Shigeru Ban's Moscow pavilion opens

First look at Shigeru Ban's pavilion for Dasha Zhukova's Gorky Park Garage Center

Shigeru Ban

Renzo Piano talks about his favourite buildings

Architect picks five of his favourite buildings from our book 20th Century World Architecture in today's Times

Eames House, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States. Architect: Charles Eames

Brazilian nature provides setting for design biennial

Sao Paulo-based Marko Brajovic uses landscape to create setting for fourth Design Biennial in Belo Horizonte

Brazilian Biennial of Design - Marko Brajovic

Norman Foster re-imagines Grand Central Station

Architect is one of three names working on reinvigorating the station which marks its 100th anniversary next year

Grand Central Proposal - Foster+Partners

Renzo Piano designs LA movie museum

Architect works with Zoltan Pali on $250 million museum for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy Museum - Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali

Richard Meier gives students a rare look at collages

Architect returns to his old university with a special surprise for students

Che 77 collage - Richard Meier

Lauren Greenfield on The Queen of Versailles

The photographer and filmmaker who followed the billionaire Siegel family speaks at PhotoPlus in New York

From Lauren Greenfield's Queen of Versailles (2012)

Richard Prince designs drinks can

Appropriation artist, famous for subverting commercial advertising, designs drinks can to debut at Art Basel Miami

Richard Prince's drinks can for AriZona

Peter van Agtmael wins W Eugene Smith Award

The US war photographer receives $30,000 to continue his work on American conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Ranch House, an outpost in Eastern Afghanistan (2007) by Peter van Agtmael

Phaidon author tops ArtReview's Power 100 list

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, writer and curator of Documenta 13, beats Ai Weiwei and Larry Gagosian to top spot

Documenta 13 curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

See the changing face of China - in New York

Nadav Kander's award-winning series, Yangtze - The Long River, goes on show in America for the first time

Chongqing IV (Sunday Picnic) (2006) by Nadav Kander

Vitra Design Museum goes Pop!

Warhol, Rauschenberg and Lichtenstein collide with Eames, Sottsass and Castiglioni in new show


New art museum not designed by Zaha Hadid

New MOCA Cleveland is designed by a Middle Eastern-born, London-based female architect - Farshid Moussavi

MOCA Cleveland - Farshid Moussavi

High speed hub takes shape in Spain

Architects Abalos+Sentkiewicz use aluminium to great effect in riverside town of Logroño

Transportation Hub, Logroño - Abalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos

Buckyballs to light up New York

Buckminster Fuller inspires New York's twinkly, wintry public-arts offering

Rendering of Leo Villareal's Buckyball (2012) in Madison Square Park. Courtesy of Leo Villareal.

Hear Warhol in Conversation, next month

'68 radio recording, also featuring Paul Morrissey is to be made available via iTunes Nov 20

journalist, radio presenter and filmmaker Howard Smith (left) releases the recording of his Warhol interview next month

Poland's communist-era film posters

A new show of Soviet-era Polish film posters reveals a remarkable cache of creativity

Polish renderings of Hollywood films Pendulum (1969, left) and Ransom (1974, right), on display soon at Iluzjon

Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes

We review the American conceptual artist's new Whitechapel Gallery show

Mel Bochner's Blah, Blah, Blah (2011)

Designers, are you ready for Adhocracy?

Istanbul Design Biennial exhibition brings contemporary production techniques back to the artisan's workshop

Transparent Tools - Jesse Howard

Tracey Emin criticises Turner cuts

The British artist demands reversal of budget cuts for the contemporary gallery in her hometown

Margate's Turner Contemporary gallery

New Zaha Hadid art museum opens next month

Works by Josef Albers, Damien Hirst, and Andy Warhol to grace Eli and Edyth Broad's art museum

Zaha Hadid's new Broad Art Museum

Gerrit Rietveld revitalised by Studio Job

First gallery show in 24 years includes the Red Blue Chair he gave to design legend Wim Crouwel in 1955

Rood-blauwe stoel, Gerrit Rietveld, (1918-1923) stained beech-wood, Van de Groenekan, De Bilt 1952-1953. Courtesy / Photo: Wim Crouwel

Herzog & de Meuron's 'Jenga tower' gets go ahead

Herzog & de Meuron's Jenga tower in Tribeca is finally greenlit but Anish Kapoor's street level art work is uncertain

56 Leonard - Herzog & de Meuron

Juergen Teller shoots his mother in the forest

The German fashion photographer swaps Marc Jacobs campaigns for outdoor shots of his parents

From Juergen Teller's Irene Im Wald

GMP's very Grand Theatre

German architectural giants Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (GMP) create shell-like theatre in China

