So, is there such a thing as national architecture?
OMA's Stephan Petermann, Diébédo Francis Kéré and MAD's Ma Yansong join us for a great debate in Venice
Roald Dahl’s Bacon portrait of Freud up for sale
1967 study of Lucian Freud was originally bought on the proceeds from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
What happened at the London elBulli dinner?
Guests and editorial executives from The Financial Times joined the elBulli chef for a gala meal and presentation
Bruce Nauman: from Smart Aleck to True Artist
Writer and author Peter Plagens explains how his view of Bruce Nauman went from disdain to admiration
Meet the speakers at today’s Phaidon talk
Great minds from Canada, the Netherlands, China and Burkina Faso discuss the state of national architecture
Why is Cliff Richard in the British Pavilion?
Sam Jacob and Wouter Vanstiphout’s show at the Venice Architecture Biennale takes a pop view of town planning
Larry Clark’s first movie screened in Amsterdam
The Foam gallery will be showing Clark’s early 16mm film, alongside shots from Tulsa and Teenage Lust
Have you seen Massimo Bottura’s art collection?
The chef talks through his collection of paintings, photographs and bronze bin bags with the Wall Street Journal
Monica Bonvicini shows some love in Zurich
Look out for the Italian artist’s Desire (2006) in the Swiss city this summer, as part of a wider retrospective
The Dominican Republic’s concrete legacy at Venice
The national submission remembers its 1956 fair, and how its citizens now live their lives in among the architecture
Deyan Sudjic and Barbara Radice on Sottsass
The Design Museum director and Sottsass’s widow discussed the great man last night. Here are some highlights
America brings an architect's office to Venice
The American Pavilion’s 'Office US' looks at how Meier, Saarinen and Wright built abroad
When Ettore Sottsass met Barbara Radice
To mark tonight’s Design Museum talk, we look at how Sottsass’s second wife enabled him to reach new heights
What links Mies van der Rohe to Ferris Bueller?
How director and Chicago native John Hughes sought out a Mies protegé's building for his 1986 film
Welcome to the Sottsass pleasure Dome
The great designer Ettore shunned public commissions, favouring ambitious private, hedonistic undertakings
Georgia O’Keeffe’s little sister’s retrospective
The Dallas Museum of Art appeals for Ida O’Keeffe anecdotes ahead of a show dedicated to the little known artist
The Insider's Guide to Venice
Event organiser Tommaso Speretta reveals his favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide
Unseen since 1970 Bacon tryptych up for sale
Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer was painted at the height of his passionate affair with the petty criminal
When Sottsass met Bob Dylan and the beat poets
How a life-threatening illness led to the Italian designer meeting Kerouac and co
Steve McCurry's most difficult assignment
He's been in every war zone on the planet but Iraq was to prove his most difficult challenge
Take a look at Richard Prince's latest Instagram art
The artist is back on Instagram, and using posts from the photo-sharing site in a new series of works
Stephen Shore on photography's visceral connection
Watch our great video from the photographer's ICP talk in New York last week
How Sottsass went from page to product
We seek out the early sketches that became household objects for the design conscious
Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin's Museum of Ethnology
The photographer’s contribution to the eighth Berlin Biennale takes in denim, sneakers and TV static
Ten buildings built to be moved
From a lake school to Renzo Piano's eco hut, The Phaidon Atlas picks out some great portable buildings
Massimo Vignelli 1931 – 2014
The Italian-born designer credited with introducing European modernism to American graphic design has died
Did Halston do to fashion what Warhol did to art?
A new exhibition at the Warhol Museum looks at the influences, careers and legacies of the designer and the artist
How good a cook was Ferran Adrià's mother?
The elBulli founder tells Time magazine about his mother's talents, his rules for anarchy, and how animals cook
Andy Warhol’s Rolls-Royce is on eBay
The pop artist’s 1974 Silver Shadow is for sale with the online auction house, with a starting price of $89,000
McDonald’s reduces its top dishes to pictograms
The fast-food chain’s new French campaign eschews heavy branding for an illustration of its six big dishes
René Redzepi chooses snow for his Desert Island
The Noma chef requests a single day of wintry conditions as his luxury on the BBC radio show Desert Island Discs
Shore and Parr meet Phaidon Club members
Two stellar names in the photography world host special talks in London and New York
Ai Weiwei’s floral bike protest staged in London
A copy of the artist’s installation-cum-protest is chained up outside the Lisson gallery as part of his new show
Colin McDowell enters peak beard debate in Sydney
At the Sydney Writers’ Festival The Anatomy of Fashion author urges visitors to London to be clean shaven
How to shoot Tadao Ando's most beautiful houses
Photographer Edmund Sumner talks to us about his friendship with the architect and the Ando houses he’s shot
Architectural Record's Innovation Conference
We just took our online Atlas along to one of North America’s most forward-thinking architectural events
George Lois has some Damn Good (Greek) Advice
Advertising legend gives closing address at TEDx Thessaloniki to launch Greek edition of Damn Good Advice
The biologist loved by Mies and Richard Hamilton
Why did the pop artist and modernist architect both draw inspiration from a controversial 1917 biological text?
