The Picasso, the Thief, His Wife & Her Cousin
Could so-called friends of Picasso have conspired against him? The prosecution in a new case alleges so

MAD unveil their George 'Star Wars' Lucas museum
Mies van der Rohe-inspired Chicago building peaks in a ‘floating’ disc with a 360-degree observation deck

David Bowie's Mustique garden and other tales
Gardener's Garden designer Made Wijaya on working with the Thin White Duke, why 'anal architects' are ruining landscape gardening, his love of Bali and why he thinks the current craze for zen gardens is a bit 'tragic'

Milk bar is transformed for Warsaw’s bourgeoisie
Sojka & Wojciechowski rework an Eastern European Socialist staple for a 21st-century audience

Calling America! It's Margarita time!
We catch up with Margarita Carrillo Arronte, the acclaimed chef of Mexico The Cookbook, as she wows the US

Tropical Modernism is back in Puerto Rico
Fuster + Architects' new hotel in Puerto Rico leans on the work of Henry Klumb in the region

How Henry Moore inspired de Kooning’s Clamdigger
And why the abstract expressionist painter wore oversized workman's gloves to produce his life-size figure

Jean-Michel Basquiat's 80s notebooks revealed
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum includes 160 unseen sketch pages from 1980-87

Three new museums for major South China city
Guangzhou urban planners attempt to multiply the Bilbao effect by three with new cultural proposal

Photos that changed the world #6 Self-Portrait
How Gunter Brus and the Vienna Actionists responded to atrocity and remade photography as a result

Gombrich Explains Goya
A look at why the great painter of the Spanish court also depicted witches, giants and demons

How Bas Princen explains architecture in images
The Shooting Space photographer on recording places where urban expansion meets nature's contraction

Massimo Bottura's Emilia Burger heads to London
The skinny Italian chef brings his gourmet burger to Shake Shack in Covent Garden next month

What Ai Weiwei told The New Yorker
Why he thinks Warhol was 50 years ahead of his time and how Lego is the perfect tool for dissent

Watch the Magnus Nilsson Mind Of A Chef trailer!
New PBS clip outlines his 3 rules for life: Don't play it safe, don't try to control everything and limitation is good!

We love The Rijksmuseum’s new 3D visitors’ map!
Graphic designer conquers cartographical conundrum navigating 80 galleries 8,000 objects and 800 years of art

Laura Carlin's artistic exercises for young minds
The Phaidon author demonstrates how creativity comes from an active mind not an overly tutored hand

Pentagram's monotone MIT makeover
Pentagram partner Michael Beirut gives MIT Media Lab an all-encompassing new look

How to cook like Christo and Jeanne-Claude
MoMA cookbook offers 'tasty' insight into the duo's gastronomic creations but, strangely, there are no wraps

Would you live in Muji's new slimline home?
Japanese manufacturer creates prefab home for the country's wrecking-ball-ready housing market

Great Taco Tuesday recipes to try at home
Can't make it to one of the trucks today? Here are some recipes to try tonight!

Taco Tuesday trucks are in your town today!
These are the trucks that are serving exclusive dishes from Mexico The Cookbook across America today

Think you know about Mexican food? Think again!
On Taco Tuesday, the 5 ways chef Margarita Carrillo Arronte is redefining Mexican food for foodies worldwide

‘Frank Gehry is a really good dancer!’ Lily Jencks
We speak to the architect and landscape designer about her Maggie's Centre work with the Pritzker laureate

Jaime Hayon reworks Arne Jacobsen in Room 506
Spanish designer channels Jacobsen's spirit in Copenhagen hotel - one floor below the infamous Room 606

Foster and Hadid build Dubai-style hotels in China
The Jumeirah Group plans suite of resorts designed by Pritzker laureates

'Italians wanted to burn me at the stake!' skinny chef Massimo Bottura tells the New York Times
The Skinny Italian Chef describes to the paper's Melissa Clark the perils involved in reinventing Italian cuisine

Adam Szymczyk enters Art Review's power list
Phaidon author and documenta curator is the highest new entry at number 21

What's lurking inside The Astronaut's Cookbook?
Processed food sticks and bacon bars are just a couple of the treats on offer in this title from our Cookbook Book

Is it just us or does this skate park look like an igloo?
Cebra design a venue for ‘unorganised’ sports in the Jutland town of Haderslev, Denmark

When Robert Rauschenberg met Jean Tinguely
How Tinguely's use of tech inspired Rauschenberg in fulfilling his dream of a constantly changing work of art

Jean Nouvel and Patrick Blanc's sky high garden
Architect and eccentric vertical gardener team up for One Central Park in Sydney

