Cui Jie - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

The Art of the Plant – Rob Kesseler
This hand-coloured electron microscope scan shows how beautiful tiny pieces of the natural world can be

Christie's Strangest Sales – The Lady in Disguise
Discover the tragic tale behind one of Christie's earliest consignors, courtesy of our new book Going Once

How Monica Bonvicini put the sex into construction
The artist's first UK retrospective demonstrates how this Italian artist finds erotic charge within the built environment

Can you guess what this new Pentagram logo is for?
Paula Scher turns pictures into words in this new identity for a Canadian healthcare charity

Take a look at Paul McCarthy's tortured dwarves
Artist's latest show demonstrates just how he can't leave these pop-cultural obsessions alone

Dive into Doug Aitken’s Underwater Pavilions
Discover why the Californian artist's latest installation lies under the waves 22 miles off LA's coastline

Caragh Thuring - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

When Mies went wild in the country
Our new book Elemental Living looks at the great modernist’s bucolic getaway project, the Farnsworth House

Bob Nickas on his genre-busting new painting show
Are the pictures in Nickas’s exhibition figurative? Are they abstract? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’ and also ‘maybe’

Herzog & de Meuron mix art and science at the RCA
Discover how a Phaidon author is helping the Swiss practice rework the Royal College of Art Campus

The Art of the Plant – Marc Quinn
Best known for Self - a cast of his blood-filled head, the sculptor has also found inspiration in the natural world

Elizabeth McIntosh - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Why Darwin was confused by birds
Birds helped Darwin formulate his theory, but not every species suited his breakthrough as our new book explains

Christie's Strangest Sales – Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels
Discover how the actress acquired a $140 million collection, thanks to her ping-pong skills, among other talents

Gerhard Richter says art is the highest form of hope
In a rare new interview the painter reasserts the solace and comfort that fine art can offer humanity

Grace's greatest photographers – Arthur Elgort
To herald the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue's Grace Coddington runs through some of her favourite photographers, including the New Yorker whom she refers to as her “travelling companion”

Snøhetta help Saudis see the future
Could this new building enable one of the world's biggest oil states to find its place once the wells run dry?

Beautiful and bizarre beasts behind Darwin's theory
Photographer Robert Clark's new book offers some striking supporting evidence for the theory of natural selection

The Art of the Plant – Piet Mondrian
The abstract painter is best known for his De Stijl works, yet he found early inspiration in the natural world

How Magnum recorded the discord in Mao's China
Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonne looks back at a 1960s trip through the Cultural Revolution

Zaha Hadid and the first wooden football stadium
Architects reveal plans for a 5,000 capacity new home for British eco-friendly side Forest Green Rovers

How Nigel Cooke has a blast in the studio
How loud music and an abundance of enthusiasm led to a life model being covered in emulsion paint

When Mona Hatoum videoed a private moment
To pee or not to pee? The artist recalls inviting visitors to a gallery toilet to make an alarming choice

Patrizio di Massimo - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

A first look at Nan Goldin's drawings
Discover the deeply personal origins of the photographer's drawings on show for the first time

Christie's Strangest Sales – A salvaged £3m Spitfire
How a downed WWII fighter was saved from the coastal sands and went on to achieve seven figures at auction

Anselm Kiefer goes to Viking heaven
The German artist wrestles with Norse mythology, identity and recent history in forthcoming London show

The world's best chefs are set to swap restaurants
Who knows where Massimo, Virgilio and co. will end up cooking tomorrow, at the Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle

A Movement in a Moment: Cobra
How the first truly international post-war avant-garde movement was founded on this day 8 November in 1948

Grace's greatest photographers – Bruce Weber
To mark the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue magazine's Grace Coddington runs through some of her favourite photographers, including this all-American master of fashion photography

When Cecil Beaton shot Mick Jagger
Her Majesty in the morning, Mick in the afternoon. A page from the 1968 diary of the great British photographer

