Möbius strip proposed for Taiwan arts centre
Culture finds a dramatic setting in Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut's Swallow's Nest concept

Your chance to win a Picasso from Sotheby's
Help an ancient Mediterranean city and get a chance to win a minor Cubist masterpiece

Andy Warhol's Perrier designs out next week
The spring water firm digs out its early eighties Warhol commissions to celebrate 150th anniversary

From skyscraper to strawscraper
Henning Larsen's Stockholm island tower given a green makeover by local architecture practice Belatchew Labs

Inside the mind of Edgar Degas
New show Degas' Method in Copenhagen takes a sideways look at the impressionist's methods and motivations

Berlin photographer empties the UAE
In Matthias Heiderich's photographs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, pedestrians are conspicuous by their absence

Mickalene Thomas’s Art Basel 70s bar installation
New York artist throws together 70s bash, gets Beyonce's sister Solange to perform and Simon de Pury to DJ

Charting the lives of great artists
The Italian design agency Accurat has charted the lives of Picasso, Dali et al. What can we learn?

Legendary rock logo artist Arturo Vega dies
RIP Arturo Vega - the man who helped The Ramones sell more teeshirts than tickets

Mont Blanc refuge is as pure as the driven snow
Geneva-based Group-H's environmentally sound climber's refuge takes shape in French alps

Is this Banksy a great place to park £100k?
An early, fully authenticated Banksy print, Love is In The Air, goes on sale this month. Is it a good buy?

What to expect from Art Basel
Despite a packed season, this key European art fair still stands out, thanks to major works by big names

War critique wins the Deutsche Börse Photo Prize
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's updating of Bertolt Brecht's Marxist War Primer takes the £30,000 prize

The history of design in six short videos
The Open University sums up six key design movements in a cute new animated series

elBulli Adrià brothers spin a yarn at new restaurant
Japanese and Peruvian food and design meet at Pakta, Barcelona courtesy of a loom and El Equipo Creativo

Viñoly’s NY apartments to be highest in the West
Around $100 million 'should' secure you a penthouse at 432 Park Avenue when it completes in 2015

The Beano as reworked by Hemingway
Red or Dead founder Wayne and wife Geraldine rework brand guidelines for classic British comic

Has Richard Prince burned his disputed paintings?
A new video apparently depicts the artist torching his work Graduation - "to show the guy what I'm prepared to do"

The Venice Biennale in pictures
As the dust settles on the 55th Biennale opening, Craig Garrett makes sense of what's on offer

OOIIO proposes 'frame hotel' on Peruvian cliff
Impossibly named Spanish architecture practice's Unbalance Hotel responds to brief from Lima promoter

Damián Ortega brings art and science together
The more basic stuff gets, the more marvellous Damián Ortega's art becomes and it doesn't come much more basic than a tool made by a chimp. Skye Sherwin takes a look at as his great new Freud Museum show, Apestraction

Peter Zumthor unveils his new LACMA
First look at plans for the LA museum the architect is referring to as "The Black Flower"

Joel Meyerowitz returns to St Louis
The city celebrates once again the series of pictures it commissioned from the photographer 36 years ago

Wilhelm Sasnal’s space and speedway series
Don't miss this brilliant new Hauser & Wirth show which plays on the notion of the fallen man

New art quarter takes shape in the Netherlands
80km south of Amsterdam, in the historical forest town of Hertogenbosch, art is finding a new home. . .

John Pawson creates installation in Palladio basilica
Minimalist architect installs Perspectives in Venice's 16th century Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore

Jean Nouvel and Mia Hägg team up again in France
Habiter Autrement joins the French Pritzker-prize winner in an award-winning social housing development

David Shrigley makes 'Wild Art' shrine for Bubbles
The Turner-nominated artist has created a memorial to Michael Jackson's one-time chimpanzee companion

Robert Capa's war shots come to London
Month-long retrospective of war photographer and Magnum agency founder opens at ATLAS Gallery this week

Alan Fletcher's archive goes online
Phaidon.com has a new favourite website - created by the great graphic designer's daughter Raffaella

Pawel Althamer casts his collaborators at Venice
Polish sculptor's figurative sculpture series Venetians 2013 is a hit at the Biennale

Penn Station reimagined by four big architects
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. SHoP, and H3 Hardy Collaboration pitch plans for Penn

René Burri talks Moscow, Picasso and kids
Photographers' Gallery posts its Burri talk online, alongside ones with Cartier-Bresson and Don McCullin

Venice Biennale The Russian Pavilion
Vadim Zakharov's installation showers golden coins over female visitors while a man in a suit watches

