Zaha Hadid falls out with Olympics organisers
Aquatics architect complains that she hasn't been given an invite to any Olympic events

Damien Hirst donates spin painting to Burger King
Beautiful Psychedelic Gherkin Exploding Tomato Sauce All Over Your Face, Flame Grilled Painting goes on show

Phaidon's global gallery guide
12 shows to see this weekend complete with videos, reviews, links and suggested reading

Prix Pictet shortlist announced
Phaidon photographers in the picture as 2012 Prix Pictet focusses on the theme of power

Diane Arbus in London and Berlin
Major shows with previously unseen work for the photographer who famously said "every difference is a likeness"

Happy July 4th
The Pentagram agency's call to designers to rework the flag was one of its most infamous projects

Nedko Solakov offers gallery goers five kilos of meat
Bulgarian artist's show A Quiz (again) at the Visual Arts Foundation, Middelburg takes the form of a competition

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 04.07.12
This week's international round up takes in Iceland, Germany, America, the UK, Holland and even Timbuktu

Barry Le Va artwork smashed at Gagosian
But it's all part of the installation process for a 1968 piece by the Californian sculptor and installation artist

Donald Judd's loft opens to the public
Refurb finished on Soho loft where Judd exhibited the work of Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg, and Dan Flavin

Steve McCurry opens up in Al Jazeera interview
"My parents were perplexed, bewildered and befuddled on how wild I was in my youth!" he tells Riz Khan

Phaidon's eye on the photography world 03.07.12
The US, UK, France, Czechoslovakia, Australia and Belgium all in focus in this week's round up

Jackson Pollock unvarnished
Decision to restore Pollock's Mural neatly sidesteps a developing argument over its ownership

elBulli comes to Paris... and London... and Rome...
Architects Rodero Beggiao unveil plans for a travelling elBulli restaurant, foundation and workshop pop up

Architects and artists experiment with space
Daniel Libeskind and Tauba Auerbach take Stan Allen essay as inspiration for new spatial show at SFMOMA

Santiago Calatrava hits back at critics over cost
Under attack in Spain and criticised over the cost of his New York Transit Hub the architect comes out fighting

Phaidon's eye on the artworld 29.6.12
Martin Creed upset by bell ringers, MoCA curator 'fired', Kapoor occupied and van Gogh immortalised in dominoes

Fabrice Le Nezet gets heavy
French sculptor who's worked with Sony, Ford and Amnesty 'creates tension' with industrial materials in new work

Richard Long at work in the studio
A chance to see the great British land artist at work, indoors for once, at the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield

Sir Nicholas Serota profiled in New Yorker
"Nick really caught the wave. He saw the possibilities and he harnessed that," says Larry Gagosian

Peter Zumthor - exclusive look at architecture models
Exhibition of the architect's 'skeletons and scenarios' opens in gallery space of a post office in Lake Constance

Land art gets international in LA
New show highlights land art's spread from America to Japan, China, Iceland and Israel

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 27.6.12
China, New Zealand, America, Chile, Singapore and the UK under the spotlight in our international round up

As little rain as possible
Dieter Rams-inspired weather app is the perfect accompaniment for your Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guide

Graphic Modernists on show in New York
Alan Fletcher, Max Huber and Paul Rand feature in Graphic Modern, an exhibition of modernist graphics

Herzog & de Meuron do it again
Pavilion like structure of the Kinderspital in Zurich gets unanimous vote of confidence

The fine art of computer code
Casey Reas saw the creativity in computer programming which led him to work with Frank Gehry and others

Phaidon's eye on the photography world 26.6.12
New Zealand, America, Burma, Greece and the UK are under the spotlight in our international round up

Constructivist radio tower in danger
Shukhov Tower in Moscow, the inspiration for the Gherkin, could be lost if Putin refuses to fund restoration

Terunobu Fujimori's teetering tea houses
Scholar turned architect featured in Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture opens innovative Munich show

Sacrilege or daring re-invention?
New Dutch furniture company reworks Eames classic to startling effect. But do you approve?

