Phaidon's eye on the artworld - 15 June 2012
This week's international round up takes in Germany, Switzerland, the US, UK, China and Bosnia
Roni Horn's rarely seen pigment works go on show
Hauser & Wirth celebrates return to former Zurich site by hosting first ever show dedicated to Horn's drawings
Rachel Whiteread unveils Whitechapel frieze
Artist and local resident's gold leaf facade, inspired by St Paul's, realises a project begun 100 years ago
Phaidon's eye on the architecture world
Our international architecture round up takes in Brazil, Spain, UAE, UK, the US, China, Italy, Dubai and Peru
Octopus-inspired Olympic architecture
The shooting venue for the London 2012 Olympics features sucker-style spots to keep those inside cool
Vitra showcases new design talent
Five Gerrit Rietveld-inspired design projects are showing this week at the Vitra Design Museum
Phaidon's eye on the photography world
Our international roundup takes in Russia, America, France, Morocco, South Africa, the UK and Hungary
The fire station in the mountain
A volunteer fire station in the Alps has been carved into a sheer slab of rock
Phaidon's eye on the artworld
The first of our international artworld roundups takes in Russia, America, China, the UK and Switzerland
The ‘99%’ Pierre Koenig House
The final design by Mid-Century modern architect Pierre Koenig is up for sale
Korean tradition with a contemporary twist
Seung-Yong Song’s modern take on traditional Korean lattice forms
Frank Lloyd Wright’s disabled-access house
The only home that the celebrated architect made for a wheelchair-bound man is set to become a museum
Nan Goldin is awarded the MacDowell Medal
The American is only the fourth photographer in 52 years to be awarded the prestigious prize
Tacita Dean's Five Americans
Artists Cy Twombly, Claes Oldenburg and Julie Mehretu star on film in Dean's biggest New York show to date
Documenta 13 - the preview
The 'museum of 100 days' descends on the tiny German town of Kassel this weekend - here's what to look out for
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron's pavilion opens
Architects talk about creating a structure over Skype and why 'everybody loves cork' at London launch
Thomas Heatherwick - Designing the extraordinary
Designer of the Shanghai UK pavilion, new London bus and a cute bendy bridge opens first retrospective at V&A
Damien Hirst – Art is easy
“The reason I got to the top is because the top wasn’t very high,” he tells Phaidon
Linking Dürer to the here and now
Why the greatest artist of the Northern European Renaissance was a pioneeer in every sense of the word
Meike Nixdorf plays on perspective
Berlin-based photographer’s intensely stylised shots look at the same subject - from every angle
David Altmejd's mythical beasts
London gallery show for Canadian-born, New York-based artist who gets a thrill from the complex
New gastronomy mag Fool looks rather tasty
Photographer launches high end magazine featuring Mugaritz, Noma and Fäviken - Phaidon approves!
The René Burri Interviews #4 Bigger is better!
Magnum photographer on how adding sound (and rockets) to his photos opened up a new world
Arise Sir Jonathan Ive!
