French Connection Olivie Sheer Ruffle Floral Skater Dress




African Artists and sexuality

Pioneering Queer artists are among those offering insights into contemporary life in the African continent in our groundbreaking new book

African Artists and sexuality


The bird that flew to The Moon

Our new book, Bird: Exploring the Winged World, includes the Apollo 11 mission badge, with an uncharacteristically peaceful bald eagle

The bird that flew to The Moon



African Artists and Empire

The colonial and postcolonial experience looms large in our groundbreaking new book African Artists From 1882 to Now

African Artists and Empire











Introducing our new books for fall 2021!

Phaidon's fall titles cover everything from men's fashion to African art, interior design to beautiful birds. Find out more about our new list, and how you can buy very limited edition signed copies

Introducing our new books for fall 2021!




KAWS is now offering balloon rides!

Sign up for a trip in the KAWS:HOLIDAY hot air balloon and you'll get a certificate, a uniform and a collectable from this brilliantly unconventional contemporary artist

KAWS is now offering balloon rides!




























Deanna Petherbridge - Why I Draw

This Vitamin D3-featured artist uses pen, ink and her internal moral compass to create her detailed images of urban landscapes characterized by vertiginous perspective and dramatic shifts in scale

Deanna Petherbridge - Why I Draw


Nick Kennedy - Why I Draw

This innovative artist removes human gesture from his drawings, relying instead on machines that recall and parody scientific processes

Nick Kennedy  - Why I Draw


Ten takeaways from our JR preview

The artist and activist describes how Banksy gave him his big break, why he fibbed about his age, and how his new book How Old Am I? came about

Ten takeaways from our JR preview


Kyle Thurman - Why I Draw

Careers advisers suggested this American artist should become a soldier or an athlete. In response, he worked those roles into drawings of normative masculinity

Kyle Thurman - Why I Draw



All you need to know about KAWS: WHAT PARTY

Our monograph on KAWS, one of the most sought-after artists and creative forces of our time, is the most comprehensive ever and is published in four different colour covers

All you need to know about KAWS: WHAT PARTY



Minjung Kim - Why I Draw

This contemplative Korean artist draws on experimental French literature and requires silence and nature when working on her detailed drawings

Minjung Kim - Why I Draw


Miriam de Búrca - Why I Draw

This Vitamin D3 artist describes her peripatetic childhood, her need for solitude and why she thinks drawing is often like pushing a tractor up a hill

Miriam de Búrca - Why I Draw




Martin Wilner - Why I Draw

The artist and psychiatrist on the link between drawing as an artist and a child, and why one of the oldest forms of expression is the perfect antidote to our present moment

Martin Wilner - Why I Draw


Grief and Grievance to open in New York

Okwui Enwezor's remarkably prescient, landmark exhibition brings together works examining black grief and white grievance to reveal the rocky outline of America's body politic

Grief and Grievance to open in New York


Mick Peter - Why I Draw

This Vitamin D3-featured artist channels mid-century cartoon imagery in his lifesize sketches while listening to 'difficult' music

Mick Peter - Why I Draw


The Obamas and The Albers

As President's Day approaches this Monday, we look back at Michelle and Barack's admiration for Anni and Josef

The Obamas and The Albers


Christina Quarles - Why I Draw

The Vitamin D3-featured artist describes the great accessibility of drawing, her childhood influences and how she knows when a picture is finished

Christina Quarles - Why I Draw






Jade Montserrat - Why I Draw

'Drawing is meditation and observation. Drawing connects me to my roots, allows me to follow, to honour and to own them,' says this Vitamin D3 artist

Jade Montserrat - Why I Draw


Emma Talbot - Why I Draw

The Vitamin D3-featured artist tells us about the immediacy and freedom that she finds in works on paper, and what she listens to on her drawing marathons

Emma Talbot - Why I Draw




John Wood and Paul Harrison - Why We Draw

The Vitamin D3-featured artists tell us how being clueless can be a good thing, why uncertainty is the only certainty, and that all politicians should go to art school

John Wood and Paul Harrison - Why We Draw


Rachel Goodyear - Why I Draw

The Vitamin D3 featured artist tells us about the immediacy of drawing, the hardest thing to get right, and the difference between drawing as a child and as an artist

