Andy Warhol - the disco years
Christie's new online auction offers us a great view into the artist's later, glitzier milieu

$36,750 - the price of dinner with Ferran Adrià
Anonymous online bidder snatches top lot in Sotheby's NY auction of elBulli wine list and assorted ephemera

RIBA honours India's modernist master
The British architectural body salutes the great Indian architect Charles Correa in new Indian season

Budweiser introduces new bow tie can
New nipped-in design is the result of a 16-step procedure (but there's .7 ounces less beer)

Cook It Raw chefs reveal philosophical inspirations
René Redzepi, Alex Atala, Albert Adrià and Daniel Patterson hold crowd rapt at Royal Geographical Society

Donald Judd's home opens to the public in June
Three-year $23 million restoration effort by his children will recreate artist's living and working environment

Tiny Faroe Islands’ get the BIG treatment
50,000 strong community gets a taste of starchitecture courtesy of Bjarke Ingels and his team

Richard Prince wins next round of copyright battle
25 of the 30 works in his Canal Zone series are “transformative” say judges

Vince Frost brands Sydney’s historic houses
Designer comes up with a rebrand based around the ideal of 'living' that leaps off screen, bag and mug

Is this the Britain of the future?
The Design Museum's forthcoming exhibition, United Micro Kingdoms, speculates on how we might end up living

Keith Haring's political side reassessed in Paris show
Keith Haring: The Political Line draws together a huge array of works to emphasise Haring's serious obsessions

If Phaidon designed a skatepark it might look like this
Skateboarder Janne Saario moves into design in Finland - Aesthetically-minded Varial Kick Flippers rejoice

David Shrigley and Tino Sehgal on Turner Prize list
Firm Phaidon favourites feature in this year's show to be held in Derry-Londonderry

René Burri on the BBC
The photographer discusses his career and new book, Impossible Reminiscences, with Front Row's John Wilson

We just made a book with Daniel Patterson of Coi
Phaidon collaborates with the man single-handedly reinventing Californian cuisine - much excitement results

See Yayoi Kusama's Splendour of Love in London
Victoria Miro's exhibition of seven new sculptures and twelve recent paintings by the artist opens tomorrow

The London designers' sofa for Eames' old firm
Industrial Facility's Wireframe Sofa is made by Herman Miller, better known for their chairs by Charles and Ray Eames

Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey's dumb things
New show The Universal Addressibility of Dumb Things traces new technology's links to ancient beliefs

Herzog & de Meuron elevate the beautiful game
Swiss architects break ground on Stade de Bordeaux - home to Euro 2016

Andy Warhol's former townhouse up for sale
Carnegie Hill studio and residence where he lived with his mother Julia for 15 years on the market for $5.8 million

Jeff Wall retrospective and talk
Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits the fine-art photographer alongside a symposium on 'Rooms'

Matisse's cutouts reassembled for the first time
Tate Modern plans the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist's snipped paper compositions

Inside Amazon by Ben Roberts
Prix Pictet nominated-photographer Ben Roberts captures the online retailer's massive UK "fulfillment centre"

Who'd like dinner with Ferran Adrià?
Sotheby's auctions off items from the elBulli wine cellar and a very special offer: a night with the super chef himself

OMA creates new stock exchange in China
"Floating base is a physical materialisation of the virtual stockmarket," says Rem Koolhaas

Have you seen Elliott Erwitt's walking stick?
Celebrated photographer collaborates with Milan designers Danese on old school yet innovative walking aid

Alex Atala makes Time magazine's top 100 influential
"His philosophy of using native Brazilian ingredients in haute cuisine has mesmerised the continent"

A Brazilian show for a gallery never to be built
Sao Paulo's Museu de Arte Moderna will show off plans for its new home later this year - despite staying put

Palestinian Museum gets branding to prompt talking
Designers Venturethree produce a visual identity for the West Bank museum to promote dialogue in the region

British firm offsets Soviet gem with a glass spiral
Robin Monotti Architects designs complementary building next to the brutalist Bank of Georgia in Tbilisi

See the trailer for Murakami's directorial debut
The Japanese pop artist brings his kawaii characters to life in a new feature film, yet adds in real people too

How the 1962 monsoons inspired Steve McCurry
Forthcoming book, Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind The Photographs, tells how coverage of the Indian rainy season in Life magazine set the Magnum photographer off on a life of photography and far flung travel

Pedro Ramirez Vazquez 1919 - 2013
Mexico's foremost architect and chairman of the 1968 Olympic Games dies age 94

Vietnam's flood-proof bamboo houses
H&P Architects have designed affordable, floating dwellings for Vietnam's flood-stricken regions

