Rafael Viñoly's Sears Tower homage

Architect unveils new Chicago South Loop proposal - to be built one tower at a time

Crescent Heights, Chicago - Rafael Viñoly

When Ai Weiwei met Bono

Look who has just cropped up on the roving Chinese artist and dissident’s Instagram page

Ai Weiwei and Bono in Berlin, September 2015. From Ai Weiwei's Instagram

Neville Brody and Jonathan Glazer brand Channel 4

'Never mind the numerals' was the brief to the two creatives asked to 'get to the heart of the channel'

A still from one of Jonathan Glazer's new Channel 4 ident. Image courtesy of Channel 4

Fantastic Man's favourite profiles

The magazine's co-founders talk us through their perfect picks including Tom Ford, Bryan Ferry and David Walliams

Rupert Everett, front cover, issue no 1 for Spring and Summer 2005, portrait by Benjamin Alexander. From Fantastic Man

How boot camp shaped the world’s finest floral artist

Can you detect the military heritage and influences in the masterful floral creations of Belgium’s Daniel Ost?

A vegetal interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Bolero at the landfill of Sint-Niklaas, near Antwerp, Belgium features swelling clay hills and dancing leek flowers From Daniel Ost

Time to enrol at the great Italian Cooking School

Learning to cook authentic, trusted and tested Italian dishes has never been so easy, thanks to these new books

Our new editions to our Italian Cooking School range: Pasta, Pizza and Dessert

Iconic photos by Nan Goldin, Daido Moriyama, Eve Arnold and Guy Bourdin rendered in Play-Doh

As Eleanor Macnair's carefully crafted Play-Doh images get their debut showing at Atlas we ask her how it all started


A hotel to hold back the Gobi Desert

Could Margot Krasojević's high-concept sand-turbine hotel save China’s fragile northern environment?

Margot Krasojevic's sand turbine hotel for the Gobi Desert

Wolfgang Tillmans' unfiltered photo show

Is the German photographer a latterday realist? That’s certainly the implication of his current New York exhibition

The Blue Oyster Bar, Saint Petersburg, 2014 by Wolfgang Tillmans. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York. From PCR

How JR uses ballet to break down barriers

Why did this contemporary artist turn to classical ballet when telling the story of the 2005 Parisian riots?

An adaptation of Jeté Cambré, Lauren Lovette, Les Bosquets, Montfermeil, France, 2014 by JR pasted up in New York City, 2015. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Gombrich Explains the beauty in Caravaggio

The artist was born today, 29 Sept, 1571. Learn how he broke the rules to create his brutally honest paintings

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (1601-1602) by Caravaggio

Dine with Magnus Nilsson in the USA

The Fäviken chef and Nordic cuisine specialist is bringing his culinary knowledge to six US cities this November

Magnus Nilsson

Davide Balula knocks holes in the Gagosian

The artist chips away at Gagosian's Athens outpost in a show inspired by Ancient Greece and Gordon Matta-Clark

Installation view of Davide Balula at Gagosian Athens. © Davide Balula. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Silia Psychi

The Art of the Map - Olafur Eliasson

The innovative, European artist is obsessed with sunshine, as you can gather from his neon-lit map of the world

Daylight Map (2005) by Olafur Eliasson. As featured in Map: Exploring the World

Watch a Richard Wentworth artwork take shape

False Ceiling – Indianapolis opened at the weekend, and the museum sent us this video capturing its installation

Installation view of False Ceiling – Indianapolis (2015) by Richard Wentworth.

Why did Ellsworth Kelly help a toddler doodle?

Does his open-mindedness keep the 92-year-old artist creative? You might think so after reading this story

Ellsworth Kelly

Fantastic Man's fantastic night out

Wolfgang Tillmans deejayed, Amanda Lear created the cocktails, Fergus Henderson did the food and Phaidon provided the intellectual nourishment at Fantastic Man's tenth birthday bash in Shoreditch last night

'What? This old thing?' - Atelier Sorapol's Daniel Lismore went the extra mile (but hopefully not on public transport)

How these guys made Fantastic Man

The magazine's founders on how they went from a gay-interest quarterly to profiling Tom Ford and Bryan Ferry

Fantastic Men Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers

See JR's Robert De Niro film in New York next week

The French artist will stage a preview screening of Ellis as part of his appearance at the New Yorker Festival


Help the Tate uncover art history secrets

A new site lets amateur researchers annotate Francis Bacon and Barbara Hepworth documents, among others

Document listing the details of Oval with two forms (1972) by Barbara Hepworth. Image courtesy of the Tate. The document forms part of the AnnoTate project.

