Peter Zumthor to be given a gold medal by the queen
The 'architect's architect' is bestowed the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, personally approved by HRH herself
Dieter Rams - surprise appearance at Braun Prize
Innovative walking sticks, baby carriers and an appearance from design legend are highlights of Braun Prize 2012
Klein Dytham to a T
Klein Dytham's subtle design for Japanese book shop Tsutaya sees them cover the facade with interlocking Ts
School kids inspired by graphics
Vince Frost inspires a generation of budding designers with his work at Stanmore Public School in Sydney
Banksy walls on their way to Miami
Art Miami's fringe pavilion, CONTEXT, will show four Banksy walls, ripped from their original street location
Frank Lloyd Wright in the doghouse
One of the legendary architect's most unusual (and secret) commissions has been recreated for new documentary
Libeskind, Hadid and Yansong’s favourite buildings
To mark the 40th anniversary of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention, CNN quizzes architects on best designs
Does this painting predate the Mona Lisa?
The argument could be settled once and for all today - though some scholars will remain unconvinced
Francis Bacon's 'screaming pope' comes to auction
'Screaming pope' was bought for £71,500 40 years ago. It's now expected to reach £15 million
Roy Lichtenstein at work in his studio
Images from inside the New York Pop Artist's studio go on show in Philadelphia
Brighton Photo Biennial hosts Magnum workshop
Moises Saman, Alessandra Sanguinetti and Mikhael Subotzky run ultimate five day improvement course
Ten questions for FT restaurant critic, former restaurateur and best-selling author Nicholas Lander
The former L'Escargot owner turned restaurant critic on the importance of good table manners, psychic waiters, the charms of Korean cuisine, and why, for some reason, bankers suddenly want to be bakers
"Do you even like Andy Warhol?"
Adam Lindemann discusses Andy Warhol with his psychiatrist and NY Gallerist readers
Art theft hits Santa Monica bond guru
Bond trader Jeffrey Gundlach offers the biggest ever reward for a single work following the theft of his Mondrian
New video shows creation of the Olympic cauldron
Just released V&A video looks at the creation of the 204 petals and the mechanism to raise the structure
Can this building forge a better future for city living?
Siemens' sustainable cities building, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, officially opens this weekend
William Eggleston - unseen Kodachrome dye transfer process photos on show for the first time ever
Pioneering colour photographer's photos on show in California before joining Tate's permanent collection
The Queen Buys Warhol
The Royal Collection Trust buys Andy Warhol's portraits of Elizabeth II to mark her Diamond Jubilee
Vincent's Sunflowers on the move
Massive security operation swings into action as van Gogh's masterpieces leave their museum in Amsterdam
Melbourne University commissions Moshe Safdie
The Israeli-born, US-based architecture star will design Monash University's new Zelman Cowen music school
Damien Hirst's AK47 artwork up for sale
Hirst's peace artwork for Jake and Dinos Chapman goes under the hammer at Phillips de Pury next month
Patricia Urquiola creates Tatou for Flos
Architect turned designer adds Flos to client list that already includes B&B Italia, Alessi, Foscarini and Molteni
Yuri Suzuki's sound sculptures
Yuri Suzuki gets location-specific with a radio circuit board arranged along the lines of Harry Beck’s tube map
A third of Cork Street's galleries to close
London's historic art street is under threat from developers, as plans for luxury flats edge out galleries
Ferran Adria in Tokyo for G9 summit
Chef and president of G9 leads talks over the future of gastronomy and social responsibility
Luc Tuymans' Queen Beatrix painting opens Stedelijk
The Netherlands' leading contemporary art museum commissioned the Belgian artist to paint the Dutch Queen
One Apple 'homage' too far?
Swiss Federal Railway service SBB, takes offence to new look of Apple's clock app for iPad in iOS 6
ALPHAville's geometric house
W-Window House in Tokyo by Japanese architects ALPHAville, is basically a rectangle - with a triangular slice
Hotel Droog opens in Amsterdam
Super cool mini mall for good design features pieces by Hella Jongerius, Maarten Baas and Marcel Wanders
Starck goes prefabulous
Philippe Starck teams up with Slovenian engineering firm, Riko, to build Democratic Ecological Architecture
JFK death art to go on display
Monets and van Goghs in the presidential suite at the time of his assassination to feature in Dallas show
Andreas Gursky new exhibition and new work
Stunning new 2012 work 'Katar' forms centrepiece of new show at Museum Kunstpalast, in Düsseldorf
London Design Festival - 5 things to look out for today
'Don't miss' events, presentations and talks at the London Design Festival today, Friday
Major Chinese portraiture show in Australia
Having rubbished the latest London Chinese art exhibition, what would Ai Weiwei make of the Aussie one?
