Daniel Libeskind’s amazing glazing

The award-winning US architect makes his South American debut with this classy, glassy residential tower

Vitra by Daniel Libeskind. Image courtesy of JHSF

What makes Steven Holl and Le Corbusier alike?

Learn how the architect took on the ambitions of Le Corb et al, shaping (and sketching) them for a new era

Water colour sketch for St. Ignatius Chapel in Seattle by Steven Holl from our Steven Holl monograph

Wow! How did you get up there JR?

The artist and Phaidon author has been pretty busy in Philly and New York this week, but what's he been up to?

Marc Azoulay (bottom) and JR in Philadelphia, 2015

Teen photographer finds the unguarded moment

What does the 14-year-old winner of this year's Sony World Photography Awards share with Steve McCurry?

Mellow Memories, by Stephanie Anjo, 14, Winner, Portrait, Youth Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards

12 American literary road trips mapped!

Now you too can take a jazz-age excursion or a continental hippy trip, courtesy of these cartographers

Atlas Obscura's literary road-trip map

Come with us on a trip to the Noguchi Museum

Stephen Shore & Tina Barney document people and place in a fascinating visual study of Noguchi's own creation

Photo Tina Barney from The Noguchi Museum A Portrait

Black Britain in black and white

Fascinating new Vanley Burke show displays the photographer’s prints and also the contents of his life

Baptism from Handsworth from Inside series, 1968-1982 by Vanley Burke. From At Home with Vanley Burke, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 22 July – 27 September 2015, ikon-gallery.org. Courtesy Vanley Burke and Ikon

Ex-student reworks Cornell's 104-year-old library

Viennese architect Wolfgang Tschapeller returns to his alma mater to renovate the university's Rand Hall

The Ho Fine Arts Library by Wolfgang Tschapeller

Hadid, Nouvel and BIG rework Jacobsen classic

Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chair just got a makeover - courtesy of some fine architectural talent

Series 7 - Zaha Hadid

How AIDS shaped art in America

A new exhibition examines the immense effect a big disease with a little name had on contemporary art

Niki de Saint Phalle, AIDS, you can’t catch it holding hands, 1987. Book. The Lapis Press, San Francisco © 2015 Niki Charitable Art Foundation. All rights reserved. Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, ADAGP, Paris.

Ai Weiwei just got his passport back!

The artist just Instagrammed this picture - hurray!


How Enrique Olvera turned Mexican food inside out

The star chef's first English-language cookbook shows how he's deconstructing a nation's gastronomic culture


Farewell Fiorucci - inventor of skinny jeans

We look back at the work of Elio, the Italian fashion designer and original denim magnate, who has died aged 80

Donna Jordan in 'Buffalo 70' advertising campaign. Photograph by Oliviero Toscani, 1973. From The Fashion Book

Meet Kipple - she really loves bread!

How a Japanese food stylist turned baking and cute doggie photos into a fun, tasty title

Half a rice cake loaf and half a cinnamon roll, café au lait and Kipple.

Theaster Gates reveals new church project details

The artist outlines his plans for Sanctum, a 24/7, three-week-long performance in a derelict British church

Temple Church, Bristol

Nan Goldin - photographer and illustrator?

Nan's gallerist and friend talks us through her new exhibition and his efforts to put her drawings on show

Colette in Sophia Loren drag, by Nan Goldin. Courtesy of Guido Costa Projects

Why DIY dates back to the Bauhaus movement

The author of our Do It Yourself Book talks us through the undercurrents of a 'new' designer DIY revolution

Branch Lamp, pendant light by Nils Holger Moorman, from Do It Yourself

Mario Bellini on Warhol, Playboy and the crazy 70s

The designer recalls a 1972 US road trip, contradicts Le Corbusier, and explains why he thinks the past matters

Architect and designer Mario Bellini

“Preserving is a bit like computer programming”

Clotilde Dusoulier, co-author of updated classic Preserving is finding new applications for old techniques

Illustration from the fruit chapter of Preserving

The book uncovering Europe’s great hidden cuisine

Nordic cuisine is a huge, under-examined aspect of European culture - Magnus Nilsson plans to change that

The back view of Stóra Dímun, Faroe Islands, early May 2012. by Magnus Nilsson. From The Nordic Cookbook

