How Louis Vuitton and Hermès illustrator Natsko Seki helped create Architecture According to Pigeons
New York comes to London in new graphics show
Push pin graphic designers Glaser and Chwast have first show of work in the capital for 40 years at Kemistry
Chetwynd changes her name to Marvin Gaye
"Get with the groove and call me Marvin, man! And cheer up!" says the artist formerly known as Spartacus
Can you name these movie artists?
This year’s Deutsche Börse Prize winners put together this montage of Hollywood artists. Can you spot them all?
Norman Foster reworks Scotland Yard
Foster + Partners is shortlisted to oversee creation of Metropolitan Police Service’s new headquarters
John Pawson visits Zumthor's Bruder Klaus chapel
The great British minimalist admires the shape-shifting quality of Zumthor's 'landlocked lighthouse'
Lost van Gogh painting found in Norwegian attic
Van Gogh Museum's director Axel Rueger calls Sunset at Montmajour find a "unique experience"
Ferran Adrià unveils elBulli masterwork in New York
elBulli 2005-2011 includes every recipe created during the last seven years of the world's greatest restaurant
How Magritte made 'everyday objects shriek aloud'
A new MoMA retrospective focuses the Belgian surrealist's attempts to make common objects strangely unfamiliar
Look into the future at the Joburg Art Fair
Ross Douglas, founder of Africa's biggest art fair on why Joburg is firmly among the art cities of the future
Beijing's answer to Glastonbury and Coachella
MAD fashions a purpose built venue for Beijing's oldest music and arts festival
Carlo Scarpa's pioneering glassware at The Met
Italian architect's innovative glassware demonstrates how central local craftsmanship was to his work
First look at Brazil's Olympic stadium
London architects Weston Williamson liken their “massive feather-like structure" to a bird taking flight
Introducing The World We Made
Phaidon editor Ellen Christie previews our Jonathon Porritt title offering a bright, optimistic vision of sustainability
Guilty plea over forged Abstract Expressionists
Glafira Rosales pleads guilty to conspiracy to selling fake Pollocks and Rothkos in New York
Chris Burden's ship and towers rise over Manhattan
The New Museum retrospective might not open until Oct 2, but on the building's exterior, the show has begun
Canadian students redraw Sol LeWitt
Concordia University students remake wall drawings, under the guidance of former assistant, Anthony Sansotta
Donald Judd furniture now available
London's Conran Shop becomes first major retailer to sell furniture by the esteemed American artist
Wild Art and the enlightenment
Do you need to have a traditional knowledge of art history to enjoy customised cars, food art and ice sculpture? Of course not, argue David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro - but it might just increase your enjoyment if you do. . .
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Turducken
In the second reading from his wonderful new book The Taste of America, celebrated food writer Colman Andrews introduces us to the mythical creature Turducken - a dish that apparently dates back to Roman times
Name the 8 bit architect
Name these 10 architects to win a download of the magnificent Phaidon Architecture Travel Guide App
Amanda Levete puts on a show in Lisbon
UK architect adds a glimmer of light in the land of Pritzker Prize winners Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
Dieter Rams honoured at London Design Festival
The 81-year-old German designer accepted the Coutts Lifetime Achievement Medal last night in London
Come and see Magnus Nilsson speak this weekend
He's at two events at the Abergavenny Food Festival - one with our Where Chefs Eat author, Joe Warwick
The best place in the world to buy Phaidon books?
Zwolle's 15th century Dominican Broerenkerk, or Church of the Brothers, is reborn as a great new book store
Frost* stretch an 'o' for AIDS awareness
The Sydney design firm tease out the typography for their latest condom-use campaign
Alanis Morissette to star in Eileen Gray film
Forthcoming film portrays Le Corbusier as a malevolent rival to Gray
Mies van der Rohe plans found in MoMA archive
MoMA archive find leads Belgian architect Paul Robbrecht to build 'new' Mies masterpiece in Germany
Fashion's queer history comes out in New York
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk is on show now at Manhattan's Museum at FIT
Pipilotti Rist brings joy to Guangzhou
The Swiss artist's Gentle Wave in Your Eye Fluid exhibition has just opened in China's manufacturing heartland
Phaidon Atlas talks at designjunction
If you're interested in architecture and you're in London check out our two talks at designjunction this Thursday
Can you spot the stories behind these fictional foods?
