Christo in trouble over plans to wrap Arkansas river

Pressure groups unite and force the delay of the artist's latest scheme, Over The River

Over The River - Christo

Hadid in hot water, Chipperfield's common ground, Adjaye's double whammy and a new Fuksas airport

Phaidon's Eye on the Architecture world takes in the latest stories from China, Canada, Georgia and Belgium

Ninotsminda border checkpoint - Luka Machablishvili

Daniel Meadows and one summer in the 70s

Photographer works with Martin Parr author Val Williams on a stunning set of images depicting British seaside life

Daniel Meadows - from Butlins By The Sea

Mr Brainwash, Banksy and The Beatles

First London show for Banksy collaborator and artist who created Madonna's greatest hits album artwork

The Beatles - Mr Brainwash

Stolen Dali, Raphael and Roy Lichenstein paintings recovered after failed attempts to sell them

Thieves nil - Artworld 3 as artworks, some missing for decades, turn up in unlikely locations

Roy Lichtenstein - Electric Cord

Reinterpreting Hopper, Oscar Niemeyer in 3D, Patti Smith behind the lens and Kodak makes a comeback

Phaidon's photography world news this week takes in stories from South Africa, Australia, the US and UK

Gita Zimmermann - Topshots!

Noma at Claridges - the first review

Bloomberg's Richard Vines was among the first people to dine on ants with creme fraiche on Saturday night

Rene Redzepi at Claridges on Saturday

Chris Burden installs skyscraper in shopping mall

Four-storey concept house Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper) to be built in a Pasadena shopping centre

Chris Burden - Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper)

Roger Ballen behind the scenes with Die Antwoord

Footage surfaces of photographer Roger Ballen talking with Die Antwoord on the set of I Fink U Freaky

Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord - I Fink U Freaky

Ferran Adria's new restaurant will be called Jaguar

elBulli creator reveals more details about new Mexican restaurant he will open with brother Albert

Ferran Adria

Herzog & de Meuron's new art museum almost ready

Herzog & de Meuron's long awaited Parrish Art museum on Long Island will finally open this November

Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum

Josef Albers Painting on Paper

Perrin Drumm on the 'freedom and sensuality' of a new show at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York

Josef Albers

Zaha Hadid - planners are doing 'enormous damage’

Architect on fiery form during Anglo-Chinese business summit in London

The South Bank complex in London

Philip Treacy on show in Trafalgar square

Milliner to rock stars and royals creates iridescent headwear for Sir Henry Havelock as part of Hatwalk

Philip Treacy's hat for the statue of Sir Henry Havelock

Richard Hamilton MoCA retrospective cancelled

Pop artist's retrospective becomes first high profile casualty of curator Paul Schimmel's abrupt departure

Richard Hamilton

Marina Abramovic on her Meltdown performance

Performance artist is planning to give a women only talk on "female energy" at Antony Hegarty-curated festival

Marina Abramović

Daniel Libeskind's 18.36.54 House

18 planes, 36 points, and 54 lines of the spiralling ribbon which defines its living spaces - the clue is in the name

Daniel Libeskind - 18.36.54 House

Sarah Lucas's Ordinary Things

Henry Moore Institute show sparks lively review likening her to Cézanne, Michelangelo - and Viz magazine

Sarah Lucas - Au Naturel 1994 Mattress, water bucket, melons, oranges and cucumber

MOMA show looks at new ways to house America

Five architects come up with a plan to reinvigorate America's inner cities - and maybe the economy

Nature City - Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, MoMA

Martin Parr invites you to the seaside

Your chance to spend a weekend snapping away with the master of British photography

Martin Parr - England West Bay 1996

El Anatsui - the High Line's next star

Discarded bottle caps and mirrors woven together with copper wire will adorn Broken Bridge tapestry

El Anatsui - I Am Light

Sir Norman Foster - 'My time as a bouncer'

Architect reveals what it took to get started on stellar career in Architecture Week interview


Naoya Hatakeyama's landscapes of life

SFMOMA's association with Japanese photography continues with first US solo show for Naoya Hatakeyama

Naoya Hatakeyama - Lambda Archival Photographic Print - courtesy Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Taka Ishii Gallery

