Andrea Galvani’s Invisible Sculptures

The Italian artist explores the meaning of experience in his New York Meulensteen Gallery show

Andrea Galvani, A Few Invisible Sculptures #1 (2011/2012), C-print on aluminium dibond, edition of 49.2 x 68.9 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Meulensteen, NY

Inside the mind of Carmen Herrera

Exploring the creative processes of artists featured in Vitamin P2

Portrait of the artist Carmen Herrera, photo by Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu

How to be a stylish audiophile

From the packaging to the design of its products Scandanavian company AIAIAI makes any audiophile look good

Wolfgang Tschapller's Viennese fancy

Wolfgang Tschapller wins the competition to transform the university where he studied architecture as a student

Wolfgang Tschapeller

Rui Grazina's Muse Music

The designer and architect on the music that gets him in a creative mood

Rui Grazina (left), a recently completed private house in Barcelos, Portugal (bottom right) and Laurie Anderson (top right)

Michael Heizer's rock begins to roll

Land artist Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass begins its slow journey to LACMA 42 years after he conceived the idea

Michael Heizer's 340-ton rock, Levitated Mass

How Buckminster Fuller inspired Mad Max

The Thunderdome is the evil twin of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes according to Tom Morton

The Thunderdome from Mad Max 3

Architects :mlzd create perforated bronze museum

Switzerland-based :mlzd's striking museum slots into the 13th century fortified town of Rapperswil-Jona seamlessly

Rapperswil-Jona Museum, Switzerland by :mlzd

Martin Creed 'redesigns' London restaurant

Turner Prize winner creates zigzagging marble floorpiece to mark Sketch in Mayfair's tenth birthday

Martin Creed at Sketch, London (2012)

Inside the mind of Makiko Kudo

Exploring the creative processes of artists featured in Vitamin P2

Makiko Kudo, After a Typhoon (2011)

Craig Garrett's Muse Music

Phaidon's Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Art on the music that gets him in a creative mood

Aphex Twin (left), Phaidon's Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Art, Craig Garrett (top right) and Pawel Althamer's Common Task (2009)

Better Buy Design - The PH Artichoke

Poul Henningsen's 1958 design is not only a stunning statement but also a study in how to light a room correctly

Poul Henningsen's PH Artichoke pendant light

Anders Krisár's unusual body of work

Battered by drugs or maimed by acts of violence, the Swedish artist's heads and torsos evoke human frailty

Anders Krisár, Sonya (layers) (2008)

It was 25 years ago today

Andy Warhol died on February 22, 1987 but his influence on high art and popular culture is as strong as ever

David McCabe, Andy in a street of New York City (spring 1965)

Katie Scott's underwater world

Anatomical accuracy meets scientific fantasy in the illustrations for Fish: Recipes from the sea

Some of Katie Scott's illustrations for Fish: Recipes from the sea

Ministry of Design gets to the point

Singapore-based architects' beach-side gallery space in China seeks to question, disturb and redefine

Ministry of Design, Vanke Triple V Gallery

How Disasters Of War made Goya a 'modern' artist

The artist's 200-year-old macabre depiction of the effects of conflict on civilian and soldier is still relevant today

Goya, Disasters of War No. 72 (1810-1820)

All eyes turn to Australian architecture

Mark Loughnan, principle architect of HASSELL says now is a great time to be in the Southern Hemisphere

HASSELL's Giant Panda Forest at Adelaide Zoo

Edward Barber's Muse Music

Designer of the London 2012 Olympic torch on the music that gets him in a creative mood

BarberOsgerby's winning Olympic Torch 2012 design (left), portrait of Edward Barber (top right) and Cat Power (bottom right) who appears on his Muse Music playlist this week

Make yourself at home in Hollywood

XTen architects create a striking live-in sculpture

XTEN Architects' Nakahouse overlooks the Hollywood sign

Vivian Maier - the woman unknown

The phenomenon of the photographer's lifetime of work found in a Chicago warehouse continues

Vivian Maier takes one of her many blurry and distorted self-portraits, date unknown

Sharp new talent wins MoMA PS1 competition

HWKN's mist-blasting water-expelling design due to open this summer

HWKN (HollwichKushner) winner of the 2012 Young Architects Program (YAP) at MoMA PS1 in NY