New show channels the spirit of Agnes Martin

Chewday's clever new show questions the way art is rapidly reduced to image data on social networks

Signal Failure at Pace Gallery - installation shot

When Warhol wanted to tap dance

A new exhibition looks back at the influence of choreography, film and rock music on the great Pop artist’s work

Andy Warhol at the Factory, 1965-1967 by Stephen Shore. From Warhol Underground

Introducing Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things

Deyan Sudjic's exquisite biography of the Italian design legend shows there was much more to him than Memphis

Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things

Oyster shell museum will celebrate Mexican culture

Mexican firm FR-EE hopes this unusually shaped building will help preserve and promote local traditions

Museo Mazatlán by FR-EE - image courtesy of FR-EE

An award-winning photo taken by a 15-year-old

This bright young Sony World Photography Award winner finds a new way of showing her national cultural heritage

Cante Alentejo, 2015 by Beatrz Rocha. (c) Beatriz Mota da Rocha, Portugal, Winner, Culture, Youth Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards

What Massimo Bottura cooked at Momofuku Ko

The chef brought his Post-Modena cookery skills to one of NYC's best restaurants last week

Massimo Bottura (centre) plans his Gelinaz menu with Wylie Dufresne (left) and Momofuku Ko's Joshua Pinsky. Image courtesy of the The Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle

Can JR's new book change your world?

The artist has already altered perceptions from Paris to Palestine - isn't it time he weaved his magic on you?


Take a look at Martin Parr's Nice photographs

The Magnum photographer has been shooting the Côte d'Azur's beautiful people for a beach-themed show

Martin Parr, Nice, 2015. From the photographer's recent pop-up exhibition

Steve McCurry's Advice for Young Creatives #2

There's nothing like practice, practice practice! for becoming the best at what you do says the Magnum photographer

Photographer Steve McCurry

Arriba! This Mexican best-seller is now in English

And René Redzepi has written the foreword for Tacopedia - everything you ever wanted to know about the taco

Tacopedia: The Taco Encyclopedia

René is in Bangkok, Massimo is in New York...

It's time for the The Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle. Can you work out where the world's great chefs are tonight?

Redzepi at Namh, Bangkok. Image courtesy of Lara Dunston's Instagram

If you could build your house on the side of a cliff. . .

Would it look like this one? Click through to see OPA's 'subterranean Casa Malaparte' proposal, Casa Brutale

Casa Brutale - Open Platform for Architecture

The playfully productive world of Mario Bellini

New book captures the childlike imagination of a designer responsible for inspiring the ubiquitous people carrier

MoMA Kar-A-Sutra, 1972, from Mario Bellini

Stephen Shore and Martin Parr hang out at Arles

The two great Phaidon photographers enjoy signings and retrospectives at the world's greatest photo festival

Stephen Shore and Martin Parr chat during a signing session at the Rencontres d’Arles

Looking back at Castro's Cuba

The International Center of Photography’s ¡Cuba, Cuba! show surveys half a century of revolutionary life

Andrew Moore, Torreon de Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, 1999. © Andrew Moore. Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. From ¡Cuba, Cuba!

Time to take a new look at our world?

The picture below is a map - Map: Exploring the World features 300 more, just as unusual, exciting and beautiful

Mapping the Brain, 2014, Human Connectome Project  Digital, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project. From Map

Can you guess who's playing the Migrant Mother?

Sandro Miller has recreated a series of classic photographs with a certain Hollywood actor taking the lead role

From Left: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 by Dorothea Lange; Dorothea Lange / Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936), 2014 by Sandro Miller. From the Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich - Homage to photographic masters series. Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.

RIP Juli Soler the man who launched Ferran Adrià

We're sad to report the death of the author, elBulli owner and Honorary President of the elBulli Foundation

Juli Soler in the kitchen of elBulli photo by Pere Duran

How Marc Chagall painted his own birthday - inspired by the love and gifts of his muse Bella

To mark the painter’s date of birth, 6 July, we look back to an early anniversary celebrated in this lovely painting

The Birthday (1915) by Marc Chagall. As reproduced in our Art & Ideas book dedicated to the artist

One show - 325 Chinese artists!

And you don't need to visit the People's Republic to see them all. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see the likes of Zhang Xiaogang Yin Xiuzhen, Zhang Huan, Xiao Xioaogang and Ai Weiwei courtesy of the M+Sigg Collection

On The Wall Shenzhen (2002) - Weng Fen image courtesy of the artist

Make your own Ai Weiwei original for just $15!

