How Edward Weston went from door-to-door portraitist to 20th century photographic pioneer
On his birth anniversary, discover how he learned to capture the beauty in nature's ripples and curves
A Movement in a Moment: Brutalism
All you need to know about a hard, unforgiving style of architecture that many of us have grown to love
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
How this Japanese chef mastered Neapolitan pizza
The amazing story of how Japan became one of the best places in the world to enjoy 'real' Neapolitan pizza
You can own a Danny Lyon limited edition print
We're offering two of the legend's groundbreaking photographs shot in the early 1960s in Chicago
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
Looking for the perfect Brutalist getaway?
Fresh air! Restored concrete! Good reasons why brutal architecture lovers should stay at Van Wassenhove House
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
Martin Parr talks about Real Food
The photographer on his new food photos book, Magnum's future and which actor he'd (not) like to play him on TV
A Brutalist guide to the film High-Rise
The architecture that informed the new movie adaptation, courtesy of This Brutal World's Peter Chadwick
Bowie and Nan Goldin together at auction
Rare Helmut Newton Bowie contact sheet and signed Nan Goldin artist proof go under the hammer later today
Fancy cocktails at this Frank Lloyd Wright gem?
Wright's early masterpiece, the Robie House in Chicago, is playing host to a drinks party every Friday in April
The good and evil in Mapplethorpe's flowers
The photographer's lover Jack Fritscher recalls how, in his flowers, Mapplethorpe saw both beauty and the devil
Bring a surfboard to BIG’s new Redskins stadium
And your skates in winter, all thanks to a new plan to add watersports to this Washington football facility
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
Sou Fujimoto creates timber tower French vineyard
The Japanese architect spearheads revamp of Bordeaux as it opens a high speed train link with Paris
IKEA's Billy Bookcase designer dies
Gillis Lundgren, the fourth person to join IKEA in 1953 and creator of its most iconic products, passes age 89
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
How Detroit’s car industry helped shape its pizzas
Where To Eat Pizza author Daniel Young on how the trays on Ford’s production lines inspired pizza in the city
You can own a limited edition Martin Parr print
Parr's pictures of Christians, street parties and equestrian events, record the changing nature of British society
A mosque for Foster's World Trade Centre
British architect Amanda Levete's new religious building combines Islamic traditions with 21st century technology
‘There's a spiritual quality about looking at art you don’t want to undermine’ - Annabelle Selldorf
On the opening of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel the architect describes the power of sculpting art spaces
The phantasmagorical world of Vasily Klyukin
Has this Russian-born banker turned design dilettante created the architectural equivalent of outsider art?
A truly transparent Islamic Centre for NYC
Designing an Islamic Centre for NYC was not an easy commission but we think Koray Duman has pulled it off
Dada's birthplace to be recreated for Manifesta 11
Cabaret Voltaire will be recreated with a 21st century twist for the Christian Jankowski-curated event this summer
Stan Douglas on why phone photos all look the same
The artist says our phones are programmed to make the same image and little distinguishes one from another
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
Watch the new Mapplethorpe documentary trailer
Robert Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures features contributions from his friends Debbie Harry and Brice Marden
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
On International Women's Day meet Annabelle!
Learn how architect Annabelle Selldorf introduced classicism, utility and restraint into today's art galleries
On International Women's Day meet Solla!
We trace Solla Eiriksdottir's journey from textiles student to leading light of the raw food movement
Wilhelm Sasnal on migrants, movies and The Cure
The Polish painter and filmmaker describes how pop, existentialism and politics informed his new exhibition
You can own a Nan Goldin limited edition print
Share in the touching lives of Nan Goldin's family of subjects by buying one of these three limited edition prints
Kim Cadmus Owens - Affordable on Artspace
Her stretched out, glitched lines of frozen computer screens are imposed on mid-century American landscapes
How Phaidon helped Noma find this Aussie forager
When René Redzepi arrived in Sydney, the Australian chef, forager and book lover Elijah Holland was ready for him
The London playground inspired by a Japanese photo
Look at these Hélène Binet images of Asif Khan’s new playground inspired by a Rinko Kawauchi photograph
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
A Chef's Shelfie on World Book Day!
Gabriele Corcos sent us this photo of his home office shelfie. We counted 27 Phaidon books - now show us yours!
