artists and Rihanna collaborators have an action packed year coming up!
Pantone Colour of the Year 2021? Anni & Josef Albers got there half-a-century earlier!
Pantone’s pigments for the New Year capture something of the months ahead, but they also reflect the work of these 20th century pioneers
Give the gift of beautiful books on great lives
Exquisite books are a great way to bring us together during the holidays. Give these gifts to someone you love, you’ll both revel in the lives of the greats, past and present
Watch the Haas Brothers in their studio
The Californian artists shared their working space and practices with Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and Amanda Benchley, authors of our new book Open Studio
Give the gift of beautiful books for their home
Exquisite books are a great way to celebrate the holidays. Give these gifts to someone you love and spark a great interiors monologue
Give the gift of books filled with beauty
Beautiful books are a great way to bring joy to loved ones this holiday. Give these gifts to someone you love and share in that joy
Mark Bradford shares his pandemic memories with the Smithsonian
The artist is one of 85 artists, teachers, curators and administrators looking back on 2020
The NYC AIDS Memorial replays voices of a past epidemic
The memorial’s new sound installation, Hear Me, featuring work from Larry Kramer and David Wojnarowicz, can be heard throughout December
Art= is the gift to reawaken their love of great works and museum visits
This innovative guide to the Met Museum’s masterpieces is one of our better books for a better year ahead. Give someone you love a copy!
Open Studio is the gift to reinvigorate their artistry
This collection of DIY projects by contemporary artists is one of our better books for a better year ahead. Give someone you love a copy!
Flower is the gift to fill their life with colour again
Our fabulous floral survey is one of our better books for a better year ahead. Give someone you love a copy!
Flower is the gift to reseed their love of visual arts
Our fabulous floral survey is one of our better books for a better year ahead. Give someone you love a copy!
Sterling Ruby, Fai Khadra and Sotheby’s celebrate our Contemporary Artist Series
The auction house convened a special panel featuring the artist and the collector to discuss the book series' quarter century legacy
Watch Nigel Cooke describe his new show
The painter guides us through Oceans at Pace Geneva and recalls making his Phaidon Contemporary Artist series book
INTERVIEW: Sam Lubell on why the homes of Versace, Monet and Elvis reflect their creators (and why those of Ibsen, Pollock and Corbusier kind of don't)
The Life Meets Art author on the home life of creative people
Jason Rosenfeld praises Cecily Brown’s new show
The art historian and Phaidon author admires the artist’s restless energy as well as her classic influences
Adam Pendleton on the pandemic, painting and beautiful mistakes
The artist says he's learned how to adapt under lockdown but still keep on raising important questions
You really must watch our Flower panel talk at the V&A
The expert panel pulled in a wide and varied international audience to hear the chat about our beautiful new book
Rare colour works by Francesca Woodman revealed in new show
The late, great woman artist, best-known for her black-and-white imagery, also produced some full-colour photos
Here's why W Magazine loves our new book, Open Studio
The Condé Nast title appreciates the way our new publication brings big name artists right into your home
Dave Eggers says Tomi Ungerer’s last children’s book can help us all handle a very (scary) adult world
The writer says Ungerer’s final book is a fitting work for an age of eco collapse and very bad politics
The Flowers fighting hate crimes
Flower describes how one photographer is attempting to cultivate personal growth and wider positivity
Why is Marina Abramović counting out rice and lentils?
The contemporary artist explains her work in a video with Phillips to accompany our new book Open Studio
25 neat numbers from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series
Want to know The number of blacks in Kerry James Marshall’s palette? How many volts Mona Hatoum ran through her early, dangerous works? The number of photos Nigel Cooke has on the walls of his studio? Our CAS books have the answers!
Yoshitomo Nara and Cecily Brown create plates to feed needy New Yorkers
The NYC charity Coalition for the Homeless is working with 50 prominent artists to raise money in new ways this autumn
Theaster Gates makes a holy New York debut
The artist’s first solo show in NYC, draws together pottery, tar paintings and a pandemic-focused take on the religious space
25 key events from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series
Love, death, political dissent and new masterpieces are all chronicled in our landmark series of monographs
Sarah Sze on art, life and Covid
Find out why time and space have strangely flipped for our Contemporary Artist Series artist
KAWS, Adam Pendleton and friends reimagine the I Voted sticker
Postal ballot voters can take pride in wearing these new versions of the classic lapel label
Michele Robecchi on 25 years of Phaidon's Contemporary Artist Series
Phaidon's Commissioning Editor talks about the series' beginnings, why he always wants the books to 'introduce, celebrate and surprise', and what he's learned from working so closely with artists over the years
25 things we learned from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series
Did you know about Wolfgang Tillmans’ short spell in social care, Yayoi Kusama’s Broadway musical, Kerry James Marshall’s brush with Hanna Barbera, Jonas Wood’s highly illegal ingredient, Paul McCarthy’s unlikely Vietnam link and Trevor Paglen’s days as punk club promoter?
25 great quotes from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series books
Here's a quarter century of artistic excellence and explanation, in each artist's own words, courtesy of our era-defining list
The Flowers caught in a design classic
Fake rather than real roses ended up looking pretty inside this masterpiece of 80s furniture design
Buy art and help Beirut get back on its feet
Denise Maroney of Dear Beirut outlines a special new auction, aiding those made homeless by the recent explosion
Watch Will Cotton make a candy crown
The contemporary artist is one of many who've made videos with Phillips auction house to accompany our new book Open Studio
The Flowers that dance to the seasons
Our new book Flower features a brilliant stop-motion work that celebrates the miracle of spring
JR’s biggest exhibition ever is opening in London next month
The new show will cover the artist’s entire career, from the streets of Paris to political hotspots across the globe
The Flowers that haunted Yayoi Kusama
Our new book Flower features a highly prescient, early portrait of the world-famous Japanese artist
Marcel Dzama on Goya, Ghosts and his Artspace edition The illumination of the sisters of paradise
The Canadian artist discusses his early life, his experiences during the pandemic, and how they both fed into this beautiful new work
The Flowers that stopped wars
Our new book Flower includes this delicate recreation of a 2013 centrepiece that played its part in high power global politics
David Netto helps Sotheby’s with its new Phaidon library
To mark the inauguration of a new library at Sotheby’s East Hampton, the interior designer discusses collecting with the auction house
The Flower that symbolised new life in Ancient Greece
Our new book Flower features an incredible trove of ancient ornaments, proving the reverence for floral forms stretches back millennia
The folk art that changed Anni and Josef Albers
Our book Anni & Josef Albers includes an examination of the couple’s love of pre-Columbian art and its influence on them
The Flowers frozen in time
Marc Quinn's high tech Garden of Eden is submerged in 25 tons of frozen silicon
The square paintings that established Anni and Josef Albers
Anni & Josef Albers, examines how a series of repetitive paintings went from object of ridicule to high society status symbol
The style that defined Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book, Anni & Josef Albers, examines the clothes the couple favoured, in their own unwavering way
The Flower that symbolises Japanese spirituality
Our book Flower brings together an unimaginably varied bouquet of fine art blooms, including Rinko Kawauchi's powerful image
Trevor Paglen: 'I’d go outside and have this overwhelming sense of fear but at the same time I was watching nature explode'
How the artist made his new show in the midst of a pandemic
How Philip Johnson and America saved Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book describes how a chance meeting in the street and the invention of Black Mountain College helped the couple escape Nazi Germany
Cecily Brown takes on English country life in her new Blenheim Palace show
The artist retains a love for her homeland, though she admits, Britain is going through a traumatic time with Brexit right now
The school that changed Anni and Josef Albers forever
The Bauhaus had a crucial influence on both their careers, though Josef had a slightly easier time than Anni. . .
All you need to know about Flower
Take a trip across continents and cultures to discover how artists and image makers have employed floral motifs throughout history
The love that drove Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book, Anni & Josef Albers, describes the couple’s courtship, honeymoon and their romantic challenges
Mark Bradford on the lockdown, LA and how his latest paintings ended up in a grain silo
The Los Angeles artist tells the New York Times that Covid-19 has pushed him into survival mode
Adam Pendleton helps save Nina Simone’s home
The contemporary artist has helped preserve the singer’s childhood home
How René Magritte worked from home
A simple Belgian apartment was all the great surrealist needed to create some of his best-known works, as our new book explains
All you need to know about Cecily Brown
Our vital new book is the first to truly chart the rise of one of the most influential painters of our time
All you need to know about Adam Pendleton
Appreciate and understand the work of this groundbreaking American artist in his first all-encompassing publication
Okwui Enwezor on art, race and school uniform
As the late curator and Phaidon author is awarded a Special Golden Lion, we look back at his radical life and work
How Anni and Josef Albers holidayed
Newly unearthed vacation photographs from the artist couple prove that they were inveterate explorers
Yoshitomo Nara on his worst studio, his favourite chocolate, and why his forthcoming LA show will be a class reunion
The painter shares his thoughts on his art, diet and well-known works with the New York Times
How JR and Yayoi Kusama are guiding gallery goers towards a new type of art
Pace’s new public art venture focuses more on the ticket-buying public and less on rich patrons
All you need to know about Anni & Josef Albers
A moving, Modernist life story told with wit, precision and beauty, our new book is a fitting tribute to these two Bauhaus pioneers
A Phaidon guide to New York’s museum reopenings
Heading out to admire art in Manhattan again? Then pack these books alongside a face mask and hand sanitizer
Wolfgang Tillmans and Olafur Eliasson reopen Berghain
They are among 80 Berlin artists taking part in a new show housed inside the city's cavernous techno club
Martin Creed’s new work welcomes post-lockdown visitors to The Fife Arms
The Glasgow-raised artist has some neon reassurance for the Scottish fine art hotel’s well-heeled clientele
All you need to know about Open Studio
KAWS, Marina Abramovic, George Condo, Mickalene Thomas and more invite you into their studios to share artworks you can recreate at home
Pile on! It's the last few days to get Wolfgang Tillmans' fine art posters, and help save the world's nightlife
You've got one week to secure works by Tillmans, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons and others, and help struggling venues
The message behind Kerry James Marshall’s new avian art
The American painter draws on the work of John James Audubon when creating his own American birds series
Great Woman Artist Ruth Asawa gets her own set of stamps
The 2020 set of 10 postage stamp designs showcases the wiry work of the American sculptor
Jenny Holzer on the creation of the New York City AIDS Memorial
'Love, and lovely words overflowing, ardent unashamed people abounding.' The artist is 70 today - here she remembers one of her most important works
The Korean war may have split the country - but it helped shape its two art scenes
On the anniversary of the armistice, we examine how conflict and military influence changed North and South Korean art
Art = Faith
Our new book Art = doesn’t just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met’s collection. Its glossary is also filled with fascinating facts and connections. We consider the religious roots of so much artistic creation
10 Questions for Met Museum Director Max Hollein
The art world legend tells us why Art = is the most innovative look at art history ever, how being taken to galleries not the beach as a kid inspired him, and what it’s like to roam The Met’s empty corridors right now
Rob Pruitt releases limited edition print in 'A Message of Solidarity'
"'Stronger Together' means being there for one another. We are experiencing a long overdue awareness of human rights issues like race, gender, and sexual orientation," he says in exclusive Artspace interview
How Rembrandt made his name
On the Dutch master’s birthday, we look at how, like Kanye and Madonna, he became a single-named star
Art = Technique
Our new book Art = doesn’t just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met’s collection, its glossary is also filled with fascinating information. In our new series, we lay out the facts behind some familiar art-making techniques
Frida Kahlo, divided
On her birth anniversary, we look at the painting that captured the two, conflicted sides of a Great Woman Artist
Robert Mapplethorpe and the tale of two American Flags
To celebrate Independence Day we look at the two Stars and Stripes images that bookend our Mapplethorpe monograph
Art = Place
Our new book Art = doesn’t just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met’s collection. Its glossary is also filled with fascinating facts and connections. In our new series, we examine how location can be key in artistic creation
The New York Times loves Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction
America’s paper of record describes our new book as 'the most significant English-language overview yet of modern and contemporary art on the peninsula'
Art = Rebellion
Our new book Art = doesn’t just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met’s collection. Its glossary is also filled with fascinating facts and connections. In the first of a new series, we locate the rebellious streak at the heart of so many art movements
Great Women Artists whose partners were 'also artists'
Krasner, Carrington and Claudel all had famous husbands - but did it help or hinder them?
Love, Rihanna: Luxury Supreme - The Making of an Iconic Book
It takes five people a total of four days to make each copy of this incredible new limited edition visual biography, designed by The Haas Brothers and Barnbrook Studio and hand signed by Rihanna herself!
David Dawson's Lockdown Life
Lucian Freud's former assistant turned Archive Director has been making some rather nice paintings in the Welsh hills these past few months. . .
Nigel Cooke's Lockdown Life
'Since we’ve been in lockdown, I’ve found it easier to work at night. The darkness of night somehow unifies what's outside the window,' the painter says in our interview
All you need to know about Art =
Our groundbreaking book, made with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, heralds a fresh and unconventional approach to exploring 6,000 years of art history
Art & Hope: Kim Whanki's abstract answer to oppression
This Korean modernist orchestrated a beautiful harmony on the canvas - even while his identity was under threat
Eric Fischl on Art School, 80s New York, and His New Artspace Limited Edition Print
Learn how anger, arrogance, suspicion, and curiosity led the painter to pick up an iPad and create a great new work
Art & Hope: Yoshitomo Nara’s love of music
A look at the ways in which artists offer us hope. Here’s how a childhood trek to buy a 45, café culture and The Ramones instilled a love of art in a young mind
Phaidon’s 15 Minute Art Lesson - The Point and Pitfalls of Art by E. H. Gombrich
Elevate your appreciation of fine art via this long read from the most famous art book of them all - The Story of Art
Phaidon's 15 Minute Art Lesson - How Freeze Introduced the YBAs to the World – by Bruce Altshuler
Guerrilla tactics, showmanship and commercial acumen helped Damien Hirst and friends change art history
Art & Hope: Jonas Wood’s tender, loving home life
A look at the ways in which artists offer us hope. Here’s how the LA painter locates love in domesticity
Phaidon's 15 Minute Art Lesson - Impressionism and The Great Outdoors – by Carla Rachman
Do you miss the smells, sounds and sensations of the outside? Then thank Monet and the other artists who brought them into the gallery
Why does Yoshitomo Nara’s girl have a knife in her hand?
Our new book on this Japanese contemporary artist tells the fascinating story behind Nara’s best-known work
Phaidon's 15 Minute Art Lesson - How Abstract Expressionism made NYC the centre of the art world – by Morgan Falconer
Discover how Surrealism, primitive art and plenty of drips helped establish New York as the preeminent art town
Phaidon's 15 Minute Art Lesson - Sex and the Viennese Secession – by Peter Vergo
Read how Klimt and Schiele, both of whom died in the Spanish Flu pandemic, shook up European art and sex
Phaidon's 15 Minute Art Lesson - Picasso and Cubism – by E. H. Gombrich
Read how primitivism and playfulness led to one of the most important artistic developments of the 20th century
Phaidon's 15 Minute Art Lesson - Andy Warhol's Voice - by Glenn O'Brien
The Warhol confidant and Interview magazine editor remembers how Andy said everything by saying almost nothing
Phaidon's 15 Minute Art Lesson - Why Art Gives Us Hope - by Alain de Botton
Self-isolation is an opportunity for self-improvement. So elevate your fine art appreciation without leaving your sofa with this new series of long reads from our best selling books
The Phaidon Nutri Blast - Bircher Muesli
Invented by a Swiss doctor, and a favourite of Great Dixter’s Aaron Bertelsen this is the way to start your day of working from home
Adrián Villa Rojas staged a global rebirth on an Istanbul island
The artist turned the site of one failed world into a beautiful, dreamlike installation staged after the fall of mankind
Want to be in JR’s new children’s book? Then write to him here!
The artist and Phaidon author is gathering together 100 portraits of people aged one to 100 from around the world
One thing not to miss in Reykjavík
The city’s leading art gallery, i8, is one of the many highlights in our new Wallpaper* City Guide
All you need to know about Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction
Post-war art from this hugely cultured, divided peninsula is brought together in this ground-breaking new publication
The tale behind the whale that Adrián Villas Rojas left at The End of the World
How did this artist make his name with a beautiful, but incredibly obscure, work that’s almost impossible to experience first-hand?
How Adrián Villar Rojas 'threw a dinner party' on the Met roof
The Theater of Disappearance featured artefacts from the Met’s collection, spanning thousands of years
All you need to know about Adrián Villar Rojas
Get to know the contemporary sculptor who will never have a proper retrospective, and creates his own ruins
A great night for Great Women Artists
Phaidon joined auction house Christie’s and luxury group Kering to celebrate great female artistry during Frieze LA
Rubber boots, electric shocks and Zen Buddhism – this is what a 1970s visit to Nam June Paik’s studio was like
Barbara London recalls the pioneering video artist’s chaotic working environment and sharply focussed ambitions
All you need to know about Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment
Part way between Goya and Warhol, Saul makes the best paintings about the ugliest aspects of American life
Announcing Love, Rihanna: Luxury Supreme
This large-format, limited edition book is signed 'Love Rihanna' by Rihanna herself and numbered 1-500
The groundbreaking video artist inspired by the Oscars
In her new book Barbara London charts the development of the genre-defying video artist Kahlil Joseph
Massimo and JR party with Gwyneth Paltrow and Oscars stars
Both chef and artist helped launch Gucci’s Los Angeles restaurant during the Academy Awards weekend
Bill Viola, the artist who linked martyrdom to the moving image
In Video/Art: The First Fifty Years, Barbara London recalls how this artist paired modern tech with ancient truths
JR unveils gigantic group portrait in New York
The new public work The Chronicles of New York City just went on show at Domino Park, Brooklyn
Phaidon acquires The Monacelli Press
Acquisition expands Phaidon's global publishing program in interior design, architecture, applied arts and culture
Why Vito Acconci’s seduction tape is a video art classic
Channelling pop music allowed this video artist to stay ahead of the pack, says Barbara London in our new book
JR tells Jerry Saltz how his hat and sunglasses set him free
The Turkish authorities ran into a couple of difficulties when they tried to punish the French artist and activist
Do you know about Julia Scher, the original surveillance artist?
Barbara London, the founding curator of MoMA’s video art program, recalls the artist who predicted digital coercion
The Residents rise from anonymous musicians to video art pioneers
Barbara London, founding curator of MoMA’s video program, recalls her fight to get avant-garde rock footage into museum collections
JR remembers Kobe Bryant
The artist and Phaidon author recalls a rendezvous with the sports star, who died in a helicopter crash yesterday
Meet the Riot Grrrl video artist who upset older feminists
The founding curator of MoMA’s video program recalls how Cheryl Donegan and the MTV generation changed the visual arts
Martha Rosler is the video artist who sliced TV clichés to pieces
The founding curator of MoMA’s video program looks back on a media-art veteran and her place in identity politics
Curator and Editor Michele Robecchi Picks his Favourite Affordable Works on Artspace
The man behind our Contemporary Artist Series picks out the works he likes most right now from the art-selling site
Frieze Los Angeles zooms in on video art
Next month's art fair draws on LA's moving-image heritage. If you're going, we have a book you should read first!
