OMA to build Colombia's Brasilia

Koolhaas' practice will build largest institutional masterplan in Latin America since Niemeyer’s Brasilia

OMA's plans for Bogota

Transvestite Putin painter flees Russia

Konstantin Altunin, creator of the controversial painting of the Russian leader, is seeking asylum in France

Detail from Travesty (2013) by Konstantin Altunin

Blood, guts and inspiration at MAD3

High profile speakers including René Redzepi, Alex Atala and Alain Ducasse stress the need to respect animals - and ourselves - in what we eat and how we consume at food symposium in Denmark

René Redzepi and Alex Atala at the close of MAD3 - photo courtesy MADfeed

David Mellor's designer street

Iconic British designer has his street furniture showcased in mocked-up road

Pedestrian signal box, 1965-9, by David Mellor

Stephanie Gonot's Fad Diets

Diet Coke and cigarettes diet (and others) visualised with a little help from LA-based photographer

Fad Diets - Stephanie Gonot

Assistant to Jasper Johns charged with theft

The American artist's long-standing assistant has been charged with stealing 22 works, and selling them for $6.5m

False Flag? Brian Ramnarine's Johns bronze is just one of the works attributed to the artist that has led to court proceedings

Did Dieter Rams's T3 inspire this new radio?

The 55-year-old design inspired Jonathan Ive, and now may have given rise to a new Lexon radio by Philip Wong


Why is Damien Hirst sweet on Gonzalez-Torres?

The British artist shows his Visual Candy series alongside the late Cuban's equally sugary creations

untitled (Lover Boys) (1991) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Kusama's Infinity Nets open the new Victoria Miro

The 84-year-old Japanese artist's hallucinatory paintings inaugurate the gallery's new Mayfair space this October

White Infinity Net (2007) by Yayoi Kusama

Bouroullec brothers turn back the Tyde

Ronan and Erwan's height-adjustable work top for Vitra deserves standing ovation

Tyde Table - Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Classic British cars parked on new stamps

London graphic design firm Why Not Associates tracks down Lotus, Rolls-Royce and MG owners for new set


New York duo designs African Summit Centre

Inner facade of husband and wife team WORKac's new building is clad in pale gold aluminium

African Congress Centre, Libreville - WORKac

Dancing on the ceiling

Daniel Schofield's Brogue Light for Deadgood plugs into English autumn winter style

The Brogue Light - Daniel Schofield

Jim Golden's still lifes

Ex-New York ad guy moves to Oregon to create photos that capture essence not beauty (though we like them)

 Still Life 1 series - Jim Golden

Photographing the model crime scene

Corinne May Botz spent six years in the Maryland State medical examiner’s office shooting 500 images

Dark Bathroom Tub - Corinne May Botz

Time to upgrade your Oyster card

The Underground is redrawn for Designjunction’s Oyster card holders

Pearson Lloyd Oyster card holder

New York's creative scene gets a $300 million 'shed'

Diller Scofidio + Renfro teams up with stage set designers extraordinaire Rockwell Group for Hudson Yards project

Culture Shed - Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Akihiko Miyoshi's Abstract Photos

Artist, photographer and computer engineer plays with mirrors, paper and tape to give depth to 2D photographs


Singapore just got leafier

Architect WOHA creates sky gardens high above the metropolis in Park Royal Hotel

Park Royal on Pickering, Singapore - WOHA

Mies van der Rohe collages go on show in New York

Previously unseen mood boards in Cut 'n' Paste shine a light into inspirations behind seminal works


Arne Jacobsen’s iconic 1950s Tongue Chair is back

Mid-century modern classic is available again (and it's a bit more stable these days)

Tongue Chairs - Arne Jacobsen, Howe

Shooting hoops with Adrian Skenderovic

Paris-based photographer collects lost basketball hoops while on his travels

Lost Hoops - Adrian Skenderovic

Photographing in the fourth dimension

Fong Qi Wei invites you to time travel within the frame of a single photograph

Marina Sunset 2013 - Fong Qi Wei

Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh gets an organic addition

New business school by young Mumbai practice Planet 3 Studios takes shape on outskirts of Indian city

School of Business at Chitkara University - Planet 3 Studios

Introducing The Chinese Art Book

Phaidon Senior Editor Diane Fortenberry on a book that will clue you in (and hopefully inspire a lifelong passion)

The Chinese Art Book

New iPad ads feature Phaidon's Design Classics app

Those billboards springing up on San Francisco streets and in London tube stations look strangely familiar

Olympus Trip 35 (1968) Yasuo Hattori Olympus 1968 - 1984 as featured in the Phaidon Design Classics app for Apple

Hella Jongerius updates Prouvé classics for Vitra

The Dutch designer is taken with the "form follows function" beauty of the late French modernist master

Hella Jongerius' reworking of Jean Prouvé's Standard chair and Compas Direction table

René Redzepi gets David Chang to curate MAD3

The Noma founder asks Momofuku's main man to oversee his symposium, which this year is dedicated to guts

David Chang and Chris Ying in luchador masks at last year's MAD event

Warhol, Bacon, Marden and Kiefer iBooks out today

We're very pleased to announce our Phaidon Focus books are now available as iBooks in the iTunes store


Has Arne Svenson violated his neighbours' privacy?

