Olympics architect creates Museum of London

London architect Asif Khan has reworked the city's Smithfield Meat Market in this winning design

Renderings of the new Museum of London by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan. Image courtesy of Stanton Williams and Asif Khan

Read curator Cecilia Alemani’s High Line highlights

The High Line curator just toured the linear park's current art installation Wanderlust - here's what she liked

Wanderlust by Giorgio Andreotta Calò. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Image courtesy of the High Line

London’s V&A is set to move East!

Renderings for London’s new Olympic Park cultural centre and creative hub have just been released

New images released for Stratford Waterfront. Renderings by Forbes Massie

Is it time to catch Ed Ruscha's tropical fish?

Discover the tricksy photography and artful wordplay behind this early series of Ruscha colour prints

Sweets, Meats, Sheets; Closed; Air, Water,
Fire; and Open from Tropical Fish Series (1975) 4 Color screenprints Each: 25 3/4 × 32 3/4 inches (65.4 × 83.2 cm). © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

Ferran Adrià and Salvador Dalí go on show together

Works by these two titans of Spanish creativity share an exhibition space in Florida this coming autumn

Ferran Adrià and Salvador Dalí

Tales behind the top lots at the Four Seasons sale

The restaurant’s furniture and fittings auction drew some very high bids - and not only because of nostalgia

The Four Seasons sign by Emil Antonucci. Image courtesy of Wright auction house

What is JR creating for the Rio Olympics?

The French artist says this work, part of his ongoing Inside Out project, will be his craziest yet!

JR and his team install a new piece in Rio. Image courtesy of the artist's Instagram

One thing not to miss in Rio de Janeiro

If you're visiting for the Olympics try and take in this Brutalist cathedral by architect Edgar Fonseca

Catedral Metropolitana. Photograph by Mario Grisolli

Stuart Davis – Proto Pop artist or Modernist master?

Or perhaps even a Cubist as William C Agee, the author of Modern Art in America 1908–68, argues . . .

Owh! in San Pao (1951) by Stuart Davis. Oil on canvas, 52 3/16 × 42 in. (132.6 × 106.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 52.2  © Estate of Stuart Davis. Image courtesy of The Whitney

Orlan loses law suit against Lady Gaga

Body artist’s bumps can’t be copyrighted court says

Orlan (left) and Lady Gaga (right)

Oh Maurizio! What have you done in Paris?

Cheeky artist Maurizio Cattelan fills Galeries Lafayette with an inflatable and rather suggestive Eiffel Tower

One of Maurizio Cattelan and Toilet Paper's Galeries Lafayette installations -  image courtesy of Galeries Lafayette

Tracey Emin and David Shrigley celebrate Rio 2016

The artists have contributed to the official Team GB Rio Olympics print series, produced to mark the Games


Hand drawn visions of the future

The Museum for Architectural Drawing looks back to a time when the future was captured with brushes and pencils

Background for Ghost in the Shell (1995), Shot No. 509 Gouache on paper and acrylic on transparent folio 270 x 380 mm Illustrator: Hiromasa Ogura© 1995 Shirow Masamune / Kodansha ∙ Bandai Visual ∙ Manga Entertainment Ltd. Image courtesy of the Museum for Architectural Drawing

William Eggleston's blood red revelation

Discover how a photo machine changed Eggleston’s world view and encouraged him to favour extreme colours

Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi), 1973 by William Eggleston. As reproduced in Photography Today

You can own this Elliott Erwitt shot of Marilyn

On the photographer’s birthday we look back at this Marilyn Monroe photo - one of our great Collector's Editions

Marilyn Monroe, New York, 1956, by Elliott Erwitt, one of our Collector's Editions

Seen Ed Ruscha’s new Stella McCartney campaign?

The veteran Californian pop artist lends his skills to the British fashion house’s autumn 2016 advertisements

Stella McCartney's Autumn 2016 campaign

Private Ellsworth Kelly collection comes to Berlin

A new Berlin show indicates a growing appreciation for Kelly's work in the continent where he first honed his style

Blue Yellow Red (1970-1973) by Ellsworth Kelly. Image courtesy of Lempertz

Grace Coddington draws her new Tiffany campaign

Look at these on-set illustrations from the new Tiffany campaign, drawn by Vogue's creative director at large

Grace Coddington's drawing of her Tiffany shoot, with photographer David Sims and model Lupita Nyong'o. Image courtesy of Grace's Instagram

Why Olafur Eliasson loves this Iwan Baan video

See how the architectural photographer found an accidental urban waterfall a little like the ones Olafur makes

Studio Olafur Eliasson's repost of Iwan Baan's Instagram video

Boltanski's bells and heartbeats come to Edinburgh

The 71-year-old French artist will install a trio of beautiful, spooky artworks in Scotland later this month

Animitas by Christian Boltanski. Image courtesy of Jupiter Artland

Why Frank Lloyd Wright didn't make UNESCO's list

Le Corbusier was added to the World Heritage List a few days ago but not Wright - there's a reason for that

Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. Image courtesy of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

What will happen to this Wild Art building?

