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
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
Toby Mott on the punk poster every collector wants
Punk graphics archivist and Phaidon author shares another highlight from his new book in this short video
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
Patricia Urquiola’s spiritual stainless steel collection
The Spanish designer’s new collection for Georg Jensen makes this simple material look remarkably luxurious
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
Toby Mott talks us through his punk archive
Discover the impromptu ways Mott came by his peerless collection of punk graphic design collection in this video
COS brings its Agnes Martin line to the high street
The minimalist Swedish retailer has launched a capsule collection in honour of Agnes Martin’s Guggenheim show
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
Steven Holl autographs his new Queens library!
Architect joins community leaders at the topping out ceremony for Hunters Point Community Library, NY
Bartek Materka - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
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
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
A kiln-style museum for porcelain's ancient home
The history of porcelain will be told in this extraordinary fired-earth structure destined for north-eastern China
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
Toby Mott launches Punk In Print at John Varvatos
Punk graphics archivist teams up with John Varvatos, Phaidon and Artspace for launch party and exhibition
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
Could Atlanta build a High Line over this highway?
City planners hope to bring this linear park to a newly built space above a busy city freeway
Jamian Juliano-Villani - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
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
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
How Sasha Petraske reinvented the speakeasy
Our new book by the barman sheds light on how the native New Yorker changed the way we drink
Take a listen to Toby Mott's punk playlist on Spotify
Oh So Pretty Punk In Print author and graphic archivist talks us through 15 songs that embody the punk spirit
Louisa Gagliardi - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
Could we shrink, curve or sink NYC's Bus Terminal?
We all know the Port Authority Bus Terminal is a little broken -opinions differ however, on how best it might be fixed
The fashion elite turn out for Grace’s Paris signing
Stars of our new book, Grace: The American Vogue Years, celebrated Coddington’s career at her Colette signing
Sascha Braunig - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
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?
How Warhol made Stephen Shore drop out of school
The veteran photographer tells WSJ why the Factory crowd caused him to take a less academic path
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
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
Rem Koolhaas's EU lounge for the Design Museum
Discover why the lovely furniture, and scary crowd, suit the museum’s forthcoming exhibition Fear and Love
Meet Peter Koepke and his secret pattern library
Discover how Koepke's Design Library has, for decades served as the fashion business's secret inspiration source
Zach Harris - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
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
Phaidon chefs top the Latin America 50 Best List!
Virgilio Martinez, Alex Atala, Enrique Olvera and Rodolfo Guzmán all placed in top 5 at last night's awards
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
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
Photos That Changed The World – Steamfitter
Discover how Lewis Hine’s power-plant worker captured the dignity of industrial labour for the first time
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
Paul Smith threw a party for Grace last night!
'If you’re interested in fashion you’ve got to have her book!' says the legendary British fashion designer
Could the Bouroullecs help us create dreamier cities?
The French furniture designers turn their attention to urban reverie in a thought-provoking exhibition at Vitra
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
A giant cube will take shape on WTC site
Take a look at these newly unveiled designs for lower Manhattan's next arts venue - courtesy of ex-OMA architects
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
What the President ordered at Cosme
When it came to a final, post-UN meal, Barack Obama knew Enrique Olvera’s restaurant was the place to go
4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #4 Laughing Donut Holes
Want a smile on your face throughout 2017? Then try this simple Chinese snack, believed to help you find happiness
4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #1 Soy Sauce Chicken
Could this tasty chicken dish bring you prosperity in 2017? Our simple recipe makes it fun to find out
4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #2 Lettuce Wrap with Oysters
Discover why, thanks to Chinese wordplay, a delicious dish like this could also boost your professional life in 2017
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
Have you seen David Shrigley's cheeky pencils?
The British artist produces 30 new products - including an iPad case, notebooks and other stationary
30 years of Grace in 3 cartoons
Vogue's creative director at large animates her looks, her favourite photographers and her closest colleagues
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
Massimo Bottura lures Aziz Ansari to Italy
After spending time with Bottura in Modena, the Masters of None creator will feature the chef in new series
Wolfgang Tillmans has had a busy week!
