Maverick museum director plans collectors’ casino
Gambler and art lover David Walsh says MONA gambling den could swell museum coffers and draw tourists
How to create a tiny museum with a big impact
Seoul's Museum of War and Women's Human Rights tells a terrible tale from the confines of a suburban house
Ten questions for writer and curator Elias Redstone
The Shooting Space author and Constructing Worlds co-curator on new ways of looking at modernist icons, architecture as the backdrop to our lived experience and why he's still enthused and excited by the city
In NYC? Love art books? Then we've just got to meet!
Phaidon is at the New York Art Book Fair this weekend at MoMA PS1. Come down to meet us and our authors
First look at Ai Weiwei's new Alcatraz show
A million Lego bricks, Edward Snowden and Native American recordings all feature in a powerful show
What has Damien Hirst put in his new cabinet?
Butterflies, eggs, bleach and a lot of stuffed animals. If you're in Paris soon, you can see for yourself
Is the new Budapest metro better than your metro?
Spora Architects reimagines two stations in the Hungarian capital with stunning results
You really need to see Warhol's 'disco Rothko' chapel
If you're in LA you're in luck. Andy's serial take on site-specific, abstract painting gets a rare airing at MOCA
How a 17th century painting inspired a 70s LA photo
Stephen Shore tells us how his La Brea Ave photo was organised using Claude Lorrain's compositional technique
Schrager, Pawson and Herzog & de Meuron in NYC
Real-estate developer calls upon Phaidon author and architect and Pritzker laureates for downtown development
Gehry brings his Bilbao effect to Panama
The Pritzker laureate employs local, colourful tin roofing in quest to put Panama on the global museum map
So how do you restore a da Vinci masterpiece?
The Uffizi uses an entire wing of medical imaging gear, a wealth of knowledge - and no small amount of tact
Ten questions for Cristina Salmastrelli, the director of the Affordable Art Fair, New York City
She reveals how much works can go up by, why they have an artist in residence, and how they keep out the fakes
Toyo Ito creates opera house from sprayable concrete
The Pritzker laureate's labyrinthine new structure in Taiwan is designed to act as a sound cave
Take a look inside Nike's flying physio room
Sports giant and design agency Teague conceptualise airborne recuperation zone for US basketball team
Photos that changed the world: #3 Moonrise
How Ansel Adams' technical skill turned a fleeting scene into the new ideal for US landscape photography
Is this really Stephen Shore’s first retrospective?
Madrid show takes in motels, postcards, high concepts and print-on-demand experiments
Latin America’s tallest tower set for Buenos Aires
Parabolic curve is “a geometric abstraction that represents Argentina” says the government
Tomi Ungerer gets a medal from the French president
Phaidon children's author is given Order of Merit medal by François Hollande at the Élysée Palace in Paris
Introducing the new wave of cool Chilean architects
Latest Atlas Focus looks at practitioners working in one of the world’s most inspiring natural environments
What Theaster Gates did last summer
Chicago artist curates show focussing on artists of color themed around the idea of a retreat
Remembering the LA Olympics
Rauschenberg and Hockney's pop art creations for the 1984 games go on show in Switzerland
Photos that changed the world: #2 The Critic
Weegee’s 1943 photo outside the Met Opera influenced street photography, film noir and tabloid subterfuge
Why René Redzepi says Mexico is the next big thing
The chef tells the NY Times, “For many years in fine dining in Mexico, you had the cathedral on top of the pyramid.”
Jenny Holzer’s classified calligraphy
The artist looks back at an Afghan’s death in 2003 with a set of works examining the path to war
Salvador Dalí, celebrity chef
Our forthcoming cookbook anthology looks back at the master of surrealism’s 1973 foray into gastronomy
Gombrich Explains Turner
The historian admired the painter’s mastery of nature and the stagecraft with which he managed his visual effects
Miami’s new observation tower could come with rides
The developers of Florida’s answer to the Eiffel Tower promise fairground-style amusements as well as views
Our new author on how to write about art
Noah Charney, the author of The Art of Forgery, hosts a Guardian Masterclass on art writing
How sustainable is Foster + Partners' new airport?
It might sound like an oxymoron, but that's what the Pritzker-laureate’s firm is proposing for Mexico City
Photos that changed the world: #1 Horses Trotting
Eadweard J. Muybridge's 1879 print was the first to capture animals moving, changing both photography and art
Why Edmund de Waal’s pots are like prisoners
The ceramicist and Phaidon author’s decision to support a British charity offers a great insight into his work
Could you live in this cliff house?
