From Book to Bid – Agnes Martin’s Praise
At auction at Christie's, this deceptively simple grid-like work from 1985 describes a simple, meditative beauty
Sarah Cain - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
Rem Koolhaas's EU lounge for the Design Museum
Discover why the lovely furniture, and scary crowd, suit the museum’s forthcoming exhibition Fear and Love
Meet Peter Koepke and his secret pattern library
Discover how Koepke's Design Library has, for decades served as the fashion business's secret inspiration source
Zach Harris - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
Ai Weiwei and Edmund de Waal’s ceramics show
The artists and ceramicists hope their new show will re-establish the medium's rightful place within fine art
Phaidon chefs top the Latin America 50 Best List!
Virgilio Martinez, Alex Atala, Enrique Olvera and Rodolfo Guzmán all placed in top 5 at last night's awards
The truth about Sterling Ruby's electric chair
The artist explains why he remade an execution tool and why he associates it with movies and Modernism
Anna Ostoya - Why I Paint
Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3
Photos That Changed The World – Steamfitter
Discover how Lewis Hine’s power-plant worker captured the dignity of industrial labour for the first time
Jack Whitten - Why I Paint
An interview with the late American painter and contributor to our contemporary painting survey, Vitamin P3
How Nigel Cooke pushes painting to its limits
The painter's smoldering new exhibition shows how he switched gallows humour for a sensual take on the form
A Movement in a Moment: Abstract Expressionism
As the Royal Academy show opens, we look back at the New Yorkers who remade painting for post-war America
Paul Smith threw a party for Grace last night!
'If you’re interested in fashion you’ve got to have her book!' says the legendary British fashion designer
Could the Bouroullecs help us create dreamier cities?
The French furniture designers turn their attention to urban reverie in a thought-provoking exhibition at Vitra
How Richard Attenborough bagged $2m in Picassos
Ahead of its Sotheby's sale, discover how the actor director put together a highly valuable ceramics collection
This is why Owen Wilson loves Ed Ruscha's work
The Hollywood star reveals his love for the LA pop artist in his voiceover for this new mini documentary
A giant cube will take shape on WTC site
Take a look at these newly unveiled designs for lower Manhattan's next arts venue - courtesy of ex-OMA architects
Why Jared Leto wants to play Andy Warhol
A clue to the Hollywood star's casting as Andy lies in a 2013 interview wherein he quotes the Pope of Pop
What the President ordered at Cosme
When it came to a final, post-UN meal, Barack Obama knew Enrique Olvera’s restaurant was the place to go
4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #4 Laughing Donut Holes
Want a smile on your face throughout 2017? Then try this simple Chinese snack, believed to help you find happiness
4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #1 Soy Sauce Chicken
Could this tasty chicken dish bring you prosperity in 2017? Our simple recipe makes it fun to find out
4 Dishes for a Healthier, Happier and Wealthier Chinese New Year #2 Lettuce Wrap with Oysters
Discover why, thanks to Chinese wordplay, a delicious dish like this could also boost your professional life in 2017
When Warhol painted the Hammer and Sickle
Did a working trip to Seventies Italy change Andy's political outlook?
Mecanoo’s wooden station is on track
The Dutch architects’ Veluwe National Park train station employs a suitably sylvan building material
Have you seen David Shrigley's cheeky pencils?
The British artist produces 30 new products - including an iPad case, notebooks and other stationary
30 years of Grace in 3 cartoons
Vogue's creative director at large animates her looks, her favourite photographers and her closest colleagues
Why Cindy Sherman has just won a painting prize
The US fine-art photographer will be 2016's recipient of Japan's Praemium Imperiale prize in the painting category
Massimo Bottura lures Aziz Ansari to Italy
After spending time with Bottura in Modena, the Masters of None creator will feature the chef in new series
Wolfgang Tillmans has had a busy week!