Grand Theatre - Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner photo courtesy of the architect

Louis Kahn's last design opens this month

The plans for an FDR memorial he was carrying when he died are completed four decades after the commission

Louis Kahn's sketch for the Four Freedoms Park, found in the briefcase he was carrying when he died

Jeff Koons goes walkabout

The art star tours his Brussels retrospective, explaining the sexual and artistic underpinnings of his work

Balloon Venus (Magenta) (2008 - 2012) by Jeff Koons

High Line architect to redesign Olympic Park

British-born landscape architect best known for Manhattan's High Line to turn 28 acres of London into a fun park

James Corner's plans for the Olympic Park

Apple pays up on time

Techonology giant forced to pay Swiss Railway operator SBB for using its trademarked clock design

One homage too far for Apple

Larry Gagosian - 'The painting I'd never sell'

The biggest art dealer in the world today gives the lowdown on the global art market in a revealing interview

Larry Gagosian standing in front of a painting by Cy Twombly

Eero Saarinen's War Room

Fascinating exhibition examines the mid-century architect and designer's role in the nascent CIA


Ten questions for Frieze curator Sarah McCrory

The art world mover and shaker on gallery openings, supporting the artististic vision and sourcing giant sausages

Frieze's Sarah McCrory

Mies van der Rohe inspires realist paintings

Karin Kneffel is a former student of Gerhard Richter. Her paintings look real, yet contain many untruths

Image © Karin Kneffel. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever

Rare shots of lost Soviet architecture

British photographer roots out early examples of Soviet building design, constructed before Stalin's reign

Dneproges Turbine Hall, Zaporozhe, Ukraine (2007) by Richard Pare

Frieze art works fly off the walls

Brisk trading marks preview days as Tate Gallery and new Brazilian collectors buy big

Frieze London 2012

Daido Moriyama sizes up to William Klein at The Tate

The London gallery pairs the Tokyo street photographer with his New York counterpart in great new exhibition

Moriyama montage from Phaidon's monograph

Zaha Hadid's Beijing 'Galaxy' nears completion

No corner suites in this new office and retail entertainment complex - Hadid's first in the Chinese capital

Galaxy Soho by Zaha Hadid Architects

Unseen Andy Warhol sketches on show at Frieze

Pre-Campbells soup cans drawings reveal pop artist as draughtsman during his first decade in New York

From Andy Warhol 1950s Drawings 'From Silver point to Silver Screen III'

Damien Hirst does dustbin

Spot painting adorns high end bin manufacturer Vipp's latest limited edition


Ross Lovegrove's UFO

British design star beams unidentified flying lamp into Lille station

Ross Lovegrove's UFO light in Lille

Has London changed the way artists do business?

Recent openings in the capital might have brought about a fundamental shift in the way gallerists and artists work

Luc Tuymans argues the art world is like the diamond trade

Huge Leica collections go on the block

Bonhams to auction over 250 lots of Leica cameras and accessories next month, in the first sale of its kind

Leica Luxus I (1930), lot no. 48048 in the forthcoming sale

Great Steve McCurry video, on location in Ethiopia

The legendary photographer discusses his work in the Omo Valley, documenting fast-disappearing ways of life

Steve McCurry in Ethiopia

Phaidon photographer Luc Delahaye wins the Prix Pictet 2012

The French former photojournalist's diverse submission scoops the international photography award

Les Pillards, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 17, 2010 by Luc Delahaye

Is this the best Frieze yet?

Show previews tomorrow - here are some things you shouldn't miss

Carmody Groarke's pavilion for The Frieze Art Fair

Ilona Szwarc's American Girls

The Polish photographer's enchanting series of girl and doll shots raise some seriously adult questions

From Ilona Szwarc's American Girls (2012)

Tripping the light fantastic

Monet's Water Lilies referenced in Pennsylvania work by British installation and light artist Bruce Monro

CD Water Lilies - Bruce Monro

Unseen David Bailey photographs discovered

Gallerist Daniel Blau unearths box of 1974 Polaroids taken in Papua New Guinea

David Bailey - Papua New Guinea 1974

Barbara Kruger on the buses in LA

The Los Angeles-based artist designs a bus wrap to stress the importance of arts education in public schools

Barbara Kruger's LA bus

Written in stone

As publishers of Concrete you'd expect us to fall for this beautiful rollerball from Design 22 and we have

Concrete pen - Design 22

Andy Martin and Thonet's classic ride

London-based designer uses Thonet's famous steam bending process for ultimate £43,000 fixed gear bike

Thonet Concept Bike - Andy-Martin

Zaha Hadid's Innovation Tower

Architect reimagines the idea of a tower for a design school in Hong Kong, the city where her career began

Innovation Tower - Zaha Hadid

Can the Tate clean up its defaced Rothko?

