Jeff Wall retrospective and talk

Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits the fine-art photographer alongside a symposium on 'Rooms'

Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue (1999-2000) by Jeff Wall

Matisse's cutouts reassembled for the first time

Tate Modern plans the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist's snipped paper compositions

The Snails (1953) by Henri Matisse

Inside Amazon by Ben Roberts

Prix Pictet nominated-photographer Ben Roberts captures the online retailer's massive UK "fulfillment centre"

From Amazon Unpacked by Ben Roberts

Who'd like dinner with Ferran Adrià?

Sotheby's auctions off items from the elBulli wine cellar and a very special offer: a night with the super chef himself

Ferran Adrià

OMA creates new stock exchange in China

"Floating base is a physical materialisation of the virtual stockmarket," says Rem Koolhaas

Shenzhen Stock Exchange - OMA

Have you seen Elliott Erwitt's walking stick?

Celebrated photographer collaborates with Milan designers Danese on old school yet innovative walking aid

Eliott - Elliott Erwitt 2013 Crowd Control for Danese

Alex Atala makes Time magazine's top 100 influential

"His philosophy of using native Brazilian ingredients in haute cuisine has mesmerised the continent"

Alex Atala

A Brazilian show for a gallery never to be built

Sao Paulo's Museu de Arte Moderna will show off plans for its new home later this year - despite staying put

Sao Paulo's Museu de Arte Moderna

Palestinian Museum gets branding to prompt talking

Designers Venturethree produce a visual identity for the West Bank museum to promote dialogue in the region

The Palestinian Museum branding by Venturethree

British firm offsets Soviet gem with a glass spiral

Robin Monotti Architects designs complementary building next to the brutalist Bank of Georgia in Tbilisi

The Bank of Georgia (right, 1975), and the proposed Tbilisi Business Centre by Robin Monotti Architects

See the trailer for Murakami's directorial debut

The Japanese pop artist brings his kawaii characters to life in a new feature film, yet adds in real people too

From Jellyfish Eyes by Takashi Murakami

How the 1962 monsoons inspired Steve McCurry

Forthcoming book, Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind The Photographs, tells how coverage of the Indian rainy season in Life magazine set the Magnum photographer off on a life of photography and far flung travel


Pedro Ramirez Vazquez 1919 - 2013

Mexico's foremost architect and chairman of the 1968 Olympic Games dies age 94

Tijuana Cultural Center - Pedro Ramirez Vasquez

Vietnam's flood-proof bamboo houses

H&P Architects have designed affordable, floating dwellings for Vietnam's flood-stricken regions

H&P Architects' flood housing

National Theatre unveils red summer shed

The South Bank's temporary theatre is "less a building than an art installation" say architects Haworth Tompkins

The Shed by Haworth Tompkins, set within The National Theatre's complex

See the dark arts of Gert and Uwe Tobias in London

The Transylvanian-born twins channel European folklore and Russian Suprematism in their London installation

Untitled (2010) by Gert and Uwe Tobias

Arne Glimcher and Nicholas Serota in conversation

Pace Gallery president and author of our fine Agnes Martin monograph discusses the artist with Tate Director

Arne Glimcher by Weston Wells

René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences #4

The view from a war torn Beirut window, the cost of 'man's progress' and a wry tale concerning William Tell - all taken from his brilliant new book of previously unpublished colour photography, Impossible Reminiscences

René Burri by Kostas Maros - www.kostasmaros.com

Major artists front London's Drawing Biennial

Mark Wallinger, Antony Gormley and Paula Rego all contribute an A4 sheet to the Drawing Room's show

Icelandic Road Trip (2013) by Emma Stibbon

How to design the Niels Diffrient way

The designer of the Freedom Chair says in a new profile that he never thinks about how things are going to look

Three variations of Niels Diffrient's Freedom Chair (1999)

Le Corbusier roof reborn as a gallery

The roof terrace of Marseille's Cité Radieuse will reopen this summer as an arts space

The restored roof at Cité Radieuse, Marseilles

What's happening in Bence Bakonyi's photographs?

