Home with the kids? Here's a day's worth of fun recipes
Our book United Tastes of America is packed with child-friendly summer holiday recipes from across the States

Fergus Henderson on lunch, Martin Parr and our new chef
The chef and friend of Phaidon celebrates his 56th birthday today. Here are his views on photos, food and friends

Did you spot this LA landmark in the new Tarantino film?
Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood features one of LA's best-loved buildings, immortalised by Marvin Rand

Henry Moore's ancient Mayan tribute
On the artist's birthday, we look at why Moore rejected ancient Greek art in favour of Pre-Columbian influences

When Francis Alÿs tried to build a bridge to Europe
A line of kids marching into the sea is all that remains of his attempt to bridge the gap between Europe and Africa

6 Beautiful beach houses to admire this summer
Wherever you end up during your time off we hope it’s as striking as these wonderful waterside retreats

Marc Jacobs recalls his student days in three Eighties IDs
These identity cards capture some of the designer's earliest dramatic personal looks

JR documentary is nominated for an Emmy
His TIME magazine video project on guns in America is on the shortlist for the world’s best-known TV awards

Reclaim long lost New York with Elliott Erwitt
On the photographer’s 91st birthday, we look at his classic NYC street scenes, available as limited edition prints

Want to garden like Andoni Luis Aduriz?
Then you have to travel! The Mugaritz chef is proudly Basque but he isn't afraid to import and plant herbs from Asia

The American realist who made it into Art & Queer Culture
Thomas Eakins was born on this day in 1844. Was he a dispassionate admirer of the male form or a queer pioneer?

Stefan Sagmeister quits the commercial to focus on Beauty
The designer is turning commercial assignments over to partner Jessica Walsh to focus on self-generated projects

Feeling the heat? Try this Simple & Classic ice cream recipe!
Beat the European heatwave with Jane Hornby’s berry ice cream. It tastes great and is really easy to make

How Olafur Eliasson's 'hedonistic' dad helped his art
The artist says sailing as a kid with his father helped him find a crucial link between art and nature

Lauren Greenfield on bling, shopping and the American Dream
In a new video clip, the award-winning photographer says feelings of inadequacy turn us into avid consumers

Remembering Marisa Merz
Merz, who died last week, was the only woman in Arte Povera; she may have been the best in that movement too

Want to garden like Carlo Mirarchi? Then change the soil
The ground at Roberta's in Brooklyn was tainted by big-city life. So they decided to bring in some fresh earth

The paintings that almost killed Harland Miller
They may look dreamy, but Miller had to be rushed to an Austrian clinic after making his Poets series

Marc Jacobs is learning to drive!
Having snagged a beautiful suburban house, the New York fashion designer is ready to pick up a new life skill

Massimo and Alice Waters talk sustainability in San Francisco
The Italian chef attends the Basque Culinary Center’s SF symposium and meets a few Bay Area big names

Ben van Berkel on how to build an extraordinary house
The architects in Houses: Extraordinary Living explain how they put drama into domestic living

The Moon landings and the American aesthetic
It was one giant leap for mankind but not such a big step for the photographic depiction of the American landscape

Snarkitecture put a brick in Hudson Yards’ window
The NY practice provides a surprising, see-through intervention in Forty Five Ten’s new Manhattan store

Want to garden like Skye Gyngell? Then look to the heavens
The acclaimed chef has made sure Heckfield Place’s kitchen garden is attuned to both earthly and cosmic forces

The refugees who remade British art
Sotheby’s exhibition, Brave New Visions, looks at the wartime arrivals who revolutionized London’s gallery system

Snøhetta's brainy mountain trail
The architecture practice’s new Path of Perspectives encourages hikers to slow down, think, and take in the view

Olafur Eliasson on Rauschenberg, glasses and black mirrors
In a new interview, the Scandinavian artist reflects on his past, his successes, his strengths and his weaknesses

Harland Miller’s visions of hell
The artist’s experience taking coach journeys back in the 1980s inspired this colourful series on damnation

The Holiday home that Herman Miller built
The furniture company rules the workplace but its director of design, George Nelson, loved downtime too

Want to garden like John Mooney? Then head to the roof
The chef at NYC’s acclaimed Bell, Book & Candle grows 60 percent of his ingredients right above his restaurant

Our Interiors editor discusses good taste and his favourite room
William Norwich runs through the places that didn’t make it in, and explains how reality TV might harm your home

The famous (and infamous) deaths in Harland Miller’s art
A comedian, a cartoonist, a car designer and a politician all feature in the artist's unending, obituary series

Seriously, are the Contra guys opening their own wine shop?
Yes. It will be called Peoples, it's going to be close to their restaurants and you should look out for it later this summer

Making Saturn V, the rocket that carried man to the moon
One small step for man was made possible thanks to one enormous rocket, as our book Sun and Moon explains

The bedroom where Zaha Hadid displayed her Murano glass
Nearly every object in the architect's bedroom was her own work – except for her prized collection of glassware

Want to garden like Alice Waters? Then put in a night shift
In The Garden Chef, the Chez Panisse founder shares growing tips and what just might be her favourite recipe ever!

