Could wooden pallets house Parisian students?
Ex-grafitti artist and former Jean Nouvel assistant Stéphane Malka comes up with green solution to housing needs
The story behind the Whitney's new look
New look for New York museum draws inspiration from its chief curator's view of art history
Ai Weiwei first look at his new music video
The video offers an 'inch accurate' view of his prison cell, but the music is a less faithful rendering of 'heavy metal'
Venice Biennale The American Pavilion
Sculptor Sarah Sze promises accumulation of everyday materials to create gravity-defying sculptural environments
First UK solo show for surrealist Paul Delvaux
The Belgian artist and René Magritte confidant's New York exhibition is set to travel to London next month
Amazon to start selling fine art from this summer
Letter to NY galleries from its new business department invites them to "light snacks and refreshments" tomorrow
Venice Biennale The Italian Pavilion
Vice Versa brings together 14 artists inspired by philosopher Giorgio Agamben's "diametrically linked concepts"
The FBI department targeting stolen art
Art sales are up 50% since 2009 and so is global art theft - estimated at a staggering $6 billion a year
The quiet rise of the Polish art market
The Saatchi Gallery's Polish Art Now showcases a rising national scene, both culturally and economically
Is this Zaha Hadid's most futuristic design yet?
New Riyadh KAFD metro features skybridges and meshed Mashrabiya screens
Fäviken's Magnus Nilsson reveals details of next book
Part recipe book, part travelogue, part historical foodie tract - new book will cover every aspect of Nordic cuisine
Tracey Emin accuses her critics of sexism
"The press was cruel, they didn’t just dislike my work, they disliked me - my voice, the way I dress, the way I look, they wouldn’t have carried on that way if I were a man" she tells Vanity Fair interviewer Lauren Christensen
Hugh Broughton Architects create ice station on skis
Halley Research Station in the Antarctic should escape the fate of others - crushed and buried under the snow
Venice Biennale The Turkish Pavilion
Ali Kazma's multi-channel video work Resistance looks at how we try to change and control our bodies
Latin American art - consider yourself primed
Pinta, the Latin American art fair, honours Argentinian painters Cesar Paternosto and Luis Tomasello next month
Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke Ingels compete in Miami
Rem Koolhaas's OMA and Bjarke Ingels’s BIG submit rival plans for The Miami Beach Convention Center
See David Chang and Daniel Patterson in NYC
The star chefs are joined by Massimo Bottura, Alessandro Porcelli and Lisa Abend at our Cook It Raw launch
Swiss artist brings scooter to Venice
Valentin Carron will present "an elegant discussion on the complexity of defining sculpture" in The Swiss Pavilion
Counting the cost of Martin Scorsese
Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob recalls some intense conversations with Marty's agent
Genesis inspires Vatican's Biennale debut
The Holy See brings a creationist-themed, multimedia exhibition to the 55th Venice Biennale this June
Phaidon authors head up the Venice jury
We congratulate this year’s newly announced Venice Biennale jurists, many of whom are contributors to our books
Ingo Maurer's table with no legs
Best known for his lighting, German designer branches out into furniture for first Established & Sons commission
Dutch diner has American soul
Amsterdam School of Architecture meets 50s American diner in this new café from Derksen Windt Architecten
Ai Weiwei - hairdresser, rocker, citizen journalist?
The Chinese contemporary artist turns his hand to hairdressing, heavy metal and street-brawl coverage
Dieter Rams 620 chair programme reissued by Vitsoe
If you're going to curl up with a copy of As Little Design as Possible what better chair to do it in?
