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

Floating city proposal for China's super rich
Electric cars speed along underwater tunnels, there's on-island food production and bespoke power generation

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

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

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

Wolfgang Tillmans on middle age and architecture
Photographer considers whether his best work is behind him - unlikely, given the strength of his new shows

David Shrigley takes over Sketch
Acerbic artist brings his misfits, freaks and socially awkward characters to upscale Mayfair restaurant

How the Bauhaus houses were rebuilt
Mending bombed buildings in Germany is controversial, yet these ones are a great expression of Teutonic culture

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

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

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

French Pavilion pairs Jacques Tati with Jean Prouvé
The French submission for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale interrogates and gently lampoons modernism

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

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

Roald Dahl’s Bacon portrait of Freud up for sale
1967 study of Lucian Freud was originally bought on the proceeds from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

What happened at the London elBulli dinner?
Guests and editorial executives from The Financial Times joined the elBulli chef for a gala meal and presentation

Bruce Nauman: from Smart Aleck to True Artist
Writer and author Peter Plagens explains how his view of Bruce Nauman went from disdain to admiration

Meet the speakers at today’s Phaidon talk
Great minds from Canada, the Netherlands, China and Burkina Faso discuss the state of national architecture

Why is Cliff Richard in the British Pavilion?
Sam Jacob and Wouter Vanstiphout’s show at the Venice Architecture Biennale takes a pop view of town planning

Larry Clark’s first movie screened in Amsterdam
The Foam gallery will be showing Clark’s early 16mm film, alongside shots from Tulsa and Teenage Lust

Have you seen Massimo Bottura’s art collection?
The chef talks through his collection of paintings, photographs and bronze bin bags with the Wall Street Journal

Monica Bonvicini shows some love in Zurich
Look out for the Italian artist’s Desire (2006) in the Swiss city this summer, as part of a wider retrospective

The Dominican Republic’s concrete legacy at Venice
The national submission remembers its 1956 fair, and how its citizens now live their lives in among the architecture

Deyan Sudjic and Barbara Radice on Sottsass
The Design Museum director and Sottsass’s widow discussed the great man last night. Here are some highlights

America brings an architect's office to Venice
The American Pavilion’s 'Office US' looks at how Meier, Saarinen and Wright built abroad

When Ettore Sottsass met Barbara Radice
To mark tonight’s Design Museum talk, we look at how Sottsass’s second wife enabled him to reach new heights

What links Mies van der Rohe to Ferris Bueller?
How director and Chicago native John Hughes sought out a Mies protegé's building for his 1986 film

Welcome to the Sottsass pleasure Dome
The great designer Ettore shunned public commissions, favouring ambitious private, hedonistic undertakings

Georgia O’Keeffe’s little sister’s retrospective
The Dallas Museum of Art appeals for Ida O’Keeffe anecdotes ahead of a show dedicated to the little known artist

The Insider's Guide to Venice
Event organiser Tommaso Speretta reveals his favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide

Unseen since 1970 Bacon tryptych up for sale
Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer was painted at the height of his passionate affair with the petty criminal

When Sottsass met Bob Dylan and the beat poets
How a life-threatening illness led to the Italian designer meeting Kerouac and co

Steve McCurry's most difficult assignment
He's been in every war zone on the planet but Iraq was to prove his most difficult challenge

Take a look at Richard Prince's latest Instagram art
The artist is back on Instagram, and using posts from the photo-sharing site in a new series of works

Stephen Shore on photography's visceral connection
Watch our great video from the photographer's ICP talk in New York last week

How Sottsass went from page to product
We seek out the early sketches that became household objects for the design conscious

Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin's Museum of Ethnology
The photographer’s contribution to the eighth Berlin Biennale takes in denim, sneakers and TV static

Ten buildings built to be moved
From a lake school to Renzo Piano's eco hut, The Phaidon Atlas picks out some great portable buildings

Massimo Vignelli 1931 – 2014
The Italian-born designer credited with introducing European modernism to American graphic design has died

Did Halston do to fashion what Warhol did to art?
A new exhibition at the Warhol Museum looks at the influences, careers and legacies of the designer and the artist

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
