Pierre Huyghe

Leaving behind "crunchy granola" aesthetics, these artists have created new ways of visualizing the Anthropocene.

In advance of her retrospective opening at the New Museum this week, here's an interview that renowned curator Massimiliano Gioni conducted with the artist about her life's protean work, from the new Phaidon monograph Pipilotti Rist:Pixel Forest.

For the latest in our series of interviews around Phaidon's Vitamin P3 compendium, Artspace's Loney Abrams spoke with the Swiss painter about the ideas behind his work.

Here are the must-see shows going up around the art world this month.

This essay from Phaidon's Art in Time explores the participatory movement, which saw a blurring of the line between artist and viewer.

The past few years have seen a marked uptick in the number of artworks featuring live animals, even as Seaworld and the Ringling Bros. phase out their critter performers—what gives?

If you're wondering why artists are trying to turn themselves into turtles and filling rooms with flesh-toned liquids, this is the guide for you.

This tony uptown enclave, long a dusty stretch of residential doldrums, is suddenly a cornucopia of new and old art alike. Here are 16 reasons to give it another look.

The up-and-coming Brazilian artist describes the inspiration and process behind her colorful soft-sculptures and installlations.

Picturing everything from hauling barges to laboring in the studio, these 7 works from Phaidon's Body of Art show the workday in a whole new light.

The 14th Istanbul Biennial, "Saltwater: A Theory of Thoughtforms," aims to be expansive and inclusive but falls prey to navel-gazing and exoticism.

The globetrotting curator discusses the French artists' groundbreaking project in this essay excerpted from Phaidon's "Defining Contemporary Art".

We've rounded up the most interesting stories from across the web this week, from Glenn Lowry's response to the Björk critics to a profile of the famed feminist art group.

We singled out five artists of note who were on view at L.A.'s ultra-cool indie art fair nestled in the rolling hills on the city's outskirts.

We looked back on the strategies of seven artists who have incorporated living creatures, from livestock to house pets, in their provocative art.

From a protean (and unapologetic) copycat of recent art history to one of France's most acclaimed conceptual pranksters, these are the artists everyone will be talking about this month.

From The Land in rural Thailand to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, these are a few influential international programs that collectors would be wise to look for on artists' CVs.