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
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
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
Watch a Richard Wentworth artwork take shape
False Ceiling – Indianapolis opened at the weekend, and the museum sent us this video capturing its installation
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
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
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
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
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
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
Theaster Gates and Okwui Enwezor party in Chicago
The Venice Biennale director embraces America's most exciting artist in celebration of his latest project
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
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 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
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
Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor go walkabout
We join the Phaidon artists as they walk through London today to highlight the plight of refugees
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The face of America in the Fifties
The International Center of Photography looks back at the group shot in early 20th century America
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
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?
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
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
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
Enrique Olvera wins lifetime achievement award
The chef and Phaidon author is to be honoured at the 50 Best Restaurants Latin American awards ceremony
COS + Phaidon + HAY = design heaven!
See how our titles compliment a great new collaboration from two design-conscious Scandinavian brands
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
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
Ai Weiwei comes to London
The great Chinese artist and dissident is in Britain, helping to oversee his new UK shows
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
The unusual evolution of graces and gods
Two sculptures from very different cultures and how they deviated from their respective traditions
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
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
When Pussy Riot 'covered' The Beatles
Visual Impact examines how supporters of latterday rock rebels drew from the graphics of an earlier generation
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
Frank Gehry's vision for Sunset Boulevard
Could this development of 249 residential units create a “walkable community” in LA? Gehry thinks so
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
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?
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?
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?
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
When Mario Bellini saw the future
The designer’s new monograph shows how his mid-century electronics foreshadowed later tech developments
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
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?
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
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
Propaganda gets dirty in Map
Our new book features maps drawn up not to define borders, but to prevent existing ones from being overturned
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
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
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
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
Ellsworth Kelly, bird watcher
Can ornithological practices shed light on the great American abstract artist’s works?
Putting spiritual back into our cityscape
Can plants bring harmony to our fast-urbanising world? The designers in 30:30 Landscape Architecture think so
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
Discover a world of contrasts in our new book, Map
By pairing apparently unrelated cartographic works together our new overview reveals some telling similarities
China's caveman capital gets a new look
HASSELL Studios finds novel ways to display and preserve China's prehistoric heartland in Nanjing
Zaha Hadid's High Line installation
The British-Iraqi architect has turned her firm's protective site hoarding into a swooping sculptural tunnel
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
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
Anish Kapoor’s artfully filthy Instagram account
The British sculptor has recycled the title of his controversial Versailles piece for his new Instagram handle
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
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?
A space-age home with aircraft stairs
This sleek suburban Spanish home by Barcelona firm NOEM packs includes some innovative, recycled features
Mary Ellen Mark’s last assignment
The great US photographer’s final commission proves she was a wonderful documentarian right up until the end
Martin Parr shoots himself (again)
Are these ‘autoportraits’ a becoming way to regard the president of Magnum Photos? Well, he certainly thinks so
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
Visit the world's wildest domestic environment
Our new book Jutaku illustrates just how varied, innovative and beautiful Japanese housing stock has become
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
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
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
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
Alessi invites Memphis co-founder for coffee
Sottsass student Michele de Lucchi designs Pulcina, which means ‘chick’ in Italian, hence the beak-like spout
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
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”
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
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
Seeing Picasso in three dimensions
Could MoMA’s forthcoming show prove that Pablo’s sculptural works were as innovative as his paintings?
Get lost and found with the USA's leading map man
John Hessler, one of the US government’s foremost cartographic experts, on brain diagrams, big data and GPS
The final days of Jackson Pollock
On the anniversary of his death in a car crash we look at the last months of the great abstract expressionist
The fine art (and design) of protest
Angry imagery is aesthetically pleasing in Liz McQuiston's Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century
Learn how Ellsworth Kelly changed abstract art
You'll find all you need to know about how the 92-year-old painter impacted US art in his first full-career monograph
Snøhetta takes to the mountains in style
Scandanavian superstar architecture practice turns its attention to the Italian Alps - just in time for winter
Tina Barney on shooting at the Noguchi Museum
The photographer spent 18 months at the museum but when she saw what she wanted - "it was like a bullet!"
Cindy Sherman stars in Rufus Wainwright's opera
Sherman plays legendary diva Maria Callas in a Francesco Vezzoli-shot film for new Wainwright opera
Steven Holl designs expansion of Kennedy Centre
Architect breaks down the barriers between artists and public in Texas, Virginia, Iowa - and now Washington
One thing you didn't know about Raquel Pelzel
Our Toast author has a guilty secret - can you guess what it is?
Landscaping the cities of the future
30 30 Landscape Architecture author Meaghan Kombol gives us the lowdown on the new scenery of the city