Inside the mind of Nina Chanel Abney

Exploring the creative processes of artists featured in Vitamin P2

Portrait of the artist Nina Chanel Abney (left) and her work Randaleeza (2008), Acrylic on canvas, 228.5 x 233.5 cm (right)

John Pawson's Muse Music

The acclaimed minimalist architect on the music that gets him in a creative mood

Portrait of the Architect John Pawson who has chosen this week's Muse Music (top left), image from the interior of his Novy Dvur Monastery (2003) (right) and The Rolling Stones (bottom left) who feature on his playlist

Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art gets new look

Architect Sam Marshall on how the city itself inspired his dramatic MCA renovation

Sam Marshall's design for the new look Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney

Tallest residential building in Manhattan takes shape

Towering a thousand feet over Central Park, Christian de Portzamparc's One 57 is New York's newest des res

Marc Newson makes the compact camera cool again

The London-based Australian designer creates a camera you'll never forget to take with you

The Pentax K-01 designed by Marc Newson

Inside the mind of Stephen Bush

Exploring the creative process of an Australian artist featured in Vitamin P2

Portrait of the artist Stephen Bush (right) and his work Kapock (2010), Oil and enamel on linen, 200 x 310cm (left)

A closer look at the new Design Museum

Deyan Sudjic takes us through the building proposal by architect John Pawson

Maquette of the new Design Museum

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei join forces again

Following the success of the Bird's Nest at the 2008 Beijing Olympics the trio will design the Serpentine Pavilion

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei pictured whilst taking a moment off from working on the Bird's Nest Stadium for the Beijing Olympics

Kusama: 'I promised myself I'd conquer the world'

A rare video interview with Yayoi Kusama and part two of our chat with Tate Modern curator Frances Morris

Yayoi Kusama with Accumulation pieces at her studio in New York (c.1963-64)

The Australian beach house with a twist (or two)

McBride Charles Ryan's Klein House is based on 'the Klein bottle' - a structure with only one definable surface

Klein Bottle House by McBride Charles Ryan

United Visual Artists' Muse Music

The art and design collective on the music that gets them in a creative mood

Radiohead appear on this week's Muse Music playlist (top left), Matt Clark from UVA talks about the songs that inspire the practice (right) and UVA's responsive light and sound sculpture 'Volume' (2007) (bottom left)

How a Sydney gallery became a focus for Chinese art

The White Rabbit Gallery in Chippendale boasts a more comprehensive collection than any in China

Liao Chien-Chung Garbage Truck (2011) installation mixed media 238 x 208 x 230 cm (left), Cai Lijuan, Linear Space Series, (2011), No. 1 of five pieces 125 x 125 cm, mixed media (right)

Inside the mind of Glenn Sorensen

Exploring the creative process of an Australian artist featured in Vitamin P2

Glenn Sorensen, Behaviour (2009), Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 55.5 cm (left), portrait of the artist Glenn Sorensen (right)

Phaidon's focus on Australia

This month we're looking at all the things going on in art, architecture, photography and design down under

Phaidon is in Australia this February

Park Associati ascend new heights

New project from Milan architecture firm behind The Cube Restaurant boasts biggest climbing wall in Italy

José Luis López de Zubiria wins award for Mugaritz

Spanish photographer's pictures of chef Andoni Aduriz's dishes are awarded prestigious Lux de Oro

One of José Luis López de Zubiria's award winning photographs for Mugaritz restaurant in northern Spain

Gioni named Artistic Director of Venice Biennale

Curator of New Museum's record-breaking Carsten Höller show lands art world's biggest job

Massimiliano Gioni (left) will be the Artistic Director of 55th Venice Biennale and an installation from Rent Collection Courtyard at the Gwangu Biennale in Korea which Gioni curated last year (right)

Artists clown around in LA mansion

Flash mobs, light displays, plate spinning and a macabre twist bring a close to Pacific Standard Time party

Kathryn Andrews, Fork Hunt (2012)