Or stretch out on a Konstantin Grcic sound system for $40 - you can make these and more in our new book DIY

Do It Yourself: 50 Projects by Designers and Artists

Right! Who wants dinner in under thirty minutes?

Quick and Easy Italian Recipes features world famous Silver Spoon meals in an even easier to use format

The Silver Spoon: Quick and Easy Italian Recipes

Danny Lyon's Conversations with the Dead

Danny Lyon spent 14 months photographing inside the Texas penitentiary system - this is what he found

Visiting Room - Danny Lyon from Conversations with the Dead

Preserving - another foodie trend we've got covered!

Learn how a perfectly conserved French cookery book from 1948 inspired our great forthcoming title

Preserving by Ginette Mathiot and Clotilde Dusoulier

Sarah Lucas makes 'marrow' for US embassy gardens

The Venice Biennale artist is creating a gourd-shaped work for Vauxhall at the behest of Norman Rosenthal

Installation view of NOB + Gelatin (2013) by Sarah Lucas. Photo by Wolfgang Thaler. Image courtesy of Sadie Coles

Festival design that lets the music do the branding

Swiss designer Alexandre Pietra's treatment for this summer's For Noise festival puts the headliners centre stage

Alexandre Pietra's treatment for the For Noise festival

Moon Hoon's display of brotherly love

Korean architecture practice creates a brace of lunar landscape-inspired properties for two brothers

Two Moon - Moon-Hoon

Introducing the amazing Modernist Cuisine!

Stephen Hawking’s former research scientist will blow your mind with this 2438 page study of how cookery works

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. Photo by Ryan Matthew

First look inside the new Design Museum

John Pawson's minimalist masterpiece is taking shape inside London's former Commonwealth Institute

Work gets underway inside the new Design Museum. Photography by French + Tye

Introducing Magnum Photos' new members!

The photography cooperative has just added six new members to its ranks. Do you know their work?

Nominee Lorenzo Meloni sprays the celebratory champagne at Magnum Photos' 2015 AGM. © Jean Gaumy/Magnum Photos

Takashi Murakami joins Ferran Adrià in Ibiza

Take a look at some of the contemporary art on show at the elBulli chef's amazing new Balearic venture

Sage (2014) by Takashi Murakami, on show at Heart in Ibiza this summer

Jacob Kassay’s comeback — as an architect

The hot young artist fell from favour last year. Yet he seems to have reinvented himself with this new Belgian show

Installation image from Jacob Kassay's HIJK exhibition. Photo credit: Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

News of our Grace Coddington book has leaked!

It's true! We're publishing the BIGGEST book in fashion - think of it as Phaidon's September issue

Grace Coddington

Steve McCurry's Advice for Young Creatives

Legendary Magnum photographer's advice for graduates this summer: #1: 'Be proactive!'

Steve McCurry - photograph by Bruno Barbey

Berlin looks back at queer art and culture

Homosexuality_ies, a wide-ranging show, opens at two museums in the German capital this Pride weekend

Walpurgis Night demonstrations, 1983, Berlin - photograph by Petra Gall From Homosexuality_ies

Name the architects behind the Serpentine Pavilions

Pentagram helps the Serpentine launch its 2015 Build Your Own Pavilion project by illustrating every one of them

Pentagram's Serpentine Pavilion illustrations. Image courtesy of Pentagram

JR helps Baltimore students say #BlackLivesMatter

Students at the city's Morgan State University use the artist's Inside Out project to express an important truth

Morgan State University’s Inside Out project, #BlackLivesMatter, at 1400 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore. Photography by Kelli Williams and Christopher Metzger

The Ai Weiwei and Luc Tuymans bromance!

What did the talk turn to when the Belgian painter visited Ai Weiwei's first ever show in China?


Why we love this award-winning photo by a teenager

Yong Lin Tan won Youth Photographer at the Sony World Photography Awards - we asked him how he did it

Back Alley, Alor Setar, Malaysia, 2015, by Yong Lin Tan, winner of the Youth Photographer of the Year award at the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards

Gillian Wearing and Tacita Dean on their art schools

The Phaidon artists remember what they made for their degree shows and why they didn’t expect great success

From left: Gillian Wearing and Tacita Dean's work from their degree shows. Images courtesy of the artists

Whatever you do, don't look down!