NY court rules on whether the photographer was within his rights to shoot through an adjacent apartment window

From Neighbours by Arne Svenson

Holzer debuts her "heap of displays" in Hong Kong

Jenny Holzer's Light Stream installation updates earlier slogans in a "pulsating, flashing heap of text"

Ribs (2010) by Jenny Holzer

Damien Hirst's new 9,000 square-metre art studio

The artist's West Country studio, gallery and formaldehyde out-building is the world's largest art production site

Damien Hirst's new Science gallery, by Designscape

Ruslan Khasanov’s soy sauce-inspired art

Russian photographer and graphic artist says Asian cookery motivated his oil ink and soap series, Pacific Light

Pacific Light by Ruslan Khasanov

A. Quincy Jones' LA retrospective

The pioneering California architect receives his first major retrospective courtesy of LA's Hammer Museum

The Brody House, A. Quincy Jones, c. 1950. Photograph by Julius Shulman

Pre-Raphaelite women top UK art poll

Public art initiative, Art Everywhere's poll has been topped by two Pre-Raphaelite works by Millais and Waterhouse

The Lady of Shalott (1880) by John William Waterhouse

The palaces of the bird world

Photographer Dillon Marsh has been fascinated by the gigantic nests of Sociable Weaver birds since childhood

Dillon Marsh - Assimilation

Detroit digitizes its Diego Rivera murals

Delicate decaying drafts of America's great industrial age digitized for posterity

Detail from Infant in the Bulb of a Plant (Detroit Industry east wall), 1932, by Diego Rivera

What to expect from 100% Design

Richard Rogers in conversation and Zaha Hadid's reinvention of shopping among this year's highlights

3D interior design from Freedom of Creation, Amsterdam

Martin Parr wants you to shoot a funeral

As part of The Photographers' Gallery Mass Observation exhibition, Parr has issued 'Directive 2'

Humphrey Spender, Funeral, street scene man with glasses in foreground, 1937

Wild Artist Olek crochets steam locomotive

The train arriving in Lodz is called Deadly Romance "because it almost killed me!" says the artist

Olek - Deadly Romance (2013)

Edmund de Waal debuts at Gagosian next month

The British ceramicist brings a poetry-themed show of pots and vitrines to Gagosian's Madison Avenue gallery

Atemwende (detail) (2013) by Edmund de Waal

You can zoom in 25 kilometres on this photo

The photos in Jeffrey Martin's 360 Cities series are created from up to 40,000 images digitally stitched together

Tokyo Tower detail - Jeffrey Martin

Dolce & Gabbana's Fellini film comes to London

The 2012 restoration of Fellini's Satyricon is on at The Curzon, courtesy of the A Nos Amours collective

Satyricon (1969) by Frederico Fellini

Yayoi Kusama top-selling living female artist

Bloomberg calculates the Japanese artist has sold 2290 lots since 1985, generating $127.7m in sales

Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession (1998)

LEGO invites you to ‘release your inner architect’

Sou Fujimoto, MAD and SOM among big names contributing to 272-page book in new Architecture Studio set

LEGO Architecture Studio

Foster + Partners rework Cathay Pacific

Tasteful styling and hard-core product design combine in the practice's first commercial aircraft design

Cathay Pacific First Class - Foster + Partners

Hamburg sorting office reinvented as hip hotel

Boasting hangover breakfasts and a stage 'for impromptu jams' Superbude II looks like fun (just not that relaxing)

Superbude II, Hamburg

Heaven for Dieter Rams fans

A new website run by Dieter Rams aficionados helps you find any classic piece from the Braun design guru

Dieter Rams radio

What Marina Abramović will offer you for $10,000

For backers willing to pledge big bucks to the performance artist's forthcoming institute, Marina has two choices

Marina demonstrates exercises in nature (still from a film by Noah Blumenson-Cook)

Ai Weiwei curates rudely-titled Chinese art show

F*** OFF 2 is the sequel to the Shanghai show he staged in China in 2000

Untitled - Ren Hang

Critics love Peter Doig's Edinburgh show

The press unites in praise of painter's exhibition at The Scottish National Gallery, the first in the city of his birth


Australian train station attracts fierce competition

Competition to redesign Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station attracts entries from Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw, two local architects and some Colombian graduates. But who will win?