INTERVIEW: Barbara London on the birth of video art
The founding curator of MoMA’s video program describes how Warhol and Bowie shaped the form, and how gallery staff have had to acquire old skool TV repair man skills to keep early works looking good
The singular thinking behind Stan Douglas’s two-screen show
Why has the artist chosen to create a film from two, parallel points of view? The answer may lie in our new Video Art book
So good they named it once? Harland Miller returns to York
The acclaimed British artist will stage his largest exhibition to date at York Art Gallery next month
How Chanel and Peter Marino supersized Jean-Michel Othoniel
The French sculptor says the US architect's fashion commissions helped him work towards 'the monumental'
All you need to know about Video/Art: The First Fifty Years
Get a detailed, authoritative first-hand account of the first half-century of this vital form, from one of its key figures
Remembering John Baldessari
Following the artist’s death a few days ago, we look back at his prodigious and influential career
INTERVIEW: John Pawson on Calvin Klein, The Design Museum and one piece of advice he'd give to his younger self
The architect talks through the projects in his new book and why it's never a good idea to send your fee back in our Holiday Long Read
INTERVIEW: Nick Bonner on art in North Korea
The Printed in North Korea author on socialist realism and the star system (and what might happen if Damien Hirst went to Pyongyang) in this Christmas Long Read
GIFTING: The Art of Anatomy - Brain Map
Could this colourful brain visualisation help researchers understand what stops you, um, er, forgetting things?
JR talks about the pains of being an anonymous artist
The sunglasses can get annoying, and you can't really reveal a work's hidden depths, the artist explains, but. . .
The Lives of Artists – George Condo
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins offers readers insight into the artfully crumpled life of this great painter
How our Lucian Freud co-author ended up in Downing Street
Whoever ends up in No.10 today will get a peek into an art world inner sanctum, thanks to David Dawson
GIFTING: Open up a world of fine art and food, sports and science to kids this Christmas!
Our new children’s books make young readers better cooks, better gallery goers - and better custodians of our planet
JR shoots more Wrinkles in the City
The artist and activist returns to Cuba and finds a little more history written on the faces of its citizens
The Lives of Artists – John Currin
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins explores the personal strengths and weaknesses in the life of this great artist
The Lives of Artists – Maurizio Cattelan
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins describes an encounter in Paris with the Italian satirical contemporary artist
The Lives of Artists – Vija Celmins
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins describes the tough upbringing and robust attitude of one of America’s leading émigré artists
Farming in North Korea is a little bit different. . .
The country’s art depicts both high and lo-tech agriculture, both of which keep the DPRK going
The Lives of Artists – Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins describes the inner workings of one of the world’s best known art duos
Picturing Jonas Wood – Ceramics
By depicting pottery in his paintings, the contemporary artist Jonas Wood closes the gap between life and art
INTERVIEW: 'The Rihanna cover image is obviously instantly iconic. You will always remember that cover and that image'
Jonathan Barnbrook and Marwan Kabour on typography, technology and not being chopped off by Instagram
The Lives of Artists – Peter Doig
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins describes an encounter with one of the world’s leading figurative painters
The Instagram account that made it into Art & Queer Culture
One entry in our newly updated survey takes a look at how social media has addressed the aftermath of AIDS
The Lives of Artists – Mark Bradford
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins describes an encounter with the acclaimed abstract painter (and tallest artist he knows)
GIFTING: Who is David Dawson giving his Lucian Freud book to this Christmas?
The painter and Director of the Lucian Freud Archive tells us who’s on his gift list this holiday season
The Lives of Artists – Jeff Koons
Amazingly naïve or slyly performative? The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins watches one of the world’s most successful artists at work
The Lives of Artists – Damien Hirst
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins describes the surprising, family side of Hirst during his ‘90s heyday
GIFTING: Who is Nick Bonner giving his book to this Christmas?
The author of Printed in North Korea runs us through his year, and tells us who is on his gift list this holiday season
INTERVIEW: 'The sheer scale of this book and the number of images allowed us to tell a very detailed and intimate story'
Jonathan Barnbrook and Marwan Kabour on how the photos in the new Rihanna book take the viewer on a journey
Winter holidays in North Korea are a little bit different. . .
Ever thought of mixing a dose of patriotism in with your next Alpine break? It's a common combination in the DPRK
The Lives of Artists – Andy Warhol
The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins describes his first meeting with Warhol - and the brief exchange that established who was in charge
Jonas Wood talks about his new print edition Bball Studio
'It's almost like a blueprint, or a skeletal part of my studio practice, but it's also a drawing'
Picturing Jonas Wood – Tropical Foliage
Want to know why the painter includes so many plants in his pictures? The answer lies in the lush history of modernism
INTERVIEW: 'We wanted to show the crazy universe that Rihanna occupies!'
Jonathan Barnbrook and Marwan Kaabour tell us how (and why) they came up with the distinctive look and feel of the incredible new visual biography
Military life in North Korea is a little bit different. . .
Driving livestock and playing the squeezebox is part of life in the forces, as our book of North Korean prints shows
13 things we learned from Jean-Michel Othoniel’s new interview
Read how childhood museum visits and spells in New York and Paris formed this entrepreneurially-spirited artist
INTERVIEW: 'We wanted to show the insanity of the universe Rihanna occupies.'
Jonathan Barnbrook and Marwan Kaabour tell us how (and why) they came up with the distinctive look and feel of our exciting new visual biography
Picturing Jonas Wood – Picasso, Albers and other greats
Why does the Californian artist include works by other famous painters in his pictures? Our new book explains all
Come inside Great Woman Artist Pat Steir's studio
In this video the painter shows us how she made her hit Hirshhorn Museum show, why random is always better than planned and why you should only make art if it's the only thing you can do
The life that led to Kaiyue’s Wrinkles
Children starting out on their own journey can read the life stories of their elders in JR’s charming new book
INTERVIEW: Peter Marino on Théodore Deck
The architect and collector describes how he first came across, and learned to love, this master of French ceramics
Childhood in North Korea is a little bit different. . .
Can't always hit your targets at work? Consider the kids who study under this strict, reward-based system. . .
Get to know this Great Woman Artist
Come to Waddington Custot to admire the work of European Modernist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
The Art of Anatomy – Eye Teaching Model
This 19th century model used a glass lens to demonstrate to both opticians and keen amateurs how our vision works
Focusing on Freud's family
The artist’s grandfather helped Lucian settle in London, where he fathered a large, unconventional family of his own
How Jennifer Aniston and the Red Carpet changed fashion in LA
The city's movie business has shaped the way LA designers design for its stars, in public and in private
The life that led to Ada’s Wrinkles
Children starting out on their own journey can hear the life stories of their elders in JR’s charming new book
Industry in North Korea is a little bit different. . .
Who doesn't love a well turned out lathe? Or a professionally run ammonium sulphate production factory? In the DPRK even an espresso machine can be deemed heroic - and it's all led to some strange but beautiful artworks
The Art of Anatomy - The Anatomage Table
This touch-screen human cadaver enables students to get under the skin without reaching for the scalpel
Picturing Jonas Wood - Sports
The artist composes his work using many sources of inspiration. Here’s what he has to say about his love of sports
Great Women Artists is the French Art Book of the Year
The French booksellers’ award singles out our new book for its physical beauty - and the way it rewrites art history
Landscapes in North Korea are a little bit different...
In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea even a forest or a waterfall can be political, as our new book reveals
The Art of Anatomy – Mark Fairchild
Our ability – and inability – to see colour is laid bare in this illustration of two very different human retinas
The Art of Anatomy - Jan Wandelaar
This 18th century engraving is perfect for Halloween, but what's the story with the rhino in the background?
11 things we learned from Jonas Wood’s new interview
The artist sat down with fellow painter Mark Grotjahn for a candid Q&A for our new book. Here are the highlights
The Art of Anatomy – Ron Mueck
The artist’s large and lifelike sculpture puts the viewer in the uncomfortable position of voyeur
The life that led to Nidia's Wrinkles
Children starting out on their own journey can hear the life stories of their elders in JR’s charming new book
The Art of Anatomy - Wilhelm Röntgen's X-ray
The first scan of the human body was both a medical breakthrough and an early international media sensation
The Art of Anatomy – Louis Allen Vaught
This illustrated profile demonstrates how anatomical drawings can sometimes be thoroughly wrong-headed
Be the first to buy a signed Rihanna book at Harvey Nichols tomorrow!
Get down to Harvey Nichols for their 8am opening tomorrow (Saturday 19th) and snap up a signed Rihanna book - five days before they go on sale
The life that led to Rafael and Obdulia’s Wrinkles
Children starting out on their own journey can hear the life stories of their elders in JR’s charming new book
The Art of Anatomy – Life Saving Cell
This beautifully spiky microscopic white blood cell uses its crinkly surface to kill off bodily infections
INTERVIEW: Ghada Amer - 'Being a woman artist makes me sell for less money and closes doors for solo museum shows'
Read our interview with the Egyptian born, French artist featured in the new book Great Women Artists
INTERVIEW: Monica Bonvicini: 'My collectors are women, the curators I work with are women, my studio is run by women'
Read our interview with the Italian artist featured in the new book Great Women Artists
The life that led to Antonio’s Wrinkles
Children starting out on their own journey can hear the life stories of their elders in JR’s charming new book
INTERVIEW: Shoplifter: 'I’m honored to be a part of an historical publication that eradicates the exclusion of women'
Read our interview with the Icelandic artist featured in the new book Great Women Artists
How Big Mamma turned up the heat (and with it, the love)
It took two French trattoria enthusiasts to work out what makes Italian restaurants great, then recreate it outside Italy
INTERVIEW: Kiki Smith - 'When I was young, being marginalized gave me energy'
Read our interview with the German-born American artist featured in the new book Great Women Artists
The Art of Anatomy - Alain Pol
Our new book Anatomy explains how the photographer makes otherworldly images via a life-saving medical process
INTERVIEW: David Dawson on how hard work kept Freud fit
Wild meat, game, gambling and good quality jazz also kept Lucian on his feet all day and every day
The Art of Anatomy - Lennart Nilsson
Discover the murky origins and starry afterlife of this foetal image, as featured in our new book Anatomy
When Great Women Artists paint nudes
Strip out the male gaze, and you end up with some fairly remarkable artworks, as our new book makes clear
INTERVIEW: Thomas Schnalke on the beauty of Anatomy
Take a trip from the Renaissance to the AI age with one of the writers of our new book Anatomy
How did Peter Marino discover Théodore Deck?
Which famous fashion figure led The 21st century architect to the work of the 19th century ceramicist?
All you need to know about Théodore Deck
Discover the masterful 19th ceramicist whose work Peter Marino has been collecting for the past four decades
INTERVIEW: David Dawson on Lucian Freud's Famous Friends
Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon were regular guests - the Director of the Freud Archive recalls their influence
The battle between anatomy, religion and magic
Why did it take us so long to learn about how our bodies work? Thomas Schalke explains how belief held us back
INTERVIEW: JR’s studio director on his life with the world's coolest artist
Marc Azoulay tells us how he went from investment banking to game-changing art installations - all thanks to JR
All you need to know about Anatomy
Enjoy the visual interplay between art and science in a book that focuses on our inner workings
How JR went global
In our newly expanded edition of JR: Can Art Change the World? we explain why he focused on the flashpoints
So how do you judge what makes a Great Woman Artist?
In our new book, Great Women Artists, editor Rebecca Morrill recalls one key feminist text and its repercussions
All you need to know about JR: Can Art Change the World? (Revised and Expanded Edition)
The most comprehensive monograph on the French artist - newly updated to include his latest works
A kids' guide to Yves Klein’s blue
Think art history is hard? Think again. The Italian painter and illustrator Fausto Gilberti has made it child’s play!
Art school in North Korea is a little bit different...
Ideology moulds creativity and students study art’s purpose and the social obligation that comes with being a pro
'I’m not frightened in the slightest of death' - Lucian Freud on his final years
Lucian Freud: A Life is an unprecedented look at the private life of Lucian Freud - beginning with childhood snapshots and ending with rarely seen photos taken in his studio in the last weeks of his life
All you need to know about The Lives of Artists
The definitive collection of artist profiles by New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins - from the 1960s right up to today
All you need to know about Great Women Artists
Get 500 years of art history, as told through the brilliant work of 400 great female artists
All you need to know about Yves Klein Painted Everything Blue and Wasn’t Sorry
Now kids can delight in the life story of this major artist, thanks to Fausto Gilberti's quirky, picture-book biography
All you need to know about Lucian Freud A Life
From early family photos to his final portraits our new book takes an intimate look at the private life of the painter
Talking Textiles with Josh Blackwell
How the New Orleans born artist elevates the cultural status of materials that might otherwise be considered garbage
Unpicking the Bauhaus’s woven legacy
The Art Institute of Chicago’s new show looks at how the German school changed the course of American textile art
JR features one thousand New Yorkers in his epic new work
For his Brooklyn Museum show the French artist has created a huge new mural, inspired in part by Diego Rivera
Here’s where Phaidon authors are going on holiday
From southern France to the Faroe Islands, our creatives are carving out time to kick back this summer
Eight sides of Andy
The Pope of Pop was born 91 years ago today. Here’s how he went from magazine illustrator to art world superstar
The Baltimore Museum of Art devotes a year to women artists
The museum’s 12-month long 2020 Vision initiative will attempt to redress gender imbalance in the art world
Jake Gyllenhaal helps install JR’s latest NYC project
The star pasted up part of the new installation onto the Broadway Theater where he’s currently performing
Lie back and soak up six very different visions of summer
From 19th century New Jersey, to noughties Playboy grotto, these pictures should put you in holiday mode
Pipilotti Rist and The New Museum create AR works for Apple
New Museum and tech titan commission augmented reality works from seven contemporary artists
Henry Moore's ancient Mayan tribute
On the artist's birthday, we look at why Moore rejected ancient Greek art in favour of Pre-Columbian influences
When Francis Alÿs tried to build a bridge to Europe
A line of kids marching into the sea is all that remains of his attempt to bridge the gap between Europe and Africa
JR documentary is nominated for an Emmy
His TIME magazine video project on guns in America is on the shortlist for the world’s best-known TV awards
The American realist who made it into Art & Queer Culture
Thomas Eakins was born on this day in 1844. Was he a dispassionate admirer of the male form or a queer pioneer?
How Olafur Eliasson's 'hedonistic' dad helped his art
The artist says sailing as a kid with his father helped him find a crucial link between art and nature
Remembering Marisa Merz
Merz, who died last week, was the only woman in Arte Povera; she may have been the best in that movement too
The paintings that almost killed Harland Miller
They may look dreamy, but Miller had to be rushed to an Austrian clinic after making his Poets series
The Moon landings and the American aesthetic
It was one giant leap for mankind but not such a big step for the photographic depiction of the American landscape
The refugees who remade British art
Sotheby’s exhibition, Brave New Visions, looks at the wartime arrivals who revolutionized London’s gallery system
Olafur Eliasson on Rauschenberg, glasses and black mirrors
In a new interview, the Scandinavian artist reflects on his past, his successes, his strengths and his weaknesses
Harland Miller’s visions of hell
The artist’s experience taking coach journeys back in the 1980s inspired this colourful series on damnation
The famous (and infamous) deaths in Harland Miller’s art
A comedian, a cartoonist, a car designer and a politician all feature in the artist's unending, obituary series
Raymond Pettibon paints the Dior logo
Unseen works by the American artist feature in Dior’s latest collection and campaign
Got a question for Olafur Eliasson?
Tweet a question tagged #askSOE during the run of his Tate show and you could find it answered by the man himself
The jail scene that made it into Art & Queer Culture
On the day of his birth, we look back at the work of Martin Wong, the painter and chronicler of the Lower East Side
Paul McCarthy on playing Trump in his new movie
'There’s this transition from Reagan to Trump to a sort of mafioso to Hitler,' he tells film maker Harmony Korine
Agnes Martin, Jo Baer and Mary Corse are on the edge at Pace
Shown together for the first time, seminal works illuminate their contribution to the history of abstraction
The Invention of America
On American Independence Day, we look at how old-world artists came to terms with the New World
Jean Jullien illustrates the French heat wave
Having moved back to France, the artist and Phaidon author captures summer on the continent with accuracy and wit
JR’s new film documents his Louvre extravaganza
The video shows how the artist engaged with the museum’s visitors not only as spectators, but also as participants
When Rubens painted war for peace
On the anniversary of his birth we dig into 30,000 Years of Art to see how he combined painting and diplomacy
MoMA picks Phaidon author as its new director
Kate Fowle, the British-born co-author of our Sterling Ruby book, is the new director of MoMA PS1
Frieze adds textiles to its London fair
New section for 2019 features eight textile-based artists from around the world
Harland Miller on the YBAs, hangovers and his new book
The artist reveals why he had to drink a little less than his conceptual colleagues from the 90s
Flowers, art, flags and photos: a cultured take on Pride
Phaidon authors are finding new and innovative ways to recognise the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots
Talking Textiles with Hana Miletić
Textiles sometimes become 3D representations of this Zagreb-born, Belgium-based artist's street photography
Elmgreen & Dragset on the beautiful mess of 90s Berlin
The artists look back at the fall of the Wall, what came afterwards, and their newly installed tribute to that time
Jeff Koons on his teenage meeting with Salvador Dalí
The artist recalls calling Dalí at his New York hotel and the gallery meeting that ensued. . .
Olafur Eliasson knows his place at Elmgreen & Dragset show
Eliasson poses in a piece by his fellow Scandinavian artists, who also take a sideways look at the art world
Why Harland Miller's paperbacks are like Andy's soup cans
The artist has consumed and appropriated Penguin's paperbacks - just like Andy did with Campbell's cans
An Art & Queer Culture guide to the Pride sale at Sotheby’s
From the Bloomsbury Group to the Lower East Side, Sotheby's Pride auction draws in a wide range of great artists
The sexy, deathly gaze of Egon Schiele
30,000 Years of Art looks at the Freudian impulses in the great 20th century Viennese artist - born today in 1890
Daan Roosegaarde's bike path follows Van Gogh's route
Take a look at another incredibly cool Daan Roosegarde project from our new book with the Dutch genius
Matt Johnson turns our book into art in Basel
30,000 Years of Art takes its own place in art history in the American sculptor's new work - on show at Art Basel
The true meaning of Las Meninas by Velázquez
On the anniversary of Velázquez’s birth, we look at the composition and techniques used in his most famous painting
A huge cache of Ellsworth Kelly works is headed for Austin
76 works, including pieces produced in France in the ‘40s, have been donated to the University of Texas
Daan Roosegaarde's Smog Free Towers made dogs' tails wag
On World Environment Day 2019 a story to both warm the heart ... and give cause for concern
Daan Roosegaarde turned a dancefloor into a power plant...
...and the dancers made him rethink his art in the process!
New Harland Miller show draws on mid-century American art
Look out for shades of Rothko and Jasper Johns in his new series of book cover paintings in Hong Kong
Theaster Gates puts a Hammond organ in his new show
The artist sees shared beauty and culture in the classic instrument and some accompanying ceramics
JR faces down European racism
The artist’s Inside Out Project teams up with a Belgian anti-racism group to help fight intolerance
'Don’t shoot!' Trevor Paglen's impassioned plea to the NSA
The artist recalls the time he took a 'perfectly legal' photography flight over the institution's Maryland headquarters
Phaidon books win at D&AD!
