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?
The illustrated guide to New York
New MTA show at the Society of Illustrators takes a look at the changing face of the city over the last 30 years
Hong Hao’s patterns of consumption
Meet the Chinese artist who scans and collages every consumer item that passes through his hands
New shopping mall resembles a flower display
Vincent Callebaut's latest development aims to up the feel good factor - good for consumers and retailers
A+ Architecture – Restaurant Steirereck
This winning Austrian restaurant manages to combine contemporary design with a high degree of cosiness
Agnes Martin the underrated Abstract Expressionist
Pace Gallery boss and friend Arne Glimcher has a theory why the artist is not as well known as her contemporaries
Interior design with a sporting advantage
Jaime Hayón's Game On collection for the European design specialists Galerie Kreo is seriously playful
Philosophy, gardening and the French Revolution
Sculptor, poet and Gardener's Gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay reminds us of the bloody roots of artistic freedom
Breaking bread with Joel Meyerowitz
How did the legendary street photographer conjure such character from a staple foodstuff?
Arne Glimcher on Agnes Martin's disappearing act
The Pace Gallery boss on why she left the NY loft she shared with Jasper Johns and went missing for a year
Anthony Caro on his love of the Duccio Annunciation
We highlight the sculptor’s love for this work, due to be exhibited alongside his, in a National Portrait Gallery show
JR wins Gordon Parks Foundation Award
The artist was among the laureates receiving Gordon Parks Foundation Awards in New York City last night
Gastón Acurio remembers his first Michelin meal
The Peruvian chef, restaurateur and TV host recalls his gastronomic turning points on National Public Radio
What's Theaster Gates doing in a UK church?
The artist will stage his first UK public project as part of Bristol's 2015 European Green Capital arts programme
Arne Glimcher talks Agnes Martin at the Tate
On the eve of a huge retrospective, the Pace Gallery boss remembers the artist who shaped his aesthetic
BIG and OMA make Lego on the High Line
And you can join in and design your own city of the future at the Collectivity Project
Olafur Eliasson on art schools and the art market
The artist and Akademie X contributor loves risks, hates hierarchy and thinks Ethiopia makes Berlin look boring
Massimo Bottura one step closer to best in the world!
Congratulations to our Skinny Italian chef who jumps one place to number two in 50 Best Restaurants list
Look what Jasper Johns has done to his spare room
The artist’s non-profit foundation has turned its meeting room into a 496-square-feet artist-run exhibition space
New Orleans marks Katrina 10th anniversary
Ten Years Gone at the New Orleans Museum of Contemporary Art recalls the tragedy of the city’s floods
Steven Holl keeps it in the family
How did a small gallery on the Hudson come to show works by the prominent architect - and his brother?
The world's tax havens go on show at Arles
Photographers Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti grapple with the ephemeral nature of offshore banking
Could OMA’s new hotel redefine Dutch architecture?
Rem Koolhaas’s firm hopes its plans for the Netherlands' largest hotel will shape a new look for Amsterdam
Redzepi, Atala and Bottura swap restaurants!
For one night only the Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle lets some of the world's best chefs cook in one another's kitchens
Tony Oursler's spooky archive is coming to Arles
What links Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle and Hans Ulrich Obrist to one of the world's foremost video artists?
Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Dalí
How might one of the 20th century’s greatest artists have forged his own work? Our author takes up the story
A+ Architecture – The Three Cusps Chalet
This Portuguese renovation from our Architizer A+Awards book combines local styles with a Brazilian influence
5 things we learnt from Alain Servais on Artspace
The iconoclastic collector talks history, art sharks and why the art world is so turning into the fashion world
Mary Ellen Mark 1940-2015
'Her pictures were always unusual and beautiful, but so was she' - Francis Ford Coppola on Mary Ellen Mark
China's art power couple collaborate over dinner
How for Yin Xiuzhen and Song Dong the chopstick became the perfect form for a new series of work
Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Giacometti
How did a con man and a teacher strike one of the most successful forgery partnerships ever? Our author tells all
A+ Architecture - House in Tamatsu
This residential house by Ido, Kenji from our Architizer A+Awards book is a truly captivating piece of microtecture
Zhang Xiaogang and the green wall
How the painter turned a ubiquitous element of 70s Chinese life into a powerful series of works
Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Matisse
The Art of Forgery author on the infamous Elmyr de Hory, a man who could copy a Matisse in under an hour
How this floating prison could power a small town
Zaha Hadid protégé Margot Krasojevic says her sea jail could generate enough electricity for 2000 homes
Who is showing what at Photo London
The British photo fair opened yesterday and already looks like a success. Here’s what’s drawing in the crowds
New Sufi centre channels Philip Johnson's spirit
This Californian Sufi sanctuary draws inspiration from one of the Pritzker laureate’s earlier Islamic-influenced works
A+Architecture - Ice & Snow Apartment
Architizer+Awards 2015 features 100 of the best buildings in the world today including this Chinese ski chalet
Well what did you expect the 1stdibs HQ to look like?
