The fine art of computer code

Casey Reas saw the creativity in computer programming which led him to work with Frank Gehry and others

Casey Reas, Tissue (2002)

Phaidon's eye on the photography world 26.6.12

New Zealand, America, Burma, Greece and the UK are under the spotlight in our international round up

John Crawford, Aerial Nudes

Constructivist radio tower in danger

Shukhov Tower in Moscow, the inspiration for the Gherkin, could be lost if Putin refuses to fund restoration

Vladimir Shukhov's TV Tower, Moscow

Terunobu Fujimori's teetering tea houses

Scholar turned architect featured in Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture opens innovative Munich show


Sacrilege or daring re-invention?

New Dutch furniture company reworks Eames classic to startling effect. But do you approve?


Dieter Rams sketches discovered

Drawings from the late 50s and early 60s show the clarity of the designer's vision - even at the planning stages

Dieter Rams - sketches for SK4 record player, G11 radio, Atelier 1 radio and record player

Architects auction sketches on eBay

Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Richard Meier and Daniel Libeskind donate works for Architecture for Humanity charity


Richard Prince talks about new work

Legendary US artist discusses inspirations behind New York show in interview with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon

Richard Prince  - Untitled 2012

Dalí painting stolen in New York

1959 painting Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio swiped from the recently opened Venus Over Manhattan Gallery

Salvador Dali's Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio - stolen from a New York gallery last summer

Norman Foster redesigns Fidel Castro's ballet school

Foster and ballet superstar Carlos Acosta work together on buildings abandoned after 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis


Ai Weiwei hit with porn charge over 2010 photo

Artist tells reporters that authorities are threatening pornography, bigamy and new money exchange charges


Phaidon's eye on the artworld - 21.6.2012

Our international round up takes in the UK, China, Venezuela, Germany and America

Yoko Ono - Chess

Aung San Suu Kyi by Steve McCurry

In 1996 the photographer travelled to Burma and came back with two of the most iconic photos of his career

Steve McCurry, 'Aung San Suu Kyi and the flag' (1996), Rangoon, Burma

Red House at Red Hill

Australian architects preserve the peace at upscale Melbourne city dwellers' getaway

Red House by Inarc, Red Hill

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 20.6.12

Abu Dhabi, UK, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Australia, America and Denmark all figure in our international round up

Moshe Safdie Mixed use development, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Turner Duckworth designs Olympic Coca-Cola cans

The international design company reimagines Coke’s iconic packaging with an Olympic spin


Abu Dhabi's sun sensitive twin towers

Al Bahar Towers marry old and new technology in a clever and culturally appropriate way

Al Bahar Towers, Abu Dhabi

Robert Capa and the Tour de France

With Europe on the brink of war the photographer was commissioned by Paris Match to cover the iconic race

Robert Capa, 'Watching the Tour de France in front of the bicycle shop owned by Pierre Cloarec, one of the cyclists in the race, Pleyben, Brittany, France' (July, 1939)

Mona wins two Institute of Architecture awards

New plans to "install a cemetery" as Hobart's favourite art museum wins peers' and public's vote

The Museum of Old and New Art above the Derwent River

Do-Ho-Suh's Fallen Star rises in San Diego

The South Korean sculptor known for silk replicas of his childhood homes takes to the roof for new project

Do-Ho Suh, Fallen Star

Phaidon's eye on the photography world - 19.6. 2012

Our international roundup takes in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, America and the UK

Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs

Take a look inside this Richard Meier house

Watch a video of the legendary architect showing you round his 1967 Smith House in Darien, Connecticut 

Richard Meier, Smith House

Marina Abramović - a very revealing interview

Why her mother burned her naked pics, how she'll be buried in three coffins and the issue of MoMA ticket sales

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

How to get ahead in the artworld

MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch has an unusual tip for getting noticed at art auctions


Documenta 13 - the review

Documenta 13 in Kassel is shaping up as one of the summer's 'must see' art shows - here's why

Pierre Huyghe, Untitled (2011-12)

Phaidon's eye on the artworld - 15 June 2012

This week's international round up takes in Germany, Switzerland, the US, UK, China and Bosnia

Pierre Huyghe - Spanish Greyhound

Roni Horn's rarely seen pigment works go on show

Hauser & Wirth celebrates return to former Zurich site by hosting first ever show dedicated to Horn's drawings

