René Redzepi gets David Chang to curate MAD3

The Noma founder asks Momofuku's main man to oversee his symposium, which this year is dedicated to guts

Warhol, Bacon, Marden and Kiefer iBooks out today

We're very pleased to announce our Phaidon Focus books are now available as iBooks in the iTunes store

Has Arne Svenson violated his neighbours' privacy?

NY court rules on whether the photographer was within his rights to shoot through an adjacent apartment window

Holzer debuts her "heap of displays" in Hong Kong

Jenny Holzer's Light Stream installation updates earlier slogans in a "pulsating, flashing heap of text"

Damien Hirst's new 9,000 square-metre art studio

The artist's West Country studio, gallery and formaldehyde out-building is the world's largest art production site

Ruslan Khasanov’s soy sauce-inspired art

Russian photographer and graphic artist says Asian cookery motivated his oil ink and soap series, Pacific Light

A. Quincy Jones' LA retrospective

The pioneering California architect receives his first major retrospective courtesy of LA's Hammer Museum

Pre-Raphaelite women top UK art poll

Public art initiative, Art Everywhere's poll has been topped by two Pre-Raphaelite works by Millais and Waterhouse

The palaces of the bird world

Photographer Dillon Marsh has been fascinated by the gigantic nests of Sociable Weaver birds since childhood

Detroit digitizes its Diego Rivera murals

Delicate decaying drafts of America's great industrial age digitized for posterity

What to expect from 100% Design

Richard Rogers in conversation and Zaha Hadid's reinvention of shopping among this year's highlights

Martin Parr wants you to shoot a funeral

As part of The Photographers' Gallery Mass Observation exhibition, Parr has issued 'Directive 2'

Wild Artist Olek crochets steam locomotive

The train arriving in Lodz is called Deadly Romance "because it almost killed me!" says the artist

Edmund de Waal debuts at Gagosian next month

The British ceramicist brings a poetry-themed show of pots and vitrines to Gagosian's Madison Avenue gallery

You can zoom in 25 kilometres on this photo

The photos in Jeffrey Martin's 360 Cities series are created from up to 40,000 images digitally stitched together

Dolce & Gabbana's Fellini film comes to London

The 2012 restoration of Fellini's Satyricon is on at The Curzon, courtesy of the A Nos Amours collective

Yayoi Kusama top-selling living female artist

Bloomberg calculates the Japanese artist has sold 2290 lots since 1985, generating $127.7m in sales

LEGO invites you to ‘release your inner architect’

Sou Fujimoto, MAD and SOM among big names contributing to 272-page book in new Architecture Studio set

Foster + Partners rework Cathay Pacific

Tasteful styling and hard-core product design combine in the practice's first commercial aircraft design

Hamburg sorting office reinvented as hip hotel

Boasting hangover breakfasts and a stage 'for impromptu jams' Superbude II looks like fun (just not that relaxing)

Heaven for Dieter Rams fans

A new website run by Dieter Rams aficionados helps you find any classic piece from the Braun design guru

What Marina Abramović will offer you for $10,000

For backers willing to pledge big bucks to the performance artist's forthcoming institute, Marina has two choices

Ai Weiwei curates rudely-titled Chinese art show

F*** OFF 2 is the sequel to the Shanghai show he staged in China in 2000

Critics love Peter Doig's Edinburgh show

The press unites in praise of painter's exhibition at The Scottish National Gallery, the first in the city of his birth

Australian train station attracts fierce competition

Competition to redesign Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station attracts entries from Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw, two local architects and some Colombian graduates. But who will win?

Galaxy Soho accused of damaging 'old Beijing'

Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center chastises RIBA for rewarding Zaha Hadid's 2012 creation

Is this really Warhol's first piece of pop art?

A British man is trying to sell this drawing, which he claims is the work of an eleven-year-old Andy Warhol

Marina Abramovic's Reddit highlights

According to her online interview, the performance artist is not a vampire and she likes Antony and The Johnsons

Phaidon author, Pablo León de la Barra, appointed Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America

The Shanghai skyscraper that makes you look twice

UNStudio says its SOHO Hailun Plaza will change appearance depending on the time of day and your viewpoint

Jakob+MacFarlane's illuminating extension

The Parisian practice creates a suitably impressive addition to France's repository for radical architecture

Toyo Ito and Shigeru Ban's designs for dogs

New show unveils “an extremely sincere collection of architecture” for design-conscious domestic animals

John Pawson strips back the Baroque

The St Moritz church in Augsburg, Bavaria goes minimalist, thanks to the work of Britain's architectural master

Is Hirst in a pickle here?

