Street art forms backdrop to India's first biennale
The inaugural Kochi-Muziris Biennale features some innovative street artworks alongside its gallery-style exhibits
![Anpu Varkey installing his work at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale](/resource/anpuvarkey.jpg)
Rare photographs of Buckminster Fuller surface
Hidden in the LIFE archives for over 40 years rediscovered photos capture him at work and play
![Buckminster Fuller explaining the Dymaxion Building September 1959 - Joel Yale](/resource/joel-yale-buckminster-fuller-explaining-the-dymaxion-buidling-september-1959.jpg)
Owen Hatherley blasts architectural photography
Marxist writer says contemporary architectural culture "no longer has an interest in anything but its own image" (but he saves a heap of praise for some well-respected Phaidon practitioners of the art!)
![Le Corbusier with the model for Villa Savoye (1929)](/resource/2501-savoye-08.jpg)
Anish Kapoor's first ever show in Australia
Artist finally makes it down under with career overview at MCA Sydney
![Anish Kapoor
My Red Homeland 2003
Image courtesy and copyright the artist
Photograph: Nic Tenwiggenhorn](/resource/2003-my-red-homeland-lr-1.jpg)
What's going on at Gagosian?
First Koons agrees to a show with David Zwirner, then Hirst parted company, now Yayoi Kusama says she's off
![Yayoi Kusama is](/resource/kusama-6.jpg)
Daniel Libeskind rolls out ultimate prefab
Shipped within months and built in weeks - your chance to live in a dream home, anywhere in the world
![](/resource/villa-libeskind-1.jpg)
Time magazine's photojournalism of the year
James Nachtwey, Eugene Richards and photographers from VII and Magnum feature in best of 2012
![James Nachtwey - Japan One Year Later (February 25, 2012)](/resource/james-nachtwey-japan-one-year-later-feb-25-2012.jpg)
Artist of the Week: Damien Hirst
Does the so-called enfant terrible of British art still have anything worthwhile to say?
![Damien Hirst, For the Love of God (2007)](/resource/dh-1.jpg)
Morag Myerscough on Peter Blake's Beatles cover
The colourful designer discusses the pop artist's legendary Sgt. Pepper album artwork
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SOM build 'city within a city' in Abu Dhabi
Vast hospital complex by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill aims to foster a sense of community in the emirate
![SKMC - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill](/resource/somhospital.jpg)
The only way is up
Dutch architect Hans van Heeswijk employs (non) lateral thinking for his out-of-town developments
![](/resource/doorsnede-hr-600x561.jpg)
Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #3
Photographer explains how he spent hours waist deep in water to get his iconic photograph Stilt Fishermen
![Steve McCurry - Stilt Fishermen, Sri Lanka 1995](/resource/stevemccurrystiltfishermen.jpg)
Damien Hirst leaves Larry Gagosian
First Jeff Koons holds show with rival gallery David Zwirner, now it emerges that Damien Hirst is off
![Damien Hirst](/resource/hirstleavesgag.jpg)
ar+d Emerging Architecture Award winners
A Japanese glass house numbers among the winning works by architects under the age of 45
![The Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura](/resource/glass-house-3-hiroshi-nakamura-620x413.jpg)
Monopoly for minimalists
US designer Matthew Hollett reduces the classic board game it to “its basic mechanics”
![](/resource/onopo-620x620.jpg)
'Idiot' who defaced Tate's Rothko jailed for two years
Self-styled yellowist fails to escape jail sentence as judge castigates him for damaging 'gift to the nation'
![Wlodzimierz Umaniec and the defaced Rothko](/resource/vladimir.jpg)
Warhol surfboards hit the market
