The house that JR built (and then rebuilt!)
Why is the artist spending this month renovating a Latin American cultural centre in a Rio De Janeiro favela?

The classical Pop Art of Tom Wesselmann
A new London exhibition reveals there’s more traditionalism in Tom Wesselmann's collages than meets the eye

A high-density High Line for Stockholm
Could this inspired residential railway regeneration project break ground in the Swedish capital?

The garden that nurtured Impressionism
Get to know Claude Monet's horticultural masterpiece ahead of a new Royal Academy blockbuster

Matt Smith to play Robert Mapplethorpe
The Dr Who actor will star alongside the Girls actress Zosia Mamet in a new film chronicling the photographer's life

Will this cubist brutal building rise in Costa Rica?
Brooklyn architects CAZA propose new congress hall of enormous concrete cubes in the placid capital San José

The art app that lets you try before you buy
Artspace’s new app lets you find shows and browse works - but there’s one other function we’re really taken with. . .

A Mapplethorpe show without the moral outcry
The Perfect Medium will include the photographer’s explicit work but won’t dwell on the controversy around it

First look at the Noma Australia menu
Milk-dumping tacos, abalone schnitzel, Lamingtons and shards of croc meat all feature at Redzepi's new pop-up

Cool new look for Zurich's National Museum
Concrete and geometric abstraction delights in Christ & Gantenbein's new addition to Gustav Gull's original building

A Jutaku-style home for Main Street America
One New Orleans architect finds a distinctly east-Asian way to make America’s starter-homes affordable

Expect Vegemite and crocodile at Noma Australia
Redzepi says they will not serve carrots, beets or cabbage at the pop-up “because we do that everyday at home”

Yet another Phaidon author curates Venice Biennale!
Centre Pompidou chief curator becomes the fifth Phaidon author in a row to head up the prestigious art event

A new studio for firework artist Cai Guo-Qiang
Old meets new as Rem Koolhaas and OMA dramatically rework the artist's New York studio complex

Why Mark Grotjahn swapped his art for shop signs
Learn how the Gagosian artist overcame artistic difficulties by exchanging his paintings for grocery store notices

The only time you'll see a cat story on Phaidon.com
Probably. Nanotecture is packed with very small houses - here are some that only the smallest can fit into

Raf Simons channels Cindy Sherman in Paris show
The Former Dior Creative Director pays homage to the photographer in his Paris menswear show

Elmgreen & Dragset create a fake art fair in China
For their debut solo show in Asia at Beijing's UCCA, the European duo spoof the ever expanding sales events

A futuristic treatment for a Texan library
Could this strikingly modern take on a public book-lending institution touch down in Houston some time soon?

OMA rework a Bowie Berlin landmark
Referenced in the Where Are We Now? single, Berlin’s iconic department store KaDeWe is about to get a new look

Eddie Redmayne just loves the Bouroullec Brothers
Find out why the French designers behind our Works monograph are a big hit with the star of The Danish Girl

Gregory Crewdson returns after 5 years in the forest
Renowned photographer returns with new work after collapse of marriage and period of creative renewal

The Steven Holl sculpture that will become a home
The work, going on show in NYC, forms part of Holl’s mission to rethink the way a building's space is used

BIG 's new twist on The High Line
Danish architecture practice's pair of contorted skyscrapers are destined for Manhattan's Meatpacking District

Today's graphics gurus inspire tomorrow’s
Paula Scher, Mike Dempsey, Bob Gill and Phaidon's own Julia Hasting all design posters for Spain’s LAUS Awards

When Marcel Breuer built a brutalist ski resort
The Bauhaus founder's work in Flaine still inspires - just ask our brutal architecture book author Peter Chadwick

Was Cézanne really the father of modern art?
On the anniversary of his birth, we look at why the 19th century French artist still influences painting today.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue's rarely seen colour archive
The photographer who influenced the look of Wes Anderson's films gets a rare showing of his colour work

Ellsworth Kelly on Monet, painting and his chapel
The late, great US artist discusses his art, influences and his spiritual beliefs in these wonderful new videos

Olafur Eliasson wins award for improving the world
Artist, social entrepreneur and author is honoured alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, at The Crystal Awards in Davos

Viewing Robert Mapplethorpe through his friends
A current exhibition of the late American's portraits brings the photographer’s social circle into sharp focus

Stan Douglas shoots a spy film
The artist retells Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent on the turbulent streets of 70s Portugal

The photos that spread Martin Luther King's message
On Martin Luther King Day we look back at two powerful images from the 20th Century Civil Rights movement

When catastrophe leads to creative design
A new RIBA show looks at the wealth of architectural creativity that springs up in the wake of natural disasters

