George Condo in transition
Two very different shows of new work reveal the New York artist at a turning point in his career
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
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
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
OMA reworks Rotterdam Kunsthal
New improvements, including some to security, to 22-year-old iconic building follow recent break in
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?
Crowdfunded vertical boat gets the go-ahead
Powered by solar panels and wind and wave energy Jacques Rougerie's SeaOrbiter takes to the oceans
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?
Christopher Nolan and Will.i.Am in huge digital show
This summer the Barbican and Google stage the biggest presentation of digital creativity ever
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)
Mugaritz pioneers smellavision
Andoni Luiz Aduriz collaborates with computing professor to bring the smell of his restaurant to an iPhone device
Swiss artists take to the slopes
Gstaad hosts Wild Art show by Olaf Breuning, Pipilotti Rist and Thomas Hirschhorn
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
Street art Gandhi takes over Police HQ
St.Art Delhi brings modern graffiti to an antique corner of the Indian capital
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
Chris Labrooy's Auto Aerobics
Aberdeen-born designer's latest work was inspired by a winter's evening walk through Brooklyn, New York
Rockwell blurs boundaries between office and club
Former NY industrial building repurposed to promote collaboration and creativity among upscale entrepreneurs
BIG sweetens the Bahamas with honeycomb homes
Bjarke Ingels' design features plunge pools on every balcony of this residence on New Providence Island
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 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
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
Wolfgang Tillmans becomes a Royal Academician
The photographer joins David Hockney and Anish Kapoor as a member of Britain's most prestigious art institution
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
International designers reimagine Kartell classic
Nendo, Philippe Starck and Piero Lissoni rework Ferruccio Laviani's Bourgie Lamp on its tenth birthday
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
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
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
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'
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
Frank Thiel's frozen landscapes
Stunning photographs of massive Patagonian glacier feature in Nowhere is a Place at Sean Kelly Gallery NY
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Barber Osgerby In The Making
New show at London's Design Museum explores what happens between design and the end product
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
Shigeru Ban perches penthouses above Tribeca
Japanese architect creates a pair of glazed duplex penthouses open to the elements on historic NY building
First major Actionist show comes to Britain
Violent and sexual precursor to performance art is dramatically laid bare in new exhibition
Gerrit Rietveld’s classic Steltman Chair is reissued
1963 chair originally commissioned by Hague jewelers as seating for betrothed couples choosing wedding rings
René Redzepi announces MAD 2014
This year's event looks set to tackle (among other things) the thorny issue of the celebrity chef
A Japanese view of Frank Lloyd Wright
Images by the late critic and photographer Yukio Futagawa go on show in Tokyo next month
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
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
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
Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut vandalised
Priceless stained glass window, smashed in the hilltop chapel, is irreparable say authorities
David LaChapelle takes on Big Oil
Former fashion photographer shows oil-industry maquettes crafted from consumer goods at Paul Kasmin NY
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
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
Nendo rethinks the office staple
Japanese design practice is out to improve the look of your desktop
Design and Violence at MoMA
New MoMA show reminds us that not every designer wants to make the world a better place
Renzo Piano to extend Monaco?
The Pritzker-Prize laureate has been shortlisted to build an additional six hectares out into the sea
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
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
William Burroughs: artist, author, photographer?
A new show at London’s Photographers’ Gallery examines a less familiar side of the beat author’s work
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
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
Stan Douglas' jazz-funk utopia
The artist's new film, Luanda-Kinshasa, resurrects a lost NY studio to raise questions of cultural equivalence
Bouroullec brothers sitting pretty at Vitra
Design duo's latest sofa for the Swiss firm domesticates their much-loved office breakout area design
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
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
Discovering Picasso studio by studio
Madrid's 2014 blockbuster Picasso show examines the artist's output based on his places of work
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)
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
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
The Circle Skyscraper is complete
China's latest 'round building' tops out in Guanghzou courtesy of Milanese architects AM Project
Simon Starling selects art for New Contemporaries
The British artist joins Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Enrico David to chose the best work from British graduates
Is Banksy headed for Moscow?
The state broadcaster claims the Russian capital is due to host a show by the British graffiti artist
How to get ahead in architecture by Eva Jiřičná
Czech architect says site visits aid learning and lead to international projects in Architects' Journal interview
Iconic London taxi changes shape again
Another revised look for black cab but do design cues go far enough in preserving its heritage?
What will Jeff Koons create with Sean Penn's guns?
The artist plans to rework all of the actor's "cowardly killing machines" into a sculpture to raise money for charity
James Franco stars in Isaac Julien film
An international dramatisation of art and the financial crisis premiers at Victoria Miro in London this month
Thomas Struth goes to Disneyland
The Dusseldorf School photographer shoots the quaint side of America's most famous theme park
Good manners go underground in Tokyo
Latest graphic designs from The Metro Foundation urge users not to sneeze or squeeze through the closing doors
The one billion euro railway station
After a hundred years at the planning stage a new railway tunnel reunifies the residents of Leipzig in Germany
Meet the lady who turned Europe onto US pop
MoMA honours the Romanian-born dealer Ileana Sonnabend with a new-year show
42,000 plastic men adorn new Louis Vuitton store
Do Ho Suh's Cause and Effect sculpture, built from tiny acrylic figures, graces Tokyo's newest LV boutique
Could Lord Foster's SkyCycle scheme take off?
The Pritzker laureate wants to build 220 kilometres of cycle routes above London's train lines
New Picasso linocut series shows how he worked
13 recently acquired sequential Picasso linocuts go on display at the British Museum tomorrow
Robert Indiana's regrets over LOVE
"It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake" artist says about the work that came to define his career
Damien Hirst makes a spot Mickey Mouse
Artist's version of the cartoon character is to be auctioned off for charity at Christie's in London next month
Steve McCurry's camera phone advice
The world-renowned photographer tells the BBC how to take a great picture - on a smart phone
A 'coral' clad home for 74 lucky students
Atelier Fernandez & Serres creates interesting scenery at an oceanic observatory in the Pyrénées
How MoMA made its own René Magritte typeface
The museum's graphic designer took the painter's writing and transformed it into blockbuster signage
Join NADA and Phaidon in New York this Sunday
Come and hear Art Cities of the Future contributor Pablo Léon de la Barra and others at our NADA talk
Does this wild art work remind you of Ed Ruscha?
Irish graffiti artist Maser transforms derelict petrol station in a tribute to the American pop artist
Pentagram and Joel Meyerowitz brand NY wilderness
The design agency has used Meyerowitz's shots in its new identity for NYC's Natural Areas Conservancy
Artist angered by Taiwanese copy of his duck
Florentijn Hofman is offended by local attempts to recreate his Rubber Duck, which burst on New Year's Eve
René Redzepi's travel habits and vintage carrots
The Noma chefs talks through his winter menu with CBS, and his holiday plans with the Sunday Times
Richard Serra tells Charlie Rose how art works
The sculptor tells the talk show host it's easy to talk about the 'how' and the 'what' but not the 'why'
Our Meryl Streep author talks through her new book
Karina Longworth explains why Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor is both an overview and a worthy feminist study
Amazon's new HQ boasts some lush vegetation
The mail-order giant's new Seattle office development will feature botanical-garden style biospheres
Alain de Botton to curate an "anti-blockbuster"
The Art as Therapy author brings his Art as Therapy ideas to bear at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum
Daniel Patterson's Google lecture
Innovative Californian chef joins a prestigious list that includes Barack Obama, Lada Gaga and David Beckham
Ai Weiwei's floral bike protest
Why is the Chinese artist and dissident leaving bouquets in a bicycle basket outside his compound every day?
