Why our China book nearly overwhelmed its authors

Chan Kei-lum and Diora Fong Hui-lan talk the South China Morning Post through an epic journey of discovery

Chan Kei-lum and Diora Fong Hui-lan, authors of China: The Cookbook

Heatherwick channels MC Escher in New York

The designer weaves together 154 flights of stairs for Vessel, a new work destined for Hudson Yards

Vessel by Heatherwick Studio. Rendering by Forbes Massie-Heatherwick Studio

Martin Parr's community service

The Magnum president shows his caring side by shooting a bunch of Britain's most worthy local projects

Organised Kaos, Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, South Wales 2016, by Martin Parr. Martin @ DMB / Magnum Photos.

Sou Fujimoto and Douglas Coupland's future vision

The architect's new pavilion provides display space for the writer's 22nd century billboard

Sou Fujimoto's Envision Pavilion carries one of Douglas Coupland's Slogans for the 22nd Century. Image courtesy of Shanghai Project's Instagram

How Ettore Sottsass made the typewriter sexy

On the 99th anniversary of his birth, learn how the designer put art, sex and self-expression into office machinery

The Valentine typewriter by Etorre Sottsass

A Movement in a Moment: Institutional Critique

Discover how artists developed a new mode of expression - by criticising public art institutions

MoMA Poll (1970) by Hans Haacke

Finding a home for James Nachtwey’s archive

500,000 images by the unflinching photographer have been acquired by New Hampshire's Hood Museum of Art

Petrol bombs thrown by Catholics in Belfast destroy a British armoured car, 1981. Photograph by James Nachtwey. As featured in Century

Richard Lester on his first day filming the Beatles

George shook his fist, fans chased the crew and they lost the first day of film, the Hard Day's Night director recalls

The Beatles during the filming of ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. © 2016 Bruce and Martha Karsh

Tom Waits helps Brae win Restaurant of the Year

Dan Hunter’s restaurant clinches Good Food Guide prize thanks to great cooking - and some informal flourishes

Brae. Image courtesy of the restaurant's Instagram

What happened when Sarah Sze was censored

By changing one of her apolitical pieces the Chinese Government inspired Sze to create a more critical work

Third Wednesday, 2016, from Sarah Sze’s Calendar Series. Image courtesy of Victoria Miro

How Kevin Amato casts a fashion show

The fashion photographer and casting agent shares his fashion week process with the New York Times

Kevin Amato's bed during NY Fashion Week. Photo by Kevin Amato

No, this Thai skyscraper is not falling down

Buro Ole Scheeren leaves a few chunks out of the country's tallest skyscraper to reveal its inner life

MahaNakhon by Buro Ole Scheeren

Sterling Ruby is signing his new book in Berlin

Want your Phaidon book inscribed by the artist? Then get over to his new show in the German capital

Sterling Ruby at his 26th street studio, Los Angeles, from our new book

The Gagosian is opening a tattoo parlour

Come to the Gagosian's NY Art Book Fair stand and get inked with works by the gallery's artists

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's design for Flash Flash Flash. Image courtesy of the Gagosian Gallery

Take a look at the USSR's long lost product designs

Discovering Utopia at the London Design Biennial looks back at the Soviet Union's take on consumer goods

The Sphinx station (1987, designed by D.Azrikan in collaboration with A.Kolotushkin and V. Goessen). Image courtesy of Moscow Design Museum

Enrique Olvera gives Roger Federer a cookery lesson

Injury's kept him out of the US Open but the tennis champ found time to work on his serve with our Mexican chef

Roger Federer takes tips from Enrique Olvera on how to make scallop aguachile. Photograph by Ben Lozovsky for Moët & Chandon

This once derelict Breuer home is now worth $2.3m

The tiny Massachusetts cottage, created with Bauhaus boss Walter Gropius, is one of his masterworks

The Chamberlain Cottage. Image courtesy of Sotheby's

BIG bend a car port into a luxury villa

Bjarke Ingels’ curled-up modern house packs in an inner garden, great views and space for vintage cars

A rendering of Villa Gug by BIG. Image courtesy of BIG

Shrigley goes shopping in New York

The British artist's new Manhattan public artwork pairs a permanent medium with a throwaway message

David Shrigley's Memorial (2016). Image courtesy of Ursula Liang's Instagram

Olafur Eliasson puts carbon on the menu

When Eliasson's studio cooked a meal for NYC’s Climate Museum director it listed one additional ingredient. . .