Simon Fujiwara studies the male nude in Jamaica
Artist hopes his work, Brother, might lead some Jamaicans to question their attitude towards the male form

Nicolas Grospierre's axonometric Manhattan
How the photographer created this amazing photograph of a modernist housing estate in Łódź, Poland

Downton Abbey creators to make new series based on René Burri and the Magnum photo agency
Carnival Films say "We can get right inside the key events of the 20th century through their lives and lenses"

OMA reinvents the bridge (again)
Rem Koolhaas's practice manages to close the gap between two distinct Washington DC communities

René Burri 1933 - 2014
A legendary Magnum photographer who was at the centre of so many important world events

Gombrich Explains Sir Christopher Wren
Britain’s greatest architect, the Story of Art author writes, was able to pair baroque styles with English restraint

What we learned from Frieze London 2014
Gallerists, dealers, journos, hip-hop stars and hot Instagrammers - who liked what at Frieze 2014

Frieze designer Edward Barber on this year's fair
How the Universal designer and partner Jay Osgerby brought a more generous, human scale to Frieze 2014

Hans Eijkelboom’s anti-fashion shots head to Paris
Colette stages show based on Eijkelboom’s People of the Twenty-First Century as part of Paris Photo

The RCA shows 50 years of graphic design
The Royal College of Art’s new show proves it nurtures graphics talent as ably as fine artists

What do you think this wild new hotel looks like?
The Kempinski group says its luxurious new hotel on Lake Yanqi is shaped like a fish, a scallop and the sun

Gombrich Explains William Morris
The historian on why the Arts and Crafts movement founder railed against the aesthetics of mass production

Zaha Hadid’s worthy wooden memorial
Architect hopes her Sleuk Rith Institute for victims of the Khmer Rouge will help Cambodians reassess their past

John Stezaker makes a movie out of film stills
The US premier of the British photo artist’s film, Blind, opens as part of a new show at the Petzel Gallery

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Tobias Madison
The artist on his Frieze commission, Swiss identity and how his Sottsass museum became an artworld myth

How Bruce Nauman pushed photography forward
The Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey on how the work of fine artists stops photography becoming clichéd

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Cally Spooner
The artist explains how she turned dreadful corporate jargon into a musical for her Frieze Film commission

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Jonathan Berger
Should we see the late Andy Kaufman as something more than a simple comedian? Yes, says this Frieze artist

Kerry James Marshall on Look See at David Zwirner
Buying a pin ups book and finding no black women in it was a catalyst for new work the artist tells us

Frieze VIPs! Keren Cytter is out to spoil your day
The artist says her hypnotic aural work for the London art fair will make Frieze's celebrity guests suffer

Ian Jeffrey on the rise of new Chinese photography
Our Photography Book author explains why classic American style human-interest photography is thriving

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Isabel Lewis
The artist explains why her Frieze Project is part modern-day ritual, part ancient Greece drinking party

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Victoria Siddall
The new Frieze director talks about when Rembrandt went to Hull, whether she'll be drinking United Brothers' soup from Fukushima and that ultimate first world problem - just where do you put a Joseph Beuys grand piano?

Phaidon's Frieze interviews – Nick Mauss
How Merce Cunningham, Christian Bérard and Kim Gordon led him to bring a ballet to the art fair next week

Hans Eijkelboom, laureate of Normcore!
Guardian Assistant Fashion Editor Lauren Cochrane on how the photographer picked up early on a 2014 trend

Do Ho Suh takes his Chelsea Apartment to Texas
The artist has finished his 348 West 22nd Street sculpture and is showing the rooms at The Contemporary Austin

Gombrich Explains Frans Hals
Why should we delight in this Dutch painter? Well how about the spontaneity he brought to portraiture for starters?

Snøhetta designs Norway's new banknotes
New Kroner notes combine architecture and design firm's high-concept proposals with tradition

Phaidon's Frieze interviews - Jérôme Bel
The choreographer describes how he's finding incredible stage presence in a company of disabled performers

"Photographic collecting is overtaking fine art"
The Photography Book author Ian Jeffrey has some insider tips if you're planning on starting a collection

Massimo Bottura is a hit on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The brilliant Italian chef cooks for the TV host, his guest, Billy Crudup, and sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez

Hélène Binet on the importance of slowing time down
The Shooting Space photographer tells us about spotting unseen details in the darkroom

In praise of ... Georgia O'Keeffe's patriotic palette
A reference to the concept of the Great American Painting, Cow's Skull soon became an American West icon

Michael Stipe and Iggy Pop create art guitars
Music and art-world stars customise guitars for Bonhams auction in aid of War Child USA

