Body artist Orlan sues Lady Gaga
The French artist alleges the American singer plagiarised her look, and is seeking $31.7 million
Paul McCarthy's adults-only fairytale opens today
WS redraws the German fairytale Snow White as an immersive, X-rated New York installation
Curators are the stars at Paris Nouvelles Vagues
Skye Sherwin on what to look out for at a series of shows where the curator takes centre stage over the artist
Renzo Piano's hand-made 'fragments' at Gagosian
The Pritzker-Prize winner is the subject of a retrospective at The Gagosian's 522 West 21st Street gallery
Carl Andre's hilarious Barbara Rose interview
Romp through the good old days of NY art scene gives new insight into his work and the insanity of life back then
Andy Warhol's gay archive goes on sale
The latest online Warhol sale, Eyes on the Guise, focuses on the artist's gay works to mark Pride Month
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
