A Modernist house that spins in the wind
Could Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley’s ReActor house help you with your domestic relationships?

How we made it to the Olympic opening ceremony
Did anyone else spot our colour-coordinated presence in the stands at Rio's Maracanã Stadium last Friday?

What Ed Ruscha sees in the Wild West
San Francisco’s de Young museum looks at the artist’s relationship with the Great American West

Sex, drugs and gardening
A wild trio of films from photographer and Erik Kessels protégé Melanie Bonajo looks for ways to fix our world

Watch Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Shed come to life
In a new animation DS+R show how their NYC building will actually move to house a wide range of programming

Ai Weiwei’s smartphone photography show
The artist and activist is bringing his Instagram shots of the European migrant crisis to Foam in Amsterdam

How Louis Vuitton created modern luggage
Discover how the designer, born 4 August 1821, prepared us all for the age of travel

Luc Tuymans themes his new show around glasses
The Belgian artist draws together a surprising array of specs-wearing subjects in his new portrait exhibition

How photography changed with the Presidential race
A new exhibition shows that despite an overload of images, smart photographers can still make their mark

JR's incredible new Olympics art revealed!
The French artist has pioneered an entirely new technique to bring images of lesser-known athletes to the games

Annabelle Selldorf: from kitchen to art gallery
Watch the architect describe how she went from worktops to Werner in New York

A Movement in a Moment: School of London
Discover how a group of painters working in the British capital during the late 20th century kept figurative art alive

Artists and designers join Hillary's 45 Pin Project
Pentagram partners Michael Bierut and Paula Scher work alongside 43 other talents in a big button drive

Steven Holl's summer house for a 19thC painter
The architect has drawn up a folly plan for the Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church's house

Mark Wallinger gets reflective at the Freud Museum
New works by the Turner Prize winner, installed to mark the 160th anniversary of Freud's birth, dwell on selfhood

Why the Smithsonian will pay you to drink beer
A newly created job vacancy asks for applicants to conduct research into America's craft-beer scene

Olympics architect creates Museum of London
London architect Asif Khan has reworked the city's Smithfield Meat Market in this winning design

Read curator Cecilia Alemani’s High Line highlights
The High Line curator just toured the linear park's current art installation Wanderlust - here's what she liked

London’s V&A is set to move East!
Renderings for London’s new Olympic Park cultural centre and creative hub have just been released

Is it time to catch Ed Ruscha's tropical fish?
Discover the tricksy photography and artful wordplay behind this early series of Ruscha colour prints

Ferran Adrià and Salvador Dalí go on show together
Works by these two titans of Spanish creativity share an exhibition space in Florida this coming autumn

Tales behind the top lots at the Four Seasons sale
The restaurant’s furniture and fittings auction drew some very high bids - and not only because of nostalgia

What is JR creating for the Rio Olympics?
The French artist says this work, part of his ongoing Inside Out project, will be his craziest yet!

One thing not to miss in Rio de Janeiro
If you're visiting for the Olympics try and take in this Brutalist cathedral by architect Edgar Fonseca

Stuart Davis – Proto Pop artist or Modernist master?
Or perhaps even a Cubist as William C Agee, the author of Modern Art in America 1908–68, argues . . .

Oh Maurizio! What have you done in Paris?
Cheeky artist Maurizio Cattelan fills Galeries Lafayette with an inflatable and rather suggestive Eiffel Tower

Tracey Emin and David Shrigley celebrate Rio 2016
The artists have contributed to the official Team GB Rio Olympics print series, produced to mark the Games

Hand drawn visions of the future
The Museum for Architectural Drawing looks back to a time when the future was captured with brushes and pencils

William Eggleston's blood red revelation
Discover how a photo machine changed Eggleston’s world view and encouraged him to favour extreme colours

You can own this Elliott Erwitt shot of Marilyn
On the photographer’s birthday we look back at this Marilyn Monroe photo - one of our great Collector's Editions

Seen Ed Ruscha’s new Stella McCartney campaign?
The veteran Californian pop artist lends his skills to the British fashion house’s autumn 2016 advertisements

Private Ellsworth Kelly collection comes to Berlin
A new Berlin show indicates a growing appreciation for Kelly's work in the continent where he first honed his style

Grace Coddington draws her new Tiffany campaign
Look at these on-set illustrations from the new Tiffany campaign, drawn by Vogue's creative director at large

Why Olafur Eliasson loves this Iwan Baan video
See how the architectural photographer found an accidental urban waterfall a little like the ones Olafur makes

Boltanski's bells and heartbeats come to Edinburgh
The 71-year-old French artist will install a trio of beautiful, spooky artworks in Scotland later this month

Why Frank Lloyd Wright didn't make UNESCO's list
Le Corbusier was added to the World Heritage List a few days ago but not Wright - there's a reason for that

What will happen to this Wild Art building?
Can the Longaberger Basket Company, Ohio, find a buyer for its idiosyncratic office building?

