The LA landmark set to become a design museum
Is this contemporary art and design museum just the kind of investment Los Angeles’ Old Bank District needs?
Spend a day in London with Wallpaper* City Guides
Follow Instagram icon Joe Pickard as he 'works' his way through Wallpaper* City Guides' 24 hour guide
The man who linked Rodin to Stephen Shore
Edward Steichen, born on this day in 1879, linked 19th Century European artists to 20th century NYC innovators
Want to swap a good book for a great one?
Bring your old art books to MoMA tomorrow and you could get some fabulous Phaidon ones - and meet an artist!
Stories from the Secession - Klimt's The Kiss
Extravagant and ecstatic this masterpiece is as much a celebration of colour and texture as the act of love
Anish Kapoor 'I want to write a grand opera...'
'... and deal with the big human issues.' But, he tells us, 'One would kid oneself to believe one could do all that'
Doug Fishbone’s Biennale Golf Course
The American artist brings his mini-golf course to Venice in time for the 2015 Biennale this May
The designs Alessi declined
A new exhibition shows the products by Zaha Hadid, Ettore Sottsass and co that never made it into production
If you've got it - flaunt it!
Fashioning the Body is a great show examining ways in which we've 'enhanced our offering' over the years
Why would an architect burn a wooden building?
The Phaidon Atlas focuses on an ancient Japanese preservation technique employed by contemporary architects
Seeing LA through Rauschenberg’s eyes
Do Rauschenberg’s Los Angeles photos suggest he could have been a great documentary photographer?
Anish Kapoor ‘An artist’s job is to say I’m lost’
We catch up with the sculptor and painter at the launch of a show of new work at the Lisson Gallery
Stories from the Secession - how Vienna led the world
Our book Art in Vienna looks back at the radical developments that took place in the Austrian capital a century ago
'Bruce Nauman cares about the human condition'
Grazia Quaroni, curator at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, explains a puzzling new Bruce Nauman show
What do you think of Spotify's new look?
It's goodbye to the green as designers Collins give music streaming service a great new 60's inspired identity
Shoshanna's off to Japan and she's got a great guide!
The series four finale of Girls last night had a host of surprises - not least the inclusion of our Wallpaper* City Guide
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
Alex Atala gets two Michelin Stars!
D.O.M.'s founder becomes the first and only Brazilian chef to score two stars in the inaugural guide to his country
Hiroshi Sugimoto creates his own museum
After his criticism of museums by OMA and Libeskind the photographer is designing his own coastal art complex
One thing not to miss in Paris
Spring has sprung and with it comes a new Wallpaper* City Guide, packed with cool things to see and do
Who will save Michael Heizer's City?
Why does this storied work of land art need to be protected, before it is even finished?
Why Heatherwick's hub is made for modern learning
The British designer hopes this towering new university facility in Singapore will encourage impromptu exchanges
Is this New Orleans’ answer to the London Eye?
A local firm hopes to build this double-helix gondola-lift tower in time to celebrate the city's 300th anniversary
What's William Eggleston doing in Brazil?
The 75-year-old photographer insisted on a car and a knowledgeable driver when he visited Rio this month...
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!
What was Louis Kahn working on, the day he died?
The architect died at Penn Station on this day in 1974, when his briefcase was opened it contained these sketches
JR is coming to the Tribeca Film Festival!
The brilliant French artist premiers his short film at the New York City festival next month
Jerry Saltz on medieval art, censorship and Facebook
The New York magazine critic discusses his love for Dark Ages art, and how it got him kicked off social media
Arne Glimcher loves our Zhang Xiaogang book!
The influential Pace Gallery founder, speaking at Art Basel HK, says it's 'unique in the lexicon of monographs'
Roger Ballen goes back to Outland
In the first of a new series, the photographer revisits the characters in his seminal photographic book Outland
A Google Doodle for the author of the first photobook
How the botanist Anna Atkins, born today in 1799, created the first photography book over 170 years ago
Michael Graves RIP
One of the influential 'New York Five' architects and designer of the postmodern Blue Bird Kettle dies at 80
Alex Prager’s knee-high perspective
The Californian photographer’s new Hong Kong show offers a childlike view of her idiosyncratic vision
Okwui Enwezor invites Karl Marx to Venice!
The curator themes this year's Biennale around All The World's Futures with a marathon reading of Das Kapital
Rising Star - Éric Kayser enters Best Bakers Top 10
French baker and Phaidon author is in Dessert Professional's 2015 hit list of US talent
What's Bjarke Ingels done to the skyscraper?
