The Met's ink-themed Chinese art show
America's largest art museum themes its first major Chinese contemporary art exhibition around ink

Alex Atala's fresh-water inspiration
How the Brazilian's quest for a national cuisine took him into the Amazon river

Foster reworks a Florida Art Deco institution
Architect restores symmetrical scheme to Sims Wyeth's Norton Museum and creates 'museum in a garden'

Edouard Manet's modern gaze
The best-known paintings by the father of impressionism have not one, but two, things in common

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

When Frank Lloyd Wright met Carlo Scarpa
Official titles meant nothing to the great American architect when he wanted a guide to Venice

Photographs that are an accident waiting to happen
Csilla Klenyánszki builds precarious sculptures that balance just long enough for her to shoot them

Saving the Michelangelo of the Capitol
Work is underway to restore Dome of the US Capitol building, and protect its delicate Italianate frescos

The secret history of Chinese Modernism
A new Shanghai exhibition examines the crooked path of modern European-style art in 20th century China

How Italy is digitising its masterworks
The Impossible Exhibition takes hard-to-view work, scans it and reproduces it in startling detail

Warhol collaborator Louis Waldon dies
Actor appeared alongside Joe Dallesandro in the Flesh, Lonesome Cowboys and Nude Restaurant

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

Inside Jee Young's head (and very small studio)
Korean artist creates fantasy worlds based on fables, childhood memories and an incredible imagination

Althea Thauberger at NADA Miami
Concluding our series on Art Cities of the Future artists showing in the NADA booth in Miami

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

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

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

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

Mana Morimoto's hand-stitched photographs
The Japanese wild artist and weaver simply loves “making thread beams come out of people’s eyes!”

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

Zaha Hadid jewellery at Art Basel Miami Beach
Zaha Hadid goes for gold (and other precious metals) with Swiss jeweller Caspita

Okwui Enwezor to head up Venice Biennale 2015
The curator, writer and Phaidon author takes the directorship of the 56th International Art Exhibition

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

Ai Weiwei on Miami, politics and Anish Kapoor
On the eve of his Miami opening, the artist and Chinese dissident says his work will always be "somehow political"

Grimshaw and Samoo create eco experience in Korea
Visitors will be able to wander from tropical rainforest, through cloud forest and into the Antarctic

Erika Verzutti talks art and cities at NADA Miami
The São Paulo Art Cities of The Future artist finds domestic tranquility in Brazil's "infernal activity"

Renzo Piano on building beside Louis Kahn
The Italian architect says his extension to Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum is "close enough for a conversation"

Alain de Botton explains how we should use art
The writer says art should serve the psyche in the same way as it once served the church

Robert Smithson in Texas
The "James Dean of art" has his posthumous plans put on show in Dallas, including drafts for four unmade works

Kai-Uwe Gundlach's downtime downtown photos
After a shoot the advertising photographer drops his crew and opens up the aperture for long-exposure cityscapes

How Shiro Kuramata was inspired by Kubrick's 2001
The visionary designer loved the 1968 film A Space Odyssey, but thought he could improve on the furniture

The other side of Athens
Petros Koublis captures the silent countryside that surrounds the capital's "desperate cry"

Martin Sharp 1942 - 2013
The Australian artist and graphic designer, best known for his psychedelic Oz magazine covers, has died

Herzog & de Meuron's artistic Indian debut
Do these designs for the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art remind you a little of Denys Lasdun's Southbank Centre?

Andy Warhol's Christmas sale
Christie's has assembled a Christmas-themed auction as part of its ongoing Warhol sales series

What to expect from Art Basel Miami Beach
A varied, international crowd, and a new limited-edition section come to the US's biggest contemporary art fair

Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Salt Water Taffy
Our critically acclaimed and mellifluously-voiced author returns with another captivating story from his new book

Nike goes high-tech for Brazil's 2014 kit
The sportswear firm combines engineered fabrics with laser-cut holes for an easy breezy strip

Art City of the Future Johannesburg's avant-garde
Expect surreal disco and post-apartheid moodiness from a city that “does not tolerate indifference well”

Browsing the Munich art haul
219 works from Cornelius Gurlitt's collection are posted online including pieces by Picasso, Matisse and Dürer

How clothing can promote group harmony
From the Amish to New Romantics - Anatomy of Fashion author Colin McDowell on the inclusive effect of fashion

Crowd-funding brings the skyscraper back to Bogotá
66-storey BD Bagata tower by Alonso-Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados will be tallest building in Colombia

Laura Plageman's hand-folded photography
The Californian photographer bends, creases and screws up her images, even if she likes them

Peter Saville destroys Lacoste’s croc
How the graphic designer 'digitally shattered' the French sportswear logo

Contrast and continuity in Chinese art
By pairing works from different ages, the Chinese Art Book explores both shifts and stability within the nation

Studio Fuksas reworks Shenzhen Bao'an Airport
Italian architects take inspiration from manta ray for stunning new Terminal 3 building

Tadao Cern's Comfort Zone
The Lithuanian architect switched to a life as a photographer and shot this great beach series

René Redzepi on ten years of Noma
The Work In Progress chef says he's about to begin "a whole new journey"

Chris Johanson and co. go to Silicon Valley
SFMOMA's Project Los Altos brings some of the best contemporary artists into the home of the tech boom

The science and serenity of CERN
The industrial photographer Alastair Philip Wiper shoots the colourful and beautifully ordered in Geneva

Come and meet NADA, Artsy and us at Miami Beach
Phaidon is partnering with the New Art Dealers Alliance to celebrate and showcase Art Cities of the Future

How a corporate commission transfixed New Yorkers
AXA Equitable Building works by Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein and Scott Burton became a defining gift to the city

