Look what Renzo Piano has squeezed into Paris

Piano's building for film company Pathé snakes in between the façades of the XIII arrondissement

The Pathé Foundation, Paris, by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

So, is there such a thing as national architecture?

OMA's Stephan Petermann, Diébédo Francis Kéré and MAD's Ma Yansong join us for a great debate in Venice

OMA's Stephan Petermann, The British Council's Vicky Richardson and MAD Architects' Ma Yansong

Roald Dahl’s Bacon portrait of Freud up for sale

1967 study of Lucian Freud was originally bought on the proceeds from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Francis Bacon - Study for Head of Lucian Freud, 1967 oil on canvas 14 x 12in. (35.5 x 30.5cm.) Image courtesy of Christie's

What happened at the London elBulli dinner?

Guests and editorial executives from The Financial Times joined the elBulli chef for a gala meal and presentation

Pollen St Social prepares just prior to last Wednesday's event

Bruce Nauman: from Smart Aleck to True Artist

Writer and author Peter Plagens explains how his view of Bruce Nauman went from disdain to admiration

Waxing Hot from Eleven Color Photographs, 1966-7/70 - Bruce Nauman

Meet the speakers at today’s Phaidon talk

Great minds from Canada, the Netherlands, China and Burkina Faso discuss the state of national architecture

Diébédo Francis Kéré

Why is Cliff Richard in the British Pavilion?

Sam Jacob and Wouter Vanstiphout’s show at the Venice Architecture Biennale takes a pop view of town planning

Cliff Richard's Take My High (1973) sleeve, as featured in Clockwork Jerusalem

Larry Clark’s first movie screened in Amsterdam

The Foam gallery will be showing Clark’s early 16mm film, alongside shots from Tulsa and Teenage Lust

A frame from Tulsa 1968, by Larry Clark

Have you seen Massimo Bottura’s art collection?

The chef talks through his collection of paintings, photographs and bronze bin bags with the Wall Street Journal

Massimo Bottura by Paolo Terzi

Monica Bonvicini shows some love in Zurich

Look out for the Italian artist’s Desire (2006) in the Swiss city this summer, as part of a wider retrospective

Desire (2006) by Monica Bonvicini

The Dominican Republic’s concrete legacy at Venice

The national submission remembers its 1956 fair, and how its citizens now live their lives in among the architecture

An image from Fair Concrete/La Feria Concreta

Deyan Sudjic and Barbara Radice on Sottsass

The Design Museum director and Sottsass’s widow discussed the great man last night. Here are some highlights

From left: Deyan Sudjic, Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice

America brings an architect's office to Venice

The American Pavilion’s 'Office US' looks at how Meier, Saarinen and Wright built abroad

Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin West. Scottsdale, Arizona, 1950. Photo: Ezra Stoller, Esto. All images courtesy of the US Pavilion

When Ettore Sottsass met Barbara Radice

To mark tonight’s Design Museum talk, we look at how Sottsass’s second wife enabled him to reach new heights

Barbara Radice by Ettore Sottsass, Como, 1977

What links Mies van der Rohe to Ferris Bueller?

How director and Chicago native John Hughes sought out a Mies protegé's building for his 1986 film

The Beech St home built by Mies protégés A. James Speyer and David Haid, as featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Welcome to the Sottsass pleasure Dome

The great designer Ettore shunned public commissions, favouring ambitious private, hedonistic undertakings

Models for Twin Dome City Complex, Fukouka, Japan, 1991-93, by Ettore Sottsass

Georgia O’Keeffe’s little sister’s retrospective

The Dallas Museum of Art appeals for Ida O’Keeffe anecdotes ahead of a show dedicated to the little known artist

Detail from Variation on a Lighthouse Theme II, c. 1932 by Ida O'Keeffe

The Insider's Guide to Venice

Event organiser Tommaso Speretta reveals his favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide


Unseen since 1970 Bacon tryptych up for sale

Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer was painted at the height of his passionate affair with the petty criminal

Unseen since 1970 - Three Studies for the Portrait of George Dyer - Francis Bacon - photograph courtesy Sotheby's

When Sottsass met Bob Dylan and the beat poets

How a life-threatening illness led to the Italian designer meeting Kerouac and co

