Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech takes shape
The city that the designer took as his second home will house a sleek, red-brick museum dedicated to his work

Why Mark Bradford thinks the Robert E Lee statue should stay
The artist says if the conversation is about the history of the US then you have to talk about that history

Have you seen Jean Jullien’s iPhone stickers for Vogue?
The French-born illustrator and author has created these cute iMessage images for Vogue’s app users

Steve McCurry 'You have to follow your passion'
"We need to get involved in situations that give purpose to our life," the photographer says in this Phaidon video

We're looking forward to the eclipse!
In the US on Monday there will be a total solar eclipse. This is how one photographer captured the 2008 one

Your chance to be a ceramic artist courtesy of The Tate
Clare Twomey opens a fascinating installation at Tate Modern next month - and you can take part

Steve McCurry 'It's the journey not the destination'
And how right he is! Watch Steve capturing one of his most iconic shots in this previously unseen Phaidon video

Ten Questions for Wolfgang Tillmans
On his 49th birthday here's another chance to read an interview we did to coincide with his latest Phaidon book

A Movement in a Moment: The International Style
Discover how a 1932 MoMA exhibition helped introduce the entire world to the joys of modern architecture

The amazing story behind this stolen Willem de Kooning
Woman-Ochre found on the wall of a New Mexico couple's bedroom where it had hung for the last 32 years

Yayoi Kusama gets her own museum
Tokyo structure that began taking shape in 2014 is at last revealed to be a shrine to the octogenarian's work

Annie Leibovitz shoots Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue
The photographer shot the highest paid actress in the world for the cover of the 125th anniversary September issue

Random International release a drone swarm
The makers of the worldwide hit Rain Room return with another interactive artwork in London

Massimo Bottura on meeting Michael Schumacher
He may love Maserati now but he still has a soft spot for the rubber burning Ferrari drivers of his youth

Why is Mary Beard planning a fake Bronze show for Frieze?
Hauser & Wirth has teamed-up with the classicist for a faux show placing Paul McCarthy beside real artefacts

Pentagram does Shake Shack's new locavore logo
Danny Meyer calls on his friend designer Paula Scher to rework her Shake Shack magic

When Pablo Picasso made textiles
As art prices spiral could textiles forge a way into collecting? A forthcoming exhibition takes a look

Peter Chadwick’s beautiful Brutalist car parks
Though some are threatened by the wrecking ball - in the designer's posters these concrete beauties live on

Edmund de Waal is working on a Wayne McGregor ballet
The ceramicist and Phaidon author is designing a new production based on Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms

Why ceramics are so this season!
From the windows of Fifth Avenue to the side projects of Hollywood’s elite, clay is making a comeback

The killer in your cat's eyes
The one part of the human body that gave Darwin a 'cold shudder' still supports his theory of evolution

Charles and Di, Prince William and North Korea
How did the Duke of Cambridge end up on a series of North Korean stamps? Our new book explains

Could this bendy skyscraper take shape in New York?
Can Manhattanites bear another super-scraper? Architects Oiio think so if the idea is original enough

Massimo Bottura and his brigade just broke for the summer
Here’s how the world-famous chef and his Osteria Francescana staff wished each other buone vacanze!

What to expect from the Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion designer’s incredible archive to be put on display in the building where he created his best-known pieces

Snarkitecture are going to build COS a giant marble run
New work inspired by the clothing brand’s autumn collection opens in South Korea this coming November

Have you actually seen Cindy Sherman’s Instagram?
The US fine-art photographer just switched off her privacy settings, and boy, is there a lot to see!