Dieter Rams sketches discovered
Drawings from the late 50s and early 60s show the clarity of the designer's vision - even at the planning stages

Architects auction sketches on eBay
Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Richard Meier and Daniel Libeskind donate works for Architecture for Humanity charity

Richard Prince talks about new work
Legendary US artist discusses inspirations behind New York show in interview with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon

Dalí painting stolen in New York
1959 painting Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio swiped from the recently opened Venus Over Manhattan Gallery

Norman Foster redesigns Fidel Castro's ballet school
Foster and ballet superstar Carlos Acosta work together on buildings abandoned after 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

Ai Weiwei hit with porn charge over 2010 photo
Artist tells reporters that authorities are threatening pornography, bigamy and new money exchange charges

Phaidon's eye on the artworld - 21.6.2012
Our international round up takes in the UK, China, Venezuela, Germany and America

Aung San Suu Kyi by Steve McCurry
In 1996 the photographer travelled to Burma and came back with two of the most iconic photos of his career

Red House at Red Hill
Australian architects preserve the peace at upscale Melbourne city dwellers' getaway

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 20.6.12
Abu Dhabi, UK, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Australia, America and Denmark all figure in our international round up

Turner Duckworth designs Olympic Coca-Cola cans
The international design company reimagines Coke’s iconic packaging with an Olympic spin

Abu Dhabi's sun sensitive twin towers
Al Bahar Towers marry old and new technology in a clever and culturally appropriate way

Robert Capa and the Tour de France
With Europe on the brink of war the photographer was commissioned by Paris Match to cover the iconic race

Mona wins two Institute of Architecture awards
New plans to "install a cemetery" as Hobart's favourite art museum wins peers' and public's vote

Do-Ho-Suh's Fallen Star rises in San Diego
The South Korean sculptor known for silk replicas of his childhood homes takes to the roof for new project

Phaidon's eye on the photography world - 19.6. 2012
Our international roundup takes in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, America and the UK

Take a look inside this Richard Meier house
Watch a video of the legendary architect showing you round his 1967 Smith House in Darien, Connecticut

Marina Abramović - a very revealing interview
Why her mother burned her naked pics, how she'll be buried in three coffins and the issue of MoMA ticket sales

How to get ahead in the artworld
MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch has an unusual tip for getting noticed at art auctions

Documenta 13 - the review
Documenta 13 in Kassel is shaping up as one of the summer's 'must see' art shows - here's why

Phaidon's eye on the artworld - 15 June 2012
This week's international round up takes in Germany, Switzerland, the US, UK, China and Bosnia

Roni Horn's rarely seen pigment works go on show
Hauser & Wirth celebrates return to former Zurich site by hosting first ever show dedicated to Horn's drawings

Rachel Whiteread unveils Whitechapel frieze
Artist and local resident's gold leaf facade, inspired by St Paul's, realises a project begun 100 years ago

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world
Our international architecture round up takes in Brazil, Spain, UAE, UK, the US, China, Italy, Dubai and Peru

Octopus-inspired Olympic architecture
The shooting venue for the London 2012 Olympics features sucker-style spots to keep those inside cool

Vitra showcases new design talent
Five Gerrit Rietveld-inspired design projects are showing this week at the Vitra Design Museum

Phaidon's eye on the photography world
Our international roundup takes in Russia, America, France, Morocco, South Africa, the UK and Hungary

The fire station in the mountain
A volunteer fire station in the Alps has been carved into a sheer slab of rock

Phaidon's eye on the artworld
The first of our international artworld roundups takes in Russia, America, China, the UK and Switzerland

The ‘99%’ Pierre Koenig House
The final design by Mid-Century modern architect Pierre Koenig is up for sale

Korean tradition with a contemporary twist
Seung-Yong Song’s modern take on traditional Korean lattice forms

Frank Lloyd Wright’s disabled-access house
The only home that the celebrated architect made for a wheelchair-bound man is set to become a museum

Nan Goldin is awarded the MacDowell Medal
The American is only the fourth photographer in 52 years to be awarded the prestigious prize

