Is Google going vegan?
It’s certainly trying to get its cafeteria diners to eat less meat, via tasty new tacos and other "power dishes"
![Chickpea Curry Burritos with Mint and Chilli Sauce -
from Vegan: The Cookbook](/resource/235-chickpea-curry-burritos-1.jpg)
Who wants a pop-up, mobile beach house?
A British firm has developed a mobile, self-assembling holiday home, which pops up in around 10 minutes
![One of Ten Fold's beach huts. Image courtesy of tenfoldengineering.com](/resource/tenfold1.jpg)
Did Alice Cooper’s ghoulish live show help him snag a Warhol?
The US shock rocker’s electric chair routine may have prompted his girlfriend to buy a print from Andy for just $2.5k
![Little Electric Chair (1963) by Andy Warhol. As reproduced in our Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné](/resource/warholelectrichair1963.jpg)
How a lost suitcase helped launch A.P.C.
Jean Touitou’s new capsule collection recalls the label’s beginnings, with a return to its seminal HIVER 87 line
![Items from A.P.C.'s new HIVER 87 capsule collection. Images courtesy of apc.fr](/resource/hiverlead.jpg)
Barber Osgerby talk travel, relationships and design
In this new video the acclaimed design duo also describe how form doesn’t always follow function
![Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Vitra workshops, Basel, Switzerland, 2010. Picture credit: courtesy and copyright © Barber and Osgerby studio](/resource/097-eb-and-jo-vitra.jpg)
5 art inspired chess sets on International Chess Day
From Memphis to the Bauhaus, here’s how the modern and contemporary art world has reworked the game
![Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Man Ray's chess set](/resource/duchampwitmanrayset.jpg)
MAD’s sci-fi base for a truly futuristic car company
Faraday Future’s space-age facility might help usher in an age of superfast, zero-emission self-driving vehicles
![MAD's Faraday Future campus. All images courtesy of MAD](/resource/madfarraday2.jpg)
Virgilio Martinez is building a restaurant beside this Inca ruin
The chef’s 60-seat establishment and food lab references the region’s pre-Columbian place within the Inca Empire
![Virgilio's photograph of Moray, July 2017. Image courtesy of the chef's Instagram](/resource/incaruin1.jpg)
These Magnum winners echo the best of the best
Magnum LensCulture Photography Awards show the influence of Greenfield, Parr, McCurry and Eggleston
![Motel, Virginia, 2015. © Lissa Rivera. Portrait Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2017](/resource/lissa-rivera-09.jpg)
Have you seen the art of Evelyn Waugh?
New show draws together wide array of the novelist’s little-known, surprisingly expressive and funny visual works
![Napoleon (1929) by 'Bruno Hat'. All images courtesy of Maggs Bros](/resource/13-bruno-hat-napoleon-1929-photo-maggs-books.jpg)
What will art look like in the age of AI?
A new show wonders what life and art might be like when mankind takes its anticipated big leap forward
![Aleksandra Domanovic, Things to Come, 2014 © Aleksandra Domanovic, Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin](/resource/thingstocome.jpg)
When Georg Baselitz painted his Heroes
A new exhibition looks at how the artist reinvented German painting to suit a post-war perspective
![Georg Baselitz The modern painter (Der moderne Maler) , 1965 Oil on canvas 162 x 130 cm
Private collection © Georg Baselitz, 2017 Photo: Frank Oleski, Cologne](/resource/the-modern-painter-1965-1.jpg)
A sax-shaped tower for Rotterdam's skyline
MVRDV says its twin-tower and connecting bridge “represents musicality, character and elegance”
![The Sax by MVRDV. All images courtesy of MVRDV and WAX Architectural Visualisations.](/resource/saxtower4.jpg)
A Movement in a Moment: Precisionism
How photography, the Ford Motor Company and Cubism shaped America’s first truly modern art movement
![Charles Sheeler, American Landscape, 1930, as reproduced in Art in Time](/resource/sheelerlandscape.jpg)
A brief history of French Fries
On National French Fries Day here’s a fast-food style overview, courtesy of our book The World is Your Burger
![A waitress at Carl's Jr. as reproduced in The World is Your Burger](/resource/049-carls-jr-waitress.jpg)
Frank Lloyd Wright's smart plan to fix the great depression
The architect planned to create prefab farming units - complete with crèches and beauty parlours
![A 1932 illustration of Davidson Little Farms Unit by Frank Lloyd Wright. Image courtesy of MoMA](/resource/frank-lloyd-wright-where-should-our-food-come-from.jpg)
Can you make out Basquiat’s name in this abstract art show?