Lucian Freud and Japan: The Cookbook pick up prizes at the global design awards alongside Nike and the NY Times
The riot that made it into Art & Queer Culture
No, this isn’t about the Stone Wall Tavern. Our book looks back at the 40th anniversary of the White Night Riots
JR’s new mural lets you talk to the crowds of San Francisco
The new SFMOMA work, opening next week, allows local citizens, from the richest to the poorest, to tell their story
Elmgreen & Dragset talk art and books in Berlin
The artists came to König Galerie in Berlin to chat with the people who helped them make their new Phaidon book
Is Jeff Koons on a par with Duchamp?
Christie’s set a new record when it sold Koons's Rabbit last night. Is it time we viewed him as Duchamp’s equal?
Harland Miller launches In Shadows I Boogie at White Cube
Ron Wood, Gary Lineker and Jarvis Cocker all turn up to say hello and get their books signed
What do Koons and Duchamp have in common?
A new exhibition looks at the ways in which the work of these two art giants shares a world view
Talking Textiles with Shoplifter
Vitamin T artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir's installation in the Icelandic pavilion is the hit of the Venice Biennale
Mark Bradford is on 60 Minutes this Sunday
"I'm creating my own archaeological digs," he tells Anderson Cooper. "Sometimes when I'm digging on my own painting I'm asking myself, 'Well, exactly what are you digging for? Where do you want to go child?'"
From the tomb to the Moon
Why is one of the earliest astrological maps drawn onto an Egyptian tomb ceiling? Sun and Moon explains
Why do Elmgreen & Dragset like swimming pools so much?
David Hockney, the shrinking public space, and being semi-naked around strangers feed into the motif
Phaidon Introductions: Michael Bracewell on Harland Miller
The critic and curator sees pop art, abstract expressionist influences and much more in the artist’s pictures
The apartment where Yves Klein turned décor into art
The French artist introduced some of his best-known motifs into his Parisian home - including the idea of the void
Prabhavathi Meppayil at Pace
Arne Glimcher has drawn parallels between the Bangalore artist and Agnes Martin - we asked her about them
Could textiles win the Turner Prize?
Oscar Murillo has been shortlisted for this prize, thanks in part to his vulnerable, ripped and cut surfaces
Do you know about the jazzy side of these artists?
On International Jazz Day take an instrumental break with Robert Ryman, Theaster Gates, Alex Katz and Anri Sala
Suprematism and the Space Race
Mark Holborn’s new book looks at image making, the celestial realm, and its repercussions back on earth
Why we might have misread Delacroix’s most famous painting
On the artist's birthday, we reassess this great work, via Judy Sund's new book Exotic: A Fetish for the Foreign
Ben Affleck will direct a movie about Ellsworth Kelly’s war
The Hollywood star has signed up to both star in and lens a film about Kelly’s camouflage unit, The Ghost Army
Phaidon Introductions: Grayson Perry on Martin Parr
Kicking off a new series, the artist recalls the first time he was blinded by Parr's flash 'and decked in saturated colour'
The wooden sculpture created to show Christ’s death
At Easter we look at a work of devotional art from our newly updated book 30,000 Years of Art
Talking Textiles with Anne Wilson
Cloth's ubiquity, and its close proximity to bodies, is its great strength and great challenge says this Chicago artist
The Madness at the heart of Elmgreen & Dragset's new show
The Scandinavian art duo have found something perfectly spooky in a Danish painter's muted, grey interiors
Take a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s earliest portrait
On the anniversary of the Renaissance master’s birth, we highlight his incredible early skill in 30,000 Years of Art
Art & Queer Culture is on show in the first gender-free store
Our primer on queer art takes pride of place in the windows at The Phluid Project, a new boutique in Manhattan
Mark Bradford’s ark is heading for Shanghai
The artist's 2008 ark-like sculpture, Mithra, will feature in Bradford’s largest show in China, later this summer
Elmgreen & Dragset want you to put your phones to bed
We don't have much time together, so put down your devices and enjoy those precious me and you moments
Jimmie Durham wins this year's Venice Golden Lion
Curator Ralph Rugoff singles out Durham’s 'profoundly humanistic' art for the Biennale's top award
'Making art about queer sexuality is itself a kind of protest,' says Art & Queer Culture co-author Richard Meyer
The writer fast tracks us through some great art in the newly updated paperback edition of the seminal book
The deer that made it into Art & Queer Culture
In Asia and Latin America the animal is a pejorative term for gay men - but these gay men are taking the term back
Elmgreen & Dragset's bar doesn't work (and that's the point)
The pair’s new take on an old work explores the gulf between social spot and gallery
Talking Textiles with Terri Friedman
The artist on the influences of Miro, mom and moths and the mathematics of weaving her voluptuous works
Elmgreen & Dragset turn high finance on its head
The art duo’s new installation, City in the Sky, offers an unusual view of international banking
Talking Textiles with Josh Faught
Trompe-l’oeil piano keys, pins and clumsily quilted strips of black and tan crochet are just a few of the things that adorn this San Francisco artist's incredible artworks
9 reasons to celebrate Yayoi Kusama on her 90th birthday
From inspiring minimalists to wooing President Nixon, Yayoi Kusama is a wild, innovative, brilliant artist - still
Talking Textiles with Cristiana de Marchi
The Turin-born, Arabic peninsula-dwelling, artist lets us in on a few secrets from her studio
Why Josef Albers painted his squares
On Albers’ birthday, we look at how this uniform series actually encourages artists to think outside the box
The trans Virgin Mary who made it into Art & Queer Culture
Giuseppe Campuzano knew the power of church imagery but seriously disliked the power of the church itself
Look at the walls not the women in Matisse’s odalisques
Our book Exotic and a new exhibition agree the painter found more pleasure in Arabian art than in erotica
Talking Textiles with Billie Zangewa
Stitching, sewing, knitting and knotting - Vitamin T artists tell us how and why they do what they do
Why Indiana Jones’s artefacts are based on forgeries
The real-life academic Judy Sund questions the authenticity of Dr Jones’s movie treasures in her book Exotic
The African god that made it into Art & Queer Culture
Jim Chuchu's images hark back to a pre-Christian Africa, but he has to deal with contemporary bigotry too
Talking Textiles with Paul Yore
Stitching, sewing, knitting and knotting - Vitamin T artists tell us how and why they do what they do
Remembering Carolee Schneemann, the artist who took on Greek myths and macho Ab-Ex painters
Schneemann, who died yesterday, managed to link mid-century US painting with sex, magic and ancient myth
The Pope, a slave and a Michelangelo-inspired art movement
On the Renaissance artist's birthday we look back at his lowly yet influential marble figure
Elmgreen & Dragset create a basement above Hong Kong
Latest subverted space is a boiler room gracing a third floor gallery in the Pedder building
The Fresco that rebelled against the Enlightenment
Its painter Giambattista Tiepolo, was born today in 1696. This is how he helped the church with his art
George Michael’s Harland Miller paintings are up for auction
The singer’s estate sale at Christie's next month features two great works by the British contemporary artist
Remembering Keith Haring
On the anniversary of his death, Annie Leibovitz and our Art & Queer Culture authors recall the 80s pop-art star
Lucian Freud’s very English love of animals
Freud’s dog etching is a top lot at Sotheby’s and further proof of the artist's undying affection for the four-legged
The medical textbook that made it into Art & Queer Culture
How depictions of bodies that defy normative male and female distinctions have existed since time immemorial
Did you spot Mark Bradford at Frieze LA?
The Californian artist picks a modern policing tool for his new Frieze LA print and raises money for ex-offenders
Elmgreen & Dragset want you to say sorry in the Rockies
Skiing in Aspen this season? Why not pair that trip with an opportunity to say sorry courtesy of the art duo?
What made Robert Ryman unique
Following the artist’s death on Friday aged 88, we offer a little guidance to his ascetic, yet ever-changing work
Did Botticelli burn his greatest paintings?
Today marks the anniversary of the Bonfire of the Vanities. Could the artist have stoked the fire with his own work?
The truth about the Freud in Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw
It hasn’t been in a crate since ’92, as the film claims, but it is still the perfect addition to this ghoulish movie
Here's your chance to own an Ellsworth Kelly for just 55 cents
The US postal service has just commemorated the artist with a beautiful set of stamps for launch this year
What Andy Warhol really thought about Coca-Cola
Coke's new Super Bowl ad might focus on its inclusive side, but Andy also saw it as a way to set himself apart
Elmgreen & Dragset's Berlin memorial vandalized
Memorial for Homosexual Victims of the Nazi Regime was daubed with paint on Holocaust Memorial Day
Rarely seen Freud portrait goes up for auction
This small, beautiful 1956 painting offers some very interesting insight into Freud’s personal life at the time
A Movement in a Moment: Purism
Read about the ‘post-cubist’ art movement that helped Le Corbusier make his name
Why did Barnett Newman destroy his old art?
On the abstract expressionist artist’s birthday find out how he went from outcast to father figure of two generations
Government shutdown hits Trevor Paglen’s space art
US government institutions closure means that although Paglen’s Orbital Reflector is in space we can’t track it
John and Yoko, Warhol and Jonas Mekas
A look back at the life and art of the avant-garde filmmaker (with some Akademie X advice for young artists)
The lunch that upset the art world
On the 187th anniversary of his birth, we take a look at Édouard Manet’s other midday scene, Lunch in the studio
How to be happy on Blue Monday
Today getting you down? Then get a lift from Patti Smith, Kurt Vonnegut and Henry James in Every Day a Word Surprises Me
The art of the black struggle, 90 years on from MLK’s birth
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day we look at Arthur Jafa’s masterful take on contemporary race relations
The life that shaped Harry Bertoia’s art
He's best known for his Diamond Chair but nature and necessity fed into the artist’s incredible mid-century sculptures
Elmgreen & Dragset meet Homer and Marge
The artists’ work Prada Marfa appeared in The Simpsons a few days ago. Guess what Homer did behind it. . .
Take a look at our New For '19 books!
Our spring 2019 list of new titles is ready to launch - we think you'll be impressed. . .
Meet the artist who plans to bin space waste
Daan Roosegaarde knows there’s tons of junk in the heavens and thinks he can find a way to get rid of it
Astonishing Animals - The Rhinoceros
Around 5,000 copies of this iconic image were sold during the artist Dürer’s lifetime, making it one of the earliest mass-produced images - but why was the likeness incorrect and how did the unfortunate animal meet its end?
Untangling Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson was born today, 2 January, in 1938. Here’s how to get your head around his best-known work
What’s Jean Jullien up to in 2019?
Video games? An animated series? The artist and Phaidon author runs through his big plans for the New Year
What’s David Dawson up to in 2019?
Freud's longest-standing assistant opens up on the self-portrait show he is curating at the Royal Academy
What’s Trevor Paglen up to in 2019?
The artist and activist may have reached the stars in 2018, but he has plenty of big shows coming up next year too
What’s Noah Charney up to in 2019?
The Museum of Lost Art author is turning to crowd funding in an attempt to protect art in at-risk countries
Can you see what Paul Klee’s cat wants?
Paul Klee was born today, 18 December, in 1879. Our book Animal explains how he worked two beasts into one work
Olafur Eliasson's Ice Watch will give you a climate change chill
Eliasson says seeing chunks of the Greenland ice sheet in our city is just the experience we need to force change
Olafur Eliasson's Ice Watch is headed for London
The artist’s cool but sensual response to climate change will be recreated in the British capital next week
Artspace's pick of Untitled Art, Miami
Artspace scour Art Basel Miami for the best artworks on show this year. Read on to see what they think!
Take a look at the Miami club Theaster Gates just opened
The US artist worked with the fashion brand to install long-forgotten images of black women in his Prada pop-up
Take a look at Artspace and Phaidon's VIP lounge in Miami
Come along to enjoy art, music, design and plenty of beautiful books at Untitled, Miami Beach
Who knows why these Agnes Martin paintings are hanging beside Navajo blankets?
Agnes Martin friend and expert and Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher that's who. His new exhibition of her work draws a line (and a thread) between the artist's canvases and the folk art that surrounded her
The NY Times loves everything about our Freud book
New York Times’ Sunday Book Review praises the text, images and colour choices - and it's not alone
And we have lift off!
Trevor Paglen’s Orbital Reflector launched yesterday. This is how you can track its progress through the heavens
David Dawson reveals how Lucian Freud painted in private
The artist’s former assistant discusses Freud’s passion and painting techniques with London Art Studies
In Miami this week? Then come to the Artspace and Phaidon VIP lounge
We’ve teamed up with Maison de la Luz to offer a taste of New Orleans during Art Basel Miami Beach
Jenny Holzer will Light The Fight in NYC this weekend
The artist is sending five LED-sided trucks out across Manhattan tomorrow to refocus the fight against AIDS
Get to know Tomi Ungerer in five images
On the author’s birthday (happy 87th, Tomi!) we look back at his work via a handful of key illustrations
No wigs required for this Warhol Xmas card!
His Santa prints are well known, but few Warhol watchers will know this card, made for a favourite restaurant
Who is Jean Jullien giving his book to this Christmas?
The artist, illustrator and Phaidon author tells us his personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
David Dawson guides the BBC through our Lucian Freud book
Freud archive director David Dawson talked about posing, paintings and placing bets for the great artist
Who is Jill Greenberg giving her book to this Christmas?
The Animal photographer tells us her personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Who is David Dawson giving his book to this Christmas?
The Lucian Freud archive director tells us about his highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
The cow skull and Georgia O’Keeffe
On the artist’s birthday, we consider why she chose this powerful image for one of her most famous paintings
Who is Trevor Paglen giving his book to this Christmas?
The author and artist tells us about his highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Stefan Sagmeister finds beauty in New York
The designer and Phaidon author picks out 12 of the most beautiful lots in Phillips' upcoming sales
How Pollock and Mapplethorpe shaped Warhol’s Oxidation paintings
Should we see these urine-based works as a punky insult or an art-historical series? Perhaps they’re both
Who is Noah Charney giving his book to this Christmas?
The Museum of Lost Art author tells us his personal highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
Theaster Gates and David Adjaye join Bono’s fight against AIDS
Going to Art Basel Miami? Then drop in on this exceptional charity auction, curated by these great creatives
Olafur Eliasson and a French opera of forbidden love
The artist and Phaidon author is overseeing the stage, set and costume design for an opera with Sir Simon Rattle
Seriously, is this how the Contra chefs got a Michelin star?
No! It was exceptional yet simple cookery, not cuddling up to The Michelin Man that won over the judges
Debbie Harry and friends talk about posing for Warhol
Andy’s portrait subjects tell the New York Times what it was like being pictured in (and paying for) Andy’s portraits
Why the Whitney’s Warhol exhibition goes big on the 1970s
Donna De Salvo, curator of the Whitney's retrospective, says Andy’s later decades were among his greatest
John Waters thinks our Warhol book is 'Like a detective novel’
The filmmaker, artist and Warhol confidant explains why the new Catalogue Raisonné is his bedtime companion
WSJ's Alexandra Wolfe is an Animal lover!
The WSJ writer raves over our beautiful new exploration of the zoological world
Trevor Paglen borrows from On Kawara for his midterm poster
Artist, activist and Nam June Paik award winner takes a conceptual art classic and reworks it for the elections
Sharon Hayes wants to take Stonewall on the road
The artist wants to put a PA system on a vintage station wagon to commemorate the momentous protest
5 Phaidon books Spencer Bailey really likes
The editor, journalist and incoming Phaidon editor-at-large on his pick of our architecture and design titles
For Halloween, the story behind Warhol's 'classic still life'
The pop pioneer said his Skulls were facist symbols, though the truth seems to be a little more complicated
Olafur Eliasson on social media, Experience and his next show
The author, activist and artist has an idea that smart phones might not be so bad for his next Tate show after all
Swearing, shopping, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas
It may have only lasted six months, but Sarah Lucas’s ‘90’s retail venture still resonates, a quarter century later
Five great Picasso works in great destinations
On the artist’s birthday, we pick out some of Pablo's finest pieces, courtesy of our new book Destination Art
Raf Simons on why Warhol is a perfect fit for Calvin Klein
Raf says Warhol’s portraits prove he was truly democratic (but he does love the Death and Disaster series too)
Sex, Death, Sigmund Freud and Sarah Lucas
Here’s how the controversial artist showed her risqué sculptures in Freud’s historic London house
'Exhausting, Exhilarating, Exasperating but Inspiring' - David Dawson at Sotheby's on sitting for Lucian Freud
Long time assistant and Freud Archive Director reveals what it was like to sit for the great painter
'A walking Gallup poll' - the social side of Andy Warhol’s incredible creativity according to Arnold Lehman of Phillips
Warhol may have borrowed some ideas from others but that doesn't mean his work wasn't 100 per cent Andy
'To me there’s no argument' – the Whitney’s Donna De Salvo says Andy’s 70s paintings are unquestionably great
The curator of the forthcoming Warhol retrospective says that was the era when Warhol truly engaged with painting
'Campbell’s Soup Cans is the real model for the portraits' - Andy Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik on Andy's '70s portraits
'The collapse of the portraits into a single series is Warholian – things in series without individual characteristics'
Did you spot Mark Bradford at the Royal Wedding?
Some work by the artist made a sneak appearance at Princess Eugenie's wedding ceremony a few days ago
“The galleries were scared to show them” Factory studio boss Vincent Fremont on Andy Warhol’s Sex Parts series
Here’s what happened when Andy finally expressed his sexual desires in the late 1970s
The hidden story in Olafur Eliasson’s new book
Here’s why the world-famous artist hopes Olafur Eliasson: Experience will help him reach a new audience
'He saw hammers and sickles when he went to Italy in the 70s' - Factory studio boss Vincent Fremont on Andy Warhol
How Andy's Skull series and Hammer and Sickle images were inspired by the extreme politics of 1970s Europe
Why Sharon Hayes came out as a dyke but lives as a lesbian
On National Coming Out Day, here’s how the artist helped wrench one term from the field of psychiatry
When Jannis Kounellis painted with horses
What drove a painter to coax 12 steeds into an Italian gallery? Our book charts the life of this Arte Povera pioneer
What is Sharon Hayes trying to tell us?
Discover how this contemporary artist uses vintage protest to open up new possibilities
Astonishing Animals – The Panda
On World Animal Day we look at the panda's remarkable role in wildlife conservation
Destination Art every kid will love!
Taking a trip with children? Then pick out somewhere from our great new travel guide to art around the world
Destination Art with deeper meaning
Take in these works while you're away and add a lesson in politics, society and world history to your art excursion
Elmgreen & Dragset have a tall tale to tell about this pool
Don't believe everything you see and read at their excellent new Whitechapel Gallery show
Destination Art in the most beautiful settings
Come for the art but stay for the views around these important contemporary artworks from new book Destination Art
Destination Art you can get to in your lunch break
Are you in a big city? Got an hour to spare? Then get out and see some art from our new book Destination Art
Destination Art that looks like a LOT of fun!
Find art difficult sometimes? Don't fret. Take a look at these works in Destination Art and you'll soon by smiling
Great Art in the Great Outdoors
Sometimes it pays to think outside the white-walled box as our new book Destination Art shows
Astonishing Animals – The Siamese Fighting Fish
Decades of selective breeding has enabled East Asian animal lovers to create this beautiful but rather violent pet
"What is the size of ‘we’?" – Olafur Eliasson on public art, building bridges, and his Experience of togetherness
Eliasson understands the limits of civic engagement, but says he is trying to push the envelope nevertheless
Lucian Freud Slices of Life - The Latter Years
The passing years didn’t dim Freud’s ambition - in fact his talent, along with his canvas sizes, grew as he aged
Lucian Freud Slices of Life - The Middle Years
A friendly intervention by the Palace helped Freud and his family escape peril - half a century later he repaid the debt
Lucian Freud Slices of Life - The Early Years
The artist mixed with rogues and royals in his early London life and kept in touch with both during his gambling days
What is it with Sarah Lucas and eggs?