Rachel Goodyear - Why I Draw







2020 in 20 stories

Here are the things we learned, that surprised us, that made us laugh, (or stifle a tear) and generally got us through this year - all from Phaidon.com

2020 in 20 stories

































25 things we learned from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series

Did you know about Wolfgang Tillmans' short spell in social care, Yayoi Kusama's Broadway musical, Kerry James Marshall's brush with Hanna Barbera, Jonas Wood's highly illegal ingredient, Paul McCarthy's unlikely Vietnam link and Trevor Paglen's days as punk club promoter?

25 things we learned from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series










The Flowers that stopped wars

Our new book Flower includes this delicate recreation of a 2013 centrepiece that played its part in high power global politics

The Flowers that stopped wars


































Art = Faith

Our new book Art = doesn't just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met's collection. Its glossary is also filled with fascinating facts and connections. We consider the religious roots of so much artistic creation

Art = Faith


10 Questions for Met Museum Director Max Hollein

The art world legend tells us why Art = is the most innovative look at art history ever, how being taken to galleries not the beach as a kid inspired him, and what it's like to roam The Met's empty corridors right now

10 Questions for Met Museum Director Max Hollein




Art = Technique

Our new book Art = doesn't just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met's collection, its glossary is also filled with fascinating information. In our new series, we lay out the facts behind some familiar art-making techniques

Art = Technique


Frida Kahlo, divided

On her birth anniversary, we look at the painting that captured the two, conflicted sides of a Great Woman Artist

Frida Kahlo, divided



Art = Place

Our new book Art = doesn't just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met's collection. Its glossary is also filled with fascinating facts and connections. In our new series, we examine how location can be key in artistic creation

Art = Place



Art = Rebellion

Our new book Art = doesn't just explore 6,000 years of art history via 800 works from The Met's collection. Its glossary is also filled with fascinating facts and connections. In the first of a new series, we locate the rebellious streak at the heart of so many art movements

Art = Rebellion




David Dawson's Lockdown Life

Lucian Freud's former assistant turned Archive Director has been making some rather nice paintings in the Welsh hills these past few months. . .

David Dawson's Lockdown Life


Nigel Cooke's Lockdown Life

'Since we've been in lockdown, I've found it easier to work at night. The darkness of night somehow unifies what's outside the window,' the painter says in our interview

Nigel Cooke's Lockdown Life


All you need to know about Art =

Our groundbreaking book, made with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, heralds a fresh and unconventional approach to exploring 6,000 years of art history

All you need to know about Art =




































JR remembers Kobe Bryant

The artist and Phaidon author recalls a rendezvous with the sports star, who died in a helicopter crash yesterday

JR remembers Kobe Bryant
































The Lives of Artists – Jeff Koons

Amazingly naïve or slyly performative? The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins watches one of the world's most successful artists at work

The Lives of Artists – Jeff Koons






The Lives of Artists – Andy Warhol

The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins describes his first meeting with Warhol - and the brief exchange that established who was in charge

The Lives of Artists – Andy Warhol















Focusing on Freud's family

The artist's grandfather helped Lucian settle in London, where he fathered a large, unconventional family of his own

Focusing on Freud's family




Industry in North Korea is a little bit different. . .

Who doesn't love a well turned out lathe? Or a professionally run ammonium sulphate production factory? In the DPRK even an espresso machine can be deemed heroic - and it's all led to some strange but beautiful artworks

Industry in North Korea is a little bit different. . .

































How JR went global

In our newly expanded edition of JR: Can Art Change the World? we explain why he focused on the flashpoints

How JR went global
















Eight sides of Andy

The Pope of Pop was born 91 years ago today. Here's how he went from magazine illustrator to art world superstar

Eight sides of Andy











Remembering Marisa Merz

Merz, who died last week, was the only woman in Arte Povera; she may have been the best in that movement too

Remembering Marisa Merz













The Invention of America

On American Independence Day, we look at how old-world artists came to terms with the New World

The Invention of America



























Phaidon books win at D&AD!