Kate MccGwire's fine feathered friends

London artist aims to seduce and disgust with her pigeon feather sculptures

Kate MccGwire, 'Evacuate' (2010) Photo: Jonty Wilde

New 'invisible tower' evokes spirit of Louis Kahn

GDS Architects' Infinity Tower in Korea is an homage to Kahn's interest in absence

GDS Architects' design for 'Cheongna City Tower' in Incheon, South Korea

Jólan van der Wiel defies gravity

Gerrit Rietveld Academie graduate uses super strength magnet to make uniquely shaped furniture

Jólan van der Wiel's Gravity Stool defies the forces of nature as it is pulled by a

Simon Fujiwara's Muse Music

The installation and performance artist on the music that gets him in a creative mood

Simon Fujiwara's work 'Saint Simon' (2012) (top left) image courtesy the artist © Tate, portrait photograph of the artist Simon Fujiwara (right) and Fleet Foxes (bottom left) who appear on the artist's Muse Music playlist, photo Ali Bagheri

Daniel Libeskind's lighting design creates a Big Bang

Architect teams up with astrophysicist son Noam for chandelier that embodies the history of the universe

Daniel Libeskind and Zumtobel's lighting design 'eL Masterpiece'

Inside the mind of Serban Savu

Exploring the creative processes of artists featured in Vitamin P2

Serban Savu (right) and Weekend (2006)

Heri & Salli's ultimate garden fence

Viennese architectural duo design dramatic swirling structure around Austrian residence

'Landscape Fence' by Heri & Salli, Austria

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz at work on Somali pirate island

Beast And The Sovereign artist works on new paintings on Lamu, scene of a kidnap and gun battle

The artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz amongst his large scale oil paintings

Gerrit Rietveld [The Remix]

Anonymous design collective D-W-A redesigns the Red Blue Chair using classical and dub music as inspiration

The DZA's RnB Extended Edition fom RnB [The reDesign Project] for D-W-A

John Pawson unveils plans for Design Museum

Before and after images reveal a stunning transformation

John Pawson's designs for the new location of the Design Museum in London have been released

Better Buy Design - 606 Universal Shelving System

Where else would you put your copy of Dieter Rams: As Little Design As Possible? (Even if it's on your iPad)

Dieter Rams' 606 Universal Shelving System which has been in production since the 1960s

Alastair Mackie's collision of culture and nature

Although incorporating mouse skulls, trees and mud, the artist's installations become wholly unnatural

Alastair Mackie (left), his piece 'Untitled (sphere)' (2000-9) (right), mouse skulls, glass, wood 26cm x 26cm x 26cm, image courtesy All Visual Arts, photography Tessa Angus

Your own pop up Carlo Mollino exhibition

Czech collective OKOLO celebrates the work and lifestyle of the hedonistic Italian designer

OKOLO has designed a set of paper models inspired by the life's work and passions of Italian furniture designer Carlo Mollino

The sad story behind Gunnel Wåhlstrand's paintings

Images of family members were inspired by a cataclysmic event in her childhood

The artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand (left) and her work By the Window (2003) (right)

SOM create new architectural magic

Architects reveal building with ingenious remote control, energy-saving 'eye' that aids light and airflow

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's competition winning design for the Greenland Group Suzhou Center, Wujiang, China

Richard Meier & Partners build Aztec skyscraper

As the renowned architecture firm announces its third building in Mexico, we speak to the man in charge

Richard Meier & Partners announced this week that the Mitikah tower would be built in Mexico City

Samuel Wilkinson's Muse Music

The winner of the 2011 Design of the Year Award on the music that gets him in a creative mood

Massive Attack (left), the designer Samuel Wilkinson (right) and his energy efficient light bulb 'Plumen 001' which won him the Design of Year Award 2011

The man who made bikes beautiful again

Paul Budnitz puts a sense of style back into cycling

The Budnitz Bicycle

Better Buy Design - Noguchi Table

The perfect place to 'casually' arrange your favourite Phaidon books

Minimal design maximum impact

Rui Grazina’s new private house rises above (and below) challenging terrain

Rui Grazina's recently completed Private House in Barcelos, Portugal

Inside the mind of Antonio Ballester Moreno

Exploring the creative processes of artists featured in Vitamin P2

The artist Antonio Ballester Moreno (left) and his painting, Untitled (Expect Anything) (2011), Acrylic on Canvas, 200 x 25 cm (right)

