How good a cook was Ferran Adrià's mother?
The elBulli founder tells Time magazine about his mother's talents, his rules for anarchy, and how animals cook
Andy Warhol’s Rolls-Royce is on eBay
The pop artist’s 1974 Silver Shadow is for sale with the online auction house, with a starting price of $89,000
McDonald’s reduces its top dishes to pictograms
The fast-food chain’s new French campaign eschews heavy branding for an illustration of its six big dishes
René Redzepi chooses snow for his Desert Island
The Noma chef requests a single day of wintry conditions as his luxury on the BBC radio show Desert Island Discs
Shore and Parr meet Phaidon Club members
Two stellar names in the photography world host special talks in London and New York
Ai Weiwei’s floral bike protest staged in London
A copy of the artist’s installation-cum-protest is chained up outside the Lisson gallery as part of his new show
Colin McDowell enters peak beard debate in Sydney
At the Sydney Writers’ Festival The Anatomy of Fashion author urges visitors to London to be clean shaven
How to shoot Tadao Ando's most beautiful houses
Photographer Edmund Sumner talks to us about his friendship with the architect and the Ando houses he’s shot
Architectural Record's Innovation Conference
We just took our online Atlas along to one of North America’s most forward-thinking architectural events
George Lois has some Damn Good (Greek) Advice
Advertising legend gives closing address at TEDx Thessaloniki to launch Greek edition of Damn Good Advice
The biologist loved by Mies and Richard Hamilton
Why did the pop artist and modernist architect both draw inspiration from a controversial 1917 biological text?
Edmund de Waal launches his monograph at the V&A
To mark the publication of his book, the artist put in his final public appearance of 2014 at the V&A last night
Clerkenwell Design Week opens
Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, and Sir Paul Smith among big names at this year's east London design festival
The Memphis influence at New York Design Week
We detect the hand of Ettore Sottsass and co at New York’s independent design fair, Sight Unseen Offsite
Wired beehive follows Heatherwick’s seed cathedral
The winning design for next year’s Milan expo draws attention to the world's dwindling honey bee population
Danh Vo artwork stolen in New York
Danish-Vietnamese artist's huge copper chain links are taken from City Hall Park
Mies tower wins architectectural prize after 42 years
Commissioned by IBM, the 52-storey Chicago tower had one of the first computerized air-conditioning systems
Phaidon creatives at Clerkenwell Design Week
Ron Arad, Deyan Sudjic and a comforting take on Mies’s Barcelona chair are all present at the design festival
Hard to build? A little less so, thanks to The Atlas
From French viaducts to Swiss mist, this week our online Atlas reveals the know-how behind some tricky structures
Nazi-seized Cubist works finally on show
Three paintings by Fédor Löwenstein go on display in the city where the Third Reich first sequestered them
Ettore Sottsass by Deyan Sudjic
We ask the Design Museum Director to share some memories of his old friend and the subject of our new book
Getting to know Sterling Ruby
As the artist’s New York show receives rave reviews, the fashion press proves to be a rich source for profiles
NYC's 9/11 Memorial Pavilion is complete
Snøhetta says it has struck a balance between the everyday life of the city and a fitting quality for a memorial
Meryl Streep celebrates Bruce Nauman with Phaidon
Film and artworld luminaries attend Tribeca launch of our Bruce Nauman monograph The True Artist
What’s been a hit at Art Basel Hong Kong?
Fake states, suicidal firearms and modernist prison cells prove popular at the second annual Hong Kong art fair
Mary Ellen Mark wins Lifetime Achievement Award
George Eastman House, the world’s oldest photography museum, honours the brilliant American photographer
Come to Phaidon's Venice Architecture Biennale talk
Architects from OMA and MAD will debate global architecture with Online Atlas editor Jean-Francois Goyette
The Frieze work inspired by our Agnes Martin book
Cluj artist Ciprian Mureşan's drawing, Agnes Martin, looks towards our monograph for visual inspiration
Restoring Rothko's Black on Maroon
Sir Nicholas Serota and the Tate conservators tell Phaidon how they restored the vandalised painting
Richard Mosse wins the Deutsche Börse Prize
The Irish photographer’s Congo images, The Enclave, pick up the annual photography award
Who’s showing what at Art Basel Hong Kong
The art fair brings Eastern and Western works together, alongside a pulsing tower and a critique of local schooling
Adam Szymczyk at Frieze New York
We catch up with the Documenta director and author of our Pawel Althamer, Creamier and Diener & Diener books
The Insider's Guide to Hong Kong
Architect JJ Acuna reveals his favourite places as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide
Massimo Vignelli wants a letter from Phaidon readers
The influential graphic designer is gravely ill and would welcome a flurry of tweets and mail during his last days
At home with Cindy Sherman
The American artist, more used to posing as other people, invites Architectural Digest into her house
How Joseph Beuys celebrated his 63rd birthday
In an attempt to hurry along ‘the end of the twentieth century’ and to celebrate his 63rd birthday, on this day in May 1984 the artist planted 400 native tree and bush species in the Italian town of Bolognano
Watch Edmund de Waal at the Met
Missed the stream of his talk with curator Sheena Wagstaff? Don't worry the video and pictures are here
Frieze 2014 - the highlights
Get your face slapped, take a boat down the river and check out Wolfgang Tillmans' central nervous system
Banksy donates artwork to Bristol boys club
British graffiti artist admits he painted Mobile Lovers and tells the youth club leader he can do what he likes with it
Who’s showing what at Frieze New York
Gagosian has Ruscha, Zwirner has Judd, while Hauser & Wirth are offering a big-name study of the human body
Is this Larry Gagosian’s new Foster apartment?
