What to expect at The Sharjah Biennial
Skype-based dance performance by avant-garde Tunisian dancer and choreographer duo among the delights
Christian Åslund takes to the roof in Hong Kong
The story behind the Sony World Photography Awards nominee's 'video game' shoot in Hong Kong
Paul McCarthy brings Snow White to NYC
The Los Angeles artist's largest US exhibition opens at The Park Avenue Armory this June
Swifts get their own luxury condo in Poland
Modern architecture is killing off the swift population. Enter Menthol Architects with a Vitamin Green style idea
Richard Meier's homage to concrete
Architect showcases self-cleaning, pollution-zapping new kind of concrete for Italcementi's Bergamo HQ
Common Roots at the Design Museum Holon, Israel
Dr Kathy Battista Director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute NY on an inventive show of cutting edge industrial design from the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Steve McCurry new video from Lit for Life in India
On his 86th trip to India Magnum photographer reveals just what intrigues him about the Indian subcontinent
Simryn Gill lands Venice Biennale Australian pavilion
For the 2013 Biennale, the Singaporean-born artist will present works on paper unlike those you've seen before
James Irvine 1958-2013
An incredible designer and a very dear friend of Phaidon died in Milan in the early hours of this morning
Ed Ruscha by the book
Next month The Gagosian Gallery at Madison Avenue opens an exhibition dedicated to Ed Ruscha's books
Does geometry unlock the secrets of the Mona Lisa?
A Swiss foundation presents geometrical evidence to suggest there was an earlier version of da Vinci's portrait
Damien Hirst's guitar up for grabs at Abbey Road
Butterfly-themed Hirst Gibson Les Paul Goddess guitar to be auctioned for Cancer Research
New York's artworld goes back to 1993
Two decades on from the groundbreaking Whitney Biennial featured in Phaidon's new Biennials and Beyond, NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star recalls an age of confrontation
Dyed concrete entices Seoul’s dotcommers
Latest creation from Mass Studies aims to spark migration from the city to a picturesque island off the mainland
David Smith - the sculptor who drew with metal
When he died in a car crash the artworks for his last show remained unsold - today they grace the best collections around the world. Phaidon Focus book reveals how the artist revolutionised sculpture by literally 'drawing in space'
2013 Serpentine Pavilion commission goes to Phaidon favourite Sou Fujimoto
The 41-year-old Japanese architect and Phaidon contributor is the youngest ever to be commissioned
Andy Kinsman's footballing heroes
Illustrator plays a blinder with Royal Mail stamps to commemorate The FA's 150th birthday
Farrells builds first skyscraper in Cambodia
39-storey Vattanac Capital Tower in Phnom Penh becomes the country’s highest high-rise
Author Douglas Coupland designs furniture range
“Escritoires are elegant - with one flip of a lid I can conceal mountains of crap while everyone looking on thinks I'm this really together stylish person!" Generation X writer says of new Switzcultcreative range
Ai Weiwei makes Valentine's Day video for Elton John
What is in Ai Weiwei's blood? screens in Times Square, Piccadilly Circus and Independence Square tonight
What to expect from The Armory Show 2013
A century on from America's introduction to modernism, NYC's art fair turns its focus to the USA
Art Spiegelman gets a 65th birthday retrospective
Vancouver Art Gallery's Art Spiegelman CO-MIX show opens this weekend, right after the comic artist's birthday
Greek designer redefines the spreadsheet
Every wage slave's worst nightmare has just arrived - complete with comfy pillow
SOM's 'classical column' rises in China
Just 5 feet shorter than the Shard, Skidmore Owings & Merrill's Zhengzhou tower is clad in painted aluminium
Surrealism celebrated in New York
Two Manhattan events channel the 20th century art movement - with differing results
Zhao Yao Spirit Above All at Pace London
Chinese artist tells Phaidon about 200 mile journey to Tibet to have new paintings blessed by living Buddha
Yoko Ono retrospective opens for her 80th birthday
Yoko Ono: Half-A-Wind show at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt draws 200 works together from the past 60 years
Amy Friend's celestial interventions
Canadian photographer pierces vintage photos to let the light and lost souls shine through
Oscar Niemeyer rises again
The Brazilian architect towers over Sao Paulo courtesy of street artist Eduardo Kobra
Young designer creates new boutique hotel in Paris
Dorothee Meilichzon eschews all-pervading 50 shades of white for a splash of colour at new Hotel Paradis
Peter Zumthor reveals the secrets of Therme Vals
New video sees him discussing his philosophy, why his most celebrated structure was originally destined to be 'hollowed out' and why he 'drops his pencil' if he thinks a client simply wants to order a Peter Zumthor building
Ex-OMA architect Fernando Romero creates flying saucer-style photo museum in the Arabian desert
Mexican follows his much-admired Soumaya museum in Mexico City with an even more audacious concept
BIG architects tear it up in Fort Lauderdale
Two buildings are 'torn open' giving the neighbourhood access to the canals
Edward Hopper comes to the silver screen
Austrian director Gustav Deutsch reassembles 13 Edward Hopper paintings into a single movie
Indian protest art opens in Chicago
The University of Chicago's Sahmat Collective exhibition displays the art of India's culture wars
Bruno Quinquet's salarymen in suits
French photographer Bruno Quinquet captures 'man in suit' in its natural environment with his Salaryman Project
The show that made Harald Szeemann a star