Thomas Heatherwick 'huge relief' at Olympic opening

Designer reveals the Bond style secrecy around the planning and creation of 'Betty' - the Olympic cauldron

The Olympic cauldron (aka Betty) by Thomas Heatherwick

Games over

A London photographer's take on Olympic legacy


Beijing's new art zone, David Adjaye's Liverpool pavilion and Zaha Hadid's restricted view

Phaidon's daily look at the best art, architecture, design and photography stories on the web

Rama Jaara, The Royal Shepherdess by Jacqui Stockdale

Franz West 1947 - 2012

The 65-year-old Viennese artist died last night

Franz West © Markus Rössle, 2009

World's first building inspired by hip hop

What happens when an urban culture-loving Melbourne architect builds his own apartment?

The Hive apartment by ITN Architects

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 25.07.12

This week we look at low-rises in Beijing, Brazil's lantern house, and Yo! Sushi's new real-estate venture

Bloom by Alisa Andrasek and Jose Sanchez from The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL.

MoMA's modernist design show centres on childhood

Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000 brings together modernism's most often overlooked designs

Gerrit Rietveld. Child’s wheelbarrow. 1923. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Beeldrecht, Amsterdam

Tino Sehgal at Tate, managing MOCA and the postman who collected Ed Ruscha and Donald Judd

Phaidon's daily look at the best art, architecture, design and photography stories on the web

Nuns at the Border by Bruce Berman

Phaidon's eye on photography 24.07.12

This week's overview takes in swarms of glow sticks, Jay-Z, and Tom Ford's bum buffer

Glow Sticks 1, by Thomas Jackson

Win a Hirst Guitar

Two Damien Hirst guitars are to be raffled next month


Phaidon daily links 24.7.12

Our regular news round-up

Canyon (1959) by Robert Rauschenberg

Mrs Millais, the movie

Two big-screen adaptations of Effie Gray's life are in the works

The Order of Release (1853) by John Millais

Phaidon daily links 23.7.12

Our regular news round-up

Ai Weiwei, Self Portrait (1987)

The Stirling Prize shortlist 2012

The six British buildings RIBA thinks are 2012's best

The London 2012 Olympic Stadium

Ferran Adria to open Japanese restaurant

After news of a Mexican restaurant he and business partner brother Albert plan a Nikkei restaurant in Barcelona

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

Steve McCurry shoots Pirelli calendar

'Calendar of the soul' features Adriana Lima, Petra Nemcova and other models involved in humanitarian projects

Steve McCurry shooting the Pirelli Calendar. Photo courtesy Vanity Fair Italy

Joel Meyerowitz on Robert Frank

The New York street photographer discusses the man who first got him snapping, among other things

Inside the pile, looking west (Fall 2001)

Picasso, Einstein and the fourth dimension

How one French philosopher contributed to two 20th century breakthroughs

Pablo Picasso, Badende mit Ball (Baigneuses au ballon), 1928. More than 175,000 visitors have already seen the Kunsthaus' homage to Picasso's first museum exhibition.

Phaidon Daily Links 19.7.12

Today's news round-up

Damien Hirst's Beautiful Morana Dysgeusia Painting for Jarvis (with Diamonds), (2011)

Raphaela Rosella

Australia's star photographer keeps her eye on the gutter

from Million Dollar Views

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 18.07.12

Our weekly round-up takes in bijou tree-houses, 'crap' flats and a Royal repelling down The Shard

The Hive Apartment, Melbourne

Phaidon Daily Links 18.7.12

Today's news round-up

Wolfgang Suschitzky, 
Lyons Corner House Tottenham Court Road, London (1934). From Another London.

Phaidon's eye on the photography world 17.07.12

This week's photography special takes in France, South Africa, Brazil, Switzerland, Japan, China and Korea

Weegee - summer the lower east side 1937

Monday in the Park with Oscar

US-born, Paris-based artist talks through his new works, opening this week at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Oscar Tuazon

Frank Gehry in the Big Easy

Brad Pitt gets the international architect to build a house for New Orleans' flood victims

Frank Gehry's Make It Right house

Phaidon Daily Links 16.7.12

Today's news round-up

Kate Moss by Mario Testino

Phaidon's global gallery guide

12 shows to see this weekend complete with videos, reviews, links and suggested reading

Max Beckmann, Woman with Mandolin in Yellow and Red (1950), oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 55 1/8 in (92 x 140 cm) © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012

Phaidon Daily Links 13.7.12

Today's news from around the web

The International Arts Centre Jose de Guimarães

Andy's cans are fifty...