(l-r) Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Peter and Julian Orlofsky photographed by Ettore Sottsass, San Francisco, USA 1965

Steve McCurry's most difficult assignment

He's been in every war zone on the planet but Iraq was to prove his most difficult challenge

Al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad, Iraq - Steve McCurry

Take a look at Richard Prince's latest Instagram art

The artist is back on Instagram, and using posts from the photo-sharing site in a new series of works

Pamela Anderson by Richard Prince, from Richard Prince's Instagram account

Stephen Shore on photography's visceral connection

Watch our great video from the photographer's ICP talk in New York last week

Stephen Shore

How Sottsass went from page to product

We seek out the early sketches that became household objects for the design conscious

Factotum 1981 - Sketch and design Ettore Sottsass

Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin's Museum of Ethnology

The photographer’s contribution to the eighth Berlin Biennale takes in denim, sneakers and TV static

From left: computer programmed denim distress, 2013 TextileFespa Digital / Fruit Logistica / Airport Security / Silver / TV Static, (TSC), 2014 2 Glas, Holz, Offsetdruck, Laserstrahldruck, Tintenstrahldruck / 2 glass, inkjet print, laser print, offset print, wood; Astro Crusto, A, (2012) Inkjet print on paper; Jacket Air to Ground Recognition - Red, 2014 Textile; LeBron X - Dolphins, 2014; Installation view Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne; Maureen Paley, London; David Zwirner

Ten buildings built to be moved

From a lake school to Renzo Piano's eco hut, The Phaidon Atlas picks out some great portable buildings

Casa Transportable ÁPH80 by Ábaton is one of the Atlas choices

Massimo Vignelli 1931 – 2014

The Italian-born designer credited with introducing European modernism to American graphic design has died

The Italian-American designer Massimo Vignelli

Did Halston do to fashion what Warhol did to art?

A new exhibition at the Warhol Museum looks at the influences, careers and legacies of the designer and the artist

Right, Halston, by Andy Warhol, 1974; left: Warhol self portrait with fright wig, 1986

How good a cook was Ferran Adrià's mother?

The elBulli founder tells Time magazine about his mother's talents, his rules for anarchy, and how animals cook

Ferran talking to Time's Belinda Luscombe

Andy Warhol’s Rolls-Royce is on eBay

The pop artist’s 1974 Silver Shadow is for sale with the online auction house, with a starting price of $89,000

Andy Warhol's 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow

McDonald’s reduces its top dishes to pictograms

The fast-food chain’s new French campaign eschews heavy branding for an illustration of its six big dishes

TBWA Paris's pictogram campaign for McDonalds

René Redzepi chooses snow for his Desert Island

The Noma chef requests a single day of wintry conditions as his luxury on the BBC radio show Desert Island Discs

René Redzepi

Shore and Parr meet Phaidon Club members

Two stellar names in the photography world host special talks in London and New York

Martin Parr at London College of Communications

Ai Weiwei’s floral bike protest staged in London

A copy of the artist’s installation-cum-protest is chained up outside the Lisson gallery as part of his new show

Ai Weiwei's floral bike protest outside the Lisson gallery in London. Image courtesy of the gallery's Instagram account

Colin McDowell enters peak beard debate in Sydney

At the Sydney Writers’ Festival The Anatomy of Fashion author urges visitors to London to be clean shaven

The Anatomy of Fashion author Colin McDowell and fashionable friends: Claudia Schiffer, Donatella Versace and Tamara Mellon

How to shoot Tadao Ando's most beautiful houses

Photographer Edmund Sumner talks to us about his friendship with the architect and the Ando houses he’s shot

Tadao Ando's Monterrey house, by Edmund Sumner

Architectural Record's Innovation Conference

We just took our online Atlas along to one of North America’s most forward-thinking architectural events

LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, hosted yesterday's Architectural Record's Innovation Conference. Picture by Steve Hill

George Lois has some Damn Good (Greek) Advice

Advertising legend gives closing address at TEDx Thessaloniki to launch Greek edition of Damn Good Advice

George Lois delivers the last talk at TEDx Thessaloniki 2014

The biologist loved by Mies and Richard Hamilton

Why did the pop artist and modernist architect both draw inspiration from a controversial 1917 biological text?