Fran Silvestre on how to build an extraordinary house
The architects in Houses: Extraordinary Living explain how they put drama into domestic living

Raymond Pettibon paints the Dior logo
Unseen works by the American artist feature in Dior’s latest collection and campaign

Got a question for Olafur Eliasson?
Tweet a question tagged #askSOE during the run of his Tate show and you could find it answered by the man himself

The jail scene that made it into Art & Queer Culture
On the day of his birth, we look back at the work of Martin Wong, the painter and chronicler of the Lower East Side

Fabien Baron, Giorgio Armani and a world-beating scent
On Giorgio Armani's birthday, we look back at the world-beating men's fragrance he created with Fabien Baron

The Interiors Monologues - Alexander Gorlin
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

3 dishes to look out for in Olafur Eliasson's kitchen at the Tate
The artist's studio cooks are in London serving eco-friendly dishes to accompany his show. Here are the highlights

Paul McCarthy on playing Trump in his new movie
'There’s this transition from Reagan to Trump to a sort of mafioso to Hitler,' he tells film maker Harmony Korine

The Interiors Monologues - Deborah Berke
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

Want to garden like Stephen Harris? Then grab some seaweed
The patron chef of the acclaimed Sportsman restaurant in England has some unusual ways of improving the soil

Agnes Martin, Jo Baer and Mary Corse are on the edge at Pace
Shown together for the first time, seminal works illuminate their contribution to the history of abstraction

Inside the warehouse where Michael Graves made his designs
The designer and architect was born today, 9 July, in 1934. Here’s why he chose to live in a New Jersey warehouse

Look what Jeremy Charles just caught!
The Newfoundland chef says there's something quite zen about sitting on a riverbank waiting for the fish to come in

Philip Johnson’s Glass House - inside and out
On the anniversary of the architect’s birth, we take a look at the legacy of his most famous domestic creation

The Interiors Monologues - Dan Fink
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

7 street foods to try in the US, Mexico, Greece and Turkey
From salads to sorbet, our cookbooks offer a great guide to street treats in popular holiday destinations this summer

A Fourth of July party pictured by Lauren Greenfield
The photographer’s 1993 image captured a new kind of wealth adoration that’s since caught on across the world

The Invention of America
On American Independence Day, we look at how old-world artists came to terms with the New World

Bruce Springsteen, Annie Leibovitz and Independence Day
These US icons go way back, as our books Annie Leibovitz at Work Portraits 2005-2016 reveal

Jean Jullien illustrates the French heat wave
Having moved back to France, the artist and Phaidon author captures summer on the continent with accuracy and wit

A Taste of American Independence Day
Hot dogs and ice cream are great ways to mark the Fourth of July, says our book, United Tastes of America

MAD’s theatre brings bling to China's jewellery city
The innovative Chinese practice has chosen an ancient motif for its winning design: junk sails

The building of Pierre Cardin’s curvy Bubble Palace
On the designer’s 97th birthday, we take a look at his famously futuristic summer house on the French Riviera

The Interiors Monologues - Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

Remembering Min Hogg
We look back at the life of the editor and designer who popularised the term "shabby chic", following her recent death

JR’s new film documents his Louvre extravaganza
The video shows how the artist engaged with the museum’s visitors not only as spectators, but also as participants

Jeremy Charles on Newfoundland's Renaissance
The chef is proud to able to bring the people and produce of Newfoundland to the wider world, via his book

The Interiors Monologues - Paul Fortune
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

When Rubens painted war for peace
On the anniversary of his birth we dig into 30,000 Years of Art to see how he combined painting and diplomacy

MoMA picks Phaidon author as its new director
Kate Fowle, the British-born co-author of our Sterling Ruby book, is the new director of MoMA PS1

Frieze adds textiles to its London fair
New section for 2019 features eight textile-based artists from around the world

