Martha Rosler's garage sale on now at MoMA
New Yorkers combine Black Friday bargains with a meditation on the suburban culture of buying and selling
![Martha Rosler's Meta-Monumental Garage at MoMA. Photo by Franco Frassetti.](/resource/garageopener.jpg)
Dinos Chapman records sloppy techno
The elder Chapman brother is set to release an album of Throbbing Gristle-influenced electronica next year
![The cover image for Dinos Chapman's Luftbobler album](/resource/luft.jpg)
ITV's new logo unveiled
UK broadcaster employs a colourful twist to its new online and offline identity
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Hilla Becher interviewed at Paris Photo
The legendary German photographer talks about her famous series of industrial images
![Gas tanks, 1983 - 92 by Bernd and Hilla Becher](/resource/bernd-and-hilla-becher-gas-tanks-gas-tanks-1983-92.jpg)
Pop Art goes to the dark side at the Whitney
Sinister Pop highlights the movement's darker, difficult themes of crime, depression, commercialism and war
![Sinister Pop at the Whitney](/resource/1671245-slide-sinister02.jpg)
Slum solutions in tall and short order
Two different architectural practices offer two very different visions for urban renewal
![Bhendi Bazaar plans by Mandviwala Qutub & Associates](/resource/bhendibazaar-opener.jpg)
Designers on Design: Andy Altmann
Why Not Associates' principal reveals his favourite piece of graphic design
![Man Ray, Keeps London Going, Detail (1938)](/resource/mr-1.jpg)
Ai Weiwei new video art shot on public bus in China
'How to Scientifically Remove A Shiny Screw With Chinese Characteristics From A Moving Vehicle In Eighteen Turns' follows the artist's attempts to remove a screw from a public bus as it passes by Beijing political hotspots
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Scrabble design makeover - Comic Sans not included
If you love words and typography and obviously you do - Andrew Capener has designed the Scrabble set for you
![Scrabble](/resource/1671288-slide-cor1994.jpg)
Have Martin Parr shoot you for Christmas
The Magnum photographer and Phaidon artist will shoot 96 portraits on December 16 - book here
![Dog In Sunglasses on Venice Beach (1998) by Martin Parr (the one and only time you'll see a dog in sunglasses on phaidon.com)](/resource/martin-parr-a-dog-with-sun.jpg)
Jamey Stillings photographs Google power plant
Search engine's quest to become environmentally friendly documented by photographer Jamey Stillings
![Blue Earth project Changing Perspectives on Renewable Energy Development - Jamey Stillings](/resource/jamey-stillings-02.jpg)
William Turnbull dies aged 90
An appreciation of the Scottish painter and sculptor, friend of Mark Rothko and "radical modernist"
![William Turnbull 1922 - 2012](/resource/william-turnbull-web02.jpg)
Dali blockbuster opens in Paris this week
Surrealist's retrospective aims to reassess the performance works while also drawing in big crowds
![The Persistence of Memory (1931) by Salvador Dali](/resource/the-persistence-of-memory-1931-salvador-dali.jpg)
New York shows its activist side
Two interesting exhibitions this winter show New Yorkers' role at the forefront of worldwide protest
![Crowd near the Drill Hall on the opening day of the treason trial Johannesburg - Eli Weinberg](/resource/mustnotkillagain.jpg)
Joel Meyerowitz on innocence and experience
In a wide-ranging video interview the photographer talks about the arc of life and how he's captured it in his work
![Joel Meyerowitz beside an image shot by him in Paris, in 1967 - photograph by Jill Gewirtz](/resource/joel.jpg)
David Lynch’s club comes to Art Basel Miami Beach
Film director and painter brings his Parisian Mullholland Drive-themed boîte de nuit to Miami Beach next month
![Club Silencio from David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001)](/resource/mulhollanddrive-clubsilencio-620x333.jpg)
New York’s neighbourhoods still need you
Filmmakers, photographers and art world luminaries are spearheading the post-Sandy clear up - you can help too
![Rockaway - Peter van Agtmael](/resource/petervanagtmaelrockawaypicmagnum-10.jpg)
Magnum's Harry Gruyaert on Henri Cartier-Bresson
We bump into the Belgian photographer at the Somerset House show Bresson: A Question of Colour
![Harry Gruyaert Belgium Flanders-region- Province Of Brabant 1988](/resource/20121108102644888283e.jpg)
Frank Lloyd Wright for sale - but is it authentic?