McArthur Binion includes pages from his address book in works that contradict perceived truths about abstract art
![DNA:Splops:III (2017) by McArthur Binion. All images courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, London](/resource/bim-507-001.jpg)
Did you know the Woolmark was made by an Italian Futurist?
A new exhibition traces the progression of Franco Grignani from the avant-garde to slick commercial design
![Franco Grignani, Woolmark logo, 1963. Image courtesy of the Estorick Collection and Archivo Manuela Grignani Sitroli](/resource/press-image-5.jpg)
How Emory Douglas branded the Black Panthers
Douglas's engaging designs have earned a place at Tate Modern and the Design Museum this summer
![Emory Douglas, ‘H. Rap Brown (Man with Match)’, 1967. As reproduced in California: Designing Freedom](/resource/emory2.jpg)
How Italian family life inspired this artist
Emma Hart created her new show during a six-month trip, taking in ancient Rome, family therapy - and pottery
![I Want What You've Got, Even In My Sleep (2017) by Emma Hart. All images courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery](/resource/hart-i-want-what-youve-got-1170x655.jpg)
A 21st century winter garden for Denmark’s chilly new city
COBE plans to carve out a leafy public park inside this windswept block on the edge of an old port
![Cobe's PFA Ejendomme building in Nordhavnen, Copenhagen, Denmark. All images courtesy of cobe.dk](/resource/cobe-pfa32.jpg)
When Joseph Beuys boxed for democracy
A new London show looks back on the German artist’s pugilistic performance at Documenta VI
![Hans Albrecht Lusznat, Beuys boxt 08.10.1972 Nr.26 0170-29 1972, photograph, 9 1/2 x 12 in / 24 x 30.5 cm © Hans Albrecht Lusznat, 2017. Image courtesy of Waddington Custot](/resource/beuysboxingmatch1.jpg)
A Movement in a Moment: Pointillism
Discover how an upset at a tapestry factory gave rise to one of the most striking artistic techniques
![Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–86) by Georges Seurat. As reproduced in Art in Time](/resource/suerat-lagrandejatte.jpg)
Monica Bonvicini thinks Toni Schmale is one of the best new artists in the world right now
Machines that serve no function, ferociously hot metal, psychoanalytic theory - the italian artist says Schmale is the one to watch at new BALTIC Artists' Award show
![Toni Schmale left and Monica Bonvicini in front of Toni Schmalz's 170 grad 2017 BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
All photos Mat Smith](/resource/monicaandtoni.jpg)
Preserving Louis Kahn's Salk Institute
The Getty Conservation Institute has worked hard to ensure a modernist masterpiece is restored to former glories
![](/resource/salkrestored12-9968-4784-low.jpg)
Have you seen Jean Jullien’s summer collection?
The French artist and illustrator has collaborated with the designer Jae Huh to create a new clothing line, NouNou
![A t-shirt from NouNou's new line](/resource/nounou1.jpg)
Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans and Phaidon artists create ES covers to celebrate London's resilience
Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing, and Jamie Hewlett make up all star cast of contemporary art talent
![Today's ES covers by (clockwise from top left) Jamie Hewlett, Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Antony Gormley, and Ai Weiwei. All images courtesy of the London Evening Standard](/resource/esmagcompnew.jpg)
Enrique Olvera wins the Global Gastronomy Award
White Guide praises the Mexican chef for elevating lowly street food and unearthing ancient delicacies
![Enrique Olvera. Image courtesy of White Guides](/resource/white-guide-olveraagain-300.jpg)
Finally, the perfect scent to accompany our new book!
