The hidden music in Harvey Quaytman

Could some regard for the painter's musical sensibility unlock additional meaning in his canvasses?

Warsaw Thirds (1986) by Harvey Quaytman

A still-image celebration of golden-age cinemas

French photographer Franck Bohbot reflects cinema's golden age in his photographic series of movie theatres

Orinda Theatre, Lobby, Orinda, California, 2014 © Franck Bohbot

Ferran Adrià's North American tour

The chef will undertake a five-city author tour to promote the publication of elBulli 2005-2011

Ferran Adrià

Is Jeff Wall scared of street photography?

"Probably" says the fine-art photographer, on the eve of his major new European retrospective

In Front of a Nightclub (2006) by Jeff Wall

A Scottish homage to Le Corbusier

French artist and illustrator Benoit Challand combines two European heavyweights when drafting his perfect home

Benoit Challand's Roost House

Ferran Adrià is a culinary Dali says the NY Times

The paper's art critic Roberta Smith, revels in the inspring Ferran Adrià's retrospective at the Drawing Center

Illustration from Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity

Phaidon's winning window display on show at Foyles

Emma Fearn and Sarah-Ines Dridje's design takes pride of place in Foyles Charing Cross Road window

Foyles Phaidon window - photo by Aideen Greenlee

Radiohead collaborate with Universal Everything

Digital studio creates strange new landscape for band's new app

Polyfauna by Radiohead and Universal Everything

Will Juice succeed where Zaha Hadid faltered?

Swansea’s shell-like Tidal Lagoon Centre set to be as controversial as Cardiff Bay Opera House?

Swansea Offshore Tidal Lagoon Visitors Centre - Juice

Alvar Aalto inspires new Design Museum identity

Bond's Jesper Bange leans on Finnish master for circular black, white and red designs for Helsinki museum

Helsinki Design Museum branding - Bond

Is this the new Rain Room?

New immersive artwork Momentum opens at Barbican's Curve gallery today, playing with light and sound

Momentum (2014) by United Visual Artists

Richard Hamilton curator talks about new Tate show

Mark Godfrey, the man behind the Tate's blockbuster Hamilton show, walks and talks us through

 Swingeing London 67 (f) (1968–9) by Richard Hamilton. © The estate of Richard Hamilton

How nuclear physics proved this 'Léger' is a fake

Radiocarbon tests conclude that cotton in canvas was cut at least four years after the artist’s death

(not from) Fernand Léger's Contraste de forms series, started in 1913 - painter unknown

Foster's controversial Apple store gets go ahead

Some moved walls and the reinstatement of a much loved piece of public art sees project approved

Apple Store Union Square, San Francisco - Foster + Partners

New show sheds light on Alvar Aalto

Over 100 light fittings designed by the Finnish architect go on show in Belgium beside a pontoon bridge

Alvar Aalto: Lightings, at Le Grand Hornu

Ghost Paris Metro stations to become galleries?

Mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet wants to repurpose the city's unused stations if she wins

A Paris Metro stop reimagined as a gallery, by architects Manal Rachdi and Nicolas Laisné

Maurizio Cattelan's New York fashion shoot

The artist comes out of retirement to style an eye-popping fashion story with the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari

Chanel shoes shot by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari for New York Magazine

Nancy Holt 1938 - 2014

New Mexico based artist and creator of Sun Tunnels, featured in Art & Place, dies after long illness

Sun Tunnels1973-76 - Nancy Holt

Richard Hamilton's love of Braun

As the Tate prepares its major retrospective, we look at Britain's foremost pop artist's admiration for Dieter Rams

The Critic Laughs (1971-2) by Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) IVAM, Insitut Valencia d'Art Modern, Generalitat © The estate of Richard Hamilton

Volcanic crystals inspire Hella Jongerius table

The Dutch designer looks to the layering in agate stones to inspire her bright, limited-edition Gemstone Table

Gemstone table - Hella Jongerius

A digital-free photo tribute to Albers and LeWitt

Canadian photographer Jessica Eaton uses large format film to create her Cubes for Albers and LeWitt series