The Hungarian photographer spent six months in China and came back with these uncanny, ambiguous images

From Transform by Bence Bakonyi

Foster + Partners' Apple HQ goes $2bn over budget

The late Steve Jobs' insistence on the finest building materials may account for the tech firms large overspend

The new Apple Campus design, by Foster and Partners

See Eric Owen Moss's Waffle and Cactus Tower

The Californian firm turn a 70-year-old Culver City industrial lot into a green, new media complex

The Waffle by Eric Owen Moss

Catch Richard Serra's films in New York this week

The artist's forthcoming exhibition of early work at David Zwirner also features a few of his task-oriented films

Richard Serra in his studio, New York, 1968

Spring Breakers' title sequence is a marine dream

LA creatives Gentleman Scholar draw from seaside kitsch to create their neon filled 'sea-punk' styled title treatment

Spring Breakers title sequence by Gentleman Scholar

How to photograph North Korea

Brussels-based photographer Maxime Delvaux spends 12 days in The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, shooting the kind of photographs his guards allowed

Monument to the Party Foundation. This monument was constructed in Pyongyang under Kim Jong Il's will to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Korean Workers Party. Photograph by Maxime Delvaux

Hopper's drawings to go on show in New York

The Whitney is to host Hopper Drawing, the first major museum exhibition to focus on the great painter's drawings

Study for Nighthawks, (1941 or 1942) by Edward Hopper

When Soviet architecture went West

A new exhibition rethinks the USSR's architectural legacy, by focusing on the softer styles that came after Stalin

Ministry of Transportation, Tbilisi, Georgia. 1974

Singapore's great concrete street-food court

Satay by the Bay brings Singapore's contemporary architecture down to a lush, human scale

Satay by the Bay, Singapore

Gilbert & George, Ai Weiwei make record sleeves

The artists, alongside obscure designers, produce sleeves for the likes of Public Enemy and Elton John

Gilbert & George with their bare sleeve. Courtesy of Secret 7

Look at these dolls-house sized artists' studios

Ever wondered what the studios of Chuck Close, Jackson Pollock or Willem de Koonig are like? Look no further

Jackson Pollock by Joe Fig

What to expect from The Milan Furniture Fair

Jean Nouvel's trashes the office, Marc Jacobs endorses up-cycling and Tom Dixon disrupts, in Milan, 9-14 of April

Nina Tolstrup's Re-Imagined chairs

LA celebrates its arty, architectural “looseness”

Everything Loose Will Land explores the intersection between architecture and other visual arts in 70s LA

Jef Raskin and his Bloxes, circa 1970

Europe's biggest drawing fair opens next week

Drawing Now Paris, Europe's leading drawing fair runs 11 – 14 April in Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

Representation de matière sombre autour d'un point lumineux (2011) by Abdelkader Benchamma

Lichtenstein's New York home gets a makeover

The pop artist's Greenwich Village beautiful live/work space is reworked by Brooklyn's Caliper Studio

Roy Lichtenstein's apartment by Caliper Studios

What to expect from the Rijksmuseum's reopening

The Netherlands' leading state museum opens next week following a 10-year refit. Here's what has happened

Rijksmuseum Atrium. Photo by Pedro Pegenaute. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum

San Francisco's Grand Central for the 21st Century

Cesar Pelli's designs for San Francisco's Transbay Transit Area include a park, amphitheatre and office block

Pelli Clarke Pelli's Transbay Transit Centre

Will you visit the world's first online biennale?

