Cinema's snappers reassembled Marclay-style
Mishka Henner and David Oates create tribute to Christian Marclay's The Clock using photographers from movies

Designers on Design: Esquire's David McKendrick
The UK men's mag's creative director on graphic design and the world of 1980s hatchbacks

Artist of the Week: J M W Turner
The masterly British painter was considered controversial during his lifetime, but why?

Jonas Mekas, Warhol's filmmaker, comes to London
New York's leading 20th century avant-garde filmmaker has a retrospective at The Serpentine Gallery this month

Farming and music come together in Bordeaux
Parisian architecture practice SOA combines organic vertical farming with live performances. Intrigued? Read on

Zaha Hadid to build Japan’s National Stadium
With an eye on its bid for the 2020 Olympics Japan sets some strict rules for the designer of its National Stadium

It's official: video games are art (well, sort of...)
The likes of Pac-Man, SimCity, Tetris and Portal et al become part of the permanent collection at MoMA

The story behind the branding of dOCUMENTA (13)
Leftloft's Francesca Cianfarini on the truly wonderful graphic identity for the Kassel art exhibition

Susan Meiselas sends a postcard from America
Images from a run down factory in Rochester feature in Magnum's latest Postcards From America series

French architect Edouard François makes "something very ugly - to make the rest look pretty"
In his schme to revive a Parisian suburb the architect creates an architectural sandwich of differing styles

Rem Koolhaas invents the future for libraries
Plans for The Qatar National Library reveal futuristic digital hub with 300 public computers and online databases

Keith Haring goes to New Jersey
Rare works by the New York street artist get a showing next month - on the far side of the North River

Damien Hirst to design next year's Brit Award
Artist follows Vivienne Westwood and Peter Blake in designing music ceremony trophies

How one Korean artist invited the outside in
South Korean artist Young Jeong commissions his own live/work space in keeping with the natural surroundings

Stephen Shore talks Warhol, colour and creativity
Artist Doug Aitken quizzes the New York photographer about his career and the very source of creativity

Dutch architects turn Moroccan market into waterfall
Rotterdam practice TomDavid wins first place in a competition to design a sustainable square for Casablanca

Vicenza honours Palladio with new museum
The city turns one of its finest buildings, Palazzo Barbarano, into a tribute to its famous architect, Andrea Palladio

Former Pentagram partner Fernando Gutiérrez talks about Harper's Bazaar and Fabien Baron
Fernando Gutiérrez waxes lyrical about a special magazine and its inspirational art director

The Munich U-Bahn photographed by Nick Franck
Art director strips out all distractions from his photographs to reveal each location's purity, line and shape

What to expect at Art Basel Miami Beach
America's biggest art fair returns to Miami Beach Convention Center in two weeks time. Get diarizing

Buildings that changed the world - The Weissenhof Settlement, Stuttgart
How socialist ideals and an all star cast of architects including Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius revolutionised affordable housing for both blue and white colour workers on a hill just outside Stuttgart

Is Bragga the Brazilian Banksy?
Rio graffiti artist's new show in alternative streetwear store Homegrown is at odds with beach culture environs

Studio Orta replaces St Pancras Olympic rings
The Anglo-French art couple make the first piece for the international station’s Terrace Wires commission

Muji and Louis Vuitton designers reveal inspirations
Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of design practice Industrial Facility discuss how city life influences their creativity

VII’s Adam Ferguson and Gary Knight in new show
Photojournalists included in new Houston exhibition alongside Philip Jones Griffiths and Jonathan Torgovnik

The Iron Curtain is lifted on Modernist architecture
Brilliant new show in Vienna looks at Socialist architecture from Russia and its satellite states

Does Gehry's memorial really look like a missile silo?
The Pritzker-prize winner's plans for The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial are rebuffed by the President's offspring

Revel in Fabian Oefner's Dancing Colours
The Swiss photographer uses flash-linked mics to capture this dazzling intersection of sound and colour

John Pawson curates Phaidon online exhibition
Churches, houses, stadia and even a police station from 20th-Century World Architecture picked for online show

Will Christo's new sculpture be the world's biggest?
That's certainly the 77-year-old artist's intention, as he revives plans for a huge work in Abu Dhabi's desert

Pilgrims’ progress inspired by great design
Aptly-named Swiss architects Christ & Gantenbein build inspirational concrete structure on Mexican pilgrim route

Designers on Design: Andy Stevens
The Graphic Thought Facility co-founder on why a well-designed 80s thesaurus is 'the Led Zep of reference books'

Total’s Berlin HQ has the ripple effect
Barkow Leibinger's faceted concrete piers twist and turn, almost as if they’re plaited

MAD create new contoured village by a Chinese lake
700 apartment settlement blends with Taiping lakeside at foot of eastern China’s Huangshan Mountains

Ten questions for photographer Roger Ballen
The photographer on viewing life differently, our dark side and why birds get bored in photo shoots

Buildings that changed the world - The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
How Frank Gehry revitalised a city and its arts scene by using a computer programme he didn't quite understand

Warhol's Death and Disaster Vs Standard & Poor's
Artnet pits Warhol's deathly prints against the S&P's stock market index. Guess who comes out on top?

