Massimo Bottura tops World's 50 Best Restaurants!

The Italian chef's Osteria Francescana took the top spot at the awards ceremony in New York City last night

Massimo Bottura at The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards in New York, June 2016

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura

We break The 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. Read about his love of music here

Massimo Bottura's Michell Transcriptor turntable and the Monk LP that inspired a dish in his Never Trust A Skinny Italian Chef book

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura #2

We break The 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. Read how art influences his cookery

A spread from Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef, featuring Maurizio Cattelan's Tourists (1997) Dursley-Pedersen frame readymade (2003) by Simon Starling

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura #3

We break the 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. How his family influences his cookery

Massimo Bottura with his wife Lara Gilmore and their children Alexa and Charlie, 2014

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura # 4

We break the 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. Read how Italy influences his cookery

Massimo Bottura shows his colours on winning The White Guide Global Gastronomy Award earlier this year

The ingredients that make up Massimo Bottura # 5

We break The 50 Best Restaurants #1 chef down into his constituent parts. How fellow chefs influence his cookery

From left: Ferran Adrià, Katie Button, Massimo Bottura and Andoni Luis Aduriz.

3 Ice Pop recipes that are actually good for you

Try out these cooling, tasty, guilt-free summertime treats courtesy of Icelandic superchef Solla Eiriksdottir

Ice Pops by Solla Eiriksdottir, as featured in RAW by Photography by Simon Bajada

Meet Sarah Sze’s incredible, extended social circle

Pulitzer prize winning husband? Tick! Author Zadie Smith and poet Nick Laird as dinner guests? Tick! China’s ambassador to the United States as ancestral forebear? Tick! Isn't it time you got to know her better?

Sarah Sze 2016

3 Richard Sapper designs that stayed unmade

A bike that keeps you dry, a ship that stops you being seasick and Google glass - long before it came (and went)

Bicycle Umbrella Study - Richard Sapper

How you can save this Marcel Breuer building

The architect’s American Press Institute could be flattened – you can help hold back the wrecking ball

The American Press Institute by Marcel Breuer. Image courtesy of moderncapitaldc.com

Daniel and Jeppe set the table at Barneys

The Food & Beer authors dress Barneys' in-store table display in the style of Tørst and Luksus

Barneys' Food & Beer table display

Arne Glimcher talks Louise Nevelson at Pace

'She wanted the shadows cast to have the same power as the objects casting the shadow' he says

Louise Nevelson at Pace London installation shot - © 2016 Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

One thing not to miss in Basel

Heading to the Swiss city for Art Basel next week? Be sure to pack or download your Wallpaper* City Guide

 Gallery - Photo Andreas Hagenbach

This is Norman Foster's first building in Brooklyn

Up and coming Red Hook gets a glossy, glassy waterfront office block courtesy of the British architect

Red Hook - Foster + Partners

Watch out for this guy (and his limo) at Art Basel

A hippy commune, Warhol's dirty drawings and imaginary modernist sculpture also on the menu at this year's fair

Pope.L, “The Problem, Unlimited, Art Basel,” 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. © Pope.L. Photo: Christopher Burke Studio

How Marcel Breuer and his bike changed the chair

Discover how the young Bauhaus lecturer's steel-framed bicycle helped him create his famous Wassily Chair

The Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer

Bjarke Ingels talks about his Serpentine pavilion

The Danish architect told us about the cathedral-like qualities of his new creation at last night's launch in London

Architect Bjarke Ingels photographed June 8 in front of the Serpentine Pavilion 2016 designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

A first look at The Floating Piers by Christo

The veteran environmental artist's new Italian project opens in 10 days time and it's all looking pretty good so far

Aerial photograph of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Floating Piers, Project for Lake Iseo, Italy, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist's Twitter

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater explained

Discover how this perfect mid-century holiday home, kick-started the brilliant US architect's flagging career

Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. Image courtesy of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

When Breuer joined the Bauhaus

How a brilliant student made the cutting-edge products of the design school available to everyone

Man and Machine. Marcel Breuer typing at the Bauhaus Dessau, c. 1926

How clutter inspired Richard Sapper’s design classic

Learn why Sapper's own messy desktop spurred him to produce the Tizio lamp, one of today's best-loved designs

The Tizio lamp by Richard Sapper. Desk clutter not pictured

A first look at Olafur Eliasson's Versailles

The creator of the Little Sun takes on the Sun King, with an installation of clouds, mirrors and waterfalls

Olafur Eliasson and Catherine Pegard, President of the Château de Versailles, Versailles, June 6th, 2016

Danny Lyon's poignant memories of Muhammad Ali

'He was our king, our royalty, we will never have another like him. Goodbye champ - see you on the other side!'