BiennaleOnline, "the first curated, exclusively online biennial" is charging between $80 and $8 for entrance

Shedding Skin (Perpetual Current for 24 buckets) by Nina Canell (2008)

MVRDV bring urban renewal to France

The Dutch architecture and design practice set ou its plans for one of France's less lovely new towns

MVRDV's planned Beam for Villeneuve d'Ascq

Danny Lyon's China

The veteran civil rights photographer reveals more of his shots from Shanxi, northern China, online

Lolly, Fireworks Stall Datong, by Danny Lyon

Norman Foster, curator?

The great British architect returns to the exhibition space he built 20 years earlier to show off his taste in art

6-5-1-4 (1950) by Alexander Calder

When is jewellery art?

It is this right now, at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami's exhibition From Picasso to Koons: the artist as jeweller

Trèfle brooch by Pablo Picasso

Melbourne gets Southern Hemisphere's tallest tower

Fender Katsalidis’ 388-metre skyscraper, Australia 108, approved by Melbourne authorities for a 2018 completion

Australia 108 by Fender Katsalidis, with The Eureka Tower in the background

New York's secret subway gallery

S2A's anonymous entrance, tiny space and ticket booth all make for an innovative, intimate viewing experience

S2A's anonymous red door

How to make a designer Italian Lego table

Turin design firm Nucleo have published plans of how to make one of its Histogram table from 3195 Lego bricks

The Lego Histogram 2.0, by Nucleo

The NYC penthouse with an 80-ft slide

The SkyHouse takes a century-old skyscraper and turns its upper floors into a playful residential dream

The SkyHouse slide and library. Copyright David Hotson

'Fathers of Pop' return to The ICA

The ICA hosts an exhibition by The Independent Group, artists behind the seminal 1956 show, This Is Tomorrow

Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? (1956) by Richard Hamilton

Shiny new (and very red) Ogilvy & Mather HQ

Marseille graffiti artist turned architect Stéphane Malka, who's worked with Jean Nouvel, reworks ad agency HQ

Ogilvy & Mather HQ - Stéphane Malka

Berlin salutes female pioneers of The Bauhaus

A retrospective of the school's female creators brings into focus the photographs of Gertud Arndt this month

Gertrud Arndt self portrait, at the Bauhaus, 1926-27

Carl Andre appears at David Bowie show

US Minimalist's 1969 floor work Steel Zinc Plain is one of four scene setting pieces - read our Andre interview

Steel Zinc Plain 1967 - Carl Andre

Christian Marclay takes to the air

Artist takes over BBC Radio Four as part of new Art Angel aural experiment


Buzzed about painter cites Phaidon influence

"Vitamin P book was like a bible for me" says Canadian-born, London-based Nathan James

Grandfather Figure (2012) by Nathan James

See Michigan's floating house pavilion

Mark's House is both a cooling summer pavilion, and a telling commentary on life in Flint, Michigan


René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences #3

A meeting with Anselm Kiefer in his studio, Native American amulets that weren't what they seemed and the Skoda ammunitions' factory, all taken from forthcoming book, Impossible Reminiscences available for pre-order now

René Burri

Rooftop running track for Chinese primary school

LYCS architecture save space by putting the athletics facilities on the top of TianTai Second Primary School

TianTai Second Primary School by LYCS architecture

David Bowie Is - part two of our curator interview

V&A curator Geoffrey Marsh on why he thinks Bowie's disappearance was a Duchampian act, what that Song of Norway teeshirt might mean and how you compress Bowie's 'incredible magpie interest' into one exhibition

David Bowie Is at the V&A

Ilse Crawford creates home from home in Stockholm

Soho House New York designer works her magic at new hotel in Fredrik Dahlberg-designed Stockholm building

Ett Hem Hotel, Stockholm - Studio Ilse

When Google goes wrong

Clement Valla searches through internet giant's Maps' algorithms to find the point where concept meets reality

Postcards from Google Earth - Clement Valla

Iraq returns to The Venice Biennale

British curator Jonathan Watkins says the Iraqi artists "possess extraordinary ingenuity"


Could The Twist beat Zaha's Tokyo stadium?

