Is the GIF a good fit for fine-art photography?
US photo duo's new series uses the image format to explore new ground between still and motion pictures

The incredible story behind Flag by Jasper Johns
Johns’s most famous work took in the Civil War, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Egyptology - here's how

What you get when you mash up Mies with Le Corb
Farnsavoye, a hybrid of two 20th-century masterpieces, where plagiarism is a key design feature

What would you hang beside a Wolfgang Tillmans?
Warhol, Eggleston and Richter take their place next to the photographer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Richard Estes and the art of the photograph
New Focus book and Portland retrospective shed light on the strained relationship between art and photography

How Dronestagram is changing aerial photography
Cheap, remote-controlled aircraft are helping inspired photographers reach new, low-level altitudes

Olafur Eliasson paints Turner
The Danish artist and English painter have a lot more in common than you might at first suspect

Take a look inside a real gardener's garden
We launch our new book The Gardener's Garden at Munstead Wood, the quintessential English garden

The future of North Korean tourism: flying hotels?
Utopian visions, one of the most intriguing Venice Biennale presentations, inspires a real architecture tour

Steve McCurry goes wild in Africa
The legendary photographer takes Etnia sunglasses on a South African safari for its summer campaign

Frank Gehry’s models on the move in France
The Pritzker laureate’s maquettes feature in a new Arles show, alongside works by David Lynch and Tino Sehgal

Alain de Botton on Therapy as Art
Our Art as Therapy author praises two therapeutic shows, proving that art isn’t simply an impractical pursuit

Inter Milan's brand update is a winner
The Italian football club looks to the past when reworking its visual identity for the 21st century

UK architects make the Hollywood sign disappear
What has London practice Ordinary Architecture done to this landmark, as part of LA's On The Road project?

Bold new Belgian architecture in the Atlas
Our online resource takes a look at some of the finest new buildings from the land of Magritte and moules-frites

The show that mixes minimalism with the astral plane
CLEAR at Gagosian Beverly Hills pairs new artists with those from the California Light and Space movement

Five things we learned from reading Émigrés
With its tales of triumph in the face of adversity this history of wartime publishing is a fascinating, fact packed read

Kandinsky’s teaching celebrated in Bauhaus show
Show at Bauhaus-Archiv brings together archive lecture notes and exercises his students undertook for him

Choices are limited in Sterling Ruby’s clothing shop
The artist’s joint venture with Belgian designer Raf Simons offers just a couple of garments for a week at a time

How Bruce Nauman turned corridors into artworks
We look back at how, with a simple bit of architecture, the great American artist altered the gallery experience

The story behind Mies van der Rohe's name changes
With his numerous name changes he joined a roll call of avant-garde artists intent on reinventing themselves

Knoedler case forger protests innocence in interview
Pei-Shen Qian tells ABC’s Nightline he was surprised anyone fell for his abstract expressionist forgeries

The most experimental buildings in the Phaidon Atlas
The latest Phaidon Atlas focus is on buildings that push the limits of inspiration, technology and technique

Moshe Safdie's tropical airport complex
Can Moshe Safdie and Associates Project Jewel turn Singapore’s Changi Airport into a genuine tourist attraction?

Is this really one of Britain’s favourite artworks?
Art Everywhere launches soon, showing the UK's favourite art on poster sites. What do you make of the works?

Carlo Scarpa’s surprisingly traditional legacy
The architect’s work might still look modern, yet as a new Venetian show makes clear, Scarpa built on traditions

The tiny American town on show at Arles
Why did Dutch photographer Pieter ten Hoopen spend over a decade shooting in one Montana hamlet?

Could this propeller-shaped airport get airborne?
Bangkok practice offers land-locked Niger a sleek transport hub based on an antique aeronautical design

Steve McCurry at Alessandro Del Piero’s gallery
Italian footballing legend celebrates shared love of teamwork and excellence in new McCurry exhibition

Rotterdam Kunsthal thieves fined €18 million
Dutch court orders Romanian thieves to pay insurers for destroyed Picasso, Monet and Gauguin works

Redzepi, Atala and Nilsson in Vice food show
We're only two episodes in, but we like what we’ve seen so far from Vice's chef show, Being Frank

As Little Design as Possible is now on the iPad
And here's Apple Senior VP Jonathan Ive on how he was 'enchanted' by Dieter Rams as a boy

Don't like Koons? Maybe you don't like your culture
'In judging Jeff you need to answer the question: What do you think of your culture?' say our Wild Art Authors

