Canadian students redraw Sol LeWitt
Concordia University students remake wall drawings, under the guidance of former assistant, Anthony Sansotta
 
    
Donald Judd furniture now available
London's Conran Shop becomes first major retailer to sell furniture by the esteemed American artist
 
    
Wild Art and the enlightenment
Do you need to have a traditional knowledge of art history to enjoy customised cars, food art and ice sculpture? Of course not, argue David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro - but it might just increase your enjoyment if you do. . .
 
    
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Turducken
In the second reading from his wonderful new book The Taste of America, celebrated food writer Colman Andrews introduces us to the mythical creature Turducken - a dish that apparently dates back to Roman times
 
    
Name the 8 bit architect
Name these 10 architects to win a download of the magnificent Phaidon Architecture Travel Guide App
 
    
Amanda Levete puts on a show in Lisbon
UK architect adds a glimmer of light in the land of Pritzker Prize winners Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
 
    
Dieter Rams honoured at London Design Festival
The 81-year-old German designer accepted the Coutts Lifetime Achievement Medal last night in London
 
    
Come and see Magnus Nilsson speak this weekend
He's at two events at the Abergavenny Food Festival - one with our Where Chefs Eat author, Joe Warwick
 
    
The best place in the world to buy Phaidon books?
Zwolle's 15th century Dominican Broerenkerk, or Church of the Brothers, is reborn as a great new book store
 
    
Frost* stretch an 'o' for AIDS awareness
The Sydney design firm tease out the typography for their latest condom-use campaign
 
    
Alanis Morissette to star in Eileen Gray film
Forthcoming film portrays Le Corbusier as a malevolent rival to Gray
 
    
Mies van der Rohe plans found in MoMA archive
MoMA archive find leads Belgian architect Paul Robbrecht to build 'new' Mies masterpiece in Germany
 
    
Fashion's queer history comes out in New York
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk is on show now at Manhattan's Museum at FIT
 
    
Pipilotti Rist brings joy to Guangzhou
The Swiss artist's Gentle Wave in Your Eye Fluid exhibition has just opened in China's manufacturing heartland
 
    
Phaidon Atlas talks at designjunction
If you're interested in architecture and you're in London check out our two talks at designjunction this Thursday
 
    
Can you spot the stories behind these fictional foods?
Ever wondered what Dumbledore's sherbert lemons look like? Or Paddington Bear's marmalade sandwiches? The Taste of America illustrator Joël Penkman rustles up some fictional food inspired by much-loved books and movies
 
    
David Blandy turns tradition upside down
Artist's latest installation explores Britain's relationship with Japan via a traditional zen garden - and a space ship
 
    
VW unveils Pringle shaped carport
VW's new Ausfahrt centre allows you to test out your new car (without driving it into someone else's)
 
    
In conversation with Speck Lee Tailfeather
The Architecture According to Pigeons star on the Chrysler building, bird control spikes and human/avian relations
 
    
MoMA's female-focussed design show
Designing Modern Women, 1890-1990 explores how design was profoundly shaped by the creativity of women
 
    
The Istanbul Biennial takes shelter
Turkey's leading contemporary art event retreats on its public space programme, though its tone remains defiant
 
    
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron’s unbuilt villas
The Chinese artist and Swiss architects commissioned 100 villas - why weren’t they built?
 
    
William Kentridge to wow NY's opera and art crowds
The South African painter, film maker, actor and theatre director brings his multimedia work to NYC this month
 
    
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America
In the first of a new phaidon.com series the celebrated food writer reads an extract from his new book
 
    
The Manhattan meal that inspired Wild Art
Wild Art co-author David Carrier explains how he and Joachim Pissarro got the idea for their new book
 
    
Introducing Architecture According to Pigeons
Hélène Gallois Montbrun, senior editor of children's books, talks though the cultured kid's guide to architecture
 
    
A chat with Lisbon Triennale curator Beatrice Galilee
A sneak preview of tonight's talks at the MUDE Auditorium with the Lisbon Triennale curator and others
 
    
Is this the new Google logo?
The Google logo seems to have grown up (and been toned down) in the Chrome Beta for Android APK
 
    
Pentagram makes NYC maps for the iPhone age
The design firm's city identity joint venture, PentaCityGroup, has produced New York's new wayfinding system
 
    
Snøhetta's first UK building opens this month
Norwegian starchitects make UK debut with a Maggie's Centre in Aberdeen
 
    
Hirst and the Chapmans take on Stormtroopers
David Bailey, Antony Micallef and other creatives reinterpret the iconic Star Wars helmet
 
    
Tuymans and Dean at the London Art Book Fair
The capital's fifth annual art publishing event opens this week at the Whitechapel Gallery with a set of great talks
 
    
Frieze London brings new gallery surge
Fair coincides with a set of openings, including Victoria Miro's Mayfair space and Sotheby's private sales gallery
 
