Join Phaidon at Topshop London and NY this week

Come and say hello at the launch of our updated style bible The Fashion Book


Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Pimento Cheese

It's the paté de fois gras, hummus and blue cheese dip of the American South - listen to Colman tell the story

Colman Andrews and famous friend

Jeffrey Deitch in conversation with Wild Art authors

A new kind of art and a new kind of art audience debated hotly on The Brooklyn Rail website

Jeffrey Deitch

Meet Raymond Pettibon

The Californian artist will be meeting fans and signing books at David Zwirner New York on October 19

No title (smack) (2013) by Raymond Pettibon

Wolff Olins' USA Today redesign wins Fast Co award

Firm's reworking of America's widest circulated print newspaper lets you "take a little piece of the web with you"

USA Today - Wolff Olins

William Klein's street scenes come to Amsterdam

The New York street photographer gets a major retrospective at the Netherlands Foam photography gallery

Bikini, Moscow (1959) by William Klein

First show to pair Pop with design opens this month

Pop Art Design at London's Barbican Gallery brings together Warhol and Blake with Eames, Sottsass and others

Stardust Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas (1968) Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates

Banksy's first NY artwork painted over within a day

Rival artist or the authorities? Who erased The Street Is In Play, the first piece in Banksy's month-long residency?

The Street Is In Play - Banksy (from the New York series Better Out Than In) (pre-erased)

New student accommodation ticks the box

Tengbom's new student apartments will house 22 college kids (not all in the same building) from next year

Smart Student Flat - Tengbom Architects

Introducing EarthArt

Editor Alex Stetter previews our forthcoming book with the acclaimed aerial photographer Bernhard Edmaier

EarthArt by Bernhard Edmaier

Steve McCurry's travel tips

The great Magnum photographer tells the Wall Street Journal how he likes to get around (in and out of the water)

Steve McCurry in Monsoon floods, India, 1983

Jonathon Porritt on The World We Made

The legendary environmental campaigner on how to scrub clean the earth's atmosphere, why robots might soon be man's best friend and the big steps China is taking to dispel its polluter of the planet reputation

Jonathon Porritt

Russia's 2018 FIFA World Cup airport to be built by new London-based firm Twelve Architects

New outfit breaks through on the international stage with a high-profile competition win

Rostov on Don Airport, Russia - Twelve Architects

Wild Art explained in the LA Times

David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro talk through their new book with the Times' Liesl Bradner

Au Vieux Panier hotel, Marseille - Tilt, from Wild Art

British artist Andy Holden calls for sincere irony

The artist's Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity movement examines two seemingly opposing sentiments


Willem Dafoe to play Warhol in new YSL film

The Hollywood star is cast opposite Gaspard Ullieln as Yves Saint Laurent in new French production

David Bowie, Guy Pearce, Jared Harris, and Bill Hader as Andy Warhol; Willem Dafoe

Li Songsong's first London show at Pace Gallery

We Have Betrayed The Revolution show gets Ai Weiwei's seal of approval in catalogue essay


Ferran Adrià's 5 favourite places to eat in the world

The Spanish chef lists a tiny Tokyo restaurant, as well as the whole of Morocco, among his best dining experiences

Ferran Adrià at the elBulli Somerset House exhibition in London, 2013

Pentagram creates brand for unlikely tech founders

The design agency produces a new ID for a group at the margins of the tech community

Platform's 2013 event at MIT's Media Lab

Ai Weiwei hits the decks

The Chinese artist and dissident follows Koons, Hirst and Warhol, by creating his own skateboard deck


Foster's huge new entertainment venue opens

Glasgow's SSE Hydro hopes to attract one million visitors annually with big-name concerts and sporting events

The SSE Hydro (centre) and the Clyde Auditorium (left)

What the well-dressed swan is wearing this winter

If you're a fan of Wild Art you'll love these hipster animals in the latest project by Miguel Vallinas

Segundas Pieles (Second Skins) - Miguel Vallinas

Andy Warhol's back pages

Museum Brandhorst's Reading Andy Warhol exhibition examines the great pop artist's bookish inclinations

Walasse Ting illustration, by Andy Warhol from Reading Andy Warhol


New York comes to London in new graphics show

Push pin graphic designers Glaser and Chwast have first show of work in the capital for 40 years at Kemistry

The Russian Tea Room Welcomes The Newport Jazz Festival (1972) Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast

Chetwynd changes her name to Marvin Gaye

"Get with the groove and call me Marvin, man! And cheer up!" says the artist formerly known as Spartacus

Odd Man Out, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (2011)

Can you name these movie artists?

This year’s Deutsche Börse Prize winners put together this montage of Hollywood artists. Can you spot them all?