Scholars dispute the authenticity of this Petre island home, built from Wright plans drawn up over 50 years ago
![The Massaro House on Petre Island, New York State](/resource/petre-619x490.jpg)
All you need to know about The Abu Dhabi Art Fair
The fourth edition finished earlier this month, attracting some big names - and altering some art fair conventions
![Chairs by Tadashi Kawamata at the Abu Dhabi Art Fair](/resource/abu-dhabi-620x420.jpg)
David Shrigley designs Aspen ski pass
David Shrigley joins roll call of artists including Peter Doig who've designed passes for Art In Unexpected Places
![Ski Pass for Aspen - David Shrigley Images courtesy of the artist and Galleri Nicolai Wallner](/resource/shrigley.jpg)
What to see at Paris Photo 2012
The world's foremost photography fair begins today - here's what to look out for
![Matthew Brandt, American Lake, WA D7 (2011)](/resource/parisphoto-1-620x368.jpg)
Is that Larry Gagosian in Tom Wolfe's new book?
Back To Blood uses Art Basel Miami Beach as the backdrop to a tale of excess in the art world
![Larry Gagosian and Damien Hirst](/resource/larygagosian-anddamienhirst.jpg)
Bacon helps Sotheby's bring in highest sale ever
Sheer 'wall power' of Rothko, Pollock Warhol and Bacon sees Sotheby's take $375,205,000 - breaking all records
![Untitled (Pope) (1954) by Francis Bacon sold for $29.8m earlier this week](/resource/baconpope-620x368.jpg)
Hadid on life as an Arab woman architect
'The moment my woman-ness is accepted, the Arab-ness becomes a problem', says Pritzker Prize-winner
![Zaha Hadid](/resource/hadid.jpg)
J Mayer H's Black Sea sculpture: foundation or folly?
German firm's striking new structure opens in the Georgian Black Sea Port of Lazika but it has an uncertain future
![J Mayer H Lazika sculpture (2012)](/resource/jmayerhlazikapier.jpg)
Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #1
Legendary Magnum photographer talks about the chance meeting that led to his photo: Young Monk In A Teashop
![Young monk in a teashop, Bodh Gaya, India 2000 - Steve McCurry](/resource/india-10015nf.jpg)
Beijing art district threatened by Las Vegas makeover
798 Art Zone to undergo redevelopment, including Cirque du Soleil-style theatre - what will happen to the artists?
![Beijing's 798 art district](/resource/chinesegallery.jpg)
Jon Crispin's suitcases of psychiatric patients
Poignant photos of belongings left behind at New York insane asylum reveal private lives of patients
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Brazilian artist Rodrigo Braga at São Paulo Bienal
Nature, blood, pain, death and struggle feature heavily in the work of this hotly tipped young Brazilian artist
![Rodrigo Braga, Comunhão (2006)](/resource/rodrigo-braga-cominh-o.jpg)
Warhol sale results: one Arnie worth two Stallones?
The first Warhol at Christie's sale raised $17m last night, though figures varied among the celebrity photographs
![Sylvester Stallone (1980) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1977) by Andy Warhol](/resource/warholslyandarnie.jpg)
Art lovers protected by giant funnels in Taiwan
Dadong Art Centre in Taiwan uses membrane roofing and funnels to deflect extreme weather
![Dadong Art Centre - de Architekten Cie / MAYU Architects](/resource/nandon.jpg)
Gregory Crewdson laid bare in new film
Ex-punk rocker turned photographer's obsessive and impeccable attention to detail on show in new documentary
![Untitled (Ophelia) by Gregory Crewdson from the Twilight series (2001)](/resource/crewsdon-opener.jpg)
Saadiyat: 21st century architectural mecca?