Flinders Street Railway Station, Melbourne - NH Architecture

Galaxy Soho accused of damaging 'old Beijing'

Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center chastises RIBA for rewarding Zaha Hadid's 2012 creation

Galaxy Soho by Zaha Hadid Architects

Is this really Warhol's first piece of pop art?

A British man is trying to sell this drawing, which he claims is the work of an eleven-year-old Andy Warhol

Andy Fields's alleged early Warhol

Marina Abramovic's Reddit highlights

According to her online interview, the performance artist is not a vampire and she likes Antony and The Johnsons

Marina Abramovic, Dragon Heads (1990)


The Shanghai skyscraper that makes you look twice

UNStudio says its SOHO Hailun Plaza will change appearance depending on the time of day and your viewpoint

UNStudio's SOHO Hailun Plaza, Shanghai

Jakob+MacFarlane's illuminating extension

The Parisian practice creates a suitably impressive addition to France's repository for radical architecture

Turbulences by Jakob+Macfarlane

Toyo Ito and Shigeru Ban's designs for dogs

New show unveils “an extremely sincere collection of architecture” for design-conscious domestic animals

Mobile Home for Shiba by Toyo Ito

John Pawson strips back the Baroque

The St Moritz church in Augsburg, Bavaria goes minimalist, thanks to the work of Britain's architectural master

St Moritz Church by John Pawson. Photograph by Gilbert McCarragher

Is Hirst in a pickle here?

Jonathan Yeo says in his Hirst portrait, it is unclear whether Hirst is preparing a work, or being preserved himself

Detail from Damien Hirst (2013) by Jonathan Yeo

Zaha Hadid's Serpentine gallery to open next month

The Serpentine Sackler Gallery will be the Pritzker Laureate's first permanent structure in central London

The Serpentine Sackler gallery by Zaha Hadid

Introducing Steve McCurry Untold

Phaidon publisher Amanda Renshaw introduces Steve McCurry Untold, a book that looks at the stories and circumstances behind the photos that made the Magnum photographer famous

Phaidon publisher and editorial director Amanda Renshaw with a copy of Steve McCurry Untold

If Moore had taught Bacon to sculpt

A recent article reveals that the great 20th century painter asked his sculptural counterpart for lessons

Left, detail from Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) by Francis Bacon and Reclining Figure: Angles (1979) by Henry Moore

Jean Nouvel wins the National Art Museum of China

The French Pritzker laureate beat Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid to design China's leading art contemporary space

Jean Nouvel's winning design for The National Art Museum of China

Letters from Edward Hopper's 'rigid woman'

A current exhibition uses a cache of love letters to offer fresh insight into the work of the great American painter

Summer Interior (1909) by Edward Hopper

Shigeru Ban's Parisian music island

Following on from Ando and Nouvel plans, will Ban's design for Ile Seguin in Paris finally break ground?

Cité Musicale in Paris by Shigeru Ban

So where do you take Ferran Adrià for dinner?

Howard Chua-Eoan, former TIME magazine news director, on the NYC spots he's booked for the elBulli supremo

Ferran Adrià - do not seat him near a 'closetalker'

How a Phaidon book inspired Mad Men's titles

A tiny illustration in our graphic-design title A Smile in the Mind got Mad Men director Steve Fuller thinking

Detail from our book, A Smile In The Mind

Put the world's best architecture in your pocket

New Architecture Travel Guide brings world's greatest new buildings to your touchscreen

Phaidon's Architecture Travel Guide gathers together 1,500 of the best new buildings

Shepard Fairey gets on the LA Art Fund bus

The renowned graffiti artist consults with school kids to fashion his campaign for public arts education

Shepard Fairey's Create Your Future bus wrap for LA Fund's ArtsMatter

Taner Ceylan says Taksim Square changed art

The star of Turkish painting says street protests will help bring humour and politics into his nation's art scene

Spring Time (2013) by Taner Ceylan

Zaha Hadid designs mountaineering museum

Three dimensional parallelogram resembling a shard of glacial ice is 'inserted' into South Tyrol mountain

Messner Mountain Museum, Corones - Zaha Hadid

Chinese Neorealist to paint Londoners

Liu Xiaodong brings his sharp reworking of Socialist Realism to the British capital

Out of Beichuan, Into Taihu (2010) by Liu Xiaodong

Foster backs new Thames Hub airport

Pritzker-Prize winning architect calls on the spirit of Victorian forebears "to create afresh"

Thames Hub plans by Foster + Partners

Introducing Wild Art

Phaidon editor Jennifer Lawson on the book Jeff Koons - and everyone else - is talking about

Phaidon editor Jennifer Lawson with a test copy of Wild Art

François Pinault's jail-themed art show

For his debut Paris art show, Pinault will show a 'confinement' themed selection of works in a former prison

