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

Mexican architects squeeze a city into a skyscraper

Studio Cachoua Torres Camilletti think their speculative proposal might suit a Hong Kong of the near future

Studio Cachoua Torres Camilletti's proposed skyscraper  for Hong Kong

Beirut’s startling underground museum plans

The Lebanese architect Galal Mahmoud wants to turn Martyrs’ Square into a permanent archaeological dig

Museum of Civilisations proposal by GM Architects

Arts publishing versus the e-reader

The graphics magazine, Eye, looks at how high-quality art and design publishers have stemmed the digital attrition

A spread from our new Sottsass book

The Phaidon guide to art speak - Unmonumental

Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time. Today, a word for scrappy sculptures

Urs Fischer, untitled (2011); Urs Fischer and various artists, YES (2011). Photo by Stefan Altenburger

The Guggenheim goes back to Zero

The New York museum hosts the first large-scale US show dedicated to this influential German post-war group

Detail from Illustration from ZERO 3 (July 1961), design by Heinz Mack © Heinz Mack. Image courtesy of the Guggenheim

Six radically converted historical buildings

The Phaidon Atlas’s latest feature proves contemporary architecture can incorporate both old and new buildings

Städel Museum extension, Schneider + Schumacher Planungsgesellschaft

Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi take on McDonald's

At René Redzepi’s MAD event, Coi's founder and a food truck star reveal plans to bring real food into inner cities

Daniel Patterson (centre) at MAD, Copenhagen.

Understanding Anselm Kiefer’s Interior

Prior to the Royal Academy’s show, we look at one key work by the great German painter

Interior (Innenraum), 1981 by Anselm Kiefer. Oil, acrylic, and paper on canvas, 287.5 x 311 cm  Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Photo Collection Stedelijk Museum / copyright Anselm Kiefer

Frank Lloyd Wright to put LA on the UNESCO map

The architect’s first house in Los Angeles is shortlisted for World Heritage status and due to reopen later this year

Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House. Photo by Joshua White

Copenhagen’s orange bike highway

A new £3.5m elevated cycle path relieves two-wheeled congestion enlivens the Danish capital’s waterfront

Copenhagen's Cykelslangen by Dissing Weitling

Paweł Althamer’s weird summer play set

Why has the Polish artist installed models of his family in an old Greek slaughter house on the island of Hydra?

The Secret of the Phaistos Disc (2014) by Pawel Althamer

Herzog & de Meuron build a stadium in a favela

The Pritzker-laureates cut out the air con and waive their fee to create the neighbourhood facility, Arena do Morro

The Arena do Morro sports, cultural and social centre by Herzog & de Meuron

Impressionism: officially 141 years old

A US professor believes he’s dated the scene captured in the painting that gave its name to an art movement

Impression: sunrise (1872) by Claude Monet

Why EarthArt beats Google

The New York Times' Michael Pollak tried an interesting experiment when he reviewed our Bernhard Edmaier book

Cerros de Visviri, Andes, Chile by Bernhard Edmaier

Why Daniel Patterson is now serving the bill first

The Coi chef has switched his restaurant to a ticket system as he strives to ‘do something really great every time.’

Daniel Patterson's Coi restaurant in San Francisco. Photo by Maren Caruso.

A French concrete firm turns into an urban sculpture

That's the claim of VIB Architecture make for their new Ciments Calcia facility they've constructed in Paris

Ciments Calcia distribution centre by VIB Architecture. Photo by Stéphane Chalmeau

Look at the river Olafur Eliasson has just built

The main work in the artist’s show at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum, brings a whole new meaning to landscape art

Riverbed (2014) by Olafur Eliasson. Installation view. Photo by Anders Sune Berg, courtesy of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

The new material in Anthony Caro’s last show

Why the great British sculptor appreciated Perspex and Cezanne's Card Players during his final years

End of Times (2013) by Anthony Caro

Warhol’s film archive gets a smart digital fix

MoMA and the Warhol foundation team up with the firm behind Godzilla to save the artist’s 16mm archive

Andy Warhol, Nico/Antoine, (1966) ©2014 The Andy Warhol Museum

Why are these nudes in the Barcelona Pavilion?

The French artist Xavier Veilhan gives the single figure in Mies' masterwork some latter-day company

Architectones at the Barcelona Pavilion (2014) by Xavier Veilhan. Kolbe's Dawn is at the back. Photo by Florian Kleinefenn

See Lebbeus Woods’ futuristic sketches in Berlin

Early drawings by the radical architect and artist are on show at a new Berlin museum dedicated to draftsmanship

Centricity, Quad GA: Square with Geodynamic Towers (1987) by Lebbeus Woods

The Phaidon guide to art speak - Super-Hybridity

Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time

Super-Hybridity - more than post-modernism plus the internet. Seth Price's vacuum-formed polystyrene 'Vintage Bomber', (2006)

Ten questions for Artspace CEO Catherine Levene

The co-founder and CEO of the contemporary art website talks us through its acquisition by Phaidon, how her gran turned her on to art, the one piece she'd love to own and whether there really is an online art goldrush going on

Catherine Levene - CEO, Artspace

Paweł Althamer declares his own people's republic

His debut Beijing show dwells on collaboration and social interaction across borders - so bring a paintbrush

Draftsmen’s Congress by Paweł Althamer at UCCA, Beijing

A Champagne bar to stop Paris flooding

Former Zaha Hadid employee Dr. Margot Krasojevic's new plan holds back the Seine, but lets the bubbly flow

Grand Cru du Siecle by Dr. Margot Krasojevic

Where better to buy a copy of The Design Book?

