Theaster Gates cuts a live jazz record at his Swiss show
Gates' Black Monks of Mississippi record their performances directly onto disc and release them on his new label

The painting that pushed Luc Tuymans to 'authentic forgery'
On his 60th birthday, we look at an early self-portrait and a crisis that led him to draw on a wide range of sources

Phaidon triumphs in American printing awards
The Printing Industries of America has singled out three of our new titles in its 2018 Premier Print Awards!

John Lanchester on Andoni Luis Aduriz
On the Mugaritz founder's birthday, one of Britain's greatest writers sums up one of Spain's greatest chefs

Trevor Paglen’s Last Pictures
The artist’s selection of black-and-white photos aims to show future civilisations what life on earth was like

Christo on Stalinism, Van Gogh and his new work in London
The artist explains how he went from the Eastern Bloc to building an oil barrel pyramid on a lake in London

Raf Simons reworks a Chair that Matters for Design Miami
The Calvin Klein designer is showing his version of the I Feltri Chair at the design fair's Basel event

We have a right to good buildings say Grafton Architects
Architecture should be less about objects and more about subjects, according to the Venice Biennale curators

David Hammons’ ghost pier gets the go ahead
The NY Senate changed laws to OK the artist's tribute to Gordon Matta-Clark and a former gay meeting place

Daniel Patterson remembers Anthony Bourdain
Patterson, Ferran Adrià and René Redzepi pay tribute to the US writer and TV presenter who died a few days ago

How Marvin Rand's photos inspired Theory's new collection
Creative Director Martin Andersson tells us how he drew upon the horizontal lines of the mid-century LA buildings photographed by Rand to create Theory's elegant new collection

A different view of the RFK funeral train
A new show of vernacular photography marks 50 years since Bobby Kennedy's body was laid to rest
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Martin Parr takes a British summer holiday - in March
The photographer went to the English seaside four months too early to shoot his 2018 Farah campaign

Why a 1965 Sottsass living room is being recreated in Basel
New show suggests that the Beat generation helped Ettore Sottsass break away from modernism

Massimo and Alex Atala star in JR's Paris Refettorio film
Watch this day in the life of a haute-cuisine soup kitchen - from rough sleepers to 3-Michelin-star-chefs

How Industrial Facility do more with less
In an age of plenty Sam Hecht and Kim Colin always look for ways to simplify and improve the landscape of objects

Elmgreen & Dragset set a vulture loose in Regent’s Park
The bronze bird will join pieces by John Baldessari and Tracey Emin in this year's Frieze Sculpture installation

Shore and Mapplethorpe's Warhol photos feature in new show
Museum exhibition includes wallpaper, posters and candid snaps to capture Andy’s production line approach

Why Snarkitecture look to Georgia O’Keeffe and Eero Saarinen
The New York studio draws on the work of two 20th century greats when developing its contemporary designs

The buried pleasure palace loved by Michelangelo and Raphael
Emperor Nero's Golden House was buried after his reign but it didn't stop these Renaissance masters getting in

Trevor Paglen’s surveillance-free safe space
The artist’s Autonomy Cube lets gallery goers go online anonymously

Olafur Eliasson creates a brick tower for the Lego family
The Fjordenhus is the first building designed entirely by Eliasson and his team and it opens on Saturday

What would Fredrik Berselius bid for at the Phillips design sale?
The Aska chef and design enthusiast picks out his highlights from the auction house's New York lots

'This is probably the first instance in the art world where a black person took part in a capital competition and won'
Kerry James Marshall on why Sean Combs paid $21m for his painting Past Times at Sotheby's the other week

Your presence is required at the Swedish Residence. . .
The Swedish Consul threw a party for Aska chef and author Fredrik Berselius last week - here's what it looked like

Wolfgang Tillmans and Rem Koolhaas rebrand the EU
The photographer and architect are in Amsterdam this weekend dreaming up ways to give Europe a bit of TLC

Fredrik Berselius wows diners in London and Amsterdam
Brooklyn's hottest chef wins over Europe's diners, VIPs, the press and key influencers

The monk who made Botticelli burn his paintings
Meet the Italian friar who's one of the worst villains in art history and popularised the phrase, Bonfire of the Vanities

Jean Jullien gives a face to a brainy plant
How do you explain plant neurobiology? With a little help from a great artist and illustrator, that's how

Trevor Paglen’s robot revolutionary
The artist says his portrait of a dead revolutionary shows how tech may come to be used to kill off dissent

Viktor&Rolf get dolled up for new show
The Dutch design duo mark 25 years in fashion with a show of life-sized and miniature haute couture

Where Ellsworth Kelly’s colours came from
On the 95th anniversary of his birth, we examine how he was inspired by European painters and American birds

Here's Jean Touitou 'trying so hard not to be negative'
The outspoken APC founder was in London last week and he just couldn’t let it go – from instagram influencers to booking agencies, fashion parties ('an abyss of sadness!') to Jane Birkin referencing CVs...

