The Iron Curtain is lifted on Modernist architecture
Brilliant new show in Vienna looks at Socialist architecture from Russia and its satellite states
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
Revel in Fabian Oefner's Dancing Colours
The Swiss photographer uses flash-linked mics to capture this dazzling intersection of sound and colour
John Pawson curates Phaidon online exhibition
Churches, houses, stadia and even a police station from 20th-Century World Architecture picked for online show
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
Pilgrims’ progress inspired by great design
Aptly-named Swiss architects Christ & Gantenbein build inspirational concrete structure on Mexican pilgrim route
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'
Total’s Berlin HQ has the ripple effect
Barkow Leibinger's faceted concrete piers twist and turn, almost as if they’re plaited
MAD create new contoured village by a Chinese lake
700 apartment settlement blends with Taiping lakeside at foot of eastern China’s Huangshan Mountains
Ten questions for photographer Roger Ballen
The photographer on viewing life differently, our dark side and why birds get bored in photo shoots
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
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?
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”
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
Rolf Müller's tidal shift
A look back at the moment a young German graduate changed the course of graphic design
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
20 ton 'treehouse' built in Swedish forest
"Nothing remotely similar has ever been done before" say Rintala Eggertsson Architects
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
Dinos Chapman records sloppy techno
The elder Chapman brother is set to release an album of Throbbing Gristle-influenced electronica next year
ITV's new logo unveiled
UK broadcaster employs a colourful twist to its new online and offline identity
Hilla Becher interviewed at Paris Photo
The legendary German photographer talks about her famous series of industrial images
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
Slum solutions in tall and short order
Two different architectural practices offer two very different visions for urban renewal
Designers on Design: Andy Altmann
Why Not Associates' principal reveals his favourite piece of graphic design
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
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
Have Martin Parr shoot you for Christmas
The Magnum photographer and Phaidon artist will shoot 96 portraits on December 16 - book here
Jamey Stillings photographs Google power plant
Search engine's quest to become environmentally friendly documented by photographer Jamey Stillings
William Turnbull dies aged 90
An appreciation of the Scottish painter and sculptor, friend of Mark Rothko and "radical modernist"
Dali blockbuster opens in Paris this week
Surrealist's retrospective aims to reassess the performance works while also drawing in big crowds
New York shows its activist side
Two interesting exhibitions this winter show New Yorkers' role at the forefront of worldwide protest
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
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
New York’s neighbourhoods still need you
Filmmakers, photographers and art world luminaries are spearheading the post-Sandy clear up - you can help too
Magnum's Harry Gruyaert on Henri Cartier-Bresson
We bump into the Belgian photographer at the Somerset House show Bresson: A Question of Colour
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
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
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
What to see at Paris Photo 2012
The world's foremost photography fair begins today - here's what to look out for
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
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
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
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
Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #1
Legendary Magnum photographer talks about the chance meeting that led to his photo: Young Monk In A Teashop
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?
Jon Crispin's suitcases of psychiatric patients
Poignant photos of belongings left behind at New York insane asylum reveal private lives of patients
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
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
Art lovers protected by giant funnels in Taiwan
Dadong Art Centre in Taiwan uses membrane roofing and funnels to deflect extreme weather
Gregory Crewdson laid bare in new film
Ex-punk rocker turned photographer's obsessive and impeccable attention to detail on show in new documentary
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
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
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?
Marimekko takes to the air
Finnair planes to become 'roving ambassadors' of timeless Finnish design and creativity
Nika Neelova wins Sculpture Shock award
Phaidon's one to watch at Crisis Commission show wins Royal British Society of Sculptors award
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
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 ?
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
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?
Huge Francis Bacon show comes to Sydney
The Art Gallery of New South Wales hosts the painter's first major retrospective in the country
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
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
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. . .
Would you live in Softkill's house?
It's made with 3D printers using an algorithm that mimics human bone growth
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)
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
Mexican architects model chapel on Virgin Mary
Robes of Our Lady of Guadalupe provide divine inspiration for architects FREE in Miami
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
Randall Museum fosters love of science
San Franciscan artist Charles Sowers turns aerial currents into a fun art exhibit at kids museum
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
Protest posters: democratic graphics' high point?
An exhibition of Californian posters remembers an age when people power and great design worked in harmony
Nicolas Karakatsanis's dark side
The Belgian shoots ads and movies, but his fine-art photography throws commercial work into relief
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
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
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
Oscar Niemeyer designs Converse range
The Brazilian Modernist master architect works his philosophy of curves into a new range of shoes
'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
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
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
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
Daniel Baer's collaboration with Joel Meyerowitz
The Swiss designer tells us about making an incredible book for an incredible photographer
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
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?
Iwan Baan photographs a powerless New York
New York magazine uses the Dutch photographer's image of New York for the Hurricane Sandy edition
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
Mercury City beats Shard to 'tallest in Europe'
New Moscow tower tops out above Renzo Piano's Shard to become tallest in Europe
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
Danh Vo wins Hugo Boss prize
Show at the Guggenheim for one of Phaidon's favourite artists at this year's Frieze Art Fair
HENN build 'floating' museum on the Yangtze River
The diamond-panelled Nantong Museum of Urban Planning is HENN's latest high-profile waterside project
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
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
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
Studio Fuksas covers building in petals
Innovative roof system sees 11 steel petals protect Georgian Government workers against inclement weather
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
A new look for Noma
Space Copenhagen reworked the interior of world's best restaurant while René Redzepi watched the Olympics
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
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
Snøhetta's interactive opera house
Norwegian architecture practice aims to democratise opera with new structure in Busan, Korea
Bouroullec Brothers create the seat of learning
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec turn their attention to keeping university students focussed on their work
Martin's Rauch's mud house
Austrian architect is at the forefront of a number of innovators building with mud - why?