Martin Parr’s postcards from Milwaukee
Parr and ten other Magnum photographers capture beer city as part of their on-going US documentary project

Why does Monica Bonvicini like smashing things up?
Whether it's shattered safety glass or hammered dry walling the Italian artist sees the beauty in destruction

How Louis Kahn's drawings changed his architecture
New show and Phaidon monograph show how drawings from Egypt influenced use of form, light and shape

On Kawara's date paintings explained
The Japanese conceptual artist died last week but his date paintings allow him to transcend history

Have you seen BIG’s new Washington maze?
'I had anxiety attacks that it was going to be too easy,' says Bjarke Ingels, 'but it’s actually pretty confusing'

Nan Goldin in the World of Marc Jacobs
The legendary Eden and after photographer turns up for her signing at Bookmarc dressed head to toe in ...

Coop Himmelb(l)au imagine a cloak of invisibility
Edward Snowden's winter wardrobe sorted - courtesy of one of the architecture firms in the online Atlas

Paula Scher on her Philly Art Museum rebrand
Pentagram partner and Phaidon author talks about how she 'uninstitutionalised' an institution

Tadao Ando's new gallery puts the landscape on show
The Pritzker laureate says his new Clark Visitor Center allows art and nature to be enjoyed simultaneously

Martin Parr, now with added captions
A new show pairs the photographer's images with pithy quotes from his subjects

Why this year's MAD will be pretty sane
René Redzepi's Alex Atala-hosted food and cooking symposium will remind us what cooking is really about

The Insider's Guide to Belgrade
Design Week CEO Vesna Jelovac on her favourite places featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

The Google guide to DevArt
Steve Vranakis, Executive Creative Director of Google’s Creative Lab, talks through the tech firm’s debut art show

The Empire State's twinkling tribute to Warhol
New York's best-loved art deco skyscraper honours the pop artist who made it a film star half-a-century ago

The duo bringing Baldessari and lolcats.com to Arles
French artists Mazaccio & Drowilal say their exhibition Wildstyle will serve as a safari into unnatural imagery

Five buildings that will help you work smarter
Our new Phaidon Atlas focus looks at how architects are helping us break away from the desk and cubicle model

Putting the emotion back into art buying
Supposing it was the biggest reaction, not the biggest bid that secured you a piece of art at auction

Does Jeff Koons still have the power to shock us?
Eileen Costello, author of our Brice Marden book, wonders whether the artist is still interested in dividing opinion

Why does Zach Lieberman's piano play the radio?
New York digital artist explains his Google-commissioned exhibit - inspired by the music in a yellow cab

Understanding David Smith’s Circles
A new US show of the artist’s key set of works allows gallery-goers a chance to reassess his circular works

Why Ciril Jazbec is On Thin Ice
The brightest young photojournalist at Arles says his lifelong work will be an encapsulation of climate change

Ai Weiwei's Native American installation
Chinese artist responds to New Mexico commission with a work recalling his own exile in a similar landscape

Kengo Kuma rolls out the barrel in Tokyo
Kayanoya in Tokyo is latest - perhaps greatest - example of architect's current wood first approach

Is Erik Kessels the smartest photo curator around?
Dutch art director, collector and curator gives us the lowdown on his new Arles Rencontres show Small Universe

Yuri Suzuki on Will.i.am, Robert Moog and Jeff Mills
We catch up with the sound artist at the Barbican's Digital Revolution show

John Pawson on retuning the Design Museum
We talk to the acclaimed architect and Phaidon author about his work on the Commonwealth Institute building

Movie making the Gilbert & George way
On the eve of a Lehmann Maupin NY show we look at how they made The World of Gilbert & George movie

Google’s Aaron Koblin on Digital Revolution
We chat to the artist, designer and leader of Google's Data Arts Team at the Barbican’s new immersive art show

The Insider's Guide to Frankfurt
Designer Sebastian Herkner on his favourite places as revealed in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

KREOD's Olympian ascent
Rio Pavilion is the latest project from the fast-growing design and architecture practice

When the Cold War went domestic
A new exhibition looks back at an era when the Soviet Union tried to better America's consumer goods

Bridget Riley by the man who knows her best
Phaidon author Richard Shiff walks you round a fantastic David Zwirner show of her Stripe Paintings

How Manifesta 10 is beating Russia’s anti-gay laws
Artists at the roving biennial have expressed themselves quite freely, despite new anti-gay legislation

Monica Bonvicini defined in five great works
Sex, styrofoam and stairways to hell - the thought-provoking artworks that will turn you on to this great Italian artist