Grace Coddington puts her cats on the catwalk
The Vogue creative director puts her pets Pumpkin and Blanket at the centre of her new Louis Vuitton collaboration

The man who turned Robert Ryman onto jazz
On the artist's 88th birthday we look back at the influence jazz teacher Lennie Tristan had on his art

Picasso joins Ferran Adrià in the kitchen
The elBulli chef’s paintings and drawings form part of a new show examining Picasso’s enduring interest in food

5 Chairs that matter to the Homepolish team
Awesome and aesthetic seating chosen from our new book Chair by five interior designers with attitude

JR buddies up with Pace to change our cities
The artist joins FuturePace, a new place-making partnership which uses art to invigorate the urban environment

Martin Parr’s very British Brexit show
The photographer sizes up Brexit Britain in a sharp show timed to coincide with the UK’s exit from the EU

California Captured in LA (and New York!)
Take a look inside our launch events with Theory ahead of our interview with Creative Director Martin Andersson

Why Theaster Gates believes black magazines matter
He's staging a show examining the Johnson Publishing Company, once the largest African-American publisher

Ferran Adrià will reopen the elBulli site next summer
The chef and Phaidon author plans to open his research lab elBulli 1846 in June 2019

Massimo brings in new faces to combat London's food waste
The chef cooked up some surprising treats, and dreamed of a time when drones might serve food to the needy

Olafur Eliasson is opening a pop-up restaurant in Iceland
The artist plans to open in Reykjavik with his sister, serving the kind of food his studio workers enjoy every day

Why Andy Warhol started Interview
As the magazine Andy launched finally goes down the tube we look into why he set it up in the first place

High-speed photo pioneers inspire Sarah Sze's new show
The artist looks back to Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton in her new work, Images in Debris

A birthday cake fit for Martin Parr
As the great British photographer celebrates his 66th birthday, we take a look at his best baked goods shots

See red (and blue, green, yellow) with John Pawson in London
Photos from the architect's exquisitely colour-banded book Spectrum stand out in a hit new exhibition

Fire Island and Pet Shop Boys made Tillmans groove again
The photographer describes getting back into making music - now he plans to include some in his next exhibition

Trevor Paglen subverts classified military insignia
Why does the artist collect secret military patches? And what do they tell us about warfare today?

The hidden message in Robert Indiana’s Love
Following his death, we look at how this work evolved from a Christmas card into an appeal to Ellsworth Kelly

Our exciting California Captured collaboration with Theory
We've teamed up with the fashion label to showcase the vision of mid-century master photographer Marvin Rand

Nancy teaches America to cook authentic Japanese cuisine
Japan: The Cookbook's author shares her knowledge with everyone from Google to the New York Times

The exhibition that pushed NYC to the art world's centre
The Ninth Street Show opened 67 years ago today. Here's how it focussed and clarified the city's art scene

Pope Francis agrees with Massimo - Bread is Gold!
We cannot fault the Papal choice of inflight reading - Massimo Bottura's latest cookbook is a great read

Fredrik Berselius takes Aska on the road
If you're in Europe here's your chance to sample Brooklyn's hottest chef without taking a transatlantic

'And now ladies and gentlemen... Heeere's Grace!'
Did you know that the Phaidon author and Vogue creative director at large is planning her own talk show series?

How Yardbird gave a home to Hong Kong's 'transient regulars'
Chef, Phaidon author and restaurateur Matt Abergel tells us one of the secrets of his success

The poignant truth behind Kerry James Marshall's new $21 million Sotheby's auction record
Here's why Marshall's work, Past Times, embodies the artist's struggle to place black people in grand paintings

D.O.M. - Where Chefs Eat in São Paulo when they dream of rainforest ingredients reassembled as art
At D.O.M. Alex Atala has single-handedly put experimental, fine-dining Brazilian cuisine onto the world stage

Betak turns a Berlin power station into a maze for Omega
And Cindy Crawford's daughter was the star of the fashion show master's dazzling party set

However you're feeling today Jean Jullien has a badge for you!
Express yourself courtesy of the illustrator with these brass pins that put a face to every feeling

The decline and fall of the gentlemanly art thief
In The Museum of Lost Art Noah Charney explains why today's criminals favour car bombs over cunning

Pineapple and Pearls - Where Chefs Eat in Washington when a fennel absinthe bonbon and potato ice cream are called for
The bill is paid upon reservation here, removing the pain of settling up at the end of a great dining experience

A bite (and byte) sized take on Photo London
The fair takes in every continent and technological period in a wide-ranging survey of global image making

Did Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman share some moves?
An upcoming Tate show brings the two artists together, drawing out some surprising parallels in their work

Massimo and friends launch first televised restaurant awards
Founded by Phaidon author Joe Warwick, The World Restaurant Awards aims to mirror the glamour of the Oscars

