Kengo Kuma plays with topography in China
The Japanese architect works in local, vernacular flourishes to his China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum
Steve McCurry on being shelled in Kashmir
The Magnum photographer remembers a fateful night-time taxi ride on India's dangerous western border
Look at Christo’s plans for an Italian lake walkway
The Bulgarian artist plans to install a three-kilometre, temporary Floating Pier in time for next year’s Art Basel
Gombrich Explains Picasso
The best-selling art historian on why critics were wrong to consider cubism 'an insult to their intelligence'
My Body of Art - Luc Tuymans on Modigliani's Nude
The Belgian artist on his love for Modigliani and Balthus and what inspired his own works Body and Diagnostic View
Magnus Nilsson comes to London this week
He's in town from this weekend, hosting events, talks and opportunities to taste dishes from The Nordic Cookbook
René Redzepi is about to lose his 'taco virginity'
Noma chef will take over Rosio Sanchez's Copenhagen taco stand for one night only next month
Phaidon teams up with Designerbox
Gesa Hansen's Precious Light, one of the standout pieces in our book DIY, is the next Designerbox edition!
Steven Holl on the buildings that shaped him
How Seattle’s Space Needle, Rome’s Pantheon, and Le Corbusier’s Unité d'Habitation informed his work
Designer DIY with Hella Jongerius
Add a little poetry to your home with this charming sculpture, drawn up by the great Dutch designer
My Body of Art - New Museum Exhibitions Director Massimiliano Gioni on the Venus of Willendorf
The curator and Phaidon author tells Artspace what he sees in this ancient European fertility sculpture
Could this arachnid nab an auction record?
Insiders think this 1997 Louise Bourgeois Spider could set a new auction record for a work by a female artist
The Art of the Map - Alfredo Jaar
Chilean artist's sinking Giardini in Venezia is a humorous statement on the inequality of the Venice Biennale
A tropical identity for a Helsinki film festival
Spanish designer Pol Solsona heats up the Finnish capital with his designs for a Latin American film festival
Silver Spoon Golden Memories - Andy Needham
As part of our Silver Spoon series the celebrated L'Amorosa chef tells us about his early fact finding days in Italy
BIG blends city living with the country life
Bjarke Ingels' 79 & Park complex manages to merge 140 apartments into Stockholm's Royal National City Park
Enrique Olvera meets the farmers
On his US tour, the Cosme chef hangs out with Californian farmhands, star chefs and the Chez Panisse proprietor
Ferran at the Obamas' favourite Chinese restaurant
The influential Spanish chef tours China ahead of the Chinese-language publication of elBulli 2005-2011
How the (rest of) the world went Pop
A new show at Tate Modern looks at Pop Art from around the world - curator Flavia Frigeri talks us through it
Antony Gormley unveils E.H. Gombrich blue plaque
English Heritage honours the art historian responsible for The Story of Art, the most popular art book ever published
Steven Holl on the early days of Zaha Hadid
The acclaimed American architect recalls his encounters with the Pritzker Prize winner in London in the 70s
My Body of Art - Joel Meyerowitz on his beach photos
As a street photographer in 60s Manhattan, Joel Meyorowitz became a master at capturing the human body moving through space. In the early 80s he stepped away from the city with a View Camera - this is what happened
My Body of Art - Zhang Huan on Mountain
To Add One Metre To An Anonymous Mountain is one of his more restrained works, here he talks about it and others
Stephen Shore on his most moving work ever
The legendary photographer tells us about his experience photographing Holocaust survivors in Ukraine
Emilia Terragni on what makes a great cookbook
The New York Times considers the future of the cookbook, and finds some promising new examples in our list
What’s cooking at Noma Australia?
Ants, tropical clams, wild geese, crocodile meat and butter. Will you be booking a table at next year's pop-up?
In conversation with Melvin Edwards at Frieze
The veteran American sculptor discusses abstraction, racial politics and finding his place in the modern canon
My Body of Art - Bill Arning on Sucking Toe
We ask prominent artists, curators, collectors and academics to talk about how an artist's work affected their work. Here Bill Arning, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, discusses Peter Hujar's work and more
Remembering Hilla Becher
Following her death on Sunday we look back at the German photographer's artistic and academic legacy
Steven Holl on the future of architecture
The great US architect on how big-city projects can still introduce sensual qualities into our screen-dominated age
JR on Today (and last night)
After launching his book at a Notting Hill party last night, the artist tells the BBC how art can change the world
Get a piece of JR's art at Foyles
An exclusive work by the French artist has just been installed in the window at the store's Charing Cross branch
Meet the group bringing a Paris café to Frieze
The French art publishing collective castillo/corrales on why their booth is covered in wine stains and more
My Body of Art - Flavia Frigeri on Blue Nude III
We ask prominent artists, curators, collectors and academics to talk about how an artist's work affected their work. Today Tate Matisse Cut-Outs curator Flavia Frigeri discusses Matisse's Blue Nude III as featured in Body of Art
Will this be the most prestigious Frieze ever?
