Renzo Piano on how to design a museum
As it nears completion, Piano explains why his new home for the Whitney will 'hit NYC like a meteorite'
Yayoi Kusama: from fried onions to pumpkins
On the eve of her new show, the artist describes her more humble years in 1960s New York City
Why Joel Meyerowitz thinks this is his best photo
The photographer tells the Huffington Post why he keeps coming back to this image, taken in Paris 47 years ago
Hershey’s courts controversy with redesign
Candy company's new logo triggers Airbnb-style adverse reaction
Supertall skyscraper is adapted for London cityscape
SURE Architecture think this massive block could be adapted to suit the ancient streets of the British capital
The end of Martin Parr’s Black Country Story
The Magnum photographer’s extensive four-year project in the British Midlands rounds off with a major exhibition
Latino artists face down Modernism
The effect of Modernism on Latin America is charted at New York’s Bronx Museum of the Arts
Understanding Francesca Woodman
A new London exhibition of the late photographer’s work offers insight into her subtle flux of styles
What’s cooking in Noma’s science bunker?
Roman-style fish sauces, Nordic miso, blackcurrant leaf kombucha, cherry vinegar, and more
The Tehran house that turns with the seasons
In response to the Iranian capital’s extreme climate, a local architect has created a house with rotating rooms
Moscow’s graffiti foreign policy
Should the Russian Foreign Ministry really try to clean up Bulgaria’s Soviet Army Monument?
The good news is Warhol painted dad's portrait...
...the bad news is it was 13 Most Wanted Men, the long lost mural from NewYork's 1964 World's Fair
Mexican architects squeeze a city into a skyscraper
Studio Cachoua Torres Camilletti think their speculative proposal might suit a Hong Kong of the near future
Beirut’s startling underground museum plans
The Lebanese architect Galal Mahmoud wants to turn Martyrs’ Square into a permanent archaeological dig
Arts publishing versus the e-reader
The graphics magazine, Eye, looks at how high-quality art and design publishers have stemmed the digital attrition
The Phaidon guide to art speak - Unmonumental
Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time. Today, a word for scrappy sculptures
The Guggenheim goes back to Zero
The New York museum hosts the first large-scale US show dedicated to this influential German post-war group
Six radically converted historical buildings
The Phaidon Atlas’s latest feature proves contemporary architecture can incorporate both old and new buildings
Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi take on McDonald's
At René Redzepi’s MAD event, Coi's founder and a food truck star reveal plans to bring real food into inner cities
Understanding Anselm Kiefer’s Interior
Prior to the Royal Academy’s show, we look at one key work by the great German painter
Frank Lloyd Wright to put LA on the UNESCO map
The architect’s first house in Los Angeles is shortlisted for World Heritage status and due to reopen later this year
Copenhagen’s orange bike highway
A new £3.5m elevated cycle path relieves two-wheeled congestion enlivens the Danish capital’s waterfront
Paweł Althamer’s weird summer play set
Why has the Polish artist installed models of his family in an old Greek slaughter house on the island of Hydra?
Herzog & de Meuron build a stadium in a favela
The Pritzker-laureates cut out the air con and waive their fee to create the neighbourhood facility, Arena do Morro
Impressionism: officially 141 years old
A US professor believes he’s dated the scene captured in the painting that gave its name to an art movement
Why EarthArt beats Google
The New York Times' Michael Pollak tried an interesting experiment when he reviewed our Bernhard Edmaier book
Why Daniel Patterson is now serving the bill first
The Coi chef has switched his restaurant to a ticket system as he strives to ‘do something really great every time.’
A French concrete firm turns into an urban sculpture
That's the claim of VIB Architecture make for their new Ciments Calcia facility they've constructed in Paris
Look at the river Olafur Eliasson has just built
The main work in the artist’s show at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum, brings a whole new meaning to landscape art
The new material in Anthony Caro’s last show
Why the great British sculptor appreciated Perspex and Cezanne's Card Players during his final years
Warhol’s film archive gets a smart digital fix
MoMA and the Warhol foundation team up with the firm behind Godzilla to save the artist’s 16mm archive
Why are these nudes in the Barcelona Pavilion?
