Beatrix Ruff on Helen Marten and Jordan Wolfson
We just spoke to the new Stedelijk director about her upcoming Frieze talk with the LA and London artists

Phaidon artists shake up Frieze Projects
Get a room, take a ferry, and meet the invisible communities on Randall's Island, at this year’s Frieze Projects

Alain de Botton's advice for Frieze goers
"Know the state of your soul before making a purchase," Art as Therapy author advises

A Work In Progress wins James Beard Award
Our three in one book with René Redzepi just received one of the highest accolades in the food book world!

Join us at an exclusive elBulli-inspired dinner
Former elBulli stager Jason Atherton will reinterpret dishes from Adrià’s legendary restaurant, courtesy of The FT

How to survive Frieze New York
Our Collecting Art For Love, Money and More authors on how to do next week's art fair - without the fuss

Brad Pitt buys Danny Lyon photo at Paris Photo LA
The Seventh Dog photographer's 1962 print of Clarksdale Police proves a hit with the 12 Years a Slave producer

Andoni Luis Aduriz by Per-Anders Jörgensen
The Eating with the Chefs photographer talks about how the Mugaritz head inspired his new book

Zhang Huan talks Tibet at Pace Gallery
Our Contemporary Artists Series artist on the inspirational trip behind his new show Spring Poppy Fields

Emilia Terragni on a cook book's crucial ingredients
Beauty or function? Our publisher, Lucky Peach’s editor-in-chief and Bon Appétit’s creative director test the recipe

Phaidon authors at Frieze New York Talks
From the Biennale director to the poet laureate of weather reports, here's how our contributors are involved

Have you seen Massimo Bottura's new video?
Check out the flamboyant star of our Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef book 'dropping the lemon tart'

Come and join us at NADA New York next week
Phaidon comes to the NADA fair 9-11 May to shed some more light on the Art Cities of the Future

David Zwirner’s 80s New York and Cologne show
No Problem: Cologne/ New York 1984-1989 pairs works from the US metropolis and the German city

Massimo Bottura by Per-Anders Jörgensen
The Eating with the Chefs photographer describes his time shooting the skinny Italian chef in Modena

Wilhelm Sasnal’s surrealist children’s show
Wilhelm tells us he's drawing on Hans Christian Andersen and psychedelic band Spacemen 3 in his new work

Ten Questions for Memphis member Barbara Radice
The journalist and confidant of Ettore Sottsass talks us through her time with the great man and his legacy

René Redzepi live in San Francisco - video exclusive
The 50 Best winner toured with a series of films on his creativity last year - you can watch them exclusively here

From 'blubber restaurant' to world's greatest (again)
The story behind René Redzepi's acceptance speech and all those 'wood sorrel conquered caviar!' tweets

René Redzepi by Per-Anders Jörgensen
The Eating With The Chefs photographer tells us about working with the four times 50 Best Restaurants winner

Introducing René Redzepi A Work In Progress
Phaidon's commissioning editor of food Emma Robertson on our new three-in-one book with the 50 Best winner

Lars Ulrich on the world's best chef René Redzepi
Here's an excerpt from the Metallica drummer's introduction to our book that René referred to in his 50 Best speech

René Redzepi's (NSFW) acceptance speech
Watch a video of the Noma chef's colourful acceptance speech at last night's 50 Best Restaurant Awards

René Redzepi regains world's best restaurant crown
Tonight's 50 Best Restaurant Awards ceremony sees Noma chef regain his top of the world ranking!

Art as Therapy welcomed at the Rijksmuseum
The press and the public love how Alain de Botton has transferred his book to the walls of the Dutch museum

FT loves our Where Chefs Eat app
"The information in Where Chefs Eat is valuable" says the paper that knows what to invest in

Phaidon chefs relax ahead of tonight's 50 Best Awards
René Redzepi, Magnus Nilsson and Massimo Bottura descend on North London neighbourhood restaurant

Google Doodle for Fellini’s film studio
Rome’s Cinecittà film studio receives the search engine’s occasional illustrated honour

Ten questions for Edmund de Waal OBE
The celebrated potter takes a moment to talk about his exquisitely designed monograph, a new project with David Chipperfield, the myth of tactility and what's better - an OBE from the queen or being signed up by Larry Gagosian

One architect's Swiss village revival in retrospect
You may not have heard of Gion A Caminada but since the '70s he's slowly been transforming an alpine village

New painting show inspired by Sottsass
Hernan Bas’s Memphis Living paintings are an homage to the bright, challenging work of the designer

