When KAWS art-bombed phone booths and billboards
Our new book explains how the artist’s subversive advertising interventions helped introduce him to the wider world

Yayoi Kusama’s new show bursts into life at The New York Botanical Garden
The New York institution displays new works exploring one of the artist’s life-long obsessions - flowers!

Homer Simpson, KAWS and the cartoon mind
An early trip to Japan led the artist to reassess and reintegrate American cartoon culture into his practice

‘I’ve never done a black painting as a print before and they’re such an important body of work for me.’ Cecily Brown on her debut Phaidon/ Artspace edition

Google marks The Met’s birthday with a Doodle
The search engine celebrates The museum’s birthday with a homepage illustration

Introducing Don Marron: Chronicle of Collecting
Phaidon is proud to publish a momentous volume exploring and celebrating the renowned art collection of financier, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Don Marron

'Drawing should be a strain' Christina Quarles tells W Magazine
The Vitamin D3 artist describes her early tuition, her racial identity and her love of ambiguity

Make this Easter an art-filled one with Thomas Demand and Open Studio
The German artist likes to get creative with eggs. Here’s how he does it, and how you can do it too

All you need to know about How To Become A Successful Artist
In his new book the acclaimed art economist Magnus Resch guides fine artists towards their fortunes

Catherine Opie and Friends
Can the fine art photographer’s dignified images of her friends help people become more empathetic?

JR opens up Italian art to all - despite the lockdown
The artist's startling new collaboration with Palazzo Strozzi in Florence raises serious questions about access to the arts in an age of Covid

How Jannis Kounellis and 12 horses made an Arte Povera masterpiece
On the 85th anniversary of the artist's birth, we look back at his most famous work, and how it embodies all the great contradictions in his art

'An artist and a citizen'– Glenn Ligon on Okwui Enwezor and Grief and Grievance
Vintage footage of Enwezor is shown alongside a new interview with his fellow curator in a PBS report on the New Museum show

Deanna Petherbridge - Why I Draw
This Vitamin D3-featured artist uses pen, ink and her internal moral compass to create her detailed images of urban landscapes characterized by vertiginous perspective and dramatic shifts in scale

Nick Kennedy - Why I Draw
This innovative artist removes human gesture from his drawings, relying instead on machines that recall and parody scientific processes

Ten takeaways from our JR preview
The artist and activist describes how Banksy gave him his big break, why he fibbed about his age, and how his new book How Old Am I? came about

Kyle Thurman - Why I Draw
Careers advisers suggested this American artist should become a soldier or an athlete. In response, he worked those roles into drawings of normative masculinity

All you need to know about Jim Hodges
Get to know this important and deeply humane American contemporary artist in the pages of our new book

All you need to know about KAWS: WHAT PARTY
Our monograph on KAWS, one of the most sought-after artists and creative forces of our time, is the most comprehensive ever and is published in four different colour covers

'Remarkable in its quality, force and concision' - the press praises Grief and Grievance
The New York Times and Washington Post laud the New Museum’s brilliant exhibition on black grief and white grievance

Minjung Kim - Why I Draw
This contemplative Korean artist draws on experimental French literature and requires silence and nature when working on her detailed drawings

Miriam de Búrca - Why I Draw
This Vitamin D3 artist describes her peripatetic childhood, her need for solitude and why she thinks drawing is often like pushing a tractor up a hill

Charmaine Watkiss - Why I Draw
This brilliant British artist channels personal history in her beautiful, narrative works

Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings - Why We Draw
What's the one thing these Vitamin D3 artists can't get enough of? Each other. But exercise, travel and dedication also help them create their art

Martin Wilner - Why I Draw
The artist and psychiatrist on the link between drawing as an artist and a child, and why one of the oldest forms of expression is the perfect antidote to our present moment

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