How Bruce Nauman turned corridors into artworks

We look back at how, with a simple bit of architecture, the great American artist altered the gallery experience

Green Light Corridor - Bruce Nauman

The story behind Mies van der Rohe's name changes

With his numerous name changes he joined a roll call of avant-garde artists intent on reinventing themselves

Mies in the doorway of the Riehl House, 1912

Knoedler case forger protests innocence in interview

Pei-Shen Qian tells ABC’s Nightline he was surprised anyone fell for his abstract expressionist forgeries

A fake Jackson Pollock, painted by Pei-Shen Qian

The most experimental buildings in the Phaidon Atlas

The latest Phaidon Atlas focus is on buildings that push the limits of inspiration, technology and technique

Truffle House, Laxe A Coruna, Spain - Ensamble Studio

Moshe Safdie's tropical airport complex

Can Moshe Safdie and Associates Project Jewel turn Singapore’s Changi Airport into a genuine tourist attraction?

 Project Jewel by Moshe Safdie

Is this really one of Britain’s favourite artworks?

Art Everywhere launches soon, showing the UK's favourite art on poster sites. What do you make of the works?

Study of Cirrus Clouds (c.1822) by John Constable, courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum/Art Everywhere

Carlo Scarpa’s surprisingly traditional legacy

The architect’s work might still look modern, yet as a new Venetian show makes clear, Scarpa built on traditions

Fondazione Querini Stampalia as reworked by Carlo Scarpa

The tiny American town on show at Arles

Why did Dutch photographer Pieter ten Hoopen spend over a decade shooting in one Montana hamlet?

From Hungry Horse by Pieter ten Hoopen

Could this propeller-shaped airport get airborne?

Bangkok practice offers land-locked Niger a sleek transport hub based on an antique aeronautical design

Niger International Airport by nARCHITECTS

Steve McCurry at Alessandro Del Piero’s gallery

Italian footballing legend celebrates shared love of teamwork and excellence in new McCurry exhibition

Alessandro Del Piero and Steve McCurry

Rotterdam Kunsthal thieves fined €18 million

Dutch court orders Romanian thieves to pay insurers for destroyed Picasso, Monet and Gauguin works

Police make a search of the museum grounds, 16 October 2012

Redzepi, Atala and Nilsson in Vice food show

We're only two episodes in, but we like what we’ve seen so far from Vice's chef show, Being Frank

Frank Falcinelli (left) and Frank Castronovo (right) in  Sicily during the second episode of Being Frank

As Little Design as Possible is now on the iPad

And here's Apple Senior VP Jonathan Ive on how he was 'enchanted' by Dieter Rams as a boy

Dieter Rams's Braun product range, circa 1970, every design a stroke of genius - from the iPad version of As Little Design as Possible

Don't like Koons? Maybe you don't like your culture

'In judging Jeff you need to answer the question: What do you think of your culture?' say our Wild Art Authors

Jeff Koons and his Cracked Egg

Martin Parr’s postcards from Milwaukee

Parr and ten other Magnum photographers capture beer city as part of their on-going US documentary project

Brewer. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2013. © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos/ Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago

Why does Monica Bonvicini like smashing things up?

Whether it's shattered safety glass or hammered dry walling the Italian artist sees the beauty in destruction

Still from Hammering Out (an old argument) (1998) by Monica Bonvicini

How Louis Kahn's drawings changed his architecture

New show and Phaidon monograph show how drawings from Egypt influenced use of form, light and shape

Louis Kahn, Pyramids, No. 8, Egypt
1951

On Kawara's date paintings explained

The Japanese conceptual artist died last week but his date paintings allow him to transcend history

One Thing, 1965, Viet-Nam by On Kawara

Have you seen BIG’s new Washington maze?

'I had anxiety attacks that it was going to be too easy,' says Bjarke Ingels, 'but it’s actually pretty confusing'

The BIG Maze, Washington DC National Building Museum - BIG - photo by Kevin Allen (kevinallenphoto.com)

Nan Goldin in the World of Marc Jacobs

The legendary Eden and after photographer turns up for her signing at Bookmarc dressed head to toe in ...

Nan Goldin signing copies of Eden and after at MarcBook - photo copyright Patrick Mcmullan.com

Coop Himmelb(l)au imagine a cloak of invisibility

Edward Snowden's winter wardrobe sorted - courtesy of one of the architecture firms in the online Atlas

CHBL Jammer Coat - Photo © Markus Pillhofer

Paula Scher on her Philly Art Museum rebrand

Pentagram partner and Phaidon author talks about how she 'uninstitutionalised' an institution

Pentagram's Paula Scher's rebranding for the Philadelphia Art Museum

Tadao Ando's new gallery puts the landscape on show

The Pritzker laureate says his new Clark Visitor Center allows art and nature to be enjoyed simultaneously

The Clark Visitor Center by Tadao Ando. Photo by Tucker Bair,  courtesy of The Clark

Martin Parr, now with added captions

A new show pairs the photographer's images with pithy quotes from his subjects

Each to their own, but I think this is going to be one of the best - if not the best - houses on the estate, 1991, by Martin Parr, from Signs of the Times

Why this year's MAD will be pretty sane

René Redzepi's Alex Atala-hosted food and cooking symposium will remind us what cooking is really about

MAD man, chef and D.O.M. author Alex Atala will co-host this year's symposium. Image by Rafael Mantesso

The Insider's Guide to Belgrade

Design Week CEO Vesna Jelovac on her favourite places featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

Vesna Jelovac, CEO, Belgrade Design Week

The Google guide to DevArt

Steve Vranakis, Executive Creative Director of Google’s Creative Lab, talks through the tech firm’s debut art show

Wishing Wall by Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet at Digital Revolution

The Empire State's twinkling tribute to Warhol

New York's best-loved art deco skyscraper honours the pop artist who made it a film star half-a-century ago

Still from Empire (1964) by Andy Warhol

The duo bringing Baldessari and lolcats.com to Arles

French artists Mazaccio & Drowilal say their exhibition Wildstyle will serve as a safari into unnatural imagery

Double Impact, from Wildstyle (2013) by Mazaccio & Drowilal

Five buildings that will help you work smarter

Our new Phaidon Atlas focus looks at how architects are helping us break away from the desk and cubicle model

HV Bayer Headquarter by Jahn, as featured in the Phaidon Atlas

Putting the emotion back into art buying

Supposing it was the biggest reaction, not the biggest bid that secured you a piece of art at auction


Does Jeff Koons still have the power to shock us?

Eileen Costello, author of our Brice Marden book, wonders whether the artist is still interested in dividing opinion

Split-Rocker, Rockefeller Center, New York - Jeff Koons

Why does Zach Lieberman's piano play the radio?

New York digital artist explains his Google-commissioned exhibit - inspired by the music in a yellow cab

Zach Lieberman demonstrates Play The World at Digital Revolution

Understanding David Smith’s Circles

A new US show of the artist’s key set of works allows gallery-goers a chance to reassess his circular works

Circle II, 1962, by David Smith

Why Ciril Jazbec is On Thin Ice

The brightest young photojournalist at Arles says his lifelong work will be an encapsulation of climate change

From On Thin Ice by Ciril Jazbec

Ai Weiwei's Native American installation

Chinese artist responds to New Mexico commission with a work recalling his own exile in a similar landscape

Ai Weiwei's work in Cayote Canyon, New Mexico. Photograph by Robert Schwan

Kengo Kuma rolls out the barrel in Tokyo

Kayanoya in Tokyo is latest - perhaps greatest - example of architect's current wood first approach

Kayanoya - Kengo Kuma

Is Erik Kessels the smartest photo curator around?