Jonathan Yeo says in his Hirst portrait, it is unclear whether Hirst is preparing a work, or being preserved himself

Zaha Hadid's Serpentine gallery to open next month

The Serpentine Sackler Gallery will be the Pritzker Laureate's first permanent structure in central London

Introducing Steve McCurry Untold

Phaidon publisher Amanda Renshaw introduces Steve McCurry Untold, a book that looks at the stories and circumstances behind the photos that made the Magnum photographer famous

If Moore had taught Bacon to sculpt

A recent article reveals that the great 20th century painter asked his sculptural counterpart for lessons

Jean Nouvel wins the National Art Museum of China

The French Pritzker laureate beat Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid to design China's leading art contemporary space

Letters from Edward Hopper's 'rigid woman'

A current exhibition uses a cache of love letters to offer fresh insight into the work of the great American painter

Shigeru Ban's Parisian music island

Following on from Ando and Nouvel plans, will Ban's design for Ile Seguin in Paris finally break ground?

So where do you take Ferran Adrià for dinner?

Howard Chua-Eoan, former TIME magazine news director, on the NYC spots he's booked for the elBulli supremo

How a Phaidon book inspired Mad Men's titles

A tiny illustration in our graphic-design title A Smile in the Mind got Mad Men director Steve Fuller thinking

Put the world's best architecture in your pocket

New Architecture Travel Guide brings world's greatest new buildings to your touchscreen

Shepard Fairey gets on the LA Art Fund bus

The renowned graffiti artist consults with school kids to fashion his campaign for public arts education

Taner Ceylan says Taksim Square changed art

The star of Turkish painting says street protests will help bring humour and politics into his nation's art scene

Zaha Hadid designs mountaineering museum

Three dimensional parallelogram resembling a shard of glacial ice is 'inserted' into South Tyrol mountain

Chinese Neorealist to paint Londoners

Liu Xiaodong brings his sharp reworking of Socialist Realism to the British capital

Foster backs new Thames Hub airport

Pritzker-Prize winning architect calls on the spirit of Victorian forebears "to create afresh"

Introducing Wild Art

Phaidon editor Jennifer Lawson on the book Jeff Koons - and everyone else - is talking about

François Pinault's jail-themed art show

For his debut Paris art show, Pinault will show a 'confinement' themed selection of works in a former prison

Stephen Shore goes global

A new exhibition shows the photographer's shots from Israel, Abu Dhabi and the Ukraine alongside his US work

Marina on her work, workshops and institute

Abramović reveals details of her new institute and how workshop participants deal with anger in this video

Grimshaw's museum for an art city of the future

The British practice has worked mosaics into its Koç Contemporary Art Museum in Istanbul, Turkey

When Gerald Cinamon brought Swiss Style to Britain

The great US proponent of Swiss Style graphic design enjoys a London retrospective

Maurizio Cattelan's Kenzo campaign tops poll

The artist's collaboration with the label has been voted best campaign of the season by The Business of Fashion

The Wallace shows the world's first restaurant

The Discovery of Paris: Watercolours by Early Nineteenth-Century British Artists exhibits a lost foodie spot in Paris

The Chinese hotel with a built-in waterfall

“We drew our inspiration from the quarry setting" says Atkins Design Studio

See Jakob Wagner's plane window weather shots

German photographer loves to shoot the clouds from the window of a passenger plane

Designing the Carlo Scarpa monograph

Designer Béla Stetzer talks us through his work on our forthcoming book on the mid-century modernist architect

Gilbert and George head for the High Line

The British artists will have their 1984 work, Waking, reproduced on a billboard next to Manhattan's linear park

The Photographers' Gallery shows Mass Observation

A new exhibition draws from the archives of the British project that sought to offer "an anthropology of ourselves"

Agnes Denes plans artificial islands to protect NYC

The pioneering land artist believes she can solve the city's storm challenges with a series of barrier islands

Pussy Riot take on Russian big oil

Feminist art rockers occupy oil facilities in latest video, Like a Red Prison

Warhol Museum's uncomfortable summer campaign

Pittsburgh museum puts together some suitably unnerving ads for its disturbing summer shows

Sarah Morris "My work is related to power"

“Power is always in flux and up for grabs" she tells Skye Sherwin as new White Cube show Bye Bye Brazil opens

Is this what's in store for London's High Line?