Commes des Garçons has launched a scent in a concrete bottle - the ideal accompaniment to our mini-format book
![Our new mini-format book, Concrete, and Concrete by Commes des Garçons](/resource/commesandconcrete.jpg)
This LA concrete classic is the star of this new xx video
Alasdair McLellan makes a video for The xx with help from Raf Simons, Calvin Klein and a little LA modernism
![Ashton Sanders and Paris Jackson in the new xx video, I Dare You](/resource/xxfranklloydwright6.jpg)
Why this French chef thinks French food is overcooked
Vegan author Jean-Christian Jury explains how his countrymen pack in the taste, but leave out the nutrients
![Vegan author Jean-Christian Jury at Melissa's Produce](/resource/jeanchristianjury2.jpg)
Summer with Warhol and the Kennedy kids
What happened when Jackie O’s kids came to stay at Warhol’s summerhouse? Lots of fun, says to Jonas Mekas
![Andy Warhol filming through the window with Lee Radziwill looking over his shoulder, Montauk, August 1972. Jonas Mekas. All images courtesy of Boo-Hooray and Jonas Mekas](/resource/warholmekas1.jpg)
Bad colour is like junk food says Hella Jongerius
Dutch designer and Phaidon author argues for a new view of colour in Design Museum show
![Breathing Colour at the Design Museum photo by Virginia McLeod](/resource/hellacolour1.jpg)
U2 screen JR’s new Syrian refugee film
The band have worked JR’s latest video piece into their current 30th anniversary Joshua Tree world tour
![JR's photograph of Omaima at a recent U2 concert in New York. Photograph by Marc Azoulay. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram](/resource/jrsyrianrefugee1.jpg)
Joel Meyerowitz talks French nonchalance
As Joel's Arles show opens, we look back at his earlier photographic jaunt around Europe, half a century ago
![Joel Meyerowitz. Photo by Maggie Barrett. Image courtesy of Rencontres d'Arles. © Maggie Barrett](/resource/artist-thumbnail-206.jpg)
How tennis changed the way we dress
As Wimbledon begins, Colin McDowell explains how an elitist sport's high-class clothing hit the high street
![Woman in tennis outfit - Toni Frisell 1947](/resource/150-1-tennis-outfit.jpg)
Want to try René Redzepi’s new foraging app?
The Noma chef has just launched a new wild food initiative, helping inexperienced foragers identify foodstuffs
![A morel mushroom. Photograph by Hans Henrik Hoeg, courtesy of Vild Mad](/resource/rneforagingapp.jpg)
A Sottsass penthouse in New York - yours for just $19m!
OK, it's pricey, but then again it is a perfectly preserved example of the Memphis founder’s interior design
![Sotheby's Sottass Penthouse. All images courtesy of Sotheby's](/resource/edf21a38-9e31-8103-6b04-a41bdf747872.jpg)
Restaurant André reaches for the (Michelin) stars
Chef André Chiang’s eight-point culinary philosophy wins him two Michelin stars in the new Singapore guide
![André Chiang (right side of the table, in the middle) and his Restaurant André brigade enjoy a rather un-Michelin pizza party. Image courtesy of Restaurant André](/resource/andregroupsho1.jpg)
How Paul Klee remained creative until the end
On the anniversary of the artist’s death, we look back at how Klee didn’t let illnes or Nazism degrade his talents
![Senecio (1922) by Paul Klee. As reproduced in The Art Book](/resource/senecio-1922.jpg)
Kengo Kuma's plans for Paris
The Japanese architect’s new renderings introduce naturalism to France’s most philosophical quarter
![Kengo Kuma & Associates' renderings for 1hotel. Images courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates](/resource/aurore-t5b-07.jpg)
The elBulli guys just made the perfect beer for Mexican food
Or Peruvian, Chilean or any Latin cuisine for that matter. It's fresh, red, flavoured with corn and is called Unloved'
![Malquerida beer, produced by Damm, with a little help from the world's greatest culinary genuises](/resource/malq-beer.jpg)
Our Magnum book has made it to Arles!
Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné has been shortlisted for Rencontres d'Arles’ Historical Book Award
![A spread from Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment, as reproduced in Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné](/resource/026-cartier-bresson-b-i.jpg)
The painter who escaped Memphis
Artist and founder member of the Memphis group Nathalie Du Pasquier adds model-making to her practice
![An installation view of Nathalie Du Pasquier's new exhibition at Pace in London. Copyright Nathalie Du Pasquier, Courtesy Pace Gallery](/resource/du-pasquier-inst-2017-v24.jpg)
Can you spot Utopia in among this wreckage?