First look inside A Room For London

Phaidon enters the artwork that's already the hottest ticket in the UK this year

Room for London by David Kohn Architects

Alex Hartley's Muse Music

The Cultural Olympiad artist on the music that gets him in a creative mood

Portrait of the artist Alex Hartley who has chosen this week's Muse Music (top left), the band Talking Heads who feature on his playlist (bottom left) and his work Dropper (2011) which has been positioned behind Victoria Miro gallery during his current exhibition in London

Design Awards 2012 - nominees announced

The Bouroullec Brothers, Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid all included on this year's shortlist

Textile Field at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, fabric by Kvadrat

Agence SEARCH makes waves on the Seine

Up and coming French architecture practice completes swimming pool complex just east of Paris

Agence SEARCH, Aqualade (2011), Val-Fourré Public Housing Estate, photographed by Emile Dubuisson

Tallest building in Kuwait nears completion

Skidmore, Owings and Merill's Al Hamra Firdous Tower almost ready for business

The Al Hamra Firdous Tower is nearing completion

Unravelling before your eyes

Dutch artist Johan Rijpma's video sculpture uses sticky tape to fascinating and hypnotic effect

Johan Rijpma's 'Tape Generations' starts with one roll of sticky tape slowly unravelling

James Nares swings back in time

Early works of influential No Wave artist go on show in New York

'1976 Pendulum' in motion

Brian Griffiths' Muse Music

The sculptor on the music that gets him in a creative mood

Brian Griffiths' work The Body and Ground (Or Your Brittle Smile) (2010) (top left), the group Metronomy (bottom right), and portrait of the artist Brian Griffiths who has chosen this week's Muse Music playlist (right)

Let's hear it for the little guy

Isaac Cordal's tiny cement figures make a big comment on modern society

One of Isaac Cordal's cement figures stands alone

Make a date with On Kawara

Japanese conceptual artist's 'Today' paintings go on show in New York

On Kawara, canvases from the 'Today Series' (1966 - present)

Information overload, analogue style

Hungarian design collective NOMAD capture the rhythm of life on tape

The Walkmans play 'Cacophony' by NOMAD

Cubic kite takes flight in Jersey

Artist and architect's flying sculpture gets airborne - seemingly despite the laws of physics

Sash Reading and Heather & Ivan Morison's 'Three Cubes Collide' gets a final helping hand before it flies above the Jersey Beach

The 12 Days of Architecture: #12 Mexico City, Mexico

Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies by Landa Garcia Landa Arquitectos

Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies completed by Landa García Landa Arquitectos in 2005

The 12 Days of Architecture: #11 Reykjavik, Iceland

Churchyard Offices and Staff Housing for Gunfunes Cemetery by Arkibúllan

Churchyard Offices and Staff Housing for Gufunes Cemetery completed by Arkibullan – architects in 2007

The 12 Days of Architecture: #10 Maebashi, Japan

JIN Co. Office Building by Jun Aoki & Associates

JIN Co. Office Building completed by Jun Aoki & Associates in 2005

The 12 Days of Architecture: #9 Toronto, Canada

Renaissance ROM Gallerieis by Studio Daniel Libeskind with B+H Architects

Renaissance ROM Galleries

The 12 Days of Architecture: #8 Casar de Cáceres, Spain

Casar de Cáceres Bus Station by Justo García Rubío

Casar de Cáceres Bus Station completed by Justo Garcia Rubio in 2003

The 12 Days of Architecture: #7 Victoria, Australia

Medhurst House by Denton Corker Marshall

Medhurst House in Victoria, Australia completed by Denton Corker Marshall in 2007

The 12 Days of Architecture: #6 Boston, USA

The Institute of Contemporary Art by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Institute of Contemporary Art completed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in 2006

The 12 Days of Architecture: #5 München, Germany

BMW Welt Building by Coop Himmelb(l)au architects

BMWWorld Marketing Coop Building completed by Himmelb(l)au in 2007

The 12 Days of Architecture: #4 Jinhua, China

Bridging Teahouse by LAR/Fernando Romero

Jinhua Architecture Park, Bridging Teahouse completed by LAR/Fernando Romero in 2006