The menu from Studio Olafur Eliasson's dinner for the Climate Museum's Miranda Massie. Image courtesy of the artist's Instagram

Inside Yayoi Kusama's Glass House

What Philip Johnson's classic piece of domestic architecture looked like after Yayoi was done with it

Yayoi Kusma's installation at Philip Johnson's Glass House. Photograph by Matthew Placek

From boot camp to Boutique

Find out how five military clothing innovations went from the battlefield on to the high street

Versace's Spring/Summer 2016 collection, as shown in Milan. The military influence is clear here, yet there are subtler examples in all our wardrobes

Scholten & Baijings make 2016's Designs of the Year

Dutch husband-and-wife duo update ancient Japanese porcelain to win a place on the Design Museum's list

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Nan Goldin’s Wilde life

The US photographer goes to Reading Prison for a new show dedicated to the 19th century gay playwright

Nan Goldin, The Boy. Installation photograph by James Lingwood Courtesy of Artangel

Strap yourself in for Doug Aitken's LA retrospective

MOCA is about to show seven of the artist's immersive video works as part of a new two-decade career survey

Installation view	of Doug Aitken, Black Mirror, 2011, at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, July 9–September 27, 2015,photo by Norbert Miguletz

A Phaidon guide to Asia Week New York

From ancient Chinese ceramics to Afghani video art here's what to say about this month's string of shows

Cai Guo-Qiang, The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century. 1996. Nevada Test Site, USA

Stephen Shore shoots The High Line

The veteran New York photographer turns his lens on one of the city's much-loved public attractions

The High Line, New York by Stephen Shore. Image courtesy of Stephen Shore's Instagram

A Movement in a Moment: Futurism

Discover how, thanks to an early car accident, Italian artists taught us all to love the machine age

Speeding Automobile (1912) by Gaicomo Balla. As featured in Art in Time

Dare you enter Pedro Reyes' horror house?

Following his fine-art psychiatric clinic the Mexican artist creates a political haunted house for Halloween 2016

Pedro Reyes

Dumas, Tillmans and Ai Weiwei go to jail

The artists join Steve McQueen and Patti Smith in an exhibition focussing on Oscar Wilde's time in Reading prison

Left: Oscar Wilde, image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery; right: Reading Prison, photograph by Morley von Sternberg, image courtesy of Inside.

High Line architects create volcano-style resort

Diller Scofidio + Renfro beat Foster + Partners in a competition to design a new international resort in China

Diller Scofidio + Renfro's winning design for the Hainan resort island

Why Danh Vo is still possessed by The Exorcist

Discover how a childhood screening of this horror film still inspires the Vietnamese artist over three decades later

A mid-installation image of Danh Vo's forthcoming White Cube exhibition. Image courtesy of White Cube

What to expect from Pink Floyd at the V&A

Following its Bowie exhibition, the V&A will dedicate next summer’s show to the world-famous British rock group

Pink Floyd at Kew Gardens c. 1969. Photographer Storm Thorgerson.  Image courtesy of the V&A. ® Pink Floyd Music Ltd

Have you seen Grayson Perry's Christmas card?

Ceramicist joins Bob and Roberta Smith, Michael Craig-Martin and more for series of Oxfam charity cards

Grayson Perry Oxfam Christmas Card

What's behind the trend for twisting skyscrapers?

New report ranks 28 twisting scrapers in the world right now and explains why there are many more to come. . .

Dayan Tower, Dubai - SOM

Noguchi as you've never seen him before

Another Land by Leah Raintree at the Noguchi museum reimagines his sculptures as distant objects in space

Leah Raintree Another Land, Euripides (2016) Courtesy the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York

Peter Doig absolutely did not paint this picture!

Why did a retired prison officer sue the artist and claim that he'd sold him a painting while in jail in the 70s?

Not a Peter Doig painting - the landscape painting signed Peter Doige (76)

Grace Coddington takes over the Harrods window

Vogue fashion icon's new book takes pride of place in London's most famous store ahead of next month's signing

The Grace: The American Vogue Years window at Harrods, London

A stadium to keep sports stars and fans cool in Dubai

Could this bowl-shaped, water-cooled building keep the temperature down on the pitch and in the stands?

Perkins + Will's Mohammed bin Rashid Stadium. Image courtesy of Perkins + Will

Martin Parr, the Irish years

A New exhibition brings together a brilliant early trove of Martin Parr’s photography, all shot in western Ireland

Castlerea. County Roscommon. E. J. McDermot Ltd. Cash Railway Terminal. Denise Hart. 1983, by Martin Parr. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos.

