Meyerowitz honoured, Eugène Atget in Oz, Delhi's new galleries and Willy Rizzo on fashionistas
Phaidon's focus on the photography world takes in stories in the US, UK, India, France, Australia and the Congo
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Zaha Hadid praises Olympics architect Frei Otto
Hadid's Arum installation at Venice Biennale pays homage to pioneering work of Munich '72 architect
![Arum - Zaha Hadid](/resource/zaha-hadid-architects-venice-z160812.jpg)
Is this the last ever painting by Jackson Pollock?
The incredible tale behind Red, Black & Silver - a small painting up for auction next month at Phillips de Pury
![Red, Black & Silver - attributed to Jackson Pollack](/resource/artwork-images-164-744213-jackson-pollock.jpg)
"Honey I shrink wrapped the building!"
Architects SO-IL take novel approach to Kukje art gallery in Seoul - enveloping it in chain mail
![Kukje Gallery, Seoul - SO-IL](/resource/kukje-gallery-by-so-il-ss-2.jpg)
Ferran Adria - no fan of airport food
If you're returning from your summer break you may have shared an experience with the elBulli star
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Norman Foster dazzles at Venice Biennale
Lord Foster teams up with artist Charles Sandison and film director Carlos Carcas at Architecture Biennale
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Eames graphic designs on show
Charles and Ray Eames' lesser known graphic design work gets rare outing in London show next month
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Frank Gehry designs new Facebook headquarters
Largest open-plan office in the world will feature a park on the roof with a walking trail for employees
![Architect Frank Gehry and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg](/resource/frank-gehry-to-design-new-facebook-headquarters-2.jpg)
Irma Boom designs new Rijks Museum logo
The designer of our Hella Jongerius book Misfit creates new identity for Dutch national arts museum
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Guido van der Werve runs for Rachmaninoff
Third instalment of Dutch artist's annual run to composer's grave takes place in New York next week
![Guido van der Werve](/resource/guido-van-der-werve.jpg)
Pussy Riot show opens in Chelsea, NY gallery
Fundraiser goes ahead at Lombard-Freid Projects after appeals to Moscow galleries rebuffed
![Pussy Riot, 2012](/resource/pussyriot.jpg)
Elements take centre stage in photography show
New England-born photographer Leah Oates is one of the contributors to Earth, Sea and In Between
![Earth, Sea And Inbetween - Leah Oates](/resource/leah-oates-01.jpg)
Virginia Overton "parks truck" on the High Line
Brooklyn-based artist, known for work that uses found objects and references labour, lands High Line commission
![Virginia Overton at the Power Station, Dallas](/resource/ps-vo-2.jpg)
Greenland proposed as new Euro travel hub
Ambitious transport project for Greenland will debut at Venice Architecture Biennale
![Greenland Connecting - BIG and Tegnestuen Nuuk](/resource/danishpav05-1.jpg)
Richard Meier condo is most expensive ever in Israel
Meier on Rothschild features a 32nd story penthouse with bullet-proof panic room - it could be yours for $50 million
![Meier on Rothschild - nicknamed the Palace in the Sky - Richard Meier](/resource/meierintelaviv.jpg)
The man who influenced art history
Jean François Niceron was the genius of perspective - his work gave the world some of its greatest artworks
![Perspective - Jean François Niceron](/resource/weird.jpg)
Bernd and Hilla Becher inspire a collection of vases
Italian designer Michael Breschi's vases pay homage to the German industrial landscape photo artists
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FAT create Museum of Copying at Venice Biennale
London architecture practice creates a 5 metre high re-make of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda in Venice
![The Museum Of Copying - FAT](/resource/the-museum-of-copying-by-fat-at-venice-architecture-biennale-2012-1-784.jpg)
The architect's photographer of choice, Hélène Binet
Binet's work is the subject of a series of exhibitions this year, starting at the Venice Biennale