An Australian housing firm says its concept house could enable home building on tricky parcels of coastal land
Netflix orders Nilsson and Bottura documentaries
The online video provider's first documentary series will focus on the stories behind the world’s greatest chefs
How Okwui Enwezor changed the art world
The Wall Street Journal charts the ascent of the Phaidon author, from poet to the director of the Venice Biennale
Where have Warhol’s Elvis and Brando been?
In a West German casino, since the seventies, of course, but this autumn they're going back to New York
How Mugaritz drew this season’s menu
The Spanish restaurant came up with appetizers that disappear and the most delicious cream ever made
Pulling down Mies van der Rohe’s glass curtain
Monika Sosnowska's new work, Tower takes down one of architecture’s best-known, most-loved buildings
London’s negative-free photo show
Michael Hoppen Contemporary shows how today's photographers are looking back to yesterday's techniques
Massimo Bottura on tour in the US
Osteria Francescana chef hits the road for six-city tour to promote his new book Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef
The Phaidon guide to art speak - Altermodern
Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time. Today, a word for what's after postmodernism
How Courbet retains the power to shock
A newly opened European exhibition places the French painter’s most explicit and controversial work at its centre
Benetton reworks everyday objects
Its communications research centre, Fabrica, redesigns a range of traditional goods for a new London show
Is there anything cooler than a Roger Ballen board?
Apart from one of his books of course. Familia celebrates 10th anniversary with the photographer's artwork
Hélène Binet’s trip through time
The photographer trains her lens on earth's oldest structures for a new show at the Ammann Gallery, Cologne
OMA's three in one theatre nears completion
Theatre-goers and thesps alike will be shaken up in Taiwan next year
Wolfgang Tillmans hangs with the modern masters
When Fondation Beyeler aquired his works it asked him to place them with others in its collection. But which ones?
Get your photo taken Magnum style!
Want to have your pic taken in the style of Martin Parr, Eliott Erwitt or Philippe Halsman? Here's how
Theaster Gates’ Black Monks hit the road
The Chicago artist takes his monastic order to Porto this month for 12 days of art, music, sermons and readings
Renzo Piano on how to design a museum
As it nears completion, Piano explains why his new home for the Whitney will 'hit NYC like a meteorite'
Yayoi Kusama: from fried onions to pumpkins
On the eve of her new show, the artist describes her more humble years in 1960s New York City
Why Joel Meyerowitz thinks this is his best photo
The photographer tells the Huffington Post why he keeps coming back to this image, taken in Paris 47 years ago
Hershey’s courts controversy with redesign
Candy company's new logo triggers Airbnb-style adverse reaction
Supertall skyscraper is adapted for London cityscape
SURE Architecture think this massive block could be adapted to suit the ancient streets of the British capital
The end of Martin Parr’s Black Country Story
The Magnum photographer’s extensive four-year project in the British Midlands rounds off with a major exhibition
Latino artists face down Modernism
The effect of Modernism on Latin America is charted at New York’s Bronx Museum of the Arts
Understanding Francesca Woodman
A new London exhibition of the late photographer’s work offers insight into her subtle flux of styles
What’s cooking in Noma’s science bunker?
Roman-style fish sauces, Nordic miso, blackcurrant leaf kombucha, cherry vinegar, and more
The Tehran house that turns with the seasons
In response to the Iranian capital’s extreme climate, a local architect has created a house with rotating rooms
Moscow’s graffiti foreign policy
Should the Russian Foreign Ministry really try to clean up Bulgaria’s Soviet Army Monument?
The good news is Warhol painted dad's portrait...