French architects MenoMenoPiu and FHF submit an impressive rival bid for Japan's 2020 Olympic stadium

The Twist by MenoMenoPiu Architects and FHF Architectes

Young architects create psychedelic tile showroom

Lily Jencks and Nathanael Dorent say mood-altering effect is inspired by Op Art and Gestalt psychology

Pulsate Installation - Lily Jencks and Nathanael Dorent for Capitol Designer Studio

Christo's "inflated envelope without a skeleton"

"All art is illustration – it's all propaganda" artist says as he unveils latest work in Germany


Wilhelm Sasnal paints Kodak

The Polish painter, filmmaker and Phaidon artist takes the defunct film company as inspiration for his current show

Kodak Black (2012) by Wilhelm Sasnal

What's hot at TEFAF, Art Dubai and The Armory?

Worldwide sales show appetite among institutions and established collectors for big names, both old and new

Saint Jerome praying in a rocky landscape (1592) by Paul Bril

Hella Jongerius redesigns KLM Business Class

New interior puts sustainability first with Milky Way-inspired carpet woven from recycled stewards' uniforms

KLM Business Class - Jongeriuslab

Polar Umbrella takes on climate change

Derek Pirozzi's idea combats global warming by attempting to rebuild ever-shrinking polar ice sheets

Polar Umbrella - Derek Pirozzi

Tino Sehgal bilingual work on show in Montreal

Two works by the British-born artist open at The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal today

Tino Sehgal, outside The Tate Modern, London 2012

David Bowie Is - an interview with the V&A curator

Geoffrey Marsh, the man behind the blockbuster David Bowie Is show, talks Phaidon through how it all came about

David Bowie Is - V&A

New Elizabeth Peyton shows in the US and Germany

American portraitist exhibits her musician paintings in Baden-Baden, and a new group of portraits in Manhattan

Jarvis (1996) by Elizabeth Peyton

Toyo Ito wins the Pritzker Prize

Japanese architect and Phaidon subject wins architecture's highest honour

Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre, 2000—2004, Matsumoto-shi, Nagano, Japan, by Toyo Ito. Photo by Hiroshi Ueda

Kenneth Anger's iconography comes to London

Sprüth Magers presents the filmmaker's Hollywood archive, in spaces resembling Anger's Los Angeles home

Astarte (Anaïs Nin), 1954-66 by Kenneth Anger

Artist and architect elevates sport to new level

University professor, artist and architect Guzmán de Yarza Blache demonstrates multi-tasking abilities in Spain

Lasalle Franciscanas School in Zaragoza, Spain - J1 Arquitectos

How a 1950s English telephone directory inspired the incredible design of Where Chefs Eat

Designer Kobi Benezri reveals the idiosyncratic thinking behind the best-selling restaurant guide

Where Chefs Eat designed by Kobe Benezri

Towering proposal for reclaimed Hong Kong airport

Architect MA2 calls the tower "an expression of fluid movement that manifests into a series of folds and creases"

Office tower and exhibition centre, Kai Tak - Michael Arellanes II

Javier Bardem to play Ferran Adrià in new film?

Producer Philippe Rousselet tells Hollywood Reporter that Bond villain "is obvious first choice"


New arrest in Rotterdam Kunsthal Picasso heist

German arrested in Cologne on suspicion of trying to sell back paintings taken in October robbery

Police make a search of the museum grounds, 16 October 2012


Snøhetta designs cave painting museum

As publishers of the very fine Cave Art we approve of this new design to house the cave paintings of Lascaux

Lascaux International Cave Painting Centre - Snøhetta and Casson Mann

Will the Watts Towers tumble?

