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

ALPHAville's geometric house

W-Window House in Tokyo by Japanese architects ALPHAville, is basically a rectangle - with a triangular slice


Hotel Droog opens in Amsterdam

Super cool mini mall for good design features pieces by Hella Jongerius, Maarten Baas and Marcel Wanders


Starck goes prefabulous

Philippe Starck teams up with Slovenian engineering firm, Riko, to build Democratic Ecological Architecture


JFK death art to go on display

Monets and van Goghs in the presidential suite at the time of his assassination to feature in Dallas show

Art in the President's suite

Andreas Gursky new exhibition and new work

Stunning new 2012 work 'Katar' forms centrepiece of new show at Museum Kunstpalast, in Düsseldorf

Andreas Gursky - photographed by Federico Gamberini

London Design Festival - 5 things to look out for today

'Don't miss' events, presentations and talks at the London Design Festival today, Friday

BE OPEN sound portal Trafalgar Square

Major Chinese portraiture show in Australia

Having rubbished the latest London Chinese art exhibition, what would Ai Weiwei make of the Aussie one?

Yu Youhan Untitled (Mao Marilyn) 2005

Man Ray's Portraits: first major retrospective

Britain's National Portrait Gallery to host the first major retrospective of the American surrealist's portraiture

Lee Miller and Man Ray at a Paris shooting gallery, c.1930

Russian Constructivists meet Aussie Students

Undergraduates at the University of Western Australia make models of unbuilt Russian Constructivist buildings

Model of El Lissitzky’s cloudprop proposal (1925)

The Louvre's Islamic Art wing opens this weekend

A new courtyard at the Louvre opens on Saturday, displaying the museum's peerless collection of Islamic art

The undulating glass roof covers Louvre's new Islamic Art exhibition space

London Design Festival - 5 things to look out for today

'Don't miss' events, exhibitions and talks at the London Design Festival today, Thursday

Visitors to the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design room at Design Junction

Here comes The Istanbul Design Biennial

The Turkish creative community puts itself on the design-shindig map, with an event championing imperfection


Danny Lyon's The Bikeriders

The US photographer's pioneering biker portraits are on show again

From Danny Lyon's Bikeriders (1967)

Ten questions for Anthony Haden-Guest

The New Yorker, Art Newspaper and Vanity Fair writer, infamous art world veteran, social commentator, collector and notorious bon viveur Anthony Haden-Guest unpacks half a century of fine-art wisdom in ten exchanges.

Anthony Haden-Guest kissing a mermaid at Art Basel Miami Beach, December 2009

Cindy Hinant's make-up, glamour and TV show

The American feminist artist's first solo show at Manhattan's Joe Sheftel Gallery plays with feminine ideals and expectations, as well as earlier artistic movements, says Dr Kathy Battista of Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York

Make-up Painting 1 (2011)

Kacper Hamilton's luxury pocketknife

Cutting-edge designer draws on 19th century Japanese metalwork to inspire his latest luxury gadget

Kacper Hamilton's Zai HIGO

Amsterdam's bathtub gallery opens this weekend

The Stedelijk Museum striking new wing, dubbed the 'bathtub', welcomes gallery-goers from this Sunday

The Stedelijk's new wing

Paul Smith, Conran and Hadid's design capsule

London's new Design Museum is to bury a time capsule packed with objects nominated by name designers

Objects included in The Design Museum's time capsule

Hirst and Documenta break attendance records

Documenta 13 in Kassel proves to be a fifth as popular as the Magic Kingdom and Damien Hirst's Tate Modern retrospective is already the biggest ever for a solo artist at the museum, beating Edward Hopper and Gaugin

Damien Hirst at the Tate retrospective

KAW create a fortress for women

Victims of human trafficking find hope in this newly greened office block created from a former 70s police station

Veilige Veste - KAW

Paul McCarthy's post-performance props

The Californian artist displays photographs of props used in his provocative early performance works

Paul McCarthy's Ketchup Bottles 1991 - (2012)

Philip Treacy reinterprets Jackson's stage wardrobe

The British milliner's London Fashion Week show pairs Michael's wardrobe with his own astounding creations

Philip Treacy's 2012 London Fashion Week show

Renzo Piano's new art museum opens this month

Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museet opens with show featuring work by Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst

The Astrup Fearnley Museet by Renzo Piano

Yayoi Kusama early drawings on show

Drawings from the mid-50s at the D'Amelio Gallery include rarely seen images from her Sixties dealer's archive

Snow Ball in Sunset (Snow Ball in Sansunset), 1953 - Yayoi Kusama

Photographer Kevin Davies makes Philip Treacy book

Extraordinary set of images of the famous milliner by photographer Kevin Davies coming to Phaidon very soon

Photograph by Kevin Davies

New Andy Warhol film to be released

Andy Warhol's 1968 film San Diego Surf which saw his Factory stars constantly harassed by police while filming finally gets a long-overdue release based on a rough cut and Warhol's original notes from the time

San Diego Surf - Andy Warhol

Finding inspiration in the dark

Photographer Daisuke Yokota's Back Yard series in which he photographed, printed, then re-photographed and re-printed each image up to 10 times revives 'ancient' skills of the dark room

Backyard - Daisuke Yokota

Rare Picasso turns up but owners have to sell

Most of us are resolved to never owning a Picasso but imagine you had one and were forced to sell it

Seated Woman with Red Hat - Pablo Picasso

London Design Festival is here

Ten days of city-wide design events in museums, galleries, shops and decommissioned spaces is about to begin


Rolling Stones enlist Walton Ford for Grrr! artwork

Walton Ford joins roll call of Andy Warhol, Guy Peellaert and Peter Corriston by designing 50th anniversary album

The Rolling Stones, Grrr! - Walton Ford

Do US arrivals mean UK galleries will lose out?

The opening of three well-established New York galleries in London this autumn has the British press in a stir

Peter Doig, 100 Years Ago (2000

Will Bill Henson get another police raid?

The Australian photographer whose 2008 show led to a police investigation returns with a new body of work

From Bill Henson's Untitled, 2011-2012

Peel slowly and sue

Warhol 1, The Velvet Underground 0, in their on-going banana lawsuit

Detail from Warhol's famous banana cover image (1967)

Cai Guo-Qiang wins Japan's Praemium Imperiale

'Exploding artist' takes prestigious award from ruling dynasty for his work Footprints in the Sky

Cai Guo-Qiang

Your bus will terminate here

Timo Klos takes photographs of bus stops but there are no people and no buses - something doesn't quite add up

To Mark Time - Timo Klos

Massimo Vignelli's NYC subway map is reborn

The Italian designer and Michael Beirut discuss the origins of a design classic

Detail from Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York Subway map

Ten questions for Tate Pre-Raphaelites curator Jason Rosenfeld

Co-curator of Tate show Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-garde and author of John Everett Millais explains why the Pre-Raphs were like The YBAs, how they connect to contemporary art and why Millais was 'a bit McCartney'

Prof Rosenfeld and his great new monograph

A High Line for London?

Deadline for a mayor-endorsed urban park scheme is 2pm this Friday

Joel Sternfeld, Looking East on 30th Street on a Morning in May (2000)

Larry Gagosian is officially bigger than the Tate

He started off selling posters from in LA in 1975 now uber-dealer Larry Gagosian's empire spans four continents

Larry Gagosian

Cy Twombly, photographer?

The American painter's lesser-known photographic works are on display in Britain for the first time

Cy Twombly, untitled, 2002

Bouroullec brothers prints on show and for sale

Design duo show limited edition prints as part of new Established & Sons initiative, the Wrong Shop

Wrong Shop Editions at twentytwentyone

Who's made the cut for 2012 Art Basel Miami Beach?

Details of this year's exhibitors have been made public, prompting some to speculate on 2012's no-shows

Tony Shafraz gallery,  Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

Chris Buck's 'invisible' celebrities

Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Michael Stipe, Robert de Niro, Snoop Dogg and Russell Brand all pose for the photographer's camera but are nowhere to be seen in the resulting prints in his Presence series

Michael Stipe - Chris Buck

Ai Weiwei calls for 'argument' not 'cultural exchange' with China in Guardian newspaper piece

Artist says "China's art world does not exist" in critique of Hayward's Art of Change: New Directions From China

AI WEIWEI Study of Perspective - Tiananmen Square 1995-2003

Mick Jones RIP

The artist behind the landmark 1985 anti-war mural Hackney Peace Carnival has died

