The fashion of authority
Colin McDowell's book, The Anatomy of Fashion, looks at how figures of authority assert their power sartorially

Next Architects' Mobius-like Chinese bridge
The Dutch practice says its pedestrian bridge design draws upon decorative Chinese folk art

Art & Place in the Empire State
Join us in Manhattan's Empire State Building tomorrow night, to talk art, place and preservation

Bernhard Edmaier's search for white
The German landscape photographer has found the sum of all spectral colours surprisingly ellusive

Parr, Meyerowitz and Phaidon at Paris Photo
Hear Martin talk protests and photobooks, meet Joel, get your book signed, and more at this year's Paris Photo

Could you live in a moving city?
Manuel Dominguez at Madrid’s Superior Technical School of Architecture has a plan for job-starved areas

The World We Made is released as an iBook
Enter our competition to win a free download of Jonathon Porritt's new iBook

Meet the Sochi Singers
Two Dutch image makers document the entertainment on offer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia

PriestmanGoode designs a space capsule
Having worked on train, plane and boat interiors, the design studio turns its gaze to the heavens

René Redzepi and Alex Atala on the cover of Time
David Chang joins 'the dudes of food' on the cover of the influential news weekly

Thomas Heatherwick’s London Garden Bridge
The design star's bridge proposal is part of wider attempts to make London both greener and easier to navigate

Take a look at Stephen Shore's moving image iBook
Be the first to pre-order the great American photographer's debut digital video iBook, A New York Minute

Praise for Art Cities of the Future Goes Global
The press for our new survey of global avant-gardes has been as brilliant and varied as the cities we've covered

What's going on in Bai Yiluo's calligraphy?
A witty fusion of media and materials creates a strong effect - but what is it made up of?

Paul Cocksedge’s Living Staircase
The British designer plants around a staircase in Soho to fashion a creative spiral

The life and death of Agnes Thor
See how this young Swedish photographer tries to capture the transience of life in her images

Steve McCurry on the Afghan Girl, beauty and 9/11
The Magnum photographer describes his working practices and his view of the world in an Italian TV interview

Lady Gaga mimics Marina Abramović
The singer draws on Warhol, Koons, Botticelli et al to promote her new album

From shorts to shaving - a secret history of leg fashion
Colin McDowell's Anatomy of Fashion offers thousands of insights into how we dress - here's a few of them

Will this vertical garden take root in Berlin?
Agnieszka Preibisz and Peter Sandhaus believe their Green8 scheme could transform the city's Alexanderplatz

Carlo Scarpa praised by New York's Artists
Leading figures in the New York art world praise the architect's work, to mark the opening of Scarpa's Met show

Ben Marcin photographs the last house standing
German-born US-based photographer looks at single houses that hang on when the neighbours have gone

High praise for The Chinese Art Book
The world's press seems to agree: The Chinese Art Book offers an unrivalled overview of one nation's art

Art as Therapy extends to photography
Alain de Botton thinks painful photographs like Eve Arnold's below can be therapeutic

Tomi Ungerer's Fog Island is one of The New York Times' Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2013
Tomi Ungerer's brilliant children's book just won a place in the newspaper's prestigious annual list

Tony Kaye on how he changed advertising
The greatest British ad director of recent times comes back to London to explain how he did it

Sara Naim goes tree spotting in Dubai
The British-born photographer finds hardy specimens hanging on among the office blocks and sand dunes

Modernist masterworks recovered in Munich
1,500 works found in the Munich apartment of the son of Nazi-era Degenerate Art Exhibition co-curator

The science and beauty of Edmaier's Grand Canyon
EarthArt offers both a fine collection of aerial views and a wealth of geological insight into our planet's beauty

What America’s banks did next
Michael Vahrenwald’s project, The People’s Trust, looks at how US bank buildings have been repurposed

Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Mayhaw jelly
The celebrated food writer and Phaidon author Colman Andrews introduces us to "the cranberry of the South"

The perfect imperfections life-sized doll furniture
When Slovakian design student Silva Lovasová scaled up toy lamps and chairs, she kept all the flaws in

Sou Fujimoto’s secret Saudi tower
The Japanese architect’s master plan in Jeddah is both ‘confidential’ and practically transparent

Banksy’s NYC residency is over
The British graffiti artist signs off his month-long residency in New York with a plea to save outdoor art

Herzog and de Meuron strips back Park Ave. Armory
Why the Pritzker Prize laureate has taken away all the more recent additions from this New York Institution

Why Delhi is an Art City of The Future
Solid institutions? Global connections? What does a city need for its artists to make art as good as this?

