When product design meets political resistance
From Suffragette teapots to protest robots, the V&A's Disobedient Objects examines the role of making in rebellion
Understanding Alice Aycock's Park Ave. Paper Chase
The artist says her new series of artworks are "the metaphorical visual residue of the energy of New York City"
First building in new district is a concrete church
Nameless Architecture eschews the usual shopping centre or office block for something more spiritual in Korea
Ferran Adrià on the road (and in the air)
A short report from the first few days of the Spanish super chef's US tour
Sou Fujimoto's tree-inspired apartment building
The Japanese architect's Arbre Blanc brings outdoor high rise living to a rejuvenated Montpelier
Martin Parr on Paris, pants and photobooks
To mark his Paris show, the photographer reveals his personal likes and dislikes to France's Le Figaro newspaper
How to read Bruce Nauman's works on paper
A new show in Toronto examines how the innovative artist explored the breakdown of printed language
Why Nan Goldin focused on children in her new book
In an accompanying essay the Italian writer Guido Costa offers insight into the inspiration behind Eden and After
Chapmans, Micallef and Collishaw search for God
The Stations of the Cross shows contemporary works themed around the Passion of Christ throughout Lent 2014
Italy V ArmaLite over use of Michelangelo's David
"The image of David, armed, offends and infringes the law" says government's culture minister
Wolfgang Tillmans' cosmic worldview
The German photographer explains how an early love of stargazing informed his wide-ranging world view
Time magazine captures One World Trade
The magazine greets New York's magnificent new skyscaper with an equally impressive photo shoot and video
Win a Ferran Adrià-inspired dinner party
Yes you read that right - Phaidon, Williams-Sonoma and Kitchit have your next modernist dinner party sorted
Morphosis brings a touch of New York to Los Angeles
Emerson College evokes concentrated energy of East-coast metropolitan centers in an iconic LA setting
Martin Parr's Acropolis Now
The photographer collates his water-damaged prints of Greek ruins into a new online series
John Baldessari reflects on his favourite things
A Goya etching, a picture by Sol LeWitt and a yodelling pickle from Damien Hirst are among most treasured items
Obrist and Herzog & de Meuron disrupt the Biennale
The Swiss curator and architectural duo present a 'mental universe' dedicated to two influential dreamers
Kengo Kuma's cake shop opens in Tokyo
Known for using unexpected materials on his facades, the architect looks to tradition for Sunny Hills cake shop
Homes of the starchitects recreated in Milan
Zaha Hadid joins Daniel Libeskind and Shigeru Ban in allowing their homes go on show at the design fair
Wolverine debut artwork up for auction
A Marvel comic recently sold for over a million dollars, could this original Wolverine artwork top that figure?
Turkey's highly entertaining TV tower
Çanakkale Antenna Tower combines broadcast functionality with day trip opportunities
Nan Goldin's grand master flash
Scopophilia exhibition pairs the artist's photographs with works from the Louvre's collection
Paul Rand's C logo gets a new lease of life in Indiana
Graphic designer's 1973 logo for the Indiana Visitors Center finds a modern role in the city
The Armory Show looks to the East
New York's biggest art fair seeks to undercut the curatorial clichés with a deeper look at works from China
Slovenians land futuristic stadium design in Belarus
Aluminium clad 'spotty stadium' by OFIS Arhitekti majors on acoustics - let's hope the supporters' voices are up to it
Massimo Bottura wins 'Nobel Prize of gastronomy'
Italian chef wins prestigious Swedish White Award for his renewal of one of the world's best-loved cuisines
The Rauschenberg Foundation distributes later works
MoMA, the Met and others benefit from the foundation's Gift/Purchase Program, placing later works with museums
Beatrice Galilee lands curator role at the Met
Lisbon Triennale and occasional Phaidon contributor takes up new position as curator of architecture and design
Why Joseph Beuys and his dead hare live on
New Phaidon Focus book looks (among other things) at the importance of his mysterious 1965 performance
Iconic street art goes on show in NY
Archive unearths sketches, paintings and photos of early works by Keith Haring, Futura 2000 and Lady Pink
Wes Anderson's Flemish painting inspiration
How the director's new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel was, in part, inspired by Phaidon books
Pompidou shows paparazzi shots alongside fine art
Centre Pompidou-Metz hangs pap shots alongside Warhol to examine our relationship with news and gossip
Stephen Shore's travels through Israel
In From Galilee to the Negev the photographer presents an impartial portrait of Israel and the West Bank
If only every in-flight safety message was this good
Fasten your seatbelts! Art & Graft dispel traditional passenger apathy with snappy pre-flight safety movie
Joel Meyerowitz at street photography screening
The New York street photographer joins director Cheryl Dunn for a special screening of Everybody Street
Piero Golia's models, monuments and sculptures
LA-based Italian artist who sat up a tree until someone purchased his art, sailed to Albania 'the wrong way', tattooed his face on a woman's back and disappeared for weeks has a show of new work at Paris Gagosian
VIP tickets for Ferran Adrià's tour are going fast!