Hackney Peace Mural - Mick Jones

Concrete gets another rave review

Atlantic Cities writes "The eye candy here, from the graceful to the brash is enough to open the mind of any skeptic"


John Baldessari, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman unite behind Obama

Big name artists and architect Frank Gehry donate prints to aid Obama's campaign for re-election

JOHN BALDESSARI  - Raised Eyebrows/Furrowed Foreheads (Red, White and Blue), 2008

How Javier Mariscal designed The Art Book cover

Spanish artist makes a neat video that distills months of hard work into just 47 quirky seconds


Jean Nouvel and Mia Hägg's new look for Stockholm

New collaboration at the Venice Architecture Biennale sees them propose more 'people friendly' Swedish capital

Meeting Lines - © Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Habiter Autrement

Could Moscow become world's first eco metropolis?

A joint bid to redevelop 150,000 hectares south west of the city aims to ease pressure on the Russian capital

Moscow, evening by Cavin

Shepard Fairey admits lying about Obama poster

American street artist gets $25,000 fine and probation for false claims about adaption of infamous Obama image

AP's source photograph and Obama Hope by Shepard Fairey

Bill Moggridge 1943-2012

Bill Moggridge, co-founder of IDEO and inventor of the world's first laptop dies of cancer aged 69

Bill Moggridge 1943-2012

Tino Sehgal spearheads Frieze Talks next month

Fresh from his critically acclaimed Turbine Hall installation, the artist will talk on conceptualism and choreography

Tino Sehgal pictured outside his Tate installation

Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Paul McCarthy and Tom Friedman star in The Art of Chess

Saatchi Gallery show features a roll call of Phaidon-related artists and international big names


Taylor Wessing shortlist announced

Four young and emerging photographers hoping for success in this year's £12,000 photographic portrait prize

Jordi Ruiz Cirera, Maria Teichroeb

Unseen photos on show in Amsterdam

New photo fair at former gasworks is a rare chance to buy unseen works by big name photographers

Under - Geir Moseid/ Flowers Gallery

ITV1 loses its figure

New look logo for ITV will see an end to the 1- but 2, 3 and 4 remain for now

The old ITV logo

Plans for new London airport revealed

Architecture practice Gensler reveals London Britannia Airport - a radical floating structure in the Thames Estuary

London Britannia Airport - Gensler, image by Vyonyx

Stacked Cabin - a deceptively simple hideaway

Look carefully in the Wisconsin woods - very carefully - and you might just find this Johnsen Schmaling gem

Stacked Cabin - Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Team GB Paralympians use 3D printed wheelchairs

Last night's match against Turkey saw Team GB win 75-70 - did the high-tech wheelchairs play a part in the win?

Team GB's Terry Bywater in one of the 3D printed wheelchairs

Yigal Feliks takes a close look at the lives of soldiers

Yigal Feliks's photos aim to highlight the distance between soldiers' lives and those of the people they protect

 - Yigal Fileks

Andy Warhol's Brando expected to reach $20 million

One of four silkscreens of Marlon Brando created by the artist is up for sale at Christie's


Mies van der Rohe house opens to the public

McCormick House is restored by Elmhurst Art Museum with new sections open to view

McCormick House - Mies van der Rohe

Jordan Eagles - the man who paints with blood

Hemofields by artist Jordan Eagles celebrates life - not death - in a New York gallery

Jordan Eagles - Hemofields

New moon at New Museum

Exhibition of holograms and how they've inspired artists is big hit at New Museum


John Cage's gift to art

On the 100th anniversary of his birth we celebrate the avant-garde composer's lasting influence on modernism

John Cage

Steve McCurry at St Moritz Arts Festival

Footage from the photographer's recent trip and behind-the-scenes images from his upcoming Pirelli calendar

Steve McCurry

The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design gets a great review in the influential Creative Review

"The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design reminds you that when print works well it can work like nothing else"

The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design

Ferran Adria on the cover of Wired

Spanish superchef and visionary makes the cover of one of our favourite magazines

Ferran Adria on the October cover of Wired

Richard Meier - first ever building in China

The Corian-clad OCT Clubhouse in Shenhzen, China is open for business. How can we become a member?