Muhammad Ali, Miami, 1970, by Danny Lyon

Parr's Real Food and Kessels' Failures head for Arles

Magnum Photos president’s food van and curator’s failed photos to go on show at the French photo fair

Martin Parr inside his Real Food van at Photo London, May 2016

How a 91-year-old lecturer became a 2016 art star

Etel Adnan's new show at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery shows the fruits of a varied life, lived to the full

Untitled (Mt. Tamalpais 1), ca. 1983-86 by Etel Adnan; Oil on canvas 35 x 45.5 cm; Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg / Beirut

A Movement in a Moment: Land Art

Discover how a generation of artists swapped pencils for dumper trucks as they made the world their canvas


Alex Katz on his new Serpentine show

We join the painter at The Serpentine Gallery for a guided tour of what he says might be his best show yet

Our Alex Katz Contempory Artist Series book

8 more bites from André Chiang’s Asia tour

After wowing diners in Singapore and Taiwan, the Octaphilosophy chef moves on to the Philippines and Hong Kong

From André Chiang's Asian tour

Can the Venice Biennale change how the Brits live?

Forget the models and drawings the British Pavilion is addressing the UK's biggest challenge for young people

The months space at Home Economics, in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Enrique Olvera on how to build a better taco

The star Mexican chef appeared on Good Morning America to explain how he improved the famous street food

Enrique with anchor Sara Haines on Good Morning America

What happened at JR’s Louvre takeover

An all-night concert and a Greco-Roman breakfast both featured in the artist’s 24-hour Parisian extravaganza

JR and fans outside the Louvre, Paris

What's Peter Saville done to the new Tate Modern?

Legendary graphic designer has colour coded and animated Herzog & de Meuron's latest addition

Peter Saville's graphic identity for Tate Modern

One thing not to miss in Venice

Planning to visit the Architecture Biennale? Caffè Florian has entertained everyone from Proust to Casanova

Caffè Florian as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

The fascinating tale of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain

Photographed by Alfred Stieglitz, urinated on by Brian Eno, sometimes cited as the work of a German baroness, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain was arguably the first ever piece of conceptual art and harbours a fascinating backstory

The original Fountain - Marcel Duchamp 1917 - photographed by Alfred Stieglitz

Why is the USA staging a postcard show in Venice?

Find out why the US Pavilion at the 2016 Architecture Biennale is focusing on just one troubled city - Detroit

House Fire, 2013 Geoff George, Detroit, MI. From The Architectural Imagination's My Detroit Postcards

Wolfgang Tillmans takes to the roof in Mexican show

The fine-art photographer inaugurates a Mexico City billboard space with a massive new text and photo work

Wolfgang Tillmans' ¿dónde estamos? (2016) at Sonora 128. Photo by Omar Luis Olguín

Arcade Fire jump in the water with JR in Paris

The French artist just called on two of his rock-star friends to help inaugurate his new Louvre installation

Win Butler, Régine Chassagne and JR in the lake at the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

10 quick tips for brilliant Instagram food shots

The Kitchen Shelf authors Eve O’Sullivan and Rosie Reynolds have some great style advice for home cooks

A Pizzarova pizza shot courtesy of Rosie Reynolds' Instagram (@rrfoodstyle)

Sou Fujimoto's sensible building with a silly name

The Japanese architect has designed Potato Head's latest outpost in Hong Kong

A rendering for Potato Head Hong Kong by Sou Fujimoto, courtesy of Potato Head.