The winner of Vauxhall's Missing Link competition draws inspiration from a cabinet of curiosities for its linear park

Have the Rotterdam Kunsthal paintings been burned?

Investigators believe a defendant's mother destroyed Picasso, Monet and Matisse works in her stove

Aspen Art Museum to open with a Shigeru Ban show

Japanese architect's first museum in the US will open with a show dedicated to his humanitarian architecture

Jeff Koons loves Phaidon's Wild Art

The iconic American artist is "blown away" by our new Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier book

Why does this photographer set his film on fire?

Peter Hoffman says his unusual technique is a comment on unsustainable consumer habits

MAD creates art museum in caves of a Chinese island

Beijing studio designs artificial island with Asia’s biggest private art museum ensconced in its caves

Introducing The Design Book

Phaidon Editor Joe Pickard previews our compact yet authoritative compendium of product design

MVRDV reinvents city living in Switzerland

Dutch architects rip up design brief and come up with something entirely different

Three new library designs put books front of mind

As their role within society changes, big name architects are queueing up to create new libraries

Simon Starling sets his sights on the stars

The Turner-Prize winner's new work draws from the southern hemisphere's late Great Melbourne Telescope

Alvar Aalto’s Artek Stool 60 gets a makeover

Rei Kawakubo, Tom Dixon, Mads Nørgaard and Monocle Magazine rework the design classic for its 80th birthday

How posters survive and thrive in a digital age

New York show Graphic Advocacy shows how the form is still the cornerstone of effective communication

New UN HQ is inaugurated in Copenhagen

Architect 3XN follows up its jaw-dropping Blue Planet Aquarium in the city with new star shaped building

Maurizio Cattelan covers windows in Toilet Paper

Images from Italian artist's biannual magazine, Toilet Paper adorn the windows of Palais de Tokyo in Paris

Zaha Hadid's new Baku building up for two awards

Heydar Aliyev Centre is short-listed for prizes at the World Architecture Festival and the Inside Festival

Designed to be different

French start up Fontegrise endeavours to create products on the edges of art and functionality

Pininfarina designs Singapore tower

Ferrari design team creates condo with garages that will light the cars within like gems

Meet the photographer whose camera gets in the way

Texas born Bobby Scheidemann's series Nothing to Hide reflects on our desire to photograph absolutely everything

Introducing the Carlo Scarpa monograph

Phaidon editor Tom Wright talks about our forthcoming book on the mid-century modernist architect

Jay-Z and Marina Abramovic at Pace Gallery

Six-hour performance at Manhattan gallery yesterday featured Abramovic, RoseLee Goldberg and Alan Cumming

Watch the Bouroullec Brothers' electric carousels

The brothers just sent Phaidon.com a video of their Quiet Motion installation at this year's Milan Furniture Fair

Meet the photographer who plays with his food

Rene Mesman's unlikely pairings are visually arresting, although gastronomically unlikely

James Turrell appears on Charlie Rose

Artist says Frank Lloyd Wright would like new Guggenheim show and thanks his aunt for turning him on to Monet

How New York collectors rework their homes

Artists, architects and clients all collaborate to produce homes that work for their residents and their collections

Google's new Kings Cross HQ

The search firm's London headquarters will complement the local area's strong industrial heritage

Zaha Hadid buys The Design Museum

The prize-winning practice will use the space as an exhibition space and to house its archive

The story behind a new Sol LeWitt mural

Six years after the artist's death, another LeWitt mural is going up in Manhattan. How did that happen?

Will Sweeney's life-threatening London show

The artist's first British show for 10 years is inspired by Mexico, aliens and the lethal effects of cigarettes

Architecture goes underground at Herzog & de Meuron’s M+ museum in Hong Kong

"For art to enter into the life of a city like Hong Kong it has to come from its own foundations," says Jacques Herzog

Ferran Adrià opens Somerset House show

"Thanks to everybody involved in nursing a project that at first seemed to be a bit mad!" he says

Ikea creates flat packs for refugees

Swedish furniture giant tackles longterm housing for the world's dispossessed

Bouroullec Brothers AIM lamp now available to buy

After reinventing the chair (and the curtain) Ronan and Erwan turn their attention to lighting

Coi's Daniel Patterson teaches the kids to cook

The innovative chef says “having the most vulnerable population eating the worst food is a terrible idea"

Kate Moss is officially collectible

Christie's will host a sale dedicated to images of the supermodel this autumn

Arles goes black and white

Unseen Guy Bourdin and Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs head up a re-examination of monochrome imagery