The Inside Awards in Singapore celebrate the world's best interiors - take a look at these great images

Medibank Workplace by HASSELL

MAD build hilltop village in Beverly Hills

Chinese practice reinvents the Mediterranean hill town for 21st century LA - complete with vertical garden

Renderings for 8600 Wilshire by MAD

From Real Estate to Surreal Estate

MoMA's latest exhibition looks at one of the most radical reinterpretations of domestic architecture ever

Exterior view of the Endless House model (1958) by Frederick Kiesler

A+ Architecture – the Grotto Sauna

This Canadian sauna uses modern technology and age-old craft to create a breathtaking, lakeside interior

The Grotto Sauna, Georigan Bay, Ontario, Canada by Partisan Projects. From our new Architizer A+ Awards 2015 book

McDonald’s targets cyclists with mobile packaging

Restaurant giant hops on the bike boom with a nifty way of transporting burger and fries - without risk of flipping

An end to flipping over? Cyclist friendly packaging from McDonald's

'What's going on in Chinese photography? A lot'

The director of Photo Shanghai on Asia's rising stars, censorship and what to watch out for when buying a photo

Photo Shanghai Director Alexander Montague-Sparey - photograph by Sean Cunningham

When Pollock stopped dripping and splashing

A new Tate Liverpool show looks back at a lesser-known period in Jackson Pollock's creative output

Number 8, 1951 (Black Flowing) by Jackson Pollock. As reproduced in our Jackson Pollock Phaidon Focus book

Foster banishes the car underground in China

Architect's new project cleverly relocates traffic beneath the feet of Wuhan residents and workers


Foiling the Forgers with Noah Charney – Vermeer

Our author recalls the time a Dutch forger had to recreate a work sold to the Nazis in order to get off death row


A first look at the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion

A gallery of images detailing the construction of this year's pavilion by Madrid architects SelgasCano

Serpentine Pavilion 2015 - SelgasCano photograph courtesy NAARO

Dan Graham’s playful critique of Le Corbusier

The artist has deconstructed social architecture for decades - so what has he made of Le Corb’s famous rooftop?

Dan Graham at MAMO. Photograph by Sébastien Véronèse

The typeface that comes with its own spy film

Fontsmith has enlivened the launch of its new 'enigmatic type' FS Silas by giving it its own mini-movie

Fontsmith's FS Silas - The first typeface with an accompanying spy movie?

Anish Kapoor - attack on Dirty Corner ‘a tragedy’

Sculptor says spattering of Versailles sculpture with yellow paint is ‘extremely sad’ and 'a political act'

Paint splatters on Anish Kapoor's Versailles work, Dirty Corner. Image courtesy of Sophie Walker's Instagram

MoMA buys the Rainbow Flag

We explain the strong message behind a simple piece of cloth that's now become a National treasure

The rainbow flag waving in the wind at San Francisco's Castro District. Photo by Benson Kua. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

Libeskind and Hadid remember their childhoods

New show sees prominent architects and designers reflecting on their formative experiences as kids

Daniel Libeskind playing his accordion in Lodz, Poland, 1955 aged 9; right: Jewish Museum Berlin (2001), photo courtesy Daniel Libeskind Studio, New York

Katy Grannan’s fallen stars on the highway

Photographer’s new series looks at the fortunes and misfortunes of the overlooked and undervalued

Inessa Waits Near South 9th Street, Modesto, CA, 2012 © Katy Grannan, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Salon 94, New York

Is this ex-OMA architect 'doing a Dujardin'?

Ole Scheeren's Vancouver skyscraper reminds us of the work of Shooting Space photographer Philip Dujardin

1500 West Georgia by Buro Ole Scheeren and a photo from Filip Dujardin's Fictions series (2007-11) as featured in the book Shooting Space

Thea Westreich Wagner on who to buy at Art Basel

'The artists of moment are the ones engaged in expanding our understanding of our time on this planet' she says

A still from Hito Steyerl's video How Not to Be Seen (2013) - 'a majorly important artist' according to Collecting Art for Love, Money and More co-author Thea Westreich Wagner

René Redzepi joins Massimo Bottura’s soup kitchen

The Phaidon chef is feeding discarded food to Milan's poor and he's asked his famous friends to help out