From Jessica Eaton's Cubes for Albers and LeWitt series (2010-2013)

Pawson church among Design Museum nominations

Beautiful retuning of light and space sees St Moritz Church in Augsburg lead Designs of the Year nominations

St Moritz Church, Augsburg, Germany - John Pawson (photo by Gilbert McCarragher)

Lawrence Weiner stars in new Matthew Barney opera

River of Fundament is set at Norman Mailer's wake and also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Salman Rushdie

A still from River of Fundament (2014)

Come to NADA and Beta-Local's event this Friday

Sample San Juan's art scene courtesy of some Puerto Rico curators featured in Art Cities of the Future

Scaffolding 2011, installation of 15 structures made with books and wood - Tony Cruz Pabon

Zaha Hadid on the perils of paper architecture

The world's leading woman architect on the setbacks of her early career and today's opportunities

Cardiff Bay Opera House 1994 by Zaha Hadid architects

How a local gallery pulled in a Bruce Nauman show

The Harris gallery’s Nauman exhibition includes Changing Light Corridor With Rooms - last shown in 1989

Partial Truth (1997) by Bruce Nauman

Foyles fashion window winners announced

Congratulations go to the London College of Fashion's Emma Fearn and Sarah-Ines Dridje

Winning entry: Emma Fearn and Sarah-Ines Dridje - ‘The Design Studio’

Coop Himmelb(l)au's House of Music takes shape

Circular windows cut out of elevated block and framed by amoebic shapes characterise Wolf D. Prix's design

Aalborg Concert Hall, Denmark - Coop Himmelb(l)au

MoMA PS1 will grow its own summer pavilion

The winning submission to 2014's Young Architects Program incorporates fungi bricks and is 100% compostable

Hy-Fi (2014) by The Living, winner of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program

Georgia O'Keeffe's garden is set to be reborn

But don't expect the lush flowers of her paintings to be blooming in this New Mexico plot

Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills (1935) Georgia O'Keeffe

George Condo in transition

Two very different shows of new work reveal the New York artist at a turning point in his career

Constellation Portrait, 2013 - George Condo

Have you seen the size of Chuck Close’s camera?

Portrait artist uses massive 20X24 Polaroid camera to take life-sized 'snaps' of Hollywood stars for Vanity Fair

Chuck Close shoots Oprah Winfrey for Vanity Fair. Photography by Myrna Suarez for Vanity Fair.

Who will win this year's Deutsche Börse Prize?

Psychedelic rebels, a Spanish greaser and German biologist's world view all vie for this year's £30,000 prize

Richard Mosse,  Safe From Harm, North Kivu, eastern Congo, 2012 Digital C print, 48 x 60 inches
© Richard Mosse Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery

80s sex and protest art reassembled in Chicago

This Will Have Been looks back at the passionate, political art of Nan Goldin, Jenny Holzer, Richard Prince and co

Untitled (we will no longer be seen and not heard), (1985) by Barbara Kruger

OMA reworks Rotterdam Kunsthal

New improvements, including some to security, to 22-year-old iconic building follow recent break in

Rotterdam Kunsthal - OMA

What do you see in Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers?

How did the painter take this ultimately feminine symbol and transform it into the acme of modernist art?

Black Iris (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe

Crowdfunded vertical boat gets the go-ahead

Powered by solar panels and wind and wave energy Jacques Rougerie's SeaOrbiter takes to the oceans

SeaOrbiter - Jacques Rougerie

The truth about Cindy Sherman's society portraits

Why did the American fine artist choose to portray the wives of the rich and powerful in this way?

