KAW create a fortress for women
Victims of human trafficking find hope in this newly greened office block created from a former 70s police station
Paul McCarthy's post-performance props
The Californian artist displays photographs of props used in his provocative early performance works
Philip Treacy reinterprets Jackson's stage wardrobe
The British milliner's London Fashion Week show pairs Michael's wardrobe with his own astounding creations
Renzo Piano's new art museum opens this month
Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museet opens with show featuring work by Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst
Yayoi Kusama early drawings on show
Drawings from the mid-50s at the D'Amelio Gallery include rarely seen images from her Sixties dealer's archive
Photographer Kevin Davies makes Philip Treacy book
Extraordinary set of images of the famous milliner by photographer Kevin Davies coming to Phaidon very soon
New Andy Warhol film to be released
Andy Warhol's 1968 film San Diego Surf which saw his Factory stars constantly harassed by police while filming finally gets a long-overdue release based on a rough cut and Warhol's original notes from the time
Finding inspiration in the dark
Photographer Daisuke Yokota's Back Yard series in which he photographed, printed, then re-photographed and re-printed each image up to 10 times revives 'ancient' skills of the dark room
Rare Picasso turns up but owners have to sell
Most of us are resolved to never owning a Picasso but imagine you had one and were forced to sell it
London Design Festival is here
Ten days of city-wide design events in museums, galleries, shops and decommissioned spaces is about to begin
Rolling Stones enlist Walton Ford for Grrr! artwork
Walton Ford joins roll call of Andy Warhol, Guy Peellaert and Peter Corriston by designing 50th anniversary album
Do US arrivals mean UK galleries will lose out?
The opening of three well-established New York galleries in London this autumn has the British press in a stir
Will Bill Henson get another police raid?
The Australian photographer whose 2008 show led to a police investigation returns with a new body of work
Cai Guo-Qiang wins Japan's Praemium Imperiale
'Exploding artist' takes prestigious award from ruling dynasty for his work Footprints in the Sky
Your bus will terminate here
Timo Klos takes photographs of bus stops but there are no people and no buses - something doesn't quite add up
Massimo Vignelli's NYC subway map is reborn
The Italian designer and Michael Beirut discuss the origins of a design classic
Ten questions for Tate Pre-Raphaelites curator Jason Rosenfeld
Co-curator of Tate show Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-garde and author of John Everett Millais explains why the Pre-Raphs were like The YBAs, how they connect to contemporary art and why Millais was 'a bit McCartney'
Larry Gagosian is officially bigger than the Tate
He started off selling posters from in LA in 1975 now uber-dealer Larry Gagosian's empire spans four continents
Cy Twombly, photographer?
The American painter's lesser-known photographic works are on display in Britain for the first time
Bouroullec brothers prints on show and for sale
Design duo show limited edition prints as part of new Established & Sons initiative, the Wrong Shop
Who's made the cut for 2012 Art Basel Miami Beach?
Details of this year's exhibitors have been made public, prompting some to speculate on 2012's no-shows
Chris Buck's 'invisible' celebrities
Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Michael Stipe, Robert de Niro, Snoop Dogg and Russell Brand all pose for the photographer's camera but are nowhere to be seen in the resulting prints in his Presence series
Ai Weiwei calls for 'argument' not 'cultural exchange' with China in Guardian newspaper piece
Artist says "China's art world does not exist" in critique of Hayward's Art of Change: New Directions From China
Concrete gets another rave review
Atlantic Cities writes "The eye candy here, from the graceful to the brash is enough to open the mind of any skeptic"
John Baldessari, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman unite behind Obama
Big name artists and architect Frank Gehry donate prints to aid Obama's campaign for re-election
How Javier Mariscal designed The Art Book cover
Spanish artist makes a neat video that distills months of hard work into just 47 quirky seconds
Jean Nouvel and Mia Hägg's new look for Stockholm
New collaboration at the Venice Architecture Biennale sees them propose more 'people friendly' Swedish capital
Could Moscow become world's first eco metropolis?