What is real and what is fake in this model town?
Photographer and model maker Michael Paul Smith has been photographing his own town for the last 25 years

Colin McDowell on how punk was defeated
Our author charts ripped clothing and safety pins from early modern mercenaries to Elizabeth Hurley

Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, now in Lego
Lego's architecture range now includes the pair's great collaboration, New York's United Nations Building

Geeta Kapur's art of Indian citizenship
The world-renowned Indian curator and Phaidon author tackles statehood in the second of her five exhibitions

Alain de Botton on Banksy and buying art
The public intellectual and Phaidon author believes galleries should help their clients to lead better lives

Does this wrecked liner remind you of Fellini too?
Gigi Cifali's surreal photographs of the Costa Concordia revel in the wreck's dark absurdity

René Redzepi talks trash, brains and ants in London
Next month, hear the world-famous chef describe the year he tried to make Noma "a happier place to be in"

Wallis, Gilbert's concrete makes a comeback
One of the British practice's earliest creations is reborn as a modern, concrete-loving, mixed use hub

Stephen Shore shares his Lou Reed pictures
Following the singer's passing, Shore posted one of his Factory shots, featuring a young, vulnerable Reed

Hear Brice Marden at NY Public Library next week
The celebrated American artist talks with Phaidon's Dr David Anfam and Phaidon Focus author Eileen Costello

Marc Wilson's accidental war memorials
The British photographer captures Europe's WWII battlements as they disappear into the coastline

When Diego Rivera turned propaganda into art
Upon the publication of Art and Place, we take a look at Rivera's murals at the Universidad Autonoma de Chapingo

A great body of praise for The Anatomy of Fashion
Colin McDowell's magisterial overview of clothes, anatomy and culture meets with universal praise worldwide

Arthur C Danto 1924 - 2013
The critic and Warhol advocate, who popularised the term 'the artworld' has died

Whose hometown is this?
John Maclean photographs the hometowns of his artistic heroes, adding a little of their style into his shots

Tubular hotel opens in the Russian Caucasus
LEAPrus 3912 by Italian architects LEAPfactory is built on the side of a dormant volcano

Olafur Eliasson wins MIT Award
The Danish-Icelandic artist will receive the $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award

The extreme performance art of He Yunchang
Physical endurance, self mutilation and the removal of a rib - The Chinese Art Book has the story

If the cap fits . . . wear it!
The Anatomy of Fashion author Colin McDowell talks us through the historical importance of the hat

Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Sparkling Cider
In the latest reading from his wonderful new book The Taste of America, celebrated food writer Colman Andrews spins a fascinating story about one of our favourite fizzy drinks

New York approves bean-pole slim addition by SHoP
410 metres tall but only 13 metres wide - New York's new addition will offer sweeping views over Central Park

First photorealism retrospective comes to the UK
The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery brings together the poppy pictures that look like photographs

The New York Times is at Home with Wild Art
US paper of record features our book in today's Home & Garden section and delights in the wild architecture

Why Steve Jobs tried to join Norman Foster’s team
In a new planning application video, the British architect describes the late Apple CEO's commissioning style

Where Phaidon figures in ArtReview’s Power 100
Our artists, authors and advisers feature highly in the art magazine’s list of contemporary art’s big players

Listen to Robert Capa speak
To commemorate the centenary of the Magnum founder's birth, the ICP unearths his only radio interview

Mexican architect rethinks the Egyptian pyramids
Juan Carlos Ramos adds windows, a garage, bedrooms and balconies to an ancient architectural form

Air France's flying cutlery
Eugeni Quitllet playfully redesigns the French flag carrier's knives, forks and dishes

How Rothko mocked up his Houston chapel in NY
Art & Place reveals how the artist scaled an interior world of private spirituality designed to engulf the viewer

How the Kent State shootings inspired Richard Prince
In a new essay the artist describes how he was arrested for lowering his college flag to half-mast

Mingei: Are You Here? updates Japanese tradition
Folk art movement Mingei finds favour with contemporary artists courtesy of curator Nicolas Trembley