Californian surfboard shaper Tim Bessel releases first in a series of artistic collaborations
![Tim Bessell with his selection of Warhol boards](/resource/tim1big-620x414.jpg)
David Rockwell's Imagination Playground
Designer more used to creating spaces for Gordon Ramsay and Broadway shows creates Washington installation
![David Rockwell - Imagination Playground](/resource/1671326-inline-kap-5652.jpg)
M.I.A. opens India’s first biennale
The British-Tamil singer inaugurates India's largest international contemporary art event
![MIA opened the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 last night](/resource/2011-topic-mia-620x349.jpg)
Barber Osgerby design new £2 coin
Design studio behind the Olympic flame celebrates 150 years of the London Underground with newly minted coin
![Barber Osgerby's newly minted £2 coin](/resource/reverseb-482.jpg)
Daniel Baer on Richard Avedon's Observations
The man behind our Joel Meyerowitz retrospective discusses the photographer's legendary monograph
![Daniel Baer in his central London studio](/resource/daniel-baer-1.jpg)
Ten questions for graphic artist Jamie Hewlett
The comic artist and co-creator of Gorillaz and Tank Girl talks to us about art, kids books and Japanese animation
![Jamie Hewlett, shot by David Sims for Alfred Dunhill autumn/winter 2012 campaign](/resource/hewlettdunhill-ii.jpg)
'Lost' TV series inspires new LA art show
LOST (in LA) pairs French contemporary art with the massively successful desert island TV show - no, really
![Philippe Mayaux, Night City (2011-2012)](/resource/lostinla3-i.jpg)
Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum 'reconnects residents with climate'
Speaking at Art Basel Miami, Jacques Herzog pledges an end to fur coat, air-conditioned culture
![Miami Art Museum - Herzog & de Meuron](/resource/herzogmiami.jpg)
Portugal's eco-friendly forest resort
Luis Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar create low key architectural gem in spa town of Pedras Salgadas
![Pedras Salgados - Luis Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar](/resource/eco-resort-pedras-salgadas-by-luis-rebelo-de-andrade-and-diogo-ss-2.jpg)
Alex Moulton 1920-2012
We celebrate the inventor of Norman Foster's favourite bicycle and one that's featured in Phaidon Design Classics
![Alex Moulton's Moulton Bicycle](/resource/moulton.jpg)
Yale Art Gallery expansion opens tomorrow
The university's incredible refurbished gallery complex includes one of Louis Kahn's earliest commissions
![Yale University Art Gallery by Louis Kahn](/resource/yale-university-art-gallery-kahn-building-renovation-2.jpg)
SANAA designs new Louvre annexe
Pritzker Prize-winning architects create Louvre Lens on the French Belgian border
![Louvre, Lens - SANAA](/resource/14-louvre-lens.jpg)
Design of the Week: Akkurat
Cult designer Laurenz Brunner on the most popular Swiss typeface of the last decade
![Laurenz Brunner, Akkurat specimen (2004)](/resource/brunner-7.jpg)
Keith Coventry talks about Junk Paintings at Pace
The former YBA on a current show of new work in London inspired by Malevich and McDonalds
![Keith Coventry Junk Paintings 2012, Pace Gallery, Installation view](/resource/2012-10-31-52433.jpg)
Sebastiaan Bremer’s ode to the family holiday
The Dutch photographer adds splashes of ink and paint to old family photos
![Brothers Fly From Your Seats - Sebastiaan Bremer](/resource/sebastiaan-bremer-large-schoener-goetterfunken-x-brothers-fly-from-your-seats-2011.jpg)
Jessica Dimmock on NYC's homeless gay teens
The VII photographer follows a few of New York City's homeless gay young people for The New Yorker
![Still from Ryan by Jessica Dimmock](/resource/ryan-by-jessica-dimmock.jpg)
Temporary Printing Machine a hit at Design Miami