The newly developed Abu Dhabi island is set to house architecture by Pritzker Prize winners Frank Gehry, Sir Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando
![The Zayed National Museum, designed by Sir Norman Foster](/resource/zayed-national-museum.jpg)
MoMA captures Tokyo's post-war Avant-garde
New MoMA show examines the Japanese capital's avant-garde art scene during the boom years 1955 - 1970
![Ay-O Pastoral (1956)](/resource/ayo-pastoral.jpg)
Andy Warhol in 3-D
Why is Christie's giving away 3-D glasses to view Warhol's work at its New York sale this Wednesday?
![detail from Statue of Liberty (1962) by Andy Warhol](/resource/statue-of-liberty2.jpg)
Marimekko takes to the air
Finnair planes to become 'roving ambassadors' of timeless Finnish design and creativity
![Marimekko for Finnair](/resource/marimekko01.jpg)
Nika Neelova wins Sculpture Shock award
Phaidon's one to watch at Crisis Commission show wins Royal British Society of Sculptors award
![Nika Neelova, Partings (2012), concrete casts from a Somerset House door, burnt timber, rope, 4m x 3m approx](/resource/nika-neelova-new2.jpg)
Thomas Brown and Anna Burns take on B movies
Guns and girls are replaced by the humble umbrella in the photographer and creative director's homage
![Pop Pop BANG - Thomas Brown and Anna Burns](/resource/thomas-brown-and-anna-burns-06.jpg)
Why is Arthur Bispo do Rosário so revered right now?
Brazilian artist Arthur Bispo do Rosário was compared to Andy Warhol for the way he recycled everyday objects, never sold a work during his liftetime and died in 1989 - why the sudden fascination ?
![Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Installation view, Sao Paulo Bienal (2012)](/resource/12265349.jpg)
Ten questions for Pace Gallery's Arne Glimcher
The legendary international dealer on his lifelong friendship with Agnes Martin, the increasing importance of Chinese art, his little known Hollywood career, what he hangs at home and his favourite ever mambo song
![Agnes Martin and Arne Glimcher in her new truck, Galistera, New Mexico (1979); Arne Glimcher photographed by Ronald James](/resource/amcvr.jpg)
The story behind the most retweeted photograph ever
Photograph of Barack Obama embracing his wife after re-election is most popular ever on the net, but who took it?
![Scout Tufankjian - Barack and Michelle Obama](/resource/obama.jpg)
Huge Francis Bacon show comes to Sydney
The Art Gallery of New South Wales hosts the painter's first major retrospective in the country
![Francis Bacon, Three studies for a self-portrait (1979–80)](/resource/bacon-five-decades-620x253.jpg)
Harland Miller closes White Cube Hoxton
The British artist's show, opening today at The White Cube Hoxton Square, will be the London gallery's last
![Harland Miller Fuck Art Let's Dance (2011)](/resource/harland-miller-white-cube-the-next-lifes-on-me-620x396.jpg)
Record prices or a crack in the market?
Views differ as big NYC auction houses meet the post-Sandy, post-election bidders at their autumn sales
![Claude Monet's Nymphéas (1905) sold for $43,762,500 (£27,570,375)](/resource/monetlilies-2-620x368.jpg)
René Burri's 'The Germans' inspires Andreas Herzau's 'The Swiss'
German photographer Andreas Herzau was born in 1962, the same year that Swiss photographer René Burri's series The Germans was published. Guess what he's done. . .
![Die Shweizer - Andreas Herzau](/resource/016herzau-die-schweizer-33799506.jpg)
Would you live in Softkill's house?