Tacita Dean's Five Americans
Artists Cy Twombly, Claes Oldenburg and Julie Mehretu star on film in Dean's biggest New York show to date

Documenta 13 - the preview
The 'museum of 100 days' descends on the tiny German town of Kassel this weekend - here's what to look out for

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron's pavilion opens
Architects talk about creating a structure over Skype and why 'everybody loves cork' at London launch

Thomas Heatherwick - Designing the extraordinary
Designer of the Shanghai UK pavilion, new London bus and a cute bendy bridge opens first retrospective at V&A

Damien Hirst – Art is easy
“The reason I got to the top is because the top wasn’t very high,” he tells Phaidon

Linking Dürer to the here and now
Why the greatest artist of the Northern European Renaissance was a pioneeer in every sense of the word

Meike Nixdorf plays on perspective
Berlin-based photographer’s intensely stylised shots look at the same subject - from every angle

David Altmejd's mythical beasts
London gallery show for Canadian-born, New York-based artist who gets a thrill from the complex

New gastronomy mag Fool looks rather tasty
Photographer launches high end magazine featuring Mugaritz, Noma and Fäviken - Phaidon approves!

The René Burri Interviews #4 Bigger is better!
Magnum photographer on how adding sound (and rockets) to his photos opened up a new world

Arise Sir Jonathan Ive!
On the day he’s knighted Ive gives rare interview on design, knowing when to give up - and Apple after Steve

Taryn Simon: We are ghosts of the past and future
One of the biggest names in art photography opens up on her childhood and the processes that go into her work

The René Burri Interviews #3 early days of Magnum
René Burri on why Magnum photographers felt like Samurai Warriors - and occasionally church mice

Tom Sachs goes to Mars
First the Moon now Mars - meet the American artist exploring outer space from the safety of the gallery

The Great British public in pictures
The London Festival of Photography celebrates all things British - with a little help from Martin Parr (of course)

Tomás Saraceno creates Cloud City above New York
Argentinian artist lashes mirrored 'bubbles' to roof of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mike Kelley's final project
A work that sees the late artist's childhood home recreated and relocated is completed posthumously

David Benjamin Sherry's alternative America
Inspired by painting and installation art the photographer's landscapes are brash - and very big

The René Burri Interviews #2 Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Magnum photographer on why Henri Cartier-Bresson always looked at his photos upside down

Tracey Emin designs London tube map
Central line reduced to Oxford Circus, Liverpool Street and Shoreditch High Street in nod to east end west end life

The Shard in all its timelapse glory
Finally, a video documenting the rise, and rise, of Renzo Piano’s ‘small town’ sized building

Banksy sends jubilee regards to the queen
New mural appears on wall of Poundland shop in riot hit part of north London

Emeco’s Coca-Cola chairs grace green chemical co
BASF employs recycled plastic Coca-Cola bottle chairs - as featured in Vitamin Green - for new eco-makeover

The René Burri interviews - #1 Men on a Rooftop
The Magnum photographer on how he pulled the wool over Henri Cartier-Bresson’s eyes with his most iconic shot

Jeff Wall photograph sets new world record
Phaidon Collector’s Editions photographer’s print Dead Troops Talk reaches $3.6million at Christie's New York

Francis Upritchard - rising star
Four big shows this year including one site specific work in a space the sculptor didn't actually visit

This box contains a bedroom
Flatpack furniture goes to the next level as a Latvian designer fits an entire bedroom into a box

Thought for the day - modern art
"Some people don’t understand it because they’re walking into the tail end of a 30,000 year old conversation”

Legendary auctioneer bows out after biggest sale ever
High jinks at Christie's as Christopher Burge (the auctioneer in Wall Street) retires

Adi Nes on masculinity, sexuality and war
The Israeli photographer explores identity, sexuality and conflict in a staged, polished style

The emotive issue of automotive design
As China takes over the market for automobiles, will the car 'face' of the future look very different?

Virgin Atlantic's pop up in the sky
New Upper Class bar follows the trend on the ground for pop up and boutique bars

The greening of the Empire State building
New York's most iconic building has been given a $500 million plus retrofit - but you won't spot it from the outside
