René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences
The legendary Swiss Magnum photographer on pretending to be a North Korean spy, sneaking into the Mexico Olympics and 'losing' a Picasso in a Zurich bar - all taken from our forthcoming book, Impossible Reminiscences
The New Landscapes of Yao Lu
The Prix Pictet-shortlisted photographer's work brings to mind the Japanese master Hokusai - but look again
Peter Fischli unveils Rock On Top Of Another Rock
Artist explains a little about the work at early morning unveiling today at the Serpentine
Bob Hope's John Lautner house for sale at $50m
Architect believed his buildings should create timeless, free and joyous spaces for all activities of life
The story behind those Armory Show teeshirts
As the centenary show opens here's the story behind the Liz Magic Laser-designed shirts staff are wearing today
Verne Dawson comes to Victoria Miro this month
Apalachicola to Zirconia by the American allegorical painter and Phaidon artist looks back to find a way forward
Belgian architect creates sustainable farmscrapers
Vincent Callebaut imagines Asian Cairns, a group of sustainable horticultural towers in Shenzen, China
Yayoi Kusama's 2013 world tour
The artist has exhibitions planned for South America, Japan and Asia, as well as shows in London and NYC
MAD creates 'doughnut' hotel for Sheraton Huzhou
Young practice clads metal façade with LED light system which displays patterns on surface of surrounding lake
Joel Meyerowitz shooting on Fifth Ave in 1982
Watch Michael Engler's 30-year-old video footage of one of our favourite street photographers at work in NYC
Francis Bacon photos on show in Tokyo
11 contact sheets - what the artist called "his trigger of ideas" go on show for the first time
'Cubist' hotel opens in Spain
Mup-Arq creates 'tumbling' concrete and corten steel hotel blocks in Spanish village of Villabuena de Alava
Concrete goes green in China
A set of twisted concrete blinds actually allows a new Chinese clothing facility to save 40% of its energy
Mark Wallinger’s horse comes to London today
Turner-prize winner’s sculpture of a thoroughbred will stand outside The British Council’s offices for two years
Graphics firm Gregory Bonner Hale commissions full body tattoo artwork for Paris restaurant identity
Japanese body artist Horikitsune lends a hand (and a few other body parts) to Philippe Starck restaurant Miss Kō
Unseen Picasso on show in Abu Dhabi next month
The 1928 work, acquired for the forthcoming Louvre Abu Dhabi, will go on display in Al Saadiyat on April 22
Skopje chops Soviet gems in favour of new builds
The Macedonian capital's new architectural initiative has overlooked some great 20th century landmarks
Gensler shakes up Silicon Valley
Triangular buildings for graphics tech giant Nvidia break the architectural mould in Santa Clara
How postcards pushed Stephen Shore towards colour
Unearthed interview examines how the great American photographer ditched monochrome and took to colour
Manifesta 10 comes to St Petersburg
The tenth edition of the European art biennial will be held at The State Hermitage Museum in 2014
Zaha Hadid designs new centre for Bratislava
Socialist architecture did not enjoy its finest moment in Bratislava - Zaha Hadid is out to rectify that
The women who inspired Brice Marden
Forthcoming Phaidon Focus book reveals how the New York artist's paintings of his wife Helen and rock stars Patti Smith, The Velvet Underground's Nico and Janis Joplin saw him exploring a whole new dimension in portraiture
Slashed Francis Bacon paintings to fetch £100,000
Canvases used by an amateur painter prove valuable as Bacon fragments on reverse are authenticated
Dieter Rams inspires latest iPhone player
The T3 App draws from the German designer's iconic 1958 portable radio and 606 Universal shelving system
Prints for sale in aid of Eames House
Eames Foundation steps in to aid restoration of Case Study House #8 with the sale of 500 limited edition prints
Álvaro Siza designs fire station
Last year's Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner designs first fire station - at the grand age of 80
Mexican artist creates gun orchestra
Pedro Reyes's Imagine Orchestra at the Lisson Gallery is designed to promote a world without weapons
What to expect from the Venice Biennale
Curator and Phaidon author Massimiliano Gioni promises an impossible, seductive 'Encyclopedic Palace'
Herzog & de Meuron redefines the exhibition space
Globally in-demand architecture practice finds time to create the perfect exhibition hall in native Switzerland
See Wilhelm Sasnal's movie in London next month
Phaidon artist takes part in ICA's Artists' Film Club with his rural set feature film It Looks Pretty From A Distance
Italian design show re-imagines gastronomy
The Mart museum in the Italian alps considers 'design solutions' for, among others, strudel and sushi
Miroslav Tichý show uncovers unseen images
The Czech outsider photographer enjoys a spring retrospective and further acclaim at Mannheim's Zephyr gallery
Benoit Paillé’s celestial light sculptures
French-Canadian photographer uses squares of intense light to draw attention to ignored landscapes
OOIIO Architecture's latest Icelandic adventure
Fast-rising architecture practice looks again to Iceland for it's next proposal - based on sailors' pullover patterns
London hospital builds lullaby factory
British practice Studio Weave turns a cramped hospital courtyard into a kid friendly installation
Can you spot the £25,000 difference in these Hirsts?