Legendary St Marks Bookshop moves into new space with curvy new shelving courtesy Clouds Architecture Office

St Mark's Bookshop

Shigeru Ban imagines Aspen Art Museum as a basket

New ski resort museum also references those early cardboard designs you'll find in his Phaidon monograph

Aspen Art Museum - Shigeru Ban


Álvaro Siza makes his first splash in China

81-year-old's horseshoe structure perched on an island in Jiangsu Province is also his first on water

The Building on the Water, Jiangsu Province, China - Álvaro Siza

US Postal Service gets a makeover

Biggest rebranding in history sees the Postal Service get an updated, simplified design in patriotic colours

US Postal Service rebrand - Grand Army

What has Cai Guo-Qiang just sailed into Shanghai?

Our Contemporary Artist series artist sparks environmental debate with his ark of sick animals

Ark of Sick Animals, The Ninth Wave - Cai Guo-Qiang (2014)

Turkish architect reinvents the mosque

Main prayer hall is replaced by two identical sacred spaces side by side in new design

Sancakclar Mosque - Emre Arolat Architects

Daido Moriyama and the scent of the city

How the Japanese photographer always looks for the dim light in a shadowy environment

Beach Boys, Zushi, Japan, 1967 - Daido Moriyama

Milton Glaser doesn't love global warming

Graphic design guru who gave us the "I heart NY’ logo in the 1970s turns his attention to a less benign topic

It's not warming it's dying - Milton Glaser

What Millais went through in order to paint Ophelia

As Ophelia returns to the Tate today, our Millais author Jason Rosenfeld tells us how the painter spent eleven hour days fighting off bulls, swans and 'muscular' flies in order to realise the most recognisable painting ever created

Ophelia, 1851-2 - John Everett Millais

BIG creates a Zootopia for the animal kingdom

Not content with making life better for us humans, Bjarke Ingels and co turn their attention to the animal world

Zootopia, Givskud, Denmark - BIG

Robert McCarter celebrates Alvar Aalto

Here's what happened at our Aalto book launch in Minneapolis last night

Robert McCarter at the event last night

Latitude festival rebrands with slick new image

We talk to Form co-founder Paul West about his and Paula Benson's work on that most Phaidon of UK festivals

Latitude 2015 rebranding - Form

Watch this great Gardener's Garden video

Does Munstead Wood head gardener Annabel Watts have the best job in the world? Watch our video and decide

Annabel Watts head gardener at Gertrude Jekyll's Munstead Wood, featured in the forthcoming book The Gardener's Garden

The fascinating story behind Andy Warhol's soup cans

On the show's opening night a rival dealer offered soup cans cheaper in his gallery, Warhol's own gallerist bought back the five he'd sold, including one from Dennis Hopper, then offered to buy entire set from Andy for just $3,000

32 Campbell's Soup Cans 1962 - Andy Warhol

Atkins reinvents office windows in China

Architects say 001 symbolises Guangzhou as first Chinese city open for international trading many dynasties ago

Window of Guangzhou, Guangdong - Atkins Design

The melancholy life of the amazing André Kertész

Though a master of composition, the Hungarian photographer could never really find himself in the frame

Mondrian's Pipe and Glasses, Paris 1926 - Andre Kertesz

Bauhaus gets its first ever corporate identity

At the grand old age of 64 the influential design school gets a makeover courtesy of Stuttgart studio L2M3

Bauhaus Corporate Identity - L2M3

Introducing the 200mph lounge chair

Michael Sodeau's Halo Lounge Chair features Formula One technology to create previously unattainable shapes

Halo Lounge Chair - Michael Sodeau

Zaha Hadid's Crest debuts at London Design Festival

Dubai hotel commission will preview outside the V&A next month before travelling to the UAE

Crest, London Design Festival - Zaza Hadid

World War One as pictured in the book Century

A brief look through the incredible images in our book Century to mark today's centenary commemorations


A bus terminal worth waiting for

Turkey's youngest architecture practice Bahadir Kul Architects bring a sense of style to the bus terminal in Kayseri

Bus Stop, Kayseri, Turkey - Bahadir Kul Architects - photo Ket Kolektif via BKA

The best new city houses are in the Phaidon Atlas

From irregular concrete gridded blocks in Lisbon to leaf-covered façades in Ho Chi Minh City they're all here

Law Street House - Muir Mendes

Can you compare 'gardening' to art?

Is The Gardener’s Garden co-editor Toby Musgrave right to put Gertrude Jekyll on a par with Monet and Turner?