Can the Longaberger Basket Company, Ohio, find a buyer for its idiosyncratic office building?

The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio, as featured in Wild Art

Annabelle Selldorf - 'Good taste has gotten a bad rep'

'Good taste actually has nothing to do with being proper' she tells Elle Decoration in illuminating new interview

Architect Annabelle Selldorf

Ai Weiwei floats life-vest lotus flowers in Vienna

The artist’s work F-Lotus brings the Mediterranean migrant crisis to the still waters of a Viennese lake

F Lotus by Ai Weiwei. Image courtesy of 21er Haus

Shigeru Ban's timber trapezoid tower for Vancouver

The Japanaese architect's first building in the city will be the tallest hybrid timber structure in the world

Terrace House, Vancouver - Shigeru Ban

How Judy Chicago made a feminist masterpiece

By reworking Christ's Last Supper Chicago made The Dinner Party, a huge, intricate attempt to redress history

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

Why did Warhol, Mapplethorpe, Hockney and Ruscha all create portraits of this LA writer?

New California show Rendering Homage: Portraits of a Patron draws from Joan Agajanian Quinn's collection

Rupert Jasen Smith, 1988, Original portrait Polaroid by Andy Warhol, reproduced and painted by Rupert Jasen Smith. From Rendering Homage: Portrait of a Patron

When Billy Name turned Warhol's Factory silver

Following the photographer's death yesterday, we look back at the time Name gave Andy's loft a foil makeover

Billy Name (foreground) and Andy Warhol (background) at the Factory, 1965-7, by Stephen Shore. © Stephen Shore

The new Design Museum shop is open!

We won't see John Pawson's work on the museum until November but he's just finished the shop nearby

The Design Museum shop - image courtesy of the Design Museum

UNESCO honours Le Corbusier

17 buildings by the master modernist including Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation, added to World heritage list

René Burri, Le Corbusier at the monastery in Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle, France, 1959. Photograph by René Burri

Pentagram's 70s rebrand modernises Mastercard

New typeface, new logotype and new colour but the look remains original for agency's latest great rebrand

Pentagram for Mastercard

Massimo Bottura and Robert De Niro feed the Bronx

The world's greatest chef and the actor and restaurateur plan to open a Refettorio Ambrosiano in 2017

Robert de Niro and Massimo Bottura, July 2016. Image courtesy of Massimo Bottura's Instagram

One thing not to miss in Barcelona

If you like tapas and vermouth you'll love Mitja Vida - a classic tavern reborn in a contemporary concrete cube


Gary Hustwit 'My Dieter Rams film won't be messy!'

Director says upcoming Rams documentary won't feature a parade of famous designers but will keep it simple

Dieter Rams

OMA rework a brutalist Paris warehouse

See how Rem Koolhaas has helped turn Entrepôt Macdonald into a welcoming urban environment

Entrepôt Macdonald, photo by Cyrille Weiner. Image courtesy of Entrepôt Macdonald

Martin Parr's Brexit buffet

The Magnum photographer photographs the food under threat from the UK's impending EU exit

Stilton Cheese by Martin Parr. Martin Parr / Magnum

Rough round the edges - punk London in print

The Michael Hoppen gallery's forthcoming Punk photo show will display vintage 70s prints, wrinkles and all

Ray Stevenson, Sex Pistols, 1970s, 26755-RYS, © Ray Stevenson. Courtesy of Rex Shutterstock and the Michael Hoppen Gallery

Classic interiors meet modern Miami

Look at what happens when French interior designer Jean-Louis Deniot works with the architects Arquitectonica

Renderings for Elysee Miami

David Bowie's Sottsass collection is up for sale

The auction house has just announced a sale of David Bowie's Ettore Sottsass collection - here's what to expect

Ettore Sottsass, 'Casablanca' Sideboard, 1981. Estimate £4,000–6,000. From the collection of David Bowie. Image courtesy of Sotheby's