The French artist Xavier Veilhan gives the single figure in Mies' masterwork some latter-day company
See Lebbeus Woods’ futuristic sketches in Berlin
Early drawings by the radical architect and artist are on show at a new Berlin museum dedicated to draftsmanship
The Phaidon guide to art speak - Super-Hybridity
Decoding the language of art criticism - one knotty phrase at a time
Ten questions for Artspace CEO Catherine Levene
The co-founder and CEO of the contemporary art website talks us through its acquisition by Phaidon, how her gran turned her on to art, the one piece she'd love to own and whether there really is an online art goldrush going on
Paweł Althamer declares his own people's republic
His debut Beijing show dwells on collaboration and social interaction across borders - so bring a paintbrush
A Champagne bar to stop Paris flooding
Former Zaha Hadid employee Dr. Margot Krasojevic's new plan holds back the Seine, but lets the bubbly flow
Where better to buy a copy of The Design Book?
Legendary St Marks Bookshop moves into new space with curvy new shelving courtesy Clouds Architecture Office
Shigeru Ban imagines Aspen Art Museum as a basket
New ski resort museum also references those early cardboard designs you'll find in his Phaidon monograph
Álvaro Siza makes his first splash in China
81-year-old's horseshoe structure perched on an island in Jiangsu Province is also his first on water
US Postal Service gets a makeover
Biggest rebranding in history sees the Postal Service get an updated, simplified design in patriotic colours
What has Cai Guo-Qiang just sailed into Shanghai?
Our Contemporary Artist series artist sparks environmental debate with his ark of sick animals
Turkish architect reinvents the mosque
Main prayer hall is replaced by two identical sacred spaces side by side in new design
Daido Moriyama and the scent of the city
How the Japanese photographer always looks for the dim light in a shadowy environment
Milton Glaser doesn't love global warming
Graphic design guru who gave us the "I heart NY’ logo in the 1970s turns his attention to a less benign topic
What Millais went through in order to paint Ophelia
As Ophelia returns to the Tate today, our Millais author Jason Rosenfeld tells us how the painter spent eleven hour days fighting off bulls, swans and 'muscular' flies in order to realise the most recognisable painting ever created
BIG creates a Zootopia for the animal kingdom
Not content with making life better for us humans, Bjarke Ingels and co turn their attention to the animal world
Robert McCarter celebrates Alvar Aalto
Here's what happened at our Aalto book launch in Minneapolis last night
Latitude festival rebrands with slick new image
We talk to Form co-founder Paul West about his and Paula Benson's work on that most Phaidon of UK festivals
Watch this great Gardener's Garden video
Does Munstead Wood head gardener Annabel Watts have the best job in the world? Watch our video and decide
The fascinating story behind Andy Warhol's soup cans
On the show's opening night a rival dealer offered soup cans cheaper in his gallery, Warhol's own gallerist bought back the five he'd sold, including one from Dennis Hopper, then offered to buy entire set from Andy for just $3,000
Atkins reinvents office windows in China
Architects say 001 symbolises Guangzhou as first Chinese city open for international trading many dynasties ago
The melancholy life of the amazing André Kertész
Though a master of composition, the Hungarian photographer could never really find himself in the frame
Bauhaus gets its first ever corporate identity
At the grand old age of 64 the influential design school gets a makeover courtesy of Stuttgart studio L2M3
Introducing the 200mph lounge chair
Michael Sodeau's Halo Lounge Chair features Formula One technology to create previously unattainable shapes
Zaha Hadid's Crest debuts at London Design Festival
Dubai hotel commission will preview outside the V&A next month before travelling to the UAE
World War One as pictured in the book Century
A brief look through the incredible images in our book Century to mark today's centenary commemorations
A bus terminal worth waiting for
Turkey's youngest architecture practice Bahadir Kul Architects bring a sense of style to the bus terminal in Kayseri
The best new city houses are in the Phaidon Atlas
From irregular concrete gridded blocks in Lisbon to leaf-covered façades in Ho Chi Minh City they're all here
Can you compare 'gardening' to art?
Is The Gardener’s Garden co-editor Toby Musgrave right to put Gertrude Jekyll on a par with Monet and Turner?
Why is this Ruscha print Obama’s favourite gift?
He gave one to the Prime Minister of Great Britain in 2010, and he’s just handed another over to Australia’s PM
Back this school and you could get a Kusama doodle
Or an original work by Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono or Marina Abramović, courtesy of a new online art school for girls
Harun Farocki 1944-2014
German video artist, featured in our 21st Century Art Book, whose work focused on control and manipulation
Inflatable concrete housing - who knew?
The Binishell is a cheap, quick and, its proponents say, environmentally friendly building solution
Alfredo Jaar tells NYC again, This is Not America
The artist shows his 27-year-old work, A Logo for America, in Times Square once more, starting Friday night
What a Shigeru Ban airport looks like on day one
Fascinating sketches reveal thinking behind architect's new tea plantation-inspired Mount Fuji airport design
Is the GIF a good fit for fine-art photography?