Art As Therapy proves (very) popular
Alain de Botton's guide to the therapeutic quality of art has had a great press reaction. We'd like to share some of it

Green, extreme-sports park drafted for Las Vegas
The Vegas Extreme resort aims to grow its own food and generate 85% of its energy from renewable sources

Kanye thinks everything needs to be ‘architected’
The rap star tells Harvard Graduate School of Design students that Peter Saville "wants me to do a YSL”

70-year-old shack is turned into a mirrored artwork
The Lucid Stead in Joshua Tree is about "light and shadow, reflected light, projected light and change"

Michel Campeau captures demise of the dark room
Canadian photographer immortalises darkrooms as monuments to the lost art of silver-based photography

Adam Szymczyk named director of Documenta 14
The Polish-born Phaidon author and Chief Curator of the Kunsthalle Basel will oversee the event in 2017

Inside the African avant-garde
Our new book Art Cities of the Future examines the scene in West Africa's largest conurbation

Joel Meyerowitz goes big on Cézanne
The photographer's massive 2m x 2.40m print of Cézanne's objects proves a hit at Paris Photo

Thea and Ethan on collecting art for money
Art advisors Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner on putting together a collection that's really rewarding

New York's High Line enters third and final phase
City’s defunct freight train yards will play home to The Spur, a forested amphitheatre

René Redzepi on creativity, fear and reaching the top
The Noma chef is surprised to have become a star but says he isn't wasting time thinking about his legacy

Seymour Powell gives economy class a wider berth
Airline seating that gets wider at the touch of a button (and your credit card pin)

New York street photography laid bare in new doc
Elliot Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark and Joel Meyerowitz describe their craft and the city it came from in Everybody Street

Fine art photography meets spot the difference
Philadelphia-based Keith Sharp re-interprets Monet's Series paintings with a set of photographic variations

Cycle design celebrated in Israel
The Free Wheel exhibition at Design Museum Holon revels in two-wheeled transport

Eliasson and Obrist: now available as cheese
Microorganisms recovered from these two artworld luminaries have been cultured into a cheese

Get up close to The Colours of the Earth
Bernhard Edmaier may be best known for his aerial photography but take a look at these amazing close ups

Coi's Daniel Patterson talks art and food
"Once chefs start to think of themselves as artists, it sets them in a wrong direction," he tells The Vancouver Sun

Zhang Xiaogang's uncertain future
Another pertinent pairing from The Chinese Art Book sees Mao era uncertainty pitched against the serene buddha

David Anfam talks site-specific art in USA Today
Our venerable editor-at-large selects his favourite site-specific artworks, each worthy of a road trip

Claim and counter claims in Kunsthal theft
Court hears accusations of fakery, an insurance fraud, and an inside accomplice from Romanian gang leader

Do Suh Ho creates life-sized models of his homes
Artist's 1:1 polyester models inaugurate Seoul's new National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Any of your pictures in this artist's works?
Penelope Umbrico gathers together thousands of similar images from photo-sharing sites and elsewhere

US history, set into stone
Arizona's petroglyphs at Canyon de Chelly depict life before Europeans arrived, and after

Charlotte Colbert's surreal housewife shots
A Day At Home captures the cloistered, psychically fraught world of the modern kept woman

The ties that bound Carlo Scarpa and Paul Klee
Robert McCarter's new book on the mid-century modernist architect points out some fascinating similarities

Mike Winkelmann's Transparent Machines
Does this short video signal a new area of artistic political protest?

Ahn Jun pushes self portraiture to the edge
Korean photographer says vertiginous shots speak to the future of our cities - if you're acrophobic look away now

Explaining Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Art & Place, our new book on site-specific art, examines this seminal 1970 land-art work

Stephen Shore signing in London this Friday
The pioneering photographer launches his debut iBook and presents his two-volume Book of Books collection

Introducing Coi Stories and Recipes
How one very literate San Francisco chef called Daniel Patterson has created an entirely new type of cookery book

David Chipperfield stirs up London’s Canada Water
"Lifeless, out-of-town, retail-park look" to be reinvigorated with The Shard developers

Take a look at Sir Paul Smith's photographs
A glimpse into the shadowy world of the legendary British fashion designer

Some site-specific praise for Art & Place
Our guide to site-specific art in the Americas wins plaudits across the globe

Bogotá's botanical avant-garde
Our new book uncovers the natural side of one of Latin America's liveliest art scenes

Malmo's melted shopping mall
Emporia by Sweden's Wingårdh Arkitektkontor lures in shoppers with its magma-like entrance

Colette Fu's photo sculpture pop-ups
The Chinese-American photographer brings the bustle of the Yunnan province to life on the page

René Redzepi lights up London and New York
The Noma chef talks through his childhood in London, meets Alice Waters and signs books at Club Monaco

A defence of censorship by Alain de Botton
In Art as Therapy, Alain de Botton and John Armstrong set out some moments when censorship is justified

BIG magics a ski slope from a working power plant
Architect Bjarke Ingels calls new plant an example of BIG's desire for 'Hedonistic Sustainability'

Rio's Olympic Games pictograms are a winner
These designs were inspired by the official Rio 2016 logo developed by UK/Brazil firm Dalton Maag

Lucky Peach's Peter Meehan on Coi
The great US writer and Lucky Peach editor says he "couldn't be more excited to have this book to spend time with"

Thea and Ethan on collecting art for love
Art advisors Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner tell you how to collect art for the best possible reason

A flat-pack solution to disaster relief
Pieter Stoutjesdijk's ECOnnect venture hopes to plug housing crisis with interlocking chipboard

Some Wine Bar Theory from David Gilbertson
The business guru explains (among other things) why the boss needs to know what the doorman thinks

Thomas Albdorf on keeping still life alive
The Austrian photographer and critic defends the photographic one-liner and says it's here to stay
