Jamey Stillings photographs Google power plant

Search engine's quest to become environmentally friendly documented by photographer Jamey Stillings

Blue Earth project Changing Perspectives on Renewable Energy Development - Jamey Stillings

William Turnbull dies aged 90

An appreciation of the Scottish painter and sculptor, friend of Mark Rothko and "radical modernist"

William Turnbull 1922 - 2012

Dali blockbuster opens in Paris this week

Surrealist's retrospective aims to reassess the performance works while also drawing in big crowds

The Persistence of Memory (1931) by Salvador Dali

New York shows its activist side

Two interesting exhibitions this winter show New Yorkers' role at the forefront of worldwide protest

Crowd near the Drill Hall on the opening day of the treason trial Johannesburg - Eli Weinberg

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

Joel Meyerowitz beside an image shot by him in Paris, in 1967 - photograph by Jill Gewirtz

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

Club Silencio from David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001)

New York’s neighbourhoods still need you

Filmmakers, photographers and art world luminaries are spearheading the post-Sandy clear up - you can help too

Rockaway - Peter van Agtmael

Magnum's Harry Gruyaert on Henri Cartier-Bresson

We bump into the Belgian photographer at the Somerset House show Bresson: A Question of Colour

Harry Gruyaert Belgium Flanders-region- Province Of Brabant 1988

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

The Massaro House on Petre Island, New York State

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

Chairs by Tadashi Kawamata at the Abu Dhabi Art Fair

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

Ski Pass for Aspen - David Shrigley Images courtesy of the artist and Galleri Nicolai Wallner

What to see at Paris Photo 2012

The world's foremost photography fair begins today - here's what to look out for

Matthew Brandt, American Lake, WA D7 (2011)

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

Larry Gagosian and Damien Hirst

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

Untitled (Pope)  (1954) by Francis Bacon sold for  $29.8m earlier this week

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

Zaha Hadid

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

J Mayer H Lazika sculpture (2012)

Steve McCurry's Iconic Photographs #1

Legendary Magnum photographer talks about the chance meeting that led to his photo: Young Monk In A Teashop

Young monk in a teashop, Bodh Gaya, India 2000 - Steve McCurry

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?

Beijing's 798 art district

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

Rodrigo Braga, Comunhão (2006)

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

Sylvester Stallone (1980) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1977) by Andy Warhol

Art lovers protected by giant funnels in Taiwan

Dadong Art Centre in Taiwan uses membrane roofing and funnels to deflect extreme weather

Dadong Art Centre - de Architekten Cie / MAYU Architects

Gregory Crewdson laid bare in new film

Ex-punk rocker turned photographer's obsessive and impeccable attention to detail on show in new documentary

Untitled (Ophelia) by Gregory Crewdson from the Twilight series (2001)

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

The Zayed National Museum, designed by Sir Norman Foster

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

Ay-O Pastoral (1956)

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?

detail from Statue of Liberty (1962) by Andy Warhol

Marimekko takes to the air

Finnair planes to become 'roving ambassadors' of timeless Finnish design and creativity

Marimekko for Finnair

Nika Neelova wins Sculpture Shock award

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

Nika Neelova, Partings (2012), concrete casts from a Somerset House door, burnt timber, rope, 4m x 3m approx

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

Pop Pop BANG - Thomas Brown and Anna Burns

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 ?

Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Installation view, Sao Paulo Bienal (2012)

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

Agnes Martin and Arne Glimcher in her new truck, Galistera, New Mexico (1979); Arne Glimcher photographed by Ronald James

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?

Scout Tufankjian - Barack and Michelle Obama

Huge Francis Bacon show comes to Sydney

The Art Gallery of New South Wales hosts the painter's first major retrospective in the country

Francis Bacon, Three studies for a self-portrait (1979–80)

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

Harland Miller Fuck Art Let's Dance (2011)

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

Claude Monet's Nymphéas (1905) sold for $43,762,500 (£27,570,375)

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. . .

Die Shweizer - Andreas Herzau

Would you live in Softkill's house?

It's made with 3D printers using an algorithm that mimics human bone growth

Softkill's Protohouse. Photo by Julia Kubisty

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)

Andy Warhol with camera (1967)

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

Fucking Hell - Jake and Dinos Chapman

Mexican architects model chapel on Virgin Mary

Robes of Our Lady of Guadalupe provide divine inspiration for architects FREE in Miami

Miami Chapel by Free

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

Flowers by Andy Warhol (1964)

Randall Museum fosters love of science

San Franciscan artist Charles Sowers turns aerial currents into a fun art exhibit at kids museum

Windswept by Charles Sowers (2012)

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

Photo Darcy Padilla

Protest posters: democratic graphics' high point?