Biennials and Beyond looks at the exhibitions, curators and artist run spaces that helped make art history
Montreal church is repurposed as a gallery
Provencher Roy + Associes Architectes addition boasts suitably Canadian features including 'glazed igloo'
The truth behind Francis Bacon's 'screaming' popes
Father figure, drag queen or distillation of Nazi iconography? New Phaidon Focus book reveals the theories behind Francis Bacon's obsessive reworking of the papal theme in his most famous Velasquez-inspired paintings
The laundromat that thinks it's a nightclub
Local designer Frederic Perers puts a whole new meaning on wash and go at Splash near Plaça Catalunya
Saul Steinberg's Americans reassembled in Germany
The artist's massive mural goes on display for the first time since it was cut up following the '58 World's Fair
What to expect from Paris Photo Los Angeles
The inaugural LA edition of the French photo event promises a moving-image strand and a fake NYC street
Dutch cyclists get floating flyover
Netherlands bridge specialists IPV Delft build motorway-style aerial intersection for two-wheeled travellers
Marcel Dzama comes to Zwirner London
Brooklyn-based artist responsible for Beck's Guero cover art has first London show in five years at new gallery
Michelangelo's final sculpture goes to jail
The Rondanini Pietà will be put on display at Milan's San Vittore prison while its permanent home is renovated
Sony World Photography Awards finalists announced
VII's Ed Kashi among the finalists in what organisers call a bumper year for entries from around the world
Pentagram rethinks the baby bottle
Legendary design agency takes its cue from takeaway coffee cups used by billions the world over
Foster + Partners designs 3D moon base
Global architecture practice uses latest rapid prototyping to imagine a lunar base for European Space Agency
Unseen images in Garry Winogrand retrospective
Unexamined archive works feature heavily in the New York Street photographer's worldwide retrospective
Mirko Borsche talks graphic design
We catch up with the Munich-based designer and creative director of Die Zeit in Germany
Tacita Dean takes on JG Ballard
The British artist follows the late novelist's advice regarding an elusive piece of land art
Deep sea hospitality planned for Dubai
It's built tall and supertall, now Dubai mines the sea depths for its latest architectural venture
Christie's closes Haunch of Venison galleries
Auction house says HoV's London gallery will "evolve into" Christie's private sale services the NY one will close
Joel Meyerowitz is a big hit in Paris
The BBC, ABC News and Le Monde alike praise his La Maison Européenne de la Photographie retrospective
HS2’s graphics are an express delivery
New agency Fernandez Waddy turn round branding for new UK rail link in record time
China indulges its love affair with the car
New range of exhibition centres by Marques And Jordy set to roll out in September
Konstantin Grcic adds to his BD Barcelona range
Mies van der Rohe's 1929 Barcelona Chair acknowledged in new design
A look inside Anselm Kiefer's studio
Phaidon Focus book goes inside the celebrated German artist's sprawling studio complex La Ribaute in France
Sandy Carson's (still) new here
Scottish photographer's love affair with adopted American homeland documented in ongoing photo series
Islamic influences inspire exhibition centre in China
Sure Architects uses West Xia Helan stone and traditional Chinese techniques to create Islamic patterning
Ten questions for milliner Philip Treacy's photographer of the last 20 years - Kevin Davies
The photographer on how to please Valentino, the etiquette of shooting Princess Anne, why it's sometimes important not to follow the brief and being the best dressed man (in a Philip Treacy hat) at The Edge's wedding
Andy's Unemployment Rate goes on sale online
Christie's publishes details of their forthcoming online-only Warhol Estate sale, running Feb 26 - March 5
Apple trademarks its stores
Interior design treatments become the latest piece of intellectual property the tech giant has registered
Tracey Emin takes over Times Square
Artist's neon love-themed artwork I Promise To Love You lights up the square this Valentine's Day
René Burri's secret life as a colour photographer
Famous the world over for his black and white photographs of Churchill, Che Guevara, and Picasso among others, the legendary Swiss Magnum photographer lays open his lifelong archive of colour photographs for the first time
Windows are reinvented in Peruvian tower concept
Translucent fibreglass composite lit by LEDs while each aperture is covered in a thin film to generate solar energy
American artist tears apart 'art speak'
US artist David Levine, accompanied by 29-year-old PhD student Alix Rule, takes down artworld prose
Diane Meyer embroiders reality in search of truth
US photographer blurs the faces and locations in her photographs with embroidery to reveal hidden histories
Big Apple's little dwellings
Winner of the AdAPT NYC micro-apartment project boasts ceiling storage space and a double wall-mounted bed
Architect Iñaki Bergera takes photos too
Spanish architect puts his career on hold to explore all things photographic
Olafur Eliasson's strobe-lit fountains come to London
Flashes "freeze something that usually our eye and brain would see in motion" he says on eve of new show
Facebook, Google, Pinterest logos given makeover
Istanbul-based agency Antrepo redesigns social networking sites taking inspiration from vintage cameras
Fashion designer quizzed in hunt for stolen Picasso
Romanian designer and TV star Catalin Botezatu was questioned as part of the Rotterdam Kunsthal investigation
New show explores racism in photography
Can photo artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin undo South African legacy?
