Zaha Hadid’s worthy wooden memorial

Architect hopes her Sleuk Rith Institute for victims of the Khmer Rouge will help Cambodians reassess their past

The Sleuk Rith Institute by Zaha Hadid Architects

John Stezaker makes a movie out of film stills

The US premier of the British photo artist’s film, Blind, opens as part of a new show at the Petzel Gallery

Shadow 13 (2014) by John Stezaker

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Tobias Madison

The artist on his Frieze commission, Swiss identity and how his Sottsass museum became an artworld myth

Tobias Madison

How Bruce Nauman pushed photography forward

The Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey on how the work of fine artists stops photography becoming clichéd

Self-portrait as a Fountain (1966) by Bruce Nauman

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Cally Spooner

The artist explains how she turned dreadful corporate jargon into a musical for her Frieze Film commission

Baby I Got Better Things To Be Doing With My Time, (2014) by Cally Spooner, at Frieze Film, London

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Jonathan Berger

Should we see the late Andy Kaufman as something more than a simple comedian? Yes, says this Frieze artist

Jonathan Berger

Kerry James Marshall on Look See at David Zwirner

Buying a pin ups book and finding no black women in it was a catalyst for new work the artist tells us

Untitled (Beach Towel), 2014 - Kerry James Marshall

Frieze VIPs! Keren Cytter is out to spoil your day

The artist says her hypnotic aural work for the London art fair will make Frieze's celebrity guests suffer

Keren Cytter

Ian Jeffrey on the rise of new Chinese photography

Our Photography Book author explains why classic American style human-interest photography is thriving

Subdue No 21, 2008, by Zhang Xiao. From The Photography Book

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Isabel Lewis

The artist explains why her Frieze Project is part modern-day ritual, part ancient Greece drinking party

Isabel Lewis

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Victoria Siddall

The new Frieze director talks about when Rembrandt went to Hull, whether she'll be drinking United Brothers' soup from Fukushima and that ultimate first world problem - just where do you put a Joseph Beuys grand piano?

Frieze director Victoria Siddall

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Nick Mauss

How Merce Cunningham, Christian Bérard and Kim Gordon led him to bring a ballet to the art fair next week

Nick Mauss

Hans Eijkelboom, laureate of Normcore!

Guardian Assistant Fashion Editor Lauren Cochrane on how the photographer picked up early on a 2014 trend

A page from People of the Twenty-First Century by Hans Eijkelboom

Do Ho Suh takes his Chelsea Apartment to Texas

The artist has finished his 348 West 22nd Street sculpture and is showing the rooms at The Contemporary Austin

Do Ho Suh's 348 West 22nd Street

Gombrich Explains Frans Hals

Why should we delight in this Dutch painter? Well how about the spontaneity he brought to portraiture for starters?


Snøhetta designs Norway's new banknotes

New Kroner notes combine architecture and design firm's high-concept proposals with tradition

Snøhetta’s 100 Kroner note proposal

Phaidon's Frieze interviews - Jérôme Bel

The choreographer describes how he's finding incredible stage presence in a company of disabled performers

Jérôme Bel (left), and a performer from Disabled Theatre

"Photographic collecting is overtaking fine art"

The Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey has some insider tips if you're planning on starting a collection

Susie and Friends, 2008 by Alex Prager. From The Photography Book

Massimo Bottura is a hit on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The brilliant Italian chef cooks for the TV host, his guest, Billy Crudup, and sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez

Massimo Bottura on tonight's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live

Hélène Binet on the importance of slowing time down

The Shooting Space photographer tells us about spotting unseen details in the darkroom

Bruder Klaus Kapelle 2009 (Peter Zumthor) Mechernich, Germany, 2007 - Hélène Binet

In praise of ... Georgia O'Keeffe's patriotic palette

A reference to the concept of the Great American Painting, Cow's Skull soon became an American West icon

Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue, 1931

Michael Stipe and Iggy Pop create art guitars

Music and art-world stars customise guitars for Bonhams auction in aid of War Child USA

From left: Sterling Ruby, Michael Stipe and Iggy Pop's War Child guitars. Images courtesy of War Child USA

Photos that changed the world #5 Cigarette No.17

Irving Penn's series of cigarette photos turned prosaic, discarded objects into conceptual art

Cigarette No.17 (1972) - Irving Penn

Massimo Bottura's on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week!

