42,000 plastic men adorn new Louis Vuitton store
Do Ho Suh's Cause and Effect sculpture, built from tiny acrylic figures, graces Tokyo's newest LV boutique
![Do Ho Suh's Cause and Effect in Louis Vuitton's Shinjuku store](/resource/dohosochandelier-620x368.jpg)
Could Lord Foster's SkyCycle scheme take off?
The Pritzker laureate wants to build 220 kilometres of cycle routes above London's train lines
![Renderings of the SkyCycle scheme](/resource/skycycleone-620x465.jpg)
New Picasso linocut series shows how he worked
13 recently acquired sequential Picasso linocuts go on display at the British Museum tomorrow
![Still Life Under The Lamp (1962) by Pablo Picasso. Courtesy of the artist's estate.](/resource/stilllifeunderthelamp-620x372.jpg)
Robert Indiana's regrets over LOVE
"It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake" artist says about the work that came to define his career
![Robert Indiana and LOVE](/resource/robertindianawithlove.jpg)
Damien Hirst makes a spot Mickey Mouse
Artist's version of the cartoon character is to be auctioned off for charity at Christie's in London next month
![Mickey (2012) by Damien Hirst; Hirst and the Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh](/resource/hirstmickeylead.jpg)
Steve McCurry's camera phone advice
The world-renowned photographer tells the BBC how to take a great picture - on a smart phone
![Untold author and legendary photographer Steve McCurry](/resource/mccurryatfetterman.jpg)
A 'coral' clad home for 74 lucky students
Atelier Fernandez & Serres creates interesting scenery at an oceanic observatory in the Pyrénées
![Oceanological Observatory of Banyuls-sur-Mer student housing - Atelier Fernandez & Serres](/resource/student-housing-with-a-coral-inspired-facade-by-atelier-fernandez-and-serres.jpg)
How MoMA made its own René Magritte typeface
The museum's graphic designer took the painter's writing and transformed it into blockbuster signage
![L'Apparition (The Apparition) (1928) by René Magritte](/resource/the-apparition.jpg)
Join NADA and Phaidon in New York this Sunday
Come and hear Art Cities of the Future contributor Pablo Léon de la Barra and others at our NADA talk
![MOCAD Woodward Ave. Exterior: NEKST Murals, 2013 by DONT, VIZIE, POSE OMENS REVOK, and SKREW. Photograph by Colin M. Day](/resource/mocad-woodward-colinmday.jpg)
Does this wild art work remind you of Ed Ruscha?
Irish graffiti artist Maser transforms derelict petrol station in a tribute to the American pop artist
![No.27 nod to Ed Ruscha by Maser, in Limerick, Ireland](/resource/maserpetrolstationlead.jpg)
Pentagram and Joel Meyerowitz brand NY wilderness
The design agency has used Meyerowitz's shots in its new identity for NYC's Natural Areas Conservancy
![Pentagram's new identity for the Natural Areas Conservancy uses photography by Joel Meyerowitz](/resource/nac-opening-1.jpg)
Artist angered by Taiwanese copy of his duck
Florentijn Hofman is offended by local attempts to recreate his Rubber Duck, which burst on New Year's Eve
![Hofman's Rubber Duck in Keelung harbour](/resource/hofmanlead.jpg)
René Redzepi's travel habits and vintage carrots
The Noma chefs talks through his winter menu with CBS, and his holiday plans with the Sunday Times
![René Redzepi, 2011](/resource/reneatmadlead.jpg)
Richard Serra tells Charlie Rose how art works
The sculptor tells the talk show host it's easy to talk about the 'how' and the 'what' but not the 'why'
![Richard Serra](/resource/serralead.jpg)
Our Meryl Streep author talks through her new book
Karina Longworth explains why Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor is both an overview and a worthy feminist study
![Streep in Sophie's Choice (1982)](/resource/streeplead.jpg)
Amazon's new HQ boasts some lush vegetation
The mail-order giant's new Seattle office development will feature botanical-garden style biospheres
![Amazon.com's biosphere office, designed by NBBJ](/resource/amazonlead.jpg)
Alain de Botton to curate an "anti-blockbuster"
The Art as Therapy author brings his Art as Therapy ideas to bear at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum
![Alain de Botton](/resource/de-botton-3.jpg)
Daniel Patterson's Google lecture
Innovative Californian chef joins a prestigious list that includes Barack Obama, Lada Gaga and David Beckham
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Ai Weiwei's floral bike protest
Why is the Chinese artist and dissident leaving bouquets in a bicycle basket outside his compound every day?
