Tomi Ungerer's Fog Island is one of The New York Times' Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2013
Tomi Ungerer's brilliant children's book just won a place in the newspaper's prestigious annual list
![from Tomi Ungerer's Fog Island](/resource/fogislandlead.jpg)
Tony Kaye on how he changed advertising
The greatest British ad director of recent times comes back to London to explain how he did it
![Acclaimed director Tony Kaye](/resource/tonykaye.jpg)
Sara Naim goes tree spotting in Dubai
The British-born photographer finds hardy specimens hanging on among the office blocks and sand dunes
![From Portraits of Natives by Sara Naim](/resource/saranaimlead.jpg)
Modernist masterworks recovered in Munich
1,500 works found in the Munich apartment of the son of Nazi-era Degenerate Art Exhibition co-curator
![Comedy (1921) by Paul Klee. Though this work is currently on show at Tate Modern, other works by the artist have been recovered from a stash hidden in a Bavarian flat](/resource/paulkleecomedy.jpg)
The science and beauty of Edmaier's Grand Canyon
EarthArt offers both a fine collection of aerial views and a wealth of geological insight into our planet's beauty
![The Grand Canyon from Bernhard Edmaier's EarthArt](/resource/grandcanyon.jpg)
What America’s banks did next
Michael Vahrenwald’s project, The People’s Trust, looks at how US bank buildings have been repurposed
![Untitled, Detroit, Il, 2012, by Michael Vahrenwald](/resource/leaduntitleddetroit12i.jpg)
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Mayhaw jelly
The celebrated food writer and Phaidon author Colman Andrews introduces us to "the cranberry of the South"
![Colman Andrews](/resource/colmanheadshot800-2.jpg)
The perfect imperfections life-sized doll furniture
When Slovakian design student Silva Lovasová scaled up toy lamps and chairs, she kept all the flaws in
![Silva Lovasová's 1:1 project. Photo by Peter Sit](/resource/silvalovasovatwo.jpg)
Sou Fujimoto’s secret Saudi tower
The Japanese architect’s master plan in Jeddah is both ‘confidential’ and practically transparent
![Sou Fujimotot's Outlook Tower](/resource/sou-fujimoto-tower-lead-jpg.jpg)
Banksy’s NYC residency is over
The British graffiti artist signs off his month-long residency in New York with a plea to save outdoor art
![Banksy's balloon lettering, his final New York piece](/resource/banksyballoontext.jpg)
Herzog and de Meuron strips back Park Ave. Armory
Why the Pritzker Prize laureate has taken away all the more recent additions from this New York Institution
![Herzog and de Meuron's reinvention of the Park Avenue Armory](/resource/parkavearmoryhd-lead.jpg)
Why Delhi is an Art City of The Future
Solid institutions? Global connections? What does a city need for its artists to make art as good as this?
![Someone Left a Horse on the Shore (2007) by Gigi Scaria](/resource/gigihorse.jpg)
What is real and what is fake in this model town?
Photographer and model maker Michael Paul Smith has been photographing his own town for the last 25 years
![Double Coupon Day at the A and P by Michael Paul Smith](/resource/lead-michael-paul-smith-06-double-coupon-day-at-the-aandp.jpg)
Colin McDowell on how punk was defeated
Our author charts ripped clothing and safety pins from early modern mercenaries to Elizabeth Hurley
![From left: early modern Landsknechte; Richard Hell on the cover of Blank Generation, 1977; Elizabeth Hurley's 1994 safety pin dress, by Gianni Versace](/resource/punkead.jpg)
Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, now in Lego
Lego's architecture range now includes the pair's great collaboration, New York's United Nations Building
![Lego's new UN Headquarters kit](/resource/legoleadun.jpg)
Geeta Kapur's art of Indian citizenship
The world-renowned Indian curator and Phaidon author tackles statehood in the second of her five exhibitions
![Geeta, Bikaner from Notes from the Desert 1999 - 2010, by Gauri Gill](/resource/gauri-gill-geeta-bikaner-copy1.jpg)
Alain de Botton on Banksy and buying art
The public intellectual and Phaidon author believes galleries should help their clients to lead better lives
![I can't believe you morons actually buy this shit (2013) by Banksy](/resource/banksymorons620.jpg)
Does this wrecked liner remind you of Fellini too?
