John Pawson talks Kuramata at the Design Museum
How the designer dissuaded the architect from becoming a monk and other tales from last night's talk
The lighter side of Chris Johanson
"My old art is really negative" says the artist, "I would never make art like that ever again."
Frank Gehry goes back to the drawing board
Architect swathes controversial Toronto towers in curvaceous cladding and adds an 'echo' of what stood before
Martin Parr turns his lens on the Swiss
The quintessentially English photographer focuses on Helvetican clichés in Think of Switzerland
NY subway commuters see the light
Architect Nicholas Grimshaw teams up with artist James Carpenter to create glass oculus over transport hub
Colman Andrews' Fourth of July barbecue choices
Our Taste of America author picks his best Independence Day treats and tells the stories behind them
Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne get retrospective
Skye Sherwin on the French sculptors loved and collected by the likes of Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs and Valentino
Industrial Facility designs neighbourhood style office
Industrial Facility and Herman Miller transform the office into a 'richer', more collaborative place to do business
René Burri receives Leica Hall of Fame Award
Swiss photographer joins Steve McCurry, Barbara Klemm and Nick Út as one of Leica's greatest ambassadors
French photographer captures false alarms
Marina Gadonneix's focus on disaster simulators explores the divide between the real and the perceived
Ferran Adrià's London show opens this Friday
elBulli: Ferran Adrià and The Art of Food opens with a talk from the great man himself
Shigeru Ban turns to wood for Swatch
The Japanese architect says timber is 'the only renewable material' and has used it extensively in this new building
Rebranding via a smoke bomb
Italian photographer Filippo Minelli Silence/ Shapes_Ongoing photo series is taken up for a new corporate identity
Punk rock meets modernism in Marseilles
Konstantin Grcic joins The Bouroullec Brothers in reworking Le Corbusier's Appartement No50
Why did Frank Gehry hire a human rights lawyer?
And which of the United Arab Emirates does he like, and which does he say is "like every cruddy city in the world"?
Will this typeface foil the spies?
South Korean designer and former state intelligence worker creates fonts to slow down eavesdropping software
New Manhattan skyscraper allows sun onto High Line
Studio Gang develops ‘solar carving’ technique that uses incident angles of the sun’s rays to sculpt building form
Ann Woo plays her cards right
New York-based Chinese photographer eschews interpretation, seeking only what's real in her new photo series
Low comedy meets high art at Slapstick!
A new exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg pairs Laurel and Hardy with Fischli and Weiss
All aboard Doug Aitken's art and music train
Station to Station promises to be a transcontinental 'nomadic happening' with artists, writers, bands and chefs
Can you see what's going on here?
We like Béla Borsodi’s optical illusion created for new VLP album, Terrain
Paintballing now part of 2013's Frieze Projects
The London art fair's annual commissions break away from the traditional canvas and plinth creations
The unsung hero of Secessionist Vienna
The often overlooked pioneer of modern design, Koloman Moser, finally gets a New York retrospective
Koolhaas' son makes a documentary about dad
Film REM is an "exploration of what architecture means to those who inhabit it and create it"
Nicholas Grimshaw's masterplan for Wimbledon
Nicholas Grimshaw and Grant Associates juggle heritage and modernity with new look for UK's home of tennis
Henning Larsen, 1925-2013
The Danish architect, known for The Royal Danish Opera House and The Malmö City Library has died, aged 87
When John Pawson met Shiro Kuramata
Deyan Sudjic describes the Japanese designer's influence, and his mentoring of one Brit in particular. . .
Giuseppe Colarusso plays with form and function
Giuseppe Colarusso's Improbabilità series is a playful exploration of objects and their uses
Take a look at India's new tree-lined apartments
Edouard François' Gurgaon 71 development sees high-rise horticulture planned for the outskirts of New Delhi
World cup football fans to be housed in floating hotels
Thousands of 'refreshed' fans celebrating their team's 2022 success in the sea - what could possibly go wrong?
Have you seen Renzo Piano's new house?
Architect's latest scheme named after ancient philosopher Diogenes who traded comfort for living in a barrel
Heatherwick denies copying Olympic cauldron
British designer says claims made by American firm Atopia that he copied its pitch are 'spurious nonsense'
OMA's Bordeaux bridge doubles as a stage
"The bridge is not the ‘event’ in the city," say OMA "but a platform that can accommodate all the events of the city.”
American designer creates sandcastle suburbia
Chad Wright's Master Plan project populates his local sea shores with the tract housing of his childhood
Artist builds his own egg-shaped home
The Exbury Egg will serve as Stephen Turner's seaside home, as he studies the effects of climate change
Ai Weiwei's animal heads unveiled in Toronto
Heads depict contemporary China's relationship with its history and how that's been eroded says curator
Arts group to be evicted from Picasso's Paris studio
The loft where Picasso painted Guernica, and other artists once resided, is now at the centre of a fresh conflict
Thea and Ethan wow young collectors at Sotheby's
Our Collecting Art for Love, Money and More advisors make friends wherever they go - last night it was Bond Street
Moleskine gets a makeover
Everyone's favourite notebook gets a new look from Milan-based graphic designers Achilli Ghizzardi Associati
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