Expect perfectly conceived presentations at Masters, the odd shared stand - and some wild installations of course
Silver Spoon Golden Memories - Gabriele Corcos
The Cooking Channel chef recalls cooking with nonna in Tuscany for our 10th anniversary Silver Spoon celebrations
Jean-Léon Gérôme's Body of Art - 'Passion and skill'
A spectacle of exoticism and mythology at the moment of metamorphosis created at the end of a glittering career
The Art of the Map - Richard Hamilton
How the pop artist used the world’s most hotly contested territory as the basis for his work, Maps of Palestine
Steven Holl on New York's architecture fail
"No one would call it architecture - it’s just rent-collecting space!" he says about the new look Manhattan
Henry Darger’s Body of Art - ‘Magnificently lyrical’
The transgender children in this canonical work of outsider art are another highlight from our new book Body of Art
Fancy a quick lie down at Frieze? You're in luck!
Art collective ÅYR build a six-room installation at the art fair in a comment on 'the commodification of cosiness'
Why Jeff Wall likes this Herzog & de Meuron gallery
The Phaidon fine-art photographer appreciates what the Swiss firm has planned for his hometown Vancouver
Why Angela Merkel loves Dieter Rams
Or, at least, her 'people' do. Germany’s foremost product designer has found a permanent place in the Chancellery
Fernand Léger's Body of Art - 'A return to order'
Abstracted into tubular fragments, owing a debt to the multiple viewpoints of Cubism - another Body of Art highlight
The incredible story behind Ai Weiwei's pushchair
Royal Academy curator Adrian Locke tells us how a covert surveillance operation resulted in an astonishing artwork
The Noguchi Museum rocks out
The New York museum examines the way in which less intently worked and shaped stones can still qualify as art
Steven Holl - 'Architecture brings art into our lives'
In the first part of a wide ranging interview the great architect tells us how buildings connect us to the spiritual
JR cuts and pastes in Canada
The artist turned up for two very special openings in Canada this week - and we were there
Paul McCarthy’s Body of Art – ‘comic and grotesque'
In the second highlight from our hotly anticipated book Body of Art, we look at Paul McCarthy’s Painter
Here’s how we celebrated Massimo Bottura’s birthday
The Skinny Italian chef tucked into cake at our Bleecker Street offices in New York last week
Watch Ai Weiwei blow up a bugging device
Someone installed a few additions to the artist's home while he was away. Here's what he did to them
George Condo's Body of Art - 'So hideous, so real'
This week we're highlighting 5 artists from the eagerly anticipated Body of Art - we start with George Condo
How do you update a classic like Preserving?
Food writer Clotilde Dusoulier describes the challenges she faced in making this 1957 book fit for today’s cooks
Wilhelm Sasnal’s spooky Christopher Columbus film
The Polish artist and filmmaker draws on the New World explorer's darker side for his new short film
The Art of the Map - Maya Lin
Our latest look at an artist from Map Exploring the World making their own innovative and uncharted exploration
Rafael Viñoly's Sears Tower homage
Architect unveils new Chicago South Loop proposal - to be built one tower at a time
When Ai Weiwei met Bono
Look who has just cropped up on the roving Chinese artist and dissident’s Instagram page
Neville Brody and Jonathan Glazer brand Channel 4
'Never mind the numerals' was the brief to the two creatives asked to 'get to the heart of the channel'
Fantastic Man's favourite profiles
The magazine's co-founders talk us through their perfect picks including Tom Ford, Bryan Ferry and David Walliams
How boot camp shaped the world’s finest floral artist
Can you detect the military heritage and influences in the masterful floral creations of Belgium’s Daniel Ost?
Time to enrol at the great Italian Cooking School
Learning to cook authentic, trusted and tested Italian dishes has never been so easy, thanks to these new books
Iconic photos by Nan Goldin, Daido Moriyama, Eve Arnold and Guy Bourdin rendered in Play-Doh
As Eleanor Macnair's carefully crafted Play-Doh images get their debut showing at Atlas we ask her how it all started
A hotel to hold back the Gobi Desert
Could Margot Krasojević's high-concept sand-turbine hotel save China’s fragile northern environment?
Wolfgang Tillmans' unfiltered photo show
Is the German photographer a latterday realist? That’s certainly the implication of his current New York exhibition
How JR uses ballet to break down barriers
Why did this contemporary artist turn to classical ballet when telling the story of the 2005 Parisian riots?