Why 2016's Pritzker winner makes half-built houses
The Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wins praise for the parts of the building he chooses to leave out

Albert Adrià brings Cornish pasties to London
The Spanish chef and Phaidon author says his forthcoming 50-day Café Royal residency will be like "elBulli 2016"

The capsule hotel with a sea view
Gianluca Santosuosso's MORPHotel concept offers a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to cruise ships

Meet the artist selling shadows of famous works
LA-based artist Ana Prvacki will offer shadows cast by the works of Koons, Duchamp and Bourgeois at new show

Steve McCurry fashion shoot hit by dust storm
His Valentino fashion shoot was almost marred - but in the end made - by a ferocious dust cloud in Kenya

Picasso’s private works go on show
Sotheby’s sale includes drawings, sculptures and ceramic works that the artist kept behind in his studio

André Courrèges, inventor of the mini skirt, dies
Designer created the 'space girl' look and dressed Brigitte Bardot during a career that began at Balenciaga

Do you know about this photography pioneer?
Saul Leiter shot in colour years before William Eggleston. A new retrospective reassesses his work

Shigeo Anzaï's pictures from an exhibition (or two)
A new show features the photographer who documented the nation's art movements including Mono-ha

New Warhol Mapplethorpe show celebrates gender
Guise and Dolls reveals the way each artist dealt with sexual orientation and gender in their portraiture

Bowie songs that inspired contemporary art
Elizabeth Peyton, George Condo, John Pawson and Wilhelm Sasnal on their most inspirational David Bowie songs

Yves Béhar reworks the Super 8 camera for Kodak
Spielberg, Tarantino, Steve McQueen and JJ Abrams all approve of the return of this 20th century classic

What links MAD and Benjamin Britten?
MAD's new music venue in China has something in common with composer's one in Suffolk. Can you guess what?

Why Tomas Maier loves Dieter Rams
Bottega Veneta’s creative director says the designer’s rules for design are “like honey water when you read them”

Op Art - you don't need to be an expert to get it
New Danish exhibition looks at the democratic drive behind the movement named by TIME magazine in 1964

Why is Erik Kessels’ dad’s car up for a photo prize?
How the famous photo curator's 2015 exhibition Unfinished Father made the Deutsche Börse Prize short list

Is this New York's strangest new supertall?
Mark Foster Gage's proposed Manhattan structure looks like it was created by a modern day Michelangelo

Get to know Robert Longo’s Men in the Cities
The artist celebrates his 63rd birthday today and his Men In the Cities series mark their 35th anniversary on Sunday

Edmund de Waal's homage to John Cage in LA
For his debut Los Angeles exhibition the British writer and ceramicist draws on LA’s modernist past

Ray Pettibon, Marcel Dzama and an exquisite corpse
The artists team up to employ a surrealist technique in their new show at David Zwirner in New York

Ferrari designers take to the skies
Pininfarina and AECOM beat Zaha, Fuksas and Grimshaw to create towering tulip design for new Istanbul airport

100-year-old church reinvented as skateboard park
'It’s my personal Sistine Chapel' says street artist San Miguel of Manuel del Busto's Romanesque Revival church

The architects creating 2016's landmark art spaces
John Pawson, Annabelle Selldorf and co. ensure that 2016's new exhibition spaces look as good as the art on show

Time for a trip to Japan?
If you want natural beauty as well as an exciting built environment we have an idea for your 2016 break

Theaster Gates on the real meaning of gentrification
The artist explains how you can improve a neighbourhood and still look after its existing inhabitants

The camera that captured Cape Cod Light
A new show reveals how when Joel Meyerowitz began working in large-format he had to take in the view

Richard Sapper 1932 - 2015
The industrial designer passed away on New Year's Eve leaving behind a legacy that continues to enthral

How Paris Changed Ellsworth Kelly
Understand why the late great American abstract artist abandoned figurative painting during a trip to Europe

Ellsworth Kelly - 'It's been a long fun life'
In his last Artspace interview the late artist discussed Picasso, nature, and the fragments of life that inspired his art

Ellsworth Kelly 1923 - 2015
Groundbreaking artist who bridged European and American modernism passed away at the weekend

Enrique Olvera's Cosme is 2015's top NYC restaurant
The NY Times ranked Cosme its number one restaurant, thanks to Enrique's innovative take on Mexican cuisine

What's Ed Ruscha saying with his "word" works?
Learn how the artist, who celebrates his 78 birthday today, puts the "noise of everyday life" on to his canvases

Our Wallpaper party comes with a great silver lining
Danish jewellery brand Georg Jensen hosted a lavish party to launch our new Copenhagen Wallpaper* City Guide