An exhibition of Californian posters remembers an age when people power and great design worked in harmony

Ecology Now, Earth First, (1970)

Nicolas Karakatsanis's dark side

The Belgian shoots ads and movies, but his fine-art photography throws commercial work into relief

Untitled (2011) by Nicolas Karaktsanis

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

The Art Book

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

Ai Weiwei

Joel Meyerowitz - "Every street has its own identity"

Diamond dealers, dames and the long dark days of winter - photographer Joel Meyerowitz spent day after day, year after year, walking the streets of Manhattan - in this video he describes some of what he saw

NYC New Year's Eve 1965 -  Joel Meyerowitz

Oscar Niemeyer designs Converse range

The Brazilian Modernist master architect works his philosophy of curves into a new range of shoes

Converse x Oscar Niemeyer's Chuck Taylor All Star Hi

'New' Titian St John the Baptist confirmed by Prado

Third St John the Baptist painting is confirmed by Museo del Prado as created by the hand of the master


Will Foster's Paris Twin Towers get the go ahead?

Two 323 metre-high skyscrapers designed by Foster+Partners could change the shape of Paris skyline

Fosters + Partners' Hermitage Plaza

NYC's arts community rallies around after Sandy

NY's art scene is trying to bounce back. Here's what it's doing and here's how you can help - wherever you are

Detail from 20X200's Blue Marble Hurricane Sandy print

Introducing Magnum's newest recruit Olivia Arthur

Photographer spent time gaining the trust of women in Saudi Arabia and captured a startling series of images

Olivia Arthur

Daniel Baer's collaboration with Joel Meyerowitz

The Swiss designer tells us about making an incredible book for an incredible photographer

Joel Meyerowitz - Taking My Time

Lucas Arruda brings painting back to São Paulo

28-year-old Brazilian painter's work is a hit in a Latin American city dominated by conceptual and video art

Lucas Arruda, untitled (2011)

The Art Book Challenge at St Pancras

Art buffs, French tourists, wayward school kids and grandparents all took the Phaidon Art Book Challenge at St Pancras on Saturday. Could there really only be one winner?

The Art Book Challenge at St Pancras on Saturday

Iwan Baan photographs a powerless New York

New York magazine uses the Dutch photographer's image of New York for the Hurricane Sandy edition


New York art world counts the cost of Sandy

"The whole river came in and swept up Chelsea," Pace Gallery's Arne Glimcher tells phaidon.com

CRG Gallery - photo Robert Caplin

Mercury City beats Shard to 'tallest in Europe'

New Moscow tower tops out above Renzo Piano's Shard to become tallest in Europe

Mercury City - Moscow

Win Phaidon books at The Art Book Challenge

Your chance to win an entire library of books at The Art Book Challenge at St Pancras International


Danh Vo wins Hugo Boss prize

Show at the Guggenheim for one of Phaidon's favourite artists at this year's Frieze Art Fair

We Are The People - Danh Vo

HENN build 'floating' museum on the Yangtze River

The diamond-panelled Nantong Museum of Urban Planning is HENN's latest high-profile waterside project

Nantong Urban Planning Museum - HENN

Arne Glimcher talks Agnes Martin

On the night Sandy hit New York, super dealer Arne Glimcher was on the Charlie Rose show - here's the video

Arne Glimcher by Weston Wells

Sao Paulo Bienal hailed as best ever

With Brazil in the ascendency the Sao Paulo Bienal steps up a gear and is widely hailed as the best in history

Parque Industrial - Edouard Fraipont

Detour art and design festival opens in Hong Kong

Launched in 2006 as a fringe programme in Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week, Detour is now a high-profile art and design festival in its own right - this year it reaches out to Denmark, Germany, Japan and the US

Brainwashing machines - Kacey Wong

Studio Fuksas covers building in petals

Innovative roof system sees 11 steel petals protect Georgian Government workers against inclement weather

Tbilisi Public Service Hall - Studio Fuksas

Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour

Fascinating new show of unseen Henri Cartier-Bresson photographs looks at how the master's black and white prints influenced the colour ones of those who trailed in his wake

Helen Levitt - Cat next to red car, New York - 1973

A new look for Noma

Space Copenhagen reworked the interior of world's best restaurant while René Redzepi watched the Olympics


Hurricane Sandy as captured by VII Photo's Ashley Gilbertson and Jessica Dimmock

The VII photographers headed out onto the streets of New York to photograph the aftermath of the disaster

Jessica Dimmock - Reporters on 8th Avenue October 30, 2012

Ten questions for branding guru Michael Johnson

The Creative Director of design consultancy Johnson Banks on how to pick up good ideas by osmosis, which countries turn out the best design and what he thinks about eBay's rebranding

Milton Glaser, I Love NY More Than Ever (2001) and Michael Johnson

Snøhetta's interactive opera house

Norwegian architecture practice aims to democratise opera with new structure in Busan, Korea

Busan Opera House - Snøhetta

Bouroullec Brothers create the seat of learning

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec turn their attention to keeping university students focussed on their work

Bouroullec Brothers for Hay

Martin's Rauch's mud house

Austrian architect is at the forefront of a number of innovators building with mud - why?