It's made with 3D printers using an algorithm that mimics human bone growth
![Softkill's Protohouse. Photo by Julia Kubisty](/resource/1260x840-a-11-620x413.jpg)
Andy Warhol versus Star Wars
Camille Paglia calls Revenge of The Sith most powerful work of art in 30 years (but she thinks Andy's great too)
![Andy Warhol with camera (1967)](/resource/warhol-camera.jpg)
Hermitage modern art wing opens with shows by Jake and Dinos Chapman and Dmitri Prigov
12 modern art rooms planned ahead of massive refurbishment of 250-year-old St Petersburg museum
![Fucking Hell - Jake and Dinos Chapman](/resource/2955030265-2b3924c85b-o.jpg)
Mexican architects model chapel on Virgin Mary
Robes of Our Lady of Guadalupe provide divine inspiration for architects FREE in Miami
![Miami Chapel by Free](/resource/dezeen-miami-chapel-by-free-ss-1.jpg)
Warhol's flowers are out again in New York
The 1960s series of paintings are brought together in Manhattan once more - 48 years after they first appeared
![Flowers by Andy Warhol (1964)](/resource/warhol-flowers-opener.jpg)
Randall Museum fosters love of science
San Franciscan artist Charles Sowers turns aerial currents into a fun art exhibit at kids museum
![Windswept by Charles Sowers (2012)](/resource/windswept-qwerty-opener.jpg)
Photographers capture America at the polls
Yesterday was an historic day for US politics and The New Yorker’s photographers were there to document it
![Photo Darcy Padilla](/resource/darcy-padilla-agence-vu-33.jpg)
Protest posters: democratic graphics' high point?
An exhibition of Californian posters remembers an age when people power and great design worked in harmony
![Ecology Now, Earth First, (1970)](/resource/ecology-now-lg.jpg)
Nicolas Karakatsanis's dark side
The Belgian shoots ads and movies, but his fine-art photography throws commercial work into relief
![Untitled (2011) by Nicolas Karaktsanis](/resource/alice.jpg)
Do you know a kid who can do better than Mariscal?
If so get them to enter our competition to redesign The Art Book cover and win a Phaidon art library for their school
![The Art Book](/resource/abcomp.jpg)
Ai Weiwei - "I wish Obama luck on election day"
"Obama seems more reliable than his opponent," says Chinese artist and activist as America goes to the polls
![Ai Weiwei](/resource/120620100202-china-weiwei-story-top.jpg)
Joel Meyerowitz - "Every street has its own identity"
Diamond dealers, dames and the long dark days of winter - photographer Joel Meyerowitz spent day after day, year after year, walking the streets of Manhattan - in this video he describes some of what he saw
![NYC New Year's Eve 1965 - Joel Meyerowitz](/resource/5846253870-1b8b7c385a-b-e1309201189241.jpg)
Oscar Niemeyer designs Converse range
The Brazilian Modernist master architect works his philosophy of curves into a new range of shoes
![Converse x Oscar Niemeyer's Chuck Taylor All Star Hi](/resource/converse-x-oscar-niemeyer.jpg)
'New' Titian St John the Baptist confirmed by Prado
Third St John the Baptist painting is confirmed by Museo del Prado as created by the hand of the master
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Will Foster's Paris Twin Towers get the go ahead?
Two 323 metre-high skyscrapers designed by Foster+Partners could change the shape of Paris skyline
![Fosters + Partners' Hermitage Plaza](/resource/fostertowers.jpg)
NYC's arts community rallies around after Sandy
NY's art scene is trying to bounce back. Here's what it's doing and here's how you can help - wherever you are
![Detail from 20X200's Blue Marble Hurricane Sandy print](/resource/proportional-1000-bluemarble-sandy.jpg)
Introducing Magnum's newest recruit Olivia Arthur
Photographer spent time gaining the trust of women in Saudi Arabia and captured a startling series of images
![Olivia Arthur](/resource/olivaarthur.jpg)
Daniel Baer's collaboration with Joel Meyerowitz
The Swiss designer tells us about making an incredible book for an incredible photographer
![Joel Meyerowitz - Taking My Time](/resource/takingmytime-620cover.jpg)
Lucas Arruda brings painting back to São Paulo
28-year-old Brazilian painter's work is a hit in a Latin American city dominated by conceptual and video art
![Lucas Arruda, untitled (2011)](/resource/arruda.jpg)
The Art Book Challenge at St Pancras
Art buffs, French tourists, wayward school kids and grandparents all took the Phaidon Art Book Challenge at St Pancras on Saturday. Could there really only be one winner?