UCLA is studying LA's famous outsider-art landmark to determine its stability

The Watts Towers by Simon Rodia

See Sterling Ruby and Paul Schimmel next week

The Phaidon artist talks to the former MOCA chief curator at the launch of Ruby's solo exhibition

CDCR (2011) by Sterling Ruby

M&C Saatchi rebrand Big Issue sellers

The London ad agency repositions street magazine sellers as local entrepreneurs


Bucky's biggest geodesic dome to be restored

Robert Rubin buys vast structure and plans to display it in its former glory at France's Festival International d’Art

Geodesic Dome - Buckminster Fuller

Henna tattoos inspire Mumbai mega tower

WS Atkins's stunning Namaste Tower draws design inspiration from Indian henna hand decorations

The  Namaste Tower, Mumbai, by WS Atkins

Catch Mike Brodie's incredible train-hopping photos

Inspired by Steve McCurry's portraits, Brodie rode the rails for four years, shooting pictures of the people he met

From A Period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie

Artist folds banknotes into irreverent portraits

French photographer Philippe Pétremant finds new value in leftover currency, by folding, clipping and shooting it

From The Magnificent Seven by Philippe Pétremant

Arik Levy’s Japanese-influenced furniture for Modus

Artist, technician, photographer, filmmaker and designer looks east for inspiration

Geta for Modus - Arik Levy

Zaha Hadid building to put Hunan on global arts map

Changsha Meixi Lake International Culture & Arts Centre will give Chinese province a new cultural and civic core

Changsha Meixi Lake International Culture & Arts Centre - Zaha Hadid Architects

Florida pastor charged in fake Damien Hirsts sting

Pastor Kevin Sutherland is indicted with attempting to sell faked Hirst spot and spin paintings to Sotheby's

The front and back of Pastor Kevin's spin painting. Images courtesy of the New York County DA's Office

Simon Starling opens at The Tate

The Phaidon artist draws from early cinema and WWII bomb damage in his new commission Phantom Ride

Simon Starling beside his Tate Britain commission

Dutch designers make a seat to cure coach potatoes

Jurgen Bey and Rianne Makkink produce a self-contained desk, cupboard and chair that moves with you

#006 SideSeat by Studio Makkink & Bey

How green architecture transformed a brutalist house

Designed by Barry Byrne 80 years ago, Mudagreen give the Williams-Levant House a 21st century reinvention

Williams-Levant House - Barry Byrne/ Mudagreen

The humble matchbox gets a makeover

American and Swedish husband and wife team pool their considerable talents for Danish furniture brand Hay

Strike - Shane Schneck and Clara von Zweigbergk for Hay

Prepare for MoMA's Le Corbusier retrospective

From Italian watercolours through to a fitted kitchen, new MoMA show promises to be nothing if not comprehensive

Le Corbusier working on Convent of La Tourette, Eveux-sur-Arbresle (1959) by René Burri

René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences

The legendary Swiss Magnum photographer on pretending to be a North Korean spy, sneaking into the Mexico Olympics and 'losing' a Picasso in a Zurich bar - all taken from our forthcoming book, Impossible Reminiscences

René Burri

The New Landscapes of Yao Lu

The Prix Pictet-shortlisted photographer's work brings to mind the Japanese master Hokusai - but look again

New Landscapes - Yao Lu

Peter Fischli unveils Rock On Top Of Another Rock

Artist explains a little about the work at early morning unveiling today at the Serpentine

Rock on Top of Another Rock, 2012 - Fischli/ Weiss Serpentine Gallery, London copyright Peter Fischli David Weiss Photograph: Morley von Sternberg

Bob Hope's John Lautner house for sale at $50m

Architect believed his buildings should create timeless, free and joyous spaces for all activities of life

Bob Hope's John Lautner house

The story behind those Armory Show teeshirts

As the centenary show opens here's the story behind the Liz Magic Laser-designed shirts staff are wearing today

Armory Show 2013 - Liz Magic Laser

Verne Dawson comes to Victoria Miro this month

Apalachicola to Zirconia by the American allegorical painter and Phaidon artist looks back to find a way forward

Tallahassee 2010 by Verne Dawson