One of our favourite websites has a new office - and it's in keeping with their upscale offering
Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Dürer
Infamous art sleuth Noah Charney on how a stray logo led to the first ever artistic intellectual property lawsuit
Howard Hodgkin creates new WW1 stamps
The Turner Prize winner joins other creatives in the Royal Mail's ongoing philatelic commemoration
JR brings The Wrinkles of the City to Istanbul
If you're in Istanbul over the next few days look out for the latest iteration of the artist's international series
Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney - Van Gogh
Infamous art sleuth Noah Charney talks about the first forgery case to be solved using forensic science
Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece explained
To mark her MoMA show, we examine the moment the artist invited her audience to cut off her clothes
The childlike visions of Zhang Xiaogang
Adrift from his family, the painter began a series of complex, emotional portraits of his daughter
A great night at the Architizer A+Awards
Architizer's A+Awards celebrate the diversity of the world’s architecture at New York gala
Take a trip through Yin Xiuzhen’s Ruined City
How cement covered furnishings let this artist express the distress she felt at China’s breakneck modernisation
Who is showing what at Frieze New York
$20 Dots, punk rock and Arte Povera - here's what to look out for in the booths at the New York art fair
From Book to Bid - Jeff Wall's The Bridge
His landscape photo is at auction tonight but why does he think a cemetery is the ‘perfect’ type of landscape?
Yin Xiuzhen and the Chinese art revolution
How the hopeful mid-Eighties years helped shape one of China's greatest contemporary artists
The Phaidon guide to art speak - Social Practice
Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time
From Book to Bid - Ed Ruscha's Whiz Kids
The tension between visual and textual understanding lie at the heart of this work, on sale at Christie's tonight
Zhang Xiaogang and the 'nightmare' of Tiananmen
Images of decapitated bodies and severed limbs - how China's foremost artist reacted in paint to the events of 1989
JR on his new movie with Robert De Niro
The artist tells us about The Ghosts of Ellis Island, 'a fiction, that slowly connects to the reality'
A Movement in a Moment: De Stijl
How a group of artists in Holland tried to find a universal way to show the human experience
From Book to Bid - de Kooning's Pink Angels (study)
Renaissance allusion and sexual imagery abound in this study for a later masterwork on auction at Sotheby's
Backstage at Massimo Bottura's Grazia photo shoot
Our Skinny Italian Chef is shot and interviewed by Grazia magazine in Paris at the prestigious Galerie Perrotin
Zhang Xiaogang's light bulb moment
How does this bare bulb symbolise the father son relationship of one of China's most famous artists?
Picasso's Women of Algiers smashes auction record
Eleven minutes of frenetic bidding at Christie's sees $160 million Picasso become world's most expensive painting
From Book to Bid – Alexander Calder's Untitled
At auction tonight - the Calder mobile loved by Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Léger
Wes Anderson designs retro Milan café for Prada
The US director hopes his Bar Luce will prove to be a great place to spend some 'non-fictional' afternoons
Chris Burden R.I.P.
Following the US artist's death on Sunday,we examine the key pieces that made him such a unique talent
Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Jo Stella-Sawicka
The Artistic Director of the fair on how to turn curious visitors into lifelong collectors
From Book to Bid – Andy Warhol’s Fright Wig
The loss of friends and failing health inspired his most iconic portraits - one of which is up for auction at Sotheby's
The things that made up James Irvine
The brilliant Alessi, B&B, IKEA and Mercedes designer died in 2013. His wife remembers what made him unique
Could Ellsworth Kelly get a World War II medal?
In VE celebration week it's revealed that the great artist might receive a Congressional Medal for his WWII trickery
Gombrich explains the Palace of Versailles
As the UK goes to the polls we look at how, 351 years ago, another European leader influenced the masses
From Book to Bid – Kusama's Infinity Nets (ZYA)
Damien Hirst asks the artist about the loneliness in her work on auction at Christie's, NY next week
Shanghai's History Museum has an organic form
Glass wall of atrium 'inspired by the cellular structure of plants and animals' say architects Perkins + Will
From Book to Bid – Peter Doig’s Swamped
Adrian Searle reveals how horror film Friday the 13th inspired this painting up for auction at Christie’s next week
Phaidon's A-Z of The Venice Biennale
It only previewed yesterday and there's already a lot to read - here are 26 things you might have missed though
Phaidon's Frieze NY interviews - Cecilia Alemani
The High Line and Frieze Projects curator talks us through this year's Flux-Labyrinth and other fair attractions
From Book to Bid – Cindy Sherman's Untitled #470
Phaidon Focus author Paul Moorhouse explains the artwork on auction at Phillips, NY next week - care to bid?
Theaster Gates on his Venice Biennale show
He might be taking bits of derelict churches to La Biennale, but don’t call his new Venice show 'reclamation'
Magnus Nilsson - chef, author, photographer?
The Swedish chef and author tells us how he took the beautiful photos in his forthcoming book The Nordic Cookbook