![Hélène Binet, Composing Space](/resource/binet-image.jpg)
The changing face of media and conflict reporting
Wilhelm Sasnal is among the contributors to the thought-provoking Image Counter Image at Haus der kunst
![The House of Osama Bin Laden - Langlands Bell (2003)](/resource/artbgb-langl-bell-630-tease.jpg)
MVRDV debut in Poland with Baltyk Tower
Baltyk Tower cleverly circumvents Poznań planning restrictions (and features a one room hotel)
![Baltyk Tower - MVRDV](/resource/baltyktower.jpg)
British architecture's Olympic spirit in Venice
Instead of one starchitect representing Britain, 10 relative newcomers put forward ideas for the future
![Waiting for the sonic boom at CLUI’s Desert Research Station - Smout Allen](/resource/smoutallen.jpg)
Olaf Breuning returns with Home 3
Swiss artist's third (and possibly final) Home film pays an unlikely homage to adopted home town of New York
![Kerstatter, Home 3 - Olaf Breuning (courtesy the artist and the Metamatic Research Initiative)](/resource/home-3-16-e1345585373897-2.jpg)
Porsche building matches beauty of its cars
HENN architects design streamlined pavilion for new Porsche visitor centre in Wolfsburg
![Porsche Pavilion - HENN](/resource/porsche-pavillon-by-henn-ss-4.jpg)
Labor 13's new slant on the greenhouse
Czech architects employ socialist values of make and mend for house in Vernerice
![Labor 13 House in Vernerice](/resource/casa-reciclada-de-una-granja-en-ruinas-7.jpg)
Kahn/ Selesnick's Mars landscapes
Art photography duo create a series of landscapes for American space agency NASA
![Mars - Kahn/ Selesnick](/resource/nicholas-kahn-and-richard-selesnick-01.jpg)
Disabled and deaf artists show at Paralympic Games
The Unlimited programme represents largest ever series of commissions to disabled and deaf artists
![Fusional Fragments - Marc Brew with Dame Evelyn Glennie. Photo Irven Lewis](/resource/para-2.jpg)
New face of mother Russia
Twelve Russian photographers gather together to show the new face of female portrait photography
![Prisoners - Olga Chagaoutdinova](/resource/show-the-zone-installation-view-1.jpg)
The housing complex inspired by a roller coaster
Parisians Peripheriques Architectes take inspiration from the fun fair
![The Rollercoaster - Parisians Peripheriques Architectes](/resource/roller-coaster-peripheriques-architectes-cf017779-photo-s-chalmeau-non-libre-de-droits-1000x749.jpg)
Hans Ulrich Obrist blasts 'fly-in, fly-out' curators
"It nearly always produces superficial results - making art is not the matter of a moment," says star curator
![Super curator and Phaidon contributor Hans-Ulrich Obrist, 5 in the ArtReview Power 100](/resource/obrist.jpg)
The best start in life
GA Architecture's Lapierre School in Lens, France is designed to inspire little people
![Lapierre school, Lens - GA Architecture](/resource/lapierre-school-complex-ga-architecture-7.jpg)
A beach house for all the family
If you really love your family why not grow old by the sea with them? That was the brief for the S Cube Chalet
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Mary Lydecker's unpleasant postcards
Mary Lydecker's montage images of dystopian locations remind us a little of Martin Parr's Boring Postcards
![New England Beach Oil Fields - Mary Lydecker](/resource/mary-lydecker-new-england-beach-oil-fields.jpg)
The story behind Koons' Cracked Egg
21-year-old art student reveals full story behind the creation of half-a-million dollar artwork
![Jeff Koons and his Cracked Egg](/resource/koons-cracked-egg.jpg)
Andy Warhol versus the Dow Jones
Since the turn of the century, Warhol's Flowers series has faired better than 30 great American companies
![From artnet Analytics](/resource/warholvsdow.jpg)
Martine Franck 1938 - 2012
The Magnum photographer and Phaidon associate passed away in Paris yesterday
![Buddhist monastery, Nepal (1996) by Martine Franck](/resource/franck.jpg)
Zaha Hadid's Venice Biennale installation
The pleated shell-like work embodies the 2012 president David Chipperfield's theme of 'common ground'
![Zaha Hadid Architect's Venice Biennale installation](/resource/hadid-one.jpg)
Is The Shard a "catastrophe"?