...the bad news is it was 13 Most Wanted Men, the long lost mural from NewYork's 1964 World's Fair
Mexican architects squeeze a city into a skyscraper
Studio Cachoua Torres Camilletti think their speculative proposal might suit a Hong Kong of the near future
Beirut’s startling underground museum plans
The Lebanese architect Galal Mahmoud wants to turn Martyrs’ Square into a permanent archaeological dig
Arts publishing versus the e-reader
The graphics magazine, Eye, looks at how high-quality art and design publishers have stemmed the digital attrition
The Phaidon guide to art speak - Unmonumental
Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time. Today, a word for scrappy sculptures
The Guggenheim goes back to Zero
The New York museum hosts the first large-scale US show dedicated to this influential German post-war group
Six radically converted historical buildings
The Phaidon Atlas’s latest feature proves contemporary architecture can incorporate both old and new buildings
Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi take on McDonald's
At René Redzepi’s MAD event, Coi's founder and a food truck star reveal plans to bring real food into inner cities
Understanding Anselm Kiefer’s Interior
Prior to the Royal Academy’s show, we look at one key work by the great German painter
Frank Lloyd Wright to put LA on the UNESCO map
The architect’s first house in Los Angeles is shortlisted for World Heritage status and due to reopen later this year
Copenhagen’s orange bike highway
A new £3.5m elevated cycle path relieves two-wheeled congestion enlivens the Danish capital’s waterfront
Paweł Althamer’s weird summer play set
Why has the Polish artist installed models of his family in an old Greek slaughter house on the island of Hydra?
Herzog & de Meuron build a stadium in a favela
The Pritzker-laureates cut out the air con and waive their fee to create the neighbourhood facility, Arena do Morro
Impressionism: officially 141 years old
A US professor believes he’s dated the scene captured in the painting that gave its name to an art movement
Why EarthArt beats Google
The New York Times' Michael Pollak tried an interesting experiment when he reviewed our Bernhard Edmaier book
Why Daniel Patterson is now serving the bill first
The Coi chef has switched his restaurant to a ticket system as he strives to ‘do something really great every time.’
A French concrete firm turns into an urban sculpture
That's the claim of VIB Architecture make for their new Ciments Calcia facility they've constructed in Paris
Look at the river Olafur Eliasson has just built
The main work in the artist’s show at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum, brings a whole new meaning to landscape art
The new material in Anthony Caro’s last show
Why the great British sculptor appreciated Perspex and Cezanne's Card Players during his final years
Warhol’s film archive gets a smart digital fix
MoMA and the Warhol foundation team up with the firm behind Godzilla to save the artist’s 16mm archive
Why are these nudes in the Barcelona Pavilion?
The French artist Xavier Veilhan gives the single figure in Mies' masterwork some latter-day company
See Lebbeus Woods’ futuristic sketches in Berlin
Early drawings by the radical architect and artist are on show at a new Berlin museum dedicated to draftsmanship
The Phaidon guide to art speak - Super-Hybridity
Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time
Ten questions for Artspace CEO Catherine Levene
The co-founder and CEO of the contemporary art website talks us through its acquisition by Phaidon, how her gran turned her on to art, the one piece she'd love to own and whether there really is an online art goldrush going on
Paweł Althamer declares his own people's republic
His debut Beijing show dwells on collaboration and social interaction across borders - so bring a paintbrush
A Champagne bar to stop Paris flooding
Former Zaha Hadid employee Dr. Margot Krasojevic's new plan holds back the Seine, but lets the bubbly flow
Where better to buy a copy of The Design Book?
Legendary St Marks Bookshop moves into new space with curvy new shelving courtesy Clouds Architecture Office
Shigeru Ban imagines Aspen Art Museum as a basket
New ski resort museum also references those early cardboard designs you'll find in his Phaidon monograph
Álvaro Siza makes his first splash in China
81-year-old's horseshoe structure perched on an island in Jiangsu Province is also his first on water
US Postal Service gets a makeover
Biggest rebranding in history sees the Postal Service get an updated, simplified design in patriotic colours
What has Cai Guo-Qiang just sailed into Shanghai?
Our Contemporary Artist series artist sparks environmental debate with his ark of sick animals
Turkish architect reinvents the mosque
Main prayer hall is replaced by two identical sacred spaces side by side in new design
Daido Moriyama and the scent of the city
How the Japanese photographer always looks for the dim light in a shadowy environment
Milton Glaser doesn't love global warming
Graphic design guru who gave us the "I heart NY’ logo in the 1970s turns his attention to a less benign topic
What Millais went through in order to paint Ophelia
As Ophelia returns to the Tate today, our Millais author Jason Rosenfeld tells us how the painter spent eleven hour days fighting off bulls, swans and 'muscular' flies in order to realise the most recognisable painting ever created
BIG creates a Zootopia for the animal kingdom
Not content with making life better for us humans, Bjarke Ingels and co turn their attention to the animal world
Robert McCarter celebrates Alvar Aalto
Here's what happened at our Aalto book launch in Minneapolis last night
Latitude festival rebrands with slick new image
We talk to Form co-founder Paul West about his and Paula Benson's work on that most Phaidon of UK festivals