Volunteers just smashed 1,000 eggs at the artist’s request - our new book explains why she works with them
Astonishing Animals – The Male Diving Beetle
The microscopic intricacy of this insect’s foot belies a deeply sinister mating habit
'Street dance is crucial' – Olafur Eliasson on Harlem Gun Crew, his teenage years and the Experience of space
Eliasson doesn’t hide his early breakdancing achievements; instead he incorporates them into his artistic career
Astonishing Animals – The Spoonworm
These six different images depict one obscure marine animal, captured by one dedicated photographer
The surprisingly sacred origins of German pretzels
Read how old prayer traditions found their way into popular baked goods, according to The German Cookbook
How Roald Dahl ended up with a Bacon Portrait of Freud
On Roald Dahl day, we take a closer look at the author’s love of these monumental British artists
Wolfgang Tillmans makes a return to the photocopier
The photographer says his first camera was the copy machine and he’s gone back to the office staple for a new show
Astonishing Animals – The Mite Harvestman
Frozen in a thin layer of gold and captured by a scanning electron microscope this creature is barely 2mm long
The art that Daniel Arsham fits in around Snarkitecture
Fossilised cars, phones, cameras, guitars and boom boxes - how he switches from commission to gallery
What The New Museum is bringing to London next month
Expect screens, beds, reflections on the past and predictions for the future at Strange Days
Sex, cigarettes and spongey bread - the things Wolfgang Tillmans loved about London in the Eighties
The New Yorker's profile of the photographer includes some telling details from his early trips to Britain
Why Olafur Eliasson just met with Emmanuel Macron
The artist and the French President both agree on Europe, even if Eliasson sees room for healthy disagreement
John Pawson pays homage to Agnes Martin's grids
The minimalist architect references Martin’s famous Sixties grid paintings in these recently posted images
Alex Katz's Coca-Cola Girls are coming to London
The New York artist reveals the Rembrandt and soda-pop inspirations behind his latest paintings
Astonishing Animals – The Pigeon
Scott Echols's ghoulish bird image is the result of an innovative technology that helps us see inside animals
How to sound clever about Supreme’s Mike Kelley collection
Learn how Kelley worked childhood, craft and creepiness into the pieces Supreme is reproducing
The story behind JR’s New NYC piece
The pasted-up work, on the Bowery, offers a glimpse into the life of an undocumented immigrant
Astonishing Animals – The Fruit Bat
Nick Veasey's radiographic photo is just one of 300 amazing images in Animal: Exploring the Zoological World
Andy's Athletes - OJ Simpson
The stories behind Warhol's encounters with sports stars of the Seventies - as pictured in the Catalogue Raisonné
Astonishing Animals – The Sweat Bee
Responsible for 80 per cent of pollination in the world this creature's waning population is a big danger for us
Trevor Paglen launches into his critics
Artist comes out fighting against astronomers who claim launch of his Orbital Reflector just means more space junk
Astonishing Animals – The Diana Monkey
Jill Greenberg manipulates her hyperrealist photographs to emphasise the connection between us and them
Andy's Athletes - Jack Nicklaus
The stories behind Warhol's encounters with sports stars of the Seventies - as pictured in the Catalogue Raisonné
Francis Alÿs, his fiery football and other artworks
On his 59th birthday we take a look at what makes the Contemporary Artist series artist so hot right now
Astonishing Animals – The Steppe Bison
Painted 17,000 years ago, using sophisticated techniques, there's a lot more to this image than you think
Andy's Athletes - Muhammad Ali
The stories behind Warhol's encounters with sports stars of the Seventies - as pictured in the Catalogue Raisonné
Astonishing Animals – Cai Guo-Qiang's Heritage Installation
Spectacular artwork featured in our new book Animal, depicts a scene that could never actually occur in nature
Theaster Gates on the artist representing the US at Venice 2019
Watch Gates interview the acclaimed abstract sculptor Martin Puryear, due to represent the US at the next Biennale
Iggy Pop has just recreated this Warhol burger video
The singer follows Warhol’s actions faithfully, right down to the slightly odd way he applies ketchup to the dish
Astonishing Animals – The Lion’s Mane Jellyfish
This beauty has 100 feet long tentacles with thousands of microscopic harpoons that inject a paralysing venom
Thomas Bayrle on Elvis, America and Jacques Tati
Bayrle has much in common with more critical artists, but don't overlook the joy and humour in his pictures
Andy's Athletes - Willie Shoemaker
The stories behind Warhol's encounters with sports stars of the Seventies - as pictured in the Catalogue Raisonné
Astonishing Animals – The Monarch of the Glen
New book Animal is a magnificent menagerie of imagery, documenting animals of all kinds throughout the ages
Zhang Xiaogang reflects on more disquieting memories
The Chinese artist draws on his personal recollections in a new exhibition of emotionally charged pictures
Edmund de Waal brings the émigré experience to LA
The artist and writer’s forthcoming installation at the Schindler House in LA draws on its maker’s Viennese heritage
Annie Leibovitz, Cai Guo-Qiang and a robot get RISD awards
American photographer and Chinese artist joined by artificial presence at Rhode Island School of Design ceremony
It’s OK if you don’t understand Olafur Eliasson’s new show
The artist may be referencing the environment in Beijing, but the show’s title suggests it's all open to interpretation
Can new technology bring back lost art?
Noah Charney on how destroyed artworks - and fake Old Masters - are being remade for today's museums
How Thomas Bayrle commodified sex
The German artist saw his country's attitude to sex change and decided to paint it unemotionally
Andy Warhol would have been 90 today
To celebrate we take a look at how Andy's wildly differing self-portraits shaped his public persona and myth
How not to climb Mount Olympus
Google marks the first conquering of the summit, but our book, Flying too Close to the Sun, recalls another attempt
Heading for the beach? Try this Olafur Eliasson experiment!
The artist is creating compass mobiles in Reykjavik, using objects drawn from Iceland's tide line
Theaster Gates harmonizes with Harry Styles
Could the 'Mick Jagger of Social Practice' have found a soul mate in the erstwhile One Direction singer?
Thomas Bayrle’s little people
Some of the best images in the New Museum show are made up of tiny figures. Here's why the artist created them
That's a pretty A-list summer holiday selfie JR!
The artist chills with Bono, Chris Rock, Sacha Baron Cohen, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McComaughey and co.
What Anthony Caro learned from Henry Moore
To mark the day the sculptor was born we take look at how Moore influenced his friend and protégé Anthony Caro
Meet the weaver who became the Kraftwerk of German art
Thomas Bayrle's poppy pictures, built up from hundreds of smaller images, drill down deep into our collective desires
Cups and condoms included in new Jenny Holzer Tate show
New exhibition draws together early pieces alongside the artist’s best-known works and her recent projects
Is Thomas Eakins cooling off or heating up?
Eakins - born on this day in 1844 - painted this work to silence his critics, yet it remains open to interpretation. . .
Want to have a drink with Elmgreen & Dragset?
The European art duo will upset gallery conventions when they stage their retrospective in London this year
Some birthday advice from Alex Katz
The painter celebrates his 91st birthday today - he has some wise words for those a long way behind him
What does Rose Wylie love about the Sportsman?
Chef Stephen Harris and the fact that 'it’s the right colour for the edge of the sea' attract the local Vitamin P3 painter
What to expect from the BBC's new Gombrich documentary
Archive recordings, interviews and granddaughter Leonie describe the remarkable life of The Story of Art author
Peter Marino shows us his most personal possessions
The architect, artist and collector on the sensual link between the Mapplethorpe photos and bronzes in his collection
Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden comes to New York
The Japanese artist's 52-year-old work is born again in a derelict train garage in Fort Tilden, Queens
Who knew Degas did erotica?
On the artist's birthday, we look at how Degas moved away from Impressionism to pursue a private take on pleasure
Oh dear, Maurizio Cattelan has killed Banksy!
His new work Eternity, sees him fill a Tuscan garden with gravestones for 100 artists - some dead, some alive
Kerry James Marshall's 30-foot tribute to black lawyers
'Every brick had to be hand cut to make that form consistent' he says of monument referencing talking drums
Buying a Kusama bag? There's a book for that!
Walk the walk and talk the talk with the Kusama x Louis Vuitton bag and our new book at Kith SoHo
How The French Revolution influenced the painting of heroes
EH Gombrich explains the work of Jacques-Louis David - ‘official artist’ of Revolutionary France
The sad story behind Modigliani's portrayal of lust
Born on this day 12 July, in 1884 and among the most highly valued artists today he lived a short, wild life in poverty
Yayoi Kusama is painting again
Look out for flowers and phallic shapes when the artist shows her new work (and some old) this autumn
Why Whistler sued Ruskin for libel
On Whistler's birthday, the story of the paintings that became the subject of a court case which bankrupted him
A glimpse at David Wojnarowicz’s Sex Series
Ahead of the Whitney retrospective, we uncover his great X-rated and oddly liberating photo montages
Ralph Rugoff on what can happen when art meets brutalism
The Hayward Gallery director describes the challenges and opportunities presented by his beautiful, brutal institution
Did you see Mark Bradford at the roller disco?
Here’s how the LA artist drew on club culture and the AIDS epidemic to create one of his most moving works
Why did Frida Kahlo cut off her hair?
It was one of her most effective works of self-portraiture - on her birthday we look at its hidden meaning
Jennifer Lawrence checks out the new JR show
The Red Sparrow star dropped by New York's Perrotin gallery to take in her friend’s show
Barnett Newman’s creative heart
The artist died this day in 1970 but did you know the condition that killed him also led to his best work?
Politics, patriotism, sex and balloon dogs
On Independence Day this is how four free-spirited, contemporary American artists see their country
A Movement in a Moment: Luminism
As fireworks light up the sky this Fourth of July, we look at another light that is uniquely American
When Kerry James Marshall painted the 4th of July
In Independence Day week we look at how the painter’s work Bang subtly subverts an all American holiday
Did you spot Mark Bradford on the basketball court?
Here’s how this US artist combined basketball with a hoop skirt to create a gender-bending sporting performance
It's caption competition time!
Damien Hirst will give you a free print if he likes what you have to say about this pic he just posted
Alicia Keys plays for JR and Massimo in New York
The Grammy star performed a special set for JR's opening and Massimo Bottura caught it on his phone
Did you spot Mark Bradford at the comedy club?
This is how the stand-up routines of Eddie Murphy and other comedians fed into the LA artist’s work
New record set for a Lucian Freud painting
Sotheby’s achieved a new British high for the great painter in London last night with this spectacular 2002-3 work
“Barbie, Grace Jones or me?” Trevor Paglen on tech and sex
The artist digs into the power structures behind modern technology in his Smithsonian American Art Museum lecture
Noah Charney tells CBS viewers how one lost work was saved
The Museum of Lost Art author shared the miraculous story of Tullio Lombardo's Adam with This Morning's audience
Did you spot Mark Bradford at the beach?
Here’s how the Californian coastline - and ancient mariners’ myths - feed into the work of the LA artist
Why Trevor Paglen thinks the military will come to his show
The artist believes DC's government employees are likely to take an interest in his new anti-surveillance exhibition
Did you spot Mark Bradford at the beauty shop?
Here's how the artist took the friendships and the materials from his mother’s workplace and fed them into his art
Watch Trevor Paglen’s AI concert
Can you handle a spooky string quartet recital where the machines are silently judging you?
The Jackson portrait Warhol worried TIME would junk
As London's National Portrait Gallery opens its Michael Jackson show, we look at Andy’s 80s TIME cover
Did you spot Mark Bradford at the airport?
If you’ve flown out of LA you’re probably more familiar with this American artist’s work than you may realise. . .
When Ellsworth Kelly upsized in the Hamptons
A new summer show looks back at how the artist found space for his bigger works at the East End of Long Island
'Get your Indiana Jones on' - with Noah Charney
The Phaidon author talks us through some of the most highly prized lost artworks that are out there . . . somewhere
Theaster Gates cuts a live jazz record at his Swiss show
Gates' Black Monks of Mississippi record their performances directly onto disc and release them on his new label
The painting that pushed Luc Tuymans to 'authentic forgery'
On his 60th birthday, we look at an early self-portrait and a crisis that led him to draw on a wide range of sources
Trevor Paglen’s Last Pictures
The artist’s selection of black-and-white photos aims to show future civilisations what life on earth was like
Christo on Stalinism, Van Gogh and his new work in London
The artist explains how he went from the Eastern Bloc to building an oil barrel pyramid on a lake in London
David Hammons’ ghost pier gets the go ahead
The NY Senate changed laws to OK the artist's tribute to Gordon Matta-Clark and a former gay meeting place
Elmgreen & Dragset set a vulture loose in Regent’s Park
The bronze bird will join pieces by John Baldessari and Tracey Emin in this year's Frieze Sculpture installation
Shore and Mapplethorpe's Warhol photos feature in new show
Museum exhibition includes wallpaper, posters and candid snaps to capture Andy’s production line approach
The buried pleasure palace loved by Michelangelo and Raphael
Emperor Nero's Golden House was buried after his reign but it didn't stop these Renaissance masters getting in
Trevor Paglen’s surveillance-free safe space
The artist’s Autonomy Cube lets gallery goers go online anonymously
'This is probably the first instance in the art world where a black person took part in a capital competition and won'
Kerry James Marshall on why Sean Combs paid $21m for his painting Past Times at Sotheby's the other week
The monk who made Botticelli burn his paintings
Meet the Italian friar who's one of the worst villains in art history and popularised the phrase, Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Jullien gives a face to a brainy plant
How do you explain plant neurobiology? With a little help from a great artist and illustrator, that's how
Trevor Paglen’s robot revolutionary
The artist says his portrait of a dead revolutionary shows how tech may come to be used to kill off dissent
Where Ellsworth Kelly’s colours came from
On the 95th anniversary of his birth, we examine how he was inspired by European painters and American birds
The man who turned Robert Ryman onto jazz
On the artist's 88th birthday we look back at the influence jazz teacher Lennie Tristan had on his art
Picasso joins Ferran Adrià in the kitchen
The elBulli chef’s paintings and drawings form part of a new show examining Picasso’s enduring interest in food
JR buddies up with Pace to change our cities
The artist joins FuturePace, a new place-making partnership which uses art to invigorate the urban environment
Why Theaster Gates believes black magazines matter
He's staging a show examining the Johnson Publishing Company, once the largest African-American publisher
Why Andy Warhol started Interview
As the magazine Andy launched finally goes down the tube we look into why he set it up in the first place
High-speed photo pioneers inspire Sarah Sze's new show
The artist looks back to Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton in her new work, Images in Debris
Fire Island and Pet Shop Boys made Tillmans groove again
The photographer describes getting back into making music - now he plans to include some in his next exhibition
Trevor Paglen subverts classified military insignia
Why does the artist collect secret military patches? And what do they tell us about warfare today?
The hidden message in Robert Indiana’s Love
Following his death, we look at how this work evolved from a Christmas card into an appeal to Ellsworth Kelly
The exhibition that pushed NYC to the art world's centre
The Ninth Street Show opened 67 years ago today. Here's how it focussed and clarified the city's art scene
The poignant truth behind Kerry James Marshall's new $21 million Sotheby's auction record
Here's why Marshall's work, Past Times, embodies the artist's struggle to place black people in grand paintings
However you're feeling today Jean Jullien has a badge for you!
Express yourself courtesy of the illustrator with these brass pins that put a face to every feeling
The decline and fall of the gentlemanly art thief
In The Museum of Lost Art Noah Charney explains why today's criminals favour car bombs over cunning
Did Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman share some moves?
An upcoming Tate show brings the two artists together, drawing out some surprising parallels in their work
Sex, madness and the Met’s summer show
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection, showcases one man’s tastes
So why do artists destroy their own work?
In The Museum of Lost Art Noah Charney explains how vanity and reinvention lie behind the urge to slash and burn
Wolfgang Tillmans is working on a World War II Requiem
The photo artist has teamed up with ENO to stage a production of a Benjamin Britten choral masterpiece
How, after death, Hokusai changed art history
On the anniversary of Hokusai’s death, we look at how his work altered the course of Western art
De Kooning's great, late period tops Christie’s sale
Unfairly criticised when it was exhibited 20 years ago, Untitled XIX went for a cool $14m at auction this week
Chris Noey and Hank Willis Thomas do Bottega Veneta in style
The artist and The Artist Project founder were on fine form at our canapé reception in New York on Tuesday!
Where in the world is this ghostly Klimt portrait?
Scholar and sleuth Noah Charney takes us on the hunt for lost, stolen and destroyed art in The Museum of Lost Art
The incredibly imaginative world of Frank Stella's prints
New Princeton show reveals how Stella threw every reproductive process known to art into his printmaking
The British camera that helped Winslow Homer capture the US
A new show looks at how Homer's first camera, made in England, helped the American artist loosen up
Can you spot an Anish Kapoor among these record sleeves?
Secret 7", the art, music and charity show, returns to London this summer with another sale of fine-art singles
How Tina Barney pictures great artists
Frieze visitors get a closer look at Barney's remarkably intimate images of the world's greatest artists
Isn't this the perfect crown for Tomi Ungerer!
The French-born artist was made an honorary member of his adoptive nation’s guild in Dublin this week
The New Museum is heading to London
One of our favourite New York art institutions will host its first UK show at The Store during Frieze week in October
Frieze New York goes back to the Eighties
2018 gallerists go back three decades, courtesy of work by Richard Prince, David Byrne and David Sedaris
How Marlene Dumas sees Venus and Adonis
The artist’s new show offers a contemporary, explicit take on Shakespeare’s version of the classical myth
JR just sent this guy to pick up his latest award
Going to Mexico’s exclusive Costa Careyes resort any time soon? Then look out for a diver gracing its brutalist folly
Sterling Ruby on Raf, fashion and 'messing' with Americana
The artist was at Harvard on Monday, talking with the Calvin Klein boss and Phaidon author Jessica Morgan
The bird painter who helped Ellsworth Kelly to imagine
John James Audubon was born today, 26 April, in 1785 - Ellsworth Kelly was a big fan, you might be too
Why Gillian Wearing put a sign on her Millicent Fawcett statue
It bears Fawcett’s words but alludes to Wearing’s photo series from the 1990s - here’s how she made them
The strange story behind Willem de Kooning’s Woman I
On the anniversary of the Dutch abstract expressionist's birth, we tell the tale behind one of his infamous works
World Book Day according to Harland Miller
Discover how this acclaimed British artist gives new meaning to the classics by painting over literary history
When Raphael painted St George
On St George’s Day we look at the figurative abandonment that enabled Raphael to paint such fantastic scenes
JR is on TIME Magazine's 100 most influential list
He is commended for dedicating his career to bridging gaps - physical, cultural, spiritual - among all people
When Larry Gagosian paid Peter Marino with a Brice Marden
An 80s New York article reveals how the art dealer got his rundown loft fixed via some smart negotiation
How Damien Hirst, Poussin and Maurizio Cattelan saw Midas
In an age of billionaire presidents and financial uncertainty, the king with a golden touch still speaks to us
How Peter Doig saw the night sky
It's Doig's 59th birthday - this is how he breathed new life into a celestial feature in his painting The Milky Way
Phaidon and Free Arts NYC honour Lawrence Weiner
We joined Marian Goodman Gallery, Gagosian Gallery and Artsy in sponsoring a charity dinner and auction
A Movement in a Moment: Kinetic Art
The idea was that art should keep up with technology, so why did the movement become yesterday's futurism?