The ultimate off street parking

Moomoo Architects' next project: a house with parking space - for a yacht

Yachting House by Moomoo Architects

Zaha Hadid designs house for Naomi Campbell

Russian businessman Vladislav Doronin commissions Dame Hadid to create house for supermodel girlfriend

Capital Hill Residence - Zaha Hadid

See VII Photo films next month

VII Photo agency tops off most successful year ever by showing documentary work next month

Curse of the Black Gold - Ed Kashi

Brazil meets Britain in new show

Concrete Parallels: Brazilian and British constructivist Art finds interesting links between post war abstraction


Desi Santiago's Art Basel Miami debut

Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen and Louis Vuitton collaborator reworks Miami Beach Hotel for art fair

Desi Santiago

Joseph Beuys goes back to his childhood

Photographer Gerd Ludwig follows the artist back to his hometown where he witnessed the birth of the Nazis

Joseph Beuys by Gerd Ludwig

Joel Meyerowitz - 'Dad always said, pay attention!'

Photographer reveals how his boxer father taught him how to anticipate people's moves - in all their forms

Joel Meyerowitz pays attention

Helmut Lang teams up with Shelter Serra

Nephew of minimalist legend Richard Serra creates silicon engine blocks in conjunction with fashion designer


Vito Acconci made designer of the year

Perhaps best known for masturbating under the floor of a gallery and following strangers around New York, the incredible artist's reinvention as designer and architect is recognised with Design Miami award

Vito Acconci - Design Miami

Jeremy Deller wants art to be more playful

The Turner Prize winner endorses a new £30,000 award for playful art, hosted by Bristol venue, The Watershed

Jeremy Deller by Isabelle Gressel

Guido van der Werve stops the world in New York

The High Line's Channel 14 venue hosts Dutch video artist's anti-earth-turning work

Guido van der Werve, ‘Nummer Negen: The Day I Didn’t Turn With the World,’ (2007). (Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine)

Three massive photo events in Paris next month

Join Elliott Erwitt, Rem Koolhaas, Martin Parr and David Lynch in Paris next month, when the city goes photo crazy

Elliott Erwitt, New York (1974) from Le Mois de la Photo's Subtle Strangeness exhibition

New Andy Warhol essays by Jeanette Winterson, Hilton Als, Jonathan Lethem and Kurt Anderson

Christie's commissions four prominent writers and art lovers to give their take on the seminal pop artist

Warhol at Christie's takes place Monday 12 November

Joel Meyerowitz features in Armani Paris Photo show

Legendary photographer's work part of exhibition celebrating fashion house's Acqua for Life campaign

From The Elements: Air/Water, Part 1 (2007) by Joel Meyerowitz

Ten Questions for photographer Peter van Agtmael

Magnum's W Eugene Smith Grant winner on the rigours of frontline reportage and photographic truth telling

US army training dummy, Fort Jackson, South Carolina Sept 2011; and self portrait, both by Peter van Agtmael

World's largest dome built in Singapore

With it's moveable domed roof Arup's National Stadium resembles an old school Bond villain's lair

National Stadium, Singapore - Arup

Peter Gabriel acclaims Phaidon's The Art of Looking Sideways in 'So' 2012 tour programme

Alan Fletcher's incredible graphics primer gets singer's endorsement in Back To Front tour programme

Alan Fletcher, one of PG's tips

Could you live in a house made from cow's blood?

Eco architecture graduate Jack Munro uses slaughterhouse waste to build houses in Egypt

Detail from Jack Munro's Sanguis et Pulvis

Franck Allais brands the neighbourhood

French photographer Allais captures logos of delivery vans, lorries and branded cars that pass us by every day


Another Gagosian gallery planned for London?

Will Larry open an additional Mayfair gallery to complement his two other places in the British capital?

London could soon have has many Gagosian galleries as New York

Japanese architects put a tree in a townhouse

Japan's UID architecture practice nestles a garden within a house on a cloistered spot in Fukuyama

UID Architects' Machi House. Photos by Hiroshi Ueda.

Sally Mann's bedbound photographs

A look at the American photographer's haunting portraits, taken while recovering from a serious accident

Untitled (self portraits) (2006-12) by Sally Mann

Mario Testino talks death and sexuality

To mark his first US retrospective, the world-famous fashion photographer and Phaidon artist discusses his career

Mario Testino, Visionaire Chic Party, New York 1997

Russell Means, star of Andy Warhol silk screen, dies

Leader of the American Indian Movement, politician and actor dies of cancer on his US Pine Ridge Reservation

American Indian Series - Andy Warhol (1976)

Joel Meyerowitz - Fifth Avenue always amazed me!

Photographer recalls early days and just what it took to get the images that became part of photographic history

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz

Ebay gets Pinterest-style design makeover

Hard on the heels of its new logo Ebay gets a Pinterest-style, 'user generated' new look

Ebay's Pinterest-style new look

When Daido Moriyama tried to destroy photography

The photographer discusses his career, including the point when he tried to say farewell to it