The world's best libraries look even better as posters

See how architect André Chiote has illustrated buildings by Norman Foster, Oscar Niemeyer, Rem Koolhaas and co

Ricardo Legorreta's San Antonio library, Texas, as illustrated by André Chiote

5 modern design updates of ancient Indian crafts

From Hermès water carriers to yoga-inspired tables, here's an Indian design update courtesy of our new book Sar

Damroo from Sar

A quick look at the new Yayoi Kusama show

Curator Marie Laurberg runs us through the work at Victoria Miro and how it relates to the artist's history

Yayoi Kusama - Photography © Noriko Takasugi

'Good design should look like this' - Richard Sapper

The late, great designer on how a humble teddy bear inspired his design for the IBM ThinkPad


Who will save Breuer's Brutalist Atlanta library?

Some see this building as the Whitney of the South. So why is the city so keen to demolish this masterwork?

Marcel Breuer's Atlanta Central Library. From our new book Breuer

How Ettore Sottsass reinvented the office space (while working on laughing gas and LSD dispensers)

A new exhibition looks at the designer's bold, though ultimately unsuccessful bid to rework the open-plan office

Adjustable typist chair from the Sistema 45 collection, 1973, by Ettore Sottsass, and the cover of Sottsass's accompanying Uffici booklet, 1973. From our Sottsass monograph

Around the world with René Redzepi

No plans this week? $135,000 to spare? Then take a foodie tour courtesy of the Noma chef and the Four Seasons


What's Olafur Eliasson got planned for Versailles?

Fog waterfalls and a disorientating arrangement of mirrors all form part of the artist’s summer installation

Olafur Eliasson Versailles, 2016. Photo Olafur Eliasson

Martin Parr reveals his Death Row Dinner

And it doesn't look like this! But what would the Real Food photographer choose for his last supper?


Erik Kessels fails his photo shoot at Photo London

The photo curator and author of new book Failed It! brings down the house - before he's even begun his talk

Erik Kessels Fails It! prior to his Photo London talk

When René Burri shot Oscar Niemeyer’s Brazil

Magnum have some of Burri's classic Brazilian shots on show at Photo London. Here's how René took them

Ministry of Health, Rio de Janeiro, 1960 by René Burri

Jean Jullien creates a skateboard line for Almost

Proof that this French artist and illustrator can appeal to all playful types - both young and old


From Book to Bid – Mapplethorpe's Calla Lily

Read how this 1984 study of a Calla Lily, for sale at Christie's, expresses the deep interplay in Robert's work

Calla Lily, 1984 by Robert Mapplethorpe. As featured in Mapplethorpe Flora

Visit our Real Food van at Photo London this week!

Good food and great books to be had courtesy of Martin and Ellen Parr at the Somerset House photo fair

Martin Parr in the Real Food caravan at Photo London May 18, 2016 photo Getty Images


Watch JR disappear the Louvre’s pyramid

The artist’s show may not open until next week, yet Instagrammers are already watching one work take shape

JR pasting up at the Louvre. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

How the Met Breuer went back to the future

Could the Met's restoration of this fifty-year old building point the way for contemporary art gallery architecture?

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 1963–6; view from corner. From our new Breuer monograph

Coop Himmelb(l)au creates two museums in one

The Austrian practice has designed two co-joined museums for Shenzhen - one for art, the other for architecture

Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition by Coop Himmelb(l)au

Take a look at Zaha Hadid's incredible paintings

The late Pritzker laureate's unrealised painterly plans go on display at a career retrospective in Venice this month

Hafenstrasse Development, Hamburg 1989. © Zaha Hadid Architects

Brutalist car park becomes a wooden skyscraper

Well it's one way to turn a much loved but outdated 20th century relic into a 21st century apartment complex. . .