JR gives a face to the Dreamers
New film shows how the artist's Inside Out Project is putting a face to the immigrants trying to stay in the US
How Hobbes first pictured the “monster” of good government
The political philosopher, born 430 years ago today, put a face to the-then novel theory of the ‘body politic’
What Bacon thought of Warhol and Jasper Johns
In a series of newly released taped conversations, Bacon can be heard dismissing these Titans of 20th century art
How Rubens, Richard Hamilton and Titian saw Adonis
Death, rebirth and y fronts - the classical hunk has inspired ancient and modern artists in many different ways
Warhol and Pollock's Chelsea Hotel doors are up for sale
A former resident of the famous Manhattan flop house rescued its doors and is now selling them off for charity
Christian Jankowski’s fake art exhibition
The artist uses online tributes to great works to commission Chinese copies that aren't quite right
Just why did Ed Ruscha paint with eggs?
This Easter we look at how yolks, along with beetroot juice and gunpowder found their way on to Ed's brush
Is this theme park copying Yayoi Kusama and Chris Burden?
It's hard not to pick up on two fine-art precedents in Indonesia's hot new selfie hotspot, Rabbit Town
A Movement in a Moment: Nazarenes
How a colony of longhaired artists squatted a Roman monastery and attempted to alter the course of art history
Jack Whitten on de Kooning, Civil Rights and his legacy
In his final video interview, the abstract artist described his life, work and how he wanted to be remembered
Why does Yayoi Kusama love pumpkins?
As the artist celebrates her 89th birthday, we look at the ways she has represented her favourite vegetable
5 poets’ portraits for World Poetry Day
See how painters have pictured these writers in our new book Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers
Trevor Paglen's new flag plays on our fear of spyware
Artist creates creepy flag named after the supposed CIA bug Wikileaks claimed is hiding in a Samsung television
Alain de Botton on how to find happiness in unlikely places
On International Day of Happiness 2018, the philosopher says we can find beauty in the lowliest places
How Caravaggio, Freud and Dalí saw Narcissus
Discover how this ancient self-obsessed beauty found a place within baroque, surrealist and modern British art
How Yves Klein, Chris Burden and Henri Matisse saw Icarus
Our new book Flying Too Close to the Sun examines how artists old and new have interpreted ancient myths
Jean Jullien’s wonderfully un-grown-up birthday message
The artist, illustrator and Phaidon author shows us how we all feel on the day we get one year older
These Self-Portraits played with gender fluidity back in the day
See how artists have presented themselves as different sexes in their self-portraits throughout the ages
Who spotted the art in this viral video of Michelle Obama?
When a two-year-old art lover visited Michelle’s office, we all got a peek at the former First Lady’s art collection and it includes some great pieces by Phaidon artists Kerry James Marshall and Theaster Gates
How Picasso, Pollock and Blake saw the Minotaur
The mythical man-bull has always served artists well, even into an age of gender reassignment
The reasons reading is (still) a feminist issue
We look back at some of the more divisive depictions of women readers in our new book Reading Art
Piet Mondrian - loved jazz (but couldn't dance!)
On the anniversary of his birth find out how jazz informed his art and why musician Thelonius Monk would often refer to Mondrian's paintings when describing his own compositions
A Movement in a Moment: Mannerism
On Michelangelo’s birthday we look back at 'the stylish style' of high Renaissance painting
These Self-Portraits must have really, really hurt
Suffering for your art is taken to a whole new level in this group of images taken from 500 Self-Portraits
Mark Bradford’s tribute to Jack Whitten
The abstract artist includes a fitting homage to the painter, who died back in January, in his new Los Angeles show
JR shoots Madonna’s Oscars party
The artist and activist might have lost out on his Academy Award but he still got to party with Madonna and co.
Why alien life made Wolfgang Tillmans rethink politics
The photographer tries to work out what makes people go right-wing and how he might win them back
Kerry James Marshall's superhero cover for NY Magazine
The Rhythm Mastr work has been unveiled at the Port Authority Bus Terminal as part of NY Mag's 50th birthday
What can The Three Robbers teach us about gender relations?
Tomi Ungerer's original publisher believes the key to this story lies in the harmony between men and women
Jean Jullien's hand-made tribute to the weekend
The French artist and illustrator teams up with his brother for a show dedicated to introspection and slowing down
Facebook censors The Venus of Willendorf
The tech giant has deemed this 30,000-year-old sculpture 'pornographic'
Andy Warhol Died 31 Years Ago Today
On the anniversary of Andy's passing discover the spiritual backstory to his final set of works
Salvatore Arancio - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Inside Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin
The only building the abstract artist ever designed opened this weekend at the University of Texas at Austin
Klara Kristalova - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
John McEnroe's $9m Mark Bradford map
The US tennis champ, the Beatles and cult leader Charles Manson could help Mark Bradford set an auction record
How to create a lover - the ancient way
A Valentine's Day lesson in art and love from our new book, Flying Too Close to the Sun
Calvin Klein brings Warhol's Silver Clouds back to NYC
Andy's Mylar balloons are floating again over Manhattan, in a new "reimagining" of the famous 1966 work
Understanding Stella: The Black Paintings
Here’s why Stella's early minimalist series served as the perfect start for a much more varied career
JR lunches with Spielberg and his fellow Oscars nominees
But Agnès Varda couldn’t make it so JR brought a cut-out of her to the Oscar Nominees lunch yesterday!
Understanding Stella: The Alsace-Lorraine series
Here's how the artist's first proper sculptural series embodied one of the world's great struggles
Viktor&Rolf recycle an old collection to make a new one
The Dutch designers launch a new range of price-friendly, eco-friendly clothes via German e-retailer Zalando
An Art of the Erotic guide to Sotheby’s latest sale
Here's some sexy insight into Picasso, Polke and other artists in Sotheby's erotic sale, courtesy of our new book
Why Lorde pinned a Jenny Holzer work to her Grammys dress
Here’s what you need to know about the Inflammatory Essay Lorde pinned on her frock last night
Understanding Stella: The Polish Village series
Discover how Stella’s series traces the loss of wooden synagogues in Europe and the rise of abstract painting
U2 and JR team up for the Grammys
The French artist provided imagery for the Irish band’s pro-immigration performance at the awards last night
Christo barrels into London
The artist will float an Egyptian burial mound made of oil barrels on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park this summer
These Self-Portraits will make your bad hair day a bit better
Feeling tonsorially challenged? Be thankful your unruly tresses aren't captured for posterity in 500 Self-Portraits
When Georgia O'Keeffe went to Hawaii
See both O'Keeffe's Hawaii paintings and some of the plants that inspired her at the New York Botanical Garden
JR’s film nomination makes Oscars history
The artist's documentary, Faces Places is up for best documentary - here’s why the nomination is so important
Yeesookyung - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Understanding Stella: The Imaginary Places series
Here’s how a 1980s travel guide to Narnia, Middle Earth and Oz led Frank Stella on an abstract voyage of his own
These Self-Portraits will freak you out
What do you see when you look in the mirror? Let's hope its nothing like this trio of images from 500 Self-Portraits. . .
Understanding Stella: The Benjamin Moore paintings
Discover how Frank Stella's love of commercial house paint helped him catch the eye of pop art pioneer Andy Warhol
Liz Larner - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Understanding Stella: The Cones and Pillars series
Want to know why Frank Stella borrowed from fairy tales in his quest to break up the surface of his paintings?
Emily Hesse - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Happy art for Blue Monday from Alain de Botton
Can pretty works by Matisse and Monet get us through the January blues? Yes, argues the Art as Therapy author
How Kerry James Marshall kept MLK's memory alive
The artist was inspired by commercial souvenirs to spread Dr. King's legacy - without desecrating his memory
Markus Karstieß - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Tomi Ungerer is now a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur
The 86-year-old author receives one of France's highest honours in the French National New Year's list
Understanding Stella: The Moby Dick series
Here's how Frank Stella's tribute to the Great American novel also paid a debt to the abstract expressionists
Marco Chiandetti - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Understanding Stella: The Scarlatti K series
Here's how Frank Stella uses 3D printing, cutting-edge software and baroque music to reinvent painting
Who knew Renoir did erotica?
Is this painting of a girl bathing entirely innocent - or loaded with sexual suggestion?
Lynda Draper - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
JR brings his Rio giants to London
The artist restages his monumental 2016 Brazilian Olympics project at new London gallery
Emre Hüner - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
RIP Betty Woodman - the woman who made clay fine art
87-year-old artist and mother of photographer Francesca died in Italy on January 2
Delcy Morelos - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Jason Lim - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Who knew Mickalene Thomas did erotica?
In her 2008 painting, Thomas takes a scandalous Balthus work and remakes it in a more loving way
Steven Holl unveils his light-filled Maggie’s Centre for London
The building, located beside St Bart’s in London, is a 'joyful, glowing presence' says the architect
Alisa Baremboym - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Dan McCarthy - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
No one did hats like Yves Saint Laurent
The masterful designer loved headwear, even if he apparently wasn’t so keen on its bourgeoisie wearers
The Artist Project: Cecily Brown on a Medieval Madonna
The painter went straight to The Met's medieval sculpture room when asked to choose an artwork that moved her
William Curtis's Le Corb book gets another award!
The International Committee of Architectural Critics honours Ideas and Forms with a Bruno Zevi Award
The Artist Project: Catherine Opie on Louis XIV’s bedroom
The fine-art photographer believes the Met’s period room dedicated to the Sun King works as a history portrait
The Artist Project and Met Membership – a gift for art lovers
Gift a membership to America's biggest art museum, and have the world’s great artists show your loved-one around
The Artist Project: Sarah Sze on the Ancient Egyptians
The artist finds unlikely parallels between the Tomb of Perneb and the grave-like aspect of her own work
Shary Boyle - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Who knew Edward Weston did erotica?
The photographer’s nudes appear abstract but his infamous photo of a pepper packs an unexpected erotic charge
A Vitamin C guide to Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid
Here's how the 63-year-old Tanzania-born artist utilised old crockery to win the 2017 contemporary art award
Marlene Steyn - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Elizabeth Jaeger - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Who knew Henri Matisse did erotica?
Pretty much everyone! Discover how the modernist turned to ancient sex myths to rediscover his wilder impulses
Rose Eken - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
John Pawson's World of Colour: Blue
How the architect found beautiful blues in the Aegean Sea and the skies over Chipping Norton
How Yayoi Kusama inspired Donald Judd
If you like Donald's box sculptures you might want to thank Yayoi for helping him come up with them
Why Robert Ryman is having a moment right now
The author of our new monograph explains why critics are returning to the painter’s great white body of work
The Artist Project: Zhang Xiaogang on El Greco
The Chinese artist admires the inner psychology this expressive Renaissance master set down in his work
Jenny Holzer talks about her NYC AIDS Memorial
'I remember the hostility of the Reagan years - pragmatism, resources and mercy were needed then, and now'
The Brit Awards go red - courtesy of Anish Kapoor
Kapoor – the first sculptor to create the trophy – has reworked the familiar Britannia in his favourite colour
Artists Who Make Books: Ed Ruscha
By offering only 'technical data' the artist lets us see something exceptional in pools, gas stations and baby photos
Why we should think of Robert Ryman as a contemporary artist
The categories of modern vs. contemporary are useful only for bureaucratic purposes and dissolve when we look to art for its full potential to move us, says Vittorio Colaizzi, author of our new Robert Ryman book
Tommaso Corvi-Mora - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Artists Who Make Books: Taryn Simon
Concerned with the structure of secrecy, this artist's work makes for some very compelling printed matter
Decoding John Currin’s spooky Thanksgiving
There’s a ghost at the feast in John Currin’s depiction of the American harvest festival
Why you must not call Robert Ryman’s paintings ‘pictures’
Vittorio Colaizzi, author of our Robert Ryman book, schools us in the right way to describe this abstract painter's work
Katie Cuddon - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Artists Who Make Books: Richard Prince
Here’s how a controversial figure in contemporary American art went from pulp novelist to appropriation artist
Camden Arts Centre gets a blast of Vitamin C
Clare Twomey, Emma Hart and Tommaso Corvi-Mora join us for a panel discussion with book editor Louisa Elderton
Don't get Robert Ryman? Try viewing his work as sculptures!
That's the advice of Vittorio Colaizzi, author of our Robert Ryman book, though he admits Robert might not like it
Why Leonardo has always kept us guessing
Last night's $450 million sale may have surprised some but uncertainty was a Da Vinci specialty
Who knew JMW Turner did erotica?
We know his ships and seascapes, but Turner also painted this bedroom scene - and may have created others
The Artist Project: John Currin on Ludovico Carracci
The US contemporary artist finds something both dead and alive in Carracci's sixteenth century depiction of Christ
How Robert Ryman got from jazz to abstract painting
The author of our Robert Ryman book guides us through the artist’s route from the sax to the canvas stretcher
Caroline Achaintre - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
How we brought Picasso’s women together for the Art Museum
Our new museum in a book tells the story of Picasso’s love life, and his artistic development, in six exquisite portraits
The Artist Project: Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still
The LA artist is intrigued by the Abstract Expressionist's era, and by what the paintings say about today's America
Keith Harrison - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Kerry James Marshall - the VR experience
The artist's acclaimed exhibition Mastry is now available in virtual reality, for Mac, PC and Oculus Rift users
How Jimmie Durham saw the night sky
Understand how this important contemporary artist brings his vision of the heavens right down to earth
Mark Bradford honoured alongside Star Wars' George Lucas
LACMA recognises the artist's sociopolitical work at its Art+Film Gala (and Kim Kardashian came too!)
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Alex Katz - 'I never had any self-confidence until I was 30'
We asked the painter about his days at Cooper Union, the jazz clubs he went to at night and why painting is like running a 4.40, when we bumped into him at his show of new work and Forties drawings at Timothy Taylor
Phaidon contributors rank high in ArtReview's Power 100
Many of our favourite artists, curators, critics and gallerists all feature on this year's highly politicized list
How Japanese poets saw the night sky
There's no man in the Moon for Japanese star-gazers, instead, they see a hare pounding rice. Want to know why?
Ruby Neri - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Who knew Gerhard Richter did erotica?
He copied images from porn mags but it's as if a gauzy veil has drifted across the image, clouding any promiscuity
Who knew John Singer Sargent did erotica?
The sensual portraitist and war artist combined his two interests in this tender painting of two British soldiers
Anders Ruhwald - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
The Artist Project: Raymond Pettibon on JMW Turner
Why the contemporary artist appreciates the 18th century painter for his ability to go beyond mere representation
When Yayoi Kusama created her first ever Infinity Room
Going to her show at the Broad? Then uncover the history behind these hugely popular artworks before you do
The Artist Project goes back to the Met
The book that gets contemporary artists to talk about classic works returned to the source for our launch
Ghada Amer - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
The Artist Project: Kehinde Wiley on John Singer Sargent
Obama’s new portraitist takes his inspiration from some of the most aristocratic works in the Met's collection
When Kerry James Marshall learned to love Warhol
He celebrates his 62nd birthday today but it was on his 18th that Kerry began to understand Andy's talents
How we squeezed Versailles into The Art Museum
This Baroque masterwork will never leave France but we've found room for it in our brilliant museum-in-a-book
Ai Weiwei returns to New York
Artist scatters 300 works across the city he called home for a decade in Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
Jessica Harrison - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
How Trevor Paglen saw the night sky
The MacArthur Fellow is less interested in space's beauty - more in the sinister man-made objects in our heavens
How Annie Leibovitz captured Ellsworth Kelly's place of work
In Portraits 2005–2016, Annie Leibovitz reveals how Kelly created his calm canvases amidst everyday clutter
How the Soviets saw the night sky
It may have lost the race to the moon but in 1963 the USSR looked aloft and saw itself as the clear conqueror
JR’s new movie comes to the London Film Festival
Catch Faces Places, his Agnès Varda film about small-town life, in one of Europe’s biggest cities
Arlene Shechet - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Francis Upritchard - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Clay and ceramics put a sheen on this year's Frieze
Once a mere decorative art, clay and ceramics find a place alongside painting and sculpture at this year's fair
Mary Beard talks us through her 2017 Frieze show
The classicist tells us how a chance meeting at an airport led her to stage a bronze show at this year's Frieze
JJ PEET - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Why Yayoi Kusama wrote to Richard Nixon
'I will lovingly, soothingly, adorn your hard masculine body,' she wrote as she invited him to an orgy
How we got Impressionism's first show into The Art Museum
It closed over 140 years ago but our new museum-in-a-book restages this seminal Parisian painting show
Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho on their Frieze Project
Why a strange settlement in the no man’s land between North and South Korea has found a new home at Frieze
The Artist Project: Jeff Koons on Roman sculpture
Here’s why America’s leading contemporary artist spends so much time among the Met Museum’s sculptures
SPIT! talk us through their Frieze Project
The US collective look back at queer manifestos for a new series of works addressing today's struggles
Takuro Kuwata - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Georgina Starr talks us through her Frieze Project
Why has the artist brought in two experimental vocalists and "a magic table" for a reading from her new novel?
When Yayoi Kusama staged a gay wedding
Kusama provided the clothes, conducted the ceremony - and insisted on the consummation!
Marc Bauer talks us through his 2017 Frieze Project
The artist explains why he has brought a little bit of Peckham, South London, to the entrance of this year’s fair
Who knew Paul Klee did erotica?
The Swiss artist only used a few abstract forms to effectively suggest the act of lovemaking in this drawing
Jesse Wine - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
Lucy Orta talks us through her 2017 Frieze Project
Artist and Phaidon author on her plans to distribute Antarctica World Passports at the London art fair
Theaster Gates uses sculpture prize to fund literary venture
The Chicago artist plans to spend his $100,000 2018 Nasher Prize money on an antique mechanical printing press
Clare Twomey - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
The Artist Project: Swoon on Honoré Daumier
The contemporary artist explains why the 19th century caricaturist still offers 'something beautiful (and difficult)'
How we relocated Easter Island to The Art Museum
The statues cannot be moved anymore but you can see them all in our impossibly good museum-in-a-book
Sahej Rahal - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
How Galileo saw the night sky
Here's how the astronomer's sketches changed our view of the moon and undermined the Catholic Church
The Sportsman’s winning ingredients: Sea Salt
How saline waters around the Sportsman enabled Stephen Harris to turn a grotty pub into a team GB champion
The Artist Project: George Condo on Claude Monet
The artist explains why the 'ugliest combinations of colours' he's ever seen makes for an exquisite experience
Sterling Ruby - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
When Yayoi Kusama met Damien Hirst
She propositioned Nixon, held a gay wedding (and created cool art) so what happened when she met the YBA?
Alex Katz remembers John Ashbery
Following the great American poet’s death, we look at the painter's enduring relationship with him
How we relocated the Lascaux caves to The Art Museum
They've been closed since the Sixties but now you can visit them in our impossibly good museum-in-a-book
Who knew Anselm Kiefer did erotica?
The great German painter mixed ancient sex myths with sensual female nudity in this watercolour
How Georgia O'Keeffe saw the night sky
Here's why Georgia O’Keeffe imposed a little human order on the heavens in her painting Starlight Night
Looking back at NY’s leading African-American art museum
A new show at The Carnegie Museum of Art showcases works from the Studio Museum in Harlem
Why Mark Bradford thinks the Robert E Lee statue should stay
The artist says if the conversation is about the history of the US then you have to talk about that history
We're looking forward to the eclipse!