The fine art photographer made his runway debut at NY Fashion Week and performed with his band in Brooklyn
Why our China book nearly overwhelmed its authors
Chan Kei-lum and Diora Fong Hui-lan talk the South China Morning Post through an epic journey of discovery
Heatherwick channels MC Escher in New York
The designer weaves together 154 flights of stairs for Vessel, a new work destined for Hudson Yards
Martin Parr's community service
The Magnum president shows his caring side by shooting a bunch of Britain's most worthy local projects
Sou Fujimoto and Douglas Coupland's future vision
The architect's new pavilion provides display space for the writer's 22nd century billboard
How Ettore Sottsass made the typewriter sexy
On the 99th anniversary of his birth, learn how the designer put art, sex and self-expression into office machinery
A Movement in a Moment: Institutional Critique
Discover how artists developed a new mode of expression - by criticising public art institutions
Finding a home for James Nachtwey’s archive
500,000 images by the unflinching photographer have been acquired by New Hampshire's Hood Museum of Art
Richard Lester on his first day filming the Beatles
George shook his fist, fans chased the crew and they lost the first day of film, the Hard Day's Night director recalls
Tom Waits helps Brae win Restaurant of the Year
Dan Hunter’s restaurant clinches Good Food Guide prize thanks to great cooking - and some informal flourishes
What happened when Sarah Sze was censored
By changing one of her apolitical pieces the Chinese Government inspired Sze to create a more critical work
How Kevin Amato casts a fashion show
The fashion photographer and casting agent shares his fashion week process with the New York Times
No, this Thai skyscraper is not falling down
Buro Ole Scheeren leaves a few chunks out of the country's tallest skyscraper to reveal its inner life
Sterling Ruby is signing his new book in Berlin
Want your Phaidon book inscribed by the artist? Then get over to his new show in the German capital
The Gagosian is opening a tattoo parlour
Come to the Gagosian's NY Art Book Fair stand and get inked with works by the gallery's artists
Take a look at the USSR's long lost product designs
Discovering Utopia at the London Design Biennial looks back at the Soviet Union's take on consumer goods
Enrique Olvera gives Roger Federer a cookery lesson
Injury's kept him out of the US Open but the tennis champ found time to work on his serve with our Mexican chef
This once derelict Breuer home is now worth $2.3m
The tiny Massachusetts cottage, created with Bauhaus boss Walter Gropius, is one of his masterworks
BIG bend a car port into a luxury villa
Bjarke Ingels’ curled-up modern house packs in an inner garden, great views and space for vintage cars
Shrigley goes shopping in New York
The British artist's new Manhattan public artwork pairs a permanent medium with a throwaway message
Olafur Eliasson puts carbon on the menu
When Eliasson's studio cooked a meal for NYC’s Climate Museum director it listed one additional ingredient. . .
Inside Yayoi Kusama's Glass House
What Philip Johnson's classic piece of domestic architecture looked like after Yayoi was done with it
From boot camp to Boutique
Find out how five military clothing innovations went from the battlefield on to the high street
Scholten & Baijings make 2016's Designs of the Year
Dutch husband-and-wife duo update ancient Japanese porcelain to win a place on the Design Museum's list
Nan Goldin’s Wilde life
The US photographer goes to Reading Prison for a new show dedicated to the 19th century gay playwright
Strap yourself in for Doug Aitken's LA retrospective
MOCA is about to show seven of the artist's immersive video works as part of a new two-decade career survey
A Phaidon guide to Asia Week New York
From ancient Chinese ceramics to Afghani video art here's what to say about this month's string of shows
Stephen Shore shoots The High Line
The veteran New York photographer turns his lens on one of the city's much-loved public attractions
A Movement in a Moment: Futurism
Discover how, thanks to an early car accident, Italian artists taught us all to love the machine age
Dare you enter Pedro Reyes' horror house?
Following his fine-art psychiatric clinic the Mexican artist creates a political haunted house for Halloween 2016
Dumas, Tillmans and Ai Weiwei go to jail
The artists join Steve McQueen and Patti Smith in an exhibition focussing on Oscar Wilde's time in Reading prison
High Line architects create volcano-style resort
Diller Scofidio + Renfro beat Foster + Partners in a competition to design a new international resort in China
Why Danh Vo is still possessed by The Exorcist
Discover how a childhood screening of this horror film still inspires the Vietnamese artist over three decades later
What to expect from Pink Floyd at the V&A
Following its Bowie exhibition, the V&A will dedicate next summer’s show to the world-famous British rock group
Have you seen Grayson Perry's Christmas card?
Ceramicist joins Bob and Roberta Smith, Michael Craig-Martin and more for series of Oxfam charity cards
What's behind the trend for twisting skyscrapers?
New report ranks 28 twisting scrapers in the world right now and explains why there are many more to come. . .
Noguchi as you've never seen him before
Another Land by Leah Raintree at the Noguchi museum reimagines his sculptures as distant objects in space
Peter Doig absolutely did not paint this picture!