The one photo that got JR into trouble

From Brazil’s favelas to the West Bank, only one picture has got the artist into hot water. Can you guess why?


The problem Alex Katz has with waiters

The 88-year-old New York painter might have found new fans in later life, yet some perennial problems remain

Passing (1990) by Alex Katz. From Alex Katz

The art Ed Ruscha made with his pop star friend

A new exhibition explores a little-known collaborative relationship predating Ed Ruscha’s arrival in LA

Mason Williams. Journal sketch. 1969. Private collection. Courtesy of Alden Projects

Theaster Gates and Okwui Enwezor party in Chicago

The Venice Biennale director embraces America's most exciting artist in celebration of his latest project

From right: Ken Stewart, Rebuild’s CEO, looks on as Okwui Enwezor embraces Theaster Gates at a dinner to celebrate Gates’ newly restored Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago. Image from Rebuild’s Instagram, taken by Kelly Taub, for BFA partnerships

Enrique Olvera's still got love for the streets

He's one of the world's best chefs yet the Pujol founder can still rock street food better than anyone else

Enrique Olvera's Tortillas, as featured in his new book Mexico From The Inside Out

William Morris gets a makeover from Pentagram

The design agency draws on one of the Arts and Crafts Legend's own prints when creating new society identity

The William Morris Society's new logo by Pentagram. Image courtesy of Pentagram

The Art of the Map - Jasper Johns

Maya Lin, Alighiero Boetti, Leonardo da Vinci, Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei - great artists who've also created great maps. In a new series we take a look at the ones featured in the new book Map Exploring the World

Map 1961 - Jasper Johns - as featured in Map Exploring the World

How Diller Scofidio + Renfro put hidden art on show

At LA's new museum the Broad, visitors can see the works in storage, thanks to the building's ingenious design

The Broad. Photo by Iwan Baan. Courtesy of The Broad

Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor go walkabout

We join the Phaidon artists as they walk through London today to highlight the plight of refugees

Ai Weiwei, Haymarket, London September 17 - photo Mat Smith

Have you seen the Bouroullecs' new TV?

The brothers' Serif TV for Samsung is designed to fit into our homes like a piece of contemporary furniture

Samsung's Serif TV by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Watch René Redzepi talk about the new Noma

Chef explains why he's relocating the restaurant and building an urban farm in this new video

Redzepi (far right) and the Noma staff on the roof of their new property

Bosco de Lobos hosts Wallpaper* City Guide launch

Madrid's creatives descend on hip restaurant to celebrate the publication of the new Wallpaper* City Guide

Guests at the Wallpaper Madrid Guide launch party at Bosco De Lobos

Happy Mexican Independence Day! Now cook this!

It’s September 16, so it must be time for Chiles en Nogada - and you can rustle it up with this recipe

Chiles en Nogada as featured in Mexico: The Cookbook

How Mike Kelley got from school to Superman

In honour of the late artist's new Hauser & Wirth show, we look at the genesis of Kelley’s Kandors series


Drone targets BIG's first New York building

Drone footage captures the scale and unusual beauty of Bjarke Engels' Via 57 West as it rises above Manhattan

Via 57 West, New York - BIG

Catch this footloose suburban gallery before it goes

The Suburban has shown Björk, Matthew Barney and Pierre Huyghe and now it's at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Michelle Grabner’s The Temporary Suburban, 2015, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Photo: Nathaniel Edmunds Photography

Tim Marlow describes Ai Weiwei’s imprisonment

Watch the Royal Academy’s Director of Artistic Programmes reveal the full horror of Ai's 2011 detention

S.A.C.R.E.D (2013) by Ai Weiwei, as installed at the Royal Academy

The face of America in the Fifties

The International Center of Photography looks back at the group shot in early 20th century America

Bell Telephone Department, New York World’s Fair, 1939, by The Press Department. From Hunt’s Three Ring Circus.

