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?
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