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
Sou Fujimoto and David Chipperfield reinvent Paris
Fujimoto’s Thousand Trees scheme wins one of the 23 sites earmarked for, ahem, root-and branch regeneration
A history of the modern world in 7 haircuts
Learn how civil rights, war and economic boom and bust shaped the hair on our head in The Barber Book
Take a look at these tiny kaleidoscopic buildings
New book Nanotecture brings together some of the smallest best built things including these playful creations
NASA creates mid-century space travel posters
The space agency hope its Visions of the Future posters will inspire a new generation of cosmic explorers
We join Charlize Theron backstage at the Oscars!
Did you spot the ultimate Phaidon shelfie in the green room at last night's 88th Academy Awards?
Guy Fieri loves Enrique Olvera's tacos
The Food Network star stopped by Enrique's Miami taco stand to enjoy his innovative take on Mexican street food
Steven Holl updates Mumbai’s oldest museum
Architect cuts apertures into gallery spaces allowing exactly 25 lumens of light to flood interior spaces
Modern new look for folk museum
This timber-clad extension to the Romsdal Museum is designed to complement some far older local buildings
Gombrich Explains Renoir
On the French Impressionist’s birthday a look at why his paintings have divided art lovers for over a century
More from the book that inspired Mad Men's credits
Greg Quinton describes how he updated our inspirational design primer, A Smile in the Mind
Martin Parr’s outsider view of Britain
The UK photographer and Magnum Vice President curates a new show offering an overseas view of his country
Take a look at these shiny, tiny buildings
Our book Nanotecture brings together some of the smallest built things, including these great reflective dwellings
A Fergus Henderson dish for National Toast Day
Cook beef mince on toast courtesy of the carnivorous UK chef and restaurateur
Going back to Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places
A new exhibition brings high-fidelity reproduction to Stephen Shore’s large-format 1970s American road trip
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
Massimo Bottura’s soup kitchen goes international
After Milan, Bottura aims to open another Refettorio Ambrosiano in Bologna, then Brazil in time for the Games
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
The World Press Photo goes back to Black and White
Does this, the first monochrome image to win the prize for seven years, signal a change in photo reportage?
Animating Frank Lloyd Wright
Hear the great architect talk religion, nature and money, in this little-seen, newly animated 1957 interview
OMA make a Prada movie
Well, the architecture firm's design studio do, placing the brand's 2016 collection in a colourful, kinetic setting
Paula Scher paints info-maps of the USA
The masterful graphic designer calls her painterly take on digital maps abstract-expressionist information
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
COS and Sou Fujimoto plan a light forest for Milan
The architect and the clothing brand will create an arboreal-themed installation at this year's Salone del Mobile
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
Albert Adrià goes neo-classical in London
Expect high-quality produce, not high-tech trickery, from the elBulli chef's new London pop-up restaurant
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. . .
Wilhelm Sasnal - Affordable on Artspace
Damned Youth uses ambiguous text to ironically lament the passing of youth - sounds heavy, looks cool!
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
Now that's a pretty neat looking shelfie!
Designer Kwangho Lee curates a great selection for his favourite publisher (that's us) and gallery (that's Chamber)
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
Arne Jacobsen - Architect, designer... gardener?
we look at how horticulture and the natural world helped inform some of this great Dane's best-known creations
BIG goes small for Serpentine Pavilion
Bjarke Ingels joins Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi, Barkow Leibinger and Yona Friedman in Nanotecture celebration
MoMA hosts anti-starchitect show
A Japanese Constellation demonstrates how architecture is best viewed as a collaborative enterprise
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
Álvaro Siza takes to the stage in Catalonia
Red brick building in small town is latest example of the slow burn architect's mastery of simple, austere beauty
Chris Johanson - Affordable on Artspace
The Sunlight of the spirit is the Warmth of Love is the perfect Valentine's Day gift for a loved one
Tokyo’s cloud-harvesting vertical commuter town
Kohn Pedersen Fox and Leslie E. Robertson Associates aim to build it by 2045. Will they succeed?
Daido Moriyama returns to Shinjuku
Photographer returns to Shinjuku to create new series of work for first show at Fondation Cartier in 12 years
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 Guggenheim retrospective, we explore the sincere amateurism at play in this duo’s art
Why Phaidon is going vegetarian in 2016
Well, sort of. Find out why, for the first time, we’ve chosen to publish three purely vegetarian books this season
