When colour brings structure
As architecture they would be unbuildable; as music, they would be unplayable, so why are these paintings a joy?
Architects plan a car park with a courtyard on top
UK practice Brisac Gonzalez have designed a multi-storey car park for Bordeaux with apartments on the roof
Harvey Quaytman's intellectual scavenging
Calligraphy, poetry and Islamic design all found their way into this artist’s work. Just don’t expect too much green
Can you spot the clones in these landscapes?
Landscape photographer Mathieu Bernard-Reymond’s populates his images with digitally manipulated doubles
Pentagram rebrand the Tonight Show
The design agency keeps the moon detailing when updating the long-running talk show’s graphics
Abstract painting from the age of the image search
How do online searches inform abstract painting? Quite directly, in the case of the American artist David Ratcliff
Zaha and co. rethink the drinking fountain
A group of London architects have come up with their versions of the water fountains for the capital
When fine art meets family portraits
Nan Goldin and Thomas Struth feature in Family Matters, a new exhibition that looks at changing family relations
Sterling Ruby and Barbara Kruger's LA dance works
The visual artists provide visual concepts for two pieces in the LA Dance Project's new Los Angeles residency
Classless still lifes inspired by Cuban shop windows
Catherine Losing and Anna Lomax's photo series Cuban Shop Windows places lowly products on a pedestal
The Simpsons and abstract painting
In our book Painting Abstraction, Bob Nickas looks at how cartoons can raise and answer some serious questions
Daniel Libeskind's Spanish spiral
The manufacturing firm, the Cosentino Group, commission an ornamental spiral from the New York architect
Is smashing Ai Weiwei's vase a valid artistic protest?
A 52-year-old artist broke one of Ai's Colored Vases at the Pérez Art Museum to highlight the lack of local shows
Our Editorial Director is Queen of the Cookbooks
WSJ Magazine describes how Emilia Terragni built Phaidon into a "prandial powerhouse"
Konstantin Grcic's clear glass furniture collection
The designer's sleek new Man Machine range pairs industrial strength panes with gas pistons
The hidden music in Harvey Quaytman
Could some regard for the painter's musical sensibility unlock additional meaning in his canvasses?
A still-image celebration of golden-age cinemas
French photographer Franck Bohbot reflects cinema's golden age in his photographic series of movie theatres
Ferran Adrià's North American tour
The chef will undertake a five-city author tour to promote the publication of elBulli 2005-2011
Is Jeff Wall scared of street photography?
"Probably" says the fine-art photographer, on the eve of his major new European retrospective
A Scottish homage to Le Corbusier
French artist and illustrator Benoit Challand combines two European heavyweights when drafting his perfect home
Ferran Adrià is a culinary Dali says the NY Times
The paper's art critic Roberta Smith, revels in the inspring Ferran Adrià's retrospective at the Drawing Center
Phaidon's winning window display on show at Foyles
Emma Fearn and Sarah-Ines Dridje's design takes pride of place in Foyles Charing Cross Road window
Radiohead collaborate with Universal Everything
Digital studio creates strange new landscape for band's new app
Will Juice succeed where Zaha Hadid faltered?
Swansea’s shell-like Tidal Lagoon Centre set to be as controversial as Cardiff Bay Opera House?
Alvar Aalto inspires new Design Museum identity
Bond's Jesper Bange leans on Finnish master for circular black, white and red designs for Helsinki museum
Is this the new Rain Room?
New immersive artwork Momentum opens at Barbican's Curve gallery today, playing with light and sound
Richard Hamilton curator talks about new Tate show
Mark Godfrey, the man behind the Tate's blockbuster Hamilton show, walks and talks us through
How nuclear physics proved this 'Léger' is a fake
Radiocarbon tests conclude that cotton in canvas was cut at least four years after the artist’s death
Foster's controversial Apple store gets go ahead
Some moved walls and the reinstatement of a much loved piece of public art sees project approved
New show sheds light on Alvar Aalto
Over 100 light fittings designed by the Finnish architect go on show in Belgium beside a pontoon bridge
Ghost Paris Metro stations to become galleries?
Mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet wants to repurpose the city's unused stations if she wins
Maurizio Cattelan's New York fashion shoot
The artist comes out of retirement to style an eye-popping fashion story with the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari
Nancy Holt 1938 - 2014
New Mexico based artist and creator of Sun Tunnels, featured in Art & Place, dies after long illness
Richard Hamilton's love of Braun
As the Tate prepares its major retrospective, we look at Britain's foremost pop artist's admiration for Dieter Rams
Volcanic crystals inspire Hella Jongerius table
The Dutch designer looks to the layering in agate stones to inspire her bright, limited-edition Gemstone Table
A digital-free photo tribute to Albers and LeWitt
Canadian photographer Jessica Eaton uses large format film to create her Cubes for Albers and LeWitt series
Pawson church among Design Museum nominations
Beautiful retuning of light and space sees St Moritz Church in Augsburg lead Designs of the Year nominations
Lawrence Weiner stars in new Matthew Barney opera
River of Fundament is set at Norman Mailer's wake and also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Salman Rushdie
Come to NADA and Beta-Local's event this Friday
Sample San Juan's art scene courtesy of some Puerto Rico curators featured in Art Cities of the Future
Zaha Hadid on the perils of paper architecture
The world's leading woman architect on the setbacks of her early career and today's opportunities
How a local gallery pulled in a Bruce Nauman show
The Harris gallery’s Nauman exhibition includes Changing Light Corridor With Rooms - last shown in 1989
Foyles fashion window winners announced
Congratulations go to the London College of Fashion's Emma Fearn and Sarah-Ines Dridje
Coop Himmelb(l)au's House of Music takes shape
Circular windows cut out of elevated block and framed by amoebic shapes characterise Wolf D. Prix's design
MoMA PS1 will grow its own summer pavilion
The winning submission to 2014's Young Architects Program incorporates fungi bricks and is 100% compostable
Georgia O'Keeffe's garden is set to be reborn
But don't expect the lush flowers of her paintings to be blooming in this New Mexico plot
George Condo in transition
Two very different shows of new work reveal the New York artist at a turning point in his career
Have you seen the size of Chuck Close’s camera?
Portrait artist uses massive 20X24 Polaroid camera to take life-sized 'snaps' of Hollywood stars for Vanity Fair
Who will win this year's Deutsche Börse Prize?
Psychedelic rebels, a Spanish greaser and German biologist's world view all vie for this year's £30,000 prize
80s sex and protest art reassembled in Chicago
This Will Have Been looks back at the passionate, political art of Nan Goldin, Jenny Holzer, Richard Prince and co
OMA reworks Rotterdam Kunsthal
New improvements, including some to security, to 22-year-old iconic building follow recent break in
What do you see in Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers?
How did the painter take this ultimately feminine symbol and transform it into the acme of modernist art?
Crowdfunded vertical boat gets the go-ahead
Powered by solar panels and wind and wave energy Jacques Rougerie's SeaOrbiter takes to the oceans
The truth about Cindy Sherman's society portraits
Why did the American fine artist choose to portray the wives of the rich and powerful in this way?
Christopher Nolan and Will.i.Am in huge digital show
This summer the Barbican and Google stage the biggest presentation of digital creativity ever
Alan Fletcher estate launches fun archive range
The late, great Phaidon Art Director returns to the Barbican (but this time the shop, not the galleries)
Mugaritz pioneers smellavision
Andoni Luiz Aduriz collaborates with computing professor to bring the smell of his restaurant to an iPhone device
Swiss artists take to the slopes
Gstaad hosts Wild Art show by Olaf Breuning, Pipilotti Rist and Thomas Hirschhorn
Would you curl-up on this book bed?