Pages from the 1942 edition of On Form and Growth by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Edmund de Waal launches his monograph at the V&A

To mark the publication of his book, the artist put in his final public appearance of 2014 at the V&A last night

Atmosphere by Edmund de Waal, Margate Contemporary, 2014

Clerkenwell Design Week opens

Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, and Sir Paul Smith among big names at this year's east London design festival

James Dawe's design for Clerkenwell Design Week

The Memphis influence at New York Design Week

We detect the hand of Ettore Sottsass and co at New York’s independent design fair, Sight Unseen Offsite

Brendan Timmins' Memphis-inspired designs for the OBJECTS stand at Sight Unseen Offsite, New York

Wired beehive follows Heatherwick’s seed cathedral

The winning design for next year’s Milan expo draws attention to the world's dwindling honey bee population

Renderings of the UK pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015, by Wolfgang Buttress

Danh Vo artwork stolen in New York

Danish-Vietnamese artist's huge copper chain links are taken from City Hall Park

Danh Vo, We The People (detail), (2011-2014). Courtesy of Galerie Chantal Crousel. Photo: Nils Klinger. The stolen chain links are in the foreground of this image.

Mies tower wins architectectural prize after 42 years

Commissioned by IBM, the 52-storey Chicago tower had one of the first computerized air-conditioning systems

Chicago's AMA Plaza

Phaidon creatives at Clerkenwell Design Week

Ron Arad, Deyan Sudjic and a comforting take on Mies’s Barcelona chair are all present at the design festival

Vitra's products, pictured, will be on show at the London event

Hard to build? A little less so, thanks to The Atlas

From French viaducts to Swiss mist, this week our online Atlas reveals the know-how behind some tricky structures

Blur Building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Nazi-seized Cubist works finally on show

Three paintings by Fédor Löwenstein go on display in the city where the Third Reich first sequestered them

Composition (c. 1940) by Fédor Lowenstein

Ettore Sottsass by Deyan Sudjic

We ask the Design Museum Director to share some memories of his old friend and the subject of our new book

Ettore Sottsass

Getting to know Sterling Ruby

As the artist’s New York show receives rave reviews, the fashion press proves to be a rich source for profiles

The Cup (2013) by Sterling Ruby, from Sunrise Sunset

NYC's 9/11 Memorial Pavilion is complete

Snøhetta says it has struck a balance between the everyday life of the city and a fitting quality for a memorial

The National 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavilion by Snøhetta

Meryl Streep celebrates Bruce Nauman with Phaidon

Film and artworld luminaries attend Tribeca launch of our Bruce Nauman monograph The True Artist

Meryl Streep, her husband Don Gummer, Laurie Fendrich and Lauren Kozol at the launch of Peter Plagens' book Bruce Nauman: The True Artist

What’s been a hit at Art Basel Hong Kong?

Fake states, suicidal firearms and modernist prison cells prove popular at the second annual Hong Kong art fair

Fire at Both Ends Automatic Handgun (2013) by Wang Luyan

Mary Ellen Mark wins Lifetime Achievement Award

George Eastman House, the world’s oldest photography museum, honours the brilliant American photographer

The cast of One FlewOver the Cuckoo’s Nest posing for their picture on location at Oregon State Hospital, 1975, by Mary Ellen Mark

Come to Phaidon's Venice Architecture Biennale talk

Architects from OMA and MAD will debate global architecture with Online Atlas editor Jean-Francois Goyette

Ordos Museum, Gobi Desert - MAD Architects

The Frieze work inspired by our Agnes Martin book

Cluj artist Ciprian Mureşan's drawing, Agnes Martin, looks towards our monograph for visual inspiration

Ciprian Mureşan’s 2014 drawing, Agnes Martin, at Frieze New York

Restoring Rothko's Black on Maroon

Sir Nicholas Serota and the Tate conservators tell Phaidon how they restored the vandalised painting


Richard Mosse wins the Deutsche Börse Prize

The Irish photographer’s Congo images, The Enclave, pick up the annual photography award

Richard Mosse,  Safe From Harm, North Kivu, eastern Congo, 2012 Digital C print, 48 x 60 inches
© Richard Mosse Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery

Who’s showing what at Art Basel Hong Kong

The art fair brings Eastern and Western works together, alongside a pulsing tower and a critique of local schooling

A rendering of Alpha Pulse by Carsten Nicolai

Adam Szymczyk at Frieze New York

We catch up with the Documenta director and author of our Pawel Althamer, Creamier and Diener & Diener books

Adam Szymczyk photographed by Juergen Teller

The Insider's Guide to Hong Kong

Architect JJ Acuna reveals his favourite places as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide


Massimo Vignelli wants a letter from Phaidon readers

The influential graphic designer is gravely ill and would welcome a flurry of tweets and mail during his last days

The Italian-American designer Massimo Vignelli

At home with Cindy Sherman

The American artist, more used to posing as other people, invites Architectural Digest into her house

Cindy Sherman poses for Architectural Digest

How Joseph Beuys celebrated his 63rd birthday

In an attempt to hurry along ‘the end of the twentieth century’ and to celebrate his 63rd birthday, on this day in May 1984 the artist planted 400 native tree and bush species in the Italian town of Bolognano

Planting the first tree; 7000 Oaks, Documenta VII, Kassel, 1982

Watch Edmund de Waal at the Met

Missed the stream of his talk with curator Sheena Wagstaff? Don't worry the video and pictures are here

Edmund de Waal

Frieze 2014 - the highlights

Get your face slapped, take a boat down the river and check out Wolfgang Tillmans' central nervous system

The Jesus Room, Al's Grand Hotel - Allen Ruppersberg

Banksy donates artwork to Bristol boys club

British graffiti artist admits he painted Mobile Lovers and tells the youth club leader he can do what he likes with it

Banksy's letter to Bristol youth leader Dennis Stinchcombe

Who’s showing what at Frieze New York

Gagosian has Ruscha, Zwirner has Judd, while Hauser & Wirth are offering a big-name study of the human body

Eric Fischl Art Fair: Booth #1 Play/Care, (2013) Courtesy the Artist, Victoria Miro, London and Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Is this Larry Gagosian’s new Foster apartment?

The world’s biggest art dealer has reportedly bought a new pad, ready in time for Art Basel Miami Beach


Pablo León de la Barra on Frieze and Latin America

The curator told us last night how our book Art Cities of the Future is part of a global change in the art world

Phaidon author and the Guggenheim’s UBS MAP Curator for Latin America, Pablo León de la Barra

Art Cities of the Future artists at Frieze

Three of the artists in the São Paulo section of our book are at Frieze this weekend. This is what they do

Landscape from the series Tapestries, 2009-12

Why Nan Goldin thinks kids are from another planet

The photographer talks through her Eden and After book in a great new Tate video

First step on the planet, by Nan Goldin, from Eden and After

Turner Prize 2014 shortlist catches up with Phaidon

Shortlist is heavy on mixed-media and collage and artists who've featured in past Phaidon books and web stories

Tris Vonna-Michell performing Finding Chopin (2005-2009)


Beatrix Ruff on Helen Marten and Jordan Wolfson

We just spoke to the new Stedelijk director about her upcoming Frieze talk with the LA and London artists

Beatrix Ruff - Director of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Phaidon artists shake up Frieze Projects

Get a room, take a ferry, and meet the invisible communities on Randall's Island, at this year’s Frieze Projects

Take an orange and throw it away without thinking too much (2006) by Koki Tanaka

Alain de Botton's advice for Frieze goers

"Know the state of your soul before making a purchase," Art as Therapy author advises

Alain de Botton - author of Art as Therapy

A Work In Progress wins James Beard Award

Our three in one book with René Redzepi just received one of the highest accolades in the food book world!