Roni Horn, As VI, 1987-88, Red pigments and varnish on paper

Rachel Whiteread unveils Whitechapel frieze

Artist and local resident's gold leaf facade, inspired by St Paul's, realises a project begun 100 years ago

Rachel Whiteread - Whitechapel Gallery 2012

Phaidon's eye on the architecture world

Our international architecture round up takes in Brazil, Spain, UAE, UK, the US, China, Italy, Dubai and Peru

LYCS 'Writhing Tower' sky condo

Octopus-inspired Olympic architecture

The shooting venue for the London 2012 Olympics features sucker-style spots to keep those inside cool


Vitra showcases new design talent

Five Gerrit Rietveld-inspired design projects are showing this week at the Vitra Design Museum

Formafantasma, Charcoal (2012)

Phaidon's eye on the photography world

Our international roundup takes in Russia, America, France, Morocco, South Africa, the UK and Hungary


The fire station in the mountain

A volunteer fire station in the Alps has been carved into a sheer slab of rock

Fire Station, Margreid, Bergmeister Wolf

Phaidon's eye on the artworld

The first of our international artworld roundups takes in Russia, America, China, the UK and Switzerland

Antony Gormley's Iron Men covered by Olek

The ‘99%’ Pierre Koenig House

The final design by Mid-Century modern architect Pierre Koenig is up for sale

Pierre Koenig, LaFetra House

Korean tradition with a contemporary twist

Seung-Yong Song’s modern take on traditional Korean lattice forms

Seung-Yong Song, Dami

Frank Lloyd Wright’s disabled-access house

The only home that the celebrated architect made for a wheelchair-bound man is set to become a museum

Frank Lloyd Wright, Laurent House (1949)

Nan Goldin is awarded the MacDowell Medal

The American is only the fourth photographer in 52 years to be awarded the prestigious prize

Nan Goldin, Self-Portrait in My Room (1983), Cibachrome print. Nan Goldin

Tacita Dean's Five Americans

Artists Cy Twombly, Claes Oldenburg and Julie Mehretu star on film in Dean's biggest New York show to date

Tacita Dean Five Americans Courtesy New Museum, New York, photos: Benoit Pailley

Documenta 13 - the preview

The 'museum of 100 days' descends on the tiny German town of Kassel this weekend - here's what to look out for

Scaffold, 2012, Sam Durant (under construction in Karlsaue Park, Kassel, Germany, June, 2012) Image courtesy the artist, Blum & Poe, Paula Cooper Gallery, Praz-Delavallade and Sadie Coles HQ

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron's pavilion opens

Architects talk about creating a structure over Skype and why 'everybody loves cork' at London launch

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron at the 2012 Serpentine pavilion

Thomas Heatherwick - Designing the extraordinary

Designer of the Shanghai UK pavilion, new London bus and a cute bendy bridge opens first retrospective at V&A

Thomas Heatherwick - Materials House 1998

Damien Hirst – Art is easy

“The reason I got to the top is because the top wasn’t very high,” he tells Phaidon

Damien Hirst (centre) interviewed by William Furlong and Norman Rosenthal, London, 2003

Linking Dürer to the here and now

Why the greatest artist of the Northern European Renaissance was a pioneeer in every sense of the word


Meike Nixdorf plays on perspective

Berlin-based photographer’s intensely stylised shots look at the same subject - from every angle

Meike Nixdorf, In the Orbis of El Teide

David Altmejd's mythical beasts

London gallery show for Canadian-born, New York-based artist who gets a thrill from the complex

La gorge David Altmejd Plexiglass, resin, coconut shells, chain, thread, acrylic paint, metal wire photo courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London

New gastronomy mag Fool looks rather tasty

Photographer launches high end magazine featuring Mugaritz, Noma and Fäviken - Phaidon approves!

Javi Vergara of Mugaritz listens to the food, Fool magazine, Photo copyright Per-Anders Jorgensen

The René Burri Interviews #4 Bigger is better!

Magnum photographer on how adding sound (and rockets) to his photos opened up a new world

René Burri, Pablo Picasso (1957), Villa La Californie, Cannes, France

Arise Sir Jonathan Ive!