Some commentators think the tallest building in Europe has broken London's rules
![Renzo Piano's The Shard](/resource/sdfsdsdf.jpg)
RIBA's sandcastle competition is on tomorrow
The West Wittering competition was rained off back in June, so it's been rescheduled to take place this weekend
![Sandcastle building, the RIBA way](/resource/sandcastle.jpg)
Saudi Arabia's new-look airport
From 2014 Hajj pilgrims can expect a new railway station, restaurant and hotel
![The railway terminal at Jeddah's new-look airport](/resource/railway-terminal.jpg)
Free Franz West screening next Thursday
The ICA commemorates the life and work of the late Austrian sculptor with its screening of Energy Diaries
![Lucas, Raabe and West in Energy Diaries](/resource/energy-diaries.jpg)
Did the art-fair boom close Margo Leavin?
The LA gallery, which represents John Baldessari, says the changing market no longer suits it
![Sediment: Chain Saw and Two Hands
(2010) by John Baldessari](/resource/baldessari.jpg)
Keith Haring's posthumous Tumblr page
The Keith Haring Foundation are uploading all of the late artist's journals to the microblogging platform
![Keith Haring's journal](/resource/keith-haring-journal.jpg)
The Japanese house that's an architectural timeline
The pre-war, traditional wooden Kyo-machiya merchants' house is proud of its 20th century extensions
![TIMELINE Machiya, Kyoto, Japan](/resource/three.jpg)
Nasa's feminised Mars art
The space agency commissions artists Richard Selesnik and Nicholas Kahn to envision life on Mars
![From Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea by Richard Selesnik and Nicholas Kahn](/resource/storm.jpg)
Does this mural really look like a terrorist?
Os Gêmeos' Giant of Boston is characterized as an Islamic terrorist by right-wing TV station
![Os Gêmeos' Giant of Boston](/resource/boston-gian.jpg)
The Iranian Army's brilliant new barracks
Servicemen and women could soon be enjoying rooftop gardens with fine views over their capital soon
![Hootanpei Associates' plans for Iran's new army complex](/resource/barracks3.jpg)
The faked photo - a lesson from history
Faking It, a new show at the Met in New York, tells the pre-Photoshop story of photographic image manipulation
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elBulli wine cellar up for auction at Sotheby's
Entire lot estimated at one million dollars but potentially lots of 'bargains' to be had
![Wine from the last meal served at elBulli](/resource/elbulliwine.jpg)
Banksy's stolen Sperm Alarm on Ebay
London man stands accused of cutting the piece from a hotel wall and offering it for sale on the auction site
![Banksy's Sperm Alarm](/resource/spermalarm.jpg)
Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater art
Environmental artist sinks another 60 statues at underwater Cancun project, Museo Subacuático de Arte
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Erwin Blumenfeld restored, Gianluca Gamberini in Rome, HSBC's photo prize, Stuart Ringholt naked
Phaidon's Eye on the photography world takes in stories from Australia, Italy, France, the UK, US and Denmark
![Backlot Cinecitta, Rome - Gianluca Gamberini](/resource/gianluca-gamberini-backlot-cinecitta-01.jpg)
Douglas Coupland channels Damien Hirst
The Canadian writer's second career as an artist is revealed in these photos of his second home and studio
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Olympic art by Michael Landy and Wolfgang Tillmans
Artists have the last say on the Olympics in witty and revealing series of images
![Olympic Rings - Wolfgang Tillmans](/resource/wolfgang-tillmans-olympic-001.jpg)
Is this the world's greenest building?
Shimizu Corporation HQ is all you'd expect from a company that designs space hotels and floating cities
![Shimuzu's new headquarters, in Chuo-ward, Tokyo](/resource/head-on-view.jpg)
Theaster Gates creates new Chicago artspace
Chicago-based Documenta and White Cube artist takes over downtown bank "to be a good citizen"
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William Eggleston, Boris Mikhailov, Sigmar Polke and Shomei Tomatsu in Barbican photo retrospective
Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s looks at the moment photography became art
![Boris Mikhailov, Yesterday's Sandwich (1965)](/resource/2-boris-mikhailov-boris-mikhailov-dacs-2012.jpg)
Ai Weiwei new interview
"An artist can be taken away from an airport with a black hood, disappeared for 81 days - that scares people"
![Ai Weiwei](/resource/cities-aiweiwei-h-50434881.jpg)
John Everett Millais - portraitist to the stars
Did The Pre-Raphaelite painter’s later works set the standards for public image making?