And to whet your appetite, here's what happened when René Redzepi appeared on the show in November


5 buildings you must not miss at Open House NY

We pick our highlights from the city's annual public-access architecture event this coming weekend

Hudson Yards, New York

So why do people of the Twenty-First century still wear a Rolling Stones logo from the Twentieth?

Problem Solved author Michael Johnson on the enduring appeal of a look photographed by Hans Eijkelboom

Detail from August, Amsterdam 2003 - Hans Eijkelboom, People of the 21st Century

Snøhetta unveils 'floating' library design in Canada

Calgary design will feature arches inspired by cloud formations and will house over half-a-million books

The New Central Library, Calgary, Canada - Snøhetta

Will Tokyo's Capsule Tower dodge the wrecking ball?

These tiny apartments were built to be replaced so why are their residents fighting to save them?

Nakagin Capsule Tower

Were The Rolling Stones the first celebrity chefs?

Jagger coming round for supper again tonight? Then serve him his delightful 1967 recipe, Hot Dogs on The Rocks

Singers and Swingers in the Kitchen, as featured in The Cookbook Book

Ten questions for photographer Hans Eijkelboom

Our People of the Twenty-First Century photographer on The Sartorialist, Martin Parr and the consumer society

Hans Eijkelboom, New York - photographed by Sheila Matthes

Saving Beijing’s hutongs with UV lamps and string

reMIX Studio shows the residents of the city's oldest neighborhoods a new way of life

A-Void, Beijing - reMIX Studio

Why Iwan Baan likes to get up high

Shooting Space photographer is in a new place pretty much every other day so needs quick perspective on a city

Inner City Arts, 2008 (Michael Maltzan Architecture) Los Angeles, California - Iwan Baan

Manila’s banana-shaped business hub

Filipino practice U26 Architecture Studio offers local food producers a delightful literal design for their new offices

U26 Architecture Studio's banana-shaped business hub

Photos that changed the world #4 Dovima

Richard Avedon's 1955 photo took fashion out of the studio and sought to capture age as much as youthful beauty

Dovima with Elephants, 1955 - Richard Avedon, from the Photography Book

Five Richard Estes paintings you should know about

How to understand one of the pre-eminent photorealist artists of his generation - painting by painting

Williamsburg Bridge (1995) by Richard Estes

How Yuri Ancarani makes hard work appear noble

Italian artist's US show demonstrates the awesome achievements on offer when man works with machine

Still from Il Capo (2010) by Yuri Ancarani

An-My-Lê's conflict-free war photography

Vietnamese-born photographer takes compelling conflict shots - despite being nowhere near the real action

Small Wars, (rescue), 1999-2002, by An-My Lê

Nadav Kander on the worst of the west in China

The photographer tells us how a love of Rothko and Constructivism helped inspire his quiet Chinese landscapes

Yibin I, Bathers 2007 Sichuan Province, China - Nadav Kander. From Shooting Space

Maverick museum director plans collectors’ casino

Gambler and art lover David Walsh says MONA gambling den could swell museum coffers and draw tourists

MONA founder David Walsh hopes to draw in the art world's high rollers

How to create a tiny museum with a big impact

Seoul's Museum of War and Women's Human Rights tells a terrible tale from the confines of a suburban house

The Museum of War and Women's Human Rights by Wise Architecture

Ten questions for writer and curator Elias Redstone

The Shooting Space author and Constructing Worlds co-curator on new ways of looking at modernist icons, architecture as the backdrop to our lived experience and why he's still enthused and excited by the city

Shooting Space author Elias Redstone

In NYC? Love art books? Then we've just got to meet!