![Flowers in Ai's bicycle basket](/resource/aibikelead.jpg)
Opening Warhol's time capsules
The Andy Warhol Museum has 612 boxes of Warhol ephemera, which they're currently opening and cataloguing
![Items from one of Warhol's Time Capsules](/resource/timecapsulesone-620x453.jpg)
The Insider's Guide to Hamburg
Product designer Alexa Lixfeld lets us in on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
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Ferran Adrià's drawings go on show in NYC
The Drawing Center will host the elBulli chef's gastronomic illustrations in Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity
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How was 2013 for Danny Lyon?
The legendary American photographer on rediscovering the joys of film and finalising his career retrospective
![Danny Lyon (right) with Chuck Kelton his silver printer in Galveston, Texas, 2011](/resource/img-5407.jpg)
The Insider's Guide to Brussels
Editor Aurélie Bunneghem lets us in on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
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How was 2013 for Chris Johanson?
The artist on spending time with his art, his wife and his dog (and rustling up some good food)
![Chris Johanson with his wife and fellow artist Johanna Jackson](/resource/chrispic2.jpg)
When Justus Dahinden went to Uganda
How the Swiss architect's coconut shapes were influenced by Japanese group the Metabolists and organic growth
![Mityana Pilgrims' Centre Shrine - Justus Dahinden](/resource/atlas-p583-1.jpg)
The Insider's Guide to Prague
Designer Zbynek Krulich lets us in on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
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How was 2013 for Per-Anders Jörgensen?
The photographer on Edward Snowden and Japanese food - and his desire to grow some rare strawberries
![Per-Anders Jörgensen/ Mugaritz Panda](/resource/unknown-7.jpg)
The Insider's Guide to Oslo
Product designer Øyvind Wyller lets us in on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
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The art of Umayyad period Spain
How al-Hakam II installed in the Great Mosque, a room-sized mirhab, among the most beautiful in the Islamic world
![Audience Room Mosaic c.AD 740 - from The Art Museum](/resource/art-museum-umayyad-1.jpg)
How was 2013 for Tomi Ungerer?
The 82-year-old writer and illustrator explains why 2013 was a vintage year for him
![Tomi Ungerer](/resource/tomiungerer-lead.jpg)
The Insider's Guide to Delhi
Designers Shivan & Narresh let us in on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
![Designers Shivan & Narresh](/resource/del-insider.jpg)
Carlo Scarpa's cemetery for Brionvega boss
How the Italian architect honoured a design genius and "man of the people who had started from the bottom”
![Brion Cemetery Meditation Pavilion - Carlo Scarpa](/resource/carlos-scarpa-brion-3.jpg)
How was 2013 for David Gilbertson?
Our Wine Bar Theory author looks beyond his glittering business career for his highlights of the year
![David Gilbertson](/resource/gilbertsonlead.jpg)
2013 the year in architecture
The past twelve months saw mind-bending Chinese innovation and reverent European conservation
![Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort by MAD](/resource/sheratonhuzhou-hot-spring-resort-mad-china-collabcubed.jpg)
How was 2013 for Roger Ballen?
The photographer looks back on the year just gone and reveals what's in store next
![Roger Ballen](/resource/43223116-640.jpg)
The Insider's Guide to Florence
Designer Gabriele Corto Moltedo lets us in on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
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2013 the year in design
After standing to attention for the 2012 Olympics, the last 12 months saw designers learn how to relax (and party)
![The UN North Deligates Lounge by Rem Koolhaas and Hella Jongerius](/resource/designlead.jpg)
How was 2013 for Bernhard Edmaier?
The incredible landscape photographer was inspired by a Russian wunderkind this year
![Bernhard Edmaier](/resource/bedmaier-usa-620x513.jpg)
How was 2013 for Ferran Adrià?
Not content with running a Harvard course, Ferran began decoding gastronomy's genetic code
![Ferran Adrià - do not seat him near a 'closetalker'](/resource/ferranadria.jpg)
The Insider's Guide to New Orleans
Writer L Kasimu Harris lets us in on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
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The Insider's Guide to Geneva
Architect Bénédicte Montant lets us in on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
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Alex Atala's secret history of tapioca
Explorations of the 15th and 17th centuries brought it to prominence but why is it thought of as an Asian food?
