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?

The ultimate off street parking
Moomoo Architects' next project: a house with parking space - for a yacht

Zaha Hadid designs house for Naomi Campbell
Russian businessman Vladislav Doronin commissions Dame Hadid to create house for supermodel girlfriend

See VII Photo films next month
VII Photo agency tops off most successful year ever by showing documentary work next month

Brazil meets Britain in new show
Concrete Parallels: Brazilian and British constructivist Art finds interesting links between post war abstraction

Desi Santiago's Art Basel Miami debut
Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen and Louis Vuitton collaborator reworks Miami Beach Hotel for art fair

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

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

Helmut Lang teams up with Shelter Serra
Nephew of minimalist legend Richard Serra creates silicon engine blocks in conjunction with fashion designer

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

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

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

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

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

Joel Meyerowitz features in Armani Paris Photo show
Legendary photographer's work part of exhibition celebrating fashion house's Acqua for Life campaign

Ten Questions for photographer Peter van Agtmael
Magnum's W Eugene Smith Grant winner on the rigours of frontline reportage and photographic truth telling

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

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

Could you live in a house made from cow's blood?
Eco architecture graduate Jack Munro uses slaughterhouse waste to build houses in Egypt

Franck Allais brands the neighbourhood
French photographer Allais captures logos of delivery vans, lorries and branded cars that pass us by every day

Another Gagosian gallery planned for London?
Will Larry open an additional Mayfair gallery to complement his two other places in the British capital?

Japanese architects put a tree in a townhouse
Japan's UID architecture practice nestles a garden within a house on a cloistered spot in Fukuyama

Sally Mann's bedbound photographs
A look at the American photographer's haunting portraits, taken while recovering from a serious accident

Mario Testino talks death and sexuality
To mark his first US retrospective, the world-famous fashion photographer and Phaidon artist discusses his career

Russell Means, star of Andy Warhol silk screen, dies
Leader of the American Indian Movement, politician and actor dies of cancer on his US Pine Ridge Reservation

Joel Meyerowitz - Fifth Avenue always amazed me!
Photographer recalls early days and just what it took to get the images that became part of photographic history

Ebay gets Pinterest-style design makeover
Hard on the heels of its new logo Ebay gets a Pinterest-style, 'user generated' new look

When Daido Moriyama tried to destroy photography
The photographer discusses his career, including the point when he tried to say farewell to it

Shigeru Ban's Moscow pavilion opens
First look at Shigeru Ban's pavilion for Dasha Zhukova's Gorky Park Garage Center

Renzo Piano talks about his favourite buildings
Architect picks five of his favourite buildings from our book 20th Century World Architecture in today's Times

Brazilian nature provides setting for design biennial
Sao Paulo-based Marko Brajovic uses landscape to create setting for fourth Design Biennial in Belo Horizonte

Norman Foster re-imagines Grand Central Station
Architect is one of three names working on reinvigorating the station which marks its 100th anniversary next year

Renzo Piano designs LA movie museum
Architect works with Zoltan Pali on $250 million museum for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Richard Meier gives students a rare look at collages
Architect returns to his old university with a special surprise for students

Lauren Greenfield on The Queen of Versailles
The photographer and filmmaker who followed the billionaire Siegel family speaks at PhotoPlus in New York

Richard Prince designs drinks can
Appropriation artist, famous for subverting commercial advertising, designs drinks can to debut at Art Basel Miami

Peter van Agtmael wins W Eugene Smith Award
The US war photographer receives $30,000 to continue his work on American conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan

Phaidon author tops ArtReview's Power 100 list
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, writer and curator of Documenta 13, beats Ai Weiwei and Larry Gagosian to top spot

See the changing face of China - in New York
Nadav Kander's award-winning series, Yangtze - The Long River, goes on show in America for the first time

Vitra Design Museum goes Pop!
Warhol, Rauschenberg and Lichtenstein collide with Eames, Sottsass and Castiglioni in new show

New art museum not designed by Zaha Hadid
New MOCA Cleveland is designed by a Middle Eastern-born, London-based female architect - Farshid Moussavi