In the US on Monday there will be a total solar eclipse. This is how one photographer captured the 2008 one
Your chance to be a ceramic artist courtesy of The Tate
Clare Twomey opens a fascinating installation at Tate Modern next month - and you can take part
Ten Questions for Wolfgang Tillmans
On his 49th birthday here's another chance to read an interview we did to coincide with his latest Phaidon book
The amazing story behind this stolen Willem de Kooning
Woman-Ochre found on the wall of a New Mexico couple's bedroom where it had hung for the last 32 years
Yayoi Kusama gets her own museum
Tokyo structure that began taking shape in 2014 is at last revealed to be a shrine to the octogenarian's work
Random International release a drone swarm
The makers of the worldwide hit Rain Room return with another interactive artwork in London
Why is Mary Beard planning a fake Bronze show for Frieze?
Hauser & Wirth has teamed-up with the classicist for a faux show placing Paul McCarthy beside real artefacts
When Pablo Picasso made textiles
As art prices spiral could textiles forge a way into collecting? A forthcoming exhibition takes a look
Edmund de Waal is working on a Wayne McGregor ballet
The ceramicist and Phaidon author is designing a new production based on Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms
Why ceramics are so this season!
From the windows of Fifth Avenue to the side projects of Hollywood’s elite, clay is making a comeback
Have you actually seen Cindy Sherman’s Instagram?
The US fine-art photographer just switched off her privacy settings, and boy, is there a lot to see!
Was Arthur Dove America’s first great abstract artist?
Why this artist and part-time chicken farmer is the missing link between Cézanne, Rauschenberg and Frank Stella
JR takes to the high seas!
The French artist's image will grace the sails of this yacht when it races from France to Brazil this autumn
5 key points for the Tate’s new Bruce Nauman show
Tate Modern’s Nauman exhibition has just opened. Here’s a handful of things to think about when you visit
What your fridge has in common with this Jean Dubuffet show
On the anniversary of the French artist's birth, we look forward to a new exhibition of his Théâtres de Mémoire works
What Millais thought of Beatrix Potter
On the 151st anniversary of her birth, we look back at Potter's art and the admiration it drew from one Pre-Raphaelite
JR gives Cara Delevingne a late-night French rooftop tour
The artist and activist joined the movie star high above the streets following her movie’s French premier
Have you seen Elizabeth Peyton’s portrait of Angela Merkel?
The US artist has painted a tender picture of the German Chancellor for a profile in the August edition of Vogue
The English paintings that inspired Stanley Kubrick
On the 89th anniversary of the director’s birth, we look at how eighteenth-century art found its way into his work
Did Alice Cooper’s ghoulish live show help him snag a Warhol?
The US shock rocker’s electric chair routine may have prompted his girlfriend to buy a print from Andy for just $2.5k
5 art inspired chess sets on International Chess Day
From Memphis to the Bauhaus, here’s how the modern and contemporary art world has reworked the game
Have you seen the art of Evelyn Waugh?
New show draws together wide array of the novelist’s little-known, surprisingly expressive and funny visual works
What will art look like in the age of AI?
A new show wonders what life and art might be like when mankind takes its anticipated big leap forward
When Georg Baselitz painted his Heroes
A new exhibition looks at how the artist reinvented German painting to suit a post-war perspective
A Movement in a Moment: Precisionism
How photography, the Ford Motor Company and Cubism shaped America’s first truly modern art movement
Can you make out Basquiat’s name in this abstract art show?
McArthur Binion includes pages from his address book in works that contradict perceived truths about abstract art
How Emory Douglas branded the Black Panthers
Douglas's engaging designs have earned a place at Tate Modern and the Design Museum this summer
How Italian family life inspired this artist
Emma Hart created her new show during a six-month trip, taking in ancient Rome, family therapy - and pottery
When Joseph Beuys boxed for democracy
A new London show looks back on the German artist’s pugilistic performance at Documenta VI
A Movement in a Moment: Pointillism
Discover how an upset at a tapestry factory gave rise to one of the most striking artistic techniques
Monica Bonvicini thinks Toni Schmale is one of the best new artists in the world right now
Machines that serve no function, ferociously hot metal, psychoanalytic theory - the italian artist says Schmale is the one to watch at new BALTIC Artists' Award show
Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans and Phaidon artists create ES covers to celebrate London's resilience
Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing, and Jamie Hewlett make up all star cast of contemporary art talent
Summer with Warhol and the Kennedy kids
What happened when Jackie O’s kids came to stay at Warhol’s summerhouse? Lots of fun, says to Jonas Mekas
U2 screen JR’s new Syrian refugee film
The band have worked JR’s latest video piece into their current 30th anniversary Joshua Tree world tour
How Paul Klee remained creative until the end
On the anniversary of the artist’s death, we look back at how Klee didn’t let illnes or Nazism degrade his talents
The painter who escaped Memphis
Artist and founder member of the Memphis group Nathalie Du Pasquier adds model-making to her practice
Can you spot Utopia in among this wreckage?
Monika Sosnowska’s new show at Hauser & Wirth LA looks back at a hopeful world that was built, then destroyed
Why the Whitney is making its Calder show move
The NY museum has taken the unusual step of animating Calder’s mobiles, with a little bit of help
Meet the same-sex couple who got married 14 times
Two years on from the same-sex marriage ruling, we look back at one couple whose wedding vows knew no bounds
Do you know LA’s Cool School?
A new show brings together Ed Ruscha and others to look at how LA artists approached painting in the '60s
Joe Bradley’s not too-mature mid-career show
Museum retrospectives usually mean artistic maturity but with Joe Bradley visitors expect, and get, goofiness
Anish Kapoor dyes this earth red in memory of refugees
The artist’s new exhibition, Destierro, encourages visitors to think about the changing nature of national borders
Were watercolours Sargent’s Instagram?
A new exhibition looks back at the way this master oil painter recorded briefer glimpses of life on paper
Marina Abramović in the library, with the ancient manuscripts
That might sound like a Cluedo round, but it’s actually a good description of the performance artist’s new exhibition
Doug Aitken wants to you to smash up his garden
Why has the artist has combined a hothouse with a live-streamed wrecking room in a Danish warehouse?
Want to buy Picasso’s consolation ring for Dora Maar?
When Picasso’s lover threw a ruby ring into the Seine he made her a new one - it's at auction at Sotheby's tomorrow
Elmgreen & Dragset pit Lee Miller against President Erdoğan
The curators of the 2017 Istanbul Biennial want to use neighbourliness to combat intolerance and inequality
Why American modernism is older than you think
A new show adds weight to the argument that modernism came to the US decades before the Ab-Exers
Looks like JR just made it into the dictionary
French artist joins Donald Trump and Youtube as new additions to the 2018 Le Robert Illustrated Dictionary
Don’t worry Matisse (probably) didn’t read Ulysses either
On Bloomsday we recall what happened when Henri Matisse illustrated James Joyce’s modernist classic
Why this summer is mushroom season at Gagosian
Carsten Holler returns with Reason, a new fungi-focused show at the Gagosian on West 24th Street
Look at Theaster Gates’ incredible record and book collections
New video shows how the US artist and activist repurposes collections to uncover new perspectives on culture
Jenny Holzer’s classified Constructivism
A new exhibition of the US artist’s work uses Rodchenko-style abstraction to illuminate shadowy documents
The altarpiece that helped art break away from the church
Duccio’s Maestà Altarpiece was unveiled 706 years ago today to some fanfare - here's how it heralded a new age
Ai Weiwei turns the Armory into a surveillance play park
The artist and activist is reunited with Herzog & de Meuron for an immersive trip into digital mass monitoring
Does democracy work in art?
As Britain goes to the polls, we look at the democratic processes within the artworld’s most prominent groups
A Movement in a Moment: Young British Artists
On Damien Hirst’s birthday, we look back at the London movement that propelled him and his fellow Brits forwards
Kathrina Grosse paints Denmark pink
Aarhus's coastline gets a dash of colour, courtesy of this wild, German site-specific abstract painter
JR does the cover of the new Arcade Fire album
The artist’s desert installation features on the band’s new record cover and in new video Everything Now
A Movement in a Moment: Social Practice
JR, Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson are at the vanguard of a new movement. But what exactly is it that they're doing?
Elmgreen & Dragset’s Fjord focus
The art duo’s latest sculpture Dilemma recalls the early childhood urge to both leap and hold back
A Marilyn Monroe postcard from Ellsworth Kelly
On the 94th anniversary of the artist’s birth we look back at his little-known (and often stolen) mail art collages
Did you see us with Grayson Perry on TV last night?
The ceramicist is inspired by our books Body of Art and Map judging by his Channel 4 Brexit documentary
A Phaidon guide to Mario Testino’s art collection
The photo legend is selling his collection at Sotheby’s - here’s all you need to need to know about the artists in it
The weird numerology behind Anselm Kiefer’s new show
Meet the poet who wrote a language for birds, predicted the web, and inspired Kiefer's new Hermitage exhibition
David Lynch's art, architecture and photography influences
As Twin Peaks returns we take a look at how the director’s life-long appreciation of cool stuff affects his vision
Have you seen this new Wolfgang Tillmans video?
The acclaimed photographer has made a video with London producer Powell and will perform with him in August
The ancient inspiration behind Peter Marino's Gagosian debut
Discover how a pre-Christian shipwreck led the architect and fine-art collector to create a series of beautiful boxes
In Production - Kerry James Marshall
Contemporary Art Editor Michele Robecchi gives us a sneak peek at a book about to leave our shelves for yours
JR and Agnès Varda’s small-town film comes to Cannes
The documentary Visages Villages follows the pair aboard JR’s mobile photo booth as they drive into rural France
How Walter Gropius made the modern age
On the anniverary of the Bauhaus founder's birth we look at how his school helped form modern functionalism
Philip Guston versus Richard Nixon
On the 44th anniversary of the Watergate hearings a new show looks back at the artist's take on Tricky Dicky
How drinks with Erik Satie helped Man Ray make this 'gift'
On the 151st anniversary of the minimalist composer’s birth we look back at his little-known surrealist collaboration
Art inspired by the Cultural Revolution
On the 51st anniversary how the generation it affected incorporated their experience into great artworks
5 reasons to look again at Las Vegas architecture
Vegas was founded 112 years ago today. Here’s how to love it, even if you’re not a slots and Cirque du Soleil sort
What was the Target in Jasper Johns' paintings?
On the artist’s 87th birthday, we look into the hidden meanings in one of his best-known series of works
A Movement in a Moment: The Pre-Raphaelites
On Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s birthday, we look back at the original band of revolting London art students
JR’s mercy mission to Somalia
The artist and activist joins social media-stars Jérôme Jarre and Juanpa Zurita on their aid trip to East Africa
Richard Tuttle's Critical Edge
Richard Tuttle first came to prominence in the 60s with a body of work that used mundane materials such as textile, paper, wire, and rope – materials he still works with today as a curent show of recent work at Pace London reveals
Inside Mark Bradford's US pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Why the LA artist is drawing on classical mythology, Marilyn Monroe and prison reform in his installation
Four ways of looking at Giacometti
Heading to the Tate show? Then here are a few tips for getting the most out of the great man’s art
What to expect from Bruce Nauman in the Tate Turbine Hall
Nauman's 2004 sound piece Raw Materials returns to the Tate next week. Here are some key insights into the work
Ellsworth Kelly’s last paintings meet his early plant art
Here's why the late artist's gallery chose to pair his final abstract works with his earlier botanical drawings
A Phaidon guide to Brad Pitt’s favourite sculptor
Here’s what you need to know about the British-born LA-based artist Thomas Houseago
Andrew Bird and Theaster Gates have written some songs!
The artist has teamed up with the singer to turn his poems into songs - watch them perform together here
When Keith Haring turned a men's room into art
On the anniversary of the artist’s birth, we look back on his site-specific work Once Upon a Time
Giosetta Fioroni on her 2017 Frieze Project
The 60s art voyeur tells us about recreating The Optical Spy in New York - 50 years on from its Rome premiere
Why Frieze NY is all about collaboration this week
From Elmgreen & Dragset to a doom-filled perfume, collaborative art practices are all over the art fair
What was it with Yves Klein and Blue?
On the anniversary of his birth, a look at the artist's preoccupation with the colour blue, courtesy of Chromaphilia
Ai Weiwei and Shepard Fairey give Trump the finger
The artists produce new anti-authoritarian skateboards to mark the first 100 days of the presidency
A Movement in a Moment: Romanticism
On Delacroix's birthday we look at how a literary movement went on to shape European art history
Wilhelm Sasnal has painted Marine Le Pen
As French elections begin, the far right leader appears alongside Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton in new show
How a watchmaker changed Willem de Kooning’s life
We look back at one early encounter that spurred him on to become an artist
What’s JR doing on top of that Louise Bourgeois spider?
The artist and activist, fresh from a Paris opening, heads south to France's leading public art vineyard
Cindy Sherman, Kerry James Marshall in Time's 100
Here’s why the painter and fine art photographer are among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People 2017
A Movement in a Moment: Symbolism
Understand how a poetic movement spurred painters on to express inner truths, not subjective realities
Sarah Sze explains her 2nd Avenue subway art
Here’s why the artist and Phaidon author drew on the Futurists and Constructivists for her NYC commission
5 Artworks you possibly didn't realise were religious
It's Easter - take a brief moment to educate yourself about the unseen messages within these iconic artworks
How to sound smart when talking about Kanye’s collection
Kim Kardashian's husband goes old skool with new line inspired by the Italian Renaissance
How to love, lunch and dream at the Venice Biennale
Here's why the 2017 Venice Art Biennale will be filled with pleasure and leisure (as well as a bit of politics)
Why Frieze is bringing The Moon to New York
The art fair will recreate a seminal 1968 Fabio Mauri lunar installation as part of the 2017 event
How Matisse was inspired by clutter
A new exhibition traces what role the great painter’s possessions played in the creation of his art
A Movement in a Moment: Colour Field Painting
On Kenneth Noland’s birthday we look back at the abstract style that sought to rid art of superfluous rhetoric
Edmund de Waal channels Giorgio Morandi in Stockholm
Though it's not ceramics that unite the two artists but the encouragement of mindful viewing and contemplation
Theaster Gates premieres his Black Monks movie
The artist’s jazz-gospel group stars in a new film, opening at Helsinki's IHME Art Festival this week
How Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels link us to the cosmos
This US artist was born 79 years ago today. Discover how her Sun Tunnels connect us with astronomical events
How a young David Hockney sneaked this guy into Britain
To mark the opening of Queer British Art 1861–1967 we look back at the hunk Hockney painted for his diploma
How JR won over François Hollande
Here’s why the artist, who was once treated like a criminal, was joined by the French president at his opening
Elmgreen & Dragset’s Merman splashes into Warsaw
The copper-green sculpture, He, forms part of a new mermaid themed group exhibition in the city
The pain that fired up Goya but finished off Van Gogh
Both were born on 30 March and both learned to put their inner turmoil into their art - but with very different results
Peter Doig meets Albert Camus in Beijing
New show pairs painter’s best-known pictures with quotes from the French Algerian writer
Hong Kong’s trams turned into camera obscuras
Kingsley Ng’s Art Basel Hong Kong work takes daydreaming on public transport to a new level
A Movement in a Moment: Arte Povera
On Jannis Kounellis’s birthday, we look at the artists who turned low materials into high art
Hayv Kahraman - Why I Paint
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What links Van Dyck, Lenin and Colonel Sanders?
On the Flemish painter's birthday, an aspect of his portraiture that's resounded through the ages
A Phaidon guide to the Fourth Plinth winner
What to say about the Michael Rakowitz sculpture that’s coming to Trafalgar Square soon
Wow! Will Superflex do this to the Tate?
Did you know that Tate Modern’s latest Turbine Hall artists once flooded a McDonald’s?
When Warhol painted Greta Garbo
Ahead of the US sale of Warhol’s Star print, we look into Andy’s fascination with the actress
RIP Trisha Brown, Rauschenberg's dance partner
A look back at Brown's huge influence on Bob, following the choreographer's death on Saturday
Alex Olson - Why I Paint
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What to say when walking round the new Theaster Gates show
Become an instant expert on the artist’s National Gallery exhibition - courtesy of our monograph
When Olafur Eliasson dyed the rivers green
On St Patrick’s Day we look at how a simple green artwork made us look at our cities anew
A Phaidon guide to the Whitney Biennial
Here’s how the artists in one of 2017's most important shows are described in our books
JR dons toy astronaut helmet to battle storm Stella
'En plain air' takes on a whole new meaning as the French artist scales NY water tower
How to get ahead in the art world by Magnus Resch
Serial entrepreneur's new publication offers the most wide-ranging report on today's art galleries
Maria Taniguchi - Why I Paint
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Where is Ai Weiwei showing his new migrant artwork?
The artist is preparing to unveil a monumental new piece inspired by the refugee crisis
Big names turn out for Jimmie Durham opening
Curator of new show ranks Durham among the USA's greatest living sculptors - and she's not alone
What was it with Mark Rothko and Purple?
When he came to make one final spiritual series there was only one colour to pick. . .
Gallery hopping with Stephen Shore
Half a century on from meeting Warhol, the fine-art photographer still knows what’s hot
Howard Hodgkin 1932 - 2017
The British painter and printmaker died this morning in a London hospital
Cindy Sherman behind the mask
Or is she? Celebrating the fine-art photographer on International Women's Day
Christie's sets new record for Wolfgang Tillmans
How the photographer set a new high with a type of work that isn't even a 'proper' photo
Fantastic Man remake Wolfgang's EU posters
The publishers adapt Wolfgang Tillmans's anti-Brexit posters for the Netherlands election
Can you spot the crack in this Michelangelo?
The Taddei Tondo features in the National Gallery's forthcoming show, despite its tiny flaw
How Georgia O'Keeffe's bones link heaven to earth
On the anniversary of her death, we look back at O'Keeffe's near-abstract animal bone paintings
The National Trust recreates a 1930s Gay Club
The Caravan club returns to mark the 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality
What's lurking in Sterling Ruby’s basket?
The artist has filled his ceramics, on show at the Gagosian, with an uneasy set of desires
In Production - Chromaphilia
Senior Editor Diane Fortenberry gives us a sneak peek at a book about to leave our shelves for yours
Why Brazil's street art beats its street parties
It's best known for samba and sequins but its urban landscape is just as vibrant as its carnival
Leidy Churchman does Free Delivery
Well, that’s the title of his first big European retrospective - but what does it refer to?
How Shia LaBeouf can unlock your creativity
The Hollywood actor worked better, and more creatively, in a team. Could you too?
A Movement in a Moment: American Realism
Here’s how Winslow Homer took a French tradition and applied it to the folk of America
A Movement in a Moment: Suprematism
Discover how Soviet artists developed an early form of abstract art, which even found its way on to tea services
How Warhol turned Marilyn Monroe into a star
Following her suicide in 1962 Andy's image of Monroe effectively made his reputation - and revived hers
Is this the most intimate painting of Andy Warhol?
