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"
![Ai Weiwei and his son, 2013. Courtesy of the artist's Instagram](/resource/aiandson.jpg)
Grimshaw and Samoo create eco experience in Korea
Visitors will be able to wander from tropical rainforest, through cloud forest and into the Antarctic
![Ecorium, The National Ecology Centre, Seocheon - Grimshaw in collaboration with Samoo](/resource/ecoriumsamoo.jpg)
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"
![Erika Verzutti with her work Balls (2010)](/resource/montagem-erika-verzutti.jpg)
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"
![The Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum, Texas](/resource/renzopianopavilionlead.jpg)
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
![Allow Alain to guide you towards a therapeutic use for art](/resource/de-botton-lead.jpg)
Robert Smithson in Texas
The "James Dean of art" has his posthumous plans put on show in Dallas, including drafts for four unmade works
![Robert Smithson at the Northwood Institute, 1970. Photograph by Robert Wade](/resource/dma-robert-smithson-drawing-at-northwood-institute-630x536.jpg)
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
![Hong Kong by Kai-Uwe Gundlach](/resource/insetone-kai-uwe-gundlach-hong-kong-06.jpg)
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
![Shiro Kuramata's Glass Chair (1976)](/resource/glass-chair1.jpg)
The other side of Athens
Petros Koublis captures the silent countryside that surrounds the capital's "desperate cry"
![Somnolent - beyond the brittle town asleep, December 2012, by Petros Koublis, from In Landscapes](/resource/2petroskoublis-somnolent-beyondthebrittletownsasleepdecember2012.jpg)
Martin Sharp 1942 - 2013
The Australian artist and graphic designer, best known for his psychedelic Oz magazine covers, has died
![Oz covers and spread, from our Graphic Design Archive](/resource/martinsharplead.jpg)
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?
![The Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMoMA)](/resource/kmomalead.jpg)
Andy Warhol's Christmas sale
Christie's has assembled a Christmas-themed auction as part of its ongoing Warhol sales series
![Christmas tree (c. 1956) by Andy Warhol](/resource/christmasleadwarhol.jpg)
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
![Places of Power, Waterfall (2013) by Marina Abramović, courtesy of Luciana Brito Galeria](/resource/luciana-brito-galeria-620x465.jpg)
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
![Colman Andrews](/resource/tasteoa-p229.jpg)
Nike goes high-tech for Brazil's 2014 kit
The sportswear firm combines engineered fabrics with laser-cut holes for an easy breezy strip
![Luiz Gustav models Nike's new Brazil kit](/resource/brazil-2014-world-cup-home-kit-3-620x413.jpg)
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”
![Grass green/sky blue (because you stood in the highest court in the land and insisted on your humanity) (2008) by Dineo Seshee Bopape](/resource/din-bopape-grass-greensky-blue-2008-klein3-626x470-620x465.jpg)
Browsing the Munich art haul
219 works from Cornelius Gurlitt's collection are posted online including pieces by Picasso, Matisse and Dürer
![Detail from Knight with Devil (1513) by Albrecht Dürer. Image courtesy of lostart.de](/resource/duruer-620x399.jpg)
How clothing can promote group harmony
From the Amish to New Romantics - Anatomy of Fashion author Colin McDowell on the inclusive effect of fashion
![Amish women, Pennsylvania, USA, 1985](/resource/anatomy-p180.jpg)
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
![The 66-storey tall BD Bagata in Bogota by Alonso-Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados](/resource/4546-03-aa-bdbacata.jpg)
Laura Plageman's hand-folded photography
The Californian photographer bends, creases and screws up her images, even if she likes them
![Response to print of trumpet vine, Hawaii (2011) by Laura Plageman](/resource/laura-plageman-response-to-print-of-trumpet-vine-hawaii-2011-620x496.jpg)
Peter Saville destroys Lacoste’s croc
How the graphic designer 'digitally shattered' the French sportswear logo
![Peter Saville's reworkings of the Lacoste crocodile logo](/resource/biglogo-620x319.jpg)
Contrast and continuity in Chinese art
By pairing works from different ages, the Chinese Art Book explores both shifts and stability within the nation
![Zhu Zhanji's Two Saluki Hounds (1427)](/resource/chineseartbookalukis.jpg)
Studio Fuksas reworks Shenzhen Bao'an Airport
Italian architects take inspiration from manta ray for stunning new Terminal 3 building
![Shenzhen Bao'an Airport's new Terminal 3 by Studio Fuksas](/resource/leadshenzhenterminal3studiofuksas.jpg)
Tadao Cern's Comfort Zone
The Lithuanian architect switched to a life as a photographer and shot this great beach series
![From Tadao Cern's Comfort Zone series](/resource/tadaocern-comfort-zone-010.jpg)