Around the world in 9 cookbooks
Travel the globe without leaving your kitchen, courtesy of our International Cookbook Collection

How to put Thanksgiving on toast
Our new book Toast outlines a great way to cook and serve leftovers from America's most important meal

Grace Coddington on her next Phaidon book
US Vogue's Art Director tells NY Magazine about her follow-up to Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue

A great photo overview in 7 classic books
Buy our Classic Photographers Collection and gift a trove of images by Martin Parr, Steve McCurry and others

How Diego Rivera tried to paint the future
On the anniversary of the artist’s death, we look back at one his most prophetic and infamous works

When Grace went to Bookmarc
Did you catch US Vogue’s Creative Director signing copies of her new monograph at Marc Jacobs’ NYC bookstore?

Why these two NYC art advisors have given away 850 art works to the Whitney and the Pompidou
The authors of Collecting Art for Love, Money and More describe the thinking behind their generous donation

Designer DIY with Yves Béhar
Learn how to make this award-winning pendant lamp as seen at Milan's Salone del Mobile

My Body of Art - Hank Willis Thomas on Eadweard Muybridge's frozen movement photographs
The US contemporary artist admires Muybridge's pioneering work breaking down human movement

'Did you pack the minimalist earthquake kit, dear?'
The earthquakes we hear about don't tend to be minimalist in nature, Nendo's aesthetic response is, however

Imagine Magnus Nilsson came to yours to cook. . .
The Nordic Cookbook chef began his US tour cooking at the NY home of Saveur's editor-in-chief this week

Steven Holl’s Copenhagen towers get the go ahead
Work will start on an ambitious harbour project - seven years after Holl got the gig

OMA architects talk about their Prince Plaza project
OMA's David Gianotten and Bauke Albada tell us why the future for architecture in China might just be local

At home with Grace Coddington
Watch Vogue’s Creative Director talk fashion, art and tricky celebrities with Phaidon's Billy Norwich

How Isamu Noguchi pioneered land art
On the anniversary of the sculptor’s birth, we look at how his land work served as an example for other artists

Fukasawa updates the Japanese dining chair
The star designer combines his signature minimalism with Japanese carpentry and craftsmanship

Cosme is Eater's NY restaurant of the year!
Eater.com praises star chef Enrique Olvera's culinary skills as well as his detailed knowledge of Manhattan

Pentagram brands Snoop Dogg’s weed
The agency eliminates the stoner clichés and replaces them with bright, geometric (and child-proof) packaging

The Art of the Map - Albrecht Dürer
Learn how the German Renaissance artist expressed both his love of art and science in this star chart

The original Desert Modernist house goes up for sale
The Palm Springs home once owned by the architect that defined this hot-and-dry style is on the market for $1.75m

Designer DIY with Sam Hecht
Famous for his lighting, furniture and electronics, the Industrial Facility designer simplified things for our DIY book

From Book to Bid – Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #352
Understand the multiple roles the artist plays in this photograph, up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York

My Body of Art - Rashid Johnson on the hidden depths in Jackson Pollock's Full Fathom Five
The contemporary artist explains why he sees a thread between his work and that of the Ab Ex artist

We just launched The High Line book!
And where better to do it than overlooking the park itself with some of the biggest names in architecture and art

Designer DIY with Jean-Marie Massaud
The Parisian designer’s Magneto lamp suits the finest design showroom, yet originates in the hardware department

Decoding the hidden meanings of Calder's mobiles
As Tate Modern opens the largest Calder show ever staged in the UK its co-curator Ann Coxon talks about how a meeting with Mondrian in his studio inspired the artist to create his most innovative and powerful work

From Book to Bid – Sugimoto’s Time Exposed
Martin Parr and Gerry Badger explain why these sea scenes, up for sale at Sotheby's, take time as their motif

JR - 'Yes art CAN change the world!'
The artist and social activist answers the question posed by his new book in our exclusive video

From Book to Bid – Agnes Martin’s Untitled #7
One of Martin’s delicate, detailed works is up for sale tomorrow. Understand how the artist created it, via our book

Is it a stadium? Is it a swimming pool? No it's a mixed use surf park having an identity crisis!
'It’s not a crazy, billion dollar project, it’s feasible and we could get it going as soon as footy finishes' say MJA Studio

Is Jeremy Corbyn enjoying an Enrique Olvera taco?
The Labour leader was trying the food on offer at the Day of the Dead celebrations in London this weekend

My Body of Art - Judith Zilczer on Brancusi, Léger and the mechanomorphic representation of the body
The renowned curator, art historian and writer alights on a few talking points from our new book Body of Art