On the day he’s knighted Ive gives rare interview on design, knowing when to give up - and Apple after Steve
Taryn Simon: We are ghosts of the past and future
One of the biggest names in art photography opens up on her childhood and the processes that go into her work
The René Burri Interviews #3 early days of Magnum
René Burri on why Magnum photographers felt like Samurai Warriors - and occasionally church mice
Tom Sachs goes to Mars
First the Moon now Mars - meet the American artist exploring outer space from the safety of the gallery
The Great British public in pictures
The London Festival of Photography celebrates all things British - with a little help from Martin Parr (of course)
Tomás Saraceno creates Cloud City above New York
Argentinian artist lashes mirrored 'bubbles' to roof of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mike Kelley's final project
A work that sees the late artist's childhood home recreated and relocated is completed posthumously
David Benjamin Sherry's alternative America
Inspired by painting and installation art the photographer's landscapes are brash - and very big
The René Burri Interviews #2 Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Magnum photographer on why Henri Cartier-Bresson always looked at his photos upside down
Tracey Emin designs London tube map
Central line reduced to Oxford Circus, Liverpool Street and Shoreditch High Street in nod to east end west end life
The Shard in all its timelapse glory
Finally, a video documenting the rise, and rise, of Renzo Piano’s ‘small town’ sized building
Banksy sends jubilee regards to the queen
New mural appears on wall of Poundland shop in riot hit part of north London
Emeco’s Coca-Cola chairs grace green chemical co
BASF employs recycled plastic Coca-Cola bottle chairs - as featured in Vitamin Green - for new eco-makeover
The René Burri interviews - #1 Men on a Rooftop
The Magnum photographer on how he pulled the wool over Henri Cartier-Bresson’s eyes with his most iconic shot
Jeff Wall photograph sets new world record
Phaidon Collector’s Editions photographer’s print Dead Troops Talk reaches $3.6million at Christie's New York
Francis Upritchard - rising star
Four big shows this year including one site specific work in a space the sculptor didn't actually visit
This box contains a bedroom
Flatpack furniture goes to the next level as a Latvian designer fits an entire bedroom into a box
Thought for the day - modern art
"Some people don’t understand it because they’re walking into the tail end of a 30,000 year old conversation”
Legendary auctioneer bows out after biggest sale ever
High jinks at Christie's as Christopher Burge (the auctioneer in Wall Street) retires
Adi Nes on masculinity, sexuality and war
The Israeli photographer explores identity, sexuality and conflict in a staged, polished style
The emotive issue of automotive design
As China takes over the market for automobiles, will the car 'face' of the future look very different?
Virgin Atlantic's pop up in the sky
New Upper Class bar follows the trend on the ground for pop up and boutique bars
The greening of the Empire State building
New York's most iconic building has been given a $500 million plus retrofit - but you won't spot it from the outside
Hotel gives guests the chance to 'win a Warhol'
An Australian hotel group has teamed up with an infamous forger for an unusual competition
You know you're an architecture student when. . .
…you’re measuring the school’s step height for reference, and a guy walks by saying “18.5 cm”
The Olympic Torch and the story of British design
Jay Osgerby, Ed Barber, Kenneth Grange and Thomas Heatherwick reveal inspirations in new video
Ahmed Alsoudani - war baby
Disembodied heads and multi-coloured body parts litter the canvases of Iraq's unofficial war artist
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron Serpentine plans
The artist and architects plan an archaeological dig and rainwater well for the London gallery's summer project
Design Museum's holographic Louboutin homage
Retrospective on shoe designer Christian Louboutin includes hologram of burlesque performer Dita Von Teese
The race to bury a jet underground
Three different artists have plans to bury an aeroplane under the earth
Venice Architecture Biennale - five new countries join
Angola, Kosovo, Kuwait, Peru and Turkey invited by curator David Chipperfield to take part
Outdoor Living - hundreds of feet up
We've spotted a trend for big balconies on tall buildings - only those with a head for heights need apply
Frieze New York: the special projects
The specially commissioned works we’re most looking forward to at this year's debut show
Hella Jongerius leads redesign of UN building
Interiors of Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer-designed New York HQ to be transformed by Dutch designer
Spirit of the age?