Still from Not In Order of Appearance by Max Pinckers, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanerin

Norman Foster reworks Scotland Yard

Foster + Partners is shortlisted to oversee creation of Metropolitan Police Service’s new headquarters

Foster + Partners Scotland Yard submission

John Pawson visits Zumthor's Bruder Klaus chapel

The great British minimalist admires the shape-shifting quality of Zumthor's 'landlocked lighthouse'

Peter Zumthor's Bruder Klaus chapel, as photographed by John Pawson

Lost van Gogh painting found in Norwegian attic

Van Gogh Museum's director Axel Rueger calls Sunset at Montmajour find a "unique experience"

Sunset at Montmajour - Vincent van Gogh


Ferran Adrià unveils elBulli masterwork in New York

elBulli 2005-2011 includes every recipe created during the last seven years of the world's greatest restaurant

Ferran Adrià unwraps his advance copy of elBulli 2005-2011 in our video

How Magritte made 'everyday objects shriek aloud'

A new MoMA retrospective focuses the Belgian surrealist's attempts to make common objects strangely unfamiliar

L’assassin menacé (The Menaced Assassin) (1927) by René Magritte

Look into the future at the Joburg Art Fair

Ross Douglas, founder of Africa's biggest art fair on why Joburg is firmly among the art cities of the future

C Stunners by Cyrus Kabiru, participant in the FNB Joburg Art Fair 2013

Beijing's answer to Glastonbury and Coachella

MAD fashions a purpose built venue for Beijing's oldest music and arts festival

Harbin Cultural Center - MAD

Carlo Scarpa's pioneering glassware at The Met

Italian architect's innovative glassware demonstrates how central local craftsmanship was to his work

Piatto Serpente, 1940; black and red Lattimo Murrine glass with snake pattern by Carlo Scarpa

First look at Brazil's Olympic stadium

London architects Weston Williamson liken their “massive feather-like structure" to a bird taking flight

Brasilia Athletics Stadium - Weston Williamson

Introducing The World We Made

Phaidon editor Ellen Christie previews our Jonathon Porritt title offering a bright, optimistic vision of sustainability

Phaidon editor Ellen Christie with a copy of The World We Made

Guilty plea over forged Abstract Expressionists

Glafira Rosales pleads guilty to conspiracy to selling fake Pollocks and Rothkos in New York

Detail from Glafira Rosale's  S1 indictment

Chris Burden's ship and towers rise over Manhattan

The New Museum retrospective might not open until Oct 2, but on the building's exterior, the show has begun

Chris Burden's Quasi-Legal Skyscrapers (2013) on top of the New Museum. Image courtesy of the New Museum.

Canadian students redraw Sol LeWitt

Concordia University students remake wall drawings, under the guidance of former assistant, Anthony Sansotta

Félipe Goulet Letarte draws Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #1099 at Concordia University, Montreal

Donald Judd furniture now available

London's Conran Shop becomes first major retailer to sell furniture by the esteemed American artist


Wild Art and the enlightenment

Do you need to have a traditional knowledge of art history to enjoy customised cars, food art and ice sculpture? Of course not, argue David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro - but it might just increase your enjoyment if you do. . .


Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Turducken

In the second reading from his wonderful new book The Taste of America, celebrated food writer Colman Andrews introduces us to the mythical creature Turducken - a dish that apparently dates back to Roman times

Colman Andrews

Name the 8 bit architect

Name these 10 architects to win a download of the magnificent Phaidon Architecture Travel Guide App


Amanda Levete puts on a show in Lisbon

UK architect adds a glimmer of light in the land of Pritzker Prize winners Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura

EDP Foundation Cultural Centre, Lisbon - Amanda Levete Architects

Dieter Rams honoured at London Design Festival

The 81-year-old German designer accepted the Coutts Lifetime Achievement Medal last night in London

Dieter Rams, courtesy of Vitsoe

Come and see Magnus Nilsson speak this weekend

He's at two events at the Abergavenny Food Festival - one with our Where Chefs Eat author, Joe Warwick

Magnus Nilsson

The best place in the world to buy Phaidon books?

Zwolle's 15th century Dominican Broerenkerk, or Church of the Brothers, is reborn as a great new book store

Waanders in de Broeren bookshop by BK Architecten

Frost* stretch an 'o' for AIDS awareness

The Sydney design firm tease out the typography for their latest condom-use campaign

Ending HIV campaign by Frost*

Alanis Morissette to star in Eileen Gray film

Forthcoming film portrays Le Corbusier as a malevolent rival to Gray

Alanis Morissette (reclining) as Damia and Orla Brady as Eileen Gray in The Price of Desire (2014). Photograph courtesy Julian Lennon

Mies van der Rohe plans found in MoMA archive

MoMA archive find leads Belgian architect Paul Robbrecht to build 'new' Mies masterpiece in Germany

Krefeld Golf Club, North Rhine-Westphalia - Mies van der Rohe/ Paul Robbrecht

Fashion's queer history comes out in New York

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk is on show now at Manhattan's Museum at FIT

Gay Pride, New York, 1989 by Joyce Culver, from A Queer History of Fashion

Pipilotti Rist brings joy to Guangzhou

The Swiss artist's Gentle Wave in Your Eye Fluid exhibition has just opened in China's manufacturing heartland

Pipilotti Rist opening Gentle Wave in Your Eye Fluid at the Times Museum, Guangzhou.