Gigi Cifali's surreal photographs of the Costa Concordia revel in the wreck's dark absurdity
![The Costa Concordia, from End of a Dream by Gigi Cifali](/resource/cigi-cifali-end-of-a-dream-thislead.jpg)
René Redzepi talks trash, brains and ants in London
Next month, hear the world-famous chef describe the year he tried to make Noma "a happier place to be in"
![René Redzepi, founder and head chef at Noma](/resource/noma-san-pellegrino.jpg)
Wallis, Gilbert's concrete makes a comeback
One of the British practice's earliest creations is reborn as a modern, concrete-loving, mixed use hub
![Promotional material for EMI's Hayes plant, now reborn as the Old Vinyl Factory](/resource/leadvinyl-factory.jpg)
Stephen Shore shares his Lou Reed pictures
Following the singer's passing, Shore posted one of his Factory shots, featuring a young, vulnerable Reed
![Stephen Shore's Facebook shares, earlier today](/resource/reedshoreshare.jpg)
Hear Brice Marden at NY Public Library next week
The celebrated American artist talks with Phaidon's Dr David Anfam and Phaidon Focus author Eileen Costello
![Grove Group III (1973) by Brice Marden](/resource/brice-marden-grove-group-iii-1973.jpg)
Marc Wilson's accidental war memorials
The British photographer captures Europe's WWII battlements as they disappear into the coastline
![Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 2012, from The Last Stand by Marc Wilson](/resource/lead-newburgh-i-aberdeenshire-scotland-2012.jpg)
When Diego Rivera turned propaganda into art
Upon the publication of Art and Place, we take a look at Rivera's murals at the Universidad Autonoma de Chapingo
![Murals in the former chapel at the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura, 1925 - 27, by Diego Rivera](/resource/diegchapingolead.jpg)
A great body of praise for The Anatomy of Fashion
Colin McDowell's magisterial overview of clothes, anatomy and culture meets with universal praise worldwide
![1947 tennis outfit, photographed by Toni Frissell](/resource/tennisoutfit-lead.jpg)
Arthur C Danto 1924 - 2013
The critic and Warhol advocate, who popularised the term 'the artworld' has died
![Arthur C Danto](/resource/arthur-c-danto-como-agudo-transformador.jpg)
Whose hometown is this?
John Maclean photographs the hometowns of his artistic heroes, adding a little of their style into his shots
![Oklahoma City, Ed Ruscha's hometown, by John MacLean](/resource/leadruschahometown.jpg)
Tubular hotel opens in the Russian Caucasus
LEAPrus 3912 by Italian architects LEAPfactory is built on the side of a dormant volcano
![LEAPrus 3912 - LEAPfactory](/resource/leaprus-3912-by-leapfactory.jpg)
Olafur Eliasson wins MIT Award
The Danish-Icelandic artist will receive the $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award
![Artist and Akademie X contributor Olafur Eliasson](/resource/olafureiasoniii.jpg)
The extreme performance art of He Yunchang
Physical endurance, self mutilation and the removal of a rib - The Chinese Art Book has the story
![Dialogue with Water (1999) - He Yunchang](/resource/dialoguewithwater.jpg)
If the cap fits . . . wear it!