Edmund de Waal launches his monograph at the V&A
To mark the publication of his book, the artist put in his final public appearance of 2014 at the V&A last night
Clerkenwell Design Week opens
Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, and Sir Paul Smith among big names at this year's east London design festival
The Memphis influence at New York Design Week
We detect the hand of Ettore Sottsass and co at New York’s independent design fair, Sight Unseen Offsite
Wired beehive follows Heatherwick’s seed cathedral
The winning design for next year’s Milan expo draws attention to the world's dwindling honey bee population
Danh Vo artwork stolen in New York
Danish-Vietnamese artist's huge copper chain links are taken from City Hall Park
Mies tower wins architectectural prize after 42 years
Commissioned by IBM, the 52-storey Chicago tower had one of the first computerized air-conditioning systems
Phaidon creatives at Clerkenwell Design Week
Ron Arad, Deyan Sudjic and a comforting take on Mies’s Barcelona chair are all present at the design festival
Hard to build? A little less so, thanks to The Atlas
From French viaducts to Swiss mist, this week our online Atlas reveals the know-how behind some tricky structures
Nazi-seized Cubist works finally on show
Three paintings by Fédor Löwenstein go on display in the city where the Third Reich first sequestered them
Ettore Sottsass by Deyan Sudjic
We ask the Design Museum Director to share some memories of his old friend and the subject of our new book
Getting to know Sterling Ruby
As the artist’s New York show receives rave reviews, the fashion press proves to be a rich source for profiles
NYC's 9/11 Memorial Pavilion is complete
Snøhetta says it has struck a balance between the everyday life of the city and a fitting quality for a memorial
Meryl Streep celebrates Bruce Nauman with Phaidon
Film and artworld luminaries attend Tribeca launch of our Bruce Nauman monograph The True Artist
What’s been a hit at Art Basel Hong Kong?
Fake states, suicidal firearms and modernist prison cells prove popular at the second annual Hong Kong art fair
Mary Ellen Mark wins Lifetime Achievement Award
George Eastman House, the world’s oldest photography museum, honours the brilliant American photographer
Come to Phaidon's Venice Architecture Biennale talk
Architects from OMA and MAD will debate global architecture with Online Atlas editor Jean-Francois Goyette
The Frieze work inspired by our Agnes Martin book
Cluj artist Ciprian Mureşan's drawing, Agnes Martin, looks towards our monograph for visual inspiration
Restoring Rothko's Black on Maroon
Sir Nicholas Serota and the Tate conservators tell Phaidon how they restored the vandalised painting
Richard Mosse wins the Deutsche Börse Prize
The Irish photographer’s Congo images, The Enclave, pick up the annual photography award
Who’s showing what at Art Basel Hong Kong
The art fair brings Eastern and Western works together, alongside a pulsing tower and a critique of local schooling
Adam Szymczyk at Frieze New York
We catch up with the Documenta director and author of our Pawel Althamer, Creamier and Diener & Diener books
The Insider's Guide to Hong Kong
Architect JJ Acuna reveals his favourite places as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* City Guide
Massimo Vignelli wants a letter from Phaidon readers
The influential graphic designer is gravely ill and would welcome a flurry of tweets and mail during his last days
At home with Cindy Sherman
The American artist, more used to posing as other people, invites Architectural Digest into her house
How Joseph Beuys celebrated his 63rd birthday
In an attempt to hurry along ‘the end of the twentieth century’ and to celebrate his 63rd birthday, on this day in May 1984 the artist planted 400 native tree and bush species in the Italian town of Bolognano
Watch Edmund de Waal at the Met
Missed the stream of his talk with curator Sheena Wagstaff? Don't worry the video and pictures are here
Frieze 2014 - the highlights
Get your face slapped, take a boat down the river and check out Wolfgang Tillmans' central nervous system
Banksy donates artwork to Bristol boys club
British graffiti artist admits he painted Mobile Lovers and tells the youth club leader he can do what he likes with it
Who’s showing what at Frieze New York
Gagosian has Ruscha, Zwirner has Judd, while Hauser & Wirth are offering a big-name study of the human body
Is this Larry Gagosian’s new Foster apartment?
The world’s biggest art dealer has reportedly bought a new pad, ready in time for Art Basel Miami Beach
Pablo León de la Barra on Frieze and Latin America
The curator told us last night how our book Art Cities of the Future is part of a global change in the art world
Art Cities of the Future artists at Frieze
Three of the artists in the São Paulo section of our book are at Frieze this weekend. This is what they do
Why Nan Goldin thinks kids are from another planet
The photographer talks through her Eden and After book in a great new Tate video
Turner Prize 2014 shortlist catches up with Phaidon
Shortlist is heavy on mixed-media and collage and artists who've featured in past Phaidon books and web stories
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