On the day he’s knighted Ive gives rare interview on design, knowing when to give up - and Apple after Steve


Taryn Simon: We are ghosts of the past and future

One of the biggest names in art photography opens up on her childhood and the processes that go into her work

Taryn Simon, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII (detail) (2011). Pigmented inkjet prints, 84 x 241 7/8

The René Burri Interviews #3 early days of Magnum

René Burri on why Magnum photographers felt like Samurai Warriors - and occasionally church mice

René Burri Winston Churchill

Tom Sachs goes to Mars

First the Moon now Mars - meet the American artist exploring outer space from the safety of the gallery

Tom Sachs, Space Program: Mars

The Great British public in pictures

The London Festival of Photography celebrates all things British - with a little help from Martin Parr (of course)

Peter Dench

Tomás Saraceno creates Cloud City above New York

Argentinian artist lashes mirrored 'bubbles' to roof of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tomás Saraceno - Cloud City, New York 2012

Mike Kelley's final project

A work that sees the late artist's childhood home recreated and relocated is completed posthumously

Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead (2012)

David Benjamin Sherry's alternative America

Inspired by painting and installation art the photographer's landscapes are brash - and very big

David Benjamin Sherry - Ultimate Earth 2011

The René Burri Interviews #2 Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Magnum photographer on why Henri Cartier-Bresson always looked at his photos upside down

The photographers of the Magnum Photo Agency with René Burri to the right holding the teeshirt

Tracey Emin designs London tube map

Central line reduced to Oxford Circus, Liverpool Street and Shoreditch High Street in nod to east end west end life

Tracey Emin's tube map

The Shard in all its timelapse glory

Finally, a video documenting the rise, and rise, of Renzo Piano’s ‘small town’ sized building

The Shard by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Banksy sends jubilee regards to the queen

New mural appears on wall of Poundland shop in riot hit part of north London

A new Banksy?  Turnpike Lane, north London

Emeco’s Coca-Cola chairs grace green chemical co

BASF employs recycled plastic Coca-Cola bottle chairs - as featured in Vitamin Green - for new eco-makeover

Emeco's 111 Navy chair made from recycled Coca-Cola bottles

The René Burri interviews - #1 Men on a Rooftop

The Magnum photographer on how he pulled the wool over Henri Cartier-Bresson’s eyes with his most iconic shot

Men on a Rooftop - René Burri San Paulo 1960

Jeff Wall photograph sets new world record

Phaidon Collector’s Editions photographer’s print Dead Troops Talk reaches $3.6million at Christie's New York


Francis Upritchard - rising star

Four big shows this year including one site specific work in a space the sculptor didn't actually visit

Francis Upritchard, Plastic People (2007)

This box contains a bedroom

Flatpack furniture goes to the next level as a Latvian designer fits an entire bedroom into a box

Bedroom in a Box by Boxetti

John Pawson - in praise of minimalism

The master minimalist on what the term really means to him


Thought for the day - modern art

"Some people don’t understand it because they’re walking into the tail end of a 30,000 year old conversation”

Ceci n'est pas un pipe-René Magritte

Legendary auctioneer bows out after biggest sale ever

High jinks at Christie's as Christopher Burge (the auctioneer in Wall Street) retires

Christopher Burge in action at Christie's

Adi Nes on masculinity, sexuality and war

The Israeli photographer explores identity, sexuality and conflict in a staged, polished style

Adi Nes, Untitled (The Last Supper Before Going Out to Battle)

The emotive issue of automotive design

As China takes over the market for automobiles, will the car 'face' of the future look very different?


Virgin Atlantic's pop up in the sky

New Upper Class bar follows the trend on the ground for pop up and boutique bars

The Virgin Upper Class bar by VW+BS architects

The greening of the Empire State building

New York's most iconic building has been given a $500 million plus retrofit - but you won't spot it from the outside

The Empire State Building, New York

Hotel gives guests the chance to 'win a Warhol'

An Australian hotel group has teamed up with an infamous forger for an unusual competition

Andy Warhol, Marilyn

You know you're an architecture student when. . .