Phaidon is at the New York Art Book Fair this weekend at MoMA PS1. Come down to meet us and our authors

The New York Art Book Fair

First look at Ai Weiwei's new Alcatraz show

A million Lego bricks, Edward Snowden and Native American recordings all feature in a powerful show

Ai Weiwei, Trace, 2014 (detail); photo: Kyle Smith. Courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

What has Damien Hirst put in his new cabinet?

Butterflies, eggs, bleach and a lot of stuffed animals. If you're in Paris soon, you can see for yourself

Detail from ‘Signification (Hope, Immortality and Death in Paris, Now and Then)’ (2014) by Damien Hirst. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst/Science Ltd., All rights reserved DACS 2014

Is the new Budapest metro better than your metro?

Spora Architects reimagines two stations in the Hungarian capital with stunning results

Budapest Metro - Spora Architects

You really need to see Warhol's 'disco Rothko' chapel

If you're in LA you're in luck. Andy's serial take on site-specific, abstract painting gets a rare airing at MOCA

Shadows (1978-79) by Andy Warhol

How a 17th century painting inspired a 70s LA photo

Stephen Shore tells us how his La Brea Ave photo was organised using Claude Lorrain's compositional technique

La Brea Avenue Los Angeles, California June 21, 1975 - Stephen Shore

Schrager, Pawson and Herzog & de Meuron in NYC

Real-estate developer calls upon Phaidon author and architect and Pritzker laureates for downtown development

An exterior rendering for 215 Chrystie

Gehry brings his Bilbao effect to Panama

The Pritzker laureate employs local, colourful tin roofing in quest to put Panama on the global museum map

The Biomuseo, Panama, by Frank Gehry

So how do you restore a da Vinci masterpiece?

The Uffizi uses an entire wing of medical imaging gear, a wealth of knowledge - and no small amount of tact

The Adoration of the Magi (1481-2) by Leonardo da Vinci

Ten questions for Cristina Salmastrelli, the director of the Affordable Art Fair, New York City

She reveals how much works can go up by, why they have an artist in residence, and how they keep out the fakes

Cristina Salmastrelli, the director of the Affordable Art Fair New York City

Toyo Ito creates opera house from sprayable concrete

The Pritzker laureate's labyrinthine new structure in Taiwan is designed to act as a sound cave

Toyo Ito's Taichung Metropolitan Opera House takes shape. Images courtesy Taichung Metropolitan Opera House and Toyo Ito

Take a look inside Nike's flying physio room

Sports giant and design agency Teague conceptualise airborne recuperation zone for US basketball team

The Athlete's Plane - Teague

Photos that changed the world: #3 Moonrise

How Ansel Adams' technical skill turned a fleeting scene into the new ideal for US landscape photography

Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 by Ansel Adams

Is this really Stephen Shore’s first retrospective?

Madrid show takes in motels, postcards, high concepts and print-on-demand experiments

Stephen Shore, West Ninth Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974. From the series Uncommon Places.
All works ©Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York

Latin America’s tallest tower set for Buenos Aires

Parabolic curve is “a geometric abstraction that represents Argentina” says the government

Cinematography and Audiovisual Tower (CAT), Buenos Aires, Argentina - MRA+A Arquitectos

Tomi Ungerer gets a medal from the French president

Phaidon children's author is given Order of Merit medal by François Hollande at the Élysée Palace in Paris

Phaidon author Tomi Ungerer being presented with his Ordre National du Mérite medal by Francis Hollande

Introducing the new wave of cool Chilean architects

Latest Atlas Focus looks at practitioners working in one of the world’s most inspiring natural environments

Water Bottling Plant by Panorama Arquitectos

What Theaster Gates did last summer

Chicago artist curates show focussing on artists of color themed around the idea of a retreat

Accept the challenge of a mighty land (2014) by Kelly Lloyd. From Retreat


Remembering the LA Olympics

Rauschenberg and Hockney's pop art creations for the 1984 games go on show in Switzerland

Robert Rauschenberg's poster for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games

Photos that changed the world: #2 The Critic

Weegee’s 1943 photo outside the Met Opera influenced street photography, film noir and tabloid subterfuge

The Critic (1943) by Weegee as featured in The Photography Book

Why René Redzepi says Mexico is the next big thing

The chef tells the NY Times, “For many years in fine dining in Mexico, you had the cathedral on top of the pyramid.”