Munstead Wood as featured in The Gardener's Garden

Why is this Ruscha print Obama’s favourite gift?

He gave one to the Prime Minister of Great Britain in 2010, and he’s just handed another over to Australia’s PM

Column With Speedlines - Ed Ruscha

Back this school and you could get a Kusama doodle

Or an original work by Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono or Marina Abramović, courtesy of a new online art school for girls

Be Loud: an illustration to promote The School of Doodle

Harun Farocki 1944-2014

German video artist, featured in our 21st Century Art Book, whose work focused on control and manipulation

Harun Farocki 1944- 2014

Inflatable concrete housing - who knew?

The Binishell is a cheap, quick and, its proponents say, environmentally friendly building solution

What a Binishell development might look like, according to Binishells

Alfredo Jaar tells NYC again, This is Not America

The artist shows his 27-year-old work, A Logo for America, in Times Square once more, starting Friday night

Logo For America (1987) by Alfredo Jaar

What a Shigeru Ban airport looks like on day one

Fascinating sketches reveal thinking behind architect's new tea plantation-inspired Mount Fuji airport design


Is the GIF a good fit for fine-art photography?

US photo duo's new series uses the image format to explore new ground between still and motion pictures

A Cinemagraph by Andrew and Carissa Gallo

The incredible story behind Flag by Jasper Johns

Johns’s most famous work took in the Civil War, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Egyptology - here's how

Flag (1955) by Jasper Johns

What you get when you mash up Mies with Le Corb

Farnsavoye, a hybrid of two 20th-century masterpieces, where plagiarism is a key design feature

Farnsavoye as rendered by Victoria Lee

What would you hang beside a Wolfgang Tillmans?

Warhol, Eggleston and Richter take their place next to the photographer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Nachtstilleben (Night Still Life), (2011) by Wolfgang Tillmans

Richard Estes and the art of the photograph

New Focus book and Portland retrospective shed light on the strained relationship between art and photography

Double Self Portrait (1976) - Richard Estes, from our forthcoming Phaidon Focus book

How Dronestagram is changing aerial photography

Cheap, remote-controlled aircraft are helping inspired photographers reach new, low-level altitudes

Capungaero's winning image in Dronestagram's recent photo competition, taken in Bali Barat National Park, Indonesia

Olafur Eliasson paints Turner

The Danish artist and English painter have a lot more in common than you might at first suspect

Olafur Eliasson - Colour Experiment No #57 exhibited 2014 © 2013 Olafur Eliasson

Take a look inside a real gardener's garden

We launch our new book The Gardener's Garden at Munstead Wood, the quintessential English garden

Munstead Wood main garden

The future of North Korean tourism: flying hotels?

Utopian visions, one of the most intriguing Venice Biennale presentations, inspires a real architecture tour

One of the images from Utopian Tours

Steve McCurry goes wild in Africa

The legendary photographer takes Etnia sunglasses on a South African safari for its summer campaign

One of Steve McCurry's portraits for Etnia's Wild Love in Africa campaign

Frank Gehry’s models on the move in France

The Pritzker laureate’s maquettes feature in a new Arles show, alongside works by David Lynch and Tino Sehgal

Frank Gehry's models at The Solaris Chronicles in Arles

Alain de Botton on Therapy as Art

Our Art as Therapy author praises two therapeutic shows, proving that art isn’t simply an impractical pursuit

Sanatorium by Pedro Reyes

Inter Milan's brand update is a winner

The Italian football club looks to the past when reworking its visual identity for the 21st century

Inter Milan's new crest, by LeftLoft

UK architects make the Hollywood sign disappear

What has London practice Ordinary Architecture done to this landmark, as part of LA's On The Road project?

Falling Icon by Ordinary Architecture. Photo by Jamie Kowal.

Bold new Belgian architecture in the Atlas

Our online resource takes a look at some of the finest new buildings from the land of Magritte and moules-frites

House BM, Ghent, Belgium, Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu BVBA

The show that mixes minimalism with the astral plane

CLEAR at Gagosian Beverly Hills pairs new artists with those from the California Light and Space movement

James Turrell, Roden Crater: Complete Site Plan, 2010 Colour Carbon prints. Arches brand, type Platine paper, 100% cotton, 640gm/m2 30 x 38 inches  (76.2 x 96.5 cm) Edition 12/50 © James Turrell. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery.

Five things we learned from reading Émigrés

With its tales of triumph in the face of adversity this history of wartime publishing is a fascinating, fact packed read

Our forthcoming book Émigrés

Kandinsky’s teaching celebrated in Bauhaus show

Show at Bauhaus-Archiv brings together archive lecture notes and exercises his students undertook for him

Inauguration of the new Bauhaus. Left to Right: Wassily Kandinsky, Nina Kandinsky, Georg Muche, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Dessau

Choices are limited in Sterling Ruby’s clothing shop

The artist’s joint venture with Belgian designer Raf Simons offers just a couple of garments for a week at a time

This week's offerings at Sterling Ruby and Raf Simons' online clothing shop