Next week Phillips is auctioning two very similar Hirst prints but why is there such a big difference in their price?
Major Louis I Kahn retrospective at Vitra
First major retrospective in 20 years for legendary American architect charts his pioneering use of concrete, his visionary urban plans and his continuing influence on the architecture of Southeast Asia
A look inside Google's new Tel Aviv HQ
Cobbled streets, bohemian cafés, a slide instead of a lift (what could possibly go wrong?) and a tractor adorn the 'communication landscapes' of the search giant's new Israel office
Will Sakamoto bring his silent tearoom to Sharjah?
Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto working on piece for show in Arabian emirate
Brutalist Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center saved from demolition at the last minute
Iconic building by architect featured in our book Concrete is spared after Democrats and Republicans join forces
Edvard Munch's summer retreat recreated
Excavations begin on the site of the painter's summer house with a view to recreating Munch's working habitat
50 shades of Eileen Gray at the Pompidou
New exhibition shows differing sides of this multi-talented artist who worked across so many different media
Moncler PR charged with theft of Dali painting
Phivos Istavrioglou arrested at airport on Saturday as he's tricked by detective posing as gallery owner
What to expect at The Sharjah Biennial
Skype-based dance performance by avant-garde Tunisian dancer and choreographer duo among the delights
Christian Åslund takes to the roof in Hong Kong
The story behind the Sony World Photography Awards nominee's 'video game' shoot in Hong Kong
Paul McCarthy brings Snow White to NYC
The Los Angeles artist's largest US exhibition opens at The Park Avenue Armory this June
Swifts get their own luxury condo in Poland
Modern architecture is killing off the swift population. Enter Menthol Architects with a Vitamin Green style idea
Richard Meier's homage to concrete
Architect showcases self-cleaning, pollution-zapping new kind of concrete for Italcementi's Bergamo HQ
Common Roots at the Design Museum Holon, Israel
Dr Kathy Battista Director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute NY on an inventive show of cutting edge industrial design from the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Steve McCurry new video from Lit for Life in India
On his 86th trip to India Magnum photographer reveals just what intrigues him about the Indian subcontinent
Simryn Gill lands Venice Biennale Australian pavilion
For the 2013 Biennale, the Singaporean-born artist will present works on paper unlike those you've seen before
James Irvine 1958-2013
An incredible designer and a very dear friend of Phaidon died in Milan in the early hours of this morning
Ed Ruscha by the book
Next month The Gagosian Gallery at Madison Avenue opens an exhibition dedicated to Ed Ruscha's books
Does geometry unlock the secrets of the Mona Lisa?
A Swiss foundation presents geometrical evidence to suggest there was an earlier version of da Vinci's portrait
Damien Hirst's guitar up for grabs at Abbey Road
Butterfly-themed Hirst Gibson Les Paul Goddess guitar to be auctioned for Cancer Research
New York's artworld goes back to 1993
Two decades on from the groundbreaking Whitney Biennial featured in Phaidon's new Biennials and Beyond, NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star recalls an age of confrontation
Dyed concrete entices Seoul’s dotcommers
Latest creation from Mass Studies aims to spark migration from the city to a picturesque island off the mainland
David Smith - the sculptor who drew with metal
When he died in a car crash the artworks for his last show remained unsold - today they grace the best collections around the world. Phaidon Focus book reveals how the artist revolutionised sculpture by literally 'drawing in space'
2013 Serpentine Pavilion commission goes to Phaidon favourite Sou Fujimoto
The 41-year-old Japanese architect and Phaidon contributor is the youngest ever to be commissioned
Andy Kinsman's footballing heroes
Illustrator plays a blinder with Royal Mail stamps to commemorate The FA's 150th birthday
Farrells builds first skyscraper in Cambodia
39-storey Vattanac Capital Tower in Phnom Penh becomes the country’s highest high-rise
Author Douglas Coupland designs furniture range
“Escritoires are elegant - with one flip of a lid I can conceal mountains of crap while everyone looking on thinks I'm this really together stylish person!" Generation X writer says of new Switzcultcreative range
Ai Weiwei makes Valentine's Day video for Elton John
What is in Ai Weiwei's blood? screens in Times Square, Piccadilly Circus and Independence Square tonight
What to expect from The Armory Show 2013
A century on from America's introduction to modernism, NYC's art fair turns its focus to the USA