Annabelle Selldorf - 'Good taste has gotten a bad rep'
'Good taste actually has nothing to do with being proper' she tells Elle Decoration in illuminating new interview

Ai Weiwei floats life-vest lotus flowers in Vienna
The artist’s work F-Lotus brings the Mediterranean migrant crisis to the still waters of a Viennese lake

Shigeru Ban's timber trapezoid tower for Vancouver
The Japanaese architect's first building in the city will be the tallest hybrid timber structure in the world

How Judy Chicago made a feminist masterpiece
By reworking Christ's Last Supper Chicago made The Dinner Party, a huge, intricate attempt to redress history

Why did Warhol, Mapplethorpe, Hockney and Ruscha all create portraits of this LA writer?
New California show Rendering Homage: Portraits of a Patron draws from Joan Agajanian Quinn's collection

When Billy Name turned Warhol's Factory silver
Following the photographer's death yesterday, we look back at the time Name gave Andy's loft a foil makeover

The new Design Museum shop is open!
We won't see John Pawson's work on the museum until November but he's just finished the shop nearby

UNESCO honours Le Corbusier
17 buildings by the master modernist including Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation, added to World heritage list

Pentagram's 70s rebrand modernises Mastercard
New typeface, new logotype and new colour but the look remains original for agency's latest great rebrand

Massimo Bottura and Robert De Niro feed the Bronx
The world's greatest chef and the actor and restaurateur plan to open a Refettorio Ambrosiano in 2017

One thing not to miss in Barcelona
If you like tapas and vermouth you'll love Mitja Vida - a classic tavern reborn in a contemporary concrete cube

Gary Hustwit 'My Dieter Rams film won't be messy!'
Director says upcoming Rams documentary won't feature a parade of famous designers but will keep it simple

OMA rework a brutalist Paris warehouse
See how Rem Koolhaas has helped turn Entrepôt Macdonald into a welcoming urban environment

Martin Parr's Brexit buffet
The Magnum photographer photographs the food under threat from the UK's impending EU exit

Rough round the edges - punk London in print
The Michael Hoppen gallery's forthcoming Punk photo show will display vintage 70s prints, wrinkles and all

Classic interiors meet modern Miami
Look at what happens when French interior designer Jean-Louis Deniot works with the architects Arquitectonica

David Bowie's Sottsass collection is up for sale
The auction house has just announced a sale of David Bowie's Ettore Sottsass collection - here's what to expect

Theaster Gates throws a fine-art house party
For his Canadian debut, the Chicago artist is creating a series of house museums (and booking a house DJ)

Grace Coddington's hair: a visual history
Watch the Vogue creative director's charming, hand-drawn hair animation, covering 57 years-worth of styles

The power of Piero Manzoni and his Merda d'Artista
In canning his own excrement, Manzoni created fertile ground for a subsequent generation of like-minded artists

How Lucas Samaras manipulated the Polaroid age
Lucas Samaras pushed film beyond its limits, opening new creative opportunities, but Polaroid did not approve

Zaha Hadid's hyacinth hotel blooms in the desert
The architect may have passed away but plans for this flower-inspired structure have just been unveiled in the Gulf

Ron Arad has reinvented the Watergate Hotel
Sinuous motifs, richly patinated metals and layered woodwork all on offer (and not a bugging device anywhere)

How to stare at the sun from The High Line safely!
Artist Eduardo Navarro's latest project, We who spin around you, allows you to do just that for 3 days next week

Álvaro Siza's latest project is tinged with sadness
Portuguese artist Nadir Afonso never lived to see the brilliant new museum dedicated to his work

Robert De Niro takes JR for a spin round New York!
The native New Yorker and star of JR’s Ellis film helps the artist with latest iteration of his Migrants project

Have you heard Wolfgang Tillmans’ house record?
The five-track record includes work from the 1980s and a track sampling his favourite printing press!