Phaidon at the Whitney Biennial
Find out more about the artists, curators and writers we’re proud to have worked with at the 2014 exhibition

Ed Ruscha’s first public commission in NYC
His 1977 word painting will appear as a large hand-painted mural beside The High Line next month

Grimshaw designs world’s biggest airport terminal
The British practice, working with two other firms, will build the one-million-square-metre Istanbul Grand Airport

Peter Blake remakes Sgt Pepper for Royal Albert Hall
Pop artist makes a massive mural for 143-year-old venue featuring all the performers who have appeared there

The Insider's Guide to Sao Paulo
Jewellery designer Camila Sarpi on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide

And you thought Shigeru Ban just did cardboard?
New images of the Pritzker Prize winning architect's Tribeca redevelopment show Manhattan life at its most chic

George Lois on Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter
The legendary ad man explains how he got Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan to help free the falsely convicted boxer

More arrests in abstract expressionism forgery case
Two brothers arrested in Spain and new indictment in New York reveals how the forgeries were created

On Earth Day a new video of Apple’s green HQ
A newly leaked video stresses the Cupertino office's peerless environmental and design credentials

Bruce Nauman by the man who knows him best
Peter Plagens on how America's most reclusive artist was actually inspired by an Austrian philosopher

Ten Questions for Tomi Ungerer
The much decorated children's author and illustrator talks about life in the camel corps, jail breakfasts, how snakes got a bad rep and why he thinks he’s a lunatic

Andy Warhol's Race Riot goes under the hammer
Previously owned by Robert Mapplethorpe, Warhol's screen print is up for sale at Christie's next month

Pawel Althamer stages one day show
Sculptor closes New Museum retrospective with a show of new works in the museum’s storefront space

Drive in church is inspired by motorway signage
Siegerland Motorway Church by Schneider & Schumacher is based on a simple pictogram image

MVRDV brings Vertical Village into your home
Architects' statement on apartment block construction in Asian cities turned into fun furniture line

Meet us at the Food Book Fair
This month we're coming to Brooklyn for a few days of food, writing, reading, and fun

Why Yayoi Kusama’s new sculpture is for lovers
The 85-year-old artist says this new public work for a Taiwanese train station is all about dressing up for a date

Ai Weiwei father and son show in Britain
This summer the Yorkshire Sculpture Park pairs Ai Weiwei’s work with readings of his father’s poetry

Lebbeus Woods’ high-concept architecture in NYC
The late, great American architect, best known for his work on paper, gets a retrospective at the Drawing Center

Ferran Adrià on cannibalism and creativity
The chef delights crowds, fellow chefs and Australia’s media, as he winds up his promo tour on a high

You've got male! (and he's called Tom of Finland)
Art & Queer Culture illustrator Touko Laaksonen is honoured by Finnish post office in new series of stamps

Mies van der Rohe by Jeff Wall and Edmund de Waal
Architect's influence and buildings prove haven and horror for two artists with a very different take on less is more

The Insider's Guide to Ho Chi Minh City
Fashion designer Adrian Anh Tuan on the city's secrets as revealed in our Wallpaper* Guide

What happened when Danny Lyon joined Occupy?
Right from his earliest days with the Outlaws motorcycle gang The Seventh Dog photographer has never flinched from documenting society's rebels. Here's what happened when he spent time with the Occupy protest movement

Wally Olins 1930-2014
The pioneer of corporate 'brand architecture' and champion of intuition dies after a short illness

The things people ask Ferran Adrià
As he winds up his Australian tour we round up the most interesting questions and answers asked by the fans

Sara Cwynar makes something new from anything old
NY photographer uses old images to make new ones that resemble “that junk drawer everyone has in their house"

Banksy attacks surveillance culture with new mural
Street artist on top of the news cycle as ever with new street work and mysterious facebook posting

What’s happening during Print Month?
Galleries and institutions celebrate artistic prints and print making - entry is half price to Phaidon Club members!