The 12 Days of Architecture: #3 Karuizawa, Japan

Villa and Gallery by Makoto Yamaguchi Design

Villa and Gallery in Karuizawa completed by Makoto Yamaguchi Architectural Design in 2003

Everyday Icon #5 Santa Claus

From Mesopotamia to Pennsylvania - how the bearded guy came into being

Haddon Sundblom's painting of Santa Claus for Coca-Cola

The 12 Days of Architecture: #2 Årjäng, Sweden

Dragspel House by 24 H-architecture

Dragspel House completed by 24 H-architecture in 2004

The 12 Days of Architecture: #1 Wolfsburg, Germany

Phaeno Science Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

Phaeno Science Centre completed by Zaha Hadid Architects in 2005

The Phaidon guide to art speak - White Cube

Decoding the language of art criticism

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Gallery Interior Designed by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA (2007)

The Failsafe Gift Guide - chosen by Aaron Rose

The curator who's worked with Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and Sonic Youth recommends his Xmas best buys

Aaron Rose (left) and the cover of Boris Mikhailov's book 'Yesterday's Sandwich' which, Rose has chosen as one of his recommended reads

Tokujin Yoshioka creates a lasting impression

Japanese designer installs Water Block bench in front of Impressionist masterpieces at the Musée d'Orsay

Tokujin Yoshioka's 'Water Block' bench sits in the Impressionist gallery at the Museum d'Orsey in Paris

Failsafe Gift Guide - chosen by Massimiliano Gioni

One of the world's most important curators chooses his favourite Phaidon Christmas reads

Massimiliano Gioni chooses Ed Ruscha's 'They Called Her Styrene' as one of his failsafe gift guide books

Anish Kapoor's 'Tower of Babel' completed

As London Olympics 2012 beckons, its defining structure becomes Britain's largest piece of public art

Anish Kapoor's 'Orbit Tower' in the final stages of its construction with the London 2012 Olympic Stadium to its left

The Failsafe Gift Guide - chosen by James Franco

The multi-talented actor, screenwriter, producer, author and artist chooses the perfect Phaidon reading list

James Franco says that 'Take 100'

Michele Howarth Rashman's Muse Music

The sculptor and creator of 'psychiatric knitwear' on the music that gets her in a creative mood

Artist Michele Howarth Rashman (top right) her sculpture 'He Calls Himself Margaret' (bottom right) and the musician Elliott Smith (left) who features on her playlist this week

A Christmas message from Banksy

Vandalised sculpture attacks child abuse scandals in the Catholic Church

Banksy's Cardinal Sin, photographed by Mark McNulty

The Failsafe Gift Guide - chosen by Judd Apatow

The Bridesmaids producer is today’s guest gift giver (so expect a lot of film books)

Film director Judd Apatow (left) and Phaidon's 500 Self-Portraits, one of his favourite books

What happens when Jenga meets genius

Herzog & de Meuron breaks new ground yet again with the Actelion Business Center in Switzerland

Herzog & de Meuron's Actelion Business Centre, Basel, Switzerland

A museum at one with nature

New York architects Ennead harness Utah landscape for new Natural History Museum

Interior view of the Natural History Museum of Utah. Photography by Stuart Ruckman

Why Clyfford Still's art stayed hidden for 30 years

Painter finally set to take his place alongside Rothko, Pollock and other abstract expressionist pioneers

Portrait photograph of Clyfford Still (left) and his work PH-455 (1949), Gouache on paper, 30 x 22 in (right)

Art's most iconic child stars celebrate 500th birthday

Raphael's famous cherubs venerated in forthcoming exhibition

500 years old and still a kid at heart. Raffaello Sanzio Raphael, Two Cherubs (detail of the Sistine Madonna), (c.1512 -1514), Oil on panel. 265 x 196 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Germany

Inside the mind of Xylor Jane

Exploring the creative processes of artists featured in Vitamin P2

Portrait of the artist Xylor Jane (right) and her work '13,831' (2007), Oil on panel, 31 x 37 in (left)