From the Turner Prize nominees to the Tate Tanks - everyone's talking about performance art again
Edvard Munch's The Scream: a few facts and theories
Why the painting John Boulton called a 'unique visual image of panic' is one of the most picked over in art history
Ai Weiwei's Fragments in the US for the first time
Tradition and 21st century Chinese life come together at the Sackler Gallery, Washington
Warhol before his 15 minutes
New York's Site/109 gallery exhibits John Kennedy's portraits of Andy Warhol on the cusp of fame
Turner Prize 2012 nominees announced
Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Luke Fowler and Elizabeth Price are this year's nominees
Norse mythology inspires zero energy sauna
Italian-Swedish architect’s zero energy sauna borrows elements from folklore
The genius of Noma (by the genius of elBulli)
Ferran Adrià on why René Redzepi's Noma scored a third win at the World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards last night
Phaidon at the 50 Best Restaurant Awards
Noma top again, Magnus Nilsson's Fäviken is fast riser, Mugaritz at number three
Todd Saunders' ultimate artist studio
Canadian architect's studio on remote island of Fogo looks like a great place to create
Dior Homme showcases Robert Montgomery
Creative Director Kris Van Assche picks phaidon.com-featured artist for new pop up Dior Homme store
Zaha Hadid’s frozen water table
Hadid explores the dynamics of water with latest design - no need to worry about spilling something hot on it
Stephen Shore The five things that changed my life
The legendary American photographer in conversation at SF Moma
Jamie Shovlin's Muse Music
The painter and conceptual artist on the music that gets him in a creative mood
Weegee - vintage paparazzo
See the work of the sensationalist New York snapper who inspired Stan Douglas
Bruno Zhu's big look at the ordinary
The Portugese photographer's constructed images are printed big to give the normal a sense of grandeur
Haw-lin's online gallery makes first step into offline
Nathan Cohen and Jacob Klein's internet mood board gets its first gallery show in London
The Phaidon guide to art speak - Performance Art
Decoding the language of art criticism - or, how to speak 'art'
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry - first look at the film
Alison Klayman's movie opens this summer. Watch the trailer here and find out how to win tickets to the premiere
The Jekyll and Hyde of furniture
Design brand La Change presents light and dark versions of each of its pieces at the Milan Furniture Fair
Concrete - the rehabilitation starts here
Urban Architecture Office's concrete FKI House in Japan is part of a growing trend - Phaidon has it covered
Richard Weston’s crystal patterns
How an architecture professor became Vogue’s “most unexpected new design star”
A very chilled out building
The Social Services Building by Dosmasuno architects in Spain takes green to a completely new level
The first step towards grow-your-own furniture?
Maarten De Ceulaer’s Mutations series At Milan Furniture Fair imagines what we might be sitting on in the future
J Mayer H's strangely shaped buildings
German architecture practice builds asymmetric police station and justice house in Georgian town
Vancouver tower channels spirit of the Flatiron
BIG architects' Beach & Howe building 'swerves' away from the noise and exhaust of the nearby Granville bridge
Pierre Dinand's incredible Salvador Dali stories
The legendary perfume bottle designer talks to Phaidon about his secret collaboration with the surrealist painter
Better Buy Design - The SodaStream
Swiss designer Yves Béhar updates a Seventies household icon (that was actually designed in 1903)
Lauren Hillebrandt - 'boredom inspires me'
The Dutch photographer rebels against the repetitiveness of daily life in her new series The Day
John Pawson's stylish book launch
Calvin Klein's Madison Avenue store plays host to the architect's A Visual Inventory launch party
Hirst and Turner - more alike than you'd think
Artistic showmanship didn't start with bisecting bovines - Turner too was criticised for his 'soapsuds and whitewash'
Jack Kerouac by Elliott Erwitt
The Magnum photographer shot the On The Road author the year he joined the renowned photo agency
Wiener Schnitzel – the remake
Wiener Schnitzel’s new restaurant in the Austrian capital mixes modern and medieval – to great effect
Allison Cortson - the woman who paints with dust
Santa Monica artist photographs subjects at home then asks them for three months worth of vacuum cleaner bags
The thought-provoking illustrations of Sara Fanelli
Her work hangs in the Tate and appears in the New Yorker - now she's created an innovative children’s book
How the art market became a luxury goods business
Artist Andrea Fraser highlights uncomfortable truths and shocking statistics in her essay L’1% C’est Moi
A new architectural landmark for downtown LA
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Broad Museum takes its place alongside buildings by Frank Gehry and Arata Isozaki
Everyday Icon #7 The banjo
In memory of Earl Scruggs we take a look at the design origins of the instrument he made famous
The 'Lynchian menace' of Anne Kathrin Greiner
The Berlin-based photographer on her fascination with how architectural spaces affect human behaviour