Monika Sosnowska’s new show at Hauser & Wirth LA looks back at a hopeful world that was built, then destroyed
![Untitled (2015) by Monika Sosnowska. Photo by Bartosz Gorka.
All images courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth](/resource/d-dsc5646-sosnowska-hires-sosno78551-74zt5p.jpg)
Time to grow your own insects?
The Austrian designer Katharina Unger thinks you might pay over $500 to have beetle larvae living in your kitchen
![Livin Farms Hive. Image courtesy of Livin Farms](/resource/livinhive1.jpg)
Why the Whitney is making its Calder show move
The NY museum has taken the unusual step of animating Calder’s mobiles, with a little bit of help
![Hanging Spider (c. 1940) by Alexander Calder. Image courtesy of the Whitney](/resource/large-calder-hanging-spider-main-beauty-shot-final.jpg)
Walt’s first map of Disneyland sells for $708,000
Drawn up for an investment pitch, the map bearing Disney’s own annotations has just been auctioned in LA
![Walt Disney and Herb Ryman's original Disneyland map. Image courtesy of Van Eaton Galleries](/resource/disneymap.jpg)
BIG, Adjaye and Sou Fujimoto vie for a Scottish bandstand
The world-famous architecture firms are all shortlisted for Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion Design Competition
![A rendering from Adjaye Associates' bid for the Ross Pavilion International Design Competition.
All images courtesy of Malcolm Reading Consultants](/resource/adjaye-associates-04.jpg)
Meet the same-sex couple who got married 14 times
Two years on from the same-sex marriage ruling, we look back at one couple whose wedding vows knew no bounds
![Elizabeth Stephens and Annie M. Sprinkle (pictured centre) The Love Art Laboratory (detail, Blue Wedding to the Sea – an Ecosexual Performance Art Wedding 2009), 2004 – 11 Action. As featured in Art and Queer Culture](/resource/love-art-lab.jpg)
Erik Kessels Fails It in Europe
Curator and creative director shares some of his favourite mistakes with Europe’s gallery-goers this summer
![Fabulous Failures by Erik Kessels at Le Botanique in Brussels. Image courtesy of Erik Kessels](/resource/fabfailures2.jpg)
Dan Hunter rounds off his Asia tour in style
The Brae chef creates some incredible dishes at André Chiang's Restaurant André
![Dan Hunter, André Chiang and the team from Restaurant André](/resource/danandadreteam.jpg)
Magnum’s American Crisis
Here’s how the world’s leading photo agency pictured the US in earlier troubled times
![A spread from Magnum's America in Crisis. As reproduced in Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné](/resource/magnumcrisis3.jpg)
Do you know LA’s Cool School?
A new show brings together Ed Ruscha and others to look at how LA artists approached painting in the '60s
![](/resource/billy-al-bengston-skinnys-21.jpg)
When Wolfgang Tillmans shot Pride
For Pride month we look back at Tillmans’ coverage of the 1992 event and the different ways he’s exhibited it since
![Gay Pride, 1992, magazine spread, i-D, september 1992, by Wolfgang Tillmans](/resource/047-i-d-spread.jpg)
Joe Bradley’s not too-mature mid-career show
Museum retrospectives usually mean artistic maturity but with Joe Bradley visitors expect, and get, goofiness
![Mother and Child (2016) by Joe Bradley.
All images courtesy of the artist and the Albright-Knox](/resource/motherandchild2016.jpg)
Anish Kapoor dyes this earth red in memory of refugees
The artist’s new exhibition, Destierro, encourages visitors to think about the changing nature of national borders
![Anish Kapoor beside Destierro (2017). Image courtesy of Parque de la Memoria](/resource/redkapoor4.jpg)
Were watercolours Sargent’s Instagram?
A new exhibition looks back at the way this master oil painter recorded briefer glimpses of life on paper
![John Singer Sargent, Group of Spanish Convalescent Soldiers, c. 1903, watercolour on paper, over preliminary pencil, with body colour, 29.9 cm x 40.7 cm, Private Collection.