Jenny Holzer’s classified calligraphy

The artist looks back at an Afghan’s death in 2003 with a set of works examining the path to war


Salvador Dalí, celebrity chef

Our forthcoming cookbook anthology looks back at the master of surrealism’s 1973 foray into gastronomy

Detail from the cover of Les Dîners de Gala (1973) by Salvador Dali

Gombrich Explains Turner

The historian admired the painter’s mastery of nature and the stagecraft with which he managed his visual effects

Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842) by JMW Turner

Miami’s new observation tower could come with rides

The developers of Florida’s answer to the Eiffel Tower promise fairground-style amusements as well as views

SkyRise Miami

Our new author on how to write about art

Noah Charney, the author of The Art of Forgery, hosts a Guardian Masterclass on art writing

Dr Noah Charney. Photograph by Urska Charney

How sustainable is Foster + Partners' new airport?

It might sound like an oxymoron, but that's what the Pritzker-laureate’s firm is proposing for Mexico City

Mexico International Airport by Foster + Partners and  Fernando Romero Enterprise

Photos that changed the world: #1 Horses Trotting

Eadweard J. Muybridge's 1879 print was the first to capture animals moving, changing both photography and art

Attitudes of animals in Motion, Horses, Trotting Edginton No.34 (1879)

Why Edmund de Waal’s pots are like prisoners

The ceramicist and Phaidon author’s decision to support a British charity offers a great insight into his work

Watermark (2012) by Edmund de Waal

Could you live in this cliff house?

An Australian housing firm says its concept house could enable home building on tricky parcels of coastal land

The Cliff House by Modscape

Netflix orders Nilsson and Bottura documentaries

The online video provider's first documentary series will focus on the stories behind the world’s greatest chefs

Massimo Bottura (left) and Magnus Nilsson (right) will feature in the new Netflix series, Chef's Table

How Okwui Enwezor changed the art world

The Wall Street Journal charts the ascent of the Phaidon author, from poet to the director of the Venice Biennale

Okwui Enwezor, director of the 2015 Venice Biennale

Where have Warhol’s Elvis and Brando been?

In a West German casino, since the seventies, of course, but this autumn they're going back to New York

From Left: Triple Elvis (1963); Four Marlons (1966) both by Andy Warhol. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

How Mugaritz drew this season’s menu

The Spanish restaurant came up with appetizers that disappear and the most delicious cream ever made

Detail from Mugaritz's drawing wall.

Pulling down Mies van der Rohe’s glass curtain

Monika Sosnowska's new work, Tower takes down one of architecture’s best-known, most-loved buildings

Monika Sosnowska’s Tower (2014). Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth

London’s negative-free photo show

Michael Hoppen Contemporary shows how today's photographers are looking back to yesterday's techniques

Home and the World, 2010 by Adam Fuss. Courtesy of the Michael Hoppen Contemporary

Massimo Bottura on tour in the US

Osteria Francescana chef hits the road for six-city tour to promote his new book Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef

Massimo Bottura

The Phaidon guide to art speak - Altermodern

Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time. Today, a word for what's after postmodernism

Autoxylopyrocycyloboros (2004) by Simon Starling. As featured in the 21st Century Art Book.

How Courbet retains the power to shock

A newly opened European exhibition places the French painter’s most explicit and controversial work at its centre

Marine, marée basse (1865) by Gustave Courbet

Benetton reworks everyday objects

Its communications research centre, Fabrica, redesigns a range of traditional goods for a new London show

Works from Fabrica's Extra-Ordinary Gallery. From left: Hercule, a luxury dumbell-cum-paper weight by Charlotte Juillard; Chloris, A geometric wireframe sculpture, which functions as a flower vase, by Ryu Yamamoto

Is there anything cooler than a Roger Ballen board?