Dutch art director, collector and curator gives us the lowdown on his new Arles Rencontres show Small Universe

With my Family (1973) by Hans Eijkelboom

Yuri Suzuki on Will.i.am, Robert Moog and Jeff Mills

We catch up with the sound artist at the Barbican's Digital Revolution show

Pyramidi by Will.I.Am and Yuri Suzuki, courtesy of the Barbican

John Pawson on retuning the Design Museum

We talk to the acclaimed architect and Phaidon author about his work on the Commonwealth Institute building

John Pawson's work continues at the new Design Museum, London. Photo by Miles Willis © 2014 Getty Images.

Movie making the Gilbert & George way

On the eve of a Lehmann Maupin NY show we look at how they made The World of Gilbert & George movie

Gilbert & George, The World of Gilbert & George (video still), 1981. 16mm colour film transferred to video, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artists and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.

Google’s Aaron Koblin on Digital Revolution

We chat to the artist, designer and leader of Google's Data Arts Team at the Barbican’s new immersive art show


The Insider's Guide to Frankfurt

Designer Sebastian Herkner on his favourite places as revealed in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

Frankfurt insider Sebastian Herkner

KREOD's Olympian ascent

Rio Pavilion is the latest project from the fast-growing design and architecture practice

KREOD International Trade Pavilion Rio Olympic Games 2016

When the Cold War went domestic

A new exhibition looks back at an era when the Soviet Union tried to better America's consumer goods

A Chaika vacuum cleaner, as featured in Work and Play Behind The Iron Curtain

Bridget Riley by the man who knows her best

Phaidon author Richard Shiff walks you round a fantastic David Zwirner show of her Stripe Paintings

Installation view of Bridget Riley The Stripe Paintings 1961-2014, at David Zwirner, London

How Manifesta 10 is beating Russia’s anti-gay laws

Artists at the roving biennial have expressed themselves quite freely, despite new anti-gay legislation

Marlene Dumas, Alan Turing (2014)

Monica Bonvicini defined in five great works

Sex, styrofoam and stairways to hell - the thought-provoking artworks that will turn you on to this great Italian artist

Plastered (1998) by Monica Bonvicini

Ross Lovegrove on design, nature and computers

We catch up on the great British designer's plans for the future at the launch of the online Phaidon Atlas

Ross Lovegrove

Parr, Bailey and Eijkelboom at Arles 2014

Long-standing Arles director François Hébel draws on old friendships for his final Rencontres production

With my family, 1973, by Hans Eijkelboom

Take a look at this new Ferran Adrià FT dinner video

Want a little glimpse at our super select Pollen Street Social dinner for How To Spend It readers? Of course you do

Ferran Adria, Jason Atherton and Andres Lara (like Jason, an ex-elBulli stager)

Young Americans of the Atlas

This week's Editor's Focus in the Phaidon online Atlas takes a look at new architectural talent in the United States

3.1 Phillip Lim, Seoul - Leong Leong

The Insider's Guide to Reykjavik

Filmmaker Vera Sölvadóttir on her favourite places as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

Film maker Vera Sölvadóttir your insider guide to Reykjavik

Martin Parr in New York and Austin

The British photographer charms New York Magazine and the crowds at the Austin Center for Photography

Martin Parr signs books for Phaidon Club members. Want to be invited to the next event? www.phaidon.com/register

How to snag a table at Noma Tokyo

René Redzepi's Japanese pop-up might not open until 2015, but booking registration closes early next month

René Redzepi experiments with Japanese oranges, ahead of Noma's Tokyo pop-up

Carsten Höller's new slide opens at the Vitra campus

Vitra Slide Tower is “a sculpture you can travel inside” - though you can appreciate it even if you don't take a ride

Carsten Höller's Vitra Slide Tower

Less is More at Valentino's Chipperfield NYC store

The British architect is brought in by the Italian label to reduce 'superficial decoration' in its key flagship stores

Chipperfield's Fifth Ave store for Valentino

Dieter Rams inspires Jason Wu

The Taiwanese Canadian designer draws from Braun’s ex-chief design officer for his new Resort Collection

Jason Wu's 2015 Resort Collection

Why Chilean architecture is having a moment

As the Serpentine Pavilion opens, we talk to Chile's cultural attaché and the minister for architecture and design