Lucian Freud and Japan: The Cookbook pick up prizes at the global design awards alongside Nike and the NY Times

Phaidon books win at D&AD!









Mark Bradford is on 60 Minutes this Sunday

"I'm creating my own archaeological digs," he tells Anderson Cooper. "Sometimes when I'm digging on my own painting I'm asking myself, 'Well, exactly what are you digging for? Where do you want to go child?'"

Mark Bradford is on 60 Minutes this Sunday


From the tomb to the Moon

Why is one of the earliest astrological maps drawn onto an Egyptian tomb ceiling? Sun and Moon explains

From the tomb to the Moon

























Talking Textiles with Josh Faught

Trompe-l'oeil piano keys, pins and clumsily quilted strips of black and tan crochet are just a few of the things that adorn this San Francisco artist's incredible artworks

Talking Textiles with Josh Faught
















Remembering Keith Haring

On the anniversary of his death, Annie Leibovitz and our Art & Queer Culture authors recall the 80s pop-art star

Remembering Keith Haring


















How to be happy on Blue Monday

Today getting you down? Then get a lift from Patti Smith, Kurt Vonnegut and Henry James in Every Day a Word Surprises Me

How to be happy on Blue Monday







Astonishing Animals - The Rhinoceros

Around 5,000 copies of this iconic image were sold during the artist Dürer's lifetime, making it one of the earliest mass-produced images - but why was the likeness incorrect and how did the unfortunate animal meet its end?

Astonishing Animals - The Rhinoceros















And we have lift off!

Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector launched yesterday. This is how you can track its progress through the heavens

And we have lift off!














































































Andy's Athletes - OJ Simpson

The stories behind Warhol's encounters with sports stars of the Seventies - as pictured in the Catalogue Raisonné

Andy's Athletes - OJ Simpson








































Who knew Degas did erotica?

On the artist's birthday, we look at how Degas moved away from Impressionism to pursue a private take on pleasure

Who knew Degas did erotica?










































































































































Christo barrels into London

The artist will float an Egyptian burial mound made of oil barrels on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park this summer

Christo barrels into London





Yeesookyung - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Yeesookyung - Why I Create





Liz Larner - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Liz Larner - Why I Create



Emily Hesse - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Emily Hesse - Why I Create













Emre Hüner - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Emre Hüner - Why I Create




Jason Lim - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Jason Lim - Why I Create












Shary Boyle - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Shary Boyle - Why I Create







Rose Eken - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Rose Eken - Why I Create

































Ruby Neri - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Ruby Neri - Why I Create








Ghada Amer - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Ghada Amer - Why I Create















JJ PEET - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

JJ PEET - Why I Create












Jesse Wine - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Jesse Wine - Why I Create







Sahej Rahal - Why I Create

Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C

Sahej Rahal - Why I Create

























JR takes to the high seas!

The French artist's image will grace the sails of this yacht when it races from France to Brazil this autumn

JR takes to the high seas!












































Does democracy work in art?

As Britain goes to the polls, we look at the democratic processes within the artworld's most prominent groups

Does democracy work in art?
























Richard Tuttle's Critical Edge

Richard Tuttle first came to prominence in the 60s with a body of work that used mundane materials such as textile, paper, wire, and rope – materials he still works with today as a curent show of recent work at Pace London reveals

Richard Tuttle's Critical Edge






































































How Jagger briefed Warhol

Less is more when it comes to rock covers, or so claims The Rolling Stones singer in his brief to Warhol

How Jagger briefed Warhol







A Message of Love from Wolfgang Tillmans

At the preview of his Tate Modern retrospective this morning the photographer reminded us that 'it's still a positive world and there's a lot that connects us that we can enjoy together'

A Message of Love from Wolfgang Tillmans














What was it with Ad Reinhardt and Black?

Quite a bit actually. Here's how to spot the subtle undercurrents of red, the nuanced blues and the slightly greenish tinges in the Abstract Expressionist artist's suede-like works - courtesy of new book Chromaphilia

What was it with Ad Reinhardt and Black?




What was it with Jean Dubuffet and Brown?

The Art Brut founder would visit flea markets in order to immerse himself in the 'bituminous and soiled brown colours of mankind' - but how did he go about making these colours come to life on the canvas?