High speed hub takes shape in Spain
Architects Abalos+Sentkiewicz use aluminium to great effect in riverside town of Logroño

Buckyballs to light up New York
Buckminster Fuller inspires New York's twinkly, wintry public-arts offering

Hear Warhol in Conversation, next month
'68 radio recording, also featuring Paul Morrissey is to be made available via iTunes Nov 20

Poland's communist-era film posters
A new show of Soviet-era Polish film posters reveals a remarkable cache of creativity

Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes
We review the American conceptual artist's new Whitechapel Gallery show

Designers, are you ready for Adhocracy?
Istanbul Design Biennial exhibition brings contemporary production techniques back to the artisan's workshop

Tracey Emin criticises Turner cuts
The British artist demands reversal of budget cuts for the contemporary gallery in her hometown

New Zaha Hadid art museum opens next month
Works by Josef Albers, Damien Hirst, and Andy Warhol to grace Eli and Edyth Broad's art museum

Gerrit Rietveld revitalised by Studio Job
First gallery show in 24 years includes the Red Blue Chair he gave to design legend Wim Crouwel in 1955

Herzog & de Meuron's 'Jenga tower' gets go ahead
Herzog & de Meuron's Jenga tower in Tribeca is finally greenlit but Anish Kapoor's street level art work is uncertain

Juergen Teller shoots his mother in the forest
The German fashion photographer swaps Marc Jacobs campaigns for outdoor shots of his parents

GMP's very Grand Theatre
German architectural giants Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (GMP) create shell-like theatre in China

Louis Kahn's last design opens this month
The plans for an FDR memorial he was carrying when he died are completed four decades after the commission

Jeff Koons goes walkabout
The art star tours his Brussels retrospective, explaining the sexual and artistic underpinnings of his work

High Line architect to redesign Olympic Park
British-born landscape architect best known for Manhattan's High Line to turn 28 acres of London into a fun park

Apple pays up on time
Techonology giant forced to pay Swiss Railway operator SBB for using its trademarked clock design

Larry Gagosian - 'The painting I'd never sell'
The biggest art dealer in the world today gives the lowdown on the global art market in a revealing interview

Eero Saarinen's War Room
Fascinating exhibition examines the mid-century architect and designer's role in the nascent CIA

Ten questions for Frieze curator Sarah McCrory
The art world mover and shaker on gallery openings, supporting the artististic vision and sourcing giant sausages

Mies van der Rohe inspires realist paintings
Karin Kneffel is a former student of Gerhard Richter. Her paintings look real, yet contain many untruths

Rare shots of lost Soviet architecture
British photographer roots out early examples of Soviet building design, constructed before Stalin's reign

Frieze art works fly off the walls
Brisk trading marks preview days as Tate Gallery and new Brazilian collectors buy big

Daido Moriyama sizes up to William Klein at The Tate
The London gallery pairs the Tokyo street photographer with his New York counterpart in great new exhibition

Zaha Hadid's Beijing 'Galaxy' nears completion
No corner suites in this new office and retail entertainment complex - Hadid's first in the Chinese capital

Unseen Andy Warhol sketches on show at Frieze
Pre-Campbells soup cans drawings reveal pop artist as draughtsman during his first decade in New York

Damien Hirst does dustbin
Spot painting adorns high end bin manufacturer Vipp's latest limited edition

Has London changed the way artists do business?
Recent openings in the capital might have brought about a fundamental shift in the way gallerists and artists work

Huge Leica collections go on the block
Bonhams to auction over 250 lots of Leica cameras and accessories next month, in the first sale of its kind

Great Steve McCurry video, on location in Ethiopia
The legendary photographer discusses his work in the Omo Valley, documenting fast-disappearing ways of life

Phaidon photographer Luc Delahaye wins the Prix Pictet 2012
The French former photojournalist's diverse submission scoops the international photography award

Ilona Szwarc's American Girls
The Polish photographer's enchanting series of girl and doll shots raise some seriously adult questions

Tripping the light fantastic
Monet's Water Lilies referenced in Pennsylvania work by British installation and light artist Bruce Monro