![The Art Book Challenge at St Pancras on Saturday](/resource/photo-3.jpg)
Iwan Baan photographs a powerless New York
New York magazine uses the Dutch photographer's image of New York for the Hurricane Sandy edition
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New York art world counts the cost of Sandy
"The whole river came in and swept up Chelsea," Pace Gallery's Arne Glimcher tells phaidon.com
![CRG Gallery - photo Robert Caplin](/resource/01chelsea-articlelarge.jpg)
Mercury City beats Shard to 'tallest in Europe'
New Moscow tower tops out above Renzo Piano's Shard to become tallest in Europe
![Mercury City - Moscow](/resource/mercurytower.jpg)
Win Phaidon books at The Art Book Challenge
Your chance to win an entire library of books at The Art Book Challenge at St Pancras International
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Danh Vo wins Hugo Boss prize
Show at the Guggenheim for one of Phaidon's favourite artists at this year's Frieze Art Fair
![We Are The People - Danh Vo](/resource/danh-vo-we-the-people-photo-nils-klinger-41-600x399.jpg)
HENN build 'floating' museum on the Yangtze River
The diamond-panelled Nantong Museum of Urban Planning is HENN's latest high-profile waterside project
![Nantong Urban Planning Museum - HENN](/resource/henn-nantong-urban-planning-museum-06.jpg)
Arne Glimcher talks Agnes Martin
On the night Sandy hit New York, super dealer Arne Glimcher was on the Charlie Rose show - here's the video
![Arne Glimcher by Weston Wells](/resource/arne-glimcher-by-weston-wells.jpg)
Sao Paulo Bienal hailed as best ever
With Brazil in the ascendency the Sao Paulo Bienal steps up a gear and is widely hailed as the best in history
![Parque Industrial - Edouard Fraipont](/resource/uselesscms.jpg)
Detour art and design festival opens in Hong Kong
Launched in 2006 as a fringe programme in Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week, Detour is now a high-profile art and design festival in its own right - this year it reaches out to Denmark, Germany, Japan and the US
![Brainwashing machines - Kacey Wong](/resource/749-brainwashing-machines-by-kacey-wong-low.jpg)
Studio Fuksas covers building in petals
Innovative roof system sees 11 steel petals protect Georgian Government workers against inclement weather
![Tbilisi Public Service Hall - Studio Fuksas](/resource/1350097503-dsc0329-copia-1000x664.jpg)
Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour
Fascinating new show of unseen Henri Cartier-Bresson photographs looks at how the master's black and white prints influenced the colour ones of those who trailed in his wake
![Helen Levitt - Cat next to red car, New York - 1973](/resource/helen-levitt-cat-next-to-red-car-new-york-1973.jpg)
A new look for Noma
Space Copenhagen reworked the interior of world's best restaurant while René Redzepi watched the Olympics
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Hurricane Sandy as captured by VII Photo's Ashley Gilbertson and Jessica Dimmock
The VII photographers headed out onto the streets of New York to photograph the aftermath of the disaster
![Jessica Dimmock - Reporters on 8th Avenue October 30, 2012](/resource/jessica-dimmock-reporters-on-eighth-avenue-october-30-2012.jpg)
Ten questions for branding guru Michael Johnson
The Creative Director of design consultancy Johnson Banks on how to pick up good ideas by osmosis, which countries turn out the best design and what he thinks about eBay's rebranding
![Milton Glaser, I Love NY More Than Ever (2001) and Michael Johnson](/resource/problem-solved-cvr.jpg)
Snøhetta's interactive opera house
Norwegian architecture practice aims to democratise opera with new structure in Busan, Korea
![Busan Opera House - Snøhetta](/resource/1350525329-snohetta-busan-oversiktsbilde-wwwmir-no.jpg)
Bouroullec Brothers create the seat of learning
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec turn their attention to keeping university students focussed on their work
![Bouroullec Brothers for Hay](/resource/bouroullec10.jpg)
Martin's Rauch's mud house
Austrian architect is at the forefront of a number of innovators building with mud - why?