The Anatomy of Fashion author Colin McDowell talks us through the historical importance of the hat
![President Obama -](/resource/obamahat.jpg)
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Sparkling Cider
In the latest reading from his wonderful new book The Taste of America, celebrated food writer Colman Andrews spins a fascinating story about one of our favourite fizzy drinks
![Colman Andrews and friends](/resource/colmanandrewsandfriends.jpg)
New York approves bean-pole slim addition by SHoP
410 metres tall but only 13 metres wide - New York's new addition will offer sweeping views over Central Park
![111 West 57th Street - SHoP Architects](/resource/111west57thstreet.jpg)
First photorealism retrospective comes to the UK
The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery brings together the poppy pictures that look like photographs
![America's Favourite (1989) by Ralph Goings](/resource/photorealism-ralph-goings-americas-favourite-1989-5776683.jpg)
The New York Times is at Home with Wild Art
US paper of record features our book in today's Home & Garden section and delights in the wild architecture
![The Nautilus, a work from 2007 by Javier Senosiain](/resource/wildartscreenshot.jpg)
Why Steve Jobs tried to join Norman Foster’s team
In a new planning application video, the British architect describes the late Apple CEO's commissioning style
![The new Apple Campus design, by Foster and Partners](/resource/apple-foster-opener-jpg-620x260.jpg)
Where Phaidon figures in ArtReview’s Power 100
Our artists, authors and advisers feature highly in the art magazine’s list of contemporary art’s big players
![Super curator and Phaidon contributor Hans-Ulrich Obrist, 5 in the ArtReview Power 100](/resource/obrist.jpg)
Listen to Robert Capa speak
To commemorate the centenary of the Magnum founder's birth, the ICP unearths his only radio interview
![Robert Capa](/resource/robertcapamat.jpg)
Mexican architect rethinks the Egyptian pyramids
Juan Carlos Ramos adds windows, a garage, bedrooms and balconies to an ancient architectural form
![Pyramid House - Juan Carlos Ramos](/resource/pyramid-house-03.jpg)
Air France's flying cutlery
Eugeni Quitllet playfully redesigns the French flag carrier's knives, forks and dishes
![Eugeni Quitllet's new cutlery for Air France](/resource/airfrancelead.jpg)
How Rothko mocked up his Houston chapel in NY
Art & Place reveals how the artist scaled an interior world of private spirituality designed to engulf the viewer
![Rothko Chapel Murals from Art & Place](/resource/art-and-place-pdf-updated-dragged-1.jpg)
How the Kent State shootings inspired Richard Prince
In a new essay the artist describes how he was arrested for lowering his college flag to half-mast
![Richard Prince's Protest Paintings, at London's Skarstedt gallery until 20th December](/resource/protest-paintings-2013-010.jpg)
Mingei: Are You Here? updates Japanese tradition
Folk art movement Mingei finds favour with contemporary artists courtesy of curator Nicolas Trembley
![Sgrafo Modern, 33 Vases. Korallen Series (design by Peter Muller) ca.1960-1980. Porcelains.](/resource/l01122.jpg)
Climate change chief reduced to tears
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres obviously needs to read Jonathon Porritt's The World We Made
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Josef Koudelka shows Prague '68 shots in Bucharest
The Magnum photographer who captured the Prague Spring praises Romania, as his show opens in its capital
![Prague, August 1968 by Josef Koudelka](/resource/koudelka-prague.jpg)
Introducing The Anatomy of Fashion
Author Colin McDowell MBE introduces an engaging book that delights in defining why we dress as we do
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How Rauschenberg's photos structured his art
A new Manhattan show looks at how photography fitted into the late American artist's practice
![Untitled (self-portrait, Black Mountain) (1952) by Robert Rauschenberg](/resource/fig-3.jpg)
Could this Manet painting relight your fire?