    
Ed Ruscha explains his love of Gas Stations
75-year-old artist describes why he chose to feature the quotidian landmarks in his first art book
 
    
Art study fever sweeps Chinese provinces
The lure of college entrance is enticing many Chinese youngsters to paint and sketch
 
    
Redzepi changed food, now he's changing coffee
Noma's René Redzepi explains how he's recreated the restaurant's coffee culture, at the Nordic Barista Cup
 
    
World of ice suspended above a Chinese quarry
Coop Himmelb(l)au's latest venture in China sees Wolf D Prix suspending Snow World between cliffs
 
    
Find Utopia with René Burri in Switzerland
The Swiss-born Magnum photographer is the subject of an artist-themed retrospective in Geneva
 
    
David Adjaye makes furniture debut with Knoll
The award-winning architect says the process forced him to rethink product design
 
    
Toyo Ito on how to fix Japan
The Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate looks beyond buildings to examine underlying social structures
 
    
Artists revisit Diego's Detroit Industry murals
Marking the 80th anniversary of Rivera's Detroit Industry murals MOCAD asks artists to depict the city's later years
 
    
Introducing D.O.M.
Phaidon editor Daniel Hurst previews our latest gastronomy book D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients - and talks about how the brilliant larger than life São Paulo chef Alex Atala is revolutionising Brazilian cooking
 
    
SOM’s Dubai bank boasts overhanging boardroom
Skidmore Owings and Merrill puts the boardroom on show in its “quiet sculptural form within Dubai’s skyline”
 
    
Steve McCurry on TV and in the gallery
The iconic Magnum photographer squeezes a peerless career into six minutes for the Californian news cycle
 
    
UNStudio creates big wheel with own social network
Nippon Moon, Dutch architecture practice's giant observation wheel in Japan, also features double decks
 
    
Neutra’s Boomerang Chair makes a comeback
Modernist architect's furniture (featured in The Design Book) receives worthy reissue courtesy of VS America
 
    
Richard Prince's protest art comes to London
The American artist shows his placard paintings together for the first time. What should we make of them?
 
    
Stephen Shore's personal philosophy
The American photographer looks back on a momentous career with Imagista's Heidi Hartwig and Lauren Festa
 
    
The sad story behind new paint and pixels artworks
How HO Siu Nam, South's Every Daily series became part of the grieving process for the loss of his father
 
    
Elliott Erwitt, male model
The photographer steps in front of the camera alongside fellow octogenarians to mark Cole Haan's 85th birthday
 
    
What to expect from Frieze Talks 2013
The London art fair's talks line-up looks great, and it's packed with Phaidon artists and authors
 
    
See Lisbon's incredible slot-together pavilion
Kairos Triennale pavilion eschews screws or glues and is formed instead by some rather clever concrete panels
 
    
Meet Steve McCurry at Peter Fetterman Gallery
Steve is the Mick Jagger of the photography world - Fetterman tells Phaidon on eve of his Santa Monica talk
 
    
Introducing Art & Place
Phaidon editor Rosie Pickles previews our forthcoming book on Site-Specific Art of the Americas
 
    
LA’s car museum shifts up a gear with redesign
Kohn Pedersen Fox works its magic over the facade of iconic 1960s Welton Becket building
 
    
Go to India with Martin Parr
British travel company, Cox & Kings, is offering a 10-day trip to northern India with the Magnum photographer
 
    
OMA to build Colombia's Brasilia
Koolhaas' practice will build largest institutional masterplan in Latin America since Niemeyer’s Brasilia
 
    
Transvestite Putin painter flees Russia
Konstantin Altunin, creator of the controversial painting of the Russian leader, is seeking asylum in France
 
    
Blood, guts and inspiration at MAD3
High profile speakers including René Redzepi, Alex Atala and Alain Ducasse stress the need to respect animals - and ourselves - in what we eat and how we consume at food symposium in Denmark
 
    
David Mellor's designer street
Iconic British designer has his street furniture showcased in mocked-up road
 
    
Stephanie Gonot's Fad Diets
Diet Coke and cigarettes diet (and others) visualised with a little help from LA-based photographer
 
    
Assistant to Jasper Johns charged with theft
The American artist's long-standing assistant has been charged with stealing 22 works, and selling them for $6.5m
 
    
Did Dieter Rams's T3 inspire this new radio?
The 55-year-old design inspired Jonathan Ive, and now may have given rise to a new Lexon radio by Philip Wong
 
    
Why is Damien Hirst sweet on Gonzalez-Torres?
The British artist shows his Visual Candy series alongside the late Cuban's equally sugary creations
 
    
Kusama's Infinity Nets open the new Victoria Miro
The 84-year-old Japanese artist's hallucinatory paintings inaugurate the gallery's new Mayfair space this October
 
    
Bouroullec brothers turn back the Tyde
Ronan and Erwan's height-adjustable work top for Vitra deserves standing ovation
 