What was it with Jean Dubuffet and Brown?










Gombrich explains Cézanne

On the anniversary of the artist's birth, let the great art historian explain how this master moved painting forward

Gombrich explains Cézanne







Peter Marino designs major Mapplethorpe show

Opening in Tokyo in March, Memento Mori will feature more than 90 photographs curated by Marino from his own collection in a space he himself designed. It's the first Japanese show of Robert Mapplethorpe's work in 15 years

Peter Marino designs major Mapplethorpe show



Screensavers as folk art?

Should we regard these functional, visual loops as valuable artifacts? Yes, says Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut

Screensavers as folk art?














Yu Hong - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Yu Hong - Why I Paint


























Cui Jie - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Cui Jie - Why I Paint






































Marwan 1934 - 2016

We look back at the work of a veteran Syrian painter whose work many were only just beginning to appreciate

Marwan 1934 - 2016





Andy Warhol's body of art

The Andy Warhol Museum's new show looks at how the artist examined his body and others in a series of works

Andy Warhol's body of art










































Jack Whitten - Why I Paint

An interview with the late American painter and contributor to our contemporary painting survey, Vitamin P3

Jack Whitten - Why I Paint






















































When Bacon went to Monaco

A new exhibition looks at how the high life on the Mediterranean informed Francis Bacon's greatest artworks

When Bacon went to Monaco











Jenny Holzer goes to Ibiza

The US artist has etched a series of smart literary quotes onto rocks and cliffs along the clubbing island's coastline

Jenny Holzer goes to Ibiza












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?

Meet Sarah Sze's incredible, extended social circle












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 fascinating tale of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain























































Warhol on Mapplethorpe

Warhol confidant Bob Colacello recalls Andy's reaction to his friendship with the late, great photographer

Warhol on Mapplethorpe























Gombrich Explains Renoir

On the French Impressionist's birthday a look at why his paintings have divided art lovers for over a century

Gombrich Explains Renoir




A slice of Lucio Fontana

On the anniversary of his birth, we examine how Fontana's slashed canvases led the way for a generation of artists

A slice of Lucio Fontana





Remaking the Dadaglobe

How did one art historian reassemble this lost Dada compendium, 95 years after it was supposed to be published?

Remaking the Dadaglobe





















































Decoding the hidden meanings of Calder's mobiles

As Tate Modern opens the largest Calder show ever staged in the UK its co-curator Ann Coxon talks about how a meeting with Mondrian in his studio inspired the artist to create his most innovative and powerful work

Decoding the hidden meanings of Calder's mobiles











JR's Hollywood romance

Darren Aronofsky is the latest Hollywood name to work with JR - and Angelina Jolie made the introduction

JR's Hollywood romance









Gombrich Explains Picasso

The best-selling art historian on why critics were wrong to consider cubism 'an insult to their intelligence'

Gombrich Explains Picasso












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

My Body of Art - Bill Arning on Sucking Toe



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

JR on Today (and last night)




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

My Body of Art - Flavia Frigeri on Blue Nude III



























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

The Art of the Map - Jasper Johns








































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

One show - 325 Chinese artists!









































Mary Ellen Mark 1940-2015

'Her pictures were always unusual and beautiful, but so was she' - Francis Ford Coppola on Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark 1940-2015
























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

Chris Burden R.I.P.













































The amazing life story of Tancred Borenius

The author of our Rembrandt classic spied for Britain, hung with the Bloomsbury Group, was an art advisor to earls, spoke nine languages fluently and, most importantly, may even have helped the allies win World War II

The amazing life story of Tancred Borenius




The amazing life story of Wilhelm Uhde

The author of our Van Gogh classic was an early champion of Braque and naïve art, sat for Picasso, was sheltered by the French Resistance and became the subject of an award winning film - he was a pretty fine writer too!