All images courtesy of Dulwich Picture Gallery](/resource/key-76-group-of-spanish-convalescent-soldiers.jpg)
We found the perfect spot for our latest book launch!
Here’s why a gallery in a once-derelict London block proved the perfect fit for our new title, Ornament is Crime
![The Isokon Gallery. Image courtesy of isokongallery.co.uk](/resource/tdg-isokon-gallery-lo-07.jpg)
Marina Abramović in the library, with the ancient manuscripts
That might sound like a Cluedo round, but it’s actually a good description of the performance artist’s new exhibition
![Marina Abramović in the Black Diamond, Denmark. Photo: Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Laura Stamer. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Institute's Instagram](/resource/marina-lead-library.jpg)
Doug Aitken wants to you to smash up his garden
Why has the artist has combined a hothouse with a live-streamed wrecking room in a Danish warehouse?
![Installation view of Doug Aitken, The Garden 2017. Photograph by Doug Aitken Workshop. Photograph by Doug Aitken Workshop.](/resource/gardensmasher1.jpg)
Happy birthday Helvetica!
Javier Mariscal, Pep Carrió and friends mark the typeface's 60th with some specially commissioned posters
![From right: Hey Studio and Atlas's Helvetica posters, commissioned to mark the typeface's 60th birthday.
All images courtesy of 60helvetica.com.](/resource/helveticalead.jpg)
Want to buy Picasso’s consolation ring for Dora Maar?
When Picasso’s lover threw a ruby ring into the Seine he made her a new one - it's at auction at Sotheby's tomorrow
![Bague de forme ovale, portrait de Dora Maar (c. 1936-39) by Pablo Picasso. All images courtesy of Sotheby's](/resource/doramaarring.jpg)
Elmgreen & Dragset pit Lee Miller against President Erdoğan
The curators of the 2017 Istanbul Biennial want to use neighbourliness to combat intolerance and inequality
![Lee Miller and Man Ray at a Paris shooting gallery, c.1930](/resource/ray-and-miller.jpg)
Brae's Dan Hunter on tour in Asia!
Discover how, on his East Asian tour, the Brae chef's Kitchen Do's and Don'ts made it on to his fans' walls
![Dan Hunter with chefs Jowett Yu and Peggy Chan](/resource/jowett-hu-dan-hunter-peggy-chan.jpg)
Brae is now the top restaurant in Australia
Here’s how Dan Hunter’s locavore Melbourne establishment won over his fellow Aussie chefs and restaurateurs
![Dan Hunter at Brae](/resource/brae-oct-2014-col9219.jpg)
Why American modernism is older than you think
A new show adds weight to the argument that modernism came to the US decades before the Ab-Exers
![Edward Hopper: Approaching the City, 1946, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.. All images courtesy of Museum Barberini](/resource/hopper-anfahrt-in-eine-stadt-phillips-collection.jpg)
Meet the godfather of political memes
Decades before Corbyn and Trump fans shared their JPEGs - John Heartfield was cutting and pasting politics
![Nach Zwanzig Jahren! (1924) by John Heartfield. As reproduced in The Photography Book](/resource/nach1.jpg)
How Barber Osgerby made an anti-office office chair
There are no levers sticking out of the Pacific chair - a minimalist approach prompting Norman Foster to order some
![The Pacific Chair from Vitra. Image courtesy of Vitra](/resource/22528419.jpg)
Looks like JR just made it into the dictionary
French artist joins Donald Trump and Youtube as new additions to the 2018 Le Robert Illustrated Dictionary
![JR in the Le Robert Illustrated Dictionary 2018. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram](/resource/jrindictionary2.jpg)
Don’t worry Matisse (probably) didn’t read Ulysses either
On Bloomsday we recall what happened when Henri Matisse illustrated James Joyce’s modernist classic
![One of Matisse's 1934 illustrations for James Joyce's Ulysses](/resource/matisseulysses-cyclops.jpg)
Why this summer is mushroom season at Gagosian
Carsten Holler returns with Reason, a new fungi-focused show at the Gagosian on West 24th Street
![Carsten Höller, Flying Mushrooms, 2015, Installation view, “Carsten Höller: Decision,” Hayward Gallery, London, 2015 Polyester mushroom replicas, polyester paint, synthetic resin, acrylic paint, wire, putty, polyurethane, rigid foam, stainless steel 16’ 8 3/8” × 28’ 3 3/8” × 28’ 3 3/8” (5.1 × 8.6 × 8.6 m) Artwork © Carsten Höller. Photo by Ela Bialkowska. Courtesy Gagosian.](/resource/2flying-mushrooms.jpg)
Was Eadweard Muybridge the first Silicon Valley pioneer?