London design team combine screen printing with digital technology to produce a portrait machine fit for a gallery
![Random International's Temporary Printing Machine](/resource/temp-printing-machine.jpg)
Shore and Parr among top bankable photographers
Confidence is growing the modern and contemporary photography market, say London analysts Art Tactic
![Stephen Shore, U.S. 97 (21 July, 1973), South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA. From Stephen Shore: A Road Trip Journal](/resource/stephen-shore-18.jpg)
Max Dudler makes sweet music (library) in Essen
Marbled windows created from 12 photographs taken at local quarry correspond to 12 notes in a score
![Folkwang Music Library - Max Dudler](/resource/folkwang-library-by-max-dudler-ss10.jpg)
Frank Gehry's first building in Australia
Dubbed The Paper Bag, Sydney's new University of Technology features an undulating wall of 320,000 bricks
![University of Technology, Sydney - Frank Gehry](/resource/gehryaustralia.jpg)
The highlights from Miami Art Week
Kathy Battista, director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute, reports back from last week's art fairs in Miami
![Randy Polumbo | Love Stream #2, 2012 | Paul Kasmin Gallery | New York](/resource/randypolumblovestream2-2012-paulkasmingallery-newyork.jpg)
School's out in Detroit
A cache of photos taken at Cass Technical School in Detroit reveal the fun before the fall
![Cass Technical School, Detroit Urbex](/resource/detroiturbex-14.jpg)
Buildings that changed the world - Brasilia, Brazil
President Juscelino Kubitschek's commission for a new capital city helped seal Oscar Niemeyer's reputation
![Congresso Nacional - Oscar Niemeyer](/resource/brasilia-congresso-nacional-05-2007-221.jpg)
Carlos Arroyo creates three buildings in one
Spanish architect designs ingenious reflective façade for a school for the performing arts in Belgium
![Academia MWD Belgium - Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos](/resource/belgiumschool.jpg)
What to expect from Kraftwerk at The Tate
The pioneering German electronic group play The Turbine Hall next February - here's what we think will happen
![Kraftwerk perform The Man-Machine (1978) at MoMa, New York, Saturday 14 April 2012](/resource/kraftwerk-moma-man-machine-620x436.jpg)
Ten questions for photographer Hélène Binet
When architects want to display their building in the best possible light (and shade) there's only one person to call
![Hélène Binet - Pierres Vives, Zaha Hadid](/resource/pierresvives09-jpg-1344308741.jpg)
New York's AIDS memorial gets the go-ahead
A canopied garden is to be built in Greenwich Village, on the site of the city's original AIDS hospital
![Studio a+i's AIDS Memorial Park](/resource/aids-memorial-v1-620x340.jpg)
Taner Ceylan joins Paul Kasmin Gallery
The New York gallery announces at Miami Art Week that it now represents this smokin' Turkish painter
![1881 (2012) from Lost Paintings by Taner Ceylan](/resource/1881-620x432.jpg)
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil's Picasso of Concrete
Latin America's greatest architect died of respiratory failure in Rio yesterday, ten days short of his 105 birthday
![Oscar Niemeyer 1907 - 2012](/resource/oscar-niemeyer-620x413.jpg)
Christmas with the Zumthors
Would you like to rent the Pritzker-prize winner's Swiss holiday home this season?
![The interior of the Unterhus](/resource/zumthor-interior.jpg)
Terraced housing Chilean style
Santiago architects Elton + Leniz build this stepped seafront house right on the vertiginous Pacific coast
![Casa El Pangue by Elton + Leniz](/resource/casa-aguero1.jpg)
The obligatory design-related Christmas lights story
Teresa Sapey lights up Calle Serrano in Madrid - beat that Marmite!