Ross Lovegrove on design, nature and computers
We catch up on the great British designer's plans for the future at the launch of the online Phaidon Atlas

Parr, Bailey and Eijkelboom at Arles 2014
Long-standing Arles director François Hébel draws on old friendships for his final Rencontres production

Take a look at this new Ferran Adrià FT dinner video
Want a little glimpse at our super select Pollen Street Social dinner for How To Spend It readers? Of course you do

Young Americans of the Atlas
This week's Editor's Focus in the Phaidon online Atlas takes a look at new architectural talent in the United States

The Insider's Guide to Reykjavik
Filmmaker Vera Sölvadóttir on her favourite places as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

Martin Parr in New York and Austin
The British photographer charms New York Magazine and the crowds at the Austin Center for Photography

How to snag a table at Noma Tokyo
René Redzepi's Japanese pop-up might not open until 2015, but booking registration closes early next month

Carsten Höller's new slide opens at the Vitra campus
Vitra Slide Tower is “a sculpture you can travel inside” - though you can appreciate it even if you don't take a ride

Less is More at Valentino's Chipperfield NYC store
The British architect is brought in by the Italian label to reduce 'superficial decoration' in its key flagship stores

Dieter Rams inspires Jason Wu
The Taiwanese Canadian designer draws from Braun’s ex-chief design officer for his new Resort Collection

Why Chilean architecture is having a moment
As the Serpentine Pavilion opens, we talk to Chile's cultural attaché and the minister for architecture and design

Why Joseph Beuys made a child’s telephone
A new Munich show of Beuys’s multiples offers great insight into the artist’s practice and concerns

Five unlikely choices from Art Everywhere US
We look at a few of the less-obvious choices in a poll for America’s summer billboard art show

Sou Fujimoto tells us about the bus stop he built
What happened when the Serpentine Pavilion architect went to the tiny Austrian village of Krumbach?

Have you seen Richard Prince’s Woodstock poster?
The US artist returns to the famous 60s rock festival, both lyrically and figuratively, for his new exhibition's poster

Monica Bonvicini on sexing up Minimalism
How the Italian artist finds fetishism everywhere - from building sites to Carl Andre works

World's earliest figurative art gets UNESCO status
The Chauvet Cave, championed by Phaidon author Jean Clottes, receives World Heritage status

Odile Decq on her new architecture school
Celebrated Parisian architect and educator aims to engage students in the 'laboratory of everywhere'

Le Corbusier cousin’s house reimagined in Basel
Art duo Kolkoz rework Pierre Jeanneret’s prefab house in a celebration of the architect and designer’s work

David Adjaye does neo-brutalism in New York
Affordable housing references Sugar Hill area's rows of terraced housing by placing one 'row' on top of another

See how the chefs eat
Literati Books and Vellum restaurant in Ann Arbor team up for a very special Eating With The Chefs meal

Focus on these futuristic façades
The Phaidon Atlas takes a look at some beautifully rhythmic digitally fabricated skins

"My first spherified olive was a revelation!"
Modernist Cuisine's Nathan Myhrvold pays tribute to elBulli 2005-2011 creator Ferran Adrià - "a philosopher and avant-garde provocateur who can reference the history and future of gastronomy in a single bite"

The Insider's Guide to Tallinn
Textiles designer Kärt Ojavee on her favourite places as revealed in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide

Tadao Ando’s first New York City project
The Pritzker laureate hopes his modest seven-storey block will “embrace the industrial character of the area”

What’s hot at Art Basel?
Warhol, Ruby, Nauman and Richter, are snapped up by collectors at the world’s biggest contemporary art fair

Björk comes to MoMA in 2015
The Icelandic artist is the subject of a full career retrospective curated by Klaus Biesenbach in March

V&A to open China’s first ever design museum
Arts and design institution is teaming up with Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki in Shenzhen

How Kuramata’s sushi bar ended up in Hong Kong
The great Japanese designer’s sole remaining work of interior design has joined M+’s permanent collection

MAD Architects talk about latest project
Nanjing urban complex references mountains, water and winding pathways found in Chinese shan-shui paintings

The Gwangju Biennale's incendiary plans
Curator Jessica Morgan draws from Talking Heads’ song Burning Down the House for the 2014 Biennale

Six things you need to know about Monica Bonvicini
Fetishism, Freud and transparent toilets - a brief guide to this great Italian artist’s work

Why Wolfgang Tillmans is choosing to show in Russia
The German artist will take part in Manifesta10 at St Petersburg Hermitage despite Russia’s new anti-gay laws