Theaster Gates throws a fine-art house party

For his Canadian debut, the Chicago artist is creating a series of house museums (and booking a house DJ)

Still from House Heads Liberation Training (2016) by Theaster Gates

Grace Coddington's hair: a visual history

Watch the Vogue creative director's charming, hand-drawn hair animation, covering 57 years-worth of styles

One of Grace Coddington's Instagram self portraits

The power of Piero Manzoni and his Merda d'Artista

In canning his own excrement, Manzoni created fertile ground for a subsequent generation of like-minded artists

Artist's Shit (1961) by Piero Manzoni

How Lucas Samaras manipulated the Polaroid age

Lucas Samaras pushed film beyond its limits, opening new creative opportunities, but Polaroid did not approve

AutoPolaroid, 1969-71. Dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid film), 3-3⁄8 x 4-1⁄4 inches (paper). © Lucas Samaras

Zaha Hadid's hyacinth hotel blooms in the desert

The architect may have passed away but plans for this flower-inspired structure have just been unveiled in the Gulf


Ron Arad has reinvented the Watergate Hotel

Sinuous motifs, richly patinated metals and layered woodwork all on offer (and not a bugging device anywhere)

Watergate Hotel, Washington DC - Ron Arad (photo courtesy Ron Arad associates)

How to stare at the sun from The High Line safely!

Artist Eduardo Navarro's latest project, We who spin around you, allows you to do just that for 3 days next week

We who spin around you - Eduardo Navarro

Álvaro Siza's latest project is tinged with sadness

Portuguese artist Nadir Afonso never lived to see the brilliant new museum dedicated to his work

MACNA - Nadir Afonso Contemporary Art Museum, Chaves - Álvaro Siza

Robert De Niro takes JR for a spin round New York!

The native New Yorker and star of JR’s Ellis film helps the artist with latest iteration of his Migrants project

Robert De Niro and JR in New York, July 2016. Image courtesy of JR's Instagram

Have you heard Wolfgang Tillmans’ house record?

The five-track record includes work from the 1980s and a track sampling his favourite printing press!

The cover of 2016/1986 by Wolfgang Tillmans

Annabelle Selldorf reinvents another London gallery

The architect is set to incorporate a modern art space into historic Ely House for Thaddaeus Ropac

The exterior of Ely House, London, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's new London site. Image courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Le Corbusier's Brutal rooftop is now a trompe l'oeil

Xavier Veilhan’s Open Sky exhibition aims to re-engage visitors with Le Corbusier’s “monumental” housing block

 Felice Varini's À ciel ouvert at MAMO. Photograph by Olivier Amsellem. Image courtesy of MAMO

Grace returns to modelling after half a century away!

Vogue’s creative director at large steps back in front of the camera - 47 years after going behind it

Detail from Grace Coddington by Tyrone Lebon for Calvin Klein. Photo: Tyrone Lebon / Courtesy of Calvin Klein

Would you let Vito Acconci follow you home?

The new MoMA PS1 exhibition looks back at some of the New York artist's most challenging early works

Installation view of Vito Acconci: Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976 at MoMA PS1, 2016. Image courtesy of Acconci Studio and MoMA PS1. Photo by Pablo Enriquez.

James Corner brings icebergs to Washington DC

The British-born landscape architect’s new installation at the National Building Museum mimics a glacial ice field

ICEBERGS by James Corner Field Operations. Photography by Timothy Schenck. Image courtesy of the National Building Museum.

Wallpaper* City Guide launches in Tel Aviv

The Norman hotel provided a swanky White City backdrop to celebrate the publication of the new guide

The Wallpaper* City Guide launch at The Norman hotel in Tel Aviv

A movement in a Moment: The Mexican Renaissance

On Frida Kahlo’s birthday, discover how she and her fellow Mexican artists redefined their nation through their work

The Two Fridas, (1939) by Frida Kahlo. As reproduced in Great Women Artists

Ralph Rugoff's brutal music mash-up

The Hayward director and Paul McCarthy author talks us through his new audio visual show in a brutalist building

Still from Everything and More (2016) by Rachel Rose

Sex, Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe

The photographer helped launch her career, yet he also pushed one very specific interpretation of her paintings

Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932) by Georgia O'Keeffe. Oil paint on canvas48 x 40 inchesCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, USAPhotography by Edward C. Robison III© 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London

Erik Kessels Failed It! in Arles

The photo curator has installed a wonderfully mistaken ridden exhibition at France's leading photo festival

Fabulous Failures by Erik Kessels art Les Rencontres d'Arles

When Bacon went to Monaco

A new exhibition looks at how the high life on the Mediterranean informed Francis Bacon’s greatest artworks


The new $1 million Ellsworth Kelly award

Kelly's foundation has passed on $1m to fund an annual award for a mid-career artist’s museum exhibition

Ellsworth Kelly in his studio, Spencertown, New York, 2009. Photo by Jack Shear.