You need to hurry if you want to meet the great man and get your copy of elBulli 2005-2011 signed in the flesh
Do Ho Suh takes to the beach in Perth
Hidden gems from the Korean artist, William Kentridge and Jeremy Deller intrigue at Perth Art Festival
Thomas Heatherwick's African art museum
V&A Waterfront unveils architectural plans by Heatherwick Studio for historic Cape Town Grain Silo Complex
Harvey Quaytman and social justice
Andrew Russeth, the editor of GalleryistNY, highlights his favourite passage from our new Quaytman book
Phaidon photographers' holiday tips
Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Sally Mann and Joel Meyerowitz tell The New York Times where they like to unwind
Steve McCurry's Children of the OMO photographs
Magnum photographer publishes his photographs to bring attention to ritual killing of mingi children
The sketches that became a furniture collection
South Korean designer Jin-il Park liked his early pencil strokes so much, he built a real life furniture series
Why the cross was so important to Harvey Quaytman
Impressed by Kazimir Malevich's 'spirituality' Quaytman believed minimalism had become too 'materialist'
Reworking Mies van der Rohe's only public library
Mecanoo and Martinez + Johnson will modernise Washington DC's Martin Luther King Memorial Library
How Geoff Mcfetridge created the graphics for Her
The designer drew from Massimo Vignelli's subway map when coming up with a look for Spike Jonze's movie
Daniella Zalcman's photographic tale of two cities
Vanity Fair contributor's new work is a love letter to New York and London - shot and edited entirely on her iPhone
BIG and Kuma shortlisted for Netherlands arts hub
The ArtA art and cinema centre in Arnhem has narrowed its architectural submissions to a final four candidates
Finding photographic beauty in rubbish
Diane Gatterdam and Laurie Frankel's artfully styled still lifes highlight our wasteful habits
Chris Martin's homage to Isaac Hayes
He describes his inspiration as “an unconscious practice of drawing” in new Phaidon book
The Mexican design museum's concrete jungle home
Zeller & Moye's new home for Mexico City's Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura has terraces jutting out into the trees
Stuart Hall on Samuel Fosso
To mark the cultural theorist's recent death, we look back at Different - Hall's book on marginalized photographers
Yoga mat smoothie, anyone?
Well, how about flip-flops and patchouli oil? Artist Josh Kline makes the most tasteful, foul-tasting health drinks
Nendo reinvents the chopstick
The 4000-year-old eating implement is given a contemporary twist by the world-renowned design agency
When colour brings structure
As architecture they would be unbuildable; as music, they would be unplayable, so why are these paintings a joy?
Architects plan a car park with a courtyard on top
UK practice Brisac Gonzalez have designed a multi-storey car park for Bordeaux with apartments on the roof
Harvey Quaytman's intellectual scavenging
Calligraphy, poetry and Islamic design all found their way into this artist’s work. Just don’t expect too much green
Can you spot the clones in these landscapes?
Landscape photographer Mathieu Bernard-Reymond’s populates his images with digitally manipulated doubles
Pentagram rebrand the Tonight Show
The design agency keeps the moon detailing when updating the long-running talk show’s graphics
Abstract painting from the age of the image search
How do online searches inform abstract painting? Quite directly, in the case of the American artist David Ratcliff
Zaha and co. rethink the drinking fountain
A group of London architects have come up with their versions of the water fountains for the capital
When fine art meets family portraits
Nan Goldin and Thomas Struth feature in Family Matters, a new exhibition that looks at changing family relations
Sterling Ruby and Barbara Kruger's LA dance works
The visual artists provide visual concepts for two pieces in the LA Dance Project's new Los Angeles residency
Classless still lifes inspired by Cuban shop windows
Catherine Losing and Anna Lomax's photo series Cuban Shop Windows places lowly products on a pedestal
The Simpsons and abstract painting
In our book Painting Abstraction, Bob Nickas looks at how cartoons can raise and answer some serious questions
Daniel Libeskind's Spanish spiral
The manufacturing firm, the Cosentino Group, commission an ornamental spiral from the New York architect
Is smashing Ai Weiwei's vase a valid artistic protest?