...and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are planning a retrospective

Warhol at Gristedes supermarket, New York (1962)

Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton

The Japanese artist's Louis Vuitton line hits the street, as her retrospective opens at the Whitney

Louis Vuitton's Yayoi Kusama transparent trench coat

Phaidon Daily Links 12.7.12

Today's news from around the web

Chain Reaction, Paul Conrad (1991)

Cindy Sherman shares

Prior to her West-Coast, SFMOMA opening, Sherman talks siblings, series and privacy


Eddie Peake talks about Tate Tanks performance

The rising young star of performance art on how he persuades people to get naked and be painted gold


Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 11.07.12

This week's international special takes us to New York, Ho Chi Minh City, Barcelona, Bogata and Barking

MVRDV's Almere's Floriade plans

Peter Blake goes to church

Plans for a permanent artwork by the pop artist in St Paul's Cathedral

Peter Blake

See Bruce Nauman's One Hundred Fish Fountain

A rare chance to see one of Nauman's largest sculptures - and, if you have $3 million, maybe the chance to buy it

One Hundred Fish Fountain - Bruce Nauman

Phaidon Daily Links 11.7.12

Today's news from around the web

Otl Aicher - Munich 1972

Roger Ballen - 'I fear not living anymore'

Photographer's interview with Eva Wollenberg sees him ruminating on death, darkness and the human condition

Roger Ballen

Phaidon's eye on the photography world 10.07.12

This week's photography special takes in France, South Africa, Brazil, Switzerland, Japan, China and Korea

Cocoons - Peter Steinhauer

'And you're sure it'll be strong enough?'

This trompe l’oeil Lego bridge by street artist Martin Heuwold aka MEGX had us fooled - for a while

'Lego' bridge - MEGX

Zaha Hadid designs boat for art dealer

Dealer, gallerist and TV personality Kenny Schachter now has a Z Boat to add to his Hadid-designed Z Car

Zaha Hadid's Z Boat for Kenny Schachter

Ai Weiwei involved in brawl in Beijing park

Feud between online bloggers and cyber intellectuals spills over into violence with eggs being thrown

Ai Weiwei

Damien Hirst first look at a new painting

Watch the video of Monochromatic Sectors from Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Colour Ring with Dark Centre

Monochromatic Sectors from Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Colour Ring with Dark Centre - Damien Hirst

Phaidon Daily Links

Today's news from around the web 10.7.12

Queen - Andy Warhol

Yayoi Kusama talks about her mortality

83-year-old artist says "The older I become and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day"

Yayoi Kusama in one of her mirror rooms, 2004

Peter Zumthor working on film with Wim Wenders

Architect's next project to be the subject of a 3D film shot by the legendary film director

Peter Zumthor

Ai Weiwei first video interview since his release

Chinese dissident artist talks about the importance of social media to his work in new video

Ai Weiwei

Tate chooses Jeff Wall piece as Work of the Week

A Sudden Gust Of Wind sees the Canadian photographer reference one of Hokusai's famous works

Jeff Wall - A Sudden Gust of Wind

Zaha Hadid falls out with Olympics organisers

Aquatics architect complains that she hasn't been given an invite to any Olympic events

Zaha Hadid

Damien Hirst donates spin painting to Burger King

Beautiful Psychedelic Gherkin Exploding Tomato Sauce All Over Your Face, Flame Grilled Painting goes on show

Damien Hirst at Burger King

Phaidon Links 9.7.12

Today's news from around the web

Roger Hiorns' Seizure

Phaidon's global gallery guide

12 shows to see this weekend complete with videos, reviews, links and suggested reading

MOMA Boetti

Phaidon Links

Today's news from around the web 6.07.12

The Tate Tanks

Prix Pictet shortlist announced

Phaidon photographers in the picture as 2012 Prix Pictet focusses on the theme of power