Man Ray's Portraits: first major retrospective
Britain's National Portrait Gallery to host the first major retrospective of the American surrealist's portraiture
Russian Constructivists meet Aussie Students
Undergraduates at the University of Western Australia make models of unbuilt Russian Constructivist buildings
The Louvre's Islamic Art wing opens this weekend
A new courtyard at the Louvre opens on Saturday, displaying the museum's peerless collection of Islamic art
London Design Festival - 5 things to look out for today
'Don't miss' events, exhibitions and talks at the London Design Festival today, Thursday
Here comes The Istanbul Design Biennial
The Turkish creative community puts itself on the design-shindig map, with an event championing imperfection
Ten questions for Anthony Haden-Guest
The New Yorker, Art Newspaper and Vanity Fair writer, infamous art world veteran, social commentator, collector and notorious bon viveur Anthony Haden-Guest unpacks half a century of fine-art wisdom in ten exchanges.
Cindy Hinant's make-up, glamour and TV show
The American feminist artist's first solo show at Manhattan's Joe Sheftel Gallery plays with feminine ideals and expectations, as well as earlier artistic movements, says Dr Kathy Battista of Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York
Kacper Hamilton's luxury pocketknife
Cutting-edge designer draws on 19th century Japanese metalwork to inspire his latest luxury gadget
Amsterdam's bathtub gallery opens this weekend
The Stedelijk Museum striking new wing, dubbed the 'bathtub', welcomes gallery-goers from this Sunday
Paul Smith, Conran and Hadid's design capsule
London's new Design Museum is to bury a time capsule packed with objects nominated by name designers
Hirst and Documenta break attendance records
Documenta 13 in Kassel proves to be a fifth as popular as the Magic Kingdom and Damien Hirst's Tate Modern retrospective is already the biggest ever for a solo artist at the museum, beating Edward Hopper and Gaugin
KAW create a fortress for women
Victims of human trafficking find hope in this newly greened office block created from a former 70s police station
Paul McCarthy's post-performance props
The Californian artist displays photographs of props used in his provocative early performance works
Philip Treacy reinterprets Jackson's stage wardrobe
The British milliner's London Fashion Week show pairs Michael's wardrobe with his own astounding creations
Renzo Piano's new art museum opens this month
Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museet opens with show featuring work by Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst
Yayoi Kusama early drawings on show
Drawings from the mid-50s at the D'Amelio Gallery include rarely seen images from her Sixties dealer's archive
Photographer Kevin Davies makes Philip Treacy book
Extraordinary set of images of the famous milliner by photographer Kevin Davies coming to Phaidon very soon
New Andy Warhol film to be released
Andy Warhol's 1968 film San Diego Surf which saw his Factory stars constantly harassed by police while filming finally gets a long-overdue release based on a rough cut and Warhol's original notes from the time
Finding inspiration in the dark
Photographer Daisuke Yokota's Back Yard series in which he photographed, printed, then re-photographed and re-printed each image up to 10 times revives 'ancient' skills of the dark room
Rare Picasso turns up but owners have to sell
Most of us are resolved to never owning a Picasso but imagine you had one and were forced to sell it
London Design Festival is here
Ten days of city-wide design events in museums, galleries, shops and decommissioned spaces is about to begin
Rolling Stones enlist Walton Ford for Grrr! artwork
Walton Ford joins roll call of Andy Warhol, Guy Peellaert and Peter Corriston by designing 50th anniversary album
Do US arrivals mean UK galleries will lose out?
The opening of three well-established New York galleries in London this autumn has the British press in a stir
Will Bill Henson get another police raid?
The Australian photographer whose 2008 show led to a police investigation returns with a new body of work
Cai Guo-Qiang wins Japan's Praemium Imperiale
'Exploding artist' takes prestigious award from ruling dynasty for his work Footprints in the Sky
Your bus will terminate here
Timo Klos takes photographs of bus stops but there are no people and no buses - something doesn't quite add up
Massimo Vignelli's NYC subway map is reborn
The Italian designer and Michael Beirut discuss the origins of a design classic
Ten questions for Tate Pre-Raphaelites curator Jason Rosenfeld
Co-curator of Tate show Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-garde and author of John Everett Millais explains why the Pre-Raphs were like The YBAs, how they connect to contemporary art and why Millais was 'a bit McCartney'
Larry Gagosian is officially bigger than the Tate
He started off selling posters from in LA in 1975 now uber-dealer Larry Gagosian's empire spans four continents
Cy Twombly, photographer?