Shigeru Ban adds to Hamburg's new cityscape
Water Towers see him join Herzog & de Meuron in Europe's biggest architectural transformation

Hélène Binet on pushing three dimensions into two
The brilliant architectural photographer talks through her early career and the challenges of her chosen medium

Venice Biennale The New Zealand pavilion
Bill Culbert installs his light-themed works in the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà for the Biennale

MC Escher inspires St Paul's installation
Alex de Rijke reprises John Pawson's staircase theme for this year's London Design Festival

Colombian designer reinvents the Zippo lighter
Rodrigo Torres attempts 'sacrilegious' update with new Sushi lighter for Alessi - stand well back

Danish artist plans to gold plate death row body
Martin Martensen-Larsen plans to present the body of killer Travis Runnels in Lincoln Memorial piece

Anri Sala pits two pianists against a DJ in Venice
The French national submission, Ravel Ravel Unravel, dwells on Europe's great triumphs and failures

Art of the Restaurateur wins best first book award
Nick Lander's wonderfully engaging read is given Jeremy Round Award for best first book by Guild of Food Writers

MoMA's Jackson Pollock mystery
Museum restoration team uncovers later brushstrokes and gains a greater understanding of the modern master

The water's lovely - and so is the diving board
Studio Zoppini's Rijeka Olympic centre in Croatia mirrors surrounding rocks that jut from the sea

The Los Angeles that might have been
Architecture and Design Museum show exhibits unbuilt plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner and Steven Holl

Ai Weiwei's mother Gao Ying opens his Venice show
Gao Ying appears shaken at opening of Venice Biennale show S.A.C.R.E.D. depicting her son's incarceration

IDEO rethinks the future of packaging
Flowery pill dispensers and seedy cigarette butts are among the Californian design consultancy's new concepts

Magnum and the dying art of darkroom printing
A look at the work of Pablio Inirio, the man who's printed Henri-Cartier-Bresson, René Burri and Dennis Stock

Phoenix shower fans with Richard Prince works
French band crown Spanish festival set by dropping 42,000 Richard Prince-designed bank notes over the crowd

Alvar Aalto library reworked by JKMM
Seinäjoki in Finland boasts seven buildings by modernist master Alvar Aalto - JKMM has just extended one

James Franco goes Psycho for Pace Gallery show
Actor artist makes a pretty convincing Janet Leigh in Psycho Nacirema, a large-scale London installation

Skydiving planned in abandoned Warsaw cement silo
Moko Architects have a hair-raising plan for Zeran's defunct warehouses and factories

Modernist LA brought to life in online exhibition
LA history profs curate the 70,000 photo archive of a local electrical firm, to tell the story of mid-century LA

James Franco curates Kusama and Tuymans
The forthcoming London exhibition, Cinematic Visions, examines the dialogue between painting and film

Richard Meier honoured by Bisazza
Celebrated US architect has huge exhibition in Vicenza to tie in with 50th anniversary year

Could wooden pallets house Parisian students?
Ex-grafitti artist and former Jean Nouvel assistant Stéphane Malka comes up with green solution to housing needs

The story behind the Whitney's new look
New look for New York museum draws inspiration from its chief curator's view of art history

Ai Weiwei first look at his new music video
The video offers an 'inch accurate' view of his prison cell, but the music is a less faithful rendering of 'heavy metal'

Venice Biennale The American Pavilion
Sculptor Sarah Sze promises accumulation of everyday materials to create gravity-defying sculptural environments

First UK solo show for surrealist Paul Delvaux
The Belgian artist and René Magritte confidant's New York exhibition is set to travel to London next month

Amazon to start selling fine art from this summer
Letter to NY galleries from its new business department invites them to "light snacks and refreshments" tomorrow

Venice Biennale The Italian Pavilion
Vice Versa brings together 14 artists inspired by philosopher Giorgio Agamben's "diametrically linked concepts"

The FBI department targeting stolen art
Art sales are up 50% since 2009 and so is global art theft - estimated at a staggering $6 billion a year

The quiet rise of the Polish art market
The Saatchi Gallery's Polish Art Now showcases a rising national scene, both culturally and economically

Is this Zaha Hadid's most futuristic design yet?
New Riyadh KAFD metro features skybridges and meshed Mashrabiya screens

Fäviken's Magnus Nilsson reveals details of next book
Part recipe book, part travelogue, part historical foodie tract - new book will cover every aspect of Nordic cuisine

Tracey Emin accuses her critics of sexism
"The press was cruel, they didn’t just dislike my work, they disliked me - my voice, the way I dress, the way I look, they wouldn’t have carried on that way if I were a man" she tells Vanity Fair interviewer Lauren Christensen