The amazing life story of Wilhelm Uhde




















How Groovy Bob inspired Bacon and Basquiat

Immortalised in The Beatles song Dr. Robert and in Richard Hamilton's Swingeing London 67, a brilliant new show at Pace Gallery celebrates the huge importance and influence of legendary art dealer to the stars Robert Fraser

How Groovy Bob inspired Bacon and Basquiat












Walter Liedtke RIP

Renowned Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art killed in train crash on Tuesday

Walter Liedtke RIP


Marlene Dumas on her incredible Tate retrospective

'Putting a show like this together evokes all kinds of different emotions. Sometimes you think, oh it's lovely to see you again, other times you think, oh I still don't know if I ever should have made this!' the painter tells Phaidon

Marlene Dumas on her incredible Tate retrospective








A Movement in a Moment: Dada

'It was total pandemonium. The people around us were shouting, laughing and gesticulating.' Relive the incredible few months during which a short-lived Swiss nightclub gave rise to the first artistic assault on modern culture, Dada

A Movement in a Moment: Dada







Cally Spooner's Muse Music

The filmmaker and artist on how Lou Reed, Puccini, and Katy Perry inspire her pop-influenced performance art

Cally Spooner's Muse Music



















How was 2014 for JR?

He choreographed a ballet, created an installation at Ellis Island and hung out with Spielberg, Lucas and De Niro

How was 2014 for JR?






How was 2014 for Alex Katz?

How wraparound landscapes, billboards and regular gallery going all inspired the New York painter this year

How was 2014 for Alex Katz?

















Ed Ruscha's road rage

Does this new set of paintings signal the end of the great American painter's love of the open road?

Ed Ruscha's road rage





Gombrich Explains Hogarth

On the anniversary of his birth we find out about the 'A Rake's Progress' creator's appeal to Puritans

Gombrich Explains Hogarth


Gombrich Explains Manet

As the Getty buys Le Printemps for $65 million Gombrich explains why we still value this French master

Gombrich Explains Manet







Gombrich Explains Goya

A look at why the great painter of the Spanish court also depicted witches, giants and demons

Gombrich Explains Goya



















Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Victoria Siddall

The new Frieze director talks about when Rembrandt went to Hull, whether she'll be drinking United Brothers' soup from Fukushima and that ultimate first world problem - just where do you put a Joseph Beuys grand piano?

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Victoria Siddall




Gombrich Explains Frans Hals

Why should we delight in this Dutch painter? Well how about the spontaneity he brought to portraiture for starters?

Gombrich Explains Frans Hals

















Gombrich Explains Turner

The historian admired the painter's mastery of nature and the stagecraft with which he managed his visual effects

Gombrich Explains Turner


























Ten questions for Artspace CEO Catherine Levene

The co-founder and CEO of the contemporary art website talks us through its acquisition by Phaidon, how her gran turned her on to art, the one piece she'd love to own and whether there really is an online art goldrush going on

Ten questions for Artspace CEO Catherine Levene




What Millais went through in order to paint Ophelia

As Ophelia returns to the Tate today, our Millais author Jason Rosenfeld tells us how the painter spent eleven hour days fighting off bulls, swans and 'muscular' flies in order to realise the most recognisable painting ever created

What Millais went through in order to paint Ophelia


The fascinating story behind Andy Warhol's soup cans

On the show's opening night a rival dealer offered soup cans cheaper in his gallery, Warhol's own gallerist bought back the five he'd sold, including one from Dennis Hopper, then offered to buy entire set from Andy for just $3,000

The fascinating story behind Andy Warhol's soup cans





Harun Farocki 1944-2014

German video artist, featured in our 21st Century Art Book, whose work focused on control and manipulation

Harun Farocki 1944-2014




















The Google guide to DevArt

Steve Vranakis, Executive Creative Director of Google's Creative Lab, talks through the tech firm's debut art show

The Google guide to DevArt





















What's hot at Art Basel?