…you’re measuring the school’s step height for reference, and a guy walks by saying “18.5 cm”


The Olympic Torch and the story of British design

Jay Osgerby, Ed Barber, Kenneth Grange and Thomas Heatherwick reveal inspirations in new video

Jay Osgerby and Ed Barber discuss the Olympic torch design

Ahmed Alsoudani - war baby

Disembodied heads and multi-coloured body parts litter the canvases of Iraq's unofficial war artist

Ahmed Alsoudani, Detail of Untitled (2010). Courtesy of the artist and Robert Goff Gallery, New York

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron Serpentine plans

The artist and architects plan an archaeological dig and rainwater well for the London gallery's summer project

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron's plans for the Serpentine gallery summer pavilion

Design Museum's holographic Louboutin homage

Retrospective on shoe designer Christian Louboutin includes hologram of burlesque performer Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese hologram at the Design Museum

The race to bury a jet underground

Three different artists have plans to bury an aeroplane under the earth

Christoph Büchel Terminal 2000-2012 (ongoing)Land art project in Mojave Desert, CAImage: TERMINAL, project Sketch (DC-9), 2000 © Christoph Büchel Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Venice Architecture Biennale - five new countries join

Angola, Kosovo, Kuwait, Peru and Turkey invited by curator David Chipperfield to take part

Minicity Model park, Turkey by Emre Arolat Architects

Outdoor Living - hundreds of feet up

We've spotted a trend for big balconies on tall buildings - only those with a head for heights need apply

Scotts Tower by UNStudio

Frieze New York: the special projects

The specially commissioned works we’re most looking forward to at this year's debut show

Uri Aran, Untitled, Ticket Shack (2012)

Katy Grannan's street people

Boulevard series takes an alternative look at outsiders in America

Katy Grannan, Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 6 (2009); Katy Grannan, Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 11 (2011)

Hella Jongerius leads redesign of UN building

Interiors of Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer-designed New York HQ to be transformed by Dutch designer

North Delegates Lounge of in the United Nations headquarters in New York

Spirit of the age?

From the Turner Prize nominees to the Tate Tanks - everyone's talking about performance art again

Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (1964), as featured in The Artist's Body

Edvard Munch's The Scream: a few facts and theories

Why the painting John Boulton called a 'unique visual image of panic' is one of the most picked over in art history

The Scream goes to auction at Sotheby's

Ai Weiwei's Fragments in the US for the first time

Tradition and 21st century Chinese life come together at the Sackler Gallery, Washington

Ai Weiwei, Fragments (2005)

Warhol before his 15 minutes

New York's Site/109 gallery exhibits John Kennedy's portraits of Andy Warhol on the cusp of fame

John Kennedy, Andy Warhol (1964)

Turner Prize 2012 nominees announced

Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Luke Fowler and Elizabeth Price are this year's nominees

Spartacus Chetwynd, 'Jabba The Hutt Reads Rabelaise' (2008)

Norse mythology inspires zero energy sauna

Italian-Swedish architect’s zero energy sauna borrows elements from folklore

AtelierFORTE, Huggin & Muninn

The genius of Noma (by the genius of elBulli)

Ferran Adrià on why René Redzepi's Noma scored a third win at the World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards last night

Ferran Adrià 'René has done something historic, today he is at the apex of the culinary world'

Phaidon at the 50 Best Restaurant Awards

Noma top again, Magnus Nilsson's Fäviken is fast riser, Mugaritz at number three

René Redzepi's Noma wins again to become The World's Best Restaurant 2012

Todd Saunders' ultimate artist studio

Canadian architect's studio on remote island of Fogo looks like a great place to create

Squish Studios, Fogo Island, Saunders Architects, Photo by Bent René Synnevåg

Dior Homme showcases Robert Montgomery

Creative Director Kris Van Assche picks phaidon.com-featured artist for new pop up Dior Homme store

Robert Montgomery's Dior Homme installation, New York (2012)

Zaha Hadid’s frozen water table

Hadid explores the dynamics of water with latest design - no need to worry about spilling something hot on it

Zaha Hadid, Liquid Glacier

Stephen Shore The five things that changed my life

The legendary American photographer in conversation at SF Moma


Ive won!

Yet another design award for Apple genius


Jamie Shovlin's Muse Music

The painter and conceptual artist on the music that gets him in a creative mood

Portrait of the artist Jamie Shovlin who has chosen this week's Muse Music (left), image of his Crayola Colour Wheel from In Search of Perfect Harmony (top right) and Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space  (bottom right) - by Spiritualized who feature on his playlist.

Weegee - vintage paparazzo

See the work of the sensationalist New York snapper who inspired Stan Douglas

Weegee, Two Offenders In The Paddy Wagon

Bruno Zhu's big look at the ordinary

The Portugese photographer's constructed images are printed big to give the normal a sense of grandeur

Bruno Zhu, Untitled (2012), C-type print, 185 x 127 cm