Born this day in 1900, Alice Neel captured Andy after his shooting - just one of her many overlooked masterpieces
How Jagger briefed Warhol
Less is more when it comes to rock covers, or so claims The Rolling Stones singer in his brief to Warhol
3 more anecdotes from Andy Warhol's Factory
Stephen Shore's new book reproduces evocative photos and seamy gossip from the pop artist's mid-sixties milieu
The Andy Warhol gastronomy guide
Author and curator Bob Nickas on Warhol's love of food and his plans to open an 'Andy-Mat'
The Guerrilla Girls recall their 1989 'weenie count'
A short look at the lengths the US collective went to in order to expose male dominance in art
Frieze will plant fake collectors at the NY Fair
Frieze Projects will take a swipe at exhibitionism and voyeurism via art-world doppelgängers
A Message of Love from Wolfgang Tillmans
At the preview of his Tate Modern retrospective this morning the photographer reminded us that 'it's still a positive world and there’s a lot that connects us that we can enjoy together'
Understand Raymond Pettibon in three works
He’s produced thousands of drawings. Here’s how to 'get' them all, by looking at just three
What is it with Gerhard Richter and Grey?
Read why the German master thinks the colour epitomises indifference, fence-sitting - and despair
Violence forces Shia LaBeouf installation to close
Actor and Co-Art collaborator has his live-streaming protest closed following on-site scuffles
Henry Moore inspires the new Burberry collection
The brand collaborates with the Henry Moore Foundation on a new collection and a show
Apple CEO - 'Yes JR, Art CAN change the world!'
Tim Cook hangs out with the French artist and Phaidon author during a flying trip to Paris
Elmgreen & Dragset stage Brexit show
The duo examines post-Brexit Europe in a Mies van der Rohe house
What is it with Anish Kapoor and Red?
Learn why the colour signifies home, earth and motherhood for this remarkable sculptor
The Hague goes De Stijl for centenary celebrations
To mark the abstract art and architecture movement's anniversary The Hague turns its City Hall into a Mondrian
Anish Kapoor gives $1 million to help refugees
The artist’s Genesis Prize money will go to help individuals caught up in the refugee crisis
What was it with Picasso and Blue?
Find out how an early personal tragedy changed the 20th century master’s colour palette
How Elmgreen & Dragset surf the age of the selfie
By working together the artistic duo aim to upset our era of individualism and narcissism
What was it with Ad Reinhardt and Black?
Quite a bit actually. Here's how to spot the subtle undercurrents of red, the nuanced blues and the slightly greenish tinges in the Abstract Expressionist artist's suede-like works - courtesy of new book Chromaphilia
The secret of Warhol’s smiles
The pop artist’s singular love of lips is the focus of a new exhibition on now at New York's Danziger gallery
How Shia LaBeouf and two art school graduates made the definitive Trump protest artwork
Brad Pitt may have warned Shia LaBeouf off the art world but the star has found power in artistic collaboration
What was it with Jean Dubuffet and Brown?
The Art Brut founder would visit flea markets in order to immerse himself in the 'bituminous and soiled brown colours of mankind' - but how did he go about making these colours come to life on the canvas?
Lewis Carroll - Pre-Raphaelite photographer
On his birthday, why we should regard the author’s photos not as cultural curios, but as Victorian artworld artifacts
Christo cancels river project over Trump election
'The federal government is our landlord,' says the artist. 'And I can’t do a project that benefits this landlord.'
Take a look at the private work tools of Pollock, Rauschenberg, Noguchi, Judd, Calder and Albers
Here's how Nicholas Calcott photographed the personal effects of some of the 20th century's most famous artists
The art found down the back of Freud’s couch
Photographers Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin examine the famous psychoanalyst’s sofa in a new show
Women artists get a room at Sadie Coles
London gallery’s new show looks at how a wide array of women artists interpret the domestic space
What's inside The Gallery of Everything?
Founder James Brett on the steady rise of private artists and how he's helping write an entire new art history
How prison made Isamu Noguchi a true modernist
A new exhibition at the Noguchi Museum examines the artist's time as a voluntary prisoner in WWII America
Christie's Strangest Sales – The Oriental Museum
How a bunch of 'heathen curiosities', blackened with boot polish or painted white, ended up in London
Gombrich explains Cézanne
On the anniversary of the artist’s birth, let the great art historian explain how this master moved painting forward
The show that links Gerhard Richter and Etel Adnan
NY's Flag Art Foundation proves the German master has quite a lot in common with a 91-year-old 'emerging' artist
The painter who escaped the School of London
Find out why Michael Andrews' landscapes have broken the £1m mark and landed him a show at the Gagosian
Shepard Fairey’s plan for Trump’s inauguration
The street artist and creator of the Obama HOPE image has some new posters ready for the Jan 20 event
Theaster Gates adds new colour to old data
The US artist moves into poetry and data visualisation for his new LA exhibition at Regen Projects
Josef Albers at Zwirner kicks off 2017 Sunny Side Up
A new show of the Bauhaus legend's yellow squares is the perfect antidote to a grey London January
Peter Marino designs major Mapplethorpe show
Opening in Tokyo in March, Memento Mori will feature more than 90 photographs curated by Marino from his own collection in a space he himself designed. It's the first Japanese show of Robert Mapplethorpe's work in 15 years
A Marina Abramović space odyssey
Ever wondered what an interstellar flight with the world-famous artist might be like? Of course you have!
Screensavers as folk art?
Should we regard these functional, visual loops as valuable artifacts? Yes, says Rotterdam’s Het Nieuwe Instituut
Did you spot JR in the 72nd Street station?
See how Vik Muniz, fellow artist and friend of the French photograffeur, sneaked JR into his NY Subway art
How artist co-ops created NY’s downtown scene
A new show looks at how artist-run galleries helped create an astonishingly varied Sixties art scene
The High Line gets a London-style art plinth
New York’s linear park will soon have its first dedicated public art space, inspired by Trafalgar Square
Nocturnal Animals' hidden art stars
Did you spot the Sterling Ruby, Mark Bradford, John Currin and Alexander Calder works in Tom Ford's new film?
Juan José Cambre - Why I Paint
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Christie's Strangest Sales – Raphael’s Muse
The stakes were high when this sublime Renaissance sketch came up for sale at the venerable auction house
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Ahmed Alsoudani - Why I Paint
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Sarah Sze goes underground in New York
The artist joins Chuck Close, Vik Muniz and Jean Shin to create public works for the city's new subway line
Christie's Strangest Sales - Where Relativity Began
What happened when 54 pages of Einstein's theoretical mathematical processes went under the hammer?
The Art of the Plant – Yayoi Kusama
Find out why the Japanese artist regards her work as a means to heal both herself and mankind
When James Franco spanked Paul McCarthy
The Hollywood actor tells Stephen Colbert how McCarthy helped him drop his pants in public
Yu Hong - Why I Paint
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The Art of the Plant – Emily Dickinson
What did the American poet see in this simple page of pressed flowers?
David Diao - Why I Paint
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Can you see Beirut in Mona Hatoum’s metal blocks?
How the Lebanese artist looked back to her shattered home town via this brutal, evocative steel installation
A Movement in a Moment: Post-Impressionism
Discover why Virginia Woolf pinpointed a 1910 painting exhibition as the starting point for the modern life
Rose Wylie - Why I Paint
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Robert De Niro’s favourite new painter
Find out more about the New York painter RH Quaytman, winner of the 2016 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize
Genieve Figgis - Why I Paint
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The Art of the Plant – Leonardo da Vinci
Artist or scientist? Discover why da Vinci's botanical drawings lie at the very heart of this Renaissance Man's work
Unveiling the New York City AIDS Memorial
Jenny Holzer and Studio ai collaborate on a monument to those who died and those who continue to fight AIDS
Helen Johnson - Why I Paint
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Olafur Eliasson turns to ice (again)
The artist and activist has put his Greenland icebergs to work - this time to create a new Berlin show
Christie's Strangest Sales - Hercules and the Duke
The auction that signalled a turning point in the high esteem in which the British Royal Family were once held
Ryan Mosley - Why I Paint
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The dirty politics in Mona Hatoum’s Cube
This Lebanese-born artist took US minimalism and added in a heavy subtext, as this book explains
The meanings in Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram
Sexual metaphor or a religious offering? Here’s how to examine one of the key pieces in the Tate’s new show
Valentina D'Amaro - Why I Paint
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The Art of the Plant – Vincent van Gogh
Though better known for his Sunflowers, the artist drew this Hyacinth during his struggle with mental illness
80-year-old Ingeborg Lüscher – Art needs courage
The artist on life with Harald Szeemann, how the Prague Spring changed her, and what young artists should do
A few of Sarah Sze's favourite things
A Vermeer, a Japanese shrine, Rauschenberg's bed - and toilet paper - are among the artist's most-loved objects
Music to watch Agnes Martin to
The New York contemporary composer John Zorn sets the artist's abstract work to music at the Guggenheim
Christie's Strangest Sales – the Hand of God
How two Polish politicians' protests actually pushed up the price of this Maurizio Cattelan work
Happy 85th birthday Tomi Ungerer!
Eric Carle, Jean Julien, Milton Glaser, Oliver Jeffers and Stefan Sagmeister all pay tribute to the 85-year-old author
Julia Rommel - Why I Paint
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A Vitamin P3 guide to Art Basel Miami Beach
Want to understand what's on display at next month’s art fair? Then get our new painting survey Vitamin P3
Cui Jie - Why I Paint
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The Art of the Plant – Rob Kesseler
This hand-coloured electron microscope scan shows how beautiful tiny pieces of the natural world can be
Christie's Strangest Sales – The Lady in Disguise
Discover the tragic tale behind one of Christie's earliest consignors, courtesy of our new book Going Once
How Monica Bonvicini put the sex into construction
The artist's first UK retrospective demonstrates how this Italian artist finds erotic charge within the built environment
Corey Lee is Eater’s Chef of the Year 2016!
Discover how, by perfecting other chef’s dishes, the chef and Phaidon author became “unstoppable”
Can you guess what this new Pentagram logo is for?
Paula Scher turns pictures into words in this new identity for a Canadian healthcare charity
Take a look at Paul McCarthy's tortured dwarves
Artist's latest show demonstrates just how he can't leave these pop-cultural obsessions alone
Dive into Doug Aitken’s Underwater Pavilions
Discover why the Californian artist's latest installation lies under the waves 22 miles off LA's coastline
Caragh Thuring - Why I Paint
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Bob Nickas on his genre-busting new painting show
Are the pictures in Nickas’s exhibition figurative? Are they abstract? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’ and also ‘maybe’
The Art of the Plant – Marc Quinn
Best known for Self - a cast of his blood-filled head, the sculptor has also found inspiration in the natural world
Elizabeth McIntosh - Why I Paint
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Christie's Strangest Sales – Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels
Discover how the actress acquired a $140 million collection, thanks to her ping-pong skills, among other talents
Gerhard Richter says art is the highest form of hope
In a rare new interview the painter reasserts the solace and comfort that fine art can offer humanity
The Art of the Plant – Piet Mondrian
The abstract painter is best known for his De Stijl works, yet he found early inspiration in the natural world
How Nigel Cooke has a blast in the studio
How loud music and an abundance of enthusiasm led to a life model being covered in emulsion paint
When Mona Hatoum videoed a private moment
To pee or not to pee? The artist recalls inviting visitors to a gallery toilet to make an alarming choice
Patrizio di Massimo - Why I Paint
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A first look at Nan Goldin's drawings
Discover the deeply personal origins of the photographer's drawings on show for the first time
Christie's Strangest Sales – A salvaged £3m Spitfire
How a downed WWII fighter was saved from the coastal sands and went on to achieve seven figures at auction
Anselm Kiefer goes to Viking heaven
The German artist wrestles with Norse mythology, identity and recent history in forthcoming London show
A Movement in a Moment: Cobra
How the first truly international post-war avant-garde movement was founded on this day 8 November in 1948
The Art of the Plant – Edward Steichen
Great images by artists and photographers who've been inspired by our natural world
The fine art posters that fired a revolution
A new exhibition looks back at the home made stencilled posters that bolstered the Bolsheviks
Why Josef Albers’ squares began in black and white
David Zwirner’s current Josef Albers exhibition shows the monochromatic side of the great artist and colour theorist
Celia Hempton - Why I Paint
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The Art of the Plant – Thomas Ruff
More great images by artists and photographers who've been inspired by flora
Virgilio and André Chiang hit the night market
The great Peruvian chef met up with his Asian counterpart for street-food fun on his haute cuisine world tour
The Art of the Plant – Irving Penn
In a series of excerpts from Plant: Exploring the Botanical World we look at artists inspired by flora
Leidy Churchman - Why I Paint
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The Art of the Plant – Ellsworth Kelly
In a series of excerpts from Plant: Exploring the Botanical World we look at artists inspired by flora
Nigel Cooke on the sanctity of Bacon's studio
For Cooke, the relocation of Frances Bacon's studio both monumentalised and violated his creative space
Sandra Gamarra - Why I Paint
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The story behind Sterling Ruby's Stoves
Art, craft, or something else unprecedented? Read how the artist collapsed the wall between art and non art
Aliza Nisenbaum - Why I Paint
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Christie's Strangest Sales - A Rembrandt Rumpus
How one buyer's complicated bidding signals backfired badly when a Rembrandt was auctioned at Christie's
Marwan 1934 - 2016
We look back at the work of a veteran Syrian painter whose work many were only just beginning to appreciate
Daniel Boyd - Why I Paint
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The dark heart of Nigel Cooke’s Bathers
Discover how this lush, lewd painting by the UK artist examines the ultimate mystery that lies at the centre of his art
When Picasso met René Burri
On the anniversary of Picasso's birth, we take a look at a momentous meeting of two impressive talents
Andy Warhol’s body of art
The Andy Warhol Museum’s new show looks at how the artist examined his body and others in a series of works
Laura Lancaster - Why I Paint
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Danny Lyon and the New Journalism
A new exhibition shows why we should view the photographer’s 20th century shots as faithful first drafts of history
Oscar Murillo - Why I Paint
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Watch Pharrell kiss Agnès Varda in JR's new film
The artist introduced francophone audiences to a few of his famous pals in a new Canal + video, Carte Blanche
Massimo and Kerry James Marshall are NYT Greats
The chef and the painter join William Eggleston, Lady Gaga, Junya Watanabe and Michelle Obama on Greats List
Phaidon authors dominate ArtReview's Power 100
From Ai Weiwei to Yayoi Kusama, Hans Ulrich Obrist to Isa Genzken, Phaidon folk feature highly in this year's list
Madame Tussauds is building a Yayoi Kusama zone
A replica of the Japanese artist will go on display inside a polka-dot themed room in the Hong Kong branch
Rafael Vega - Why I Paint
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The story behind Sterling Ruby's Super Max
With typical sleight of hand Ruby uses minimalism and landscape while at the same time critiquing them
Alex Katz is designing an H&M collection
The artist is offering his images on womenswear, menswear, accessories, and home décor this Christmas
Ulrike Müller - Why I Paint
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Zbigniew Rogalski - Why I Paint
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Dad lost his £3m Warhol work? Then make a movie
Lisanne Skyler’s new film Brillo Box (3¢ Off) traces her dad's pop art bargain from the streets of NY to Christie's
Why Obama just visited Theaster Gates' arts centre
The President came to the Stony Island Arts Bank to help a local politician, and warn against bad election choices
Christine Streuli - Why I Paint
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Meet Tomi Ungerer (and his lost classics)
The author is coming to London next month to discuss his life and work. Find out how you can get tickets
Why the Queen just gave Martin Parr a bronze acorn
The photographer was honoured alongside Iwona Blazwick and Cornelia Parker at the Royal Academy yesterday
An art lesson from 'new' painter Etel Adnan (91)
An Artspace interview with the Vitamin P3 featured artist on how art feeds our spirit and humanises us
Why does Cai Guo-Qiang like blowing things up?
A new Netflix documentary, premiering this Friday, examines the Chinese artist and his love of explosives
Bartek Materka - Why I Paint
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The dumb film behind Shepard Fairey's new print
The OBEY and HOPE artist draws from Mike Judge’s lost classic, Idiocracy, when drawing up this political work
Vitamin P2 artist Adrian Ghenie breaks sale records
His 2008 work Nickelodeon went for over 4 times its estimate last night. Is it time you looked at Vitamin P3?
Meleko Mokgosi - Why I Paint
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The hidden poetry in Edmund de Waal’s Frieze show
The artist and Phaidon author talks us through his new works which occupy all of the Gagosian stand at Frieze
The story behind that pink table at Frieze
Artist Portia Munson tells us how her love of pink led to this feminist work, which is proving to be a hit at Frieze
Jamian Juliano-Villani - Why I Paint
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A Movement in a Moment: The Harlem Renaissance
Discover how a group of artists in early 20th century Manhattan used art to forge a new African-American identity
5 things that could only happen at Frieze
Look out for Julie Verhoeven's fine-art lavatory intervention, chimps, puppets and Donald Trump in psychoanalysis
Dexter Dalwood - Why I Paint
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Louisa Gagliardi - Why I Paint
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Sascha Braunig - Why I Paint
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Why is Johnny Depp hiding his art collection?
Which works occupy these obscured frames in Depp’s LA home, currently on the market for $12.78m?
From Book to Bid – Agnes Martin’s Praise
At auction at Christie's, this deceptively simple grid-like work from 1985 describes a simple, meditative beauty
Sarah Cain - Why I Paint
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Zach Harris - Why I Paint
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Ai Weiwei and Edmund de Waal’s ceramics show
The artists and ceramicists hope their new show will re-establish the medium's rightful place within fine art
The truth about Sterling Ruby's electric chair
The artist explains why he remade an execution tool and why he associates it with movies and Modernism
Anna Ostoya - Why I Paint
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Jack Whitten - Why I Paint
An interview with the late American painter and contributor to our contemporary painting survey, Vitamin P3
How Nigel Cooke pushes painting to its limits
The painter's smoldering new exhibition shows how he switched gallows humour for a sensual take on the form
A Movement in a Moment: Abstract Expressionism
As the Royal Academy show opens, we look back at the New Yorkers who remade painting for post-war America
How Richard Attenborough bagged $2m in Picassos
Ahead of its Sotheby's sale, discover how the actor director put together a highly valuable ceramics collection
This is why Owen Wilson loves Ed Ruscha's work
The Hollywood star reveals his love for the LA pop artist in his voiceover for this new mini documentary
Why Jared Leto wants to play Andy Warhol
A clue to the Hollywood star's casting as Andy lies in a 2013 interview wherein he quotes the Pope of Pop
When Warhol painted the Hammer and Sickle
Did a working trip to Seventies Italy change Andy's political outlook?
Mecanoo’s wooden station is on track
The Dutch architects’ Veluwe National Park train station employs a suitably sylvan building material
Why Cindy Sherman has just won a painting prize
The US fine-art photographer will be 2016's recipient of Japan's Praemium Imperiale prize in the painting category
A Movement in a Moment: Institutional Critique
Discover how artists developed a new mode of expression - by criticising public art institutions
What happened when Sarah Sze was censored
By changing one of her apolitical pieces the Chinese Government inspired Sze to create a more critical work
Sterling Ruby is signing his new book in Berlin
Want your Phaidon book inscribed by the artist? Then get over to his new show in the German capital
The Gagosian is opening a tattoo parlour
Come to the Gagosian's NY Art Book Fair stand and get inked with works by the gallery's artists
Shrigley goes shopping in New York
The British artist's new Manhattan public artwork pairs a permanent medium with a throwaway message
Strap yourself in for Doug Aitken's LA retrospective
MOCA is about to show seven of the artist's immersive video works as part of a new two-decade career survey
A Phaidon guide to Asia Week New York
From ancient Chinese ceramics to Afghani video art here's what to say about this month's string of shows
A Movement in a Moment: Futurism
Discover how, thanks to an early car accident, Italian artists taught us all to love the machine age
Dare you enter Pedro Reyes' horror house?