Danish firm's wedge-shaped blocks fit into modest city plot and boast plenty of room at the top
This year's Pritzker Prize winner on last year's
Shortly before his death this week, Frei Otto outlined his admiration for Shigeru Ban - this is what he told us
Paul McCarthy joins the skateboard economy
Baldessari, Ballen, Warhol and Wool all have trucks on their designs - now the Phaidon artist does too
Dismantling Shiro Kuramata's sushi bar
The painstaking work Hong Kong's M+ museum put into preserving his classic interior is revealed in new video
Bricks are beautiful at this boutique hotel
Bangkok firm Onion creates remarkably modern hotel from remarkably ancient man-made building material
One thing not to miss in Hong Kong
In town for Art Basel HK? Take time off at the highest bar in the world, as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide app
Wolfgang Tillmans wins the 2015 Hasselblad Award
Swedish photographic institution cites and celebrates the artist's skill for expressing 'the fragility of images'
Photos that changed the world #10 Derrick Cross
On the anniversary of his untimely death we look at how Robert Mapplethorpe's astonishing 1983 photograph mixed potent sexual and political imagery - proving that photography could appeal to both the mind and the senses
Sacred Stories: The Buddhist Meditation Centre
How a group of Dutch Buddhists came to meditate in a thirteen-bedroom mansard barn in rural Europe
Yin Xiuzhen on China, smoking and freedom
The contemporary Chinese artist tells us about her early life, some key influences and new work
Massimo Bottura is baking bones on CNN tonight
The chef and Phaidon author travels to London to take part in the channel's gastronomy show, Culinary Journeys
Richard Prince, fashion photographer
The American artist's appropriated fashion-magazine photography goes on show in New York this week
Heatherwick and BIG design Google’s moveable HQ
The European architects have designed a complex that can be reconfigured to suit the firm's changing needs
What to look out for at this week's Armory Show
Don't miss new work by Phaidon artists Wolfgang Tillmans, Isa Genzken, Yayoi Kusama and Monica Bonvicini
Would you back the Warhol family movie?
Warhol’s great niece, Abby Warhola, and her relatives are making a film about their take on the pop artist
Paris gets a concrete wave right beside Euro Disney
Paris architect Jean-Philippe Pargade uses bridge-building technology to create undulating academic facility
Five buildings bringing brick back
How one of the oldest materials is being worked into contemporary architecture in some very surprising ways
Isa Genzken shows us the money
Why has the German artist worked coins and notes into her latest series of paintings?
Jeff Koons' Piglet is bound for California
Koons' 18-1/2 foot high rendering of the Winnie the Pooh character will stand beside the new Sacramento stadium
When John Cage met Robert Rauschenberg
How the artist’s seemingly simple paintings inspired one of the most challenging compositions of the 20th century
The latest example of the Guggenheim effect?
Arquipélago - Contemporary Arts Centre in the Azores hopes to draw in an international art and architecture crowd
Want to know what's inspiring Magnus Nilsson?
The colour blue, monastery life and lupin beans will inform the Swedish chef's menu next season
Ancient river inspires Taipei's stunning new museum
KRIS YAO|ARTECH says its New Taipei City Museum of Art draws inspiration from the site's natural environment
A Movement in a Moment: Minimalism
How a band of NYC artists rejected the ideas of an earlier generation, reducing art to its essentials
Is Steve McCurry's Afghan Girl on the run again?
Reports today suggest the woman in McCurry's photo has been living illegally in Pakistan under an assumed name
Have you heard about the boutique inside Noma?
While René and co are away, Club Monaco has set up store inside the Copenhagen restaurant
Want to know a bit more about JR?
The globe-trotting French contemporary artist is the subject of a great career retrospective in Hong Kong
Winslow Homer and American Realism
How the artist, born this day in 1836, turned European sensibilities on 19th Century American subjects
Who fancies a bit of African Modernism?
The Vitra Design Museum's new exhibition examines the striking buildings that arose after African independence
'I can’t get rid of my trashiness' – John Currin
The painter, subject of the Gagosian's Oscars weekend exhibition, considers the problems of high art in a pop age
Watch Richard Wentworth describe artistic skill
Why does the British sculptor and photographer feel that artists reach their goals by ‘walking backwards’?