Alain de Botton thinks so and has an interesting theory about how to make love last in his new book Art as Therapy
![Édouard Manet Bunch of Asparagus 1880](/resource/manetasparaus.jpg)
Judd, Serra and co help you unpick Art & Place
Can these excerpted writings by prominent artists aid our understanding of Site-Specific Art? We think so
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Chris Burden's guide to buying meteorites on Ebay
On the opening of his New York retrospective, the artist offered some choice insights into his work
![Porch and Meteorite (2013) by Chris Burden](/resource/chris-burdenporcehandmeteoritelead.jpg)
Shigeru Ban's paper-tube tree house
The Japanese architect brings his "evolved wood" architecture to a suitably arboreal setting
![Yakushima Takatsuka Lodge by Shigeru Ban Architects](/resource/y1.jpg)
Chris Johanson makes a folk art exhibition
The Californian artist curates a Craft and Folk Art Museum show that champions “the positive ritual of artmaking”
![untitled, (2013) by Alicia McCarthy](/resource/aliciamccarthyuntitled.jpg)
Do Ho Suh's Specimen Series
Korean artist's latest project focusses on elements of his Manhattan apartment
![Specimen Series - Do Ho Suh pic courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery](/resource/dohosuh-specimenseries-1.jpg)
Why did these R'n'B videographers win an art prize?
Niko the Ikon picked up one of the inaugural Re Rebaudengo Serpentine Grants for young artists this week
![Niko the Ikon](/resource/nikodaikonversace.jpg)
Mumbai artists get a new concrete base
Sanjay Puri Architects create fittingly sculptural bulbous structure in concrete for Bombay Art Society
![Bombay Art Society - Sanjay Puri](/resource/bombay-art-society-sanjay-puri-01.jpg)
Carlo Scarpa by Louis Kahn
The last thing Louis Kahn wrote before his death was a poem to his friend Carlo Scarpa - this is what he wrote
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The World Loves The World We Made
Jonathon Porritt's positive take on the future of our planet finds an approving audience across the globe
![The World We Made author - Jonathon Porritt](/resource/porrittnew.jpg)
OMA splinter group's mega-estate in Singapore
Does this blocky design remind you of Northern European social-housing estates? Or Jenga blocks?
![The Interlace by Ole Scheeren © OMA](/resource/interlacelead.jpg)
My friend Alex Atala by Alain Ducasse
"Alex’s understanding of ingredients borders on fervent passion. Going to a market with him is like diving into the very depths of the Brazilian land!" he says about the chef and author of D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients
![Alex Atala and Alain Ducasse](/resource/alex-atala-f-004.jpg)
Elderfield and Zilczer on Gagosian’s de Kooning show
MoMA’s Chief Curator Emeritus and the noted art historian discuss this key reappraisal of his 1980s works
![Willem de Kooning in his studio, Springs, Long Island, late October 1983. © 2013 Arnold Newman Artwork © 2013 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Arnold Newman/Getty Images](/resource/arnoldnewmanwillemdekooning1983-620.jpg)
Surrealism's American perspective
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Surrealists exhibition looks at its European origins as well as its US impact
![Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936, Salvador Dalí, Spanish, 1904‑1989, Oil on canvas, 39 5/16 x 39 3/8 inches (99.9 x 100 cm), Philadelphia Museum of Art, © Salvador Dali, Gala‑Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York](/resource/softconstructionboildbeans.jpg)
The Bauhaus: now offering sleepovers
Bunk down where the design school's greats once slept. Prices include communal showers and shared restrooms
![The Bauhaus Studio building](/resource/bauhausprellerhauslead.jpg)
Come to our Wild Art launch
Head east tonight to celebrate works of art that thrive outside the gallery space
![Emily Duffy's Mondrian Mobile, from Wild Art](/resource/060mndrian.jpg)
What the world's press are saying about Frieze
As London's international art fair opens for previews in Regent's Park today, we round up global opinions
![Mnuchin Gallery's stand (B6) at Frieze Masters, featuring a late Willem de Kooning painting](/resource/friezedekooning.jpg)
Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson remodel the Leica
The Apple design chief and the Aussie design star remake the M model for Bono's RED charity auction
![Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson's Leica](/resource/leicalead.jpg)
Shanghai developers plan to rebuild Crystal Palace
ZhongRong Group say the Victorian building's "ingenuity and scale is magnificent" and want to bring it back to life
![Crystal Palace - ZhongRong Group](/resource/crystalpalace2.jpg)
The Chinese conference centre that thinks it's a city
Coop Himmelb(l)au say the rooms in their new Dalian Conference Centre have 'identifiable addresses'
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Alex Atala helps São Paulo's kids get into the kitchen
The world-class chef and author outlines his take on cooking and ecology and raises cash for a local non-profit
![Alex Atala (left) with Gastromotiva's David Hertz](/resource/davidhertzalexatala.jpg)
Hirst remakes the Pharmacy as a desert juice bar
The Prada Oasis and Damien Hirst's Pharmacy Juice Bar pitched up north of Doha as part of his Qatar show
![Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy Juice Bar](/resource/hirstoasispharmacylead.jpg)
How much would you pay for a Hadid dolls' house?