The Art of the Plant – Edward Steichen
Great images by artists and photographers who've been inspired by our natural world

The fine art posters that fired a revolution
A new exhibition looks back at the home made stencilled posters that bolstered the Bolsheviks

T Magazine’s Elemental Living weekend getaway
The NY Times style mag offered a virtual weekend escape via Instagram and our book Elemental Living

Why Josef Albers’ squares began in black and white
David Zwirner’s current Josef Albers exhibition shows the monochromatic side of the great artist and colour theorist

Celia Hempton - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

John Pawson turns bunker into ancient art gallery
This Berlin bunker might appear rather brutal but it's now home to some rarefied East Asian art and furnishings

A Movement in a Moment: Humanist Photography
A look at the photographers who used their burgeoning skills to create a new sense of dignity

How to mix the perfect autumn cocktail
As Daylight Saving ends it's time to enjoy an autumnal drink, courtesy of our new book Regarding Cocktails

Could Trump's wall become a Luis Barragán tribute?
That's certainly the proposal from Mexican architects who've painted the candidate's border barrier Barragán pink

Grace's greatest photographers - Peter Lindbergh
In honour of Grace Coddington's new publication, Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, the Vogue legend name checks some of her favourite photographers, beginning with the man who inaugurated the supermodel era

The Art of the Plant – Thomas Ruff
More great images by artists and photographers who've been inspired by flora

Robert Mapplethorpe by Juergen Teller
The fashion photographer combs through Mapplethorpe's archives to show unseen sides of Robert's work

Christie's Strangest Sales – Holly Golightly's dress
How the world’s most famous dress went for £.5 million, funding schools for poor Indian children

How you got a drink from the world's best bar man
Milk & Honey founder Sasha Petraske had some clear rules about who could drink on the house - here they are

Will this LA house be in Blade Runner 2049?
This Frank Lloyd Wright building doubled as Deckard's apartment in the first film. Could it make the sequel?

The mysterious wolf in today’s dogs (even this one)
In our new book Evolution photographer Robert Clark looks into the ancient, lupine origins of man's best friend

Virgilio and André Chiang hit the night market
The great Peruvian chef met up with his Asian counterpart for street-food fun on his haute cuisine world tour

The Art of the Plant – Irving Penn
In a series of excerpts from Plant: Exploring the Botanical World we look at artists inspired by flora

When the imperfect is perfect!
Discover why Japan’s finest ceramicists don’t hide their faults, but celebrate them

Leidy Churchman - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

George Lucas goes MAD for Star Wars museum
Following the unveiling of two new museum proposals, we look at what drew the director towards MAD Architects

The Art of the Plant – Ellsworth Kelly
In a series of excerpts from Plant: Exploring the Botanical World we look at artists inspired by flora

Nigel Cooke on the sanctity of Bacon's studio
For Cooke, the relocation of Frances Bacon's studio both monumentalised and violated his creative space

Sandra Gamarra - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

The story behind Sterling Ruby's Stoves
Art, craft, or something else unprecedented? Read how the artist collapsed the wall between art and non art

When Magnum captured a moment in Manhattan
The dreadful events of September 11 were recorded in countless images - none more powerful than these

Aliza Nisenbaum - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Christie's Strangest Sales - A Rembrandt Rumpus
How one buyer's complicated bidding signals backfired badly when a Rembrandt was auctioned at Christie's

Virgilio Martinez and friends give food for thought
Food on the Edge festival plays host to nourishing bites from Massimo Bottura, Daniel Burns and Will Goldfarb

Marwan 1934 - 2016
We look back at the work of a veteran Syrian painter whose work many were only just beginning to appreciate

Daniel Boyd - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

A high-rise for Africa's slums
Nigerian designer Olalekan Jeyifous envisions a multi-storey dystopia for Lagos’s poorest citizens

The dark heart of Nigel Cooke’s Bathers
Discover how this lush, lewd painting by the UK artist examines the ultimate mystery that lies at the centre of his art

