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
A Movement in a Moment: Art Brut
How one French artist took the works of mentally ill patients and placed them at the forefront of Modernism
Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Allyson Vieira
The American sculptor uses recycled plastic to create works that bring to mind ancient civilisations
JR on his New York Times Magazine cover
Watch our video with the artist in which he reveals the thinking behind his New York Times cover at the weekend
Well, can you spot which one is the fake?
Artist and curator Doug Fishbone asked people to spot the fake in his new show, only 12% got it right
Unseen Bacons on show in London and New York
Did Francis Bacon really paint self-portraits such as these in later life because all his old friends were dying off?
Archive sketches inspire MoMA’s Italian range
Newly realised designs by Sottsass, Castiglioni and co. go on sale at the museum’s Design Store next month
OMA's 'race against time' for Venice Biennale
The architect overseeing OMA's work on the Chinese Pavilion tells us what to expect next month
Sonia Delaunay - Planes, Prints and Automobiles
In the second part of our chat with Juliet Bingham, the Tate curator talks us through Delaunay's later works
Roger Ballen goes back to Outland #4
1998 photograph Cat Catcher conceals a tale of witch doctors, marginalised living and our destructive nature
An AKADEMIE X reading list
On World Book Day, learn which books inspire Marina Abramović, Bob Nickas, Dan Graham and Miranda July
All you need to know about Sonia Delaunay
Juliet Bingham, curator of a new Tate retrospective explains how the artist went from fine art to fabric and back
Carol Bove and 'The Intimacy Gradient'
Our Akademie X artist's magnificent new show at Zwirner unfolds over three floors of varied yet related work
The Winter Olympics resort that serves as a TV screen
LEDs set into the façade of this South Korean resort could allow its guests to watch the 2018 Games
Steve McCurry and Stephen Shore at Photo London
Appearance of two world-class photographers set to raise the status of the photo fair to new heights
What we learned from Redzepi’s Reddit interview
The Noma founder on why he's becoming interested in native American food, how Gordon Ramsay hated Noma and why you should never eat anything from the forest unless you know what it is (or you're a masochist)
Candy Crush's new office lacks a 'bored' room
'We didn't build an office – we created a kingdom' says Stockholm developer King of its playful new design
Why Anri Sala is France’s leading artist (again)
The filmmaker is ranked 'most influential artist' by the leading French publication Le Journal des Arts
Lost Ettore Sottsass designs go into production
Furniture and vases by the legendary Italian designer hit the high street courtesy of Kartell
The snacks that work like airline tickets
Budget airline Transavia says its SnackHolidays campaign puts the fun back into buying a vacation
French architects plan a vertical city in the Sahara
OXO Architectes and Nicolas Laisne Associes' la Ville Tour des Sables will create a souk in the sky
A Movement in a Moment: Fauvism
How Henri Matisse founded a 20th Century art movement on the back of an art world scandal
Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Frank Castronovo
One of the Franks behind Frankies Spuntino talks coffee, collecting art, and what wine Larry Gagosian serves
Could Gurlitt’s art hoard be shown at dOCUMENTA?
Director Adam Szymczyk wants to display the collection of looted Nazi art in an 'almost neutral' way
What's wrong with David Shrigley's calculator?
An adding machine that only subtracts and a set of rules forbidding German form part of new NYC show
Ellsworth Kelly to receive James Smithson medal
The 91-year-old painter will accept the accolade at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum tomorrow
Philip-Lorca diCorcia and the Kardashian implant
How does the photographer link the world's most famous fundament to the global financial crisis?
Zhang Xiaogang on money, art and China
Why does one of the the world's most important artists say the Chinese art market is 'like a parasite'?
Stories from the Secession - The effects of war
How the optimistic, hedonistic artists of the Viennese Secession responded to the horrors of World War One
James Irvine honoured at Salon del Mobile
The late, great product designer’s monograph gets a custom-made display unit, and its on show in Milan
Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Aki Sasamoto
The Japanese-born New York-based artist on why she is installing a 3D personality test inside the NYC art fair
How Leonardo da Vinci used science to elevate art
On the anniversary of his birth, how the Renaissance Master used learning to raise the status of painting
Roger Ballen goes back to Outland #3
How the photographer feared for his life getting this shot in an abandoned house full of criminals and drug addicts
Richard Rogers’s parents house is going to Harvard
The architect’s late sixties creation will serve as a London base for the university’s Graduate School of Design
“There are too many police in America”- Danny Lyon
The photographer and veteran civil-rights campaigner offers his take on the recent spate of US police shootings
Are you fit for Carsten Höller’s new thrill ride?
The Belgian artist will insist on certain physical and mental criteria from the riders on his forthcoming UK installation
Rich Torrisi’s Parm is a hit at Yankee Stadium
As the New York baseball ground opens for a new season, one food outlet has already won plaudits
Gastón Acurio's global plan for Peruvian cuisine
Our author hopes his international internship programme will broaden Peru's palate - and the world's
Stories from the Secession - Art or porn?
Art in Vienna examines how the erotic charge of the Secessionists pushed Viennese society to its limits
Dancing on Warhol's Silver Clouds
A new NYC production of Merce Cunningham's 1968 work RainForest brings back Warhol's Mylar balloons
Why forgery was a good move for Michelangelo
Author Noah Charney explains how a bit of cunning deception helped launched the master artist's career
Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Samara Golden
The LA artist hopes to reveal hidden depths at this year’s New York art fair, via her Frieze Projects commission
Cameron, Milliband and Clegg as Mexican wrestlers
Design agencies Pentagram, Applied Wayfinding and Handsome visualise Britain's main parties as pictograms
Modern stadium draws on ancient motifs
Can you spot the medieval architectural influences in this Anatolian soccer facility, currently under construction?
Bjarke Ingels goes to the bathroom
Acclaimed architect’s design team creates faucets for high-end American fixtures firm Kallista
Stories from the Secession - Otto Wagner's revolt
How the inspired Austrian architect came to rebel against his own work, as revealed in our book Art in Vienna
Phaidon’s Frieze NY interviews – Pia Camil
We speak to 2015's Frieze Projects participants, including Pia Camil, the artist giving away clothes at the fair
Massimo and Magnus serve up secrets in new show
Chef’s Table, a new Netflix series, goes inside the lives and kitchens of six of the world’s most famous chefs
'Even modernists like Mies loved bricks. . .'
From Bavarian viaducts to Mesopotamian zigurats, Brick author William Hall also loves them - we ask him why
The Store Detective: Carturesti Carusel, Bucharest
Books provide a happy ending to this cavernous 19th century bank building in Bucharest’s old town
Zhang Xiaogang explained in 5 paintings
How Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and Richter all inform the work of China's most important contemporary painter
Noma's new locally sourced soundtrack
Danish band Efterklang have recorded a 67-minute work especially for the Copenhagen restaurant's restrooms
Stories from the Secession - Radical music and art
The Viennese Secessionist artists didn't just limit their influence to painting, as Art In Vienna explains
Le Corbusier's art goes on show in Paris
The architect's paintings and collages are the subject of a joint show at two Parisian galleries
Roger Ballen goes back to Outland #2
The photographer revisits his 1995 photo, Woman, man and dog from his seminal book Outland
A stainless steel tribute to Jean Prouvé
Anne Démians' Quai Quest in Nancy, France, draws on Prouvé’s mid-century work to reinvigorate his home city