Pascal Hachem talks art and cities at NADA Miami
The artist thinks Beirut - one of our Art Cities of the Future - is caught between danger and hope
When a picture really is worth a thousand words
In celebration of a great life 1918-2013 - Nelson Mandela photographed by VII's Ron Haviv
Nan Goldin film premiers at Art Basel Miami Beach
I Remember Your Face documents life in Paris and Berlin and gets first US showing tonight - watch the trailer
D.O.M. photographs get their own gallery show
Sérgio Coimbra's serene images from Alex Atala's new book come to the Coningsby in London
Mana Morimoto's hand-stitched photographs
The Japanese wild artist and weaver simply loves “making thread beams come out of people’s eyes!”
The view inside Art Basel Miami Beach
A look at some Phaidon focussed imagery, courtesy of Gallerist NY, as one of the world's biggest art fairs opens
Zaha Hadid jewellery at Art Basel Miami Beach
Zaha Hadid goes for gold (and other precious metals) with Swiss jeweller Caspita
Okwui Enwezor to head up Venice Biennale 2015
The curator, writer and Phaidon author takes the directorship of the 56th International Art Exhibition
Aline Cautis talks art and cities at NADA Miami
LA-based artist on how the art scene in Cluj - nominated as one of our Art Cities of the Future - affected her work
Ai Weiwei on Miami, politics and Anish Kapoor
On the eve of his Miami opening, the artist and Chinese dissident says his work will always be "somehow political"
Grimshaw and Samoo create eco experience in Korea
Visitors will be able to wander from tropical rainforest, through cloud forest and into the Antarctic
Erika Verzutti talks art and cities at NADA Miami
The São Paulo Art Cities of The Future artist finds domestic tranquility in Brazil's "infernal activity"
Renzo Piano on building beside Louis Kahn
The Italian architect says his extension to Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum is "close enough for a conversation"
Alain de Botton explains how we should use art
The writer says art should serve the psyche in the same way as it once served the church
Robert Smithson in Texas
The "James Dean of art" has his posthumous plans put on show in Dallas, including drafts for four unmade works
Kai-Uwe Gundlach's downtime downtown photos
After a shoot the advertising photographer drops his crew and opens up the aperture for long-exposure cityscapes
How Shiro Kuramata was inspired by Kubrick's 2001
The visionary designer loved the 1968 film A Space Odyssey, but thought he could improve on the furniture
The other side of Athens
Petros Koublis captures the silent countryside that surrounds the capital's "desperate cry"
Martin Sharp 1942 - 2013
The Australian artist and graphic designer, best known for his psychedelic Oz magazine covers, has died
Herzog & de Meuron's artistic Indian debut
Do these designs for the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art remind you a little of Denys Lasdun's Southbank Centre?
Andy Warhol's Christmas sale
Christie's has assembled a Christmas-themed auction as part of its ongoing Warhol sales series
What to expect from Art Basel Miami Beach
A varied, international crowd, and a new limited-edition section come to the US's biggest contemporary art fair
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Salt Water Taffy
Our critically acclaimed and mellifluously-voiced author returns with another captivating story from his new book
Nike goes high-tech for Brazil's 2014 kit
The sportswear firm combines engineered fabrics with laser-cut holes for an easy breezy strip
Art City of the Future Johannesburg's avant-garde
Expect surreal disco and post-apartheid moodiness from a city that “does not tolerate indifference well”
Browsing the Munich art haul
219 works from Cornelius Gurlitt's collection are posted online including pieces by Picasso, Matisse and Dürer
How clothing can promote group harmony
From the Amish to New Romantics - Anatomy of Fashion author Colin McDowell on the inclusive effect of fashion
Crowd-funding brings the skyscraper back to Bogotá
66-storey BD Bagata tower by Alonso-Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados will be tallest building in Colombia
Laura Plageman's hand-folded photography
The Californian photographer bends, creases and screws up her images, even if she likes them
Peter Saville destroys Lacoste’s croc
How the graphic designer 'digitally shattered' the French sportswear logo
Contrast and continuity in Chinese art
By pairing works from different ages, the Chinese Art Book explores both shifts and stability within the nation
Studio Fuksas reworks Shenzhen Bao'an Airport
Italian architects take inspiration from manta ray for stunning new Terminal 3 building
Tadao Cern's Comfort Zone