From left: Untitled #466 (2008), Untitled #470, (2008) both by Cindy Sherman

Christopher Nolan and Will.i.Am in huge digital show

This summer the Barbican and Google stage the biggest presentation of digital creativity ever

The Treachery of Sanctuary (2012) by Chris Milk, a contributor to the Barbican's Digital Revolution

Alan Fletcher estate launches fun archive range

The late, great Phaidon Art Director returns to the Barbican (but this time the shop, not the galleries)

Beware of Artists tee shirt - Alan Fletcher Archive

Mugaritz pioneers smellavision

Andoni Luiz Aduriz collaborates with computing professor to bring the smell of his restaurant to an iPhone device

Andoni Luiz Aduriz and Scentee. Aduriz portrait by Per-Anders Jorgensen

Swiss artists take to the slopes

Gstaad hosts Wild Art show by Olaf Breuning, Pipilotti Rist and Thomas Hirschhorn

Mürrischer Schnee (2014) by Thomas Hirschhorn, photo by Stefan Altenburger

Would you curl-up on this book bed?

London artist Ruth Beale's bed-and-book exhibition explores the library's role within the collective imagination

Installation view from Bookbed (2014) by Ruth Beale

Street art Gandhi takes over Police HQ

St.Art Delhi brings modern graffiti to an antique corner of the Indian capital

Hendrik “ecb” Beikirch's Delhi police building mural, St.Art Delhi, 2014

More Damn Good Advice from George Lois

Upon the ibook publication of his guide to creative success, we get extra advice from the maven of Madison Ave

George Lois

Chris Labrooy's Auto Aerobics

Aberdeen-born designer's latest work was inspired by a winter's evening walk through Brooklyn, New York

Auto Aerobics - Chris Labrooy

Rockwell blurs boundaries between office and club

Former NY industrial building repurposed to promote collaboration and creativity among upscale entrepreneurs

NeueHouse New York City - David Rockwell

BIG sweetens the Bahamas with honeycomb homes

Bjarke Ingels' design features plunge pools on every balcony of this residence on New Providence Island

The Honeycomb, Albany, New Providence Island, Bahamas - BIG

Phaidon and the V&A's Degenerate Art inventory

As the V&A uploads its Nazi-seized art list we examine how the documents and our founders took similar paths

The V&A's Degenerate Art inventory

The banned Chinese photographer on show in Paris

Ren Hang has been curated by Ai Weiwei, arrested while shooting and has had visitors spit on his photographs

From La Chine à Nue by Ren Hang

Edmund de Waal donates to the Fitzwilliam

The best-selling author and artist has donated 20 porcelain vessels to Cambridge's art and antiquities museum

On White, installation view, The Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

Wolfgang Tillmans becomes a Royal Academician

The photographer joins David Hockney and Anish Kapoor as a member of Britain's most prestigious art institution

Self Portrait (2013) by Wolfgang Tillmans

Warhol's favourite club turned into pop up gallery

50 graffiti artists are given the run of the Les Bains Douches club in Paris before it's developed into a hotel

Sambre's contribution to Les Bains street-art residency, Paris

International designers reimagine Kartell classic

Nendo, Philippe Starck and Piero Lissoni rework Ferruccio Laviani's Bourgie Lamp on its tenth birthday

Bourgie Lamp /Eigruob Lamp - Nendo

Richard Deacon's survey of abstract drawing

Jackson Pollock, Gordon Matta-Clark and Anish Kapoor all feature in the Drawing Room's new exhibition


Steve McCurry on photography's globalised challenge

The Magnum photographer says that, from Cleveland to India, the world is beginning to look the same

Steve McCurry

The Met's vintage football cards show

The New York museum stages a football-themed trading cards show just in time for the Super Bowl

Sheet of twelve uncut football cards, from the Bowman Football series (R407-1) issued by Bowman Gum, 1948. From The Met's Gridiron Greats show

The disarming message behind these beaded guns

The artist and director Ralph Ziman wants to capture the unseen victims and perpetrators in Africa's arms trade

Ghosts by Ralph Ziman

You can design Foyles' window during Fashion Week

Calling all budding visual merchandisers - put your fashion and window dressing design skills to the fore


How Joseph Beuys went from artist to philosopher

A new exhibition looks at Beuys's transition from a creator of artistic objects to a 'social sculptor'