![Oyster pane with tapioca marinée - Alex Atala - photograph by Sergio Coimbra](/resource/atala-p197.jpg)
2013 The year in photography
We look back at a year in which the still life made a comeback and the selfie made it into the dictionary
![From Still Life by Thomas Albdorf](/resource/thomas-albdorf-still-life-02.jpg)
How was 2013 for David Carrier?
The American academic found himself outside the white cubes of the art world this year, and loved it
![David Carrier by Jonathan Weinberg](/resource/davidcarrierby.jpg)
The Insider's Guide to Boston
Fashion blogger Sophia Chou reveals her favourite places as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide
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2013 the year in art
From high prices and startling crimes through to superstar retrospectives and international politics
![Rendering of installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012. Artificial and natural light. Rendering created by Andreas Tjeldflaat](/resource/ex-turrell-installation-620x504.jpg)
The inspiration behind Kuramata's clock
How a childhood memory of banknotes, balloons and confetti went into its creation
![Spiral Clock B, 1981 - Shiro Kuramata](/resource/kuramata-p312.jpg)
How was 2013 for Kevin Davies?
The Philip Treacy photographer on Frank Auerbach, his mum and a forthcoming U2 project
![Kevin Davies (in a Philip Treacy hat)](/resource/kevin-davies-portrait.jpg)
How the electric circuit inspired London's tube map
The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design uncovers the story behind one of Britain's modern design masterpieces
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How was 2013 for Thea and Ethan?
Art advisors Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner let us in on the highlights of their year
![Art advisers and authors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner](/resource/thea-westreich-and-ethan-wagner-promo1.jpg)
Ai Weiwei's secret prison scenes on show in Brooklyn
The Museum of Brooklyn will display the artist's six fibreglass prison dioramas, last seen at the Biennale
![S.A.C.R.E.D. (2013) by Ai Weiwei](/resource/sacredai-jpg-620x469.jpg)
Tomi Ungerer's adults-only 032c cover
Our children's author contributes an erotic cover image to Europe's leading fashion and art magazine
![Detail from 032c's Tomi Ungerer cover](/resource/032c-tomi.jpg)
How was 2013 for Martin Parr?
The Magnum photographer on a 'turkey and tinsel' holiday trip and the 'beauty and craziness' of the Amalfi coast
![Martin Parr](/resource/martinparrscreenshot.jpg)
Cork-clad hotel in Portugal is a first
With screw tops decimating their livelihoods cork farmers could have a reason to rejoice
![Ecork Hotel - José Carlos Cruz](/resource/514-original.jpg)
Hadid, Collishaw and Paltrow's Christmas baubles
Artists, designers and celebrities make one-off Christmas tree decorations to benefit a British children's charity
![From left: Zaha Hadid's Christmas bauble; Matthew Collishaw's Christmas bauble; Gwyneth Paltrow's Christmas bauble](/resource/baublelead.jpg)
Sterling Ruby and Raf Simons create new label
"There is not one shirt, one shoe, one sock that is not from our mutual thinking process," says the designer
![Left: artist Sterling Ruby; right: designer, Raf Simons](/resource/rafrubylead.jpg)
Marc Newson makes himself at home in Philadelphia
At Home show recreates domestic environment - complete with many of his designs in The Design Book
![Wood Chair 1988 - Marc Newson as featured in The Design Book](/resource/design-book-p417.jpg)
How was 2013 for Edmund de Waal?
As we prepare to publish his first comprehensive monograph, the author and ceramicist looks back at his year
![Edmund de Waal](/resource/edmund-de-waal-mg-2239.jpg)
Danny Lyon onstage in Washington DC
Legendary 'Bikers' photojournalist and pioneer of The New Journalism breaks ground ahead of new Phaidon book
![Danny Lyon and Muhammad Ali before Ali's second fight with Jerry Quarry 1972](/resource/secondjoequarryfight.jpg)
When the east was centuries ahead of the west
How books as we know them came to be - as told in The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
![Buljo Jikji Simche Yojeol 1377 - from The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design](/resource/graphic-archive-buljo-1.jpg)
How was 2013 for Joel Meyerowitz?