The Lithuanian architect switched to a life as a photographer and shot this great beach series
René Redzepi on ten years of Noma
The Work In Progress chef says he's about to begin "a whole new journey"
Chris Johanson and co. go to Silicon Valley
SFMOMA's Project Los Altos brings some of the best contemporary artists into the home of the tech boom
The science and serenity of CERN
The industrial photographer Alastair Philip Wiper shoots the colourful and beautifully ordered in Geneva
Come and meet NADA, Artsy and us at Miami Beach
Phaidon is partnering with the New Art Dealers Alliance to celebrate and showcase Art Cities of the Future
How a corporate commission transfixed New Yorkers
AXA Equitable Building works by Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein and Scott Burton became a defining gift to the city
Art As Therapy proves (very) popular
Alain de Botton's guide to the therapeutic quality of art has had a great press reaction. We'd like to share some of it
Green, extreme-sports park drafted for Las Vegas
The Vegas Extreme resort aims to grow its own food and generate 85% of its energy from renewable sources
Kanye thinks everything needs to be ‘architected’
The rap star tells Harvard Graduate School of Design students that Peter Saville "wants me to do a YSL”
70-year-old shack is turned into a mirrored artwork
The Lucid Stead in Joshua Tree is about "light and shadow, reflected light, projected light and change"
Michel Campeau captures demise of the dark room
Canadian photographer immortalises darkrooms as monuments to the lost art of silver-based photography
Adam Szymczyk named director of Documenta 14
The Polish-born Phaidon author and Chief Curator of the Kunsthalle Basel will oversee the event in 2017
Inside the African avant-garde
Our new book Art Cities of the Future examines the scene in West Africa's largest conurbation
Joel Meyerowitz goes big on Cézanne
The photographer's massive 2m x 2.40m print of Cézanne's objects proves a hit at Paris Photo
Thea and Ethan on collecting art for money
Art advisors Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner on putting together a collection that's really rewarding
New York's High Line enters third and final phase
City’s defunct freight train yards will play home to The Spur, a forested amphitheatre
René Redzepi on creativity, fear and reaching the top
The Noma chef is surprised to have become a star but says he isn't wasting time thinking about his legacy
Seymour Powell gives economy class a wider berth
Airline seating that gets wider at the touch of a button (and your credit card pin)
New York street photography laid bare in new doc
Elliot Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark and Joel Meyerowitz describe their craft and the city it came from in Everybody Street
Fine art photography meets spot the difference
Philadelphia-based Keith Sharp re-interprets Monet's Series paintings with a set of photographic variations
Cycle design celebrated in Israel
The Free Wheel exhibition at Design Museum Holon revels in two-wheeled transport
Eliasson and Obrist: now available as cheese
Microorganisms recovered from these two artworld luminaries have been cultured into a cheese
Get up close to The Colours of the Earth
Bernhard Edmaier may be best known for his aerial photography but take a look at these amazing close ups
Coi's Daniel Patterson talks art and food
"Once chefs start to think of themselves as artists, it sets them in a wrong direction," he tells The Vancouver Sun
Zhang Xiaogang's uncertain future
Another pertinent pairing from The Chinese Art Book sees Mao era uncertainty pitched against the serene buddha
David Anfam talks site-specific art in USA Today
Our venerable editor-at-large selects his favourite site-specific artworks, each worthy of a road trip
Claim and counter claims in Kunsthal theft
Court hears accusations of fakery, an insurance fraud, and an inside accomplice from Romanian gang leader
Do Suh Ho creates life-sized models of his homes
Artist's 1:1 polyester models inaugurate Seoul's new National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Any of your pictures in this artist's works?
Penelope Umbrico gathers together thousands of similar images from photo-sharing sites and elsewhere
US history, set into stone
Arizona's petroglyphs at Canyon de Chelly depict life before Europeans arrived, and after
Charlotte Colbert's surreal housewife shots
A Day At Home captures the cloistered, psychically fraught world of the modern kept woman
The ties that bound Carlo Scarpa and Paul Klee
Robert McCarter's new book on the mid-century modernist architect points out some fascinating similarities
Mike Winkelmann's Transparent Machines
Does this short video signal a new area of artistic political protest?