MoMA gets John Cage's silence
New York's Museum of Modern Art has acquired the earliest existing score to John Cage's 4'33”

Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #2
Video of the Magnum photographer describing an incredible two days spent in Niger, eating and staying with a family and observing the extraordinary marriage ritual captured in his photograph Young Wadabi Men

Rolf Müller's tidal shift
A look back at the moment a young German graduate changed the course of graphic design

See KAWS' Companion at the Thanksgiving Parade
The Brooklyn-based graffiti artist turned pop sculptor has made an inflatable version of his best-known character

20 ton 'treehouse' built in Swedish forest
"Nothing remotely similar has ever been done before" say Rintala Eggertsson Architects

Martha Rosler's garage sale on now at MoMA
New Yorkers combine Black Friday bargains with a meditation on the suburban culture of buying and selling

Dinos Chapman records sloppy techno
The elder Chapman brother is set to release an album of Throbbing Gristle-influenced electronica next year

ITV's new logo unveiled
UK broadcaster employs a colourful twist to its new online and offline identity

Hilla Becher interviewed at Paris Photo
The legendary German photographer talks about her famous series of industrial images

Pop Art goes to the dark side at the Whitney
Sinister Pop highlights the movement's darker, difficult themes of crime, depression, commercialism and war

Slum solutions in tall and short order
Two different architectural practices offer two very different visions for urban renewal

Designers on Design: Andy Altmann
Why Not Associates' principal reveals his favourite piece of graphic design

Ai Weiwei new video art shot on public bus in China
'How to Scientifically Remove A Shiny Screw With Chinese Characteristics From A Moving Vehicle In Eighteen Turns' follows the artist's attempts to remove a screw from a public bus as it passes by Beijing political hotspots

Scrabble design makeover - Comic Sans not included
If you love words and typography and obviously you do - Andrew Capener has designed the Scrabble set for you

Have Martin Parr shoot you for Christmas
The Magnum photographer and Phaidon artist will shoot 96 portraits on December 16 - book here

Jamey Stillings photographs Google power plant
Search engine's quest to become environmentally friendly documented by photographer Jamey Stillings

William Turnbull dies aged 90
An appreciation of the Scottish painter and sculptor, friend of Mark Rothko and "radical modernist"

Dali blockbuster opens in Paris this week
Surrealist's retrospective aims to reassess the performance works while also drawing in big crowds

New York shows its activist side
Two interesting exhibitions this winter show New Yorkers' role at the forefront of worldwide protest

Joel Meyerowitz on innocence and experience
In a wide-ranging video interview the photographer talks about the arc of life and how he's captured it in his work

David Lynch’s club comes to Art Basel Miami Beach
Film director and painter brings his Parisian Mullholland Drive-themed boîte de nuit to Miami Beach next month

New York’s neighbourhoods still need you
Filmmakers, photographers and art world luminaries are spearheading the post-Sandy clear up - you can help too

Magnum's Harry Gruyaert on Henri Cartier-Bresson
We bump into the Belgian photographer at the Somerset House show Bresson: A Question of Colour

Frank Lloyd Wright for sale - but is it authentic?
Scholars dispute the authenticity of this Petre island home, built from Wright plans drawn up over 50 years ago

All you need to know about The Abu Dhabi Art Fair
The fourth edition finished earlier this month, attracting some big names - and altering some art fair conventions

David Shrigley designs Aspen ski pass
David Shrigley joins roll call of artists including Peter Doig who've designed passes for Art In Unexpected Places

What to see at Paris Photo 2012
The world's foremost photography fair begins today - here's what to look out for

Is that Larry Gagosian in Tom Wolfe's new book?
Back To Blood uses Art Basel Miami Beach as the backdrop to a tale of excess in the art world

Bacon helps Sotheby's bring in highest sale ever
Sheer 'wall power' of Rothko, Pollock Warhol and Bacon sees Sotheby's take $375,205,000 - breaking all records

Hadid on life as an Arab woman architect
'The moment my woman-ness is accepted, the Arab-ness becomes a problem', says Pritzker Prize-winner

J Mayer H's Black Sea sculpture: foundation or folly?
German firm's striking new structure opens in the Georgian Black Sea Port of Lazika but it has an uncertain future

Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #1
Legendary Magnum photographer talks about the chance meeting that led to his photo: Young Monk In A Teashop

Beijing art district threatened by Las Vegas makeover
798 Art Zone to undergo redevelopment, including Cirque du Soleil-style theatre - what will happen to the artists?