Attack on the artist's Maroon On Black throws up questions of security and whether the painting can be restored


Ten questions for auctioneer Simon de Pury

The legendary boss of Phillips de Pury on anonymous bidders, Damien Hirst, Gallery Girls and Godzilla figures

Simon de Pury in front of Maurizio Cattelan's Frank And Jaime

Daido Moriyama's best shot

The great Japanese photographer's close-up of his girlfriend's fishnets is one of his greatest images

Tights by Daido Moriyama (1986)

Starbucks' first drive-through, delivered on a truck

The coffee chain's new LEED-certified outlet combines environmentalism with portability and architectural flourish

Starbucks new modular drive-thru in Denver, Colorado

Is Gaddafi contemporary art's favourite corpse?

The Art Newspaper asks why three major artists have chosen to paint the corpse of the Libyan dictator

Gadhafi’s Corpse – October 20th 2011 by Yan Pei-Ming

Are Herzog & de Meuron back in to bat at Lord's?

Swiss architecture firm includes a hospital extension to its revised bid for west London cricket club site

Underground cricket pitches from Herzog & de Meuron's original Lords bid

Foster beats Hadid, Koolhaas to NY commission

Four names invited to pitch for 425 Park Avenue - sadly there can only be one winner. . .

Foster's conceptual design for 425 Park Avenue, New York. David W. Dunlap/The New York Times (left), dbox for Foster & Partners/L&L Holding Company (right)

Picasso's play comes to the Guggenheim

A production of Desire Caught By The Tail will be staged to coincide with the Picasso Black and White exhibition.

The title page from the a 1964 French edition of Desire Caught by The Tail, signed by Picasso

Do the Germans need to get over minimalism?

Joerg Suermann of Berlin's DMY suggests functional, minimal aesthetics no longer meet the world's needs

Prof. Barbara Kotte and Prof. Andreas Schulz's wonderful Rapid Racer

Ferran Adrià to fuse Japanese and Peruvian cuisine

El Bulli chef says his new restaurant will combine two national cuisines and place an emphasis on vegetables

Ferran and his brother Albert (left) at their Tickets tapas bar in Barcelona

Grayson Perry designs Essex holiday home

The cross-dressing Turner-Prize winner says the house traces the life of Essex everywoman, Julie

A House for Essex by FAT and Grayson Perry

Georgia's billionaire leader plans a Guggenheim

Bidzina Ivanishvili says a museum housing his contemporary art collection will attract tourists to the Eurasian state

Bidzina Ivanishvili paid $95 million for Dora Maar Au Chat by Pablo Picasso at Sotheby's in New York in May 2006

Frank Gehry reworks downtown Toronto

The Canadian super architect develops downtown Toronto with the help of local theatre impresario David Mirvish

Gehry's proposal for downtown Toronto

Sgt. Pepper's only dye-transfer print up for sale

Rare Beatles cover image goes on the block in London this month as part of Christie's photography sale

The original Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band shoot

The Marcel Duchamp-inspired Ghost house

French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus turn old prison into art space via Surrealism and polystyrene

Berdaguer and Péjus' Gue(ho)st House

Spartacus Chetwynd Turner Prize video exclusive

Phaidon is first to preview the Turner Prize nominees work at Tate Britain

Odd Man Out, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (2011)

Ai Weiwei's Fake Cultural Development closes

Does the Chinese state's closure of the artist's firm mean that he has "lost the battle but won the war"?

Ai Weiwei

Diana Al-Hadid's Vanishing Point

Dr Kathy Battista of Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York reviews the new Diana Al-Hadid new exhibition

Diana Al Hadid's At The Vanishing Point (2012)

People (and place) watching with Iwan Baan

Architecture is merely "the background for interactions" says Dutch photographer Iwan Baan

Terrace level of the Miguel Rio Branco Gallery at Inhotim, by Arquitetos Associados - photograph Iwan Baan

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother at Bonhams

British auction house's autumnal US photography sale is filled with classics - including this one

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 by Dorothea Lange

Fancy breakfast with Magnus Nilsson of Faviken?