    
Classic British cars parked on new stamps
London graphic design firm Why Not Associates tracks down Lotus, Rolls-Royce and MG owners for new set
 
    
New York duo designs African Summit Centre
Inner facade of husband and wife team WORKac's new building is clad in pale gold aluminium
 
    
Dancing on the ceiling
Daniel Schofield's Brogue Light for Deadgood plugs into English autumn winter style
 
    
Jim Golden's still lifes
Ex-New York ad guy moves to Oregon to create photos that capture essence not beauty (though we like them)
 
    
Photographing the model crime scene
Corinne May Botz spent six years in the Maryland State medical examiner’s office shooting 500 images
 
    
Time to upgrade your Oyster card
The Underground is redrawn for Designjunction’s Oyster card holders
 
    
New York's creative scene gets a $300 million 'shed'
Diller Scofidio + Renfro teams up with stage set designers extraordinaire Rockwell Group for Hudson Yards project
 
    
Akihiko Miyoshi's Abstract Photos
Artist, photographer and computer engineer plays with mirrors, paper and tape to give depth to 2D photographs
 
    
Singapore just got leafier
Architect WOHA creates sky gardens high above the metropolis in Park Royal Hotel
 
    
Mies van der Rohe collages go on show in New York
Previously unseen mood boards in Cut 'n' Paste shine a light into inspirations behind seminal works
 
    
Arne Jacobsen’s iconic 1950s Tongue Chair is back
Mid-century modern classic is available again (and it's a bit more stable these days)
 
    
Shooting hoops with Adrian Skenderovic
Paris-based photographer collects lost basketball hoops while on his travels
 
    
Photographing in the fourth dimension
Fong Qi Wei invites you to time travel within the frame of a single photograph
 
    
Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh gets an organic addition
New business school by young Mumbai practice Planet 3 Studios takes shape on outskirts of Indian city
 
    
Introducing The Chinese Art Book
Phaidon Senior Editor Diane Fortenberry on a book that will clue you in (and hopefully inspire a lifelong passion)
 
    
New iPad ads feature Phaidon's Design Classics app
Those billboards springing up on San Francisco streets and in London tube stations look strangely familiar
 
    
Hella Jongerius updates Prouvé classics for Vitra
The Dutch designer is taken with the "form follows function" beauty of the late French modernist master
 
    
René Redzepi gets David Chang to curate MAD3
The Noma founder asks Momofuku's main man to oversee his symposium, which this year is dedicated to guts
 
    
Warhol, Bacon, Marden and Kiefer iBooks out today
We're very pleased to announce our Phaidon Focus books are now available as iBooks in the iTunes store
 
    
Has Arne Svenson violated his neighbours' privacy?
NY court rules on whether the photographer was within his rights to shoot through an adjacent apartment window
 
    
Holzer debuts her "heap of displays" in Hong Kong
Jenny Holzer's Light Stream installation updates earlier slogans in a "pulsating, flashing heap of text"
 
    
Damien Hirst's new 9,000 square-metre art studio
The artist's West Country studio, gallery and formaldehyde out-building is the world's largest art production site
 
    
Ruslan Khasanov’s soy sauce-inspired art
Russian photographer and graphic artist says Asian cookery motivated his oil ink and soap series, Pacific Light
 
    
A. Quincy Jones' LA retrospective
The pioneering California architect receives his first major retrospective courtesy of LA's Hammer Museum
 
    
Pre-Raphaelite women top UK art poll
Public art initiative, Art Everywhere's poll has been topped by two Pre-Raphaelite works by Millais and Waterhouse
 
    
The palaces of the bird world
Photographer Dillon Marsh has been fascinated by the gigantic nests of Sociable Weaver birds since childhood
 
    
Detroit digitizes its Diego Rivera murals
Delicate decaying drafts of America's great industrial age digitized for posterity
 
    
What to expect from 100% Design
Richard Rogers in conversation and Zaha Hadid's reinvention of shopping among this year's highlights
 
    
Martin Parr wants you to shoot a funeral
As part of The Photographers' Gallery Mass Observation exhibition, Parr has issued 'Directive 2'
 
    
Wild Artist Olek crochets steam locomotive
The train arriving in Lodz is called Deadly Romance "because it almost killed me!" says the artist
 
    
Edmund de Waal debuts at Gagosian next month
The British ceramicist brings a poetry-themed show of pots and vitrines to Gagosian's Madison Avenue gallery
 
    
You can zoom in 25 kilometres on this photo
The photos in Jeffrey Martin's 360 Cities series are created from up to 40,000 images digitally stitched together
 
    
Dolce & Gabbana's Fellini film comes to London
The 2012 restoration of Fellini's Satyricon is on at The Curzon, courtesy of the A Nos Amours collective
 
    
Yayoi Kusama top-selling living female artist
Bloomberg calculates the Japanese artist has sold 2290 lots since 1985, generating $127.7m in sales