The world’s biggest art dealer has reportedly bought a new pad, ready in time for Art Basel Miami Beach
Pablo León de la Barra on Frieze and Latin America
The curator told us last night how our book Art Cities of the Future is part of a global change in the art world
Art Cities of the Future artists at Frieze
Three of the artists in the São Paulo section of our book are at Frieze this weekend. This is what they do
Why Nan Goldin thinks kids are from another planet
The photographer talks through her Eden and After book in a great new Tate video
Turner Prize 2014 shortlist catches up with Phaidon
Shortlist is heavy on mixed-media and collage and artists who've featured in past Phaidon books and web stories
Beatrix Ruff on Helen Marten and Jordan Wolfson
We just spoke to the new Stedelijk director about her upcoming Frieze talk with the LA and London artists
Phaidon artists shake up Frieze Projects
Get a room, take a ferry, and meet the invisible communities on Randall's Island, at this year’s Frieze Projects
Alain de Botton's advice for Frieze goers
"Know the state of your soul before making a purchase," Art as Therapy author advises
A Work In Progress wins James Beard Award
Our three in one book with René Redzepi just received one of the highest accolades in the food book world!
Join us at an exclusive elBulli-inspired dinner
Former elBulli stager Jason Atherton will reinterpret dishes from Adrià’s legendary restaurant, courtesy of The FT
How to survive Frieze New York
Our Collecting Art For Love, Money and More authors on how to do next week's art fair - without the fuss
Brad Pitt buys Danny Lyon photo at Paris Photo LA
The Seventh Dog photographer's 1962 print of Clarksdale Police proves a hit with the 12 Years a Slave producer
Andoni Luis Aduriz by Per-Anders Jörgensen
The Eating with the Chefs photographer talks about how the Mugaritz head inspired his new book
Zhang Huan talks Tibet at Pace Gallery
Our Contemporary Artists Series artist on the inspirational trip behind his new show Spring Poppy Fields
Emilia Terragni on a cook book's crucial ingredients
Beauty or function? Our publisher, Lucky Peach’s editor-in-chief and Bon Appétit’s creative director test the recipe
Phaidon authors at Frieze New York Talks
From the Biennale director to the poet laureate of weather reports, here's how our contributors are involved
Have you seen Massimo Bottura's new video?
Check out the flamboyant star of our Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef book 'dropping the lemon tart'
Come and join us at NADA New York next week
Phaidon comes to the NADA fair 9-11 May to shed some more light on the Art Cities of the Future
David Zwirner’s 80s New York and Cologne show
No Problem: Cologne/ New York 1984-1989 pairs works from the US metropolis and the German city
Massimo Bottura by Per-Anders Jörgensen
The Eating with the Chefs photographer describes his time shooting the skinny Italian chef in Modena
Wilhelm Sasnal’s surrealist children’s show
Wilhelm tells us he's drawing on Hans Christian Andersen and psychedelic band Spacemen 3 in his new work
Ten Questions for Memphis member Barbara Radice
The journalist and confidant of Ettore Sottsass talks us through her time with the great man and his legacy
René Redzepi live in San Francisco - video exclusive
The 50 Best winner toured with a series of films on his creativity last year - you can watch them exclusively here
From 'blubber restaurant' to world's greatest (again)
The story behind René Redzepi's acceptance speech and all those 'wood sorrel conquered caviar!' tweets
René Redzepi by Per-Anders Jörgensen
The Eating With The Chefs photographer tells us about working with the four times 50 Best Restaurants winner
Introducing René Redzepi A Work In Progress
Phaidon's commissioning editor of food Emma Robertson on our new three-in-one book with the 50 Best winner
Lars Ulrich on the world's best chef René Redzepi
Here's an excerpt from the Metallica drummer's introduction to our book that René referred to in his 50 Best speech
René Redzepi's (NSFW) acceptance speech
Watch a video of the Noma chef's colourful acceptance speech at last night's 50 Best Restaurant Awards
René Redzepi regains world's best restaurant crown
Tonight's 50 Best Restaurant Awards ceremony sees Noma chef regain his top of the world ranking!