Understand the 20th century via Warhol’s prints

Sotheby’s Prints and Multiples sale majors on the pop artist’s printed editions, with over 80 works up for auction

Marilyn (1967) by Andy Warhol

The story behind the other Noguchi Museum

You probably know about the New York Noguchi museum, but did you know the artist founded one in Japan too?

The Noguchi Museum, Japan. Courtesy of the museum. Photograph by Yukio Futagawa

Pharrell and David Blaine join JR in Paris

The French artist called on a few famous friends to help with the launch of his new show, film and book

JR, Ladj Ly and mayor Gilles Catoire at Les Bosquets premier, last Thursday. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Why do Japanese houses look so unusual?

That's the question Naomi Pollock asked herself on arriving in Japan - 27 years later she answers it in Jutaku

House NA, Sou Fujimoto, 2011, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture. From Jutaku


The quiet passing of a great designer

Even in death Irving Harper, the man behind the marshmellow sofa and the sunburst clock remained in the shadows

Marshmallow Sofa (1956) - Irving Harper George Nelson Associates

Enrique Olvera wins lifetime achievement award

The chef and Phaidon author is to be honoured at the 50 Best Restaurants Latin American awards ceremony

Enrique Olvera

COS + Phaidon + HAY = design heaven!

See how our titles compliment a great new collaboration from two design-conscious Scandinavian brands

Lessons in Art + Life at COS courtesy of HAY and Phaidon

JR's life in black and white

Get to know the French artist and activist via a suitably graphic medium - the comic strip


How Sol LeWitt broke art apart from its ideas

The US artist was born on this day in 1928. This is how he distinguished a work from the concepts behind it


Egyptian street art versus the riot squad

How the protestors of Tahrir Square used paint and stencils to avenge the crimes committed by Mubarak

Samira Ibrahim and soldiers. Egypt 2012. Photograph by mia Gröndahl. From Visual Impact

How is JR using his new Phaidon book?

No, not as a pair of glasses. The Parisian artist explains how it's helping him to win over wary subjects

JR who's just made TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential list

Ai Weiwei comes to London

The great Chinese artist and dissident is in Britain, helping to oversee his new UK shows

Ai's pro-freedom baggage tags, originally produced for his Alcatraz exhibition. Image courtesy of Ai Weiwei's Instagram

Understand all art via one canvas - the human body

Our new book is the first to celebrate the ways artists have represented and utilised the body over the centuries

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976, gelatin silver print, 14 x 14.1 cm (5 ½ x 5 ½ in), private collection. Courtesy George and Betty Woodman. From Body of Art

The unusual evolution of graces and gods

Two sculptures from very different cultures and how they deviated from their respective traditions

The Three Graces (c. 1813) by Antonio Canova. From 30,000 Years of Art

How JR found heroism in the faces of these women

From Braziian favela to Kenyan settlement the artist humanises urban environments with faces of the oppressed

JR's Women Are Heroes installation in Kibera, Kenya, January 2009

James Corner's High Line vision

The landscape architect and co-creator of the High Line’s unique design recalls his first trip to the abandoned railway - and the ways in which he helped transform it into a work of art that attracted six million visitors last year

James Corner


When Pussy Riot 'covered' The Beatles

Visual Impact examines how supporters of latterday rock rebels drew from the graphics of an earlier generation

Free Pussy Riot with a Little Help from my Friends collage by Jorge Artajo. From Visual Impact

How René Redzepi fell in love with tacos

Read his introduction to Tacopedia, the ultimate guide to all the taco traditions of Mexico's diverse regions

René Redzepi - courtesy of his Instagram

Frank Gehry's vision for Sunset Boulevard

Could this development of 249 residential units create a “walkable community” in LA? Gehry thinks so

8150 Sunset Boulevard by Frank Gehry. Rendering by Visual House

The death of a Tsar and the birth of modernism

Two contemporaneous artworks reveal two very different histories, as outlined in 30,000 Years of Art

Lilies of the Valley Egg (1898) by Peter Carl Fabergé. From 30,000 Years of Art

Chile’s answer to Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye

What do you make of this Latin American architect’s interpretation of modernism's greatest country house?