Snøhetta bring gardens to this Lebanese bank

The firm's winning design for Banque Libano-Française’s headquarters also includes amphitheatre-style seating

Snøhetta's design for Banque Libano-Française's Beirut headquarters. Image courtesy of Snøhetta

Yoko Ono honours Ai Weiwei, Kapoor and Eliasson

The Fluxus artist and activist has chosen to honour all three with this year's Lennon Ono Grant for Peace

Lennon Ono Grant For Peace recipients Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor and Olafur Eliasson

Yayoi Kusama turns the Glass House dotty

Discover why the Japanese artist's works are filling Philip Johnson's Glass House and grounds

Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden installed at the Glass House. Photograph by Matthew Placek

Tom Ford’s Tadao Ando ranch hits the market

$75m gets you the designer's ranch, built by the Pritzker Prize laureate, right next to an old cowboy movie set

Tom Ford's Santa Fe ranch, designed by Tadao Ando. Courtesy of the Kevin Bobolsky Group.

When Wolfgang Tillmans shot Concorde

Discover how the German photographer extended his artistic practice by watching South London’s skies

Concorde L432-9, 1997; Concorde L433-8, 1997 both by Wolfgang Tillmans

A hothouse High Line?

Could Philip Johnson's World's Fair relic be the next piece of NY architecture to undergo a radical reinvention?

Aidan Doyle and Sarah Wan's Hanging Meadows proposal for Philip Johnson’s New York State Pavilion

Theaster Gates, a gazebo and Black Lives Matter

The Chicago artist hopes to bring the public structure at the heart of a police killing to his Stony Island Arts Bank

Theaster Gates. Photo by Sara Pooley

5 things we learned from Peter Marino on Artspace

The art-world architect opens up on Warhol, childhood trauma and meeting the world via the New York art scene

The architect Peter Marino sitting in front of his collection of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs (photo by Manolo Yllera)

The Insider's Guide to Rio

Local furniture designer Zanini de Zanine shares his favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide

Designer Zanini de Zanine - our Rio Wallpaper* City Guide insider

Turning a Turkish sea wall into a luxury island

US firm Forum Studio hope their Pearl of Istanbul project will hold back the waves and draw in the global elite

Pearl of Instanbul rendering by Forum Studio

The time Danny Lyon nearly killed John Lewis

It was developing fluid, not a baton strike, that nearly brought an early end to the US civil-rights pioneer

Civil-rights protesters in Cairo, Illinois, 1962 by Danny Lyon

The MAD building for the future of Chinese fashion

China's leading high-end womenswear producer hopes this Ma Yansong building with give it a design edge

Xinhee Design Center by MAD Architects. Image courtesy of MAD

JR and Massimo Bottura's Olympic lunch in Rio

The world's greatest chef broke bread with the French artist on a rooftop in one of the city's oldest favelas

Massimo Bottura, his wife Lara Gilmore and chef Jura (head of the table) enjoy lunch at Casa Amarela with JR and his crew. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Olafur Eliasson digitizes his Dieter Rams chairs

The Berlin-based artist has great taste in interior design, and the IT skills to replicate this in the virtual realm

Studio Olafur Eliasson's scans of its Dieter Rams 620 chairs. Image courtesy of Studio Olafur Eliasson's Instagram

A Modernist house that spins in the wind

Could Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley’s ReActor house help you with your domestic relationships?

ReActor (2016) by Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley. Image courtesy of Alex Schweder's Instagram

How we made it to the Olympic opening ceremony

Did anyone else spot our colour-coordinated presence in the stands at Rio's Maracanã Stadium last Friday?

Our Phaidon tote spotted at Rio. Image courtesy of Nessia Pope

What Ed Ruscha sees in the Wild West

San Francisco’s de Young museum looks at the artist’s relationship with the Great American West

A Particular Kind of Heaven (1983) by Ed Ruscha. Image courtesy of the de Young museum.