Martin Parr's Bad Weather goes to Switzerland
The rainy, snowy and foggy images from Martin Parr's first photo book go on show at a Geneva gallery next month
Scholten & Baijings are in Designs of the Year 2015
The Dutch duo and Phaidon authors’ Strap Chair will feature alongside works by Frank Gehry and Raf Simons
Playmobil create a Bauhaus-inspired 'mansion'
Is the German toy firm trying to court big kids with a play house inspired by another great Teutonic institution?
‘I’m a nutcase when I get to the studio!’
Legendary Pop artist Peter Saul is working on a picture of Donald Duck versus Mondrian. What’s that about?
Magnus Nilsson to collect the White Guide award
The Fäviken chef is chosen for the 2015 ‘Nobel of gastronomy’, in part for his innovative use of microbiology
Sacred Stories: The GKD Crematorium
Learn how an Indian practice adapted ancient burial practices to suit one of the country's fastest growing cities
Why Scholten & Baijings work so well on paper
From prototype to final product, the designers have produced some of their best work using this simple material
Peter Zumthor's tourism designs for an old zinc mine
The Swiss architect and Pritzker laureate works industrial-style buildings into Norway's Allmannajuvet gorge
Marcus Lyon’s photos from the future
The British image maker explains how his landscapes capture our globalised world at its most extreme
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
The future according to Konstantin Grcic
German designer works with Vitra Design Museum to produce forward-looking, personal retrospective
Massimo Bottura at the Berlin Film Festival
Last night The Phaidon chef joined screen stars at the festival, which this year places an emphasis on film and food
What happened the day Sargent painted Monet
As a new show opens, a look at the painting that marked the moment the portraitist opened up to Impressionism
Three libraries that are changing our cities
As this latest Phaidon Atlas Focus shows, a change in book lending has also altered our urban environment
Take a look inside Ellsworth Kelly's new 'chapel'
91-year-old artist is making a 'spiritually inspired' installation within the grounds of the University of Texas
Watch Sanford Biggers talk about breaking the rules
'I describe myself as an artist because I live in constant balance with mania – the maniacal desire to create!'
Sacred Stories - LJG Synagogue
How the Dutch practice SeARCH created what's only the second synagogue in the Netherlands since WWII
Brutalist icons go from concrete to cardboard
We love brutalist architecture so the thought of erecting some on our desk pleases us #SorryWorkMates
'Germany was like a vacuum' - Heinz Mack on Zero
The founder of the European art movement explains how he and his fellow artists created something from nothing
Is that an Ed Ruscha in 50 Shades of Grey?
US pop pioneer's Brother Sister appears in the film alongside other works by contemporary artists
Margarita launches new Jose Dávila Artspace edition
Multiple launched at Zona Maco Art Fair lunch created by the chef and author of Mexico: The Cookbook
Roman Signer's unconventional approach to art
He's attached rockets to chairs, blown up sacks of paper and lit fuses on railway lines. What's planned for London?
Inside OMA's Super Theater
OMA's Inge Goudsmit explains how Taiwan's theatrical history led the team to push the limits of this new space
The Guggenheim's Jeffrey Weiss talks On Kawara
Curator of new show Silence on how the reclusive artist's desire for privacy impacted his career and legacy
Sacred Stories - Prayer and Meditation Pavilion
How Studio Tamassociati accommodated two ancient religions in one striking, contemporary place of worship
Watch Shirley Tse talk about her DIY ethic
The sculptor and Cal Arts tutor praises informality and amateurism in our new book AKADEMIE X
Walter Liedtke RIP
Renowned Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art killed in train crash on Tuesday
Sacred Stories - Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
How did Pritzker laureate Peter Zumthor come to build this tiny, rural chapel? Our book, Sacred Spaces, explains
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
The New York Times loves Enrique Olvera
The Mexican chef and Phaidon author’s NYC restaurant receives a glowing review from the paper’s Pete Wells
How Pentagram helped Shake Shack top $1.6bn
When the design agency oversaw branding for an NY burger stand, little did they know how much it would be worth
Celebrity restaurateur Mr Chow debuts art in China
The Shanghai-born restaurateur stages his first Chinese art show, with a little help from Warhol and Keith Haring
Noma Japan's tableware is up for grabs!
In advance of the Tokyo pop-up restaurant's closure, Redzepi and co have put its bespoke items up for sale
Was this the best advert of the Super Bowl?
Lauren Greenfield's ad for Always was a blow out win because it will change attitudes - not just buying habits