Gombrich Explains the beauty in Caravaggio
The artist was born today, 29 Sept, 1571. Learn how he broke the rules to create his brutally honest paintings
Dine with Magnus Nilsson in the USA
The Fäviken chef and Nordic cuisine specialist is bringing his culinary knowledge to six US cities this November
Davide Balula knocks holes in the Gagosian
The artist chips away at Gagosian's Athens outpost in a show inspired by Ancient Greece and Gordon Matta-Clark
The Art of the Map - Olafur Eliasson
The innovative, European artist is obsessed with sunshine, as you can gather from his neon-lit map of the world
Watch a Richard Wentworth artwork take shape
False Ceiling – Indianapolis opened at the weekend, and the museum sent us this video capturing its installation
Why did Ellsworth Kelly help a toddler doodle?
Does his open-mindedness keep the 92-year-old artist creative? You might think so after reading this story
Fantastic Man's fantastic night out
Wolfgang Tillmans deejayed, Amanda Lear created the cocktails, Fergus Henderson did the food and Phaidon provided the intellectual nourishment at Fantastic Man's tenth birthday bash in Shoreditch last night
How these guys made Fantastic Man
The magazine's founders on how they went from a gay-interest quarterly to profiling Tom Ford and Bryan Ferry
See JR's Robert De Niro film in New York next week
The French artist will stage a preview screening of Ellis as part of his appearance at the New Yorker Festival
Help the Tate uncover art history secrets
A new site lets amateur researchers annotate Francis Bacon and Barbara Hepworth documents, among others
The one photo that got JR into trouble
From Brazil’s favelas to the West Bank, only one picture has got the artist into hot water. Can you guess why?
The problem Alex Katz has with waiters
The 88-year-old New York painter might have found new fans in later life, yet some perennial problems remain
The art Ed Ruscha made with his pop star friend
A new exhibition explores a little-known collaborative relationship predating Ed Ruscha’s arrival in LA
Theaster Gates and Okwui Enwezor party in Chicago
The Venice Biennale director embraces America's most exciting artist in celebration of his latest project
Enrique Olvera's still got love for the streets
He's one of the world's best chefs yet the Pujol founder can still rock street food better than anyone else
William Morris gets a makeover from Pentagram
The design agency draws on one of the Arts and Crafts Legend's own prints when creating new society identity
The Art of the Map - Jasper Johns
Maya Lin, Alighiero Boetti, Leonardo da Vinci, Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei - great artists who've also created great maps. In a new series we take a look at the ones featured in the new book Map Exploring the World
How Diller Scofidio + Renfro put hidden art on show
At LA's new museum the Broad, visitors can see the works in storage, thanks to the building's ingenious design
Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor go walkabout
We join the Phaidon artists as they walk through London today to highlight the plight of refugees
Have you seen the Bouroullecs' new TV?
The brothers' Serif TV for Samsung is designed to fit into our homes like a piece of contemporary furniture
Watch René Redzepi talk about the new Noma
Chef explains why he's relocating the restaurant and building an urban farm in this new video
Bosco de Lobos hosts Wallpaper* City Guide launch
Madrid's creatives descend on hip restaurant to celebrate the publication of the new Wallpaper* City Guide
Happy Mexican Independence Day! Now cook this!
It’s September 16, so it must be time for Chiles en Nogada - and you can rustle it up with this recipe
How Mike Kelley got from school to Superman
In honour of the late artist's new Hauser & Wirth show, we look at the genesis of Kelley’s Kandors series
Drone targets BIG's first New York building
Drone footage captures the scale and unusual beauty of Bjarke Engels' Via 57 West as it rises above Manhattan
Catch this footloose suburban gallery before it goes
The Suburban has shown Björk, Matthew Barney and Pierre Huyghe and now it's at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Tim Marlow describes Ai Weiwei’s imprisonment
Watch the Royal Academy’s Director of Artistic Programmes reveal the full horror of Ai's 2011 detention
The face of America in the Fifties
The International Center of Photography looks back at the group shot in early 20th century America
Understand the 20th century via Warhol’s prints
Sotheby’s Prints and Multiples sale majors on the pop artist’s printed editions, with over 80 works up for auction
The story behind the other Noguchi Museum
You probably know about the New York Noguchi museum, but did you know the artist founded one in Japan too?
Pharrell and David Blaine join JR in Paris
The French artist called on a few famous friends to help with the launch of his new show, film and book
Why do Japanese houses look so unusual?
That's the question Naomi Pollock asked herself on arriving in Japan - 27 years later she answers it in Jutaku
The quiet passing of a great designer
Even in death Irving Harper, the man behind the marshmellow sofa and the sunburst clock remained in the shadows