René Redzepi on ten years of Noma
The Work In Progress chef says he's about to begin "a whole new journey"
![Oh, René, you are terrible. Redzepi finds new 'ingredients' on the Australian leg of his global book tour](/resource/redzepilead.jpg)
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
![Still from A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought Alone: Silicon Valley Project (2013) by Mike Mills](/resource/losaltos-mills-2.jpg)
The science and serenity of CERN
The industrial photographer Alastair Philip Wiper shoots the colourful and beautifully ordered in Geneva
![From Alastair Philip Wiper's latest CERN series](/resource/leadreturn-to-cern-c-alastair-philip-wiper-20.jpg)
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
![Chemi Rosado-Seijo, El Cerro Project, 2002-present, Naranjito, Puerto Rico, as featured in Phaidon's Art Cities of the Future: 21st-Century Avant-Gardes](/resource/chemi.jpg)
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
![Sol LeWitt - Bands of Lines In Four Colors and Four Directions, Separated by Gray Bands 1985](/resource/sollewitt-dragged-1.jpg)
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
![Alain de Botton, co-author of Art as Therapy](/resource/vincent-starr-620bw.jpg)
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
![Vegas Extreme by M-Rad](/resource/lvextremelead.jpg)
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”
![Kanye West at Harvard](/resource/kanije-harvard.jpg)
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"
![The Lucid Stead by Phillip K Smith III. Photograph by Steve King](/resource/steveking-lucidstead-leadii.jpg)
Michel Campeau captures demise of the dark room
Canadian photographer immortalises darkrooms as monuments to the lost art of silver-based photography
![A dark room in Niamey, Niger, from Michel Campeau's The Demise of the Dark Room series](/resource/michaelcampeauniameynigerlead.jpg)
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
![Adam Szymczyk](/resource/adam-szymczyk-lead.jpg)
Inside the African avant-garde
Our new book Art Cities of the Future examines the scene in West Africa's largest conurbation
![Agbo Rago (2009) by Jelili Atiku](/resource/agborago.jpg)
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
![Joel's Big Cézanne at Howard Greenberg Gallery's stand, Paris Photo. Image courtesy of Joel and Maggie's blog.](/resource/l1002767-620x415.jpg)
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
![Thea and Ethan addressing young collectors at Sotheby's earlier this year](/resource/theaandethanatsotheys.jpg)
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
![The Spur, The High Line at the Railyards](/resource/by4i73gceaay-tz-jpg-large.jpg)
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
![René Redzepi](/resource/decade-img-7885.jpg)
Seymour Powell gives economy class a wider berth
Airline seating that gets wider at the touch of a button (and your credit card pin)
![Morph - Seymour Powell](/resource/morph-2.jpg)
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
![New York City, 1946 by Elliott Erwitt](/resource/erwitteverybodystreet.jpg)
Fine art photography meets spot the difference
Philadelphia-based Keith Sharp re-interprets Monet's Series paintings with a set of photographic variations
![Mounds (2010) from Keith Sharp's Variations](/resource/keith-sharp-variations-mounds-2010-620x412.jpg)
Cycle design celebrated in Israel
The Free Wheel exhibition at Design Museum Holon revels in two-wheeled transport
![Pocket Bici by T&C](/resource/foldedpocketbicitandc-620x400.jpg)
Eliasson and Obrist: now available as cheese
Microorganisms recovered from these two artworld luminaries have been cultured into a cheese
![](/resource/selfmade-photo-3.jpg)
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
![Arzo Breccia, Ticino, Switzerland - Bernhard Edmaier](/resource/earthart-p124.jpg)
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
![Daniel Patterson says consistency is the key to his success at Coi](/resource/coipatterson.jpg)
Zhang Xiaogang's uncertain future
Another pertinent pairing from The Chinese Art Book sees Mao era uncertainty pitched against the serene buddha
![Zhang Xiaogang Bloodline: Big Family 1993](/resource/p6575-0118.jpg)
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
![Dr David Anfam addressing guests at Sotheby's in London, 2012](/resource/anfamsothebsy.jpg)
Claim and counter claims in Kunsthal theft
Court hears accusations of fakery, an insurance fraud, and an inside accomplice from Romanian gang leader
![The Kunsthal crime scene, October 2012](/resource/picasstheftpolic.jpg)
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
![Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home by Do Ho Suh](/resource/homewithinhomelead.jpg)
Any of your pictures in this artist's works?
