James Cauty's 1:87-scale police state
JAMs and KLF pioneer creates "twisted model village experience" populated by 5000 policemen
Marc Newson reinvents the bed
Innovative, internationally renowned designer who admits to sleeping on a mattress on the floor until just a few years ago (because "buying a bed is such a cheesy experience") creates ultimate dream aid
Luc Tuymans offers insight at new Houston show
My portraits are “inert and silent” he says at Menil Collection opening of Nice. Luc Tuymans
Harry Potter star upstaged by Alex Atala's ants
"Are you open to dangerous dishes?" D.O.M chef asks BBC guests as he produces 'special Amazonian ingredient'
Join Phaidon at Topshop London and NY this week
Come and say hello at the launch of our updated style bible The Fashion Book
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Pimento Cheese
It's the paté de fois gras, hummus and blue cheese dip of the American South - listen to Colman tell the story
Jeffrey Deitch in conversation with Wild Art authors
A new kind of art and a new kind of art audience debated hotly on The Brooklyn Rail website
Meet Raymond Pettibon
The Californian artist will be meeting fans and signing books at David Zwirner New York on October 19
Wolff Olins' USA Today redesign wins Fast Co award
Firm's reworking of America's widest circulated print newspaper lets you "take a little piece of the web with you"
William Klein's street scenes come to Amsterdam
The New York street photographer gets a major retrospective at the Netherlands Foam photography gallery
First show to pair Pop with design opens this month
Pop Art Design at London's Barbican Gallery brings together Warhol and Blake with Eames, Sottsass and others
Banksy's first NY artwork painted over within a day
Rival artist or the authorities? Who erased The Street Is In Play, the first piece in Banksy's month-long residency?
New student accommodation ticks the box
Tengbom's new student apartments will house 22 college kids (not all in the same building) from next year
Introducing EarthArt
Editor Alex Stetter previews our forthcoming book with the acclaimed aerial photographer Bernhard Edmaier
Steve McCurry's travel tips
The great Magnum photographer tells the Wall Street Journal how he likes to get around (in and out of the water)
Jonathon Porritt on The World We Made
The legendary environmental campaigner on how to scrub clean the earth's atmosphere, why robots might soon be man's best friend and the big steps China is taking to dispel its polluter of the planet reputation
Russia's 2018 FIFA World Cup airport to be built by new London-based firm Twelve Architects
New outfit breaks through on the international stage with a high-profile competition win
Wild Art explained in the LA Times
David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro talk through their new book with the Times' Liesl Bradner
British artist Andy Holden calls for sincere irony
The artist's Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity movement examines two seemingly opposing sentiments
Willem Dafoe to play Warhol in new YSL film
The Hollywood star is cast opposite Gaspard Ullieln as Yves Saint Laurent in new French production
Li Songsong's first London show at Pace Gallery
We Have Betrayed The Revolution show gets Ai Weiwei's seal of approval in catalogue essay
Ferran Adrià's 5 favourite places to eat in the world
The Spanish chef lists a tiny Tokyo restaurant, as well as the whole of Morocco, among his best dining experiences
Pentagram creates brand for unlikely tech founders
The design agency produces a new ID for a group at the margins of the tech community
Ai Weiwei hits the decks
The Chinese artist and dissident follows Koons, Hirst and Warhol, by creating his own skateboard deck
Foster's huge new entertainment venue opens
Glasgow's SSE Hydro hopes to attract one million visitors annually with big-name concerts and sporting events
What the well-dressed swan is wearing this winter
If you're a fan of Wild Art you'll love these hipster animals in the latest project by Miguel Vallinas
Andy Warhol's back pages
Museum Brandhorst's Reading Andy Warhol exhibition examines the great pop artist's bookish inclinations
How Louis Vuitton and Hermès illustrator Natsko Seki helped create Architecture According to Pigeons
New York comes to London in new graphics show
Push pin graphic designers Glaser and Chwast have first show of work in the capital for 40 years at Kemistry
Chetwynd changes her name to Marvin Gaye
"Get with the groove and call me Marvin, man! And cheer up!" says the artist formerly known as Spartacus
Can you name these movie artists?
This year’s Deutsche Börse Prize winners put together this montage of Hollywood artists. Can you spot them all?
Norman Foster reworks Scotland Yard
Foster + Partners is shortlisted to oversee creation of Metropolitan Police Service’s new headquarters
John Pawson visits Zumthor's Bruder Klaus chapel
The great British minimalist admires the shape-shifting quality of Zumthor's 'landlocked lighthouse'
Lost van Gogh painting found in Norwegian attic
Van Gogh Museum's director Axel Rueger calls Sunset at Montmajour find a "unique experience"
Ferran Adrià unveils elBulli masterwork in New York
elBulli 2005-2011 includes every recipe created during the last seven years of the world's greatest restaurant
How Magritte made 'everyday objects shriek aloud'
A new MoMA retrospective focuses the Belgian surrealist's attempts to make common objects strangely unfamiliar
Look into the future at the Joburg Art Fair
Ross Douglas, founder of Africa's biggest art fair on why Joburg is firmly among the art cities of the future
Beijing's answer to Glastonbury and Coachella
MAD fashions a purpose built venue for Beijing's oldest music and arts festival
Carlo Scarpa's pioneering glassware at The Met
Italian architect's innovative glassware demonstrates how central local craftsmanship was to his work
First look at Brazil's Olympic stadium
London architects Weston Williamson liken their “massive feather-like structure" to a bird taking flight
Introducing The World We Made
Phaidon editor Ellen Christie previews our Jonathon Porritt title offering a bright, optimistic vision of sustainability
Guilty plea over forged Abstract Expressionists
Glafira Rosales pleads guilty to conspiracy to selling fake Pollocks and Rothkos in New York
Chris Burden's ship and towers rise over Manhattan
The New Museum retrospective might not open until Oct 2, but on the building's exterior, the show has begun
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
