How we got from cave paintings to contemporary art
30,000 Years of Art offers a complete history of mankind’s artistry - are you ready to explore?
Daniel Libeskind’s amazing glazing
The award-winning US architect makes his South American debut with this classy, glassy residential tower
What makes Steven Holl and Le Corbusier alike?
Learn how the architect took on the ambitions of Le Corb et al, shaping (and sketching) them for a new era
Wow! How did you get up there JR?
The artist and Phaidon author has been pretty busy in Philly and New York this week, but what's he been up to?
Teen photographer finds the unguarded moment
What does the 14-year-old winner of this year's Sony World Photography Awards share with Steve McCurry?
12 American literary road trips mapped!
Now you too can take a jazz-age excursion or a continental hippy trip, courtesy of these cartographers
Come with us on a trip to the Noguchi Museum
Stephen Shore & Tina Barney document people and place in a fascinating visual study of Noguchi's own creation
Black Britain in black and white
Fascinating new Vanley Burke show displays the photographer’s prints and also the contents of his life
Ex-student reworks Cornell's 104-year-old library
Viennese architect Wolfgang Tschapeller returns to his alma mater to renovate the university's Rand Hall
Hadid, Nouvel and BIG rework Jacobsen classic
Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chair just got a makeover - courtesy of some fine architectural talent
How AIDS shaped art in America
A new exhibition examines the immense effect a big disease with a little name had on contemporary art
How Enrique Olvera turned Mexican food inside out
The star chef's first English-language cookbook shows how he's deconstructing a nation's gastronomic culture
Farewell Fiorucci - inventor of skinny jeans
We look back at the work of Elio, the Italian fashion designer and original denim magnate, who has died aged 80
Meet Kipple - she really loves bread!
How a Japanese food stylist turned baking and cute doggie photos into a fun, tasty title
Theaster Gates reveals new church project details
The artist outlines his plans for Sanctum, a 24/7, three-week-long performance in a derelict British church
Nan Goldin - photographer and illustrator?
Nan's gallerist and friend talks us through her new exhibition and his efforts to put her drawings on show
Why DIY dates back to the Bauhaus movement
The author of our Do It Yourself Book talks us through the undercurrents of a 'new' designer DIY revolution
Mario Bellini on Warhol, Playboy and the crazy 70s
The designer recalls a 1972 US road trip, contradicts Le Corbusier, and explains why he thinks the past matters
“Preserving is a bit like computer programming”
Clotilde Dusoulier, co-author of updated classic Preserving is finding new applications for old techniques
The book uncovering Europe’s great hidden cuisine
Nordic cuisine is a huge, under-examined aspect of European culture - Magnus Nilsson plans to change that
New show channels the spirit of Agnes Martin
Chewday's clever new show questions the way art is rapidly reduced to image data on social networks
When Warhol wanted to tap dance
A new exhibition looks back at the influence of choreography, film and rock music on the great Pop artist’s work
Introducing Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things
Deyan Sudjic's exquisite biography of the Italian design legend shows there was much more to him than Memphis
Oyster shell museum will celebrate Mexican culture
Mexican firm FR-EE hopes this unusually shaped building will help preserve and promote local traditions
An award-winning photo taken by a 15-year-old
This bright young Sony World Photography Award winner finds a new way of showing her national cultural heritage
What Massimo Bottura cooked at Momofuku Ko
The chef brought his Post-Modena cookery skills to one of NYC's best restaurants last week
Can JR's new book change your world?
The artist has already altered perceptions from Paris to Palestine - isn't it time he weaved his magic on you?
Take a look at Martin Parr's Nice photographs
The Magnum photographer has been shooting the Côte d'Azur's beautiful people for a beach-themed show
Steve McCurry's Advice for Young Creatives #2
There's nothing like practice, practice practice! for becoming the best at what you do says the Magnum photographer
Arriba! This Mexican best-seller is now in English
And René Redzepi has written the foreword for Tacopedia - everything you ever wanted to know about the taco
René is in Bangkok, Massimo is in New York...
It's time for the The Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle. Can you work out where the world's great chefs are tonight?
If you could build your house on the side of a cliff. . .
Would it look like this one? Click through to see OPA's 'subterranean Casa Malaparte' proposal, Casa Brutale
The playfully productive world of Mario Bellini
New book captures the childlike imagination of a designer responsible for inspiring the ubiquitous people carrier
Stephen Shore and Martin Parr hang out at Arles
The two great Phaidon photographers enjoy signings and retrospectives at the world's greatest photo festival
Looking back at Castro's Cuba
The International Center of Photography’s ¡Cuba, Cuba! show surveys half a century of revolutionary life
Time to take a new look at our world?