Hugh Broughton Architects create ice station on skis
Halley Research Station in the Antarctic should escape the fate of others - crushed and buried under the snow

Venice Biennale The Turkish Pavilion
Ali Kazma's multi-channel video work Resistance looks at how we try to change and control our bodies

Latin American art - consider yourself primed
Pinta, the Latin American art fair, honours Argentinian painters Cesar Paternosto and Luis Tomasello next month

Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke Ingels compete in Miami
Rem Koolhaas's OMA and Bjarke Ingels’s BIG submit rival plans for The Miami Beach Convention Center

See David Chang and Daniel Patterson in NYC
The star chefs are joined by Massimo Bottura, Alessandro Porcelli and Lisa Abend at our Cook It Raw launch

Swiss artist brings scooter to Venice
Valentin Carron will present "an elegant discussion on the complexity of defining sculpture" in The Swiss Pavilion

Counting the cost of Martin Scorsese
Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob recalls some intense conversations with Marty's agent

Genesis inspires Vatican's Biennale debut
The Holy See brings a creationist-themed, multimedia exhibition to the 55th Venice Biennale this June

Phaidon authors head up the Venice jury
We congratulate this year’s newly announced Venice Biennale jurists, many of whom are contributors to our books

Ingo Maurer's table with no legs
Best known for his lighting, German designer branches out into furniture for first Established & Sons commission

Dutch diner has American soul
Amsterdam School of Architecture meets 50s American diner in this new café from Derksen Windt Architecten

Ai Weiwei - hairdresser, rocker, citizen journalist?
The Chinese contemporary artist turns his hand to hairdressing, heavy metal and street-brawl coverage

Dieter Rams 620 chair programme reissued by Vitsoe
If you're going to curl up with a copy of As Little Design as Possible what better chair to do it in?

Chris Burden brings meteorite (and Porsche) to NY
The Californian artist gets his first major exhibition in the US in over 25 years at The New Museum

Withdrawn Miami Banksy up for auction again
Originally painted on a Poundland wall in London, Slave Labour goes under the hammer (again) next month

Beijing island winery is shaped like an asterisk
Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako creates timber-clad winery on man-made lake outside Chinese capital

Bruce Altshuler talks favourite shows and curators
The writer of our Biennials and Beyond book hosts lively debate at London Whitechapel Gallery

Frieze architects SO-IL land UC Davis Art Museum
"Curved glass walls and soaring canopy turns traditional museum model inside out," says University Chancellor

Introducing the Where Chefs Eat app
Beautifully designed and exhaustively road-tested - the Where Chefs Eat app is released on Monday

How MoMA restored Nam June Paik's TV piano
Cathode-ray and player-piano piece is either 'a conservation dream or nightmare' says MoMA expert

Forget the jet pack the Levitation bike is here
Michael Strain's 'levitating cycle' also boasts a wifi zone to limit those brief but pesky offline moments in your day

Maguy Le Coze wins Outstanding Restaurateur
French-born New Yorker receives James Beard award for her work at Le Bernardin which she opened in 1986

Islamic Cemetery nominated for Aga Khan Award
Austrian practice Bernardo Bader Architects creates serene place of rest in the alpine village of Altech

Tino Sehgal reanimates Manga character at Frieze
Sehgal's interpretation of Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe's Ann Lee character comes to the New York art fair

It's punk Jim, but not as we knew it
The Met's PUNK: From Chaos to Couture attempts to draw a straight line from the King's Road to Fifth Avenue

Saul Bass gets a Google Doodle
The great American graphic designer, born 93 years ago today, receives an appropriately animated Google tribute

How the Frieze art fair won over America
Dr Kathy Battista, director of contemporary art at Sotheby's Institute of Art NY, unpicks the art fair's US success

Ethan and Thea's guide to surviving Frieze NY
New York's foremost art advisors give Phaidon the lowdown on how to do an art fair successfully

Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci monument in NYC
The Swiss artist will pay tribute to the Italian political theorist in a South Bronx housing project

Jeff Koons opens at Gagosian AND Zwirner this week
Heavyweight gallerists go head-to-head in NYC this Frieze week with shows from America's richest living artist

Henning Larsen designs Microsoft Danish HQ
Lyngby-Taarbæk complex foreshadows leading centre of knowledge and creativity in Northern Europe

Vivienne Westwood revamps Virgin Atlantic uniforms
Old punk days mates Sir Richard Branson and Dame Vivienne Westwood team up for a new collaboration

Tallest wooden building in Canada breaks ground
Apart from metal joinery and concrete foundations Michael Green's aptly named Wood Innovation Design Centre is six storeys of pure wood including the columns, beams and floor - even the elevator and stair core