National Theatre unveils red summer shed
The South Bank's temporary theatre is "less a building than an art installation" say architects Haworth Tompkins

See the dark arts of Gert and Uwe Tobias in London
The Transylvanian-born twins channel European folklore and Russian Suprematism in their London installation

Arne Glimcher and Nicholas Serota in conversation
Pace Gallery president and author of our fine Agnes Martin monograph discusses the artist with Tate Director

René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences #4
The view from a war torn Beirut window, the cost of 'man's progress' and a wry tale concerning William Tell - all taken from his brilliant new book of previously unpublished colour photography, Impossible Reminiscences

Major artists front London's Drawing Biennial
Mark Wallinger, Antony Gormley and Paula Rego all contribute an A4 sheet to the Drawing Room's show

How to design the Niels Diffrient way
The designer of the Freedom Chair says in a new profile that he never thinks about how things are going to look

Le Corbusier roof reborn as a gallery
The roof terrace of Marseille's Cité Radieuse will reopen this summer as an arts space

What's happening in Bence Bakonyi's photographs?
The Hungarian photographer spent six months in China and came back with these uncanny, ambiguous images

Foster + Partners' Apple HQ goes $2bn over budget
The late Steve Jobs' insistence on the finest building materials may account for the tech firms large overspend

See Eric Owen Moss's Waffle and Cactus Tower
The Californian firm turn a 70-year-old Culver City industrial lot into a green, new media complex

Catch Richard Serra's films in New York this week
The artist's forthcoming exhibition of early work at David Zwirner also features a few of his task-oriented films

Spring Breakers' title sequence is a marine dream
LA creatives Gentleman Scholar draw from seaside kitsch to create their neon filled 'sea-punk' styled title treatment

How to photograph North Korea
Brussels-based photographer Maxime Delvaux spends 12 days in The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, shooting the kind of photographs his guards allowed

Hopper's drawings to go on show in New York
The Whitney is to host Hopper Drawing, the first major museum exhibition to focus on the great painter's drawings

When Soviet architecture went West
A new exhibition rethinks the USSR's architectural legacy, by focusing on the softer styles that came after Stalin

Singapore's great concrete street-food court
Satay by the Bay brings Singapore's contemporary architecture down to a lush, human scale

Gilbert & George, Ai Weiwei make record sleeves
The artists, alongside obscure designers, produce sleeves for the likes of Public Enemy and Elton John

Look at these dolls-house sized artists' studios
Ever wondered what the studios of Chuck Close, Jackson Pollock or Willem de Koonig are like? Look no further

What to expect from The Milan Furniture Fair
Jean Nouvel's trashes the office, Marc Jacobs endorses up-cycling and Tom Dixon disrupts, in Milan, 9-14 of April

LA celebrates its arty, architectural “looseness”
Everything Loose Will Land explores the intersection between architecture and other visual arts in 70s LA

Europe's biggest drawing fair opens next week
Drawing Now Paris, Europe's leading drawing fair runs 11 – 14 April in Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

Lichtenstein's New York home gets a makeover
The pop artist's Greenwich Village beautiful live/work space is reworked by Brooklyn's Caliper Studio

What to expect from the Rijksmuseum's reopening
The Netherlands' leading state museum opens next week following a 10-year refit. Here's what has happened

San Francisco's Grand Central for the 21st Century
Cesar Pelli's designs for San Francisco's Transbay Transit Area include a park, amphitheatre and office block

Will you visit the world's first online biennale?
BiennaleOnline, "the first curated, exclusively online biennial" is charging between $80 and $8 for entrance

MVRDV bring urban renewal to France
The Dutch architecture and design practice set ou its plans for one of France's less lovely new towns

Danny Lyon's China
The veteran civil rights photographer reveals more of his shots from Shanxi, northern China, online

Norman Foster, curator?
The great British architect returns to the exhibition space he built 20 years earlier to show off his taste in art

When is jewellery art?
It is this right now, at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami's exhibition From Picasso to Koons: the artist as jeweller

Melbourne gets Southern Hemisphere's tallest tower
Fender Katsalidis’ 388-metre skyscraper, Australia 108, approved by Melbourne authorities for a 2018 completion

New York's secret subway gallery
S2A's anonymous entrance, tiny space and ticket booth all make for an innovative, intimate viewing experience

How to make a designer Italian Lego table
Turin design firm Nucleo have published plans of how to make one of its Histogram table from 3195 Lego bricks

The NYC penthouse with an 80-ft slide
The SkyHouse takes a century-old skyscraper and turns its upper floors into a playful residential dream