Trätoppen by Anders Berensson Architects

A Movement in a Moment: The Düsseldorf School

Find out how a husband and wife’s photos of industrial buildings changed photography forever

Water Towers (Wassertürme), 1980 by Bernd and Hilla Becher. As reproduced in Art in Time

Christian Marclay's animated street photography

Discover how the maker of The Clock has turned London’s pavement rubbish into an engaging set of video works

Cigarettes, 2016 (video still) by Christian Marclay. Christian Marclay

Tom of Finland and assume vivid astro focus - Affordable on Artspace

braxas ventriloquists animal fetishists is a collaboration between the artist duo and the Tom of Finland estate


Chris Martin paints Amy Winehouse

Find out why the American painter themed his current exhibition around the British singer’s untimely death

Amy(2015) by Chris Martin. Image courtesy of the David Kordansky Gallery

What Stephen Shore sees in Anselm Kiefer

Photographer Instagrams Kiefer's Operation Sea Lion painting, a sarcastic comment on a Nazi UK invasion plan

Detail: Operation Sea Lion by Anselm Kiefer, photograph by Stephen Shore. Image courtesy of Stephen Shore's Instagram

How the trees shaped Steven Holl’s latest building

Architect's drawings reveal how he used the canopies of Pennsylvania's trees to guide the form of this arts building

Holl's drawings for the new Visual Arts Building at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by Steven Holl. Image courtesy of stevenholl.com

What's going on at Photo London next week?

Well, Martin Parr’s caravan, Wolfgang Tillmans’ EU posters and Erik Kessels' failed photos for starters!

A sneak preview of something we're bringing to Photo London

One thing not to miss in Copenhagen

Want to enjoy a Jørn Utzon building without going to Sydney? Then visit this pick from our Wallpaper* City Guide

Bagsværd Kirke (1976) - Jørn Utzon from our Wallpaper* City Guide. Photo by Sarah Coghill

Wolfgang Tillmans - 'Brexit is unpatriotic'

The artist is encouraging young Brits to vote to stay in Europe with a series of snappy posters, downloadable here

Wolfgang Tillmans and one of his EU Referendum posters

Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory explained

Find out how the Spanish Surrealist went from penniless painter to toast of the NYC artworld in one single canvas

The Persistence of Memory (1931) by Salvador Dalí

3 Food & Beer pairings you need to try tonight!

Daniel Burns and Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, authors of Food & Beer, pick the best craft beers for these great dishes

Berliner Weiss and meat and cheese plate, as featured in Food & Beer

Daniel Young's top 20 best pizza places in the world

Our Where To Eat Pizza author has just revealed the top 20 pizza places on planet earth - is your local on the list?

Baest Copenhagen - photo by Per-Anders Jorgensen

A Movement in a Moment: Photorealism

Find out how, in the mid-20th century, a group of painters stopped worrying and learned to love the camera

Telephone Booths (1968) by Richard Estes

Why was this 70s concept car such a hit at Frieze?

Turner Prize shortlisted atist Anthea Hamilton’s Mario Bellini homage was a welcome touch of hippy nostalgia

Anthea Hamilton, Frieze Projects, Frieze New York 2016. Photograph by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower/Frieze.

Annabelle Selldorf's grand designs

Find out how the NY architect built the new Steinway Hall inside the old Center of International Photography

Steinway Hall by Selldorf Architects

A letter to André Chiang - from his mother

To mark US Mother’s Day, we examine the deep relationship between this great chef and his mom

André Chiang and his mother Tina Lin

André Chiang makes the cover of GQ

The former model and Octaphilosophy chef defies kitchen health and safety regulations in new photo shoot


One thing not to miss in New York

The New Museum, NYC's peerless art institution, is the top pick from our Wallpaper* City Guide this Frieze Week

The New Museum, New York

Anne Collier - Affordable on Artspace

Her Double Exposure photograph steers clear of narcissism but is full of compelling contradictions

Double Exposure #2 - Anne Collier

A Movement in a Moment: German Expressionism

Find out how, a little over a century ago, a group of young artists put personal experience into painting

Two Men at a Table (1912) Erich Heckel. As reproduced in Art in Time.

5 reasons why Paul McCarthy is not just about icky

Put off by the nudity and ketchup? Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff on what to really look for in a great artist's work

A Skull With A Tail 1978 - Paul McCarthy

Photos that changed the world – 24 Hrs In Photos

Find out how Erik Kessels printed off a single day of Flickr uploads to demonstrate the ubiquity of digital images

24 Hrs In Photos, 2011, by Erik Kessels

The search for Edward Hopper's Nighthawks diner

It’s the most famous corner in American art history, parodied by Banksy and the Simpsons, but where was it?

Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper. As reproduced in Silent Theater

Patrick Grant's favourite photo from Real Food

We've heard how his new collection was inspired by Martin Parr's Boring Postcards - here he is on Parr's new book

South Ronaldsay & Burbay Horticultural & Industrial Society prize winner - Martin Parr from Real Food

Sarah Sze - Affordable on Artspace

Her Images in Debris print is a great way to add this important contemporary artist to your collection


New Sou Fujimoto book explains how he did this!

The balconies on the architect’s L’arbre Blanc building in Montpelier have confounded everyone – until now

L’Arbre Blanc, Montpelier - Sou Fujimoto

Annabelle Selldorf hits the right note in NYC

Iconic artists, gallerists and curators all dropped in to the contemporary architect’s recent Phaidon book launch

Annabelle Selldorf at Steinway Hall, New York, for her book launch, May 2016

3 cool Mona Hatoum works in the new Tate show

Clarrie Wallis, curator of Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern, talks us through 3 pieces in the new retrospective

Undercurrent (red) 2008 - Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern, photo Mat Smith

Where to Eat Pizza at Frieze NY

Author Daniel Young picks the best pizza at Frieze NY this week and the city's other great art-world pizza places

A Margherita from Roberta's - photo courtesy Frieze

Is Maurizio Cattelan bringing a donkey to Frieze NY?

The Italian artist plans to reprise one of his most famous installation works - but just how will he do it?

Portrait of Maurizio Cattelan, 2007, Photo Pier Paolo Ferrari

Have you seen Jordan Wolfson's new animatronic?

Why does the artist’s latest sculpture look a lot like Alfred E. Neuman, MAD magazine’s infuriating mascot?

Colored sculpture, 2016 by Jordan Wolfson. Mixed media, overall dimensions vary with each installation. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London and David Zwirner, New York photo by Josh White

How Paul McCarthy befriended Bobby Fischer

McCarthy reveals benign figure staring through the window at his 1974 artwork was the troubled chess champion

Paul McCarthy performs Whipping a Window and a Wall with Paint in 1974, just as chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer walks passed. As reproduced in our new Paul McCarthy monograph

Come and have dinner with Eve and Rosie!

Our Kitchen Shelf authors host a special event with Soho House's Barber & Parlour next week. Why not come?

Rosie (left) & Eve - our Kitchen Shelf authors

How Martin Parr's Phaidon book inspired Patrick Grant's new men's and women's collections

'Boring Postcards was the hub of a wheel of inspiration' says the E.Tautz and Norton & Sons head

Martin Parr and Patrick Grant at the launch of his book Real Food at Patrick's E. Tautz shop

3 tips for Frieze NY - chosen by Frieze NY

Pack light, don’t miss the new galleries and do check out the sci-fi costume play house-music ballet!

Frieze fair-goers arrive on Randall's Island. Photograph by Marco Scozzaro. Courtesy of Marco Scozzaro/Frieze.

André Chiang’s Octaphilosophy tour in 8 bites

In the spirit of Chiang’s eight-point philosophy here is an octet of highlights from his worldwide book tour

Chef and Phaidon author André Chiang

How Paul McCarthy turned action painting obscene

Find out how the artist changed the heroic gestures of Pollock and co. into an abject critique of 20th Century USA

Still from Painter (1995) by Paul McCarthy

Zen and the bitterness of beer brewing

We shun bitter flavours in food, yet embrace them in beer. Why? Brewer and author Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø explains

The Zen-like gypsy brewer and Phaidon author Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø


Photos That Changed The World - Twirling Wires

From 1930 until 1960 photography was premised on transparency. Roger Ballen was one of the photographers who changed that, seeking out those members of society who could not be so easily understood


Is the new Beyoncé video a tribute to Pipilotti Rist?

The singer's brilliant new video for Hold Up bears some striking similarities to Rist's equally great 1997 work

A still from Pipilotti Rist's Ever Is Over All (1997) and Beyoncé's Hold Up (2016) videos