What the world's press are saying about Frieze
As London's international art fair opens for previews in Regent's Park today, we round up global opinions

Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson remodel the Leica
The Apple design chief and the Aussie design star remake the M model for Bono's RED charity auction

Shanghai developers plan to rebuild Crystal Palace
ZhongRong Group say the Victorian building's "ingenuity and scale is magnificent" and want to bring it back to life

The Chinese conference centre that thinks it's a city
Coop Himmelb(l)au say the rooms in their new Dalian Conference Centre have 'identifiable addresses'

Alex Atala helps São Paulo's kids get into the kitchen
The world-class chef and author outlines his take on cooking and ecology and raises cash for a local non-profit

Hirst remakes the Pharmacy as a desert juice bar
The Prada Oasis and Damien Hirst's Pharmacy Juice Bar pitched up north of Doha as part of his Qatar show

How much would you pay for a Hadid dolls' house?
Bidding is up to £9,000 for Hadid's model, as big-name architects build tiny houses to benefit a children's charity

How Picasso and co. weaved carpets into their work
The show at Paris' Musée d'Art moderne looks at the reintroduction of decorative arts into a fine-art setting

New York loves Mike Kelley
The late artist's huge retrospective at MoMA PS1 receives glowing write-ups

Phaidon takes over Topshop in London and New York
Vera Wang, Iris Apfel, Stephen Jones and Dirk Standen head up our all star launches for The Fashion Book

Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Cowpeas
Our critically acclaimed and mellifluously-voiced author returns with another enthralling story from his new book

Bouroullecs reinvent the Stone Age with jewellery
Ronan and Erwan follow Ettore Sottsass, Konstantin Grcic and Naoto Fukasawa with Perles for Gallerie Kreo

Architects protest Zaha Hadid's Olympic stadium
Fou Sujimoto, Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma say the design will dwarf its surroundings

David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory: Cut smart
Smart businesses re-examine each element of what they do and ask whether the customer really needs it

The World We Made on CBS This Morning
Jonathon Porritt tells morning show's three million viewers how we can create a truly sustainable world

Designer joins forces with algorithm for new bridge
Arturo Tedeschi’s latest parametric design Cloudbridge spans two mountainsides

Banksy speaks to the Village Voice
The graffiti artist talks Jackson Pollock and how “street art can feel like the marketing wing of an art career”

All aboard the floating Dutch apartment block
Waterstudio's Citadel block consists of 60 stylish homes floating in six feet of water near Rotterdam

David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory: Keep asking
The more time you spend asking simple questions, the smarter those questions become, says our business author

Tree house turned inside out by Kazakh designer
Aibek Almasov created this arboreal retreat for a businessman who prizes nature over privacy

Street artists rework Spotify's New York office
Wild Art adorns the walls at Music streaming service's latest New York outpost

Daniel Patterson on how to run a creative kitchen
The Coi chef shares his managerial and culinary wisdom with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua

How's Banksy's New York residency going?
Can the British graffiti artist overcome rival graffiti artists, flat batteries and opportunist thieves?

More Wine Bar Theory advice from David Gilbertson
Why a retrieved customer becomes an advocate, but an aggrieved one tells everyone not to deal with you

Korea’s National Library gets an outpost by Samoo
When is a library not a library? Apparently when it's an E-brary’, a compound of ‘emotion’ and ‘library’

Koons remodels Lady Gaga as Venus
The artist's cover for the singer's forthcoming album reflects his recent obsessions, as well as her star qualities

Incredible, edible cities anyone?
Why environmentalist and author Jonathon Porritt believes our cities might soon really sustain us

David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory
Want to shorten your working day? Of course you do, so read this piece of sound advice from our new book

James Cauty's 1:87-scale police state
JAMs and KLF pioneer creates "twisted model village experience" populated by 5000 policemen

Marc Newson reinvents the bed
Innovative, internationally renowned designer who admits to sleeping on a mattress on the floor until just a few years ago (because "buying a bed is such a cheesy experience") creates ultimate dream aid

Luc Tuymans offers insight at new Houston show
My portraits are “inert and silent” he says at Menil Collection opening of Nice. Luc Tuymans

Harry Potter star upstaged by Alex Atala's ants
"Are you open to dangerous dishes?" D.O.M chef asks BBC guests as he produces 'special Amazonian ingredient'

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

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

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

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"

William Klein's street scenes come to Amsterdam
The New York street photographer gets a major retrospective at the Netherlands Foam photography gallery

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

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?

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

Introducing EarthArt
Editor Alex Stetter previews our forthcoming book with the acclaimed aerial photographer 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)

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

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

Wild Art explained in the LA Times
David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro talk through their new book with the Times' Liesl Bradner

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

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

Pentagram creates brand for unlikely tech founders
The design agency produces a new ID for a group at the margins of the tech community

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

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

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

How Louis Vuitton and Hermès illustrator Natsko Seki helped create Architecture According to Pigeons

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

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

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?

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

John Pawson visits Zumthor's Bruder Klaus chapel
The great British minimalist admires the shape-shifting quality of Zumthor's 'landlocked lighthouse'

Lost van Gogh painting found in Norwegian attic
Van Gogh Museum's director Axel Rueger calls Sunset at Montmajour find a "unique experience"

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

How Magritte made 'everyday objects shriek aloud'
A new MoMA retrospective focuses the Belgian surrealist's attempts to make common objects strangely unfamiliar

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

Beijing's answer to Glastonbury and Coachella
MAD fashions a purpose built venue for Beijing's oldest music and arts festival

Carlo Scarpa's pioneering glassware at The Met
Italian architect's innovative glassware demonstrates how central local craftsmanship was to his work

First look at Brazil's Olympic stadium
London architects Weston Williamson liken their “massive feather-like structure" to a bird taking flight

Introducing The World We Made
Phaidon editor Ellen Christie previews our Jonathon Porritt title offering a bright, optimistic vision of sustainability

Guilty plea over forged Abstract Expressionists
Glafira Rosales pleads guilty to conspiracy to selling fake Pollocks and Rothkos in New York

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

Canadian students redraw Sol LeWitt
Concordia University students remake wall drawings, under the guidance of former assistant, Anthony Sansotta

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

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

Dieter Rams honoured at London Design Festival
The 81-year-old German designer accepted the Coutts Lifetime Achievement Medal last night in London

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

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

Frost* stretch an 'o' for AIDS awareness
The Sydney design firm tease out the typography for their latest condom-use campaign

Alanis Morissette to star in Eileen Gray film
Forthcoming film portrays Le Corbusier as a malevolent rival to Gray

Mies van der Rohe plans found in MoMA archive
MoMA archive find leads Belgian architect Paul Robbrecht to build 'new' Mies masterpiece in Germany

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

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

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

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

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

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)

In conversation with Speck Lee Tailfeather
The Architecture According to Pigeons star on the Chrysler building, bird control spikes and human/avian relations

MoMA's female-focussed design show
Designing Modern Women, 1890-1990 explores how design was profoundly shaped by the creativity of women

The Istanbul Biennial takes shelter
Turkey's leading contemporary art event retreats on its public space programme, though its tone remains defiant

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron’s unbuilt villas
The Chinese artist and Swiss architects commissioned 100 villas - why weren’t they built?

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

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

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

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

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

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