'Fathers of Pop' return to The ICA
The ICA hosts an exhibition by The Independent Group, artists behind the seminal 1956 show, This Is Tomorrow

Shiny new (and very red) Ogilvy & Mather HQ
Marseille graffiti artist turned architect Stéphane Malka, who's worked with Jean Nouvel, reworks ad agency HQ

Berlin salutes female pioneers of The Bauhaus
A retrospective of the school's female creators brings into focus the photographs of Gertud Arndt this month

Carl Andre appears at David Bowie show
US Minimalist's 1969 floor work Steel Zinc Plain is one of four scene setting pieces - read our Andre interview

Christian Marclay takes to the air
Artist takes over BBC Radio Four as part of new Art Angel aural experiment

Buzzed about painter cites Phaidon influence
"Vitamin P book was like a bible for me" says Canadian-born, London-based Nathan James

See Michigan's floating house pavilion
Mark's House is both a cooling summer pavilion, and a telling commentary on life in Flint, Michigan

René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences #3
A meeting with Anselm Kiefer in his studio, Native American amulets that weren't what they seemed and the Skoda ammunitions' factory, all taken from forthcoming book, Impossible Reminiscences available for pre-order now

Rooftop running track for Chinese primary school
LYCS architecture save space by putting the athletics facilities on the top of TianTai Second Primary School

David Bowie Is - part two of our curator interview
V&A curator Geoffrey Marsh on why he thinks Bowie's disappearance was a Duchampian act, what that Song of Norway teeshirt might mean and how you compress Bowie's 'incredible magpie interest' into one exhibition

Ilse Crawford creates home from home in Stockholm
Soho House New York designer works her magic at new hotel in Fredrik Dahlberg-designed Stockholm building

When Google goes wrong
Clement Valla searches through internet giant's Maps' algorithms to find the point where concept meets reality

Iraq returns to The Venice Biennale
British curator Jonathan Watkins says the Iraqi artists "possess extraordinary ingenuity"

Could The Twist beat Zaha's Tokyo stadium?
French architects MenoMenoPiu and FHF submit an impressive rival bid for Japan's 2020 Olympic stadium

Young architects create psychedelic tile showroom
Lily Jencks and Nathanael Dorent say mood-altering effect is inspired by Op Art and Gestalt psychology

Christo's "inflated envelope without a skeleton"
"All art is illustration – it's all propaganda" artist says as he unveils latest work in Germany

Wilhelm Sasnal paints Kodak
The Polish painter, filmmaker and Phaidon artist takes the defunct film company as inspiration for his current show

What's hot at TEFAF, Art Dubai and The Armory?
Worldwide sales show appetite among institutions and established collectors for big names, both old and new

Hella Jongerius redesigns KLM Business Class
New interior puts sustainability first with Milky Way-inspired carpet woven from recycled stewards' uniforms

Polar Umbrella takes on climate change
Derek Pirozzi's idea combats global warming by attempting to rebuild ever-shrinking polar ice sheets

Tino Sehgal bilingual work on show in Montreal
Two works by the British-born artist open at The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal today

David Bowie Is - an interview with the V&A curator
Geoffrey Marsh, the man behind the blockbuster David Bowie Is show, talks Phaidon through how it all came about

New Elizabeth Peyton shows in the US and Germany
American portraitist exhibits her musician paintings in Baden-Baden, and a new group of portraits in Manhattan

Toyo Ito wins the Pritzker Prize
Japanese architect and Phaidon subject wins architecture's highest honour

Kenneth Anger's iconography comes to London
Sprüth Magers presents the filmmaker's Hollywood archive, in spaces resembling Anger's Los Angeles home

Artist and architect elevates sport to new level
University professor, artist and architect Guzmán de Yarza Blache demonstrates multi-tasking abilities in Spain

How a 1950s English telephone directory inspired the incredible design of Where Chefs Eat
Designer Kobi Benezri reveals the idiosyncratic thinking behind the best-selling restaurant guide

Towering proposal for reclaimed Hong Kong airport
Architect MA2 calls the tower "an expression of fluid movement that manifests into a series of folds and creases"

Javier Bardem to play Ferran Adrià in new film?
Producer Philippe Rousselet tells Hollywood Reporter that Bond villain "is obvious first choice"

New arrest in Rotterdam Kunsthal Picasso heist
German arrested in Cologne on suspicion of trying to sell back paintings taken in October robbery

Snøhetta designs cave painting museum
As publishers of the very fine Cave Art we approve of this new design to house the cave paintings of Lascaux

Will the Watts Towers tumble?
UCLA is studying LA's famous outsider-art landmark to determine its stability