On the anniversary of Horses Trotting, a brief look at how tech, cash and ambition first came together in Palo Alto
![Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion, 1878](/resource/the-horse-in-motion-high-res.jpg)
Pentagram designs graphics for Trumpian take on Shakespeare
Paula Scher produces series of Shakespeare in the Park posters befitting a distinctly 2017 take on Julius Caesar
![Pentagram's new subway poster for Public Theater's 2017 production of Julius Ceasar.
All images courtesy of Pentagram](/resource/ps-shakespeareintheparksignage-4.jpg)
Robert Mapplethorpe’s two American Flags
On Flag Day we look at his Stars and Stripes photos and ask what they reveal about the artist
![Robert Mapplethorpe: American Flag, 1977. (c) Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc.](/resource/flag1977mapplethorpe.jpg)
Look at Theaster Gates’ incredible record and book collections
New video shows how the US artist and activist repurposes collections to uncover new perspectives on culture
![Frankie Knuckles' record collection at the Stony Island Arts Bank, as shown in the new Art21 video](/resource/frankieknucklescollection.jpg)
The Sportsman wins Restaurant of the Year (again!)
Stephen Harris’s Kent coast establishment won in both the restaurant and gastropub categories last night
![The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent](/resource/sportsman-lead.jpg)
Jenny Holzer’s classified Constructivism
A new exhibition of the US artist’s work uses Rodchenko-style abstraction to illuminate shadowy documents
![Two of Jenny Holzer's new Redactionw works. From left: Splayed 23; (S). All images © 2017 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Jake Forney, courtesy of Hauser & Wirth](/resource/jennyholzerlead.jpg)
Dan Hunter brings Brae to Hong Kong
The acclaimed Australian chef joins Richard Ekkebus at Amber in Hong Kong for a stormy four-hands dinner
![Dan stands beside a window display promoting his Amber dinner with Richard Ekkebus in Hong Kong. Image courtesy of Dan's Instagram](/resource/danposter1.jpg)
Bean burger or hamburger?
That was the question being asked in New York last week when we threw launch parties for our new food titles
![Shake Shack's Mark Rosati (centre right) at The World is Your Burger launch party](/resource/sam-1247.jpg)
Looking back at the Pride Flag
This LGBT Pride Month we remember Gilbert Baker, the creator of one of California’s most potent protest symbols
![Gilbert Baker, original eight-stripe Gay Pride flag, 1978. As reproduced in California: Designing Freedom](/resource/prideflag1.jpg)
Nendo turns tombs into a fun park in Japan
The Japanese architecture and design practice draws on ancient burial motifs (and pizzas) for its first park
![Tenri Station Plaza CoFuFun by Nendo. Photo by Takumi Ota. All images courtesy of Nendo.](/resource/tenri-station-plaza-cofufun06-takumi-ota.jpg)
How to get a taste of Massimo Bottura’s Refettorio food
Want to try Refettorio dishes, but don’t want to pretend to be homeless? Here's how you can do it
![Massimo Bottura’s Fusilli with Breadcrumb Pesto. Image courtesy of Cafe Monico's Instagram](/resource/cafemonico1.jpg)
The altarpiece that helped art break away from the church
Duccio’s Maestà Altarpiece was unveiled 706 years ago today to some fanfare - here's how it heralded a new age
![Duccio Maestà Altarpiece, 1308–11 Tempera on panel (detail). As reproduced in The Art Museum](/resource/duccio-maesta1021.jpg)
Ai Weiwei turns the Armory into a surveillance play park
The artist and activist is reunited with Herzog & de Meuron for an immersive trip into digital mass monitoring
![Ai Weiwei inside Hansel & Gretel. Image courtesy of Ai Weiwei's Instagram](/resource/aiwwhansgetel2.jpg)
Who's the boss of mid-century design?