Why Joseph Beuys made a child’s telephone

A new Munich show of Beuys’s multiples offers great insight into the artist’s practice and concerns

Telefone T_R (Telephon S_E) (1974) by Joseph Beuys from our Focus book

Five unlikely choices from Art Everywhere US

We look at a few of the less-obvious choices in a poll for America’s summer billboard art show

 The Avery Coonley Playhouse: Triptych Window (1912) by Frank Lloyd Wright

Sou Fujimoto tells us about the bus stop he built

What happened when the Serpentine Pavilion architect went to the tiny Austrian village of Krumbach?


Have you seen Richard Prince’s Woodstock poster?

The US artist returns to the famous 60s rock festival, both lyrically and figuratively, for his new exhibition's poster

Richard Prince's Woodstock poster for It's a Free Concert Now

Monica Bonvicini on sexing up Minimalism

How the Italian artist finds fetishism everywhere - from building sites to Carl Andre works

Never Again (2005) by Monica Bonvicini

World's earliest figurative art gets UNESCO status

The Chauvet Cave, championed by Phaidon author Jean Clottes, receives World Heritage status

Lion pictures in the Chauvet Cave, from Cave Art

Odile Decq on her new architecture school

Celebrated Parisian architect and educator aims to engage students in the 'laboratory of everywhere'

Odile Decq

Le Corbusier cousin’s house reimagined in Basel

Art duo Kolkoz rework Pierre Jeanneret’s prefab house in a celebration of the architect and designer’s work

Scratch Form (2014) by Kolkoz

David Adjaye does neo-brutalism in New York

Affordable housing references Sugar Hill area's rows of terraced housing by placing one 'row' on top of another

Sugar Hill Housing- David Adjaye

See how the chefs eat

Literati Books and Vellum restaurant in Ann Arbor team up for a very special Eating With The Chefs meal

A waiter keeps his shirt clean at Osteria Francescana, Modena, Italy. From Eating With the Chefs by Per-Anders Jörgensen

Focus on these futuristic façades

The Phaidon Atlas takes a look at some beautifully rhythmic digitally fabricated skins

Soumaya Museum by Free - photograph by Adam Weisman

"My first spherified olive was a revelation!"

Modernist Cuisine's Nathan Myhrvold pays tribute to elBulli 2005-2011 creator Ferran Adrià - "a philosopher and avant-garde provocateur who can reference the history and future of gastronomy in a single bite"

Nathan Myhrvold and Ferran embrace

The Insider's Guide to Tallinn

Textiles designer Kärt Ojavee on her favourite places as revealed in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide


Tadao Ando’s first New York City project

The Pritzker laureate hopes his modest seven-storey block will “embrace the industrial character of the area”

Rendering of 152 Elizabeth Street by Tadao Ando

What’s hot at Art Basel?

Warhol, Ruby, Nauman and Richter, are snapped up by collectors at the world’s biggest contemporary art fair

View from the top - Art Basel 2014

Björk comes to MoMA in 2015

The Icelandic artist is the subject of a full career retrospective curated by Klaus Biesenbach in March

A still from Björk's 1999 video, All Is Full of Love, by Chris Cunningham

V&A to open China’s first ever design museum

Arts and design institution is teaming up with Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki in Shenzhen

Shenzhen Sea World Cultural Arts Center by Maki and Associates, site of the V&A's new design museum

How Kuramata’s sushi bar ended up in Hong Kong

The great Japanese designer’s sole remaining work of interior design has joined M+’s permanent collection

Shiro Kuramata's Kiyotomo sushi bar, 1988

MAD Architects talk about latest project

Nanjing urban complex references mountains, water and winding pathways found in Chinese shan-shui paintings

Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center- MAD

The Gwangju Biennale's incendiary plans

Curator Jessica Morgan draws from Talking Heads’ song Burning Down the House for the 2014 Biennale

Stoves by Sterling Ruby (2013)

Six things you need to know about Monica Bonvicini

Fetishism, Freud and transparent toilets - a brief guide to this great Italian artist’s work