Guy Tillim, from the series Congo Democratic (Statue of Stanley That Used to Overlook Kinshasa)

Diane Arbus in London and Berlin

Major shows with previously unseen work for the photographer who famously said "every difference is a likeness"


Happy July 4th

The Pentagram agency's call to designers to rework the flag was one of its most infamous projects

Stars and Stripes - Paula Scher

Nedko Solakov offers gallery goers five kilos of meat

Bulgarian artist's show A Quiz (again) at the Visual Arts Foundation, Middelburg takes the form of a competition

Nedko Solakov: A Quiz (again)

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 04.07.12

This week's international round up takes in Iceland, Germany, America, the UK, Holland and even Timbuktu

Roadside stop by Krads

Barry Le Va artwork smashed at Gagosian

But it's all part of the installation process for a 1968 piece by the Californian sculptor and installation artist

Set I A placed B placed; Set II A dropped. B dropped.; Set III A placed. B dropped.; Set IV placed - Barry Le Va

Donald Judd's loft opens to the public

Refurb finished on Soho loft where Judd exhibited the work of Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg, and Dan Flavin

Donald Judd's loft at 101 Spring St, New York

Steve McCurry opens up in Al Jazeera interview

"My parents were perplexed, bewildered and befuddled on how wild I was in my youth!" he tells Riz Khan


Phaidon's eye on the photography world 03.07.12

The US, UK, France, Czechoslovakia, Australia and Belgium all in focus in this week's round up

Jeff Brouws, Franchised Landscape

Jackson Pollock unvarnished

Decision to restore Pollock's Mural neatly sidesteps a developing argument over its ownership

Mural by Jackson Pollock

elBulli comes to Paris... and London... and Rome...

Architects Rodero Beggiao unveil plans for a travelling elBulli restaurant, foundation and workshop pop up

elBulli Pavilion - pic courtesy Rodero Baggiao Architects

Architects and artists experiment with space

Daniel Libeskind and Tauba Auerbach take Stan Allen essay as inspiration for new spatial show at SFMOMA

Lebbeus Woods, Conflict Space 3, 2006; oil on paper; Collection SFMOMA,

Santiago Calatrava hits back at critics over cost

Under attack in Spain and criticised over the cost of his New York Transit Hub the architect comes out fighting

WTC Transit Hub, New York - Santiago Calatrava

Phaidon's eye on the artworld 29.6.12

Martin Creed upset by bell ringers, MoCA curator 'fired', Kapoor occupied and van Gogh immortalised in dominoes

Edvard Munch's The Sick Child

Fabrice Le Nezet gets heavy

French sculptor who's worked with Sony, Ford and Amnesty 'creates tension' with industrial materials in new work

Fabrice Le Nezet - Measure

Richard Long at work in the studio

A chance to see the great British land artist at work, indoors for once, at the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield

Richard Long (2012) at The Hepworth Wakefield (profile detail), Photo by Stephen Jackson

Sir Nicholas Serota profiled in New Yorker

"Nick really caught the wave. He saw the possibilities and he harnessed that," says Larry Gagosian


Peter Zumthor - exclusive look at architecture models

Exhibition of the architect's 'skeletons and scenarios' opens in gallery space of a post office in Lake Constance


Land art gets international in LA

New show highlights land art's spread from America to Japan, China, Iceland and Israel

Aerial view of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Utah

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 27.6.12

China, New Zealand, America, Chile, Singapore and the UK under the spotlight in our international round up

West Kowloon Terminus - Aedas

As little rain as possible

Dieter Rams-inspired weather app is the perfect accompaniment for your Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guide

WTHR by David Elgena

Graphic Modernists on show in New York

Alan Fletcher, Max Huber and Paul Rand feature in Graphic Modern, an exhibition of modernist graphics

Max Huber, Borsalino

Herzog & de Meuron do it again

Pavilion like structure of the Kinderspital in Zurich gets unanimous vote of confidence

Herzog & de Meuron, Kinderspital Zurich, © Herzog & de Meuron

The fine art of computer code

Casey Reas saw the creativity in computer programming which led him to work with Frank Gehry and others

Casey Reas, Tissue (2002)