Art as Therapy welcomed at the Rijksmuseum
The press and the public love how Alain de Botton has transferred his book to the walls of the Dutch museum
FT loves our Where Chefs Eat app
"The information in Where Chefs Eat is valuable" says the paper that knows what to invest in
Phaidon chefs relax ahead of tonight's 50 Best Awards
René Redzepi, Magnus Nilsson and Massimo Bottura descend on North London neighbourhood restaurant
Google Doodle for Fellini’s film studio
Rome’s Cinecittà film studio receives the search engine’s occasional illustrated honour
Ten questions for Edmund de Waal OBE
The celebrated potter takes a moment to talk about his exquisitely designed monograph, a new project with David Chipperfield, the myth of tactility and what's better - an OBE from the queen or being signed up by Larry Gagosian
One architect's Swiss village revival in retrospect
You may not have heard of Gion A Caminada but since the '70s he's slowly been transforming an alpine village
New painting show inspired by Sottsass
Hernan Bas’s Memphis Living paintings are an homage to the bright, challenging work of the designer
Phaidon at the Whitney Biennial
Find out more about the artists, curators and writers we’re proud to have worked with at the 2014 exhibition
Ed Ruscha’s first public commission in NYC
His 1977 word painting will appear as a large hand-painted mural beside The High Line next month
Grimshaw designs world’s biggest airport terminal
The British practice, working with two other firms, will build the one-million-square-metre Istanbul Grand Airport
Peter Blake remakes Sgt Pepper for Royal Albert Hall
Pop artist makes a massive mural for 143-year-old venue featuring all the performers who have appeared there
The Insider's Guide to Sao Paulo
Jewellery designer Camila Sarpi on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
And you thought Shigeru Ban just did cardboard?
New images of the Pritzker Prize winning architect's Tribeca redevelopment show Manhattan life at its most chic
George Lois on Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter
The legendary ad man explains how he got Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan to help free the falsely convicted boxer
More arrests in abstract expressionism forgery case
Two brothers arrested in Spain and new indictment in New York reveals how the forgeries were created
On Earth Day a new video of Apple’s green HQ
A newly leaked video stresses the Cupertino office's peerless environmental and design credentials
Bruce Nauman by the man who knows him best
Peter Plagens on how America's most reclusive artist was actually inspired by an Austrian philosopher
Ten Questions for Tomi Ungerer
The much decorated children's author and illustrator talks about life in the camel corps, jail breakfasts, how snakes got a bad rep and why he thinks he’s a lunatic
Andy Warhol's Race Riot goes under the hammer
Previously owned by Robert Mapplethorpe, Warhol's screen print is up for sale at Christie's next month
Pawel Althamer stages one day show
Sculptor closes New Museum retrospective with a show of new works in the museum’s storefront space
Drive in church is inspired by motorway signage
Siegerland Motorway Church by Schneider & Schumacher is based on a simple pictogram image
MVRDV brings Vertical Village into your home
Architects' statement on apartment block construction in Asian cities turned into fun furniture line
Meet us at the Food Book Fair
This month we're coming to Brooklyn for a few days of food, writing, reading, and fun
Why Yayoi Kusama’s new sculpture is for lovers
The 85-year-old artist says this new public work for a Taiwanese train station is all about dressing up for a date
Ai Weiwei father and son show in Britain
This summer the Yorkshire Sculpture Park pairs Ai Weiwei’s work with readings of his father’s poetry
Lebbeus Woods’ high-concept architecture in NYC
The late, great American architect, best known for his work on paper, gets a retrospective at the Drawing Center
Ferran Adrià on cannibalism and creativity
The chef delights crowds, fellow chefs and Australia’s media, as he winds up his promo tour on a high
You've got male! (and he's called Tom of Finland)
Art & Queer Culture illustrator Touko Laaksonen is honoured by Finnish post office in new series of stamps
Mies van der Rohe by Jeff Wall and Edmund de Waal
Architect's influence and buildings prove haven and horror for two artists with a very different take on less is more
The Insider's Guide to Ho Chi Minh City
Fashion designer Adrian Anh Tuan on the city's secrets as revealed in our Wallpaper* Guide