Bidding is up to £9,000 for Hadid's model, as big-name architects build tiny houses to benefit a children's charity
![Zaha Hadid's dolls' house](/resource/hadiddollshouse.jpg)
How Picasso and co. weaved carpets into their work
The show at Paris' Musée d'Art moderne looks at the reintroduction of decorative arts into a fine-art setting
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New York loves Mike Kelley
The late artist's huge retrospective at MoMA PS1 receives glowing write-ups
![Animal Self and Friend of Animal (1987) by Mike Kelley](/resource/mikekelleyanimals.jpg)
Phaidon takes over Topshop in London and New York
Vera Wang, Iris Apfel, Stephen Jones and Dirk Standen head up our all star launches for The Fashion Book
![Kirk Standen, Iris Apfel, Vera Wang and host Simon Collins, Dean of Fashion at Parsons The New School for Design - Photo courtesy BFA](/resource/bfa-7347-860165.jpg)
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Cowpeas
Our critically acclaimed and mellifluously-voiced author returns with another enthralling story from his new book
![Cowpeas from The Taste of America - illustration by Joel Penckman](/resource/bestgo.jpg)
Bouroullecs reinvent the Stone Age with jewellery
Ronan and Erwan follow Ettore Sottsass, Konstantin Grcic and Naoto Fukasawa with Perles for Gallerie Kreo
![Perles - Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec](/resource/perles3.jpg)
Architects protest Zaha Hadid's Olympic stadium
Fou Sujimoto, Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma say the design will dwarf its surroundings
![Japan National Stadium - Zaha Hadid](/resource/aaaaaaaaa.jpg)
David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory: Cut smart
Smart businesses re-examine each element of what they do and ask whether the customer really needs it
![Bill Butcher's illustrations for Wine Bar Theory](/resource/cutsmartwinebartheoryone.jpg)
The World We Made on CBS This Morning
Jonathon Porritt tells morning show's three million viewers how we can create a truly sustainable world
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Designer joins forces with algorithm for new bridge
Arturo Tedeschi’s latest parametric design Cloudbridge spans two mountainsides
![Cloudbridge - Arturo Tedeschi](/resource/cloudbridge1.jpg)
Banksy speaks to the Village Voice
The graffiti artist talks Jackson Pollock and how “street art can feel like the marketing wing of an art career”
![Banksy's Crazy Horses piece, lower Manhattan, earlier this month](/resource/crazyhorselead.jpg)
All aboard the floating Dutch apartment block
Waterstudio's Citadel block consists of 60 stylish homes floating in six feet of water near Rotterdam
![Waterstudio's Citadel](/resource/citadelopener.jpg)
David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory: Keep asking
The more time you spend asking simple questions, the smarter those questions become, says our business author
![Bill Butcher's Wine Bar Theory illustrations, for David Gilbertson's book](/resource/winebardogcanoe620.jpg)
Tree house turned inside out by Kazakh designer
Aibek Almasov created this arboreal retreat for a businessman who prizes nature over privacy
![Aibek Almasov's Tree in a House](/resource/treeinahouseorisitabottle.jpg)
Street artists rework Spotify's New York office
Wild Art adorns the walls at Music streaming service's latest New York outpost
![Spotify New York](/resource/spotify2.jpg)
Daniel Patterson on how to run a creative kitchen
The Coi chef shares his managerial and culinary wisdom with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua
![Daniel Patterson says consistency is the key to his success at Coi](/resource/coipatterson.jpg)
How's Banksy's New York residency going?