Phaidon Atlas talks at designjunction

If you're interested in architecture and you're in London check out our two talks at designjunction this Thursday

Keret House - Jakub Szczesny

Can you spot the stories behind these fictional foods?

Ever wondered what Dumbledore's sherbert lemons look like? Or Paddington Bear's marmalade sandwiches? The Taste of America illustrator Joël Penkman rustles up some fictional food inspired by much-loved books and movies

Goodfellas garlic from Joël Penkman Fictional Food series

David Blandy turns tradition upside down

Artist's latest installation explores Britain's relationship with Japan via a traditional zen garden - and a space ship

Anjin 1600: Edo Wonderpark - David Blandy

VW unveils Pringle shaped carport

VW's new Ausfahrt centre allows you to test out your new car (without driving it into someone else's)

GRAFT's new Ausfahrt centre

In conversation with Speck Lee Tailfeather

The Architecture According to Pigeons star on the Chrysler building, bird control spikes and human/avian relations

Speck Lee Tailfeather, pigeon elder and avian architectural maven

MoMA's female-focussed design show

Designing Modern Women, 1890-1990 explores how design was profoundly shaped by the creativity of women

Charlotte Perriand

The Istanbul Biennial takes shelter

Turkey's leading contemporary art event retreats on its public space programme, though its tone remains defiant

From Gezi Park Fiction by Christoph Schäfer

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron’s unbuilt villas

The Chinese artist and Swiss architects commissioned 100 villas - why weren’t they built?

Ordos 100 at Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France

William Kentridge to wow NY's opera and art crowds

The South African painter, film maker, actor and theatre director brings his multimedia work to NYC this month

From William Kentridge's Second-hand Reading at the Marian Goodman gallery

Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America

In the first of a new phaidon.com series the celebrated food writer reads an extract from his new book

Colman Andrews

The Manhattan meal that inspired Wild Art

Wild Art co-author David Carrier explains how he and Joachim Pissarro got the idea for their new book

David Carrier by Jonathan Weinberg

Introducing Architecture According to Pigeons

Hélène Gallois Montbrun, senior editor of children's books, talks though the cultured kid's guide to architecture

Phaidon Senior Editor of Children's Books Hélène Gallois Montbrun with a copy of Architecture for Pigeons

A chat with Lisbon Triennale curator Beatrice Galilee

A sneak preview of tonight's talks at the MUDE Auditorium with the Lisbon Triennale curator and others

Beatrice Galilee, the Met's new curator of architecture and design

Is this the new Google logo?

The Google logo seems to have grown up (and been toned down) in the Chrome Beta for Android APK

Google logos

Pentagram makes NYC maps for the iPhone age

The design firm's city identity joint venture, PentaCityGroup, has produced New York's new wayfinding system

PentaCityGroup's WalkNYC wayfinding system

Snøhetta's first UK building opens this month

Norwegian starchitects make UK debut with a Maggie's Centre in Aberdeen

Maggie's Centre, Aberdeen - Snøhetta

Hirst and the Chapmans take on Stormtroopers

David Bailey, Antony Micallef and other creatives reinterpret the iconic Star Wars helmet


Tuymans and Dean at the London Art Book Fair

The capital's fifth annual art publishing event opens this week at the Whitechapel Gallery with a set of great talks

Tacita Dean

Frieze London brings new gallery surge

Fair coincides with a set of openings, including Victoria Miro's Mayfair space and Sotheby's private sales gallery

Bett (1950) by Joseph Beuys, from Joseph Beuys Revealed, at Sotheby's new Sǀ2 gallery in London

Ed Ruscha explains his love of Gas Stations

75-year-old artist describes why he chose to feature the quotidian landmarks in his first art book

Norms, La Cienega on Fire, 1964 - Ed Ruscha

Art study fever sweeps Chinese provinces

The lure of college entrance is enticing many Chinese youngsters to paint and sketch

A student practices drawing, 2013. Photo courtesy of The People's Daily.