Warhol, Ruby, Nauman and Richter, are snapped up by collectors at the world's biggest contemporary art fair

What's hot at Art Basel?







































How Joseph Beuys celebrated his 63rd birthday

In an attempt to hurry along 'the end of the twentieth century' and to celebrate his 63rd birthday, on this day in May 1984 the artist planted 400 native tree and bush species in the Italian town of Bolognano

How Joseph Beuys celebrated his 63rd birthday




















Ten questions for Edmund de Waal OBE

The celebrated potter takes a moment to talk about his exquisitely designed monograph, a new project with David Chipperfield, the myth of tactility and what's better - an OBE from the queen or being signed up by Larry Gagosian

Ten questions for Edmund de Waal OBE








Ten Questions for Tomi Ungerer

The much decorated children's author and illustrator talks about life in the camel corps, jail breakfasts, how snakes got a bad rep and why he thinks he's a lunatic

Ten Questions for Tomi Ungerer








































Piero Golia's models, monuments and sculptures

LA-based Italian artist who sat up a tree until someone purchased his art, sailed to Albania 'the wrong way', tattooed his face on a woman's back and disappeared for weeks has a show of new work at Paris Gagosian

Piero Golia's models, monuments and sculptures






Yoga mat smoothie, anyone?

Well, how about flip-flops and patchouli oil? Artist Josh Kline makes the most tasteful, foul-tasting health drinks

Yoga mat smoothie, anyone?


When colour brings structure

As architecture they would be unbuildable; as music, they would be unplayable, so why are these paintings a joy?

When colour brings structure














Nancy Holt 1938 - 2014

New Mexico based artist and creator of Sun Tunnels, featured in Art & Place, dies after long illness

Nancy Holt 1938 - 2014































































2013 the year in art

From high prices and startling crimes through to superstar retrospectives and international politics

2013 the year in art
















Why the Watts Towers were nearly knocked down

Now they're a National historic landmark and a positive celebration of community spirit and civic pride but the Watts Towers weren't always viewed this way as Art & Place Site-Specific Art of the Americas reveals

Why the Watts Towers were nearly knocked down











Robert Smithson in Texas

The "James Dean of art" has his posthumous plans put on show in Dallas, including drafts for four unmade works

Robert Smithson in Texas












































































Meet Raymond Pettibon

The Californian artist will be meeting fans and signing books at David Zwirner New York on October 19

Meet Raymond Pettibon








Ai Weiwei hits the decks

The Chinese artist and dissident follows Koons, Hirst and Warhol, by creating his own skateboard deck

Ai Weiwei hits the decks


Andy Warhol's back pages

Museum Brandhorst's Reading Andy Warhol exhibition examines the great pop artist's bookish inclinations

Andy Warhol's back pages










Wild Art and the enlightenment

Do you need to have a traditional knowledge of art history to enjoy customised cars, food art and ice sculpture? Of course not, argue David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro - but it might just increase your enjoyment if you do. . .

Wild Art and the enlightenment



Can you spot the stories behind these fictional foods?

Ever wondered what Dumbledore's sherbert lemons look like? Or Paddington Bear's marmalade sandwiches? The Taste of America illustrator Joël Penkman rustles up some fictional food inspired by much-loved books and movies

Can you spot the stories behind these fictional foods?
















Introducing Art & Place

Phaidon editor Rosie Pickles previews our forthcoming book on Site-Specific Art of the Americas

Introducing Art & Place





















Is Hirst in a pickle here?

Jonathan Yeo says in his Hirst portrait, it is unclear whether Hirst is preparing a work, or being preserved himself

Is Hirst in a pickle here?







Introducing Wild Art

Phaidon editor Jennifer Lawson on the book Jeff Koons - and everyone else - is talking about

Introducing Wild Art










































Damián Ortega brings art and science together

The more basic stuff gets, the more marvellous Damián Ortega's art becomes and it doesn't come much more basic than a tool made by a chimp. Skye Sherwin takes a look at as his great new Freud Museum show, Apestraction

Damián Ortega brings art and science together























Tracey Emin accuses her critics of sexism

"The press was cruel, they didn't just dislike my work, they disliked me - my voice, the way I dress, the way I look, they wouldn't have carried on that way if I were a man" she tells Vanity Fair interviewer Lauren Christensen

Tracey Emin accuses her critics of sexism















































Norman Foster, curator?

The great British architect returns to the exhibition space he built 20 years earlier to show off his taste in art

Norman Foster, curator?


When is jewellery art?

It is this right now, at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami's exhibition From Picasso to Koons: the artist as jeweller

When is jewellery art?