Ever wondered what Dumbledore's sherbert lemons look like? Or Paddington Bear's marmalade sandwiches? The Taste of America illustrator Joël Penkman rustles up some fictional food inspired by much-loved books and movies
David Blandy turns tradition upside down
Artist's latest installation explores Britain's relationship with Japan via a traditional zen garden - and a space ship
VW unveils Pringle shaped carport
VW's new Ausfahrt centre allows you to test out your new car (without driving it into someone else's)
In conversation with Speck Lee Tailfeather
The Architecture According to Pigeons star on the Chrysler building, bird control spikes and human/avian relations
MoMA's female-focussed design show
Designing Modern Women, 1890-1990 explores how design was profoundly shaped by the creativity of women
The Istanbul Biennial takes shelter
Turkey's leading contemporary art event retreats on its public space programme, though its tone remains defiant
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron’s unbuilt villas
The Chinese artist and Swiss architects commissioned 100 villas - why weren’t they built?
William Kentridge to wow NY's opera and art crowds
The South African painter, film maker, actor and theatre director brings his multimedia work to NYC this month
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America
In the first of a new phaidon.com series the celebrated food writer reads an extract from his new book
The Manhattan meal that inspired Wild Art
Wild Art co-author David Carrier explains how he and Joachim Pissarro got the idea for their new book
Introducing Architecture According to Pigeons
Hélène Gallois Montbrun, senior editor of children's books, talks though the cultured kid's guide to architecture
A chat with Lisbon Triennale curator Beatrice Galilee
A sneak preview of tonight's talks at the MUDE Auditorium with the Lisbon Triennale curator and others
Is this the new Google logo?
The Google logo seems to have grown up (and been toned down) in the Chrome Beta for Android APK
Pentagram makes NYC maps for the iPhone age
The design firm's city identity joint venture, PentaCityGroup, has produced New York's new wayfinding system
Snøhetta's first UK building opens this month
Norwegian starchitects make UK debut with a Maggie's Centre in Aberdeen
Hirst and the Chapmans take on Stormtroopers
David Bailey, Antony Micallef and other creatives reinterpret the iconic Star Wars helmet
Tuymans and Dean at the London Art Book Fair
The capital's fifth annual art publishing event opens this week at the Whitechapel Gallery with a set of great talks
Frieze London brings new gallery surge
Fair coincides with a set of openings, including Victoria Miro's Mayfair space and Sotheby's private sales gallery
Ed Ruscha explains his love of Gas Stations
75-year-old artist describes why he chose to feature the quotidian landmarks in his first art book
Art study fever sweeps Chinese provinces
The lure of college entrance is enticing many Chinese youngsters to paint and sketch
Redzepi changed food, now he's changing coffee
Noma's René Redzepi explains how he's recreated the restaurant's coffee culture, at the Nordic Barista Cup
World of ice suspended above a Chinese quarry
Coop Himmelb(l)au's latest venture in China sees Wolf D Prix suspending Snow World between cliffs
Find Utopia with René Burri in Switzerland
The Swiss-born Magnum photographer is the subject of an artist-themed retrospective in Geneva
David Adjaye makes furniture debut with Knoll
The award-winning architect says the process forced him to rethink product design
Toyo Ito on how to fix Japan
The Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate looks beyond buildings to examine underlying social structures
Artists revisit Diego's Detroit Industry murals
Marking the 80th anniversary of Rivera's Detroit Industry murals MOCAD asks artists to depict the city's later years
Introducing D.O.M.
Phaidon editor Daniel Hurst previews our latest gastronomy book D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients - and talks about how the brilliant larger than life São Paulo chef Alex Atala is revolutionising Brazilian cooking
SOM’s Dubai bank boasts overhanging boardroom
Skidmore Owings and Merrill puts the boardroom on show in its “quiet sculptural form within Dubai’s skyline”
Steve McCurry on TV and in the gallery
The iconic Magnum photographer squeezes a peerless career into six minutes for the Californian news cycle
UNStudio creates big wheel with own social network
Nippon Moon, Dutch architecture practice's giant observation wheel in Japan, also features double decks
Neutra’s Boomerang Chair makes a comeback
Modernist architect's furniture (featured in The Design Book) receives worthy reissue courtesy of VS America
Richard Prince's protest art comes to London
The American artist shows his placard paintings together for the first time. What should we make of them?