When Warhol painted Uncle Sam

This Fourth of July discover how, in his Uncle Sam silk screen, Andy Warhol captured some deep American truths

Uncle Sam (1981) by Andy Warhol. From his Myths series. The image appears in Andy Warhol

Happy 4th of July from Joel Meyerowitz

The photographer tells us how he captured a monad of American life one 4th of July, nearly four decades ago

July 4th, Provincetown, 1983, by Joel Meyerowitz

How to picnic like Olafur Eliasson

Preparing a Fourth of July picnic? Or planning to enjoy an al-fresco meal? Then why not prepare it the Eliasson way

Studio Olafur Eliasson's summer picnic. Image courtesy of @soe_kitchen's Instagram

Magnum member Abbas on the agency's new talent

The Magnum photographer describes what he and his members see in the work of new nominee Diana Markosian

Genocide survivor Movses Haneshyan looking at a picture of his former home in Armenia, by Diana Markosian. Image courtesy of Magnum

Make time today to watch this Wilhelm Sasnal film

Online art film streaming service Vdrome is screening the painter's film Aleksander for a limited period

A still from Wilhem and Anka Sasnal's film Aleksander (2013)

Barbican set to get all Jutaku next year

Gallery endorses Phaidon’s love of East Asian architecture in forthcoming show The Japanese House

House NA, Sou Fujimoto, 2011, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture. From Jutaku

It's horse v dolphin in new Francesco Bonami show

The acclaimed curator and Phaidon author talks us through Melodrama, his new, oppositional two-part exhibition

Untitled (2007) by Maurizio Cattelan and Coda di Delfino (1966) by Pino Pascali. Painted canvas stretched on wooden structure. Private Collection. Photo courtesy Luxembourg & Dayan. Photo © Will Amlot

Why Frieze is remaking this Wolfgang Tillmans show

The London fair will re-stage the photographer's first exhibition, held in Cologne in '93, as part of its new 90s section

Installation view of Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at Daniel Buchholz’s gallery, 1993. As reproduced in our monograph

Theaster Gates installs hardware store in Prada

New project True Value takes place across Milan in what curator describes as 'a call to arms'

Halsted Hadware Store, Chicago, 2014. Photo by Sara Pooley. Courtesy of Theaster Gates and Sara Pooley


You can now turn your voice into a typeface!

So what does your voice 'look' like? Find out on a site closing the gap between written and spoken word

Typevoice's calibration page

Failed It! photographer Matt Stuart joins Magnum

Congratulations to the street photographer who was made a Magnum nominee at the agency's AGM

Moorgate Tube, 2005 - Matt Stuart

David LaChapelle is selling Keith Haring’s last painting - because he can’t display it properly

'A dark living room is no place for a masterpiece' he says as he consigns The Last Rainforest to Sotheby's

The Last Rainforest (1989) by Keith Haring

Helvetica director turns his camera on Dieter Rams

Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanised focuses on the 84-year-old Braun legend

Dieter Rams, London 2015. Image courtesy Gary Hustwit's Kickstarter page

Wolfgang Tillmans writes on Brexit in Zeitung

'It’s now the duty of us all to defend the pillars of the free world order - to hold the centre ground'

Wolfgang Tillmans and one of his EU Referendum posters


Sterling Ruby at the Ronald Reagan library

The US punk-skater-turned-artist talks art and politics at Ronnie's memorial library in California tonight

Sterling Ruby

Raymond Pettibon goes back to the Steam Age

Our Contemporary Artist Series star now lives on the East Coast but there’s a Californian aspect to his new show

No Title (Never had a...) (2016) by Raymond Pettibon ink and acrylic on paper 129.5 x 140.3 cm / 51 x 55 ¼ in. Copyright the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Jenny Holzer goes to Ibiza

The US artist has etched a series of smart literary quotes onto rocks and cliffs along the clubbing island’s coastline

For Ibiza, (2016) (detail) by Jenny Holzer. Text: “The Pool

How icebergs shape this Olafur Eliasson building

He hopes his Ice Void will make the experience of visiting a Greenland glacier more understandable for all