René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences #3

A meeting with Anselm Kiefer in his studio, Native American amulets that weren't what they seemed and the Skoda ammunitions' factory, all taken from forthcoming book, Impossible Reminiscences available for pre-order now

René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences #3




Wilhelm Sasnal paints Kodak

The Polish painter, filmmaker and Phaidon artist takes the defunct film company as inspiration for his current show

Wilhelm Sasnal paints Kodak























The women who inspired Brice Marden

Forthcoming Phaidon Focus book reveals how the New York artist's paintings of his wife Helen and rock stars Patti Smith, The Velvet Underground's Nico and Janis Joplin saw him exploring a whole new dimension in portraiture

The women who inspired Brice Marden














Common Roots at the Design Museum Holon, Israel

Dr Kathy Battista Director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute NY on an inventive show of cutting edge industrial design from the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

Common Roots at the Design Museum Holon, Israel



Ed Ruscha by the book

Next month The Gagosian Gallery at Madison Avenue opens an exhibition dedicated to Ed Ruscha's books

Ed Ruscha by the book




New York's artworld goes back to 1993

Two decades on from the groundbreaking Whitney Biennial featured in Phaidon's new Biennials and Beyond, NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star recalls an age of confrontation

New York's artworld goes back to 1993


David Smith - the sculptor who drew with metal

When he died in a car crash the artworks for his last show remained unsold - today they grace the best collections around the world. Phaidon Focus book reveals how the artist revolutionised sculpture by literally 'drawing in space'

David Smith - the sculptor who drew with metal












The truth behind Francis Bacon's 'screaming' popes

Father figure, drag queen or distillation of Nazi iconography? New Phaidon Focus book reveals the theories behind Francis Bacon's obsessive reworking of the papal theme in his most famous Velasquez-inspired paintings

The truth behind Francis Bacon's 'screaming' popes


















Meet MoMA's new poet

New York's Museum of Modern Art appoints Phaidon contributor and traffic broadcast transcriber as its first poet

Meet MoMA's new poet






Banksy collaborator Ben Eine joins mile high club

East London street artist who became famous when David Cameron gave one of his pieces to Barack Obama during first official US visit has first ever airborne gallery in Upper Class on Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic

Banksy collaborator Ben Eine joins mile high club

















2012 in art world arguments

From Hirst Vs Hockney to Putin Vs Pussy Riot, we look at some major 'artistic differences' of the last 12 months

2012 in art world arguments


2012 the year performance art returned

Catherine Wood, curator of contemporary art and performance at Tate Modern, talks us through a year in which the decade-long rise in art of activism, choreography and the performative finally broke through to the mainstream

2012 the year performance art returned








































Ai Weiwei new video art shot on public bus in China

'How to Scientifically Remove A Shiny Screw With Chinese Characteristics From A Moving Vehicle In Eighteen Turns' follows the artist's attempts to remove a screw from a public bus as it passes by Beijing political hotspots

Ai Weiwei new video art shot on public bus in China













Andy Warhol in 3-D

Why is Christie's giving away 3-D glasses to view Warhol's work at its New York sale this Wednesday?

Andy Warhol in 3-D




Ten questions for Pace Gallery's Arne Glimcher

The legendary international dealer on his lifelong friendship with Agnes Martin, the increasing importance of Chinese art, his little known Hollywood career, what he hangs at home and his favourite ever mambo song

Ten questions for Pace Gallery's Arne Glimcher





Andy Warhol versus Star Wars

Camille Paglia calls Revenge of The Sith most powerful work of art in 30 years (but she thinks Andy's great too)

Andy Warhol versus Star Wars










The Art Book Challenge at St Pancras

Art buffs, French tourists, wayward school kids and grandparents all took the Phaidon Art Book Challenge at St Pancras on Saturday. Could there really only be one winner?

The Art Book Challenge at St Pancras





















Jeff Koons goes walkabout

The art star tours his Brussels retrospective, explaining the sexual and artistic underpinnings of his work

Jeff Koons goes walkabout


























The Queen Buys Warhol

The Royal Collection Trust buys Andy Warhol's portraits of Elizabeth II to mark her Diamond Jubilee

The Queen Buys Warhol









Ten questions for Anthony Haden-Guest

The New Yorker, Art Newspaper and Vanity Fair writer, infamous art world veteran, social commentator, collector and notorious bon viveur Anthony Haden-Guest unpacks half a century of fine-art wisdom in ten exchanges.