Capri Battery (1985) by Joseph Beuys

Aitor Throup creates visuals for Damon Albarn

Cutting edge designer featured in our book Pattern creates a new persona for Blur singer with Everyday Robots

Everyday Robots - Damon Albarn creative director Aitor Throup

Frank Thiel's frozen landscapes

Stunning photographs of massive Patagonian glacier feature in Nowhere is a Place at Sean Kelly Gallery NY

Perito Moreno - Frank Thiel

Revealed - the exact moment Monet painted this

A Texas State University study uses celestial and tidal data to pinpoint the moment captured in Monet's seascapes

The Cliff, Etretat, Sunset (1883) by Claude Monet

Looking back at Derek Jarman's Blue

20 years after the filmmaker's death, an Art and Queer Culture exhibition examines his final feature film

A still from Blue (1992) by Derek Jarman

Tadao Ando's Dream Chair becomes reality

Danish furniture firm Carl Hansen & Son learned to bend wood like plastic to bring Ando's furniture to life

Tadao Ando's Dream Chair

Alex Prager captures the face in the crowd

Large scale photos shot on an LA soundstage form part of the photographer's most ambitious work to date

- Alex Prager

Why Lord Foster wants us to travel more

And it’s so we can learn from the Pritzker laureate's buildings, airports and plane interiors

Norman Foster

Turin gallery raided over Ettore Sottsass fakes

La Stampa reports that police raided the Turin Gallery after a tip-off from the official Memphis producers

The Carlton bookcase by Ettore Sottsass

Are you ready for The Tate Gallery's robots?

A set of web-controlled remote viewing robots is just one of the ideas on the shortlist for the Tate's IK Prize

An image from #TateText, one of the ideas on the IK Prize shortlist

Barber Osgerby In The Making

New show at London's Design Museum explores what happens between design and the end product

Pure crystal before becoming a Swarovski optic lens - Barber Osgerby In The Making / Design Museum

Have you seen Jeff Koons' birthday cake?

The artist's wife recreated one of Koons' favourite Picasso paintings in icing for his 59th birthday on Tuesday

Jeff Koons' Picasso-inspired cake, made by his wife, Justine

Shigeru Ban perches penthouses above Tribeca

Japanese architect creates a pair of glazed duplex penthouses open to the elements on historic NY building

Cast Iron House, Tribeca - Shigeru Ban (photo via Designboom.com)

First major Actionist show comes to Britain

Violent and sexual precursor to performance art is dramatically laid bare in new exhibition

Rudolf Schwarzogler, 4 Aktion / 4th Action, (1965) Black and white photograph, 24 x 18 cm, © The Artist. Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery

Gerrit Rietveld’s classic Steltman Chair is reissued

1963 chair originally commissioned by Hague jewelers as seating for betrothed couples choosing wedding rings

Steltman Chair reissue - Gerrit Rietveld

René Redzepi announces MAD 2014

This year's event looks set to tackle (among other things) the thorny issue of the celebrity chef

The view from MAD 2013

A Japanese view of Frank Lloyd Wright

Images by the late critic and photographer Yukio Futagawa go on show in Tokyo next month

House and Bear Run, Fallingwater (1986/2002) by Yukio Futagawa

Santiago Calatrava's interconnecting bridge for Doha

As the population rises to one million the architect is commissioned to create innovative three-in-one crossing

Doha Bay Harq Crossing - Santiago Calatrava

New show looks at how the diary became public

Neuberger Museum NY presents work that uses online data to mark the beauty and banality of day to day life

Editor Solitario, (2011) by Oscar Muñoz

Will Bacon's George Dyer portrait break records?

After the artist's Freud triptych set a new world record last year, another iconic portrait goes on the block next month

From left: George Dyer in the Reece Mews Studio (c. 1964) by John Deakin, Portrait of George Dyer Talking (1966) by Francis Bacon

Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut vandalised

Priceless stained glass window, smashed in the hilltop chapel, is irreparable say authorities

Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (1955) Ronchamp - Le Corbusier

David LaChapelle takes on Big Oil

Former fashion photographer shows oil-industry maquettes crafted from consumer goods at Paul Kasmin NY

Land Scape Riverside (2013) by David LaChapelle

How many paintings can you name in this video?