![Teresa Sapey - Christmas lights](/resource/christmas-lights-5.jpg)
Joel Meyerowitz shot by Fred R. Conrad
The New York Times' staff photographer compares their session to "Rembrandt going into Picasso's studio"
![Fred R Conrad shooting for The New York Times; courtesy of NYTimes](/resource/joelconrad.jpg)
Beijing's pedal-powered mobile home
The two-metre wide Bao House by dot Architects is made from polyurethane and sits on the back of a tricycle
![Bao House by Beijing's dot Architects](/resource/phaidon-bao-house-dot-architects.jpg)
The art works that almost made the fourth plinth
Grayson Perry on a new ICA show featuring 21 works commissioned for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square
![Katharina Fritsch, Hahn / Cock, 2010, Commissioned for the Mayor of London’s Fourth Plinth Programme, Photo: James O’Jenkins Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument](/resource/hahncok.jpg)
//hapo Museum in South Africa tells history of nation
Unusually named Copper-clad structure aims to do for South Africa what Libeskind's Jewish Museum did for Berlin
![South Africa's //hapo Museum](/resource/hapo-one.jpg)
Neville Brody remixes the RCA's font
Graphics legend and RCA dean Brody reworks the college's classic font
![The new Calvert Brody font](/resource/665-font-detail.jpg)
French port turns its station into a theatre
Contemporary motifs meet neo-classicism when Saint-Nazaire's bomb-damaged station is renovated
![The Saint-Nazaire Theatre by K-architectures](/resource/nazaire-theatre-k-architectures.jpg)
Elizabeth Price wins the Turner Prize
The Jury admired the seductive and immersive qualities of the 45-year-old artist's video trilogy
![From The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (2012) by Elizabeth Price](/resource/1e427290a5f05e5399d8c3c64491ce43d5671e73-700.jpg)
The fringe fairs of Art Miami
We make sense of the myriad alternatives on offer as Art Basel Miami Beach comes to town
![Art Miami](/resource/art-miami.jpg)
Cinema's snappers reassembled Marclay-style
Mishka Henner and David Oates create tribute to Christian Marclay's The Clock using photographers from movies
![Helena Christensen in Photographers](/resource/helena-christensen.jpg)
Designers on Design: Esquire's David McKendrick
The UK men's mag's creative director on graphic design and the world of 1980s hatchbacks
![(Left) Haynes Manual, Volvo 440, 460 & 480 (Right) Citroën BX (petrol)](/resource/dm-haynes-1.jpg)
Artist of the Week: J M W Turner
The masterly British painter was considered controversial during his lifetime, but why?
![J M W Turner, Snowstorm: Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)](/resource/turner-1.jpg)
Jonas Mekas, Warhol's filmmaker, comes to London
New York's leading 20th century avant-garde filmmaker has a retrospective at The Serpentine Gallery this month
![Jonas Mekas by Liz Wendelbo](/resource/jonas-mekas-big.jpg)
Farming and music come together in Bordeaux
Parisian architecture practice SOA combines organic vertical farming with live performances. Intrigued? Read on
![Ferme Darwin by SOA and holdup, Bordeaux, France © SOA](/resource/la-ferme-musicale-vertical-farm-soa-holdup-1-537x379.jpg)
Zaha Hadid to build Japan’s National Stadium
With an eye on its bid for the 2020 Olympics Japan sets some strict rules for the designer of its National Stadium
![Winning stadium for Tokyo by Zaha Hadid Architects © ZHA](/resource/zaha-hadid-new-national-stadium-japan-3.jpg)
It's official: video games are art (well, sort of...)