Ten questions for Anthony Haden-Guest


Cindy Hinant's make-up, glamour and TV show

The American feminist artist's first solo show at Manhattan's Joe Sheftel Gallery plays with feminine ideals and expectations, as well as earlier artistic movements, says Dr Kathy Battista of Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York

Cindy Hinant's make-up, glamour and TV show


Hirst and Documenta break attendance records

Documenta 13 in Kassel proves to be a fifth as popular as the Magic Kingdom and Damien Hirst's Tate Modern retrospective is already the biggest ever for a solo artist at the museum, beating Edward Hopper and Gaugin

Hirst and Documenta break attendance records




New Andy Warhol film to be released

Andy Warhol's 1968 film San Diego Surf which saw his Factory stars constantly harassed by police while filming finally gets a long-overdue release based on a rough cut and Warhol's original notes from the time

New Andy Warhol film to be released










Mick Jones RIP

The artist behind the landmark 1985 anti-war mural Hackney Peace Carnival has died

Mick Jones RIP









John Cage's gift to art

On the 100th anniversary of his birth we celebrate the avant-garde composer's lasting influence on modernism

John Cage's gift to art











Damien Hirst credits Blue Peter for spin paintings

1975 show featuring a motorised cardboard spinning machine for children "who like to paint but never really know what to draw." inspired the nine-year-old Hirst as he watched in his parents' house in Leeds

Damien Hirst credits Blue Peter for spin paintings





















Ai Weiwei new interview

"An artist can be taken away from an airport with a black hood, disappeared for 81 days - that scares people"

Ai Weiwei new interview



Fischli/Weiss will rock you

Rock on Top of Another Rock by Fischli/Weiss will be the first and only public sculpture by the artists in the UK

Fischli/Weiss will rock you






















































Fabrice Le Nezet gets heavy

French sculptor who's worked with Sony, Ford and Amnesty 'creates tension' with industrial materials in new work

Fabrice Le Nezet gets heavy




















Documenta 13 - the preview

The 'museum of 100 days' descends on the tiny German town of Kassel this weekend - here's what to look out for

Documenta 13 - the preview







Tom Sachs goes to Mars

First the Moon now Mars - meet the American artist exploring outer space from the safety of the gallery

Tom Sachs goes to Mars













Spirit of the age?

From the Turner Prize nominees to the Tate Tanks - everyone's talking about performance art again

Spirit of the age?

































It was 25 years ago today

Andy Warhol died on February 22, 1987 but his influence on high art and popular culture is as strong as ever

It was 25 years ago today





























































Frieze starts tomorrow!

Curator Sarah McCrory reveals the highs and lows of squeezing a bunch of hermit crabs, two yachts, one daily TV show and quite a few paintings into a London park

Frieze starts tomorrow!























A brief history of the word 'curator'

Once solely employed to describe the exhibition maker, now it's used for anyone from a celebrity music festival programmer to a Williamsburg hipster with an iTunes account. British Art Show curator Tom Morton talks us through the origins of the most overused word of modern times

A brief history of the word 'curator'


















Release Ai Weiwei

Sign an online petition in the Chinese artist's favourite medium of 'social sculpture'

Release Ai Weiwei


Ai Weiwei on film: Never Sorry

Alison Klayman, journalist, documentary filmmaker and friend of the Chinese artist, is asking for your help for 'Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry'

Ai Weiwei on film: Never Sorry















When in Paris...

Make like a modern 'flâneur': the bloggers taking a leisurely stroll to discover the cities hidden gems

When in Paris...







Rist returns to New York

Two new installations and a video sculpture mark Pipilotti Rist's third solo show at Luhring Augustine

Rist returns to New York




The launch of the LaM

After a four year renovation Lille's premier contemporary art gallery will reopen this Saturday

The launch of the LaM












For the love of film

Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling, co-directors of the Toronto International Film Festival, on films and new directors to watch

For the love of film


























































































































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