A 52-year-old artist broke one of Ai's Colored Vases at the Pérez Art Museum to highlight the lack of local shows
Our Editorial Director is Queen of the Cookbooks
WSJ Magazine describes how Emilia Terragni built Phaidon into a "prandial powerhouse"
Konstantin Grcic's clear glass furniture collection
The designer's sleek new Man Machine range pairs industrial strength panes with gas pistons
The hidden music in Harvey Quaytman
Could some regard for the painter's musical sensibility unlock additional meaning in his canvasses?
A still-image celebration of golden-age cinemas
French photographer Franck Bohbot reflects cinema's golden age in his photographic series of movie theatres
Ferran Adrià's North American tour
The chef will undertake a five-city author tour to promote the publication of elBulli 2005-2011
Is Jeff Wall scared of street photography?
"Probably" says the fine-art photographer, on the eve of his major new European retrospective
A Scottish homage to Le Corbusier
French artist and illustrator Benoit Challand combines two European heavyweights when drafting his perfect home
Ferran Adrià is a culinary Dali says the NY Times
The paper's art critic Roberta Smith, revels in the inspring Ferran Adrià's retrospective at the Drawing Center
Phaidon's winning window display on show at Foyles
Emma Fearn and Sarah-Ines Dridje's design takes pride of place in Foyles Charing Cross Road window
Radiohead collaborate with Universal Everything
Digital studio creates strange new landscape for band's new app
Will Juice succeed where Zaha Hadid faltered?
Swansea’s shell-like Tidal Lagoon Centre set to be as controversial as Cardiff Bay Opera House?
Alvar Aalto inspires new Design Museum identity
Bond's Jesper Bange leans on Finnish master for circular black, white and red designs for Helsinki museum
Is this the new Rain Room?
New immersive artwork Momentum opens at Barbican's Curve gallery today, playing with light and sound
Richard Hamilton curator talks about new Tate show
Mark Godfrey, the man behind the Tate's blockbuster Hamilton show, walks and talks us through
How nuclear physics proved this 'Léger' is a fake
Radiocarbon tests conclude that cotton in canvas was cut at least four years after the artist’s death
Foster's controversial Apple store gets go ahead
Some moved walls and the reinstatement of a much loved piece of public art sees project approved
New show sheds light on Alvar Aalto
Over 100 light fittings designed by the Finnish architect go on show in Belgium beside a pontoon bridge
Ghost Paris Metro stations to become galleries?
Mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet wants to repurpose the city's unused stations if she wins
Maurizio Cattelan's New York fashion shoot
The artist comes out of retirement to style an eye-popping fashion story with the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari
Nancy Holt 1938 - 2014
New Mexico based artist and creator of Sun Tunnels, featured in Art & Place, dies after long illness
Richard Hamilton's love of Braun
As the Tate prepares its major retrospective, we look at Britain's foremost pop artist's admiration for Dieter Rams
Volcanic crystals inspire Hella Jongerius table
The Dutch designer looks to the layering in agate stones to inspire her bright, limited-edition Gemstone Table
A digital-free photo tribute to Albers and LeWitt
Canadian photographer Jessica Eaton uses large format film to create her Cubes for Albers and LeWitt series
Pawson church among Design Museum nominations
Beautiful retuning of light and space sees St Moritz Church in Augsburg lead Designs of the Year nominations
Lawrence Weiner stars in new Matthew Barney opera
River of Fundament is set at Norman Mailer's wake and also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Salman Rushdie
Come to NADA and Beta-Local's event this Friday
Sample San Juan's art scene courtesy of some Puerto Rico curators featured in Art Cities of the Future
Zaha Hadid on the perils of paper architecture
The world's leading woman architect on the setbacks of her early career and today's opportunities
How a local gallery pulled in a Bruce Nauman show
The Harris gallery’s Nauman exhibition includes Changing Light Corridor With Rooms - last shown in 1989
Foyles fashion window winners announced
Congratulations go to the London College of Fashion's Emma Fearn and Sarah-Ines Dridje
Coop Himmelb(l)au's House of Music takes shape
Circular windows cut out of elevated block and framed by amoebic shapes characterise Wolf D. Prix's design
MoMA PS1 will grow its own summer pavilion
The winning submission to 2014's Young Architects Program incorporates fungi bricks and is 100% compostable
Georgia O'Keeffe's garden is set to be reborn
But don't expect the lush flowers of her paintings to be blooming in this New Mexico plot