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Iran's new stock exchange
Alejandro Aravena's design for Tehran's stock exchange is minimal, earthquake resistant and glows like a lamp
![The terrace from Alejandro Aravena's designs for the new Tehran stock exchange](/resource/terrace2.jpg)
Fischli/Weiss will rock you
Rock on Top of Another Rock by Fischli/Weiss will be the first and only public sculpture by the artists in the UK
![Fischli/Weiss - Car 1989](/resource/fischli-weiss-kmlu-08.jpg)
Candida Höfer first big show in Sweden
German photographer, once a student of Stephen Shore, has retrospective taking in work from the 1960s onward
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Premier league crests: a design critique
Design maven Alice Rawsthorn takes a look at British football club crests
![Southampton FC's winning crest](/resource/southampton-fc-club.jpg)
Damien Hirst biggest spin painting ever forms backdrop to Olympics closing ceremony
5,600 metres square Union Flag covers the floor of the Olympic Stadium
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Zaha Hadid's Pierres Vives, Mariscal's wallpaper and the Archipelago cinema at the Venice Biennale
Phaidon's Eye On Architecture takes in stories in the UK, Australia, France, Italy and Spain
![Pierres Vives - Zaha Hadid](/resource/pierres-vives-by-zaha-hadid-ss-1.jpg)
Antony Gormley in Rio de Janeiro
World's most in demand city hosts exhibition by British sculptor at Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre
![Critical Mass II - Antony Gormley](/resource/gormley-1.jpg)
David Byrne's house shot by Gil Inoue
After shooting Marina Abramovic, Brazilian photographer Gil Inoue creates equally revealing portrait of singer
![Floor - Gil Inoue](/resource/gilanuebiryen.jpg)
Who knew concrete could be so cool?
Alien settlement or Swiss gallery? Concrete is full of buildings that stun, amaze and occasionally shock
![Noppenhalle, Zurich - Baierbischofberger Architects](/resource/noppenhalle-zurich-baierbischofbergerarchitects.jpg)
Rio de Janeiro Wallpaper* City Guide - free download
As the Olympic baton passes to Rio Carol Buffara talks us through its attractions and we give you our city guide
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Crystal CG's Olympic Velodrome video
Watch the Tron-inspired video played in the velodrome before every cycling session
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James Nachtwey's weightlifters, Cartier Bresson's decisive moment and shooting Olympic swimmers
Phaidon's Eye on the Photography World focusses on the Olympics (and Sigur Rós)
![James Nachtwey for TIME](/resource/nachtwey-for-time.jpg)
Concrete celebrated by Estonia at Venice Biennale
The modernist quasi-citadel of the Linnahall Convention Center is the focus of homage to concrete architecture
![Linnahall - Tallinn, Estonia](/resource/linahallinsidecover.jpg)
Villa Extramuros by Vora Arquitectura
Villa Extramuros by Vora Arquitectura - a minimalist guest house run by Parisian owners with exquisite taste
![Villa Extramuros- Vora Arquitectura, photo by Adrià Goula](/resource/croppedvilla-extramuros-by-vora-arquitectura-ss-16.jpg)
Farewell Robert Hughes and thanks
The Shock Of The New broadcaster responsible for turning so many onto art dies after long illness
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Dasha Zhukova given Leo Castelli award
Zhukova wins for “pioneering and forward-thinking approach to conceiving of and building new institutions"
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Nicole Kidman's Richard Meier designed apartment
For sale: 176 Perry Street one very careful owner and with views of another stunning Meier building nearby
![176 Perry Street - Richard Meier](/resource/kidman-cover.jpg)
MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch fights back against critics
"It's a wrong idea that to be important you've got to be deadly serious and academic," says "embattled" director
![Jeffrey Deitch of MOCA](/resource/jeffdeitch.jpg)
Gillian Wearing photographs Usain Bolt's 100m win
"I was in row 48, quite high up but just above the finishing line – including the men's 100m," says the artist
![Usain Bolt by Gillian Wearing](/resource/gillian-wearing-olympic-a-001.jpg)
Olympic cauldron designer Thomas Heatherwick on his latest project for Bombay Sapphire gin
From seed cathedral to Olympic flame to 'gin palace' visitor centre, the designer continues to dominate
![Bombay Saphire visitor centre - Thomas Heatherwick](/resource/heatherwick-bombay-banner.jpg)
The microhotel housing Olympic staff