Why did a retired prison officer sue the artist and claim that he'd sold him a painting while in jail in the 70s?
Grace Coddington takes over the Harrods window
Vogue fashion icon's new book takes pride of place in London's most famous store ahead of next month's signing
A stadium to keep sports stars and fans cool in Dubai
Could this bowl-shaped, water-cooled building keep the temperature down on the pitch and in the stands?
Martin Parr, the Irish years
A New exhibition brings together a brilliant early trove of Martin Parr’s photography, all shot in western Ireland
Snøhetta bring gardens to this Lebanese bank
The firm's winning design for Banque Libano-Française’s headquarters also includes amphitheatre-style seating
Yoko Ono honours Ai Weiwei, Kapoor and Eliasson
The Fluxus artist and activist has chosen to honour all three with this year's Lennon Ono Grant for Peace
Yayoi Kusama turns the Glass House dotty
Discover why the Japanese artist's works are filling Philip Johnson's Glass House and grounds
Tom Ford’s Tadao Ando ranch hits the market
$75m gets you the designer's ranch, built by the Pritzker Prize laureate, right next to an old cowboy movie set
When Wolfgang Tillmans shot Concorde
Discover how the German photographer extended his artistic practice by watching South London’s skies
A hothouse High Line?
Could Philip Johnson's World's Fair relic be the next piece of NY architecture to undergo a radical reinvention?
Theaster Gates, a gazebo and Black Lives Matter
The Chicago artist hopes to bring the public structure at the heart of a police killing to his Stony Island Arts Bank
5 things we learned from Peter Marino on Artspace
The art-world architect opens up on Warhol, childhood trauma and meeting the world via the New York art scene
The Insider's Guide to Rio
Local furniture designer Zanini de Zanine shares his favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide
Turning a Turkish sea wall into a luxury island
US firm Forum Studio hope their Pearl of Istanbul project will hold back the waves and draw in the global elite
The time Danny Lyon nearly killed John Lewis
It was developing fluid, not a baton strike, that nearly brought an early end to the US civil-rights pioneer
The MAD building for the future of Chinese fashion
China's leading high-end womenswear producer hopes this Ma Yansong building with give it a design edge
JR and Massimo Bottura's Olympic lunch in Rio
The world's greatest chef broke bread with the French artist on a rooftop in one of the city's oldest favelas
Olafur Eliasson digitizes his Dieter Rams chairs
The Berlin-based artist has great taste in interior design, and the IT skills to replicate this in the virtual realm
A Modernist house that spins in the wind
Could Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley’s ReActor house help you with your domestic relationships?
How we made it to the Olympic opening ceremony
Did anyone else spot our colour-coordinated presence in the stands at Rio's Maracanã Stadium last Friday?
What Ed Ruscha sees in the Wild West
San Francisco’s de Young museum looks at the artist’s relationship with the Great American West
Sex, drugs and gardening
A wild trio of films from photographer and Erik Kessels protégé Melanie Bonajo looks for ways to fix our world
Watch Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Shed come to life
In a new animation DS+R show how their NYC building will actually move to house a wide range of programming
Ai Weiwei’s smartphone photography show
The artist and activist is bringing his Instagram shots of the European migrant crisis to Foam in Amsterdam
How Louis Vuitton created modern luggage
Discover how the designer, born 4 August 1821, prepared us all for the age of travel
Luc Tuymans themes his new show around glasses
The Belgian artist draws together a surprising array of specs-wearing subjects in his new portrait exhibition
How photography changed with the Presidential race
A new exhibition shows that despite an overload of images, smart photographers can still make their mark
JR's incredible new Olympics art revealed!
The French artist has pioneered an entirely new technique to bring images of lesser-known athletes to the games
Annabelle Selldorf: from kitchen to art gallery
Watch the architect describe how she went from worktops to Werner in New York
A Movement in a Moment: School of London
Discover how a group of painters working in the British capital during the late 20th century kept figurative art alive
Artists and designers join Hillary's 45 Pin Project
Pentagram partners Michael Bierut and Paula Scher work alongside 43 other talents in a big button drive
Steven Holl's summer house for a 19thC painter
The architect has drawn up a folly plan for the Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church's house
Mark Wallinger gets reflective at the Freud Museum
New works by the Turner Prize winner, installed to mark the 160th anniversary of Freud's birth, dwell on selfhood
Why the Smithsonian will pay you to drink beer
A newly created job vacancy asks for applicants to conduct research into America's craft-beer scene