Can the British graffiti artist overcome rival graffiti artists, flat batteries and opportunist thieves?
![Banky's latest work in his October self-described 'residency on the streets of New York'. Banksy.co.uk says this work is in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.](/resource/banksygreenpoint.jpg)
More Wine Bar Theory advice from David Gilbertson
Why a retrieved customer becomes an advocate, but an aggrieved one tells everyone not to deal with you
![Bill Butcher's illustrations for David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory tip no 26: Say Sorry](/resource/sorrycompositegilbertson.jpg)
Korea’s National Library gets an outpost by Samoo
When is a library not a library? Apparently when it's an E-brary’, a compound of ‘emotion’ and ‘library’
![National Library of Sejong City - SAMOO Architects & Engineers](/resource/national-library-of-sejong-city-00001.jpg)
Koons remodels Lady Gaga as Venus
The artist's cover for the singer's forthcoming album reflects his recent obsessions, as well as her star qualities
![Lady Gaga's Artpop cover by Jeff Koons](/resource/koosngagacover.jpg)
Incredible, edible cities anyone?
Why environmentalist and author Jonathon Porritt believes our cities might soon really sustain us
![Detroit reimagined as an urban farm by 2050, from The World We Made](/resource/urbanfarmingdetroit.jpg)
David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory
Want to shorten your working day? Of course you do, so read this piece of sound advice from our new book
![One of Bill Butcher's illustrations for Wine Bar Theory](/resource/wine-bar-theory-dragged-1.jpg)
James Cauty's 1:87-scale police state
JAMs and KLF pioneer creates "twisted model village experience" populated by 5000 policemen
![Image from The Aftermath Dislocation Principle by Jimmy Cauty](/resource/cautypolicelead.jpg)
Marc Newson reinvents the bed
Innovative, internationally renowned designer who admits to sleeping on a mattress on the floor until just a few years ago (because "buying a bed is such a cheesy experience") creates ultimate dream aid
![The Bumper Bed by Marc Newson, courtesy of Domeau & Pérès](/resource/bedleadmarcnewson.jpg)
Luc Tuymans offers insight at new Houston show
My portraits are “inert and silent” he says at Menil Collection opening of Nice. Luc Tuymans
![The Secretary of State (2005) by Luc Tuymans](/resource/tuymans-secretaryofstate.jpg)
Harry Potter star upstaged by Alex Atala's ants
"Are you open to dangerous dishes?" D.O.M chef asks BBC guests as he produces 'special Amazonian ingredient'
![Alex Atala on Saturday Morning Kitchen](/resource/saturdaykitchen-620.jpg)
Join Phaidon at Topshop London and NY this week
Come and say hello at the launch of our updated style bible The Fashion Book
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Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Pimento Cheese
It's the paté de fois gras, hummus and blue cheese dip of the American South - listen to Colman tell the story
![Colman Andrews and famous friend](/resource/colmanandferran.jpg)
Jeffrey Deitch in conversation with Wild Art authors
A new kind of art and a new kind of art audience debated hotly on The Brooklyn Rail website
![Jeffrey Deitch](/resource/deitch.jpg)
Meet Raymond Pettibon
The Californian artist will be meeting fans and signing books at David Zwirner New York on October 19
![No title (smack) (2013) by Raymond Pettibon](/resource/smakpettibon.jpg)