A new exhibition looks at the relationship between mid-20th century designers and their corporate overlords
![Design for an IBM work station by Gary Huxtable, 1956. Courtesy of the J Paul Getty Trust and Cantor Arts Center](/resource/huxtable-desk-drawing.jpg)
Does democracy work in art?
As Britain goes to the polls, we look at the democratic processes within the artworld’s most prominent groups
![Claire Fontaine: Grève Humaine (Interrompue). Installation view of ‘Claire Fontaine Inhibitions’, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, 2009–10. Courtesy Reena Spaulings. Photo: Farzad Owrang](/resource/139-claire-fontaine.jpg)
Magnum Photos get closer (and cheaper)
The photo agency’s latest print sale focuses on ways in which photographers have got close to their subjects
![Mrs Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal. 1950. Venice. Italy © David Seymour / Magnum Photos](/resource/david-seymour-magnum-photos-par311052.jpg)
A Movement in a Moment: Young British Artists
On Damien Hirst’s birthday, we look back at the London movement that propelled him and his fellow Brits forwards
![Opening party for “Freeze,” part 2, with Richard Patterson (left) and Damien Hirst (right). As reproduced in Biennials and Beyond](/resource/1261-cr-freeze-opening.jpg)
How Charles Rennie Mackintosh changed the Vienna Secession
Discover the architect and designer's often overlooked influence on Austria’s famed art movement
![Koloman Moser, cover of Ver Sacrum II: iv, 1899 (picture credit: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg). From Art in Vienna](/resource/164-moser-ver-sacrum.jpg)
How this clever watercolour design by Pritzker Prize winners RCR Arquitectes became Albert Adrià’s new restaurant Enigma
![Engima restaurant in Barcelona- photo by Pau Llimona courtesy of RCR Arquitectes](/resource/paintinginspiredenigma.jpg)
Kathrina Grosse paints Denmark pink
Aarhus's coastline gets a dash of colour, courtesy of this wild, German site-specific abstract painter
![© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017 / Photo: René Dame, Phlox Films](/resource/kathrina1.jpg)
A first look at Massimo Bottura’s London Refettorio
His Refettorio Felix just opened, serving fine food to the needy - here’s why he doesn’t mind being asked for chips!
![Massimo Bottura and his London volunteers at Refettorio Felix. Image courtesy of Food is Soul's Instagram account](/resource/felix2.jpg)
JR does the cover of the new Arcade Fire album
The artist’s desert installation features on the band’s new record cover and in new video Everything Now
![JR's Everything Now installation for Arcade Fire. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram](/resource/arcadefirejreverythingnow.jpg)
A Movement in a Moment: Social Practice
JR, Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson are at the vanguard of a new movement. But what exactly is it that they're doing?
![Cutlery extensions by Quynh Vantu, Grey Sheep, 2011. Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson. © Institut für Raumexperimente, UdK Berlin. From Studio Olafur Eliasson: The Kitchen](/resource/232-culinary-extensions.jpg)
This guy eats more plant-based protein for breakfast than anyone you've ever met - and he looks good on it!
On Meatless Monday meet Kyle Michaud, founder of VegFest Expo and champion of all things vegan
![Kyle Michaud founder of Tri-State VegFest Expo and more](/resource/kyleleadtwo.jpg)
MAD make the walls come alive in this Beijing bathroom
The Chinese architects rethink art bathroom conventions setting LEDs into the walls of Roca Beijing
![The Roca Beijing Gallery by MAD Architects. Image courtesy of MAD Architects](/resource/madgallery5.jpg)
Elmgreen & Dragset’s Fjord focus
The art duo’s latest sculpture Dilemma recalls the early childhood urge to both leap and hold back
![A rendering of Dilemma (2017) by Elmgreen & Dragset. Image courtesy of the artists and Ekebergparken](/resource/diverelmgreendragset-diver.jpg)
A Marilyn Monroe postcard from Ellsworth Kelly
On the 94th anniversary of the artist’s birth we look back at his little-known (and often stolen) mail art collages
![Marilyn Monroe/Shadows (1974) by Ellsworth Kelly. As reproduced in our Ellsworth Kelly book](/resource/kellypostcard5.jpg)