Apart from one of his books of course. Familia celebrates 10th anniversary with the photographer's artwork

Roger Ballen skateboard designs for Familia

Hélène Binet’s trip through time

The photographer trains her lens on earth's oldest structures for a new show at the Ammann Gallery, Cologne

Jantar Mantar Observatory (2002) by Hélène Binet. Courtesy: ammann gallery

OMA's three in one theatre nears completion

Theatre-goers and thesps alike will be shaken up in Taiwan next year

Performing Arts Theater, Taipei - OMA

Wolfgang Tillmans hangs with the modern masters

When Fondation Beyeler aquired his works it asked him to place them with others in its collection. But which ones?

Wolfgang Tillmans' Freischwimmer picture hanging beside Pablo Picasso's Weeping Woman (1937). Photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans.

Get your photo taken Magnum style!

Want to have your pic taken in the style of Martin Parr, Eliott Erwitt or Philippe Halsman? Here's how

René Burri (and one of those infamous Magnum portraits he took...)

Theaster Gates’ Black Monks hit the road

The Chicago artist takes his monastic order to Porto this month for 12 days of art, music, sermons and readings

Theaster Gates

Renzo Piano on how to design a museum

As it nears completion, Piano explains why his new home for the Whitney will 'hit NYC like a meteorite'

The new Whitney takes shape. Photograph by Timothy Schenck

Yayoi Kusama: from fried onions to pumpkins

On the eve of her new show, the artist describes her more humble years in 1960s New York City

Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin (M) (2014), courtesy of Victoria Miro gallery, London.

Why Joel Meyerowitz thinks this is his best photo

The photographer tells the Huffington Post why he keeps coming back to this image, taken in Paris 47 years ago

Paris, France, 1967 by Joel Meyerowitz. From Taking My Time

Hershey’s courts controversy with redesign

Candy company's new logo triggers Airbnb-style adverse reaction

The new Hershey's Logo

Supertall skyscraper is adapted for London cityscape

SURE Architecture think this massive block could be adapted to suit the ancient streets of the British capital

Endless Skyscraper - SURE Architecture

The end of Martin Parr’s Black Country Story

The Magnum photographer’s extensive four-year project in the British Midlands rounds off with a major exhibition

Vaisakhi, Guru Nanak Gurdwara, a Sikh temple, Smethwick, by Martin Parr. From Black Country Stories (2010 - 2014)

Latino artists face down Modernism

The effect of Modernism on Latin America is charted at New York’s Bronx Museum of the Arts

Mauro Restiffe,  Empossamento #8, (2003). Courtesy of Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Understanding Francesca Woodman

A new London exhibition of the late photographer’s work offers insight into her subtle flux of styles

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Antella, Italy, 1977-1978. Courtesy George and Betty woodman, and Victoria Miro, London © The Estate of Francesca Woodman

What’s cooking in Noma’s science bunker?

Roman-style fish sauces, Nordic miso, blackcurrant leaf kombucha, cherry vinegar, and more

Pickles from René Redzepi's Twitter feed

The Tehran house that turns with the seasons

In response to the Iranian capital’s extreme climate, a local architect has created a house with rotating rooms

Nextoffice's Sharifi-ha House, Tehran

Moscow’s graffiti foreign policy

Should the Russian Foreign Ministry really try to clean up Bulgaria’s Soviet Army Monument?

The Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia

The good news is Warhol painted dad's portrait...

...the bad news is it was 13 Most Wanted Men, the long lost mural from NewYork's 1964 World's Fair

Andy Warhol, Thirteen Most Wanted Men, silkscreen on canvas, 20 x 20 ft. Installed on the exterior of the New York State Pavilion. © 2014 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts