Venice Biennale The New Zealand pavilion

Bill Culbert installs his light-themed works in the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà for the Biennale

From Bill Culbert's Front Door Out Back (2013)

MC Escher inspires St Paul's installation

Alex de Rijke reprises John Pawson's staircase theme for this year's London Design Festival

Endless Stair 2013 - Alex de Rijke

Colombian designer reinvents the Zippo lighter

Rodrigo Torres attempts 'sacrilegious' update with new Sushi lighter for Alessi - stand well back

Sushi lighter - Rodrigo Torres for Alessi

Danish artist plans to gold plate death row body

Martin Martensen-Larsen plans to present the body of killer Travis Runnels in Lincoln Memorial piece

Martin Martensen-Larsen's rendering of The Unifier

Anri Sala pits two pianists against a DJ in Venice

The French national submission, Ravel Ravel Unravel, dwells on Europe's great triumphs and failures

Still from Ravel Ravel Unravel (2013) - Anri Sala

Art of the Restaurateur wins best first book award

Nick Lander's wonderfully engaging read is given Jeremy Round Award for best first book by Guild of Food Writers

Nick Lander

MoMA's Jackson Pollock mystery

Museum restoration team uncovers later brushstrokes and gains a greater understanding of the modern master

MoMA's conservators and curators view One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock. Image courtesy of moma.org.

The water's lovely - and so is the diving board

Studio Zoppini's Rijeka Olympic centre in Croatia mirrors surrounding rocks that jut from the sea

Diving Tower, Rijeka Olympic centre, Croatia - Studio Zoppini

The Los Angeles that might have been

Architecture and Design Museum show exhibits unbuilt plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner and Steven Holl

Standing nearly 1,300 feet tall and built partly from magnesium, the Tower of Civilization would have soared over the grounds of the LA World's Fair. Photo courtesy of the Huntington Library

Ai Weiwei's mother Gao Ying opens his Venice show

Gao Ying appears shaken at opening of Venice Biennale show S.A.C.R.E.D. depicting her son's incarceration

Ai Weiwei's mother Gao Ying views her son's artwork S.A.C.R.E.D. at the Venice Biennale - photo by Marguerite Horner

IDEO rethinks the future of packaging

Flowery pill dispensers and seedy cigarette butts are among the Californian design consultancy's new concepts


Magnum and the dying art of darkroom printing

A look at the work of Pablio Inirio, the man who's printed Henri-Cartier-Bresson, René Burri and Dennis Stock

Henri Cartier-Bresson at the March on Washington. Photo by Bob Henriques, printing annotations by Pablo Inirio

Phoenix shower fans with Richard Prince works

French band crown Spanish festival set by dropping 42,000 Richard Prince-designed bank notes over the crowd

Richard Prince's zero dollar bill

Alvar Aalto library reworked by JKMM

Seinäjoki in Finland boasts seven buildings by modernist master Alvar Aalto - JKMM has just extended one

Seinäjoki Library - Alvar Aalto /JKMM

James Franco goes Psycho for Pace Gallery show

Actor artist makes a pretty convincing Janet Leigh in Psycho Nacirema, a large-scale London installation

Image from Psycho Nacirema copyright 2013, James Franco, courtesy Pace Gallery

Skydiving planned in abandoned Warsaw cement silo

Moko Architects have a hair-raising plan for Zeran's defunct warehouses and factories

Diving and indoor skydiving centre - Moko Architects

Modernist LA brought to life in online exhibition

LA history profs curate the 70,000 photo archive of a local electrical firm, to tell the story of mid-century LA


James Franco curates Kusama and Tuymans

The forthcoming London exhibition, Cinematic Visions, examines the dialogue between painting and film

Alice Neel's Ian and Mary (1971)

Richard Meier honoured by Bisazza

Celebrated US architect has huge exhibition in Vicenza to tie in with 50th anniversary year

Internal Time - Richard Meier for Bisazza

Could wooden pallets house Parisian students?

Ex-grafitti artist and former Jean Nouvel assistant Stéphane Malka comes up with green solution to housing needs

AME-LOT, Paris - Stéphane Malka

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

Experimental Jetset's new Whitney identity

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'

Still from Ai Weiwei's Dumbass video

Venice Biennale The American Pavilion

Sculptor Sarah Sze promises accumulation of everyday materials to create gravity-defying sculptural environments

The Triple Point of Water (2003) by Sarah Sze

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

Paul Delvaux, L’Éloge de la mélancolie (1948)

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

The Amazon logo

Venice Biennale The Italian Pavilion

Vice Versa brings together 14 artists inspired by philosopher Giorgio Agamben's "diametrically linked concepts"

Piero Golia, Untitled (Bus) (2008)

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

Salvador Dali's Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio - stolen from a New York gallery last summer

The quiet rise of the Polish art market

The Saatchi Gallery's Polish Art Now showcases a rising national scene, both culturally and economically

Behind the wheel (2012) by Andrzej Cisowski

Is this Zaha Hadid's most futuristic design yet?

New Riyadh KAFD metro features skybridges and meshed Mashrabiya screens

King Abdullah Financial District metro station, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Zaha Hadid

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

Magnus in London earlier this year

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

Tracey Emin

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

Halley Research Station VI - Hugh Broughton Architects

Venice Biennale The Turkish Pavilion

Ali Kazma's multi-channel video work Resistance looks at how we try to change and control our bodies

Ali Kazma filming Resistance (2013)

Latin American art - consider yourself primed

Pinta, the Latin American art fair, honours Argentinian painters Cesar Paternosto and Luis Tomasello next month

Cesar Paternosto, Crescendo-Diminuendo (2012)

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

BIG's Miami Beach Square

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

Daniel Patterson (centre) and David Chang (back) forage in Finland with Cook It Raw co-founder Rene Redzepi (left)

Swiss artist brings scooter to Venice

Valentin Carron will present "an elegant discussion on the complexity of defining sculpture" in The Swiss Pavilion

Ciao n°4 (nero), (2012) by Valentin Carron

Counting the cost of Martin Scorsese

Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob recalls some intense conversations with Marty's agent

Gilles Jacob and Martin Scorsese

Genesis inspires Vatican's Biennale debut

The Holy See brings a creationist-themed, multimedia exhibition to the 55th Venice Biennale this June

You (1986-7) by Lawrence Carroll

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

Venice Biennale jury president Jessica Morgan

Ingo Maurer's table with no legs

Best known for his lighting, German designer branches out into furniture for first Established & Sons commission

Floating Table - Ingo Maurer for Established & Sons

Dutch diner has American soul

Amsterdam School of Architecture meets 50s American diner in this new café from Derksen Windt Architecten

Dutch Diner - Derksen Windt Architecten

Ai Weiwei - hairdresser, rocker, citizen journalist?

The Chinese contemporary artist turns his hand to hairdressing, heavy metal and street-brawl coverage

Ai Weiwei - self portrait

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?

620 Chair Programme- designed by Dieter Rams for Vitsoe in 1962

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

Chris Burden, 2010, midway through creating Metropolis II

Withdrawn Miami Banksy up for auction again

Originally painted on a Poundland wall in London, Slave Labour goes under the hammer (again) next month

Slave Labour (2012) - Banksy

Beijing island winery is shaped like an asterisk

Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako creates timber-clad winery on man-made lake outside Chinese capital

Asterisk Winery, Beijing - Sako Architects

Bruce Altshuler talks favourite shows and curators

The writer of our Biennials and Beyond book hosts lively debate at London Whitechapel Gallery

Bruce Altshuler

Frieze architects SO-IL land UC Davis Art Museum

"Curved glass walls and soaring canopy turns traditional museum model inside out," says University Chancellor

The University of California, Davis, Art Museum - SO-IL

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

Untitled (piano) (1993) by Nam June Paik

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

Levitation bike - Michael Strain

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

Maguy Le Coze, from Le Bernardin. Image courtesy of Le Bernardin.

Islamic Cemetery nominated for Aga Khan Award

Austrian practice Bernardo Bader Architects creates serene place of rest in the alpine village of Altech

Islamic Cemetery Altach, Austria - Bernado Bader Architects

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

Ann Lee

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

Facsimile of the CBGB's toilets (minus the paddling pool of piss), New York circa 1975 Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saul Bass gets a Google Doodle

The great American graphic designer, born 93 years ago today, receives an appropriately animated Google tribute

The Man With The  Golden Arm poster (1955) by Saul Bass

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

Frieze New York

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

Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner

Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci monument in NYC

The Swiss artist will pay tribute to the Italian political theorist in a South Bronx housing project

 Bataille Monument (2002) by Thomas Hirschhorn,
at Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

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

Gazing Ball copyright Jeff Koons (2013) courtesy Zwirner Gallery

Henning Larsen designs Microsoft Danish HQ

Lyngby-Taarbæk complex foreshadows leading centre of knowledge and creativity in Northern Europe

Microsoft HQ Copenhagen - Henning Larsen

Vivienne Westwood revamps Virgin Atlantic uniforms

Old punk days mates Sir Richard Branson and Dame Vivienne Westwood team up for a new collaboration

Vivienne Westwood's designs for Virgin Atlantic

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

Wood Innovation Design Centre - Michael Green

Nice day for a white wedding

Hong Kong born Danny Cheng designs The White Chapel for upmarket nuptials

The White Chapel - Danny Cheng

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

Gordon Matta-Clark in FOOD in 1971

Could IBM create the next star chef?

IT firm's artificial intelligence team approaches cookery as just another big data problem - with surprising results

René Redzepi creates his Snowman dessert on Australian Masterchef. Beat that, Deep Blue

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

Rendering of installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012. Artificial and natural light. Rendering created by Andreas Tjeldflaat

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

Queens Museum of Art - Nicholas Grimshaw

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

Christine Keeler by Stephen Ward, pastel, c.1961 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Bouroullec brothers stage 15 year retrospective

Vast white tent-like structure in Paris is divided up with giant screens of their Algue ‘seaweed’

Bouroullec Brothers at Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Martin Parr and Weegee head up Liverpool festival

Look/13 International Photography Festival pairs Martin Parr with Tom Wood and Weegee with August Sander

Martin Parr, New Brighton (1983-1986), Merseyside, England

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

Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz recommended the World's 50 Best Restaurants winner in our Where Chefs Eat book

Andy Warhol - the disco years

Christie's new online auction offers us a great view into the artist's later, glitzier milieu

After The Party (1979) by Andy Warhol

$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

Ferran Adrià - do not seat him near a 'closetalker'

RIBA honours India's modernist master

The British architectural body salutes the great Indian architect Charles Correa in new Indian season

Kanchanjunga Apartments by Charles Correa

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)

Budweiser's new bowtie can

Cook It Raw chefs reveal philosophical inspirations

René Redzepi, Alex Atala, Albert Adrià and Daniel Patterson hold crowd rapt at Royal Geographical Society

Alex Atala as photographed in Cook It Raw

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

101 Spring, Donald Judd's former residence

Tiny Faroe Islands’ get the BIG treatment

50,000 strong community gets a taste of starchitecture courtesy of Bjarke Ingels and his team

Faroe Islands Marknagil Education Centre - BIG

Richard Prince wins next round of copyright battle

25 of the 30 works in his Canal Zone series are “transformative” say judges

Left, a Rastafarian from Patrick Cariou's Yes, Rasta book; right, Richard Prince's Graduation from the Canal Zone series

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

From UMK by Dunne & Raby

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

Skatepark - Janne Saario

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

René Burri and John Wilson, London, 2013

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

Splendour of Love (2013), by Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc., Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo and Victoria Miro, London © Yayoi Kusama. Photography © Stephen White

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

The Wireframe Sofa by Industrial Facility for Herman Miller

Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey's dumb things

New show The Universal Addressibility of Dumb Things traces new technology's links to ancient beliefs

Model of a cat to test reflexes, Science Museum

Herzog & de Meuron elevate the beautiful game

Swiss architects break ground on Stade de Bordeaux - home to Euro 2016

Stade de Bordeaux - Herzog & de Meuron

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

Andy Warhol's former residence, yours 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'

Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue (1999-2000) by Jeff Wall

Matisse's cutouts reassembled for the first time

Tate Modern plans the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist's snipped paper compositions

The Snails (1953) by Henri Matisse

Inside Amazon by Ben Roberts

Prix Pictet nominated-photographer Ben Roberts captures the online retailer's massive UK "fulfillment centre"

From Amazon Unpacked by Ben Roberts

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

Ferran Adrià