The picture below is a map - Map: Exploring the World features 300 more, just as unusual, exciting and beautiful
Can you guess who's playing the Migrant Mother?
Sandro Miller has recreated a series of classic photographs with a certain Hollywood actor taking the lead role
RIP Juli Soler the man who launched Ferran Adrià
We're sad to report the death of the author, elBulli owner and Honorary President of the elBulli Foundation
How Marc Chagall painted his own birthday - inspired by the love and gifts of his muse Bella
To mark the painter’s date of birth, 6 July, we look back to an early anniversary celebrated in this lovely painting
One show - 325 Chinese artists!
And you don't need to visit the People's Republic to see them all. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see the likes of Zhang Xiaogang Yin Xiuzhen, Zhang Huan, Xiao Xioaogang and Ai Weiwei courtesy of the M+Sigg Collection
Make your own Ai Weiwei original for just $15!
Or stretch out on a Konstantin Grcic sound system for $40 - you can make these and more in our new book DIY
Right! Who wants dinner in under thirty minutes?
Quick and Easy Italian Recipes features world famous Silver Spoon meals in an even easier to use format
Danny Lyon's Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon spent 14 months photographing inside the Texas penitentiary system - this is what he found
Preserving - another foodie trend we've got covered!
Learn how a perfectly conserved French cookery book from 1948 inspired our great forthcoming title
Sarah Lucas makes 'marrow' for US embassy gardens
The Venice Biennale artist is creating a gourd-shaped work for Vauxhall at the behest of Norman Rosenthal
Festival design that lets the music do the branding
Swiss designer Alexandre Pietra's treatment for this summer's For Noise festival puts the headliners centre stage
Moon Hoon's display of brotherly love
Korean architecture practice creates a brace of lunar landscape-inspired properties for two brothers
Introducing the amazing Modernist Cuisine!
Stephen Hawking’s former research scientist will blow your mind with this 2438 page study of how cookery works
First look inside the new Design Museum
John Pawson's minimalist masterpiece is taking shape inside London's former Commonwealth Institute
Introducing Magnum Photos' new members!
The photography cooperative has just added six new members to its ranks. Do you know their work?
Takashi Murakami joins Ferran Adrià in Ibiza
Take a look at some of the contemporary art on show at the elBulli chef's amazing new Balearic venture
Jacob Kassay’s comeback — as an architect
The hot young artist fell from favour last year. Yet he seems to have reinvented himself with this new Belgian show
News of our Grace Coddington book has leaked!
It's true! We're publishing the BIGGEST book in fashion - think of it as Phaidon's September issue
Steve McCurry's Advice for Young Creatives
Legendary Magnum photographer's advice for graduates this summer: #1: 'Be proactive!'
Berlin looks back at queer art and culture
Homosexuality_ies, a wide-ranging show, opens at two museums in the German capital this Pride weekend
Name the architects behind the Serpentine Pavilions
Pentagram helps the Serpentine launch its 2015 Build Your Own Pavilion project by illustrating every one of them
JR helps Baltimore students say #BlackLivesMatter
Students at the city's Morgan State University use the artist's Inside Out project to express an important truth
The Ai Weiwei and Luc Tuymans bromance!
What did the talk turn to when the Belgian painter visited Ai Weiwei's first ever show in China?
Why we love this award-winning photo by a teenager
Yong Lin Tan won Youth Photographer at the Sony World Photography Awards - we asked him how he did it
Gillian Wearing and Tacita Dean on their art schools
The Phaidon artists remember what they made for their degree shows and why they didn’t expect great success
Whatever you do, don't look down!
The Inside Awards in Singapore celebrate the world's best interiors - take a look at these great images
MAD build hilltop village in Beverly Hills
Chinese practice reinvents the Mediterranean hill town for 21st century LA - complete with vertical garden
From Real Estate to Surreal Estate
MoMA's latest exhibition looks at one of the most radical reinterpretations of domestic architecture ever
A+ Architecture – the Grotto Sauna
This Canadian sauna uses modern technology and age-old craft to create a breathtaking, lakeside interior
McDonald’s targets cyclists with mobile packaging
Restaurant giant hops on the bike boom with a nifty way of transporting burger and fries - without risk of flipping
'What's going on in Chinese photography? A lot'
The director of Photo Shanghai on Asia's rising stars, censorship and what to watch out for when buying a photo
When Pollock stopped dripping and splashing
A new Tate Liverpool show looks back at a lesser-known period in Jackson Pollock's creative output
Foster banishes the car underground in China
Architect's new project cleverly relocates traffic beneath the feet of Wuhan residents and workers
Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Vermeer
Our author recalls the time a Dutch forger had to recreate a work sold to the Nazis in order to get off death row
A first look at the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion
A gallery of images detailing the construction of this year's pavilion by Madrid architects SelgasCano
Dan Graham’s playful critique of Le Corbusier
The artist has deconstructed social architecture for decades - so what has he made of Le Corb’s famous rooftop?