Harland Miller on the YBAs, hangovers and his new book
The artist reveals why he had to drink a little less than his conceptual colleagues from the 90s

The Interiors Monologues - Jan Showers
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

Flowers, art, flags and photos: a cultured take on Pride
Phaidon authors are finding new and innovative ways to recognise the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots

Get home recipes from America's new best restaurant
Cosme’s founder Enrique Olvera and head chef Daniela Soto-Innes share domestic classics in Tu Casa Mi Casa

Want to garden like the world’s best chef? Then break the rules
In The Garden Chef, Mauro Colagreco of 2019’s World’s Best Restaurant Mirazur, urges you to go a bit wild

Talking Textiles with Hana Miletić
Textiles sometimes become 3D representations of this Zagreb-born, Belgium-based artist's street photography

When Gaudí found beauty in brick
On the great Spanish architect’s birthday we look back at his ornate treatment of this humble building block

Have a Mississippi fish fry on National Catfish Day
25 June is the day to celebrate this delicious fish, and United Tastes of America has the perfect, kid-friendly recipe

Elmgreen & Dragset on the beautiful mess of 90s Berlin
The artists look back at the fall of the Wall, what came afterwards, and their newly installed tribute to that time

The Interiors Monologues - Brian J McCarthy
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

Thierry Mugler is working on a new Wayne McGregor ballet
The designer will be in London this December, to co-direct the Bolshoi’s Svetlana Zakharova in a new production

Jeff Koons on his teenage meeting with Salvador Dalí
The artist recalls calling Dalí at his New York hotel and the gallery meeting that ensued. . .

Nordic baking is the world's most diverse Magnus tells the BBC
Chef says amateur bakers and less-than-perfect farmland gave rise to the region's incredible variation

Olafur Eliasson knows his place at Elmgreen & Dragset show
Eliasson poses in a piece by his fellow Scandinavian artists, who also take a sideways look at the art world

Pride flag adorns the steps of Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park
The New York City park has added a splash of colour to Louis Kahn’s minimal designs in Pride month

Is it time to invest in Harry Bertoia?
That's certainly the suggestion given in a new Architectural Digest article highlighting overlooked designers

The Met on the Moon
America’s biggest art museum marks the Apollo landing anniversary with a show of moon photography

These two chefs and Phaidon authors are getting married!
In fact, Cosme's Daniela Soto-Innes and Willows Inn’s Blaine Wetzel may open their own place after they've wed

Herman Miller's logo took an hour to make and is 73-years-old!
Here’s how George Nelson and Irving Harper came up with an elegant solution to a knotty visual challenge

A lack of beauty makes people stupid says Stefan Sagmeister
The designer makes the case for holding aesthetic enjoyment in higher esteem on Spencer Bailey’s podcast

Why Harland Miller's paperbacks are like Andy's soup cans
The artist has consumed and appropriated Penguin's paperbacks - just like Andy did with Campbell's cans

Watch Garden Chef Niko Romito as he takes you on a tour around his Reale restaurant garden in Abruzzo, Italy

An Art & Queer Culture guide to the Pride sale at Sotheby’s
From the Bloomsbury Group to the Lower East Side, Sotheby's Pride auction draws in a wide range of great artists

The Interiors Monologues - Penny Drue Baird
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

Want a mid-century Richard Neutra classic of your own?
Furniture and kit house company Kettal are offering two new structures based on his classic VDL House

Meet Paul the Inuit elder - one of Jeremy Charles’s Wild Bunch
In his new book, the Newfoundland chef celebrates his best ingredient: his characterful suppliers and friends

Charles and Ray Eames’s positive cosmic vibes
On the anniversary of Charles's birth here's how their Powers of Ten film helped change our view of a scary universe

Phaidon Introductions: Sam Lubell on houses and homes
The influential architectural writer looks at how domestic designs have changed to match our aspirations

Martin Parr's Flag Day Stars and Stripes
The British photographer has a keen eye for how people around the world weave nationalism into their identity

Meet Brian the Hunter - one of Jeremy Charles’s Wild Bunch
In his new book, the Newfoundland chef celebrates his best ingredient: his skilled, characterful suppliers

The sexy, deathly gaze of Egon Schiele
30,000 Years of Art looks at the Freudian impulses in the great 20th century Viennese artist - born today in 1890

The Interiors Monologues - Martin Brudnizki
The greatest designers of the century talk about Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

Marc Jacobs on Pride, married life (and skin care)
'Accept me for who I am, how I am, what I am, who I love,' the New York fashion designer says