Sex, drugs and gardening

A wild trio of films from photographer and Erik Kessels protégé Melanie Bonajo looks for ways to fix our world

Still from Economy of Love (2015) by Melanie Bonajo. Image courtesy of Foam

Watch Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Shed come to life

In a new animation DS+R show how their NYC building will actually move to house a wide range of programming

The Shed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group. Image courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Ai Weiwei’s smartphone photography show

The artist and activist is bringing his Instagram shots of the European migrant crisis to Foam in Amsterdam

#SafePassage, from Ai Weiwei's Instagram

How Louis Vuitton created modern luggage

Discover how the designer, born 4 August 1821, prepared us all for the age of travel

Stacked Louis Vuitton cases. Image courtesy of Louis Vuitton

Luc Tuymans themes his new show around glasses

The Belgian artist draws together a surprising array of specs-wearing subjects in his new portrait exhibition

Campaign (glasses) (2007) by Luc Tuymans

How photography changed with the Presidential race

A new exhibition shows that despite an overload of images, smart photographers can still make their mark

Mark Peterson, The Press Section at Senator Ted Cruz Event, Columbia SC, January 15, 2016

JR's incredible new Olympics art revealed!

The French artist has pioneered an entirely new technique to bring images of lesser-known athletes to the games

JR's new piece in Rio. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Annabelle Selldorf: from kitchen to art gallery

Watch the architect describe how she went from worktops to Werner in New York

Architect Annabelle Selldorf

A Movement in a Moment: School of London

Discover how a group of painters working in the British capital during the late 20th century kept figurative art alive

Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees) (1983 – 1984) by R.B. Kitaj. From London Calling. Image courtesy of the Getty

Artists and designers join Hillary's 45 Pin Project

Pentagram partners Michael Bierut and Paula Scher work alongside 43 other talents in a big button drive

Pentagram partner Michael Bierut's contribution to the 45 Pin Project

Steven Holl's summer house for a 19thC painter

The architect has drawn up a folly plan for the Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church's house

Polychrome Summer House by Steven Holl. Image courtesy of Steven Holl Architects

Mark Wallinger gets reflective at the Freud Museum

New works by the Turner Prize winner, installed to mark the 160th anniversary of Freud's birth, dwell on selfhood

Self Reflection (2016) by Mark Wallinger. Self (2016) can be seen through the room's window. Image courtesy of the Freud Museum

Why the Smithsonian will pay you to drink beer

A newly created job vacancy asks for applicants to conduct research into America's craft-beer scene

Costumers at Tørst, New York. From Food and Beer

Olympics architect creates Museum of London

London architect Asif Khan has reworked the city's Smithfield Meat Market in this winning design

Renderings of the new Museum of London by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan. Image courtesy of Stanton Williams and Asif Khan

Read curator Cecilia Alemani’s High Line highlights

The High Line curator just toured the linear park's current art installation Wanderlust - here's what she liked

Wanderlust by Giorgio Andreotta Calò. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Image courtesy of the High Line

London’s V&A is set to move East!

Renderings for London’s new Olympic Park cultural centre and creative hub have just been released

New images released for Stratford Waterfront. Renderings by Forbes Massie

Is it time to catch Ed Ruscha's tropical fish?

Discover the tricksy photography and artful wordplay behind this early series of Ruscha colour prints

Sweets, Meats, Sheets; Closed; Air, Water,
Fire; and Open from Tropical Fish Series (1975) 4 Color screenprints Each: 25 3/4 × 32 3/4 inches (65.4 × 83.2 cm). © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

Ferran Adrià and Salvador Dalí go on show together

Works by these two titans of Spanish creativity share an exhibition space in Florida this coming autumn

Ferran Adrià and Salvador Dalí

Tales behind the top lots at the Four Seasons sale

The restaurant’s furniture and fittings auction drew some very high bids - and not only because of nostalgia

The Four Seasons sign by Emil Antonucci. Image courtesy of Wright auction house

What is JR creating for the Rio Olympics?

The French artist says this work, part of his ongoing Inside Out project, will be his craziest yet!

JR and his team install a new piece in Rio. Image courtesy of the artist's Instagram

One thing not to miss in Rio de Janeiro

If you're visiting for the Olympics try and take in this Brutalist cathedral by architect Edgar Fonseca

Catedral Metropolitana. Photograph by Mario Grisolli

Stuart Davis – Proto Pop artist or Modernist master?

Or perhaps even a Cubist as William C Agee, the author of Modern Art in America 1908–68, argues . . .

Owh! in San Pao (1951) by Stuart Davis. Oil on canvas, 52 3/16 × 42 in. (132.6 × 106.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 52.2  © Estate of Stuart Davis. Image courtesy of The Whitney

Orlan loses law suit against Lady Gaga

Body artist’s bumps can’t be copyrighted court says

Orlan (left) and Lady Gaga (right)

Oh Maurizio! What have you done in Paris?