The fine art photographer made his runway debut at NY Fashion Week and performed with his band in Brooklyn
Why our China book nearly overwhelmed its authors
Chan Kei-lum and Diora Fong Hui-lan talk the South China Morning Post through an epic journey of discovery
Heatherwick channels MC Escher in New York
The designer weaves together 154 flights of stairs for Vessel, a new work destined for Hudson Yards
Martin Parr's community service
The Magnum president shows his caring side by shooting a bunch of Britain's most worthy local projects
Sou Fujimoto and Douglas Coupland's future vision
The architect's new pavilion provides display space for the writer's 22nd century billboard
How Ettore Sottsass made the typewriter sexy
On the 99th anniversary of his birth, learn how the designer put art, sex and self-expression into office machinery
A Movement in a Moment: Institutional Critique
Discover how artists developed a new mode of expression - by criticising public art institutions
Finding a home for James Nachtwey’s archive
500,000 images by the unflinching photographer have been acquired by New Hampshire's Hood Museum of Art
Richard Lester on his first day filming the Beatles
George shook his fist, fans chased the crew and they lost the first day of film, the Hard Day's Night director recalls
Tom Waits helps Brae win Restaurant of the Year
Dan Hunter’s restaurant clinches Good Food Guide prize thanks to great cooking - and some informal flourishes
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
How Kevin Amato casts a fashion show
The fashion photographer and casting agent shares his fashion week process with the New York Times
No, this Thai skyscraper is not falling down
Buro Ole Scheeren leaves a few chunks out of the country's tallest skyscraper to reveal its inner life
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
Take a look at the USSR's long lost product designs
Discovering Utopia at the London Design Biennial looks back at the Soviet Union's take on consumer goods
Enrique Olvera gives Roger Federer a cookery lesson
Injury's kept him out of the US Open but the tennis champ found time to work on his serve with our Mexican chef
This once derelict Breuer home is now worth $2.3m
The tiny Massachusetts cottage, created with Bauhaus boss Walter Gropius, is one of his masterworks
BIG bend a car port into a luxury villa
Bjarke Ingels’ curled-up modern house packs in an inner garden, great views and space for vintage cars
Shrigley goes shopping in New York
The British artist's new Manhattan public artwork pairs a permanent medium with a throwaway message
Olafur Eliasson puts carbon on the menu
When Eliasson's studio cooked a meal for NYC’s Climate Museum director it listed one additional ingredient. . .
Inside Yayoi Kusama's Glass House
What Philip Johnson's classic piece of domestic architecture looked like after Yayoi was done with it
From boot camp to Boutique
Find out how five military clothing innovations went from the battlefield on to the high street
Scholten & Baijings make 2016's Designs of the Year
Dutch husband-and-wife duo update ancient Japanese porcelain to win a place on the Design Museum's list
Nan Goldin’s Wilde life
The US photographer goes to Reading Prison for a new show dedicated to the 19th century gay playwright
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
Stephen Shore shoots The High Line
The veteran New York photographer turns his lens on one of the city's much-loved public attractions
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
What to expect from Pink Floyd at the V&A
Following its Bowie exhibition, the V&A will dedicate next summer’s show to the world-famous British rock group
Have you seen Grayson Perry's Christmas card?
Ceramicist joins Bob and Roberta Smith, Michael Craig-Martin and more for series of Oxfam charity cards
What's behind the trend for twisting skyscrapers?
New report ranks 28 twisting scrapers in the world right now and explains why there are many more to come. . .
Noguchi as you've never seen him before
Another Land by Leah Raintree at the Noguchi museum reimagines his sculptures as distant objects in space
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?
Grace Coddington takes over the Harrods window
Vogue fashion icon's new book takes pride of place in London's most famous store ahead of next month's signing