Following his fine-art psychiatric clinic the Mexican artist creates a political haunted house for Halloween 2016
Dumas, Tillmans and Ai Weiwei go to jail
The artists join Steve McQueen and Patti Smith in an exhibition focussing on Oscar Wilde's time in Reading prison
High Line architects create volcano-style resort
Diller Scofidio + Renfro beat Foster + Partners in a competition to design a new international resort in China
Why Danh Vo is still possessed by The Exorcist
Discover how a childhood screening of this horror film still inspires the Vietnamese artist over three decades later
Peter Doig absolutely did not paint this picture!
Why did a retired prison officer sue the artist and claim that he'd sold him a painting while in jail in the 70s?
Yoko Ono honours Ai Weiwei, Kapoor and Eliasson
The Fluxus artist and activist has chosen to honour all three with this year's Lennon Ono Grant for Peace
Yayoi Kusama turns the Glass House dotty
Discover why the Japanese artist's works are filling Philip Johnson's Glass House and grounds
When Wolfgang Tillmans shot Concorde
Discover how the German photographer extended his artistic practice by watching South London’s skies
Theaster Gates, a gazebo and Black Lives Matter
The Chicago artist hopes to bring the public structure at the heart of a police killing to his Stony Island Arts Bank
What Ed Ruscha sees in the Wild West
San Francisco’s de Young museum looks at the artist’s relationship with the Great American West
Luc Tuymans themes his new show around glasses
The Belgian artist draws together a surprising array of specs-wearing subjects in his new portrait exhibition
JR's incredible new Olympics art revealed!
The French artist has pioneered an entirely new technique to bring images of lesser-known athletes to the games
A Movement in a Moment: School of London
Discover how a group of painters working in the British capital during the late 20th century kept figurative art alive
Mark Wallinger gets reflective at the Freud Museum
New works by the Turner Prize winner, installed to mark the 160th anniversary of Freud's birth, dwell on selfhood
Read curator Cecilia Alemani’s High Line highlights
The High Line curator just toured the linear park's current art installation Wanderlust - here's what she liked
Is it time to catch Ed Ruscha's tropical fish?
Discover the tricksy photography and artful wordplay behind this early series of Ruscha colour prints
What is JR creating for the Rio Olympics?
The French artist says this work, part of his ongoing Inside Out project, will be his craziest yet!
Stuart Davis – Proto Pop artist or Modernist master?
Or perhaps even a Cubist as William C Agee, the author of Modern Art in America 1908–68, argues . . .
Oh Maurizio! What have you done in Paris?
Cheeky artist Maurizio Cattelan fills Galeries Lafayette with an inflatable and rather suggestive Eiffel Tower
Tracey Emin and David Shrigley celebrate Rio 2016
The artists have contributed to the official Team GB Rio Olympics print series, produced to mark the Games
Private Ellsworth Kelly collection comes to Berlin
A new Berlin show indicates a growing appreciation for Kelly's work in the continent where he first honed his style
Boltanski's bells and heartbeats come to Edinburgh
The 71-year-old French artist will install a trio of beautiful, spooky artworks in Scotland later this month
Ai Weiwei floats life-vest lotus flowers in Vienna
The artist’s work F-Lotus brings the Mediterranean migrant crisis to the still waters of a Viennese lake
How Judy Chicago made a feminist masterpiece
By reworking Christ's Last Supper Chicago made The Dinner Party, a huge, intricate attempt to redress history
Why did Warhol, Mapplethorpe, Hockney and Ruscha all create portraits of this LA writer?
New California show Rendering Homage: Portraits of a Patron draws from Joan Agajanian Quinn's collection
Theaster Gates throws a fine-art house party
For his Canadian debut, the Chicago artist is creating a series of house museums (and booking a house DJ)
The power of Piero Manzoni and his Merda d'Artista
In canning his own excrement, Manzoni created fertile ground for a subsequent generation of like-minded artists
How Lucas Samaras manipulated the Polaroid age
Lucas Samaras pushed film beyond its limits, opening new creative opportunities, but Polaroid did not approve
How to stare at the sun from The High Line safely!
Artist Eduardo Navarro's latest project, We who spin around you, allows you to do just that for 3 days next week
Robert De Niro takes JR for a spin round New York!
The native New Yorker and star of JR’s Ellis film helps the artist with latest iteration of his Migrants project
Have you heard Wolfgang Tillmans’ house record?
The five-track record includes work from the 1980s and a track sampling his favourite printing press!
Would you let Vito Acconci follow you home?
The new MoMA PS1 exhibition looks back at some of the New York artist's most challenging early works
A movement in a Moment: The Mexican Renaissance
On Frida Kahlo’s birthday, discover how she and her fellow Mexican artists redefined their nation through their work
Ralph Rugoff's brutal music mash-up
The Hayward director and Paul McCarthy author talks us through his new audio visual show in a brutalist building
Sex, Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe
The photographer helped launch her career, yet he also pushed one very specific interpretation of her paintings
When Bacon went to Monaco
A new exhibition looks at how the high life on the Mediterranean informed Francis Bacon’s greatest artworks
The new $1 million Ellsworth Kelly award
Kelly's foundation has passed on $1m to fund an annual award for a mid-career artist’s museum exhibition
When Warhol painted Uncle Sam
This Fourth of July discover how, in his Uncle Sam silk screen, Andy Warhol captured some deep American truths
Make time today to watch this Wilhelm Sasnal film
Online art film streaming service Vdrome is screening the painter's film Aleksander for a limited period
It's horse v dolphin in new Francesco Bonami show
The acclaimed curator and Phaidon author talks us through Melodrama, his new, oppositional two-part exhibition
Why Frieze is remaking this Wolfgang Tillmans show
The London fair will re-stage the photographer's first exhibition, held in Cologne in '93, as part of its new 90s section
Theaster Gates installs hardware store in Prada
New project True Value takes place across Milan in what curator describes as 'a call to arms'
David LaChapelle is selling Keith Haring’s last painting - because he can’t display it properly
'A dark living room is no place for a masterpiece' he says as he consigns The Last Rainforest to Sotheby's
Sterling Ruby at the Ronald Reagan library
The US punk-skater-turned-artist talks art and politics at Ronnie's memorial library in California tonight
Raymond Pettibon goes back to the Steam Age
Our Contemporary Artist Series star now lives on the East Coast but there’s a Californian aspect to his new show
Jenny Holzer goes to Ibiza
The US artist has etched a series of smart literary quotes onto rocks and cliffs along the clubbing island’s coastline
10 'Euro things' that will always be near and dear
Whether or not Britain votes to leave or stay in the EU these continental cultural niceties will prevail
Raf Simons creates Robert Mapplethorpe collection
Belgian fashion designer collaborates with photographer's estate for Spring 2017 men's collection
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Silent landscapes, geometric illusions and abstracted textures abound in beautifully manipulated photo
A Movement in a Moment: Postmodernism
Discover how a group of late 20th Century artists undermined fast-held beliefs about meaning and authorship
Marc Jacobs pays homage to Robert Mapplethorpe
Can you detect the late photographer's influence in Marc Jacobs' androgynous Fall 2016 campaign?
From Book to Bid – Paul McCarthy’s Mechanical Pig
At auction at Christie's, this animal sees McCarthy flirting with Disney, Willy Wonka and The Raft of the Medusa
From Book to Bid – Andy Warhol’s Two Dollar Bills
It wasn’t Marilyn Andy silkscreened first but these dollar bills – they're at auction this month for a cool £6m
Christie's marks 30 years in Hong Kong
The Asian arm of the world’s leading auction house celebrated its coming of age with a dedicated art sale
Paul McCarthy's Tomato Head just sold at Art Basel
A Mr Potato Head for adults? Read Ralph Rugoff on this seminal work by our Contemporary Artist Series artist
Why this Tillmans shot is being shared after Orlando
Find out why Wolfgang Tillmans' photo from a London club is being posted in defiance following the Orlando killings
Meet Sarah Sze’s incredible, extended social circle
Pulitzer prize winning husband? Tick! Author Zadie Smith and poet Nick Laird as dinner guests? Tick! China’s ambassador to the United States as ancestral forebear? Tick! Isn't it time you got to know her better?
Arne Glimcher talks Louise Nevelson at Pace
'She wanted the shadows cast to have the same power as the objects casting the shadow' he says
Watch out for this guy (and his limo) at Art Basel
A hippy commune, Warhol's dirty drawings and imaginary modernist sculpture also on the menu at this year's fair
A first look at The Floating Piers by Christo
The veteran environmental artist's new Italian project opens in 10 days time and it's all looking pretty good so far
An Alex Katz guide to great painters
The artist's thoughts on peers and forebears, from Fra Angelico to Georges Seurat, Peter Doig and Francis Bacon
A first look at Olafur Eliasson's Versailles
The creator of the Little Sun takes on the Sun King, with an installation of clouds, mirrors and waterfalls
How a 91-year-old lecturer became a 2016 art star
Etel Adnan's new show at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery shows the fruits of a varied life, lived to the full
A Movement in a Moment: Land Art
Discover how a generation of artists swapped pencils for dumper trucks as they made the world their canvas
Alex Katz on his new Serpentine show
We join the painter at The Serpentine Gallery for a guided tour of what he says might be his best show yet
What happened at JR’s Louvre takeover
An all-night concert and a Greco-Roman breakfast both featured in the artist’s 24-hour Parisian extravaganza
What's Peter Saville done to the new Tate Modern?
Legendary graphic designer has colour coded and animated Herzog & de Meuron's latest addition
The fascinating tale of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
Photographed by Alfred Stieglitz, urinated on by Brian Eno, sometimes cited as the work of a German baroness, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain was arguably the first ever piece of conceptual art and harbours a fascinating backstory
Wolfgang Tillmans takes to the roof in Mexican show
The fine-art photographer inaugurates a Mexico City billboard space with a massive new text and photo work
Arcade Fire jump in the water with JR in Paris
The French artist just called on two of his rock-star friends to help inaugurate his new Louvre installation
A quick look at the new Yayoi Kusama show
Curator Marie Laurberg runs us through the work at Victoria Miro and how it relates to the artist's history
What's Olafur Eliasson got planned for Versailles?
Fog waterfalls and a disorientating arrangement of mirrors all form part of the artist’s summer installation
Watch JR disappear the Louvre’s pyramid
The artist’s show may not open until next week, yet Instagrammers are already watching one work take shape
Christian Marclay's animated street photography
Discover how the maker of The Clock has turned London’s pavement rubbish into an engaging set of video works
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braxas ventriloquists animal fetishists is a collaboration between the artist duo and the Tom of Finland estate
Chris Martin paints Amy Winehouse
Find out why the American painter themed his current exhibition around the British singer’s untimely death
What Stephen Shore sees in Anselm Kiefer
Photographer Instagrams Kiefer's Operation Sea Lion painting, a sarcastic comment on a Nazi UK invasion plan
Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory explained
Find out how the Spanish Surrealist went from penniless painter to toast of the NYC artworld in one single canvas
A Movement in a Moment: Photorealism
Find out how, in the mid-20th century, a group of painters stopped worrying and learned to love the camera
Why was this 70s concept car such a hit at Frieze?
Turner Prize shortlisted atist Anthea Hamilton’s Mario Bellini homage was a welcome touch of hippy nostalgia
One thing not to miss in New York
The New Museum, NYC's peerless art institution, is the top pick from our Wallpaper* City Guide this Frieze Week
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Her Double Exposure photograph steers clear of narcissism but is full of compelling contradictions
A Movement in a Moment: German Expressionism
Find out how, a little over a century ago, a group of young artists put personal experience into painting
5 reasons why Paul McCarthy is not just about icky
Put off by the nudity and ketchup? Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff on what to really look for in a great artist's work
The search for Edward Hopper's Nighthawks diner
It’s the most famous corner in American art history, parodied by Banksy and the Simpsons, but where was it?
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Her Images in Debris print is a great way to add this important contemporary artist to your collection
3 cool Mona Hatoum works in the new Tate show
Clarrie Wallis, curator of Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern, talks us through 3 pieces in the new retrospective
Is Maurizio Cattelan bringing a donkey to Frieze NY?
The Italian artist plans to reprise one of his most famous installation works - but just how will he do it?
Have you seen Jordan Wolfson's new animatronic?
Why does the artist’s latest sculpture look a lot like Alfred E. Neuman, MAD magazine’s infuriating mascot?
How Paul McCarthy befriended Bobby Fischer
McCarthy reveals benign figure staring through the window at his 1974 artwork was the troubled chess champion
3 tips for Frieze NY - chosen by Frieze NY
Pack light, don’t miss the new galleries and do check out the sci-fi costume play house-music ballet!
How Paul McCarthy turned action painting obscene
Find out how the artist changed the heroic gestures of Pollock and co. into an abject critique of 20th Century USA
Is the new Beyoncé video a tribute to Pipilotti Rist?
The singer's brilliant new video for Hold Up bears some striking similarities to Rist's equally great 1997 work
A Phaidon guide to the Royal Collection
On Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday, we take a look through her art collection, from Rembrandts to war photos
Is Kerry James Marshall about to take on Star Wars?
The celebrated US artist says he wants to see his Rythm Mastr comic book turned into a feature film
Wolfgang Tillmans takes over the Tate
He'll get a solo show at Tate Modern in 2017 and will also take over the South Tank. So what can we expect?
A Movement in a Moment: Conceptual Art
Find out how a group of 1960s artists stripped art down to nothing in a kind of Modernist nervous breakdown
Get to know the US artist for the 2017 Biennale
Find out why Mark Bradford's abstract works are rooted in the real world, via our contemporary art title Vitamin P2
JR creates a new world for kids in his hometown
The artist’s Vous êtes ici exhibition at the Centre Pompidou offers a high tech 'model village' of his work
The Art of the Map - Leonardo da Vinci
On his birth anniversary learn why he crafted this stealthy city map for one of Europe's most violent rulers
Elmgreen & Dragset turn a pool into Van Gogh's Ear
What does this swimming pool readymade say about the difference between Van Gogh's time and our own?
Asako Iwama on the 'small universe' of the body
Artist Asako Iwama cooked at Studio Olafur Eliasson for a decade - this is what she learned along the way
How Peggy Guggenheim made Jackson Pollock
As Pollock's mural for Peggy heads to London we look at how it ushered him into the ranks of the avant-garde
Can you spot Noma on Olafur Eliasson's shelfie?
Hands up who spotted this picture in our new book Studio Olafur Eliasson The Kitchen
Why Sarah Sze’s words are as intricate as her art
Intrigued? Then come to the New York Public Library to hear the artist in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
5 Phaidon artists - 5 great Robert Storr lines on them
As the author/ curator is made Officer of France's Order of Arts and Letters we pick out some of his best writing
Why did Oscar Murillo destroy his UK passport?
Did the artist really flush his passport down an aircraft toilet mid-flight in an attempt to shake off western identity?
The artwork that got JR arrested
These faces were only revealed as the block was torn down - here's how JR did it and what happened next
How a horrific childhood accident led Chris Burden to employ extreme personal danger in his artworks
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In his Double Motorcyclists and Landscape piece the grainy image of the bikers contrasts with the Icelandic wild
Cindy Sherman's hooked to the silver screen
The artist’s new exhibition, opening in May, draws inspiration from Hollywood publicity stills of the 1920s
What lies behind Jeff Wall's Door?
How to get a grip on, and to buy a limited-edition print of, a quintessential work by one of today's greatest artists
How Raphael won his place within the Renaissance
On the anniversary of his birth, and death, read how his easygoing nature helped him secure a place in art history
How our Botticelli writer snubbed Mussolini
Lionello Venturi was forced to leave Italy after refusing to sign allegiance to Il Duce - here's what he did next
Richard Serra on Ellsworth Kelly
The great artist remembers being blown away when he saw Kelly's Colors for a Large Wall the first time
Take a look at the Smithsonian's incredible collection
126 million wonderful artefacts, most of which have been kept from public view - until now
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The Berlin artist's 2005 work Gosprom is today's highly prized piece of art available from Artspace
Sarah Sze and Paul McCarthy return to the 90s
The Phaidon artists join Christian Marclay, Do-Ho Suh and others in Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA
How a Phaidon book made Van Gogh's reputation
On his birth anniversary, how a monograph changed his standing - from inspired illustrator to master painter
A Movement in a Moment: Surrealism
How sex, war and psychology gave rise to one of art's longest-lived and most influential movements
Warhol on Mapplethorpe
Warhol confidant Bob Colacello recalls Andy's reaction to his friendship with the late, great photographer
Look who visited Phaidon X The Met Bookstore!
Edmund de Waal was browsing the books (including his own signed edition) when we bumped into him this week
Warhol's Shoes go for twice the price at Sotheby's
And this is how those infamous shoe drawings helped him on his first steps to becoming a world renowned artist
Olafur Eliasson gives a Green Light to refugees
Find out how the artist's Viennese project helps new arrivals settle in, and create some beautiful lamps too
Did Yayoi Kusama conduct the first gay wedding?
The artist, born on this day, 22 March, certainly made that claim - here's how she mixed protest and polka dots
Is this Francis Bacon painting an all time great?
Find out why a Sotheby's specialist says it's 'number one of all the paintings I’ve handled in my career'
Olafur Eliasson shows Ryan Gander the art of lunch
The Berlin-based artist explains to Gander and BBC TV viewers how cookery helps make him creative
Phaidon x The Met Bookstore is open!
Today we open our latest pop-up store at The Met Breuer - the Met's new modern and contemporary art space
Anish Kapoor comes out of the dark into the light
He's just bought the rights to the darkest black in the world - now he's moved into the lightest studio in the world
Phaidon’s new pop up shop opens tonight
We’ve buddied up with the Koppel Project to open our own retail space inside this new contemporary art gallery
Remember this? We've a book by the guy who did it
Jean Jullien, the illustrator behind the Peace for Paris design, has created a playful new title, This is Not A Book
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This limited edition sculpture from the great artist's Money Creates Taste series could be yours this weekend
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
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!
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
On International Women's Day meet Sarah!
Learn how the New York artist Sarah Sze choreographs her fabulous, constellation-like installations
Wilhelm Sasnal on migrants, movies and The Cure
The Polish painter and filmmaker describes how pop, existentialism and politics informed his new exhibition
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
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
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
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
Gombrich Explains Renoir
On the French Impressionist’s birthday a look at why his paintings have divided art lovers for over a century
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
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
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
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
Saving Noguchi’s dance sets
To mark its 90th anniversary, the Martha Graham Company is restoring the Modernist sculptor's stage sets
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
Remaking the Dadaglobe
How did one art historian reassemble this lost Dada compendium, 95 years after it was supposed to be published?
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 romantic world of Paul McCarthy
On Valentine's Day a conversation about beauty and truth with an artist always ready and willing to surprise. . .
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'
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
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
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
How Gerhard Richter reinvented painting
On the German artist's birthday we look at how he changed both figurative and abstract painting
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
What Andy Warhol saw in Joseph Beuys
A new exhibition of Andy's works focuses on his enduring respect for his German 'counterpart'
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?
What's Cara Delevingne been doing with JR?
Look who our favourite contemporary French artist has been hanging out with in Paris this month
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
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The Sunlight of the spirit is the Warmth of Love is the perfect Valentine's Day gift for a loved one
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
The serious silliness of Fischli and Weiss
Ahead of their Guggenhei