Climate change chief reduced to tears
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres obviously needs to read Jonathon Porritt's The World We Made

Josef Koudelka shows Prague '68 shots in Bucharest
The Magnum photographer who captured the Prague Spring praises Romania, as his show opens in its capital

Introducing The Anatomy of Fashion
Author Colin McDowell MBE introduces an engaging book that delights in defining why we dress as we do

How Rauschenberg's photos structured his art
A new Manhattan show looks at how photography fitted into the late American artist's practice

Could this Manet painting relight your fire?
Alain de Botton thinks so and has an interesting theory about how to make love last in his new book Art as Therapy

Judd, Serra and co help you unpick Art & Place
Can these excerpted writings by prominent artists aid our understanding of Site-Specific Art? We think so

Chris Burden's guide to buying meteorites on Ebay
On the opening of his New York retrospective, the artist offered some choice insights into his work

Shigeru Ban's paper-tube tree house
The Japanese architect brings his "evolved wood" architecture to a suitably arboreal setting

Chris Johanson makes a folk art exhibition
The Californian artist curates a Craft and Folk Art Museum show that champions “the positive ritual of artmaking”

Do Ho Suh's Specimen Series
Korean artist's latest project focusses on elements of his Manhattan apartment

Why did these R'n'B videographers win an art prize?
Niko the Ikon picked up one of the inaugural Re Rebaudengo Serpentine Grants for young artists this week

Mumbai artists get a new concrete base
Sanjay Puri Architects create fittingly sculptural bulbous structure in concrete for Bombay Art Society

Carlo Scarpa by Louis Kahn
The last thing Louis Kahn wrote before his death was a poem to his friend Carlo Scarpa - this is what he wrote

The World Loves The World We Made
Jonathon Porritt's positive take on the future of our planet finds an approving audience across the globe

OMA splinter group's mega-estate in Singapore
Does this blocky design remind you of Northern European social-housing estates? Or Jenga blocks?

My friend Alex Atala by Alain Ducasse
"Alex’s understanding of ingredients borders on fervent passion. Going to a market with him is like diving into the very depths of the Brazilian land!" he says about the chef and author of D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients

Elderfield and Zilczer on Gagosian’s de Kooning show
MoMA’s Chief Curator Emeritus and the noted art historian discuss this key reappraisal of his 1980s works

Surrealism's American perspective
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Surrealists exhibition looks at its European origins as well as its US impact

The Bauhaus: now offering sleepovers
Bunk down where the design school's greats once slept. Prices include communal showers and shared restrooms

Come to our Wild Art launch
Head east tonight to celebrate works of art that thrive outside the gallery space

What the world's press are saying about Frieze
As London's international art fair opens for previews in Regent's Park today, we round up global opinions

Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson remodel the Leica
The Apple design chief and the Aussie design star remake the M model for Bono's RED charity auction

Shanghai developers plan to rebuild Crystal Palace
ZhongRong Group say the Victorian building's "ingenuity and scale is magnificent" and want to bring it back to life

The Chinese conference centre that thinks it's a city
Coop Himmelb(l)au say the rooms in their new Dalian Conference Centre have 'identifiable addresses'

Alex Atala helps São Paulo's kids get into the kitchen
The world-class chef and author outlines his take on cooking and ecology and raises cash for a local non-profit

Hirst remakes the Pharmacy as a desert juice bar
The Prada Oasis and Damien Hirst's Pharmacy Juice Bar pitched up north of Doha as part of his Qatar show

How much would you pay for a Hadid dolls' house?
Bidding is up to £9,000 for Hadid's model, as big-name architects build tiny houses to benefit a children's charity

How Picasso and co. weaved carpets into their work
The show at Paris' Musée d'Art moderne looks at the reintroduction of decorative arts into a fine-art setting

New York loves Mike Kelley
The late artist's huge retrospective at MoMA PS1 receives glowing write-ups

Phaidon takes over Topshop in London and New York
Vera Wang, Iris Apfel, Stephen Jones and Dirk Standen head up our all star launches for The Fashion Book

Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Cowpeas
Our critically acclaimed and mellifluously-voiced author returns with another enthralling story from his new book

Bouroullecs reinvent the Stone Age with jewellery
Ronan and Erwan follow Ettore Sottsass, Konstantin Grcic and Naoto Fukasawa with Perles for Gallerie Kreo