Casa Mirador by Victor Gubbins. Photography by Marcos Mendizabal

Did this forger actually want smarter art experts?

A manuscript by forger Eric Hebborn calls for greater expertise. But is he laughing at us from beyond the grave?

Hebborn in a 1991 TV documentary

The skyscraper that aims to open up Africa

Could the Casablanca Finance City Tower by Morphosis prove to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?

Renderings of the Casablanca Finance City Tower by Morphosis

Spot the US icons in Pentagram’s food truck livery

The brilliant design agency drew up these patriotic pictograms for the USA Pavilion at this year's Milan Expo

48 of the 160 circular pictograms that make up Pentagram's designs for the USA Pavilion's Food Truck Nation

When Mario Bellini saw the future

The designer’s new monograph shows how his mid-century electronics foreshadowed later tech developments

Mario Bellini's Olivetti TVC 250 video terminal. From Mario Bellini


Eight facts for Ai Weiwei's 58th birthday

We shed light on the artist's half-brother, his card skills, and the Beijing art district he more or less designed

Ai Weiwei, Self Portrait (1987)

Planting a forest in one of America's dirtiest cities

Could this proposal to bring an arboreal landscape into the centre of Cleveland help fix the city's problems?

Re-Cultivating The Forest City in Cleveland, Ohio by Christopher Marcinkoski, for Port. From 30:30 Landscape Architecture

Theaster Gates: Art, lies and pottery

Gates might be known for his real estate projects, yet his first show featured ceramics with a shady back story

Theaster Gates. Photo by Sara Pooley

How China's regulations gave rise to this building

Dutch NEXT firm have created this undulating exterior to fit this apartment block into a crowded city centre

Fuzhou Shouxi building by NEXT Architects

Propaganda gets dirty in Map

Our new book features maps drawn up not to define borders, but to prevent existing ones from being overturned

Death to Fascism, 1941, Vasilii Vlasov, Teodor Pevzner and Tatiana Vladimirovna Shishmareva. From Map

Liz Diller on the High Line’s surprising success

The architect and co-author of our High Line book describes the park’s conception and its subsequent popularity

From left: Elizabeth Diller, Matthew Johnson, James Corner, Ricardo Scofidio, Lisa Switkin

Billy McCune – Danny Lyon’s most tragic subject

Prison may have taken away this man’s adult life, yet it didn’t break his creative spirit, as Lyon’s book makes clear

Billy McCune's rap sheet. From Conversations with the Dead

What is Massimo Bottura doing at the White House?

When it comes to nutrition, healthy eating and food waste, the First Lady chooses to trust this skinny Italian chef

Massimo Bottura with his wife Lara and his children Alexa and Charlie, at the White House. Image courtesy of Bottura's Instagram

Ai Weiwei’s bicycles come to London

The artist's famous Forever sculpture will be installed in the British banking district at the beginning of next month

Forever (2013) by Ai Weiwei

Ellsworth Kelly, bird watcher

Can ornithological practices shed light on the great American abstract artist’s works?

Yellow with Red Triangle, 1973, oil on canvas, 2 joined panels, 119 x 145 1/2 inches, 302.3 x 369.6 cm. Photo credit: courtesy Corcoran Gallery of Art. From Ellsworth Kelly

Putting spiritual back into our cityscape

Can plants bring harmony to our fast-urbanising world? The designers in 30:30 Landscape Architecture think so

Cutty Sark Gardens by Martin Knuijt, from 30:30 Landscape Architecture

Zaha Hadid’s world-record breaking bridge

The firm’s winning competition entry looks beautiful, and it could also prove to be an engineering marvel too

Zaha Hadid's Danjiang Bridge

Discover a world of contrasts in our new book, Map

By pairing apparently unrelated cartographic works together our new overview reveals some telling similarities

John Auldjo’s map Of Vesuvius (1832). From Map

China's caveman capital gets a new look

HASSELL Studios finds novel ways to display and preserve China's prehistoric heartland in Nanjing

 The Fangshan Tangshan National Geopark by HASSELL. Image by Studio Odile Decq

Zaha Hadid's High Line installation

The British-Iraqi architect has turned her firm's protective site hoarding into a swooping sculptural tunnel

Allongé by Zaha Hadid. Photo by Scott Frances.