René Redzepi - he asked the team and all these iPhone images started turning up

Join us at an exclusive elBulli-inspired dinner

Former elBulli stager Jason Atherton will reinterpret dishes from Adrià’s legendary restaurant, courtesy of The FT

Ferran photographed in 2011 at the last ever dinner served at elBulli

How to survive Frieze New York

Our Collecting Art For Love, Money and More authors on how to do next week's art fair - without the fuss

Frieze New York

Brad Pitt buys Danny Lyon photo at Paris Photo LA

The Seventh Dog photographer's 1962 print of Clarksdale Police proves a hit with the 12 Years a Slave producer

The Police, Clarksdale, Mississippi 1962 - Danny Lyon from The Seventh Dog

Andoni Luis Aduriz by Per-Anders Jörgensen

The Eating with the Chefs photographer talks about how the Mugaritz head inspired his new book

Andoni Luis Aduriz by Per-Anders Jörgensen from Eating with the Chefs

Zhang Huan talks Tibet at Pace Gallery

Our Contemporary Artists Series artist on the inspirational trip behind his new show Spring Poppy Fields

Zhang Huan photographed at Pace London April 24

Emilia Terragni on a cook book's crucial ingredients

Beauty or function? Our publisher, Lucky Peach’s editor-in-chief and Bon Appétit’s creative director test the recipe

Emilia Terragni (second from left) exchanges words with Peter Meehan at the Food Book Fair discussion panel, last weekend to her right Alex Grossman and Anne E McBride

Phaidon authors at Frieze New York Talks

From the Biennale director to the poet laureate of weather reports, here's how our contributors are involved

Phaidon contributor, Frieze Talks participant and future Venice Biennale director Okwui Enwezor

Have you seen Massimo Bottura's new video?

Check out the flamboyant star of our Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef book 'dropping the lemon tart'

Massimo Bottura from our Cook It Raw book

Come and join us at NADA New York next week

Phaidon comes to the NADA fair 9-11 May to shed some more light on the Art Cities of the Future

The entrance to NADA New York 2013

David Zwirner’s 80s New York and Cologne show

No Problem: Cologne/ New York 1984-1989 pairs works from the US metropolis and the German city

Jenny Holzer -  Selections from Under a Rock, 1986.  Cologne/New York 1984-1989

Massimo Bottura by Per-Anders Jörgensen

The Eating with the Chefs photographer describes his time shooting the skinny Italian chef in Modena

Massimo Bottura by Per-Anders Jörgensen, from Eating with the Chefs

Wilhelm Sasnal’s surrealist children’s show

Wilhelm tells us he's drawing on Hans Christian Andersen and psychedelic band Spacemen 3 in his new work

Untitled (2013) by Wilhelm Sasnal from Take Me to the Other Side

Ten Questions for Memphis member Barbara Radice

The journalist and confidant of Ettore Sottsass talks us through her time with the great man and his legacy

Barbara Radice by Ettore Sottsass, Como, 1977

René Redzepi live in San Francisco - video exclusive

The 50 Best winner toured with a series of films on his creativity last year - you can watch them exclusively here

René Redzepi

From 'blubber restaurant' to world's greatest (again)

The story behind René Redzepi's acceptance speech and all those 'wood sorrel conquered caviar!' tweets

Oh, René, you are terrible. Redzepi finds new 'ingredients' on the Australian leg of his global book tour

René Redzepi by Per-Anders Jörgensen

The Eating With The Chefs photographer tells us about working with the four times 50 Best Restaurants winner

René Redzepi by Per-Anders Jörgensen, from Eating with the Chefs

Introducing René Redzepi A Work In Progress

Phaidon's commissioning editor of food Emma Robertson on our new three-in-one book with the 50 Best winner

Phaidon's commissioning editor of food Emma Robertson with a copy of René Redzepi's A Work In Progress

Lars Ulrich on the world's best chef René Redzepi

Here's an excerpt from the Metallica drummer's introduction to our book that René referred to in his 50 Best speech

René Redzepi, 2011

René Redzepi's (NSFW) acceptance speech

Watch a video of the Noma chef's colourful acceptance speech at last night's 50 Best Restaurant Awards

Yes! René Redzepi at The 50 Best Restauarant Awards last night

René Redzepi regains world's best restaurant crown

Tonight's 50 Best Restaurant Awards ceremony sees Noma chef regain his top of the world ranking!

René Redzepi plans to move noma to Tokyo for two months next year

Art as Therapy welcomed at the Rijksmuseum

The press and the public love how Alain de Botton has transferred his book to the walls of the Dutch museum

Alain de Botton at the Rijksmuseum. Photograph by Vincent Mentzel

FT loves our Where Chefs Eat app

"The information in Where Chefs Eat is valuable" says the paper that knows what to invest in

Our Where Chefs Eat App