Phaidon creatives look back on the year just gone and tell us about what they're going to be up to in 2014
![Joel Meyerowitz](/resource/joel-meyerowitz.jpg)
Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton to open next year
The 'floating ship' arts institution will promote established artists and "young artists from emerging scenes"
![Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris](/resource/gehrygallery.jpg)
A rare chance to see Capa in Colour
The 20th century photojournalist's little-seen colour work goes on display in New York next month
![From Capa in Color, at the ICP, New York](/resource/capacolor-1-0.jpg)
Architecture before and after the third Reich
As 20th Century World Architecture shows, world affairs often lurk in the background of any architectural project
![Neckermann Mail Order Company Building 1961 - Egon Eiermann](/resource/atlas-p361-1.jpg)
Frank Gehry designs new Alexander Calder show
Pritzker-prize laureate creates the layout for Alexander Calder: From Avant-Garde to Iconic at LACMA
![Installation view from LACMA's Alexander Calder: From Avant-Garde to Iconic](/resource/caldergehrylead.jpg)
Can you name these film-star buildings?
Federico Babina has redrawn famous movie posters, placing the films' houses centre stage
![Detail from Federico Babina's Mon Oncle poster](/resource/archicine2-01-905-620x467.jpg)
How Carlo Scarpa bridged past and present
The renovation of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a great example of how he integrated the new with the old
![Carlo Scarpa, Fondazione Querini Stampalia Renovations; New bridge with Istrian Stone treads on the Campiello leading to the Fondazione entrance](/resource/scarpa-p165-1.jpg)
John Pawson designs Alain de Botton holiday home
Life House in Wales is the latest addition in the Art as Therapy philosopher's Living Architecture initiative
![Life House by John Pawson for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture](/resource/1779767-pawson-life-house-web-index.jpg)
The Japanese art group that inspired Shiro Kuramata
How the Gutai artists inspired one of Japan's greatest furniture designers to break the rules
![Gutai Art Association, The International Sky Festival, 1960.](/resource/sky-gutai-620x411.jpg)
Porsche designs drive-in apartments in Miami
Automotive marque's first real estate venture targets design conscious car lovers
![My other garage is a Libeskind. Porsche Design Tower, Florida](/resource/living-room-at-porsche-design-tower-in-miami.jpg)
Phaidon books feature in best-of-the-year lists
Papers, mags and websites praised our books in their 2013 round-ups - so if you're still looking for gift ideas...
![from Tomi Ungerer's Fog Island](/resource/fogislandlead.jpg)
Trollbäck + Company turn up the temperature
The Weather Channel's graphic revamp is the first in over thirty years
![The Weather Channel dials - Trollbäck + Company](/resource/10-image.jpg)
Mustafah Abdulaziz photographs the Ganges
Ex-Wall Street Journal photographer took a trip along India's sacred river with astonishing results
![The Purifying Ganges - Mustafah Abdulaziz](/resource/thumbs-ganges-031.jpg)
Henry Moore's spectral images from the underground
Drawings of figures sheltering from the blitz weren't propaganda but a poignant response to a common plight
![Pink and Green Sleepers 1941 - Henry Moore](/resource/art-museum-moore4.jpg)
Daniel Libeskind's air-purifying apartment block
The architect's new Berlin building will help boost local air quality thanks to its innovative cladding
![Chausseestrasse 43 by Daniel Libeskind](/resource/chau-43-rendering-2013-c-px2-01-1-620x520.jpg)
The Met's ink-themed Chinese art show
America's largest art museum themes its first major Chinese contemporary art exhibition around ink
![Stamping Water (1996) by Song Dong. This work appears at The Met's Ink Art exhibition and in our Chinese Art Book.](/resource/song-dong-printing-on-water-resized.jpg)
Alex Atala's fresh-water inspiration
How the Brazilian's quest for a national cuisine took him into the Amazon river
![Alex Atala fishing in the Amazon](/resource/atalaamazonfishing.jpg)
Foster reworks a Florida Art Deco institution
Architect restores symmetrical scheme to Sims Wyeth's Norton Museum and creates 'museum in a garden'
![The Norton Museum of Art by Foster + Partners](/resource/norton-nfoster.jpg)
Edouard Manet's modern gaze
The best-known paintings by the father of impressionism have not one, but two, things in common
![Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe (1863) by Edouard Manet](/resource/art-museum-manet-dejeuner.jpg)
Why is Damien Hirst trying to build a village?