Penelope Umbrico gathers together thousands of similar images from photo-sharing sites and elsewhere
![Suns (from Sunsets) from Flickr, by Penelope Umbrico](/resource/sunsfrom-sunsetsfromflickr.jpg)
US history, set into stone
Arizona's petroglyphs at Canyon de Chelly depict life before Europeans arrived, and after
![Petroglyphs at Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, from Art & Place](/resource/canyonarizonaartplace.jpg)
Charlotte Colbert's surreal housewife shots
A Day At Home captures the cloistered, psychically fraught world of the modern kept woman
![From A Day At Home by Charlotte Colbert](/resource/eda9fa07bc6e54f2b03d3cfb7c6c1843-0.jpg)
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
![Geoffnet (Opened) 1933 - Paul Klee](/resource/p4800-0118.jpg)
Mike Winkelmann's Transparent Machines
Does this short video signal a new area of artistic political protest?
![A still from Transparent Machines by Mike Winkelmann](/resource/transparentmachinestwo.jpg)
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
![Self portrait (2011) by Ahn Jun](/resource/ahnjunlead.jpg)
Explaining Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Art & Place, our new book on site-specific art, examines this seminal 1970 land-art work
![](/resource/cvr-spiral-jetty.jpg)
Stephen Shore signing in London this Friday
The pioneering photographer launches his debut iBook and presents his two-volume Book of Books collection
![Stephen Shore, U.S. 97 (21 July, 1973), South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA. From Stephen Shore: A Road Trip Journal](/resource/stephen-shore-18.jpg)
Introducing Coi Stories and Recipes
How one very literate San Francisco chef called Daniel Patterson has created an entirely new type of cookery book
![Coi: Stories and Recpies by Daniel Patterson](/resource/coibooklead.jpg)
David Chipperfield stirs up London’s Canada Water
"Lifeless, out-of-town, retail-park look" to be reinvigorated with The Shard developers
![David Chipperfield Architects](/resource/david-chipperfield-architects-canada-water-development-london-7.jpg)
Take a look at Sir Paul Smith's photographs
A glimpse into the shadowy world of the legendary British fashion designer
![Me by Paul Smith](/resource/meleadtakenbypaul.jpg)
Some site-specific praise for Art & Place
Our guide to site-specific art in the Americas wins plaudits across the globe
![Our new book, Art & Place Site-Specific Art of the Americas](/resource/artplace.jpg)
Bogotá's botanical avant-garde
Our new book uncovers the natural side of one of Latin America's liveliest art scenes
![In A Comatose State: Harvest (2007) Maria Elvira Escallón](/resource/cultivolead.jpg)
Malmo's melted shopping mall
Emporia by Sweden's Wingårdh Arkitektkontor lures in shoppers with its magma-like entrance
![Emporia by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor](/resource/emporalead.jpg)
Colette Fu's photo sculpture pop-ups
The Chinese-American photographer brings the bustle of the Yunnan province to life on the page
![A pop-up spread from Colette Fu's We are Tiger Dragon People](/resource/colettefudaifoodlead.jpg)
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
![René Redzepi at Club Monaco, New York](/resource/redzepitourreadingnyclead.jpg)
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
![Perfume Advertisement, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2011](/resource/channelmuseelead.jpg)
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'
![Amager Bakke Waste To Energy Plant - BIG Architects](/resource/bigskislope.jpg)
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
![Rio 2016's pictograms](/resource/olympicslead.jpg)
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"
![Coi by Daniel Patterson](/resource/coiflatlead.jpg)
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
![Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner](/resource/theaandethan.jpg)
A flat-pack solution to disaster relief
Pieter Stoutjesdijk's ECOnnect venture hopes to plug housing crisis with interlocking chipboard
![Econnect relief housing](/resource/econnectlead.jpg)
Some Wine Bar Theory from David Gilbertson
The business guru explains (among other things) why the boss needs to know what the doorman thinks
![One of Bill Butcher's illustrations for Wine Bar Theory](/resource/wine-bar-theory-dragged-1.jpg)
Thomas Albdorf on keeping still life alive
The Austrian photographer and critic defends the photographic one-liner and says it's here to stay
![From Still Life by Thomas Albdorf](/resource/thomas-albdorf-still-life-02.jpg)
The fashion of authority
Colin McDowell's book, The Anatomy of Fashion, looks at how figures of authority assert their power sartorially
![The Authority inclusion from The Anatomy of Fashion](/resource/stationmasterfullspreadlead-2.jpg)
Next Architects' Mobius-like Chinese bridge
The Dutch practice says its pedestrian bridge design draws upon decorative Chinese folk art
![NEXT Architects' Chinese bridge](/resource/mobiusbridge.jpg)
Art & Place in the Empire State
Join us in Manhattan's Empire State Building tomorrow night, to talk art, place and preservation
![](/resource/artandplaceandempirestate-3.jpg)
Bernhard Edmaier's search for white
The German landscape photographer has found the sum of all spectral colours surprisingly ellusive
![Gates Glacier, Alaska, USA by Bernhard Edmaier from EarthArt](/resource/gateglacieralaska.jpg)
Parr, Meyerowitz and Phaidon at Paris Photo
Hear Martin talk protests and photobooks, meet Joel, get your book signed, and more at this year's Paris Photo
![Toshiaki Kanayama Dotou/ Years of Violent Change (Scream of Outrage/ Years of Violent Change) Self Published, Tokyo, 1970 © Martin Parr collection](/resource/toshiakimartinparr.jpg)
Could you live in a moving city?