Rendering for Ilulissat Icefjord Park, Greenland, by Olafur Eliasson's Studio Other Spaces. Image courtesy of studiootherspaces.net

10 'Euro things' that will always be near and dear

Whether or not Britain votes to leave or stay in the EU these continental cultural niceties will prevail

The Court Game of Geography (c.1840-43) by W & Rock. From Map: Exploring the World


Sou Fujimoto rethinks the rented apartment

Fancy sharing a TV with everyone in your block? Take a look at Sou’s radical ideas at Tokyo's House Vision show

Rent Space Tower by Sou Fujimoto. Image courtesy of house-vision.jp

Why Steven Holl punched holes in his library

The architect's wall cuts add drama to this Hunters Point building while also paying tribute to a local landmark

Hunters Point Library by Steven Holl. Images courtesy of Stevenholl.com

André Chiang's American Hustle

The chef celebrates his rise up the 50 Best Restaurants list, inspires local chefs and delights NYC tastemakers!

André Chiang and fellow chef Massimo Bottura after the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards in New York, June 2016

Raf Simons creates Robert Mapplethorpe collection

Belgian fashion designer collaborates with photographer's estate for Spring 2017 men's collection

Raf Simons' Spring 2017 collection at Pitti Uomo; this garment features Robert Mapplethorpe's famous 1975 self portrait. Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni, courtesy of Pitti Uomo

One thing not to miss in Marseille

If you're visiting for Euro 2016 get up early and visit this Corbusier-inspired gem by Fernand Boukobza

Le Brasilia - photo by Olivier Amsellem

The story behind this Brutalist beauty

The structure on This Brutal World's cover may look mid century but it was actually built by Herzog & de Meuron

Reading Space, Jinhua Architecture Park, Jinhua, China, 2006 by Herzog & de Meuron. From This Brutal World

Hannah Whitaker - Affordable on Artspace

Silent landscapes, geometric illusions and abstracted textures abound in beautifully manipulated photo

Hannah Whitaker - Three Winter Landscapes (2013)

A Movement in a Moment: Postmodernism

Discover how a group of late 20th Century artists undermined fast-held beliefs about meaning and authorship

Untitled (cowboy) (1989) by Richard Prince

Marc Jacobs pays homage to Robert Mapplethorpe

Can you detect the late photographer's influence in Marc Jacobs' androgynous Fall 2016 campaign?

John Tuite and Carlos Santolalladressed in Marc Jacobs' Fall 2016 Women’s Collection. Photographed by David Sims and styled by Katie Grand. Image courtesy of TheMarcJacobs Instagram account.

Look what Olafur Eliasson’s kitchen did this week!

The artist’s innovative kitchen staff learned a natural, healthier way to hang on to a bit of summer's bounty

Studio Olafur Eliasson's kitchen make wild-fermented sauerkraut, June 2016

From Book to Bid – Paul McCarthy’s Mechanical Pig

At auction at Christie's, this animal sees McCarthy flirting with Disney, Willy Wonka and The Raft of the Medusa

Mechanical Pig (2003-2005) by Paul McCarthy. Image courtesy of Christie's


From Book to Bid – Andy Warhol’s Two Dollar Bills

It wasn’t Marilyn Andy silkscreened first but these dollar bills – they're at auction this month for a cool £6m

Detail from Two Dollar Bills (Fronts) [40 Two Dollar Bills in red] (1962) by Andy Warhol. Image courtesy of Christie's

Christie's marks 30 years in Hong Kong

The Asian arm of the world’s leading auction house celebrated its coming of age with a dedicated art sale

Parrots (Heaven of Parrots) (1994) by Wu Guanzhong. From Christie's Hong Kong 30 Years sale

André Chiang sets the table at Barneys

The brilliant chef and Phaidon author curates a chef's table for the New York department store

Chef André Chiang at Barneys, New York. June 2016

Paul McCarthy's Tomato Head just sold at Art Basel

A Mr Potato Head for adults? Read Ralph Rugoff on this seminal work by our Contemporary Artist Series artist

Paul McCarthy's 'Tomato Head (Green)' (1994) was on display as part of Art Basel Unlimited 2016

Why this Tillmans shot is being shared after Orlando

Find out why Wolfgang Tillmans' photo from a London club is being posted in defiance following the Orlando killings

The Cock (Kiss) 2002 by Wolfgang Tillmans as reproduced in our Contemporary Artist Series book by the artist