Phaidon Press's Blog, page 526

Jean Nouvel wins the National Art Museum of China

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

If Moore had taught Bacon to sculpt

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

Letters from Edward Hoppers rigid woman

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

Shigeru Bans Parisian music island

Following on from Ando and Nouvel plans, will Bans design for Ile Seguin in Paris finally break ground

So where do you take Ferran Adri for dinner

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

How a Phaidon book inspired Mad Mens titles

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

Put the worlds best architecture in your pocket

New Architecture Travel Guide brings worlds greatest new buildings to your touchscreen

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

Taner Ceylan says Taksim Square changed art

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

Zaha Hadid designs mountaineering museum

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