Wonder why those security staff are so smiley? They're all getting a good night's rest in a designer microhotel
![Snoozebox microhotel](/resource/snoozeboxcover.jpg)
An amaze-ing book display on London's South Bank
Artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo amass 250,000 books - including many Phaidon favourites
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Yayoi Kusama covers NY building with Yellow Trees
Japanese artist commissioned to cover a construction site in the meat packing district with netting artwork
![A rendering of what Kusama's Yellow Trees in New York will look like](/resource/kusamaandcondo.jpg)
Goya masterpiece discovered, Facebook censors Richter, Jeff Koons TV and a new High Line billboard
Phaidon's Eye on the Art World looks at stories in the US, Italy, Switzerland and France
![Goya undiscovered for 80 years](/resource/goya-2294334b.jpg)
Architects bring new meaning to mansion on the hill
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Spain create an amazingly secluded house in Ayora, near Valencia
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Christo in trouble over plans to wrap Arkansas river
Pressure groups unite and force the delay of the artist's latest scheme, Over The River
![Over The River - Christo](/resource/20120731-christo-arkansas-river-p1.jpg)
Hadid in hot water, Chipperfield's common ground, Adjaye's double whammy and a new Fuksas airport
Phaidon's Eye on the Architecture world takes in the latest stories from China, Canada, Georgia and Belgium
![Ninotsminda border checkpoint - Luka Machablishvili](/resource/ninotsminda-border-checkpoint-by-luka-machablishvili-8-784.jpg)
Daniel Meadows and one summer in the 70s
Photographer works with Martin Parr author Val Williams on a stunning set of images depicting British seaside life
![Daniel Meadows - from Butlins By The Sea](/resource/from-butlins-by-the-sea-1972-c-daniel-meadows-2569-0-1.jpg)
Mr Brainwash, Banksy and The Beatles
First London show for Banksy collaborator and artist who created Madonna's greatest hits album artwork
![The Beatles - Mr Brainwash](/resource/brainwashbeatles.jpg)
Stolen Dali, Raphael and Roy Lichenstein paintings recovered after failed attempts to sell them
Thieves nil - Artworld 3 as artworks, some missing for decades, turn up in unlikely locations
![Roy Lichtenstein - Electric Cord](/resource/lichtenstein.jpg)
Reinterpreting Hopper, Oscar Niemeyer in 3D, Patti Smith behind the lens and Kodak makes a comeback
Phaidon's photography world news this week takes in stories from South Africa, Australia, the US and UK
![Gita Zimmermann - Topshots!](/resource/gita-zimmermann-topshots-2011.jpg)
Noma at Claridges - the first review
Bloomberg's Richard Vines was among the first people to dine on ants with creme fraiche on Saturday night
![Rene Redzepi at Claridges on Saturday](/resource/nomaclaridges.jpg)
Chris Burden installs skyscraper in shopping mall
Four-storey concept house Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper) to be built in a Pasadena shopping centre
![Chris Burden - Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper)](/resource/burdenl2.jpg)
Roger Ballen behind the scenes with Die Antwoord
Footage surfaces of photographer Roger Ballen talking with Die Antwoord on the set of I Fink U Freaky
![Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord - I Fink U Freaky](/resource/zdjecie-wykonawcy-die-antwoord-zgllx2fudhdvb3jkxzrfy2rinwvmndvfndiwnjmz-800-600.jpg)
Ferran Adria's new restaurant will be called Jaguar
elBulli creator reveals more details about new Mexican restaurant he will open with brother Albert
![Ferran Adria](/resource/adriajaguar.jpg)
Herzog & de Meuron's new art museum almost ready
Herzog & de Meuron's long awaited Parrish Art museum on Long Island will finally open this November
![Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum](/resource/parrishherzog.jpg)
Josef Albers Painting on Paper
Perrin Drumm on the 'freedom and sensuality' of a new show at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York
![Josef Albers](/resource/artwork-images-112457-601394-josef-albers.jpg)
Zaha Hadid - planners are doing 'enormous damage’
Architect on fiery form during Anglo-Chinese business summit in London
![The South Bank complex in London](/resource/southbank-historic-3-red-627-1.jpg)
Philip Treacy on show in Trafalgar square
Milliner to rock stars and royals creates iridescent headwear for Sir Henry Havelock as part of Hatwalk
![Philip Treacy's hat for the statue of Sir Henry Havelock](/resource/20120730hats-promo1-0.jpg)