Chris Burden brings meteorite (and Porsche) to NY
The Californian artist gets his first major exhibition in the US in over 25 years at The New Museum
Withdrawn Miami Banksy up for auction again
Originally painted on a Poundland wall in London, Slave Labour goes under the hammer (again) next month
Beijing island winery is shaped like an asterisk
Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako creates timber-clad winery on man-made lake outside Chinese capital
Bruce Altshuler talks favourite shows and curators
The writer of our Biennials and Beyond book hosts lively debate at London Whitechapel Gallery
Frieze architects SO-IL land UC Davis Art Museum
"Curved glass walls and soaring canopy turns traditional museum model inside out," says University Chancellor
Introducing the Where Chefs Eat app
Beautifully designed and exhaustively road-tested - the Where Chefs Eat app is released on Monday
How MoMA restored Nam June Paik's TV piano
Cathode-ray and player-piano piece is either 'a conservation dream or nightmare' says MoMA expert
Forget the jet pack the Levitation bike is here
Michael Strain's 'levitating cycle' also boasts a wifi zone to limit those brief but pesky offline moments in your day
Maguy Le Coze wins Outstanding Restaurateur
French-born New Yorker receives James Beard award for her work at Le Bernardin which she opened in 1986
Islamic Cemetery nominated for Aga Khan Award
Austrian practice Bernardo Bader Architects creates serene place of rest in the alpine village of Altech
Tino Sehgal reanimates Manga character at Frieze
Sehgal's interpretation of Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe's Ann Lee character comes to the New York art fair
It's punk Jim, but not as we knew it
The Met's PUNK: From Chaos to Couture attempts to draw a straight line from the King's Road to Fifth Avenue
Saul Bass gets a Google Doodle
The great American graphic designer, born 93 years ago today, receives an appropriately animated Google tribute
How the Frieze art fair won over America
Dr Kathy Battista, director of contemporary art at Sotheby's Institute of Art NY, unpicks the art fair's US success
Ethan and Thea's guide to surviving Frieze NY
New York's foremost art advisors give Phaidon the lowdown on how to do an art fair successfully
Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci monument in NYC
The Swiss artist will pay tribute to the Italian political theorist in a South Bronx housing project
Jeff Koons opens at Gagosian AND Zwirner this week
Heavyweight gallerists go head-to-head in NYC this Frieze week with shows from America's richest living artist
Henning Larsen designs Microsoft Danish HQ
Lyngby-Taarbæk complex foreshadows leading centre of knowledge and creativity in Northern Europe
Vivienne Westwood revamps Virgin Atlantic uniforms
Old punk days mates Sir Richard Branson and Dame Vivienne Westwood team up for a new collaboration
Tallest wooden building in Canada breaks ground
Apart from metal joinery and concrete foundations Michael Green's aptly named Wood Innovation Design Centre is six storeys of pure wood including the columns, beams and floor - even the elevator and stair core
Nice day for a white wedding
Hong Kong born Danny Cheng designs The White Chapel for upmarket nuptials
Gordon Matta-Clark's art restaurant resurrected
Frieze recreates Gordon Matta-Clark's FOOD restaurant next week, with a different artist taking over each day
Could IBM create the next star chef?
IT firm's artificial intelligence team approaches cookery as just another big data problem - with surprising results
James Turrell on tour in the US this summer
The Californian artist marks his 70th birthday with five US exhibitions in New York, LA, Las Vegas and Houston
Grimshaw’s Queens Museum of Art nears completion
He joins Aymer Embury III, Daniel Chait and Rafael Viñoly who've all worked on the New York City Building
Peter Zumthor reimagines a 21st century LACMA
Pritzker Prize winner set to reveal his vision for the museum at new exhibition The Presence of the Past in June
Mr Brainwash loses Sid Vicious appropriation case
Judge rules street artist Thierry Guetta's punk portraits infringe copyright of photographer, Dennis Morris
Mystery girl in new National Portrait Gallery Show
Scandal '63 draws together portraits associated with The Profumo Affair, including a sketch of a mysterious witness
Bouroullec brothers stage 15 year retrospective
Vast white tent-like structure in Paris is divided up with giant screens of their Algue ‘seaweed’
Martin Parr and Weegee head up Liverpool festival
Look/13 International Photography Festival pairs Martin Parr with Tom Wood and Weegee with August Sander
Why the Bienal Monterrey came to Mexico City
To mark its 20th anniversary, the Latin American art event takes its innovative works to the Mexican capital
Mugaritz chef picks 50 Best winner
Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz selected El Celler de Can Roca for our Where Chef Eat book
Andy Warhol - the disco years
Christie's new online auction offers us a great view into the artist's later, glitzier milieu
$36,750 - the price of dinner with Ferran Adrià
Anonymous online bidder snatches top lot in Sotheby's NY auction of elBulli wine list and assorted ephemera
RIBA honours India's modernist master
The British architectural body salutes the great Indian architect Charles Correa in new Indian season
Budweiser introduces new bow tie can
New nipped-in design is the result of a 16-step procedure (but there's .7 ounces less beer)
Cook It Raw chefs reveal philosophical inspirations
René Redzepi, Alex Atala, Albert Adrià and Daniel Patterson hold crowd rapt at Royal Geographical Society
Donald Judd's home opens to the public in June
Three-year $23 million restoration effort by his children will recreate artist's living and working environment
Tiny Faroe Islands’ get the BIG treatment
50,000 strong community gets a taste of starchitecture courtesy of Bjarke Ingels and his team
Richard Prince wins next round of copyright battle
25 of the 30 works in his Canal Zone series are “transformative” say judges
Vince Frost brands Sydney’s historic houses
Designer comes up with a rebrand based around the ideal of 'living' that leaps off screen, bag and mug
Is this the Britain of the future?