US photo duo's new series uses the image format to explore new ground between still and motion pictures
The incredible story behind Flag by Jasper Johns
Johns’s most famous work took in the Civil War, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Egyptology - here's how
What you get when you mash up Mies with Le Corb
Farnsavoye, a hybrid of two 20th-century masterpieces, where plagiarism is a key design feature
What would you hang beside a Wolfgang Tillmans?
Warhol, Eggleston and Richter take their place next to the photographer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Richard Estes and the art of the photograph
New Focus book and Portland retrospective shed light on the strained relationship between art and photography
How Dronestagram is changing aerial photography
Cheap, remote-controlled aircraft are helping inspired photographers reach new, low-level altitudes
Olafur Eliasson paints Turner
The Danish artist and English painter have a lot more in common than you might at first suspect
Take a look inside a real gardener's garden
We launch our new book The Gardener's Garden at Munstead Wood, the quintessential English garden
The future of North Korean tourism: flying hotels?
Utopian visions, one of the most intriguing Venice Biennale presentations, inspires a real architecture tour
Steve McCurry goes wild in Africa
The legendary photographer takes Etnia sunglasses on a South African safari for its summer campaign
Frank Gehry’s models on the move in France
The Pritzker laureate’s maquettes feature in a new Arles show, alongside works by David Lynch and Tino Sehgal
Alain de Botton on Therapy as Art
Our Art as Therapy author praises two therapeutic shows, proving that art isn’t simply an impractical pursuit
Inter Milan's brand update is a winner
The Italian football club looks to the past when reworking its visual identity for the 21st century
UK architects make the Hollywood sign disappear
What has London practice Ordinary Architecture done to this landmark, as part of LA's On The Road project?
Bold new Belgian architecture in the Atlas
Our online resource takes a look at some of the finest new buildings from the land of Magritte and moules-frites
The show that mixes minimalism with the astral plane
CLEAR at Gagosian Beverly Hills pairs new artists with those from the California Light and Space movement
Five things we learned from reading Émigrés
With its tales of triumph in the face of adversity this history of wartime publishing is a fascinating, fact packed read
Kandinsky’s teaching celebrated in Bauhaus show
Show at Bauhaus-Archiv brings together archive lecture notes and exercises his students undertook for him
Choices are limited in Sterling Ruby’s clothing shop
The artist’s joint venture with Belgian designer Raf Simons offers just a couple of garments for a week at a time
How Bruce Nauman turned corridors into artworks
We look back at how, with a simple bit of architecture, the great American artist altered the gallery experience
The story behind Mies van der Rohe's name changes
With his numerous name changes he joined a roll call of avant-garde artists intent on reinventing themselves
Knoedler case forger protests innocence in interview
Pei-Shen Qian tells ABC’s Nightline he was surprised anyone fell for his abstract expressionist forgeries
The most experimental buildings in the Phaidon Atlas
The latest Phaidon Atlas focus is on buildings that push the limits of inspiration, technology and technique
Moshe Safdie's tropical airport complex
Can Moshe Safdie and Associates Project Jewel turn Singapore’s Changi Airport into a genuine tourist attraction?
Is this really one of Britain’s favourite artworks?
Art Everywhere launches soon, showing the UK's favourite art on poster sites. What do you make of the works?
Carlo Scarpa’s surprisingly traditional legacy
The architect’s work might still look modern, yet as a new Venetian show makes clear, Scarpa built on traditions
The tiny American town on show at Arles
Why did Dutch photographer Pieter ten Hoopen spend over a decade shooting in one Montana hamlet?
Could this propeller-shaped airport get airborne?
Bangkok practice offers land-locked Niger a sleek transport hub based on an antique aeronautical design
Steve McCurry at Alessandro Del Piero’s gallery
Italian footballing legend celebrates shared love of teamwork and excellence in new McCurry exhibition
Rotterdam Kunsthal thieves fined €18 million
Dutch court orders Romanian thieves to pay insurers for destroyed Picasso, Monet and Gauguin works
Redzepi, Atala and Nilsson in Vice food show
We're only two episodes in, but we like what we’ve seen so far from Vice's chef show, Being Frank
As Little Design as Possible is now on the iPad
And here's Apple Senior VP Jonathan Ive on how he was 'enchanted' by Dieter Rams as a boy
Don't like Koons? Maybe you don't like your culture
'In judging Jeff you need to answer the question: What do you think of your culture?' say our Wild Art Authors
