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Vitamin D3 interview Miriam de Búrca

We speak to this contemporary artist, featured in Phaidon's new, indispensable survey of contemporary drawing


The large, delicious eggs in The Latin American Cookbook

Settlers might have brought chickens to this part of the world, but they still haven’t supplanted the wild array of native animal eggs used in local cuisines, as our new book demonstrates

Charcoal cooked rhea eggs, as featured in the Latin American Cookbook

José Vera Matos - Why I Draw

This highly politicised Peruvian artist grew up without a TV, and sees his relationship with drawing as being like that between a skater and his skateboard

José Vera Mato. Photo courtesy of the artist

Catherine Opie and Family

The fine-art photographer prizes family life, but on her own terms, as our new book explains

Joanne, Betsy & Olivia, Bayside, New York, 1998.
Chromogenic print, 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm). Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Lehmann Maupin, New York/Hong Kong/Seoul/London; Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Naples; and Peder Lund, Oslo. From Domestic (1995–98)

Martin Parr launches bursaries for Black, Asian and minority-ethnic photographers

The Martin Parr Foundation will give three photographers £1,000 to complete an existing project or begin a new one

Durban July races, South Africa, 2005, from Only Human by Martin Parr

Why Alexander Calder and David Smith go so well together

These titans of 20th century art are rarely shown together. Yet a new show reveals how much they had in common

Red Flowers, 1954 — Alexander Calder Sheet metal, wire, and paint 130.8 x 109.2 cm / 51 1/2 x 43 in  © Calder Foundation, New York / 2017, ProLitteris, Zurich. Courtesy of the Foundation and Hauser & Wirth

Why does spring’s most famous painting look a little autumnal?

On the first day of spring, we look into the mystery of Sandro Botticelli’s Renaissance masterpiece, Primavera

Primavera (c.1482) by Botticelli

John Pawson's World of Colour: Orange

In his book Spectrum the architect and photographer proves there’s more to the pigment than bad tans and sunsets

Jaffa, Israel, April 2013. All photographs by John Pawson, from his new book Spectrum

Mamma knows best: How to make perfect grissini breadsticks

Big Mamma chef Idriss Laghlimi shares his tips on how to make those crispy, Italian appetizers in our new book

Chef Idriss Laghlimi making grissini, as featured in our new book Big Mamma Cucina Popolare

Want to know the difference between a mole and a sauce?

A party! In Tu Casa Mi Casa the chef Enrique Olvera explains the social definitions of his nation’s most famous dishes

Pistachio green mole, as featured in Tu Casa Mi Casa

Let Spirited author Adrienne Stillman guide you towards making the perfect whiskey sour

The mixed drinks expert and Phaidon author talked to NYC bar owner Meaghan Dorman about the simple tricks behind making the perfect cocktail

Spirited author Adrienne Stillman


Danny Lyon recalls Congressman John Lewis

In his book, The Seventh Dog, Lyon describes the moment he met Lewis, and how Lyon subsequently ended up in jail

A SNCC poster using the picture Lyon made of John Lewis praying at a 1962 demonstration in Cairo, Illinois. As reproduced in The Seventh Dog

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The classicist explains how an encounter at an airport led her help stage a bronze exhibition at this year's Frieze

Professor Mary Beard at Frieze in London, October 2017

Sam Lubell on *** and ****

The author of Life Meets Art shares his thoughts on *** and ***


The artists that flock to John Audubon

On the great bird artist’s birthday we take a look at the latter-day painters who draw on his work

John James Audubon, Iceland, Iceland, or Jer Falcon (Falco islandicus), plate 366 from Birds of America, 1837. From Animal

A taste of our culinary books for fall 2021

Our new gastronomic titles take you from one of the great, underexplored continents for food, right through to the latest, greatest restaurants of the moment

Our new culinary books. From top left, reading across and down: Slippurinn; The Latin American Cookbook; Middle Eastern Sweets; pages from The Latin American Cookbook; The Gluten-Free Cookbook; The Italian Bakery; Septime, La Cave, Clamato, D'une ile; The Kitchen Studio; Unelaborated Products