Jean Jullien brands the Connaught’s new restaurant
The Phaidon author drew some beautiful goofy new pictures for the smart but informal new dining destination

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s decisive legacy
Here’s how the surrealist turned photojournalist created the most important photobook of the 20th century

Was Arthur Dove America’s first great abstract artist?
Why this artist and part-time chicken farmer is the missing link between Cézanne, Rauschenberg and Frank Stella

JR takes to the high seas!
The French artist's image will grace the sails of this yacht when it races from France to Brazil this autumn

5 key points for the Tate’s new Bruce Nauman show
Tate Modern’s Nauman exhibition has just opened. Here’s a handful of things to think about when you visit

Sterling Ruby reworks the Calvin Klein flagship store
Ruby’s new Madison Avenue installation serves to herald the arrival of his friend Raf Simons’ Fall 2017 collection

Liz Diller on the successes, flaws and laws of the High Line
The US architect says everyone in her profession should consider the unwanted effects of outrageous success

What your fridge has in common with this Jean Dubuffet show
On the anniversary of the French artist's birth, we look forward to a new exhibition of his Théâtres de Mémoire works

What Millais thought of Beatrix Potter
On the 151st anniversary of her birth, we look back at Potter's art and the admiration it drew from one Pre-Raphaelite

JR gives Cara Delevingne a late-night French rooftop tour
The artist and activist joined the movie star high above the streets following her movie’s French premier

Does Raf Simons’ new campaign echo this Stephen Shore shot?
Simons’ new Calvin Klein campaign is shot on a road not dissimilar to the one Shore photographed 44 years ago

Have you seen Elizabeth Peyton’s portrait of Angela Merkel?
The US artist has painted a tender picture of the German Chancellor for a profile in the August edition of Vogue

The English paintings that inspired Stanley Kubrick
On the 89th anniversary of the director’s birth, we look at how eighteenth-century art found its way into his work

Pentagram creates a new brutalist logo for London
The world-famous design agency draws inspiration from the Barbican for London’s new Culture Mile identity

What we learned from Massimo Bottura’s new Netflix film
The chef’s new feature-length documentary, Theater of Life, shows how he took waste food and fed the homeless

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"

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

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

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

Barber Osgerby talk travel, relationships and design
In this new video the acclaimed design duo also describe how form doesn’t always follow function

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

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

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

These Magnum winners echo the best of the best
Magnum LensCulture Photography Awards show the influence of Greenfield, Parr, McCurry and Eggleston

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

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

When Georg Baselitz painted his Heroes
A new exhibition looks at how the artist reinvented German painting to suit a post-war perspective

A sax-shaped tower for Rotterdam's skyline
MVRDV says its twin-tower and connecting bridge “represents musicality, character and elegance”

A Movement in a Moment: Precisionism
How photography, the Ford Motor Company and Cubism shaped America’s first truly modern art movement

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

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

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

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

How Emory Douglas branded the Black Panthers
Douglas's engaging designs have earned a place at Tate Modern and the Design Museum this summer

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

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

When Joseph Beuys boxed for democracy
A new London show looks back on the German artist’s pugilistic performance at Documenta VI

A Movement in a Moment: Pointillism
Discover how an upset at a tapestry factory gave rise to one of the most striking artistic techniques

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

Preserving Louis Kahn's Salk Institute
The Getty Conservation Institute has worked hard to ensure a modernist masterpiece is restored to former glories

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

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

Enrique Olvera wins the Global Gastronomy Award
White Guide praises the Mexican chef for elevating lowly street food and unearthing ancient delicacies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Kengo Kuma's plans for Paris
The Japanese architect’s new renderings introduce naturalism to France’s most philosophical quarter

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'

Our Magnum book has made it to Arles!
Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné has been shortlisted for Rencontres d'Arles’ Historical Book Award

The painter who escaped Memphis
Artist and founder member of the Memphis group Nathalie Du Pasquier adds model-making to her practice

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erik Kessels Fails It in Europe
Curator and creative director shares some of his favourite mistakes with Europe’s gallery-goers this summer

Dan Hunter rounds off his Asia tour in style
The Brae chef creates some incredible dishes at André Chiang's Restaurant André

Magnum’s American Crisis
Here’s how the world’s leading photo agency pictured the US in earlier troubled times

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

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

Joe Bradley’s not too-mature mid-career show
Museum retrospectives usually mean artistic maturity but with Joe Bradley visitors expect, and get, goofiness