Ahn Jun pushes self portraiture to the edge
Korean photographer says vertiginous shots speak to the future of our cities - if you're acrophobic look away now
Explaining Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Art & Place, our new book on site-specific art, examines this seminal 1970 land-art work
Stephen Shore signing in London this Friday
The pioneering photographer launches his debut iBook and presents his two-volume Book of Books collection
Introducing Coi Stories and Recipes
How one very literate San Francisco chef called Daniel Patterson has created an entirely new type of cookery book
David Chipperfield stirs up London’s Canada Water
"Lifeless, out-of-town, retail-park look" to be reinvigorated with The Shard developers
Take a look at Sir Paul Smith's photographs
A glimpse into the shadowy world of the legendary British fashion designer
Some site-specific praise for Art & Place
Our guide to site-specific art in the Americas wins plaudits across the globe
Bogotá's botanical avant-garde
Our new book uncovers the natural side of one of Latin America's liveliest art scenes
Malmo's melted shopping mall
Emporia by Sweden's Wingårdh Arkitektkontor lures in shoppers with its magma-like entrance
Colette Fu's photo sculpture pop-ups
The Chinese-American photographer brings the bustle of the Yunnan province to life on the page
René Redzepi lights up London and New York
The Noma chef talks through his childhood in London, meets Alice Waters and signs books at Club Monaco
A defence of censorship by Alain de Botton
In Art as Therapy, Alain de Botton and John Armstrong set out some moments when censorship is justified
BIG magics a ski slope from a working power plant
Architect Bjarke Ingels calls new plant an example of BIG's desire for 'Hedonistic Sustainability'
Rio's Olympic Games pictograms are a winner
These designs were inspired by the official Rio 2016 logo developed by UK/Brazil firm Dalton Maag
Lucky Peach's Peter Meehan on Coi
The great US writer and Lucky Peach editor says he "couldn't be more excited to have this book to spend time with"
Thea and Ethan on collecting art for love
Art advisors Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner tell you how to collect art for the best possible reason
A flat-pack solution to disaster relief
Pieter Stoutjesdijk's ECOnnect venture hopes to plug housing crisis with interlocking chipboard
Some Wine Bar Theory from David Gilbertson
The business guru explains (among other things) why the boss needs to know what the doorman thinks
Thomas Albdorf on keeping still life alive
The Austrian photographer and critic defends the photographic one-liner and says it's here to stay
The fashion of authority
Colin McDowell's book, The Anatomy of Fashion, looks at how figures of authority assert their power sartorially
Next Architects' Mobius-like Chinese bridge
The Dutch practice says its pedestrian bridge design draws upon decorative Chinese folk art
Art & Place in the Empire State
Join us in Manhattan's Empire State Building tomorrow night, to talk art, place and preservation
Bernhard Edmaier's search for white
The German landscape photographer has found the sum of all spectral colours surprisingly ellusive
Parr, Meyerowitz and Phaidon at Paris Photo
Hear Martin talk protests and photobooks, meet Joel, get your book signed, and more at this year's Paris Photo
Could you live in a moving city?
Manuel Dominguez at Madrid’s Superior Technical School of Architecture has a plan for job-starved areas
The World We Made is released as an iBook
Enter our competition to win a free download of Jonathon Porritt's new iBook
Meet the Sochi Singers
Two Dutch image makers document the entertainment on offer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia
PriestmanGoode designs a space capsule
Having worked on train, plane and boat interiors, the design studio turns its gaze to the heavens
René Redzepi and Alex Atala on the cover of Time
David Chang joins 'the dudes of food' on the cover of the influential news weekly
Thomas Heatherwick’s London Garden Bridge
The design star's bridge proposal is part of wider attempts to make London both greener and easier to navigate
Take a look at Stephen Shore's moving image iBook
Be the first to pre-order the great American photographer's debut digital video iBook, A New York Minute
Praise for Art Cities of the Future Goes Global
The press for our new survey of global avant-gardes has been as brilliant and varied as the cities we've covered
What's going on in Bai Yiluo's calligraphy?
A witty fusion of media and materials creates a strong effect - but what is it made up of?
Paul Cocksedge’s Living Staircase
The British designer plants around a staircase in Soho to fashion a creative spiral