The likes of Pac-Man, SimCity, Tetris and Portal et al become part of the permanent collection at MoMA
![Tetris (1984)](/resource/tetris.jpg)
The story behind the branding of dOCUMENTA (13)
Leftloft's Francesca Cianfarini on the truly wonderful graphic identity for the Kassel art exhibition
![Leftloft, dOCUMENTA (13) (2012)](/resource/d13notebook2-jpg-700x9999-q85.jpg)
Susan Meiselas sends a postcard from America
Images from a run down factory in Rochester feature in Magnum's latest Postcards From America series
![Susan Meiselas - Rochester 2012, Magnum](/resource/nyc124000.jpg)
French architect Edouard François makes "something very ugly - to make the rest look pretty"
In his schme to revive a Parisian suburb the architect creates an architectural sandwich of differing styles
![Edouard François' Urban Collage](/resource/edourard-house.jpg)
Rem Koolhaas invents the future for libraries
Plans for The Qatar National Library reveal futuristic digital hub with 300 public computers and online databases
![Rem Koolhaas's designs for The Qatar National Library](/resource/qatar1-620x445.jpg)
Keith Haring goes to New Jersey
Rare works by the New York street artist get a showing next month - on the far side of the North River
![Dog (1986) by Keith Haring](/resource/haring-dog-1986-620x447-610x440.jpg)
Damien Hirst to design next year's Brit Award
Artist follows Vivienne Westwood and Peter Blake in designing music ceremony trophies
![Damien Hirst pictured with two images of For The Love Of God (2007). Or is it Mick and Keith?](/resource/damien-hirst-skulls-620.jpg)
How one Korean artist invited the outside in
South Korean artist Young Jeong commissions his own live/work space in keeping with the natural surroundings
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Stephen Shore talks Warhol, colour and creativity
Artist Doug Aitken quizzes the New York photographer about his career and the very source of creativity
![Photographer Stephen Shore](/resource/sshore.jpg)
Dutch architects turn Moroccan market into waterfall
Rotterdam practice TomDavid wins first place in a competition to design a sustainable square for Casablanca
![TomDavid's designs for Casablanca's market](/resource/tomdavid-openercasablanca.jpg)
Vicenza honours Palladio with new museum
The city turns one of its finest buildings, Palazzo Barbarano, into a tribute to its famous architect, Andrea Palladio
![Section of Palazzo Barbarano, site of the new museum](/resource/palazzo.jpg)
Former Pentagram partner Fernando Gutiérrez talks about Harper's Bazaar and Fabien Baron
Fernando Gutiérrez waxes lyrical about a special magazine and its inspirational art director
![Fernando Gutiérrez in his west London studio](/resource/fg-portrait.jpg)
The Munich U-Bahn photographed by Nick Franck
Art director strips out all distractions from his photographs to reveal each location's purity, line and shape
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What to expect at Art Basel Miami Beach
America's biggest art fair returns to Miami Beach Convention Center in two weeks time. Get diarizing
![Art Public opening night 2011, courtesy of Art Basel](/resource/public-art-opening-night-2.jpg)
Buildings that changed the world - The Weissenhof Settlement, Stuttgart
How socialist ideals and an all star cast of architects including Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius revolutionised affordable housing for both blue and white colour workers on a hill just outside Stuttgart
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Is Bragga the Brazilian Banksy?
Rio graffiti artist's new show in alternative streetwear store Homegrown is at odds with beach culture environs
![Bragga and his artwork on display at Homegrown, photo by Henrique Madeira](/resource/henrique-madeira-bragga-2.jpg)
Studio Orta replaces St Pancras Olympic rings
The Anglo-French art couple make the first piece for the international station’s Terrace Wires commission
![Clouds - Ascension by Lucy and Jorge Orta (2011)](/resource/orta-st-pancris-clouds.jpg)
Muji and Louis Vuitton designers reveal inspirations
Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of design practice Industrial Facility discuss how city life influences their creativity
![Kim Colin and Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility](/resource/kim-and-sam.jpg)
VII’s Adam Ferguson and Gary Knight in new show
Photojournalists included in new Houston exhibition alongside Philip Jones Griffiths and Jonathan Torgovnik
![Adam Ferguson - Wardak, Afghanistan 2009. A US soldier surveys a road with a long range acquisition sight](/resource/ferguson.jpg)
The Iron Curtain is lifted on Modernist architecture
Brilliant new show in Vienna looks at Socialist architecture from Russia and its satellite states
![Ministry of Highways, Tbilisi, Georgia (1974)
© Simona Rota](/resource/sowjetmoderne-02-c4861b3f83.jpg)
Does Gehry's memorial really look like a missile silo?