Ai Weiwei makes new film on death of a protestor
Artist's latest attack on government features interviews with villagers over the death of Qian Yunhui
Rä di Martino's remains of an imaginary world
Abandoned Star Wars movie sets form backdrop to Italian photographer's Every World's A Stage series
What to expect from Frieze New York
The US fair promises a magic-themed speakeasy, a cemetery and the recreation of a legendary artist's restaurant
Herzog & de Meuron add to London skyline
Swiss architects to design new residential tower at Wood Wharf adjacent to Canary Wharf
Russian digital artist Olga Tobreluts gets huge retrospective at Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Museum and curator Antonio Geusa pay homage to 'Helen of Troy equipped with a video camera and a computer'
New inter faith chapel points to North Star
Symbolically important Polaris provides focal point for new Florida chapel via giant skylight above wooden spire
Ferran Adrià sets out his stall
The elBulli star plans to open a market in his home town, dedicated to Catalan produce
Paris buses get new Jean Francois Porchez signage
The French master of typography develops Parisine Girouette, a clear LED script for the capital's bus network
Meet MoMA's new poet
New York's Museum of Modern Art appoints Phaidon contributor and traffic broadcast transcriber as its first poet
The accidental art of Kerry Skarbakka
Meet the US photographer who puts himself in harm's way, then clicks the shutter
Steven Holl's yin yang museums
The award-winning American architect creates twin museums for a Chinese Eco-City
Marc Quinn's baby reborn in Singapore
The British artist's sculpture of his infant son has gone on permanent display in a Singapore park
Shomei Tomatsu Remembered
The seminal Japanese photographer's life and work is commemorated across the world
Richard Prince's Picasso nudes come to London
Fourteen canvases, inspired by the great Spanish painter, go on display at Sadie Coles HQ next month
American Airlines rebrand upsets Massimo Vignelli
Design legend is not a fan of the new corporate identity that replaces the one he created 45 years ago
Rem Koolhaas creates futuristic furniture for Knoll
12-strong line featuring plexiglass swivel armchairs debuts at Salone del Mobile in April
Franck Allais subverts the city
French photographer's new series Subverting The City to debut at his first solo London show next month
MoMA and CODA create wall made from skateboards
MoMA PS1 and design agency enlist support of local skateboard company Comet for their 'Party Wall'
Bill Finger's imagined crime scenes
Inspired by Gregory Crewdson, former cameraman photographs miniature film sets - then destroys 'the evidence'
Banksy collaborator Ben Eine joins mile high club
East London street artist who became famous when David Cameron gave one of his pieces to Barack Obama during first official US visit has first ever airborne gallery in Upper Class on Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic
Warhol Studio 54 Polaroid goes for $10,000
Auction of ephemera sees bids from celebrities, ex-employees and devotees of legendary New York nightspot
New photographers stage last minute show in London
11.59 was conceived just a few days ago, is currently being put together - and opens on Wednesday!
Giant giraffe animates Paris children’s centre
French practice Hondelatte Laporte Architectes creates quirky nursery and childcare centre in Paris suburb
Adobe HQ designed by artists using its own software
New Utah HQ features graphic images created by Adobe software nestling alongside murals created by street artists El Mac and Mike Giant - obligatory indoor basketball court and rock-climbing wall included (of course)