Mario Bellini’s roadmap for the future

Learn how the architect and designer saw a route out of mid-century gridlock with his prescient people carrier

MoMA Kar-A-Sutra, 1972, from Mario Bellini

Is there a serious message behind Bread and a Dog?

Well, sort of. Find out in this interview with its author, the animal lover and culinary specialist, Natsuko Kuwahara

Cream cheese on fig bread baked in the bread maker, orange juice, and a dog that has become a permanent fixture under the table. Hey, be nice. From Bread and a Dog

Anish Kapoor’s artfully filthy Instagram account

The British sculptor has recycled the title of his controversial Versailles piece for his new Instagram handle

An image from Anish Kapoor's new Instagram account @dirty_corner

Here's the Mumbai Wallpaper* City Guide!

Designers, architects and artists joined us at Café Zoe to mark the publication of our guide to India’s biggest city

Revellers at the launch party for the new Wallpaper* City Guide to Mumbai

Looking back at Danny Lyon’s convicts

What are the prisoners trying to tell us in Lyon’s seminal 1960s prison book, Conversations with the Dead?

Two years, burglary, by Danny Lyon. From Conversations with the Dead

A space-age home with aircraft stairs

This sleek suburban Spanish home by Barcelona firm NOEM packs includes some innovative, recycled features

The Spaceship Home by NOEM

Mary Ellen Mark’s last assignment

The great US photographer’s final commission proves she was a wonderful documentarian right up until the end

Sam and Ben Will by Mary Ellen Mark for CNN

Martin Parr shoots himself (again)

Are these ‘autoportraits’ a becoming way to regard the president of Magnum Photos? Well, he certainly thinks so

One of Martin Parr's autoportraits

How Theaster Gates saved a ‘maimed’ King

We take a closer look this key political work by one of America’s most exciting contemporary artists

A Maimed King (detail), 2012, photograph, metal, glass, dust, chair, 61 x 91 x 6 cm. From Theaster Gates

Visit the world's wildest domestic environment

Our new book Jutaku illustrates just how varied, innovative and beautiful Japanese housing stock has become

HOJO, Architecton, 2009, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Prefecture. From Jutaku

Look who Ai Weiwei hung out with at the weekend

Film stars, politicians, and fellow artists have all welcomed Ai upon his recent arrival in the German capital

Ai Weiwei and Pussy Riot’s Nadia Tolokonnikova at Pauly Saal, Berlin. Image courtesy of Ai's Instagram

Danny Lyon looks back at his powerful prison photos

The brilliant photographer describes the how he got into Texan prisons and why the experience still haunts him

Seven years flat on a twenty-year sentence. The Walls. From Conversations with the Dead

Fantastic Man - now available in book format!

Learn how a Dutch duo ditched catwalk models and embraced real manhood in the book of the magazine

Our new Fantastic Man book

Why artists, architects and designers love Daniel Ost

He's created displays for galleries, Royal weddings and fashion shows - now you can get to know him too

Erasmus Foundation, Brussels, Belgium. From Daniel Ost

Alessi invites Memphis co-founder for coffee

Sottsass student Michele de Lucchi designs Pulcina, which means ‘chick’ in Italian, hence the beak-like spout

Coffee Pot - Michele de Lucchi for Alessi

Spilling the beans (and other ingredients) on Toast

Toast author Raquel Pelzel on how to to make a humble snack food as highbrow or lowbrow as you like

Hakurei Turnips, Poached Chicken and Apple Butter Toast

Daniel Libeskind’s Pyramid for Jerusalem

The architect hopes his 26-storey tower will provide “a vibrant public space in the heart of the ancient city”

The Pyramid, Israel by by Studio Libeskind and Yigal Levi. Image courtesy of Vigntsix

Is Theaster Gates America's most exciting artist?

Our new monograph lays bare the civil, spiritual and capitalist components that make up this extraordinary artist

Theaster Gates creating one of his tar paintings, Chicago, 2012

Check out the concert hall that thinks it's a castle

Mies van der Rohe Award given to Barcelona duo Barozzi Veiga's new fortress-like Philharmonic Hall

Szczecin Philharmonic - Estudio Barozzi Veiga - photo by Iñigo Bujedo-Aguirre - www.inigobujedo.com