Manuel Dominguez at Madrid’s Superior Technical School of Architecture has a plan for job-starved areas
![The Very Large Structure - Manuel Dominguez](/resource/citywithlegs.jpg)
The World We Made is released as an iBook
Enter our competition to win a free download of Jonathon Porritt's new iBook
![](/resource/twwm-ibook-620.jpg)
Meet the Sochi Singers
Two Dutch image makers document the entertainment on offer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia
![Sochi Singers, from The Sochi Project - Copyright Rob Hornstra, courtesy Flatland Gallery NL/Paris](/resource/sochisingerslead.jpg)
PriestmanGoode designs a space capsule
Having worked on train, plane and boat interiors, the design studio turns its gaze to the heavens
![Priestmangoode's space capsule](/resource/capsule-spacelead.jpg)
René Redzepi and Alex Atala on the cover of Time
David Chang joins 'the dudes of food' on the cover of the influential news weekly
![](/resource/time-gods-of-food.jpg)
Thomas Heatherwick’s London Garden Bridge
The design star's bridge proposal is part of wider attempts to make London both greener and easier to navigate
![Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge renderings](/resource/gardenbridgeone.jpg)
Take a look at Stephen Shore's moving image iBook
Be the first to pre-order the great American photographer's debut digital video iBook, A New York Minute
![A screen grab from Stephen Shore's A New York Minute](/resource/stephenshorenewyorkminutelead.jpg)
Praise for Art Cities of the Future Goes Global
The press for our new survey of global avant-gardes has been as brilliant and varied as the cities we've covered
![Art Cities of the Future](/resource/artcitiesofthefuture.jpg)
What's going on in Bai Yiluo's calligraphy?
A witty fusion of media and materials creates a strong effect - but what is it made up of?
![Bai Yiluo Calligraphy Flies (2005)](/resource/baiyiluo.jpg)
Paul Cocksedge’s Living Staircase
The British designer plants around a staircase in Soho to fashion a creative spiral
![Paul Cockedge's living staircase](/resource/livingstaircaselarge.jpg)
The life and death of Agnes Thor
See how this young Swedish photographer tries to capture the transience of life in her images
![](/resource/agnesthorlifeanddeathlead.jpg)
Steve McCurry on the Afghan Girl, beauty and 9/11
The Magnum photographer describes his working practices and his view of the world in an Italian TV interview
![Steve McCurry on Rai 3's Che Tempo Che Fa last Saturday](/resource/mccurrylead.jpg)
Lady Gaga mimics Marina Abramović
The singer draws on Warhol, Koons, Botticelli et al to promote her new album
![From left: Marina Abramović, Portrait with Scorpion (Closed Eyes) (2005) and Lady Gaga’s Venus artwork (2013)](/resource/gagaabramovicscorpion.jpg)
From shorts to shaving - a secret history of leg fashion
Colin McDowell's Anatomy of Fashion offers thousands of insights into how we dress - here's a few of them
![](/resource/stockingsanatomyoffashionlea.jpg)
Will this vertical garden take root in Berlin?
Agnieszka Preibisz and Peter Sandhaus believe their Green8 scheme could transform the city's Alexanderplatz
![Agnieszka Preibisz and Peter Sandhaus' Green8 proposal](/resource/green8lead.jpg)
Carlo Scarpa praised by New York's Artists
Leading figures in the New York art world praise the architect's work, to mark the opening of Scarpa's Met show
![The Gipsoteca Canoviana (1955-57) by Carlo Scarpa](/resource/carloscarpalead.jpg)
Ben Marcin photographs the last house standing
German-born US-based photographer looks at single houses that hang on when the neighbours have gone
![Baltimore, MD. from Ben Marcin's series Last House Standing](/resource/benmarcinlead06.jpg)
High praise for The Chinese Art Book
The world's press seems to agree: The Chinese Art Book offers an unrivalled overview of one nation's art
![Sitting on the Wall: Haikou V (2001) by Weng Fen, from The Chinese Art Book](/resource/chineseartbookwengfen.jpg)
Art as Therapy extends to photography
Alain de Botton thinks painful photographs like Eve Arnold's below can be therapeutic
![Divorce in Moscow, 1966 by Eve Arnold](/resource/evearnolddivorceinmoscow.jpg)