When Picasso met René Burri
On the anniversary of Picasso's birth, we take a look at a momentous meeting of two impressive talents

Andy Warhol’s body of art
The Andy Warhol Museum’s new show looks at how the artist examined his body and others in a series of works

Have fun at Annabelle Selldorf’s YMCA
Reworked by Selldorf Architects the YMCA where Warhol was once a member is on the market for $14.5m

Laura Lancaster - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Danny Lyon and the New Journalism
A new exhibition shows why we should view the photographer’s 20th century shots as faithful first drafts of history

Oscar Murillo - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

MAD's glowing home for China's leading orchestra
China Philharmonic Orchestra has just revealed its brilliant new Beijing concert hall designed by MAD Architects

Watch Pharrell kiss Agnès Varda in JR's new film
The artist introduced francophone audiences to a few of his famous pals in a new Canal + video, Carte Blanche

Happy birthday Arita!
Nestling among rice fields the Japanese town, famed for the purity of its porcelain, is 400 years old this year

Massimo and Kerry James Marshall are NYT Greats
The chef and the painter join William Eggleston, Lady Gaga, Junya Watanabe and Michelle Obama on Greats List

Phaidon authors dominate ArtReview's Power 100
From Ai Weiwei to Yayoi Kusama, Hans Ulrich Obrist to Isa Genzken, Phaidon folk feature highly in this year's list

Brooklyn's in bloom!
Phaidon teamed up with Garden Collage in a horticultural paradise to celebrate our new book Plant

Madame Tussauds is building a Yayoi Kusama zone
A replica of the Japanese artist will go on display inside a polka-dot themed room in the Hong Kong branch

Virgilio's brush with Gwyneth Paltrow on US tour
The Peruvian chef mingled with authors and even a Hollywood star during his book tour of North America

Rafael Vega - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Wallpaper* City Guide launches in Paris
The Amastan hotel provided a cool, polished setting to celebrate the publication of the new guide

What did David Bowie write on this design classic?
Discover the stories behind this Sottsass piece and others in the singer's collection on sale at Sotheby's

When Abbas shot the Islamic Revolution
The Iranian photographer is one of the many greats featured in Magnum Photobook The Catalogue Raisonné

The story behind Sterling Ruby's Super Max
With typical sleight of hand Ruby uses minimalism and landscape while at the same time critiquing them

Alex Katz is designing an H&M collection
The artist is offering his images on womenswear, menswear, accessories, and home décor this Christmas

Toby Mott on the punk poster that caused a car crash
The Oh So Pretty Punk In Print 1976-80 compiler on the distraction a risqué Slits poster caused one London driver

Ulrike Müller - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

How Aussie builders could save this Brutalist gem
Sydney's construction unions ban their members from knocking down architecturally important Sirius building

Martin Parr turns his lens on Belfast
In a new exhibition the Magum President photographs Northern Ireland’s burgeoning tourist boom

Zbigniew Rogalski - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Dad lost his £3m Warhol work? Then make a movie
Lisanne Skyler’s new film Brillo Box (3¢ Off) traces her dad's pop art bargain from the streets of NY to Christie's

The school that linked the Bauhaus to the iPhone
New London show looks at the Ulm School which brought scientific thinking to 20th century design

Why Obama just visited Theaster Gates' arts centre
The President came to the Stony Island Arts Bank to help a local politician, and warn against bad election choices

Christine Streuli - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Toby Mott on the punk poster every collector wants
Punk graphics archivist and Phaidon author shares another highlight from his new book in this short video

Meet Tomi Ungerer (and his lost classics)
The author is coming to London next month to discuss his life and work. Find out how you can get tickets

Patricia Urquiola’s spiritual stainless steel collection
The Spanish designer’s new collection for Georg Jensen makes this simple material look remarkably luxurious

Why the Queen just gave Martin Parr a bronze acorn
The photographer was honoured alongside Iwona Blazwick and Cornelia Parker at the Royal Academy yesterday