Jon Crispin's suitcases of psychiatric patients
Poignant photos of belongings left behind at New York insane asylum reveal private lives of patients

Brazilian artist Rodrigo Braga at São Paulo Bienal
Nature, blood, pain, death and struggle feature heavily in the work of this hotly tipped young Brazilian artist

Warhol sale results: one Arnie worth two Stallones?
The first Warhol at Christie's sale raised $17m last night, though figures varied among the celebrity photographs

Art lovers protected by giant funnels in Taiwan
Dadong Art Centre in Taiwan uses membrane roofing and funnels to deflect extreme weather

Gregory Crewdson laid bare in new film
Ex-punk rocker turned photographer's obsessive and impeccable attention to detail on show in new documentary

Saadiyat: 21st century architectural mecca?
The newly developed Abu Dhabi island is set to house architecture by Pritzker Prize winners Frank Gehry, Sir Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando

MoMA captures Tokyo's post-war Avant-garde
New MoMA show examines the Japanese capital's avant-garde art scene during the boom years 1955 - 1970

Andy Warhol in 3-D
Why is Christie's giving away 3-D glasses to view Warhol's work at its New York sale this Wednesday?

Marimekko takes to the air
Finnair planes to become 'roving ambassadors' of timeless Finnish design and creativity

Nika Neelova wins Sculpture Shock award
Phaidon's one to watch at Crisis Commission show wins Royal British Society of Sculptors award

Thomas Brown and Anna Burns take on B movies
Guns and girls are replaced by the humble umbrella in the photographer and creative director's homage

Why is Arthur Bispo do Rosário so revered right now?
Brazilian artist Arthur Bispo do Rosário was compared to Andy Warhol for the way he recycled everyday objects, never sold a work during his liftetime and died in 1989 - why the sudden fascination ?

Ten questions for Pace Gallery's Arne Glimcher
The legendary international dealer on his lifelong friendship with Agnes Martin, the increasing importance of Chinese art, his little known Hollywood career, what he hangs at home and his favourite ever mambo song

The story behind the most retweeted photograph ever
Photograph of Barack Obama embracing his wife after re-election is most popular ever on the net, but who took it?

Huge Francis Bacon show comes to Sydney
The Art Gallery of New South Wales hosts the painter's first major retrospective in the country

Harland Miller closes White Cube Hoxton
The British artist's show, opening today at The White Cube Hoxton Square, will be the London gallery's last

Record prices or a crack in the market?
Views differ as big NYC auction houses meet the post-Sandy, post-election bidders at their autumn sales

René Burri's 'The Germans' inspires Andreas Herzau's 'The Swiss'
German photographer Andreas Herzau was born in 1962, the same year that Swiss photographer René Burri's series The Germans was published. Guess what he's done. . .

Would you live in Softkill's house?
It's made with 3D printers using an algorithm that mimics human bone growth

Andy Warhol versus Star Wars
Camille Paglia calls Revenge of The Sith most powerful work of art in 30 years (but she thinks Andy's great too)

Hermitage modern art wing opens with shows by Jake and Dinos Chapman and Dmitri Prigov
12 modern art rooms planned ahead of massive refurbishment of 250-year-old St Petersburg museum

Mexican architects model chapel on Virgin Mary
Robes of Our Lady of Guadalupe provide divine inspiration for architects FREE in Miami

Warhol's flowers are out again in New York
The 1960s series of paintings are brought together in Manhattan once more - 48 years after they first appeared

Randall Museum fosters love of science
San Franciscan artist Charles Sowers turns aerial currents into a fun art exhibit at kids museum

Photographers capture America at the polls
Yesterday was an historic day for US politics and The New Yorker’s photographers were there to document it

Protest posters: democratic graphics' high point?
An exhibition of Californian posters remembers an age when people power and great design worked in harmony

Nicolas Karakatsanis's dark side
The Belgian shoots ads and movies, but his fine-art photography throws commercial work into relief

Do you know a kid who can do better than Mariscal?
If so get them to enter our competition to redesign The Art Book cover and win a Phaidon art library for their school

Ai Weiwei - "I wish Obama luck on election day"
"Obama seems more reliable than his opponent," says Chinese artist and activist as America goes to the polls