A golden opportunity to eat a wild Swedish breakfast created by the Faviken star at Hix in London next week

Magnus Nilsson

Peter Zumthor to be given a gold medal by the queen

The 'architect's architect' is bestowed the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, personally approved by HRH herself

Peter Zumthor

Dieter Rams - surprise appearance at Braun Prize

Innovative walking sticks, baby carriers and an appearance from design legend are highlights of Braun Prize 2012

Dieter Rams (right) and Olivier Grabes, head of Braun Design

Klein Dytham to a T

Klein Dytham's subtle design for Japanese book shop Tsutaya sees them cover the facade with interlocking Ts

Tsutaya - Klein Dytham

School kids inspired by graphics

Vince Frost inspires a generation of budding designers with his work at Stanmore Public School in Sydney


Banksy walls on their way to Miami

Art Miami's fringe pavilion, CONTEXT, will show four Banksy walls, ripped from their original street location

Banksy's biplane love heart, Rumford Street car park, Liverpool 2011

Frank Lloyd Wright in the doghouse

One of the legendary architect's most unusual (and secret) commissions has been recreated for new documentary

Jim Berger and the FLW-designed doghouse - photo by Alisse Gratehouse AP

Libeskind, Hadid and Yansong’s favourite buildings

To mark the 40th anniversary of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention, CNN quizzes architects on best designs

Louis I. Khan's The Salk Institute - featured in the wonderful book Concrete

Does this painting predate the Mona Lisa?

The argument could be settled once and for all today - though some scholars will remain unconvinced

The so-called 'Isleworth' Mona Lisa

Francis Bacon's 'screaming pope' comes to auction

'Screaming pope' was bought for £71,500 40 years ago. It's now expected to reach £15 million

A detail from Untitled (Pope) - Francis Bacon

Roy Lichtenstein at work in his studio

Images from inside the New York Pop Artist's studio go on show in Philadelphia

Laurie Lambrecht's photographs from inside Roy Lichtenstein's studio (1990)

Brighton Photo Biennial hosts Magnum workshop

Moises Saman, Alessandra Sanguinetti and Mikhael Subotzky run ultimate five day improvement course

Moises Saman - Magnum Photos

Ten questions for FT restaurant critic, former restaurateur and best-selling author Nicholas Lander

The former L'Escargot owner turned restaurant critic on the importance of good table manners, psychic waiters, the charms of Korean cuisine, and why, for some reason, bankers suddenly want to be bakers

Nick photographed outside the phaidon.com office

"Do you even like Andy Warhol?"

Adam Lindemann discusses Andy Warhol with his psychiatrist and NY Gallerist readers

Andy Warhol

Art theft hits Santa Monica bond guru

Bond trader Jeffrey Gundlach offers the biggest ever reward for a single work following the theft of his Mondrian

Mr Gundlach at Monday's press conference

New video shows creation of the Olympic cauldron

Just released V&A video looks at the creation of the 204 petals and the mechanism to raise the structure

The Olympic Flame aka 'Betty' - Thomas Heatherwick

Can this building forge a better future for city living?

Siemens' sustainable cities building, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, officially opens this weekend

The Crystal, London

William Eggleston - unseen Kodachrome dye transfer process photos on show for the first time ever

Pioneering colour photographer's photos on show in California before joining Tate's permanent collection

Crossing Guard - William Eggleston

The Queen Buys Warhol

The Royal Collection Trust buys Andy Warhol's portraits of Elizabeth II to mark her Diamond Jubilee

Reigning Queens: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (AP Photo).

Vincent's Sunflowers on the move

Massive security operation swings into action as van Gogh's masterpieces leave their museum in Amsterdam

Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers on the move

Melbourne University commissions Moshe Safdie

The Israeli-born, US-based architecture star will design Monash University's new Zelman Cowen music school

Salt Lake City Public Library by Safdie Architects (2003)

Damien Hirst's AK47 artwork up for sale

Hirst's peace artwork for Jake and Dinos Chapman goes under the hammer at Phillips de Pury next month

Spin AK47 for Peace Day (2012), verso. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2012

Patricia Urquiola creates Tatou for Flos

Architect turned designer adds Flos to client list that already includes B&B Italia, Alessi, Foscarini and Molteni

Flos, Tatou - Patricia Urquiola

Yuri Suzuki's sound sculptures

Yuri Suzuki gets location-specific with a radio circuit board arranged along the lines of Harry Beck’s tube map

Image courtesy Design Museum and Hitomi Kai Yoda

A third of Cork Street's galleries to close

London's historic art street is under threat from developers, as plans for luxury flats edge out galleries

The Mayor Gallery, Cork St

Ferran Adria in Tokyo for G9 summit

Chef and president of G9 leads talks over the future of gastronomy and social responsibility

Ferran Adria and prestigious friends and comrades

Luc Tuymans' Queen Beatrix painting opens Stedelijk

The Netherlands' leading contemporary art museum commissioned the Belgian artist to paint the Dutch Queen

HM 2012 by Luc Tuymans

One Apple 'homage' too far?

Swiss Federal Railway service SBB, takes offence to new look of Apple's clock app for iPad in iOS 6

One homage too far for Apple