The Pritzker-prize winner's plans for The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial are rebuffed by the President's offspring
![Frank Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial](/resource/main-eisenhower-silo.jpg)
Revel in Fabian Oefner's Dancing Colours
The Swiss photographer uses flash-linked mics to capture this dazzling intersection of sound and colour
![Dancing Colours by Fabian Oefner](/resource/fabian-oefner-dancing-colours.jpg)
John Pawson curates Phaidon online exhibition
Churches, houses, stadia and even a police station from 20th-Century World Architecture picked for online show
![John Pawson, London](/resource/john-pawson-london-orla-c.jpg)
Will Christo's new sculpture be the world's biggest?
That's certainly the 77-year-old artist's intention, as he revives plans for a huge work in Abu Dhabi's desert
![The Mastaba by Christo and Jeanne-Claude](/resource/road-model.jpg)
Pilgrims’ progress inspired by great design
Aptly-named Swiss architects Christ & Gantenbein build inspirational concrete structure on Mexican pilgrim route
![Cerro del Obispo look-out point - Christ & Gantenbein](/resource/gantenchrist.jpg)
Designers on Design: Andy Stevens
The Graphic Thought Facility co-founder on why a well-designed 80s thesaurus is 'the Led Zep of reference books'
![Lettering by Michael Harvey](/resource/mh-1.jpg)
Total’s Berlin HQ has the ripple effect
Barkow Leibinger's faceted concrete piers twist and turn, almost as if they’re plaited
![Detail of Tour Total © Barkow Leibinger](/resource/ufmcvipv01mon75i-1.jpg)
MAD create new contoured village by a Chinese lake
700 apartment settlement blends with Taiping lakeside at foot of eastern China’s Huangshan Mountains
![Huangshan Mountain Village - MAD](/resource/huangshanmountainvillagec.jpg)
Ten questions for photographer Roger Ballen
The photographer on viewing life differently, our dark side and why birds get bored in photo shoots
![Roger Ballen; Twirling wires (2001)](/resource/ballencvr.jpg)
Buildings that changed the world - The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
How Frank Gehry revitalised a city and its arts scene by using a computer programme he didn't quite understand
![Guggenheim Museum Bibao](/resource/guggenheim-museum-bilbao-spain-600x800.jpg)
Warhol's Death and Disaster Vs Standard & Poor's
Artnet pits Warhol's deathly prints against the S&P's stock market index. Guess who comes out on top?
![Detail from Green Disaster (1963) by Andy Warhol](/resource/andy-warhol-green-disaster-green-disaster-twice-620x346.jpg)
MoMA gets John Cage's silence
New York's Museum of Modern Art has acquired the earliest existing score to John Cage's 4'33”
![Detail from the cover of the Edition Peters score for 4'33](/resource/johncage4-620x467.jpg)
Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #2
Video of the Magnum photographer describing an incredible two days spent in Niger, eating and staying with a family and observing the extraordinary marriage ritual captured in his photograph Young Wadabi Men
![Young Wadabi Men, Niger 1986 - Steve McCurry](/resource/wadabimen.jpg)
Rolf Müller's tidal shift
A look back at the moment a young German graduate changed the course of graphic design
![Rolf Müller, Kieler Woche poster detail (1972)](/resource/kw-1.jpg)
See KAWS' Companion at the Thanksgiving Parade
The Brooklyn-based graffiti artist turned pop sculptor has made an inflatable version of his best-known character
![KAWS' inflatable Companion. Photograph by Andrew Rowat](/resource/kaws-companion.jpg)
20 ton 'treehouse' built in Swedish forest
"Nothing remotely similar has ever been done before" say Rintala Eggertsson Architects
![](/resource/dezeen-twenty-ton-treehouse-under-construction-in-sweden-ss-1.jpg)