The Design Museum's forthcoming exhibition, United Micro Kingdoms, speculates on how we might end up living
Keith Haring's political side reassessed in Paris show
Keith Haring: The Political Line draws together a huge array of works to emphasise Haring's serious obsessions
If Phaidon designed a skatepark it might look like this
Skateboarder Janne Saario moves into design in Finland - Aesthetically-minded Varial Kick Flippers rejoice
David Shrigley and Tino Sehgal on Turner Prize list
Firm Phaidon favourites feature in this year's show to be held in Derry-Londonderry
René Burri on the BBC
The photographer discusses his career and new book, Impossible Reminiscences, with Front Row's John Wilson
We just made a book with Daniel Patterson of Coi
Phaidon collaborates with the man single-handedly reinventing Californian cuisine - much excitement results
See Yayoi Kusama's Splendour of Love in London
Victoria Miro's exhibition of seven new sculptures and twelve recent paintings by the artist opens tomorrow
The London designers' sofa for Eames' old firm
Industrial Facility's Wireframe Sofa is made by Herman Miller, better known for their chairs by Charles and Ray Eames
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey's dumb things
New show The Universal Addressibility of Dumb Things traces new technology's links to ancient beliefs
Herzog & de Meuron elevate the beautiful game
Swiss architects break ground on Stade de Bordeaux - home to Euro 2016
Andy Warhol's former townhouse up for sale
Carnegie Hill studio and residence where he lived with his mother Julia for 15 years on the market for $5.8 million
Jeff Wall retrospective and talk
Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits the fine-art photographer alongside a symposium on 'Rooms'
Matisse's cutouts reassembled for the first time
Tate Modern plans the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist's snipped paper compositions
Inside Amazon by Ben Roberts
Prix Pictet nominated-photographer Ben Roberts captures the online retailer's massive UK "fulfillment centre"
Who'd like dinner with Ferran Adrià?
Sotheby's auctions off items from the elBulli wine cellar and a very special offer: a night with the super chef himself
OMA creates new stock exchange in China
"Floating base is a physical materialisation of the virtual stockmarket," says Rem Koolhaas
Have you seen Elliott Erwitt's walking stick?
Celebrated photographer collaborates with Milan designers Danese on old school yet innovative walking aid
Alex Atala makes Time magazine's top 100 influential
"His philosophy of using native Brazilian ingredients in haute cuisine has mesmerised the continent"
A Brazilian show for a gallery never to be built
Sao Paulo's Museu de Arte Moderna will show off plans for its new home later this year - despite staying put
Palestinian Museum gets branding to prompt talking
Designers Venturethree produce a visual identity for the West Bank museum to promote dialogue in the region
British firm offsets Soviet gem with a glass spiral
Robin Monotti Architects designs complementary building next to the brutalist Bank of Georgia in Tbilisi
See the trailer for Murakami's directorial debut
The Japanese pop artist brings his kawaii characters to life in a new feature film, yet adds in real people too
How the 1962 monsoons inspired Steve McCurry
Forthcoming book, Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind The Photographs, tells how coverage of the Indian rainy season in Life magazine set the Magnum photographer off on a life of photography and far flung travel
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez 1919 - 2013
Mexico's foremost architect and chairman of the 1968 Olympic Games dies age 94
Vietnam's flood-proof bamboo houses
H&P Architects have designed affordable, floating dwellings for Vietnam's flood-stricken regions
National Theatre unveils red summer shed
The South Bank's temporary theatre is "less a building than an art installation" say architects Haworth Tompkins
See the dark arts of Gert and Uwe Tobias in London
The Transylvanian-born twins channel European folklore and Russian Suprematism in their London installation
Arne Glimcher and Nicholas Serota in conversation
Pace Gallery president and author of our fine Agnes Martin monograph discusses the artist with Tate Director
René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences #4
The view from a war torn Beirut window, the cost of 'man's progress' and a wry tale concerning William Tell - all taken from his brilliant new book of previously unpublished colour photography, Impossible Reminiscences
Major artists front London's Drawing Biennial
Mark Wallinger, Antony Gormley and Paula Rego all contribute an A4 sheet to the Drawing Room's show
How to design the Niels Diffrient way
The designer of the Freedom Chair says in a new profile that he never thinks about how things are going to look
Le Corbusier roof reborn as a gallery
The roof terrace of Marseille's Cité Radieuse will reopen this summer as an arts space
What's happening in Bence Bakonyi's photographs?
The Hungarian photographer spent six months in China and came back with these uncanny, ambiguous images
Foster + Partners' Apple HQ goes $2bn over budget
The late Steve Jobs' insistence on the finest building materials may account for the tech firms large overspend
