A fire erupted at the American artist Ellen Gallagher’s studio in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2004. None of her paintings were damaged — she’d been installing them in a show in New York at the time — but she was left without a work space for some time. “I’d been making these massive Plasticine resin […]

As Dalí’s muse, Hitchcock’s nightmare, and humble ingredient, the eternal egg weaves a fascinating tale back to antiquity. The first volume in TASCHEN’s series with The Gourmand, sumptuously illustrated with exclusive photography and historic artworks, celebrates the link between food and art through original recipes and stories.

John Boyega never imagined himself as a Madame Tussauds waxwork. It wasn’t something that he had necessarily aspired to, but when the call came in, he said yes before his agent, Femi Oguns, could finish the sentence. “I just thought, they are making them look so accurate now,” he says. A waxwork is something of a crowning […]