Stephen Shore's personal philosophy
The American photographer looks back on a momentous career with Imagista's Heidi Hartwig and Lauren Festa
The sad story behind new paint and pixels artworks
How HO Siu Nam, South's Every Daily series became part of the grieving process for the loss of his father
Elliott Erwitt, male model
The photographer steps in front of the camera alongside fellow octogenarians to mark Cole Haan's 85th birthday
What to expect from Frieze Talks 2013
The London art fair's talks line-up looks great, and it's packed with Phaidon artists and authors
See Lisbon's incredible slot-together pavilion
Kairos Triennale pavilion eschews screws or glues and is formed instead by some rather clever concrete panels
Meet Steve McCurry at Peter Fetterman Gallery
Steve is the Mick Jagger of the photography world - Fetterman tells Phaidon on eve of his Santa Monica talk
Introducing Art & Place
Phaidon editor Rosie Pickles previews our forthcoming book on Site-Specific Art of the Americas
LA’s car museum shifts up a gear with redesign
Kohn Pedersen Fox works its magic over the facade of iconic 1960s Welton Becket building
Go to India with Martin Parr
British travel company, Cox & Kings, is offering a 10-day trip to northern India with the Magnum photographer
OMA to build Colombia's Brasilia
Koolhaas' practice will build largest institutional masterplan in Latin America since Niemeyer’s Brasilia
Transvestite Putin painter flees Russia
Konstantin Altunin, creator of the controversial painting of the Russian leader, is seeking asylum in France
Blood, guts and inspiration at MAD3
High profile speakers including René Redzepi, Alex Atala and Alain Ducasse stress the need to respect animals - and ourselves - in what we eat and how we consume at food symposium in Denmark
David Mellor's designer street
Iconic British designer has his street furniture showcased in mocked-up road
Stephanie Gonot's Fad Diets
Diet Coke and cigarettes diet (and others) visualised with a little help from LA-based photographer
Assistant to Jasper Johns charged with theft
The American artist's long-standing assistant has been charged with stealing 22 works, and selling them for $6.5m
Did Dieter Rams's T3 inspire this new radio?
The 55-year-old design inspired Jonathan Ive, and now may have given rise to a new Lexon radio by Philip Wong
Why is Damien Hirst sweet on Gonzalez-Torres?
The British artist shows his Visual Candy series alongside the late Cuban's equally sugary creations
Kusama's Infinity Nets open the new Victoria Miro
The 84-year-old Japanese artist's hallucinatory paintings inaugurate the gallery's new Mayfair space this October
Bouroullec brothers turn back the Tyde
Ronan and Erwan's height-adjustable work top for Vitra deserves standing ovation
Classic British cars parked on new stamps
London graphic design firm Why Not Associates tracks down Lotus, Rolls-Royce and MG owners for new set
New York duo designs African Summit Centre
Inner facade of husband and wife team WORKac's new building is clad in pale gold aluminium
Dancing on the ceiling
Daniel Schofield's Brogue Light for Deadgood plugs into English autumn winter style
Jim Golden's still lifes
Ex-New York ad guy moves to Oregon to create photos that capture essence not beauty (though we like them)
Photographing the model crime scene
Corinne May Botz spent six years in the Maryland State medical examiner’s office shooting 500 images
Time to upgrade your Oyster card
The Underground is redrawn for Designjunction’s Oyster card holders
New York's creative scene gets a $300 million 'shed'
Diller Scofidio + Renfro teams up with stage set designers extraordinaire Rockwell Group for Hudson Yards project
Akihiko Miyoshi's Abstract Photos
Artist, photographer and computer engineer plays with mirrors, paper and tape to give depth to 2D photographs
Singapore just got leafier
Architect WOHA creates sky gardens high above the metropolis in Park Royal Hotel
Mies van der Rohe collages go on show in New York
Previously unseen mood boards in Cut 'n' Paste shine a light into inspirations behind seminal works
Arne Jacobsen’s iconic 1950s Tongue Chair is back
Mid-century modern classic is available again (and it's a bit more stable these days)
Shooting hoops with Adrian Skenderovic
Paris-based photographer collects lost basketball hoops while on his travels
Photographing in the fourth dimension
Fong Qi Wei invites you to time travel within the frame of a single photograph
Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh gets an organic addition
New business school by young Mumbai practice Planet 3 Studios takes shape on outskirts of Indian city
Introducing The Chinese Art Book
Phaidon Senior Editor Diane Fortenberry on a book that will clue you in (and hopefully inspire a lifelong passion)
New iPad ads feature Phaidon's Design Classics app
Those billboards springing up on San Francisco streets and in London tube stations look strangely familiar
Hella Jongerius updates Prouvé classics for Vitra
The Dutch designer is taken with the "form follows function" beauty of the late French modernist master