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The ultimate off street parking
Moomoo Architects' next project: a house with parking space - for a yacht
![Yachting House by Moomoo Architects](/resource/yachting-house-by-moomoo-architects-2-1.jpg)
Zaha Hadid designs house for Naomi Campbell
Russian businessman Vladislav Doronin commissions Dame Hadid to create house for supermodel girlfriend
![Capital Hill Residence - Zaha Hadid](/resource/capital-hill-residence-for-naomi-campbell-8.jpg)
See VII Photo films next month
VII Photo agency tops off most successful year ever by showing documentary work next month
![Curse of the Black Gold - Ed Kashi](/resource/blackgold.jpg)
Brazil meets Britain in new show
Concrete Parallels: Brazilian and British constructivist Art finds interesting links between post war abstraction
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Desi Santiago's Art Basel Miami debut
Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen and Louis Vuitton collaborator reworks Miami Beach Hotel for art fair
![Desi Santiago](/resource/desi1.jpg)
Joseph Beuys goes back to his childhood
Photographer Gerd Ludwig follows the artist back to his hometown where he witnessed the birth of the Nazis
![Joseph Beuys by Gerd Ludwig](/resource/joseph-beuys-by-gerd-ludwig-02.jpg)
Joel Meyerowitz - 'Dad always said, pay attention!'
Photographer reveals how his boxer father taught him how to anticipate people's moves - in all their forms
![Joel Meyerowitz pays attention](/resource/joel-meyerowitz-phillip-lopate-joel-meyerowitz-uoktymvursnl.jpg)
Helmut Lang teams up with Shelter Serra
Nephew of minimalist legend Richard Serra creates silicon engine blocks in conjunction with fashion designer
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Vito Acconci made designer of the year
Perhaps best known for masturbating under the floor of a gallery and following strangers around New York, the incredible artist's reinvention as designer and architect is recognised with Design Miami award
![Vito Acconci - Design Miami](/resource/vito-project-1.jpg)
Jeremy Deller wants art to be more playful
The Turner Prize winner endorses a new £30,000 award for playful art, hosted by Bristol venue, The Watershed
![Jeremy Deller by Isabelle Gressel](/resource/jeremy-deller-by-isabelle-gressel-620x411.jpg)
Guido van der Werve stops the world in New York
The High Line's Channel 14 venue hosts Dutch video artist's anti-earth-turning work
![Guido van der Werve, ‘Nummer Negen: The Day I Didn’t Turn With the World,’ (2007). (Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine)](/resource/guido-vad-werve-620x374.jpg)
Three massive photo events in Paris next month
Join Elliott Erwitt, Rem Koolhaas, Martin Parr and David Lynch in Paris next month, when the city goes photo crazy
![Elliott Erwitt, New York (1974) from Le Mois de la Photo's Subtle Strangeness exhibition](/resource/erwitt-620x409.jpg)
New Andy Warhol essays by Jeanette Winterson, Hilton Als, Jonathan Lethem and Kurt Anderson
Christie's commissions four prominent writers and art lovers to give their take on the seminal pop artist
![Warhol at Christie's takes place Monday 12 November](/resource/warhol-at-christies-620x463.jpg)
Joel Meyerowitz features in Armani Paris Photo show
Legendary photographer's work part of exhibition celebrating fashion house's Acqua for Life campaign
![From The Elements: Air/Water, Part 1 (2007) by Joel Meyerowitz](/resource/joel-pool.jpg)
Ten Questions for photographer Peter van Agtmael
Magnum's W Eugene Smith Grant winner on the rigours of frontline reportage and photographic truth telling
![US army training dummy, Fort Jackson, South Carolina Sept 2011; and self portrait, both by Peter van Agtmael](/resource/vanagtmaelcomposite.jpg)
World's largest dome built in Singapore
With it's moveable domed roof Arup's National Stadium resembles an old school Bond villain's lair
![National Stadium, Singapore - Arup](/resource/1349801447-image009-c-singapore-sports-hub-oaker.jpg)
Peter Gabriel acclaims Phaidon's The Art of Looking Sideways in 'So' 2012 tour programme
Alan Fletcher's incredible graphics primer gets singer's endorsement in Back To Front tour programme
![Alan Fletcher, one of PG's tips](/resource/pgstips.jpg)