The American painter's lesser-known photographic works are on display in Britain for the first time
Bouroullec brothers prints on show and for sale
Design duo show limited edition prints as part of new Established & Sons initiative, the Wrong Shop
Who's made the cut for 2012 Art Basel Miami Beach?
Details of this year's exhibitors have been made public, prompting some to speculate on 2012's no-shows
Chris Buck's 'invisible' celebrities
Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Michael Stipe, Robert de Niro, Snoop Dogg and Russell Brand all pose for the photographer's camera but are nowhere to be seen in the resulting prints in his Presence series
Ai Weiwei calls for 'argument' not 'cultural exchange' with China in Guardian newspaper piece
Artist says "China's art world does not exist" in critique of Hayward's Art of Change: New Directions From China
Concrete gets another rave review
Atlantic Cities writes "The eye candy here, from the graceful to the brash is enough to open the mind of any skeptic"
John Baldessari, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman unite behind Obama
Big name artists and architect Frank Gehry donate prints to aid Obama's campaign for re-election
How Javier Mariscal designed The Art Book cover
Spanish artist makes a neat video that distills months of hard work into just 47 quirky seconds
Jean Nouvel and Mia Hägg's new look for Stockholm
New collaboration at the Venice Architecture Biennale sees them propose more 'people friendly' Swedish capital
Could Moscow become world's first eco metropolis?
A joint bid to redevelop 150,000 hectares south west of the city aims to ease pressure on the Russian capital
Shepard Fairey admits lying about Obama poster
American street artist gets $25,000 fine and probation for false claims about adaption of infamous Obama image
Bill Moggridge 1943-2012
Bill Moggridge, co-founder of IDEO and inventor of the world's first laptop dies of cancer aged 69
Tino Sehgal spearheads Frieze Talks next month
Fresh from his critically acclaimed Turbine Hall installation, the artist will talk on conceptualism and choreography
Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Paul McCarthy and Tom Friedman star in The Art of Chess
Saatchi Gallery show features a roll call of Phaidon-related artists and international big names
Taylor Wessing shortlist announced
Four young and emerging photographers hoping for success in this year's £12,000 photographic portrait prize
Unseen photos on show in Amsterdam
New photo fair at former gasworks is a rare chance to buy unseen works by big name photographers
Plans for new London airport revealed
Architecture practice Gensler reveals London Britannia Airport - a radical floating structure in the Thames Estuary
Stacked Cabin - a deceptively simple hideaway
Look carefully in the Wisconsin woods - very carefully - and you might just find this Johnsen Schmaling gem
Team GB Paralympians use 3D printed wheelchairs
Last night's match against Turkey saw Team GB win 75-70 - did the high-tech wheelchairs play a part in the win?
Yigal Feliks takes a close look at the lives of soldiers
Yigal Feliks's photos aim to highlight the distance between soldiers' lives and those of the people they protect
Andy Warhol's Brando expected to reach $20 million
One of four silkscreens of Marlon Brando created by the artist is up for sale at Christie's
Mies van der Rohe house opens to the public
McCormick House is restored by Elmhurst Art Museum with new sections open to view
Jordan Eagles - the man who paints with blood
Hemofields by artist Jordan Eagles celebrates life - not death - in a New York gallery
New moon at New Museum
Exhibition of holograms and how they've inspired artists is big hit at New Museum
John Cage's gift to art
On the 100th anniversary of his birth we celebrate the avant-garde composer's lasting influence on modernism
Steve McCurry at St Moritz Arts Festival
Footage from the photographer's recent trip and behind-the-scenes images from his upcoming Pirelli calendar
The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design gets a great review in the influential Creative Review
"The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design reminds you that when print works well it can work like nothing else"
Ferran Adria on the cover of Wired
Spanish superchef and visionary makes the cover of one of our favourite magazines
Richard Meier - first ever building in China
The Corian-clad OCT Clubhouse in Shenhzen, China is open for business. How can we become a member?
Winslow Homer's home opens to the public
Great American painter and printmaker's Maine hideaway set to open later this month
Olympics hits art museum attendance
Visitor number down as much as 40 per cent in August as Olympic fever takes hold of London
Bruce High Quality Foundation go back to school
New York arts collective are back with their own take on the affordable art school