Cheeky artist Maurizio Cattelan fills Galeries Lafayette with an inflatable and rather suggestive Eiffel Tower

One of Maurizio Cattelan and Toilet Paper's Galeries Lafayette installations -  image courtesy of Galeries Lafayette

Tracey Emin and David Shrigley celebrate Rio 2016

The artists have contributed to the official Team GB Rio Olympics print series, produced to mark the Games


Hand drawn visions of the future

The Museum for Architectural Drawing looks back to a time when the future was captured with brushes and pencils

Background for Ghost in the Shell (1995), Shot No. 509 Gouache on paper and acrylic on transparent folio 270 x 380 mm Illustrator: Hiromasa Ogura© 1995 Shirow Masamune / Kodansha ∙ Bandai Visual ∙ Manga Entertainment Ltd. Image courtesy of the Museum for Architectural Drawing

William Eggleston's blood red revelation

Discover how a photo machine changed Eggleston’s world view and encouraged him to favour extreme colours

Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi), 1973 by William Eggleston. As reproduced in Photography Today

You can own this Elliott Erwitt shot of Marilyn

On the photographer’s birthday we look back at this Marilyn Monroe photo - one of our great Collector's Editions

Marilyn Monroe, New York, 1956, by Elliott Erwitt, one of our Collector's Editions

Seen Ed Ruscha’s new Stella McCartney campaign?

The veteran Californian pop artist lends his skills to the British fashion house’s autumn 2016 advertisements

Stella McCartney's Autumn 2016 campaign

Private Ellsworth Kelly collection comes to Berlin

A new Berlin show indicates a growing appreciation for Kelly's work in the continent where he first honed his style

Blue Yellow Red (1970-1973) by Ellsworth Kelly. Image courtesy of Lempertz

Grace Coddington draws her new Tiffany campaign

Look at these on-set illustrations from the new Tiffany campaign, drawn by Vogue's creative director at large

Grace Coddington's drawing of her Tiffany shoot, with photographer David Sims and model Lupita Nyong'o. Image courtesy of Grace's Instagram

Why Olafur Eliasson loves this Iwan Baan video

See how the architectural photographer found an accidental urban waterfall a little like the ones Olafur makes

Studio Olafur Eliasson's repost of Iwan Baan's Instagram video

Boltanski's bells and heartbeats come to Edinburgh

The 71-year-old French artist will install a trio of beautiful, spooky artworks in Scotland later this month

Animitas by Christian Boltanski. Image courtesy of Jupiter Artland

Why Frank Lloyd Wright didn't make UNESCO's list

Le Corbusier was added to the World Heritage List a few days ago but not Wright - there's a reason for that

Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. Image courtesy of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

What will happen to this Wild Art building?

Can the Longaberger Basket Company, Ohio, find a buyer for its idiosyncratic office building?

The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio, as featured in Wild Art

Annabelle Selldorf - 'Good taste has gotten a bad rep'

'Good taste actually has nothing to do with being proper' she tells Elle Decoration in illuminating new interview

Architect Annabelle Selldorf

Ai Weiwei floats life-vest lotus flowers in Vienna

The artist’s work F-Lotus brings the Mediterranean migrant crisis to the still waters of a Viennese lake

F Lotus by Ai Weiwei. Image courtesy of 21er Haus

Shigeru Ban's timber trapezoid tower for Vancouver

The Japanaese architect's first building in the city will be the tallest hybrid timber structure in the world

Terrace House, Vancouver - Shigeru Ban

How Judy Chicago made a feminist masterpiece

By reworking Christ's Last Supper Chicago made The Dinner Party, a huge, intricate attempt to redress history

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

Why did Warhol, Mapplethorpe, Hockney and Ruscha all create portraits of this LA writer?

New California show Rendering Homage: Portraits of a Patron draws from Joan Agajanian Quinn's collection

Rupert Jasen Smith, 1988, Original portrait Polaroid by Andy Warhol, reproduced and painted by Rupert Jasen Smith. From Rendering Homage: Portrait of a Patron

When Billy Name turned Warhol's Factory silver

Following the photographer's death yesterday, we look back at the time Name gave Andy's loft a foil makeover

Billy Name (foreground) and Andy Warhol (background) at the Factory, 1965-7, by Stephen Shore. © Stephen Shore

The new Design Museum shop is open!

We won't see John Pawson's work on the museum until November but he's just finished the shop nearby

The Design Museum shop - image courtesy of the Design Museum

UNESCO honours Le Corbusier

17 buildings by the master modernist including Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation, added to World heritage list

René Burri, Le Corbusier at the monastery in Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle, France, 1959. Photograph by René Burri