Is Jeremy Corbyn enjoying an Enrique Olvera taco?
The Labour leader was trying the food on offer at the Day of the Dead celebrations in London this weekend
My Body of Art - Judith Zilczer on Brancusi, Léger and the mechanomorphic representation of the body
The renowned curator, art historian and writer alights on a few talking points from our new book Body of Art
Inside the Wallpaper* City Guide Paris launch
We launched our Paris Wallpaper* City Guide at the city's SOME/THINGS concept store - here's what happened
Grace Coddington comes to Phaidon
The creative director of US Vogue takes a break from the Condé Nast offices to sign copies of her new book
From Book to Bid – Andy Warhol’s Electric Chair
One of Warhol’s Death and Disaster paintings is coming up for sale, but do you know what it is about?
My Body of Art – Foam Photography Museum curator Kim Knoppers on Providence, Rhode Island
The Foam photography curator explains why Francesca Woodman's image is still so relevant 40 years on
Win Massimiliano Gioni’s 100 best-loved books
The New Museum's artistic director has chosen 100 Phaidon titles he deems essential - and you can win them all
Steven Holl’s dance project premiers on Friday
The architect’s collaboration with New York choreographer Jessica Lang opens at Chicago’s Architecture Biennial
Why has an ad agency 'stolen' this JR artwork?
Relax! Deutsch's removal and sale of JR’s African banners on behalf of a water charity is an 'art heist for good'
Jamie Hewlett’s erotic tarot pine tree show
The Gorillaz artist brings together three disparate sets of work which all, nevertheless, share suggestive qualities.
Peter Marino’s plans for Robert Mapplethorpe
On the 69th anniversary of his birth we look at a new show of the photographer’s best and least-known images
From Book to Bid - Gerrit Rietveld’s Berlin Chair
Learn how this chair in Christie's design sale embodied the De Stijl's designer's struggle with symmetry
My Body of Art - Catherine Opie on Bandaged Ear
The photographer explains how Van Gogh's self portrait influenced what she calls 'the gaze' in her own work
Steven Holl comes to a halt in Moscow
Impressive geometric housing scheme close to the Kremlin sadly fails to get the go ahead
JR’s Hollywood romance
Darren Aronofsky is the latest Hollywood name to work with JR - and Angelina Jolie made the introduction
From Book to Bid - Shiro Kuramata’s Miss Blanche
Learn why the Japanese designer's best-known chair could fetch £200k when it goes up for auction in London
My Body of Art - Fantastic Man’s founders on the influence of works like Portrait of Ross in LA
Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers consider the effect AIDS had on the way gay men’s bodies were portrayed
Mussolini’s Roman palazzo is Fendi's new HQ
Mussolini's Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana is now home to the fashion house - more reason to wear black if visiting
The Art of the Map - Mona Hatoum
Why did the Palestinian artist make Present Tense from olive oil, glass beads and thousands of blocks of soap?
Designer DIY with Ross Lovegrove
Make this cut-price Memphis-style lamp by following these simple instructions courtesy of the star designer
My Body of Art - JR on Spencer Tunick's Consumed 2
We gave JR a copy of Body of Art to browse through, here are a couple of highlights he picked out from it
Want to make Day of the Dead bread?
Remember the dearly departed this Día de Muertos with this sweet loaf courtesy of Mexico: The Cookbook
Steven Holl on Childhood, China and The High Line
The architect recalls building boyhood tree houses - as well as some more recent and rather trickier commissions
Will Renzo Piano get another Shard off the ground?
The architect's new plans for a glass tower in Paddington could fall foul of London's anti-skyscraper lobby
My Body of Art - photography critic Philip Gefter on the power of Robert Mapplethorpe's male nudes
The author and photographic critic explains how photography and gay rights became intimately intertwined
Magnus Nilsson gives us a geography lesson
Wine+canapés+geography lesson = a great Nordic Cookbook launch at the Swedish Embassy in London last night
Guy Bourdin's double vision
A Paris Photo presentation shows how the French photographer used a classic technique to great effect
Designer DIY with Konstantin Grcic
Make this stylish, price-friendly boombox, designed by the brilliant German-born industrial designer
Roy Lichtenstein - "The Worst Artist in the U.S.?"
On the 92nd anniversary of his birth we look at the animosity the Pop artist's work met with, following his big break
The grass is greener at new Euronews HQ
The colour of Jakob + Macfarlane's new HQ for news channel references the nearby river (so don't eat the fish!)
Nan Goldin - 'I know how Amy Winehouse felt'
The photographer looks back at her photo series The Ballad of Sexual Dependency - 30 years on
Steven Holl on the art happenings of 70s New York
The brilliant US architect remembers the early influence of Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci and Richard Serra
My Body of Art - Tina Barney on her nudes, why she admires Rineke Dijkstra and that Halston photo
The photographer talks about the human body in her photographs and more in our latest Body of Art interview
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