Want to go vegan, Coachella style?
The rock festival’s food event Eat Drink Vegan, comes to Los Angeles at the end of the month

Naoto Fukasawa helps Muji launch its first hotel
Fukusawa’s minimal product designs gild this paired-down new Japanese hotel in China

Ferran Adrià went back to school to launch this restaurant
The elBulli chef who celebrates his 56 birthday today, is about to open a new Italian restaurant in Turin with Lavazza

London's turning Japanese this summer
Japan House London is set to turn us all on to Japanese cuisine and culture when it takes over the old Biba store

The Nordic Cookbook is on Meghan and Harry’s wedding list
The Sunday Times reports that the Royal couple have put Magnus Nilsson's cookbook on their wedding list

Sex, madness and the Met’s summer show
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection, showcases one man’s tastes

Sustainability, shoes, celebrity and why a book should be like a magic box - Anna Dello Russo at Central Saint Martins
The editor turned social media star tells an eager crowd why she thinks paper’s still important

So why do artists destroy their own work?
In The Museum of Lost Art Noah Charney explains how vanity and reinvention lie behind the urge to slash and burn

Is this Stephen Harris and The Sportsman's BIGGEST book award yet?
The Sportsman won Cookery Book of the Year at last night's Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards

Wolfgang Tillmans is working on a World War II Requiem
The photo artist has teamed up with ENO to stage a production of a Benjamin Britten choral masterpiece

How, after death, Hokusai changed art history
On the anniversary of Hokusai’s death, we look at how his work altered the course of Western art

De Kooning's great, late period tops Christie’s sale
Unfairly criticised when it was exhibited 20 years ago, Untitled XIX went for a cool $14m at auction this week

The posters that populated Paris in May '68
On the 50th anniversary of the street protests, we look back at the chief image-makers of the age, Atelier Populaire

Chris Noey and Hank Willis Thomas do Bottega Veneta in style
The artist and The Artist Project founder were on fine form at our canapé reception in New York on Tuesday!

Where in the world is this ghostly Klimt portrait?
Scholar and sleuth Noah Charney takes us on the hunt for lost, stolen and destroyed art in The Museum of Lost Art

Frieze VIPs taste the fine art of Aska
Artists, writers, gourmets and gallerists joined us at the Michelin-starred Williamsburg restaurant to toast Frieze NY

Why Industrial Facility treated their book like a movie
Kim Colin and Sam Hecht were at the Design Museum last night talking about the creation of their new book

Erik Kessels talks about making a success out of mistakes
The ad man, curator and photo collector shares his wisdom with fellow creatives in Munich, Zurich and Hamburg

Pray Tell - Where Chefs Eat in Toronto when they want an intimate setting for enjoying small plates and shareable platters
The ambience is fantastic in this cozy snack bar and the cocktails are on point too. Be sure to try the pizza pocket!

What’s inside Snarkitecture’s Fun House?
The art, architecture and design practice will create a weird domestic environment in their first museum retrospective

The incredibly imaginative world of Frank Stella's prints
New Princeton show reveals how Stella threw every reproductive process known to art into his printmaking

The British camera that helped Winslow Homer capture the US
A new show looks at how Homer's first camera, made in England, helped the American artist loosen up

Can you spot an Anish Kapoor among these record sleeves?
Secret 7", the art, music and charity show, returns to London this summer with another sale of fine-art singles

How Tina Barney pictures great artists
Frieze visitors get a closer look at Barney's remarkably intimate images of the world's greatest artists

This is what Doctor Who looks like as Robert Mapplethorpe
Or is it the Duke of Edinburgh? The star of the Crown and the sci-fi series plays the photographer in a new movie

Isn't this the perfect crown for Tomi Ungerer!
The French-born artist was made an honorary member of his adoptive nation’s guild in Dublin this week

The New Museum is heading to London
One of our favourite New York art institutions will host its first UK show at The Store during Frieze week in October

Don't miss this if you're visiting New York City!
Going to Frieze in NYC? Destination Architecture recommends you check out this Manhattan marvel

Maison Publique - Where Chefs Eat in Montreal when Welsh Rarebit and an all Canadian wine list seems like a good thing
This Jamie Oliver backed pub is a popular weekend brunch spot for local hipsters and Brit-food fans alike

Frieze New York goes back to the Eighties
2018 gallerists go back three decades, courtesy of work by Richard Prince, David Byrne and David Sedaris

Enrique Olvera just opened a cool little tortilla place
And if you're going don't bin the packaging - the food is wrapped in vital info on Mexican culinary culture

Slow food, fast cars and now perfect timing - Massimo Bottura teams up with Florentine watchmaker Panerai
Hear the chef talk about tradition and innovation in this new video

How Marlene Dumas sees Venus and Adonis
The artist’s new show offers a contemporary, explicit take on Shakespeare’s version of the classical myth