Grate Divine (2002) by Mona Hatoum

Stephen Shore goes global

A new exhibition shows the photographer's shots from Israel, Abu Dhabi and the Ukraine alongside his US work

South of Zefat, Israel, 2010, by Stephen Shore

Marina on her work, workshops and institute

Abramović reveals details of her new institute and how workshop participants deal with anger in this video

Marina Abramovic, Portrait with Scorpion, Eyes Open (2005)

Grimshaw's museum for an art city of the future

The British practice has worked mosaics into its Koç Contemporary Art Museum in Istanbul, Turkey

The Koç Contemporary Art Museum by Grimshaw Architects

When Gerald Cinamon brought Swiss Style to Britain

The great US proponent of Swiss Style graphic design enjoys a London retrospective

Architects on Architecture, Promotional Poster, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1968 by Gerald Cinamon

Maurizio Cattelan's Kenzo campaign tops poll

The artist's collaboration with the label has been voted best campaign of the season by The Business of Fashion

From Toilet Paper's Kenzo campaign

The Wallace shows the world's first restaurant

The Discovery of Paris: Watercolours by Early Nineteenth-Century British Artists exhibits a lost foodie spot in Paris

The Corner of the Rue Bailleul and the Rue Jean Tison, (1831) by Thomas Shotter Boys

The Chinese hotel with a built-in waterfall

“We drew our inspiration from the quarry setting" says Atkins Design Studio

Songjiang Hotel, Songjiang - Atkins Design Studio

See Jakob Wagner's plane window weather shots

German photographer loves to shoot the clouds from the window of a passenger plane

Mediterranean Sea, 2010 by Jakob Wagner

Designing the Carlo Scarpa monograph

Designer Béla Stetzer talks us through his work on our forthcoming book on the mid-century modernist architect

Our new Carlo Scarpa monograph, designed by Béla Stetzer

Gilbert and George head for the High Line

The British artists will have their 1984 work, Waking, reproduced on a billboard next to Manhattan's linear park

Gilbert and George, as signing sculptures (left) and El Anatsui's Broken Bridge II, (2012) beside the High Line

The Photographers' Gallery shows Mass Observation

A new exhibition draws from the archives of the British project that sought to offer "an anthropology of ourselves"

Humphrey Spender, Parliamentary by-election – Children hanging around outside, 1937/38 © Bolton Council, from the Collection of Bolton Library and Museum Services Courtesy of the Humphrey Spender Archive

Agnes Denes plans artificial islands to protect NYC

The pioneering land artist believes she can solve the city's storm challenges with a series of barrier islands

Wheatfield - A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982, by Agnes Denes

Pussy Riot take on Russian big oil

Feminist art rockers occupy oil facilities in latest video, Like a Red Prison

From Like a Red Prison by Pussy Riot

Warhol Museum's uncomfortable summer campaign

Pittsburgh museum puts together some suitably unnerving ads for its disturbing summer shows

Detail from MARC USA's summer campaign for The Warhol Museum

Sarah Morris "My work is related to power"

“Power is always in flux and up for grabs" she tells Skye Sherwin as new White Cube show Bye Bye Brazil opens

Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí [Rio]
2012 Sarah Morris Photo: Ben Westoby
Courtesy White Cube

Is this what's in store for London's High Line?

The winner of Vauxhall's Missing Link competition draws inspiration from a cabinet of curiosities for its linear park

Renderings for The Promenade of Curiosities by Erect Architecture and J & L Gibbons

Have the Rotterdam Kunsthal paintings been burned?

Investigators believe a defendant's mother destroyed Picasso, Monet and Matisse works in her stove

Police make a search of the museum grounds, 16 October 2012

Aspen Art Museum to open with a Shigeru Ban show

Japanese architect's first museum in the US will open with a show dedicated to his humanitarian architecture

Renderings of The Aspen Art Museum - Shigeru Ban

Jeff Koons loves Phaidon's Wild Art

The iconic American artist is "blown away" by our new Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier book

Hot With The Chance Of Late Storm (2006) - The Glue Society from Wild Art

Why does this photographer set his film on fire?

Peter Hoffman says his unusual technique is a comment on unsustainable consumer habits

From Fox River Derivatives by Peter Hoffman

MAD creates art museum in caves of a Chinese island

Beijing studio designs artificial island with Asia’s biggest private art museum ensconced in its caves

Pingtan Art Museuem, Fujian province, China - MAD

Introducing The Design Book

Phaidon Editor Joe Pickard previews our compact yet authoritative compendium of product design

Joe Pickard with The Design Book

MVRDV reinvents city living in Switzerland

Dutch architects rip up design brief and come up with something entirely different

Housing, Emmen, Switzerland - MVRDV