The typeface that comes with its own spy film
Fontsmith has enlivened the launch of its new 'enigmatic type' FS Silas by giving it its own mini-movie
Anish Kapoor - attack on Dirty Corner ‘a tragedy’
Sculptor says spattering of Versailles sculpture with yellow paint is ‘extremely sad’ and 'a political act'
MoMA buys the Rainbow Flag
We explain the strong message behind a simple piece of cloth that's now become a National treasure
Libeskind and Hadid remember their childhoods
New show sees prominent architects and designers reflecting on their formative experiences as kids
Katy Grannan’s fallen stars on the highway
Photographer’s new series looks at the fortunes and misfortunes of the overlooked and undervalued
Is this ex-OMA architect 'doing a Dujardin'?
Ole Scheeren's Vancouver skyscraper reminds us of the work of Shooting Space photographer Philip Dujardin
Thea Westreich Wagner on who to buy at Art Basel
'The artists of moment are the ones engaged in expanding our understanding of our time on this planet' she says
René Redzepi joins Massimo Bottura’s soup kitchen
The Phaidon chef is feeding discarded food to Milan's poor and he's asked his famous friends to help out
The photo that made Elliott Erwitt a vegetarian
Magnum photographers pick the photo that 'changed everything' (or, just for a little while, in Elliott's case)
Marlene Dumas takes it to church
South African painter will recreate the creation myths on an 18th century altarpiece in Germany
Pentagram gives Shakespeare a makeover
The agency has reworked its Shakespeare in the Park designs into something rich and strange for the 2015 season
The antique art technique finding new favour
What is metalpoint? And why are two NYC galleries showing great new drawings using this old method?
'What’s that thing doing, blocking the view?'
Anish Kapoor on the strange things people say about his new Versailles exhibition
Martin Parr's first fashion collection
Martin Parr does 'oh so British' fashion shoot for Henry Holland's House of Holland label (sandals not included)
Margot Krasojevic's Himalayan snow shelter
Zaha Hadid protegé's latest structure boasts a sci-fi power system to warm the heart of any lost trekker
The Simpsons-inspired site predicting the art market
Art Rank's founder explains how Instagram and Google Trends let him forecast the rise and fall of new artworks
Art + ice cream - does it get any better?
Daniel Burns and Davide Balula on this week's art and artisanal ice cream Art Basel collaboration
Come and meet us at The Affordable Art Fair!
If you're near North London this weekend come and say hello and pick up some great books
Roni Horn's Butterfly Doubt
Hauser & Wirth show serves as a testament to her practice of drawing which she likens to breathing
JR is making a film with Agnes Varda
The French artist is looking for funding for a proposed new venture with the 87-year-old New Wave director
Noah Charney- 'Hirst and Koons are like Old Masters'
The Art of Forgery's author discusses the knotty problems of art and authentication with WNYC's Leonard Lopate
'Richard Prince is a jerk and he sucks'
As Prince's New Portraits series opens in London, we look at the diverse reactions the work has received
Norman Foster remembers Louis Kahn
The Pritzker Laureate pays tribute to the pioneering architect on accepting The Louis Kahn Memorial Award
Herzog & de Meuron’s forest-inspired stadium
Swiss architects draw inspiration from the slim trees in the nearby Landes Forest of Bordeaux
A Movement in a Moment: Realism
How Gustave Courbet, born today, 10 Jun, in 1819, helped create a movement around the painting of ordinary folk
Ai Weiwei splits a temple at his debut Chinese show
The artist's first solo show on Chinese soil both asserts and undermines his country's national characteristics
Live-sleep-eat-in-it office space unveiled
Hotel in a shipping container aims to capitalise on underused urban space - good bye work life balance. .
6 artists who influenced the new Jeff Koons show
The Koons retrospective opens today at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Can you spot these artists among his influences?