Annabelle Selldorf reinvents another London gallery
The architect is set to incorporate a modern art space into historic Ely House for Thaddaeus Ropac

Le Corbusier's Brutal rooftop is now a trompe l'oeil
Xavier Veilhan’s Open Sky exhibition aims to re-engage visitors with Le Corbusier’s “monumental” housing block

Grace returns to modelling after half a century away!
Vogue’s creative director at large steps back in front of the camera - 47 years after going behind it

Would you let Vito Acconci follow you home?
The new MoMA PS1 exhibition looks back at some of the New York artist's most challenging early works

James Corner brings icebergs to Washington DC
The British-born landscape architect’s new installation at the National Building Museum mimics a glacial ice field

Wallpaper* City Guide launches in Tel Aviv
The Norman hotel provided a swanky White City backdrop to celebrate the publication of the new guide

A movement in a Moment: The Mexican Renaissance
On Frida Kahlo’s birthday, discover how she and her fellow Mexican artists redefined their nation through their work

Ralph Rugoff's brutal music mash-up
The Hayward director and Paul McCarthy author talks us through his new audio visual show in a brutalist building

Sex, Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe
The photographer helped launch her career, yet he also pushed one very specific interpretation of her paintings

Erik Kessels Failed It! in Arles
The photo curator has installed a wonderfully mistaken ridden exhibition at France's leading photo festival

When Bacon went to Monaco
A new exhibition looks at how the high life on the Mediterranean informed Francis Bacon’s greatest artworks

The new $1 million Ellsworth Kelly award
Kelly's foundation has passed on $1m to fund an annual award for a mid-career artist’s museum exhibition

When Warhol painted Uncle Sam
This Fourth of July discover how, in his Uncle Sam silk screen, Andy Warhol captured some deep American truths

Happy 4th of July from Joel Meyerowitz
The photographer tells us how he captured a monad of American life one 4th of July, nearly four decades ago

How to picnic like Olafur Eliasson
Preparing a Fourth of July picnic? Or planning to enjoy an al-fresco meal? Then why not prepare it the Eliasson way

Magnum member Abbas on the agency's new talent
The Magnum photographer describes what he and his members see in the work of new nominee Diana Markosian

Make time today to watch this Wilhelm Sasnal film
Online art film streaming service Vdrome is screening the painter's film Aleksander for a limited period

Barbican set to get all Jutaku next year
Gallery endorses Phaidon’s love of East Asian architecture in forthcoming show The Japanese House

It's horse v dolphin in new Francesco Bonami show
The acclaimed curator and Phaidon author talks us through Melodrama, his new, oppositional two-part exhibition

Why Frieze is remaking this Wolfgang Tillmans show
The London fair will re-stage the photographer's first exhibition, held in Cologne in '93, as part of its new 90s section

Theaster Gates installs hardware store in Prada
New project True Value takes place across Milan in what curator describes as 'a call to arms'

You can now turn your voice into a typeface!
So what does your voice 'look' like? Find out on a site closing the gap between written and spoken word

Failed It! photographer Matt Stuart joins Magnum
Congratulations to the street photographer who was made a Magnum nominee at the agency's AGM

David LaChapelle is selling Keith Haring’s last painting - because he can’t display it properly
'A dark living room is no place for a masterpiece' he says as he consigns The Last Rainforest to Sotheby's

Helvetica director turns his camera on Dieter Rams
Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanised focuses on the 84-year-old Braun legend

Wolfgang Tillmans writes on Brexit in Zeitung
'It’s now the duty of us all to defend the pillars of the free world order - to hold the centre ground'

Sterling Ruby at the Ronald Reagan library
The US punk-skater-turned-artist talks art and politics at Ronnie's memorial library in California tonight

Raymond Pettibon goes back to the Steam Age
Our Contemporary Artist Series star now lives on the East Coast but there’s a Californian aspect to his new show

Jenny Holzer goes to Ibiza
The US artist has etched a series of smart literary quotes onto rocks and cliffs along the clubbing island’s coastline

How icebergs shape this Olafur Eliasson building
He hopes his Ice Void will make the experience of visiting a Greenland glacier more understandable for all

10 'Euro things' that will always be near and dear
Whether or not Britain votes to leave or stay in the EU these continental cultural niceties will prevail

Sou Fujimoto rethinks the rented apartment
Fancy sharing a TV with everyone in your block? Take a look at Sou’s radical ideas at Tokyo's House Vision show