René Redzepi and Massimo Bottura, Milan, June 2015. Image courtesy of Sarah Canet's Instagram

The photo that made Elliott Erwitt a vegetarian

Magnum photographers pick the photo that 'changed everything' (or, just for a little while, in Elliott's case)

Venice, 1949 by Elliott Erwitt

Marlene Dumas takes it to church

South African painter will recreate the creation myths on an 18th century altarpiece in Germany

Broken Mirror (1988-89) by Marlene Dumas

Pentagram gives Shakespeare a makeover

The agency has reworked its Shakespeare in the Park designs into something rich and strange for the 2015 season

Shakespeare in the Park 2015 poster in the New York subway. Photo by Claudia Mandlik. Image courtesy of Pentagram

The antique art technique finding new favour

What is metalpoint? And why are two NYC galleries showing great new drawings using this old method?

SP. 5 (2010) by Michael Kukla

'What’s that thing doing, blocking the view?'

Anish Kapoor on the strange things people say about his new Versailles exhibition

Dirty Corner (2015) Courtesy Kapoor Studio and Kamel Mennour. Photo: Fabrice Seixas © Anish Kapoor 2015

Martin Parr's first fashion collection

Martin Parr does 'oh so British' fashion shoot for Henry Holland's House of Holland label (sandals not included)

Martin Parr for House of Holland

Margot Krasojevic's Himalayan snow shelter

Zaha Hadid protegé's latest structure boasts a sci-fi power system to warm the heart of any lost trekker

The artificial snow cave hut emergency shelter - Margot Krasojevic

The Simpsons-inspired site predicting the art market

Art Rank's founder explains how Instagram and Google Trends let him forecast the rise and fall of new artworks

Art Rank founder Carlos Rivera

Art + ice cream - does it get any better?

Daniel Burns and Davide Balula on this week's art and artisanal ice cream Art Basel collaboration

A promotional image for Painting the Roof of your Mouth (2015) by Davide Balula; dimensions variable. Courtesy Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. With the support of Noirmontartproduction, Paris

Come and meet us at The Affordable Art Fair!

If you're near North London this weekend come and say hello and pick up some great books

Our stand at The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London

Roni Horn's Butterfly Doubt

Hauser & Wirth show serves as a testament to her practice of drawing which she likens to breathing


JR is making a film with Agnes Varda

The French artist is looking for funding for a proposed new venture with the 87-year-old New Wave director

Agnes Varda and JR. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Noah Charney- 'Hirst and Koons are like Old Masters'

The Art of Forgery's author discusses the knotty problems of art and authentication with WNYC's Leonard Lopate

Author Noah Charney

'Richard Prince is a jerk and he sucks'

As Prince's New Portraits series opens in London, we look at the diverse reactions the work has received

An installation shot of Richard Prince's New Portraits series. Courtesy of the Gagosian gallery.

Norman Foster remembers Louis Kahn

The Pritzker Laureate pays tribute to the pioneering architect on accepting The Louis Kahn Memorial Award

Norman Foster

Herzog & de Meuron’s forest-inspired stadium

Swiss architects draw inspiration from the slim trees in the nearby Landes Forest of Bordeaux

Herzog & de Meuron's Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux

A Movement in a Moment: Realism

How Gustave Courbet, born today, 10 Jun, in 1819, helped create a movement around the painting of ordinary folk

The Stonebreakers (1849) by Gustave Courbet

Ai Weiwei splits a temple at his debut Chinese show

The artist's first solo show on Chinese soil both asserts and undermines his country's national characteristics

Part of Ai Weiwei's 400-year-old temple, installed at the Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing. Image courtesy of the center

Live-sleep-eat-in-it office space unveiled

Hotel in a shipping container aims to capitalise on underused urban space - good bye work life balance. .

LOT-EK's renderings for Spacious's co-working hotel

6 artists who influenced the new Jeff Koons show

The Koons retrospective opens today at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Can you spot these artists among his influences?

Jeff Koons next to Puppy, Bilbao, 2015. Photo by Erika Barahona Ede

The illustrated guide to New York

New MTA show at the Society of Illustrators takes a look at the changing face of the city over the last 30 years

Embrace (2008) © Carlo Stanga image courtesy Metropolitan Transportation Authority