The artist has plans to turn his South Devon farmland into a 750-home residential development
![Plans for South Ilfracombe New Community, Devon](/resource/hirstlead.jpg)
When Frank Lloyd Wright met Carlo Scarpa
Official titles meant nothing to the great American architect when he wanted a guide to Venice
![Left: Carlo Scarpa; right: Frank Lloyd Wright](/resource/scarpawright.jpg)
Photographs that are an accident waiting to happen
Csilla Klenyánszki builds precarious sculptures that balance just long enough for her to shoot them
![The Glass, from Csilla Klenyánszki's Good Luck series](/resource/csilla-klenya-nszki-81-the-glass.jpg)
Saving the Michelangelo of the Capitol
Work is underway to restore Dome of the US Capitol building, and protect its delicate Italianate frescos
![The interior of the Dome of the Capitol, shrouded in 1999, while lead paint was removed from its walls](/resource/capitol-dome1999.jpg)
The secret history of Chinese Modernism
A new Shanghai exhibition examines the crooked path of modern European-style art in 20th century China
![Farmhouse, by Lin Fengmian](/resource/linlead.jpg)
How Italy is digitising its masterworks
The Impossible Exhibition takes hard-to-view work, scans it and reproduces it in startling detail
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Warhol collaborator Louis Waldon dies
Actor appeared alongside Joe Dallesandro in the Flesh, Lonesome Cowboys and Nude Restaurant
![Joe Dallesandro (right) and Louis Waldon (left) in Flesh (1968) by Andy Warhol](/resource/louiswaldonjoe.jpg)
Why the Watts Towers were nearly knocked down
Now they're a National historic landmark and a positive celebration of community spirit and civic pride but the Watts Towers weren't always viewed this way as Art & Place Site-Specific Art of the Americas reveals
![The Watts Towers, Los Angeles - Simon Rodia](/resource/artandplace-p47-3.jpg)
Inside Jee Young's head (and very small studio)
Korean artist creates fantasy worlds based on fables, childhood memories and an incredible imagination
![Last Supper - Jee Young](/resource/jeeyoung-lee-last-supper.jpg)
Althea Thauberger at NADA Miami
Concluding our series on Art Cities of the Future artists showing in the NADA booth in Miami
![Ecce Homo 2011 - Althea Thauberger Metallic Digital C-Print available at Artsy.com](/resource/tumblr-lrfrbatcqr1qg2xvoo1-r1-1280.jpg)
Pascal Hachem talks art and cities at NADA Miami
The artist thinks Beirut - one of our Art Cities of the Future - is caught between danger and hope
![You Always Want What The Other Has - Pascal Hachem 2013](/resource/hac-youalwayswant2013-corridor-1.jpg)
When a picture really is worth a thousand words
In celebration of a great life 1918-2013 - Nelson Mandela photographed by VII's Ron Haviv
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Nan Goldin film premiers at Art Basel Miami Beach
I Remember Your Face documents life in Paris and Berlin and gets first US showing tonight - watch the trailer
![Ava twirling, NYC, 2007, by Nan Goldin. From Eden and After.](/resource/194-5-ava-twirling.jpg)
D.O.M. photographs get their own gallery show
Sérgio Coimbra's serene images from Alex Atala's new book come to the Coningsby in London
![Coimbra's Ants and pineapple, from D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients](/resource/newcoveralexatala.jpg)
Mana Morimoto's hand-stitched photographs
The Japanese wild artist and weaver simply loves “making thread beams come out of people’s eyes!”
![Mana Morimoto embroidered photographs series](/resource/mountrushmorelasersii-620x412.jpg)
The view inside Art Basel Miami Beach
A look at some Phaidon focussed imagery, courtesy of Gallerist NY, as one of the world's biggest art fairs opens
![An attendee on the VIP day reacts to a Tom Friedman at Luhring Augustine](/resource/friedmantom.jpg)
Zaha Hadid jewellery at Art Basel Miami Beach
Zaha Hadid goes for gold (and other precious metals) with Swiss jeweller Caspita
![- Zaha Hadid for Caspita](/resource/wpid-dragotsennyie-sotyi-0.jpg)
Okwui Enwezor to head up Venice Biennale 2015
The curator, writer and Phaidon author takes the directorship of the 56th International Art Exhibition
![Okwui Enwezor, director of the 2015 Venice Biennale](/resource/okwui-enwezor.jpg)
Aline Cautis talks art and cities at NADA Miami
LA-based artist on how the art scene in Cluj - nominated as one of our Art Cities of the Future - affected her work
![Aline Cautis - Untitled (2013)](/resource/32-5ok.jpg)