Phaidon Press's Blog, page 485

Photographs that are an accident waiting to happen

Csilla Klenynszki builds precarious sculptures that balance just long enough for her to shoot them

Saving the Michelangelo of the Capitol

Work is underway to restore Dome of the US Capitol building, and protect its delicate Italianate frescos

The secret history of Chinese Modernism

A new Shanghai exhibition examines the crooked path of modern European-style art in 20th century China

Warhol collaborator Louis Waldon dies

Actor appeared alongside Joe Dallesandro in the Flesh, Lonesome Cowboys and Nude Restaurant

How Italy is digitising its masterworks

The Impossible Exhibition takes hard-to-view work, scans it and reproduces it in startling detail

Why the Watts Towers were nearly knocked down

Now theyre a National historic landmark and a positive celebration of community spirit and civic pride but the Watts Towers werent always viewed this way as Art & Place Site-Specific Art of the Americas reveals

Ai Weiwei goes back to jail

The artist will stage a site-specific work on Alcatraz next September

Inside Jee Youngs head (and very small studio)

Korean artist creates fantasy worlds based on fables, childhood memories and an incredible imagination

Althea Thauberger at NADA Miami

Concluding our series on Art Cities of the Future artists showing in the NADA booth in Miami

Pascal Hachem talks art and cities at NADA Miami

The artist thinks Beirut - one of our Art Cities of the Future - is caught between danger and hope