London artist Ruth Beale's bed-and-book exhibition explores the library's role within the collective imagination
Street art Gandhi takes over Police HQ
St.Art Delhi brings modern graffiti to an antique corner of the Indian capital
More Damn Good Advice from George Lois
Upon the ibook publication of his guide to creative success, we get extra advice from the maven of Madison Ave
Chris Labrooy's Auto Aerobics
Aberdeen-born designer's latest work was inspired by a winter's evening walk through Brooklyn, New York
Rockwell blurs boundaries between office and club
Former NY industrial building repurposed to promote collaboration and creativity among upscale entrepreneurs
BIG sweetens the Bahamas with honeycomb homes
Bjarke Ingels' design features plunge pools on every balcony of this residence on New Providence Island
Phaidon and the V&A's Degenerate Art inventory
As the V&A uploads its Nazi-seized art list we examine how the documents and our founders took similar paths
The banned Chinese photographer on show in Paris
Ren Hang has been curated by Ai Weiwei, arrested while shooting and has had visitors spit on his photographs
Edmund de Waal donates to the Fitzwilliam
The best-selling author and artist has donated 20 porcelain vessels to Cambridge's art and antiquities museum
Wolfgang Tillmans becomes a Royal Academician
The photographer joins David Hockney and Anish Kapoor as a member of Britain's most prestigious art institution
Warhol's favourite club turned into pop up gallery
50 graffiti artists are given the run of the Les Bains Douches club in Paris before it's developed into a hotel
International designers reimagine Kartell classic
Nendo, Philippe Starck and Piero Lissoni rework Ferruccio Laviani's Bourgie Lamp on its tenth birthday
Richard Deacon's survey of abstract drawing
Jackson Pollock, Gordon Matta-Clark and Anish Kapoor all feature in the Drawing Room's new exhibition
Steve McCurry on photography's globalised challenge
The Magnum photographer says that, from Cleveland to India, the world is beginning to look the same
The Met's vintage football cards show
The New York museum stages a football-themed trading cards show just in time for the Super Bowl
The disarming message behind these beaded guns
The artist and director Ralph Ziman wants to capture the unseen victims and perpetrators in Africa's arms trade
You can design Foyles' window during Fashion Week
Calling all budding visual merchandisers - put your fashion and window dressing design skills to the fore
How Joseph Beuys went from artist to philosopher
A new exhibition looks at Beuys's transition from a creator of artistic objects to a 'social sculptor'
Aitor Throup creates visuals for Damon Albarn
Cutting edge designer featured in our book Pattern creates a new persona for Blur singer with Everyday Robots
Frank Thiel's frozen landscapes
Stunning photographs of massive Patagonian glacier feature in Nowhere is a Place at Sean Kelly Gallery NY
Revealed - the exact moment Monet painted this
A Texas State University study uses celestial and tidal data to pinpoint the moment captured in Monet's seascapes
Looking back at Derek Jarman's Blue
20 years after the filmmaker's death, an Art and Queer Culture exhibition examines his final feature film
Tadao Ando's Dream Chair becomes reality
Danish furniture firm Carl Hansen & Son learned to bend wood like plastic to bring Ando's furniture to life
Alex Prager captures the face in the crowd
Large scale photos shot on an LA soundstage form part of the photographer's most ambitious work to date
Why Lord Foster wants us to travel more
And it’s so we can learn from the Pritzker laureate's buildings, airports and plane interiors
Turin gallery raided over Ettore Sottsass fakes
La Stampa reports that police raided the Turin Gallery after a tip-off from the official Memphis producers
Are you ready for The Tate Gallery's robots?
A set of web-controlled remote viewing robots is just one of the ideas on the shortlist for the Tate's IK Prize
Barber Osgerby In The Making
New show at London's Design Museum explores what happens between design and the end product
Have you seen Jeff Koons' birthday cake?
The artist's wife recreated one of Koons' favourite Picasso paintings in icing for his 59th birthday on Tuesday
Shigeru Ban perches penthouses above Tribeca
Japanese architect creates a pair of glazed duplex penthouses open to the elements on historic NY building
First major Actionist show comes to Britain
Violent and sexual precursor to performance art is dramatically laid bare in new exhibition
Gerrit Rietveld’s classic Steltman Chair is reissued
1963 chair originally commissioned by Hague jewelers as seating for betrothed couples choosing wedding rings
René Redzepi announces MAD 2014
This year's event looks set to tackle (among other things) the thorny issue of the celebrity chef
A Japanese view of Frank Lloyd Wright
Images by the late critic and photographer Yukio Futagawa go on show in Tokyo next month
Santiago Calatrava's interconnecting bridge for Doha
As the population rises to one million the architect is commissioned to create innovative three-in-one crossing
New show looks at how the diary became public
Neuberger Museum NY presents work that uses online data to mark the beauty and banality of day to day life
Will Bacon's George Dyer portrait break records?
After the artist's Freud triptych set a new world record last year, another iconic portrait goes on the block next month
Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut vandalised
Priceless stained glass window, smashed in the hilltop chapel, is irreparable say authorities
David LaChapelle takes on Big Oil
Former fashion photographer shows oil-industry maquettes crafted from consumer goods at Paul Kasmin NY
How many paintings can you name in this video?
Italian director Rino Stefano Tagliafierro brings movement to well-known art works in his new montage Beauty
Danny Lyon's radical ideas for National Geographic
A cannabis-themed issue with a free joint is just one of the special editions outlined by the great US photographer
Nendo rethinks the office staple
Japanese design practice is out to improve the look of your desktop
Design and Violence at MoMA
New MoMA show reminds us that not every designer wants to make the world a better place