Italian director Rino Stefano Tagliafierro brings movement to well-known art works in his new montage Beauty

John Everett Millais' Ophelia (1851 – 52) features in Beauty

Danny Lyon's radical ideas for National Geographic

A cannabis-themed issue with a free joint is just one of the special editions outlined by the great US photographer

Danny Lyon speaking to Julian Bond at the National Geographic Museum, Washington DC

Nendo rethinks the office staple

Japanese design practice is out to improve the look of your desktop

Cubic rubber band - Nendo

Design and Violence at MoMA

New MoMA show reminds us that not every designer wants to make the world a better place

Five Classified Aircraft Patches (2007) by Trevor Paglen

Renzo Piano to extend Monaco?

The Pritzker-Prize laureate has been shortlisted to build an additional six hectares out into the sea

Renzo Piano

NYC to lose one of its most familiar works of art?

Harry Roseman's Curtain Wall is to be removed from JFK's Terminal Four due to high passenger numbers

Curtain Wall (2001) 600' linear relief sculpture, modified gypsum, pictured on site - John F. Kennedy International Airport, International Air Terminal, Terminal 4. Image courtesy of Will Faller.

Foster + Partners' recyclable desert pavilion

The firm’s 2015 Expo Pavilion has been designed to be rebuilt in the UAE once the show is over

Foster + Partner's designs for the United  Arab Emirates pavilion at the Milan Expo

William Burroughs: artist, author, photographer?

A new show at London’s Photographers’ Gallery examines a less familiar side of the beat author’s work

Unknown Photographer Burroughs in the Hotel Villa Mouniria Garden, Tangier Scan from negative
5.6 x 5.8 cm © Estate of William S. Burroughs. Courtesy of the William S. Burroughs Estate

Why is Frieze NY recreating a 1970s LA hotel?

Frieze Projects will pay tribute to Allen Ruppersberg’s installation, Al’s Grand Hotel, at this year’s fair


Snøhetta’s landscaping of Times Square is a hit

Norwegian architecture practice of the moment landscapes iconic New York area to great acclaim

Times Square pedestrian landscaping - Snohetta

Kenya Hara on the future of Japanese design

The Muji design chief says his country’s manufacturing should be a little more like Swiss cheese

Kenya Hara

Stan Douglas' jazz-funk utopia

The artist's new film, Luanda-Kinshasa, resurrects a lost NY studio to raise questions of cultural equivalence

Still from Luanda-Kinshasa (2013) by Stan Douglas

Bouroullec brothers sitting pretty at Vitra

Design duo's latest sofa for the Swiss firm domesticates their much-loved office breakout area design

Plume sofa - Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra

David Walsh considers MONA's future

Maverick gambler and Museum of Old and New Art founder on how he's made sure the museum won't last forever

MONA founder David Walsh

How Soviet posters brought colour to a B&W era

This month London's GRAD gallery presents a stunning, rare selection of Soviet film posters from the silent age

From left: Oil (1927) by Aleksandr Naumov; Three Million Case, (1926) by Vladimir and Georgi Stenberg. Courtesy GRAD and AntikBar

Discovering Picasso studio by studio

Madrid's 2014 blockbuster Picasso show examines the artist's output based on his places of work

Pablo Picasso (1957), Villa La Californie, Cannes, France, by René Burri

Harvey Quaytman paintings on show in New York

McKee gallery shows one of the 20th century's least classifiable painters (and the subject of our new monograph)

Redwing (1997-98) by Harvey Quaytman

Alain de Botton curates online auction for Paddle8

Art website asks best selling author to put together a themed auction along the lines of Art as Therapy

Alain de Botton - author of Art as Therapy

What is it about Dan Graham's pavilions?

The US artist produces another signature, large-scale sculpture for a show at the Dutch De Pont museum

Dan Graham pavilion and model from his 2012 show at the Lisson Gallery, London