The Barcelona Pavilion minus its doors
Photographer Jordi Bernadó reinterprets Mies van der Rohe's iconic building

The book that captured pre-Sartorialist street style
The Photobook III praises the Japanese streetwear anthology Fruits that captured Tokyo styles at their wildest

What did you miss at the Milan Design Fair?
John Pawson’s light designs, Nendo’s dip-dyed shirts and Zaha Hadid’s wall features were a hit this year

McCarthy and Bouchet's Bilbao billboard torn down
Gugenheim says it's a commercial, not artistic, work and 'discredits' the institution

James Franco does Cindy Sherman
Actor says his new take on Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills allows him to 'refashion' the work he does in Hollywood

Wylie Dufresne's big surprise
Magnus Nilsson, Alex Atala and René Redzepi go undercover for the foodie event of the year

Your chance to meet Stephen Shore
The legendary photographer and creator of From Galilee to the Negev hits the West Coast later this month

David Chipperfield's home for the Nobel Prize
The architect’s Berlin office wins the chance to design a Stockholm HQ for the prize-giving body

Connect 4 game inspires Italian storage unit
Still struggling with the middle youth thing? DISK36 evokes happy childhood memories in your living space

Ten questions for Martin Parr and Gerry Badger
Our selfie-taking photobook experts on rarity, collecting and why the photograph is like a time machine

Andreas Gursky’s pre-digital world
Photographer's early landscapes prove he could capture the modern world without recourse to computers

If Ettore Sottsass designed your town
Illustrator Lauren Rolwing imagines a world where Memphis rules

Sarah Lucas debuts furniture line in Milan
Artist says the materials used are "meaningful" and the furniture is "surprisingly stylish"

The Insider's Guide to Havana
Singer Eme Alfonso on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide

Could you live with Studio Job's wallpaper designs?
The Belgian duo's new Archive Wallpapers collection for Dutch brand NLXL go "beyond styling"

Concrete culture from Louis Kahn apprentice
If you loved our book Concrete take a look at this building from the master's last apprentice

Joel Meyerowitz revisits 1960s Europe
The Howard Greenberg Gallery recreates Joel's 1968 exhibition, shot entirely from inside a moving car

Pentagram gives Sotheby's a new look
The leading design studio reworks the branding for the legendary auction house

Ten questions for Nick Lander
The Art of The Restaurateur author on iPad dining and why waiters worry when you nip out for a cigarette

The building they said couldn't be built
Using the smooth overlapping scales of a pine cone as their inspiration Oikios triumph in Switzerland

What to expect at the Milan Design Fair
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius' furniture for Vitra and Artek are our stand-out works among this year's stands

Ten questions for Paris Photo's Julien Frydman
Paris Photo director and former Magnum man talks to Phaidon.com about this month's Los Angeles fair

Two designs cater for New York’s increasing numbers
With a million more residents expected in the city by 2040, two firms propose some out of the box thinking

Marina Abramović to do nothing this summer
The performance artist will be the only exhibit at London's Serpentine gallery from 11 June until 25 August

Neville Brody creates typography for new England kit
Will it be a future design classic that ends up in the next edition of the Archive of Graphic Design?

Hunter S. Thompson's advice to Danny Lyon
When his photographer buddy joined a motorcycle gang the infamous writer implored him to "Get the hell out!"

Wikipedia rolls out redesign
Readers will benefit from (though may not actually notice) subtle changes to typography

Karim Rashid's splash of colour in Miami
Mybrickell features designer's Pop Art-inspired magic from top to bottom

Warhol’s lost mural returns to New York
The Queens Museum is commemorating the Warhol mural 13 Most Wanted Men, 50 years after it was banned

The Bouroullecs debut their glass collection at Milan
The French design duo’s Diapositive furniture collection for Glas Italia picks up where Shiro Kuramata left off

When Danny Lyon met Muhammad Ali
The US photographer shot America's protestors, dissidents and agitators - and the world's greatest boxer

Does this new Zaha Hadid hotel look like a swimsuit?
The Pritzker laureate's latest tower appears to share some aesthetic qualities with her new swimwear range

Why apartheid South Africa's greatest nightlife photographer died before seeing his first show
The Photobook III's Martin Parr and Gerry Badger on the life, work and untimely death of Billy Monk

What did Mies van der Rohe mean by less is more?
The aphorism is one of the most used (and abused) in design and architecture. Detlef Mertins, author of an exceptional monograph on the master architect, reveals how it came about and what it meant to him

Koons, Schnabel and Hadid create Fabergé eggs
Artists, architects, photographers and designers contribute eggs to the jeweller's annual charity Easter egg hunt

Adrià dish inspires award-winning water packaging
Designers draw upon the elBulli chef's use of membranes to produce Ooho!, an edible water carrier

When Danny Lyon was just two dogs in
The photographer's 1962 work, shot in the South, was an early example of a burgeoning confrontational style

Ai Weiwei sends 6000 stools to Berlin
Artist references a seminal 1913 Marcel Duchamp readymade in huge new Berlin installation opening this week

René Redzepi's Tokyo Story
The chef will relocate Noma to the Japanese capital for two months at the start of 2015