A joint bid to redevelop 150,000 hectares south west of the city aims to ease pressure on the Russian capital
Shepard Fairey admits lying about Obama poster
American street artist gets $25,000 fine and probation for false claims about adaption of infamous Obama image
Bill Moggridge 1943-2012
Bill Moggridge, co-founder of IDEO and inventor of the world's first laptop dies of cancer aged 69
Tino Sehgal spearheads Frieze Talks next month
Fresh from his critically acclaimed Turbine Hall installation, the artist will talk on conceptualism and choreography
Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Paul McCarthy and Tom Friedman star in The Art of Chess
Saatchi Gallery show features a roll call of Phaidon-related artists and international big names
Taylor Wessing shortlist announced
Four young and emerging photographers hoping for success in this year's £12,000 photographic portrait prize
Unseen photos on show in Amsterdam
New photo fair at former gasworks is a rare chance to buy unseen works by big name photographers
Plans for new London airport revealed
Architecture practice Gensler reveals London Britannia Airport - a radical floating structure in the Thames Estuary
Stacked Cabin - a deceptively simple hideaway
Look carefully in the Wisconsin woods - very carefully - and you might just find this Johnsen Schmaling gem
Team GB Paralympians use 3D printed wheelchairs
Last night's match against Turkey saw Team GB win 75-70 - did the high-tech wheelchairs play a part in the win?
Yigal Feliks takes a close look at the lives of soldiers
Yigal Feliks's photos aim to highlight the distance between soldiers' lives and those of the people they protect
Andy Warhol's Brando expected to reach $20 million
One of four silkscreens of Marlon Brando created by the artist is up for sale at Christie's
Mies van der Rohe house opens to the public
McCormick House is restored by Elmhurst Art Museum with new sections open to view
Jordan Eagles - the man who paints with blood
Hemofields by artist Jordan Eagles celebrates life - not death - in a New York gallery
New moon at New Museum
Exhibition of holograms and how they've inspired artists is big hit at New Museum
John Cage's gift to art
On the 100th anniversary of his birth we celebrate the avant-garde composer's lasting influence on modernism
Steve McCurry at St Moritz Arts Festival
Footage from the photographer's recent trip and behind-the-scenes images from his upcoming Pirelli calendar
The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design gets a great review in the influential Creative Review
"The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design reminds you that when print works well it can work like nothing else"
Ferran Adria on the cover of Wired
Spanish superchef and visionary makes the cover of one of our favourite magazines
Richard Meier - first ever building in China
The Corian-clad OCT Clubhouse in Shenhzen, China is open for business. How can we become a member?
Winslow Homer's home opens to the public
Great American painter and printmaker's Maine hideaway set to open later this month
Olympics hits art museum attendance
Visitor number down as much as 40 per cent in August as Olympic fever takes hold of London
Bruce High Quality Foundation go back to school
New York arts collective are back with their own take on the affordable art school
Ed Kashi Instagrams
VII Photo Agency photographer shoots a bunch of Instagram images on his iPhone during Aspen photo workshop
The concrete house with access all areas
Every room in this recently completed concrete Kyoto house by Torafu Architects is accessible by wheelchair
Radical cartography in Oslo
French journalist and cartographer Philippe Rekacewicz explores centres of world power in unusual new show
Venice Biennale 'can't get any worse' says Wolf D Prix
"Venice is no longer about lively discussion and criticism," says outspoken architect. "Architects are playing on a sinking gondola while, outside in the real world, our leaky trade is sinking into powerlessness and irrelevance"
documenta 13 art bought by German Government
Strongest ever show prompts city council to invest heavily in documenta 13 art works
Is Zhao Zhao set to become the next Ai Weiwei?