Art Spiegelman gets a 65th birthday retrospective
Vancouver Art Gallery's Art Spiegelman CO-MIX show opens this weekend, right after the comic artist's birthday
Greek designer redefines the spreadsheet
Every wage slave's worst nightmare has just arrived - complete with comfy pillow
SOM's 'classical column' rises in China
Just 5 feet shorter than the Shard, Skidmore Owings & Merrill's Zhengzhou tower is clad in painted aluminium
Surrealism celebrated in New York
Two Manhattan events channel the 20th century art movement - with differing results
Zhao Yao Spirit Above All at Pace London
Chinese artist tells Phaidon about 200 mile journey to Tibet to have new paintings blessed by living Buddha
Yoko Ono retrospective opens for her 80th birthday
Yoko Ono: Half-A-Wind show at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt draws 200 works together from the past 60 years
Amy Friend's celestial interventions
Canadian photographer pierces vintage photos to let the light and lost souls shine through
Oscar Niemeyer rises again
The Brazilian architect towers over Sao Paulo courtesy of street artist Eduardo Kobra
Young designer creates new boutique hotel in Paris
Dorothee Meilichzon eschews all-pervading 50 shades of white for a splash of colour at new Hotel Paradis
Peter Zumthor reveals the secrets of Therme Vals
New video sees him discussing his philosophy, why his most celebrated structure was originally destined to be 'hollowed out' and why he 'drops his pencil' if he thinks a client simply wants to order a Peter Zumthor building
Ex-OMA architect Fernando Romero creates flying saucer-style photo museum in the Arabian desert
Mexican follows his much-admired Soumaya museum in Mexico City with an even more audacious concept
BIG architects tear it up in Fort Lauderdale
Two buildings are 'torn open' giving the neighbourhood access to the canals
Edward Hopper comes to the silver screen
Austrian director Gustav Deutsch reassembles 13 Edward Hopper paintings into a single movie
Indian protest art opens in Chicago
The University of Chicago's Sahmat Collective exhibition displays the art of India's culture wars
Bruno Quinquet's salarymen in suits
French photographer Bruno Quinquet captures 'man in suit' in its natural environment with his Salaryman Project
The show that made Harald Szeemann a star
Biennials and Beyond looks at the exhibitions, curators and artist run spaces that helped make art history
Montreal church is repurposed as a gallery
Provencher Roy + Associes Architectes addition boasts suitably Canadian features including 'glazed igloo'
The truth behind Francis Bacon's 'screaming' popes
Father figure, drag queen or distillation of Nazi iconography? New Phaidon Focus book reveals the theories behind Francis Bacon's obsessive reworking of the papal theme in his most famous Velasquez-inspired paintings
The laundromat that thinks it's a nightclub
Local designer Frederic Perers puts a whole new meaning on wash and go at Splash near Plaça Catalunya
Saul Steinberg's Americans reassembled in Germany
The artist's massive mural goes on display for the first time since it was cut up following the '58 World's Fair
What to expect from Paris Photo Los Angeles
The inaugural LA edition of the French photo event promises a moving-image strand and a fake NYC street
Dutch cyclists get floating flyover
Netherlands bridge specialists IPV Delft build motorway-style aerial intersection for two-wheeled travellers
Marcel Dzama comes to Zwirner London
Brooklyn-based artist responsible for Beck's Guero cover art has first London show in five years at new gallery
Michelangelo's final sculpture goes to jail
The Rondanini Pietà will be put on display at Milan's San Vittore prison while its permanent home is renovated
Sony World Photography Awards finalists announced
VII's Ed Kashi among the finalists in what organisers call a bumper year for entries from around the world
Pentagram rethinks the baby bottle
Legendary design agency takes its cue from takeaway coffee cups used by billions the world over
Foster + Partners designs 3D moon base
Global architecture practice uses latest rapid prototyping to imagine a lunar base for European Space Agency
Unseen images in Garry Winogrand retrospective
Unexamined archive works feature heavily in the New York Street photographer's worldwide retrospective
Mirko Borsche talks graphic design
We catch up with the Munich-based designer and creative director of Die Zeit in Germany
Tacita Dean takes on JG Ballard
The British artist follows the late novelist's advice regarding an elusive piece of land art
Deep sea hospitality planned for Dubai
It's built tall and supertall, now Dubai mines the sea depths for its latest architectural venture
Christie's closes Haunch of Venison galleries
Auction house says HoV's London gallery will "evolve into" Christie's private sale services the NY one will close