Photos that changed the world #5 Cigarette No.17
Irving Penn's series of cigarette photos turned prosaic, discarded objects into conceptual art

Massimo Bottura's on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week!
And to whet your appetite, here's what happened when René Redzepi appeared on the show in November

5 buildings you must not miss at Open House NY
We pick our highlights from the city's annual public-access architecture event this coming weekend

So why do people of the Twenty-First century still wear a Rolling Stones logo from the Twentieth?
Problem Solved author Michael Johnson on the enduring appeal of a look photographed by Hans Eijkelboom

Snøhetta unveils 'floating' library design in Canada
Calgary design will feature arches inspired by cloud formations and will house over half-a-million books

Will Tokyo's Capsule Tower dodge the wrecking ball?
These tiny apartments were built to be replaced so why are their residents fighting to save them?

Were The Rolling Stones the first celebrity chefs?
Jagger coming round for supper again tonight? Then serve him his delightful 1967 recipe, Hot Dogs on The Rocks

Ten questions for photographer Hans Eijkelboom
Our People of the Twenty-First Century photographer on The Sartorialist, Martin Parr and the consumer society

Saving Beijing’s hutongs with UV lamps and string
reMIX Studio shows the residents of the city's oldest neighborhoods a new way of life

Why Iwan Baan likes to get up high
Shooting Space photographer is in a new place pretty much every other day so needs quick perspective on a city

Manila’s banana-shaped business hub
Filipino practice U26 Architecture Studio offers local food producers a delightful literal design for their new offices

Photos that changed the world #4 Dovima
Richard Avedon's 1955 photo took fashion out of the studio and sought to capture age as much as youthful beauty

Five Richard Estes paintings you should know about
How to understand one of the pre-eminent photorealist artists of his generation - painting by painting

How Yuri Ancarani makes hard work appear noble
Italian artist's US show demonstrates the awesome achievements on offer when man works with machine

An-My-Lê's conflict-free war photography
Vietnamese-born photographer takes compelling conflict shots - despite being nowhere near the real action

Nadav Kander on the worst of the west in China
The photographer tells us how a love of Rothko and Constructivism helped inspire his quiet Chinese landscapes

Maverick museum director plans collectors’ casino
Gambler and art lover David Walsh says MONA gambling den could swell museum coffers and draw tourists

How to create a tiny museum with a big impact
Seoul's Museum of War and Women's Human Rights tells a terrible tale from the confines of a suburban house

Ten questions for writer and curator Elias Redstone
The Shooting Space author and Constructing Worlds co-curator on new ways of looking at modernist icons, architecture as the backdrop to our lived experience and why he's still enthused and excited by the city

In NYC? Love art books? Then we've just got to meet!
Phaidon is at the New York Art Book Fair this weekend at MoMA PS1. Come down to meet us and our authors

First look at Ai Weiwei's new Alcatraz show
A million Lego bricks, Edward Snowden and Native American recordings all feature in a powerful show

What has Damien Hirst put in his new cabinet?
Butterflies, eggs, bleach and a lot of stuffed animals. If you're in Paris soon, you can see for yourself

Is the new Budapest metro better than your metro?
Spora Architects reimagines two stations in the Hungarian capital with stunning results

You really need to see Warhol's 'disco Rothko' chapel
If you're in LA you're in luck. Andy's serial take on site-specific, abstract painting gets a rare airing at MOCA

How a 17th century painting inspired a 70s LA photo
Stephen Shore tells us how his La Brea Ave photo was organised using Claude Lorrain's compositional technique

Schrager, Pawson and Herzog & de Meuron in NYC
Real-estate developer calls upon Phaidon author and architect and Pritzker laureates for downtown development

Gehry brings his Bilbao effect to Panama
The Pritzker laureate employs local, colourful tin roofing in quest to put Panama on the global museum map

So how do you restore a da Vinci masterpiece?
The Uffizi uses an entire wing of medical imaging gear, a wealth of knowledge - and no small amount of tact

Ten questions for Cristina Salmastrelli, the director of the Affordable Art Fair, New York City
She reveals how much works can go up by, why they have an artist in residence, and how they keep out the fakes

Toyo Ito creates opera house from sprayable concrete
The Pritzker laureate's labyrinthine new structure in Taiwan is designed to act as a sound cave

Take a look inside Nike's flying physio room
Sports giant and design agency Teague conceptualise airborne recuperation zone for US basketball team

Photos that changed the world: #3 Moonrise
How Ansel Adams' technical skill turned a fleeting scene into the new ideal for US landscape photography

Is this really Stephen Shore’s first retrospective?
Madrid show takes in motels, postcards, high concepts and print-on-demand experiments