Ai Weiwei's former assistant, artist Zhao Zhao, is coming under increasing pressure from the Chinese government
New York gets a clearer view
Typeface change spells goodbye to all UPPERCASE signs in favour of easier to read mix of Upper and Lower
Rem Koolhaas wins Jencks Award
OMA founder scoops RIBA award for bringing architecture and contemporary culture closer together
A reset for the digital clock
Czech design group Kibardindesign's White and White Clock is a 3D version of the traditional digital clock
Herzog & de Meuron make mini protest in Venice
Foam interiors of unbuilt Hamburg Elbphilharmonie building are surrounded by uncensored newspaper articles
Marc Quinn sculpture is centre stage at Paralympics
43 feet tall version of disabled artist Alison Lapper sits proudly in the middle of the Olympic stadium
Painted pigeons ruffle feathers at Venice Biennale
St Mark's Square installation by Julian Charriere and Julius von Bismarck criticised by animal rights groups
Kandinsky painting set for new auction record
Studie für Improvisation 8, recognised for its contribution to abstract art, could sell for $30 million at Christie's
Campbells issue Andy Warhol soup cans
Finally a Warhol we all can afford - at 75 cents they're effectively the cheapest Andy artworks on the market
Damien Hirst credits Blue Peter for spin paintings
1975 show featuring a motorised cardboard spinning machine for children “who like to paint but never really know what to draw.” inspired the nine-year-old Hirst as he watched in his parents' house in Leeds
American Airlines 'rebranded' online
But Anna Kövecses's new look for the troubled airline is not what it appears on initial viewing
Toyo Ito and Alvaro Siza win big at Venice Biennale
Ito dedicates Golden Lion for Japanese pavilion to victims of tsunami - Siza takes Lifetime Achievement Award
Meyerowitz honoured, Eugène Atget in Oz, Delhi's new galleries and Willy Rizzo on fashionistas
Phaidon's focus on the photography world takes in stories in the US, UK, India, France, Australia and the Congo
Zaha Hadid praises Olympics architect Frei Otto
Hadid's Arum installation at Venice Biennale pays homage to pioneering work of Munich '72 architect
Is this the last ever painting by Jackson Pollock?
The incredible tale behind Red, Black & Silver - a small painting up for auction next month at Phillips de Pury
"Honey I shrink wrapped the building!"
Architects SO-IL take novel approach to Kukje art gallery in Seoul - enveloping it in chain mail
Ferran Adria - no fan of airport food
If you're returning from your summer break you may have shared an experience with the elBulli star
Norman Foster dazzles at Venice Biennale
Lord Foster teams up with artist Charles Sandison and film director Carlos Carcas at Architecture Biennale
Eames graphic designs on show
Charles and Ray Eames' lesser known graphic design work gets rare outing in London show next month
Frank Gehry designs new Facebook headquarters
Largest open-plan office in the world will feature a park on the roof with a walking trail for employees
Irma Boom designs new Rijks Museum logo
The designer of our Hella Jongerius book Misfit creates new identity for Dutch national arts museum
Guido van der Werve runs for Rachmaninoff
Third instalment of Dutch artist's annual run to composer's grave takes place in New York next week
Pussy Riot show opens in Chelsea, NY gallery
Fundraiser goes ahead at Lombard-Freid Projects after appeals to Moscow galleries rebuffed
Elements take centre stage in photography show
New England-born photographer Leah Oates is one of the contributors to Earth, Sea and In Between
Virginia Overton "parks truck" on the High Line
Brooklyn-based artist, known for work that uses found objects and references labour, lands High Line commission
Greenland proposed as new Euro travel hub
Ambitious transport project for Greenland will debut at Venice Architecture Biennale
Richard Meier condo is most expensive ever in Israel
Meier on Rothschild features a 32nd story penthouse with bullet-proof panic room - it could be yours for $50 million
The man who influenced art history
Jean François Niceron was the genius of perspective - his work gave the world some of its greatest artworks
Bernd and Hilla Becher inspire a collection of vases
Italian designer Michael Breschi's vases pay homage to the German industrial landscape photo artists
FAT create Museum of Copying at Venice Biennale
London architecture practice creates a 5 metre high re-make of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda in Venice
The architect's photographer of choice, Hélène Binet
Binet's work is the subject of a series of exhibitions this year, starting at the Venice Biennale
The changing face of media and conflict reporting
Wilhelm Sasnal is among the contributors to the thought-provoking Image Counter Image at Haus der kunst
MVRDV debut in Poland with Baltyk Tower
Baltyk Tower cleverly circumvents Poznań planning restrictions (and features a one room hotel)
British architecture's Olympic spirit in Venice
Instead of one starchitect representing Britain, 10 relative newcomers put forward ideas for the future
Olaf Breuning returns with Home 3
Swiss artist's third (and possibly final) Home film pays an unlikely homage to adopted home town of New York
Porsche building matches beauty of its cars
HENN architects design streamlined pavilion for new Porsche visitor centre in Wolfsburg
Labor 13's new slant on the greenhouse
Czech architects employ socialist values of make and mend for house in Vernerice
Kahn/ Selesnick's Mars landscapes
Art photography duo create a series of landscapes for American space agency NASA
Disabled and deaf artists show at Paralympic Games
The Unlimited programme represents largest ever series of commissions to disabled and deaf artists
New face of mother Russia
Twelve Russian photographers gather together to show the new face of female portrait photography