Kleine Lictchkanone (2009) by Monica Bonvicini

Why Wolfgang Tillmans is choosing to show in Russia

The German artist will take part in Manifesta10 at St Petersburg Hermitage despite Russia’s new anti-gay laws

Wolfgang Tillmans - photographed by Carmen Brunner

Design students create mirrored look-out in Scotland

Strathclyde design duo's £5,000 stainless steel structure debuts in the highlands

Lookout, Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Scotland - Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler

Barry Bergdoll 'New York is starting to feel nostalgic'

MoMA architecture curator says "London is a much more dynamic place these days than New York"


What to expect from Art Basel 2014

$4 billion worth of work is up for sale but the most engaging parts of the fair don’t require a chequebook

(Female figure) (2014) by Jordan Wolfson

Floating city proposal for China's super rich

Electric cars speed along underwater tunnels, there's on-island food production and bespoke power generation

Floating City - AT Design Office

Dining out with Ferran Adrià in Hong Kong

The elBulli founder gives some advice on culinary creativity in one of Hong Kong's finest, and tiniest, restaurants

Ferran with the Ronin staff, last night

Pollock signature misspelled in the Knoedler case

Major gallerist failed to notice that forgers dropped a crucial 'c' from an abstract expressionist work


50 courses for Ferran Adrià - gone in 60 seconds!

We LOVE this Modernist Cuisine video of their meal celebrating Ferran and his new book elBulli 2005-2011

Modernist Cuisine's Nathan Mhyrvold and Ferran Adrià creator of elBulli 2005-2011

The Israeli Pavilion draws lines in the sand

At this year's Venice Biennale Israel presents a brilliantly engaging meditation on its national urban sprawl

The printed sand in the Israel Pavilion

Wolfgang Tillmans on middle age and architecture

Photographer considers whether his best work is behind him - unlikely, given the strength of his new shows

Greifbar 1 (2014) by Wolfgang Tillmans

David Shrigley takes over Sketch

Acerbic artist brings his misfits, freaks and socially awkward characters to upscale Mayfair restaurant

Ceramics for Sketch - David Shrigley

How the Bauhaus houses were rebuilt

Mending bombed buildings in Germany is controversial, yet these ones are a great expression of Teutonic culture

The new Masterhouse Gropius, BFM Architekten, Image: Christoph Rokitta, 2014, Bauhaus Foundation Dessau

Would you sleep in Antony Gormley's new sculpture?

The British artist’s 'inhabitable sculpture' has a hotel room inside it, and comes with an art market style price tag


Mystery of a 50-year-old Nauman art object solved

Bruce Nauman book author Peter Plagens reveals the strange story behind infamous funk art object the Slant Step

The original Slant Step, as reproduced in Bruce Nauman: The True Artist

Ten buildings changing the way we travel

The Phaidon Atlas picks out airports, ferry terminals and cable-car stations putting the bon into bon voyage

Queen Tamar Airport, Georgia - J. Mayer H Architects

Banksy likes blotter art, not keen on Sotheby’s show

The graffiti artist offers a little insight into his unauthorised London show, as well as some trippy appropriation

Banksy's Flower Bomber on perforated blotting paper, courtesy of blotterart.com

French Pavilion pairs Jacques Tati with Jean Prouvé

The French submission for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale interrogates and gently lampoons modernism

Model of the Villa Arpel © Luc Boegly. Image courtesy of the Institut Francais

The Insider's Guide to Salvador

TV presenter Paula Magalhães on her favourite places as revealed in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide


Look what Renzo Piano has squeezed into Paris

Piano's building for film company Pathé snakes in between the façades of the XIII arrondissement

The Pathé Foundation, Paris, by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

So, is there such a thing as national architecture?

OMA's Stephan Petermann, Diébédo Francis Kéré and MAD's Ma Yansong join us for a great debate in Venice

OMA's Stephan Petermann, The British Council's Vicky Richardson and MAD Architects' Ma Yansong