Redzepi changed food, now he's changing coffee

Noma's René Redzepi explains how he's recreated the restaurant's coffee culture, at the Nordic Barista Cup

A cup of coffee, taken from René Redzepi's Twitter feed

World of ice suspended above a Chinese quarry

Coop Himmelb(l)au's latest venture in China sees Wolf D Prix suspending Snow World between cliffs

Deep Pit Ice and Snow World - Coop Himmelb(l)au

Find Utopia with René Burri in Switzerland

The Swiss-born Magnum photographer is the subject of an artist-themed retrospective in Geneva

René Burri, Pablo Picasso (1957), Villa La Californie, Cannes, France

David Adjaye makes furniture debut with Knoll

The award-winning architect says the process forced him to rethink product design

David Adjaye beside his Skeleton chair from his Washington collection for Knoll

Toyo Ito on how to fix Japan

The Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate looks beyond buildings to examine underlying social structures

Toyo Ito

Artists revisit Diego's Detroit Industry murals

Marking the 80th anniversary of Rivera's Detroit Industry murals MOCAD asks artists to depict the city's later years

The Battle of the Overpass, 1937 (2013) by William E. Jones

Introducing D.O.M.

Phaidon editor Daniel Hurst previews our latest gastronomy book D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients - and talks about how the brilliant larger than life São Paulo chef Alex Atala is revolutionising Brazilian cooking

Daniel Hurst and a copy of Alex Atala's D.O.M Reinventing Brazilian Ingredients

SOM’s Dubai bank boasts overhanging boardroom

Skidmore Owings and Merrill puts the boardroom on show in its “quiet sculptural form within Dubai’s skyline”

SOM's plans for Mashreq Bank's headquarters in Dubai

Steve McCurry on TV and in the gallery

The iconic Magnum photographer squeezes a peerless career into six minutes for the Californian news cycle

Steve signing a copy of Untold at his Peter Fetterman Gallery appearance and talk last night (Tuesday)

UNStudio creates big wheel with own social network

Nippon Moon, Dutch architecture practice's giant observation wheel in Japan, also features double decks

GOW Nippon Moon by UNStudio

Neutra’s Boomerang Chair makes a comeback

Modernist architect's furniture (featured in The Design Book) receives worthy reissue courtesy of VS America

The Boomerang Chair by Richard Neutra

Richard Prince's protest art comes to London

The American artist shows his placard paintings together for the first time. What should we make of them?

Untitled (Protest Painting) (1994), Untitled (Protest Painting) (1994) by Richard Prince

Stephen Shore's personal philosophy

The American photographer looks back on a momentous career with Imagista's Heidi Hartwig and Lauren Festa


The sad story behind new paint and pixels artworks

How HO Siu Nam, South's Every Daily series became part of the grieving process for the loss of his father

Every Daily - HO Siu Nam, South

Elliott Erwitt, male model

The photographer steps in front of the camera alongside fellow octogenarians to mark Cole Haan's 85th birthday

Elliott Erwitt and Maya Angelou for Cole Haan

What to expect from Frieze Talks 2013

The London art fair's talks line-up looks great, and it's packed with Phaidon artists and authors

Frieze Art Fair

See Lisbon's incredible slot-together pavilion

Kairos Triennale pavilion eschews screws or glues and is formed instead by some rather clever concrete panels

Kairos by Joao Quintel and Tim Simon

Meet Steve McCurry at Peter Fetterman Gallery

Steve is the Mick Jagger of the photography world - Fetterman tells Phaidon on eve of his Santa Monica talk

Untold author and legendary photographer Steve McCurry

Introducing Art & Place

Phaidon editor Rosie Pickles previews our forthcoming book on Site-Specific Art of the Americas


LA’s car museum shifts up a gear with redesign

Kohn Pedersen Fox works its magic over the facade of iconic 1960s Welton Becket building

Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles - Kohn Pedersen Fox

Go to India with Martin Parr

British travel company, Cox & Kings, is offering a 10-day trip to northern India with the Magnum photographer

Martin Parr, Goa, India from the series Small World (1987-1994)

OMA to build Colombia's Brasilia

Koolhaas' practice will build largest institutional masterplan in Latin America since Niemeyer’s Brasilia

OMA's plans for Bogota

Transvestite Putin painter flees Russia

Konstantin Altunin, creator of the controversial painting of the Russian leader, is seeking asylum in France

Detail from Travesty (2013) by Konstantin Altunin

Blood, guts and inspiration at MAD3

High profile speakers including René Redzepi, Alex Atala and Alain Ducasse stress the need to respect animals - and ourselves - in what we eat and how we consume at food symposium in Denmark

René Redzepi and Alex Atala at the close of MAD3 - photo courtesy MADfeed

David Mellor's designer street

Iconic British designer has his street furniture showcased in mocked-up road

Pedestrian signal box, 1965-9, by David Mellor