Pussy Riot show opens in Chelsea, NY gallery
Fundraiser goes ahead at Lombard-Freid Projects after appeals to Moscow galleries rebuffed
Elements take centre stage in photography show
New England-born photographer Leah Oates is one of the contributors to Earth, Sea and In Between
Virginia Overton "parks truck" on the High Line
Brooklyn-based artist, known for work that uses found objects and references labour, lands High Line commission
Greenland proposed as new Euro travel hub
Ambitious transport project for Greenland will debut at Venice Architecture Biennale
Richard Meier condo is most expensive ever in Israel
Meier on Rothschild features a 32nd story penthouse with bullet-proof panic room - it could be yours for $50 million
The man who influenced art history
Jean François Niceron was the genius of perspective - his work gave the world some of its greatest artworks
Bernd and Hilla Becher inspire a collection of vases
Italian designer Michael Breschi's vases pay homage to the German industrial landscape photo artists
FAT create Museum of Copying at Venice Biennale
London architecture practice creates a 5 metre high re-make of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda in Venice
The architect's photographer of choice, Hélène Binet
Binet's work is the subject of a series of exhibitions this year, starting at the Venice Biennale
The changing face of media and conflict reporting
Wilhelm Sasnal is among the contributors to the thought-provoking Image Counter Image at Haus der kunst
MVRDV debut in Poland with Baltyk Tower
Baltyk Tower cleverly circumvents Poznań planning restrictions (and features a one room hotel)
British architecture's Olympic spirit in Venice
Instead of one starchitect representing Britain, 10 relative newcomers put forward ideas for the future
Olaf Breuning returns with Home 3
Swiss artist's third (and possibly final) Home film pays an unlikely homage to adopted home town of New York
Porsche building matches beauty of its cars
HENN architects design streamlined pavilion for new Porsche visitor centre in Wolfsburg
Labor 13's new slant on the greenhouse
Czech architects employ socialist values of make and mend for house in Vernerice
Kahn/ Selesnick's Mars landscapes
Art photography duo create a series of landscapes for American space agency NASA
Disabled and deaf artists show at Paralympic Games
The Unlimited programme represents largest ever series of commissions to disabled and deaf artists
New face of mother Russia
Twelve Russian photographers gather together to show the new face of female portrait photography
The housing complex inspired by a roller coaster
Parisians Peripheriques Architectes take inspiration from the fun fair
Hans Ulrich Obrist blasts 'fly-in, fly-out' curators
"It nearly always produces superficial results - making art is not the matter of a moment," says star curator
The best start in life
GA Architecture's Lapierre School in Lens, France is designed to inspire little people
A beach house for all the family
If you really love your family why not grow old by the sea with them? That was the brief for the S Cube Chalet
Mary Lydecker's unpleasant postcards
Mary Lydecker's montage images of dystopian locations remind us a little of Martin Parr's Boring Postcards
The story behind Koons' Cracked Egg
21-year-old art student reveals full story behind the creation of half-a-million dollar artwork
Andy Warhol versus the Dow Jones
Since the turn of the century, Warhol's Flowers series has faired better than 30 great American companies
Martine Franck 1938 - 2012
The Magnum photographer and Phaidon associate passed away in Paris yesterday
Zaha Hadid's Venice Biennale installation
The pleated shell-like work embodies the 2012 president David Chipperfield's theme of 'common ground'
Is The Shard a "catastrophe"?
Some commentators think the tallest building in Europe has broken London's rules
RIBA's sandcastle competition is on tomorrow
The West Wittering competition was rained off back in June, so it's been rescheduled to take place this weekend
Saudi Arabia's new-look airport
From 2014 Hajj pilgrims can expect a new railway station, restaurant and hotel
Free Franz West screening next Thursday
The ICA commemorates the life and work of the late Austrian sculptor with its screening of Energy Diaries
Did the art-fair boom close Margo Leavin?
The LA gallery, which represents John Baldessari, says the changing market no longer suits it
Keith Haring's posthumous Tumblr page
The Keith Haring Foundation are uploading all of the late artist's journals to the microblogging platform
The Japanese house that's an architectural timeline
The pre-war, traditional wooden Kyo-machiya merchants' house is proud of its 20th century extensions
Nasa's feminised Mars art
The space agency commissions artists Richard Selesnik and Nicholas Kahn to envision life on Mars
Does this mural really look like a terrorist?
Os Gêmeos' Giant of Boston is characterized as an Islamic terrorist by right-wing TV station
The Iranian Army's brilliant new barracks
Servicemen and women could soon be enjoying rooftop gardens with fine views over their capital soon
The faked photo - a lesson from history
Faking It, a new show at the Met in New York, tells the pre-Photoshop story of photographic image manipulation
elBulli wine cellar up for auction at Sotheby's
Entire lot estimated at one million dollars but potentially lots of 'bargains' to be had
Banksy's stolen Sperm Alarm on Ebay
London man stands accused of cutting the piece from a hotel wall and offering it for sale on the auction site
Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater art
Environmental artist sinks another 60 statues at underwater Cancun project, Museo Subacuático de Arte
Erwin Blumenfeld restored, Gianluca Gamberini in Rome, HSBC's photo prize, Stuart Ringholt naked
Phaidon's Eye on the photography world takes in stories from Australia, Italy, France, the UK, US and Denmark
Douglas Coupland channels Damien Hirst
The Canadian writer's second career as an artist is revealed in these photos of his second home and studio
Olympic art by Michael Landy and Wolfgang Tillmans
Artists have the last say on the Olympics in witty and revealing series of images
Is this the world's greenest building?
Shimizu Corporation HQ is all you'd expect from a company that designs space hotels and floating cities
Theaster Gates creates new Chicago artspace
Chicago-based Documenta and White Cube artist takes over downtown bank "to be a good citizen"
William Eggleston, Boris Mikhailov, Sigmar Polke and Shomei Tomatsu in Barbican photo retrospective
Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s looks at the moment photography became art
Ai Weiwei new interview
"An artist can be taken away from an airport with a black hood, disappeared for 81 days - that scares people"
John Everett Millais - portraitist to the stars
Did The Pre-Raphaelite painter’s later works set the standards for public image making?
Iran's new stock exchange
Alejandro Aravena's design for Tehran's stock exchange is minimal, earthquake resistant and glows like a lamp
Fischli/Weiss will rock you
Rock on Top of Another Rock by Fischli/Weiss will be the first and only public sculpture by the artists in the UK
Candida Höfer first big show in Sweden
German photographer, once a student of Stephen Shore, has retrospective taking in work from the 1960s onward
Premier league crests: a design critique
Design maven Alice Rawsthorn takes a look at British football club crests
Damien Hirst biggest spin painting ever forms backdrop to Olympics closing ceremony
5,600 metres square Union Flag covers the floor of the Olympic Stadium
Zaha Hadid's Pierres Vives, Mariscal's wallpaper and the Archipelago cinema at the Venice Biennale
Phaidon's Eye On Architecture takes in stories in the UK, Australia, France, Italy and Spain
Antony Gormley in Rio de Janeiro
World's most in demand city hosts exhibition by British sculptor at Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre
David Byrne's house shot by Gil Inoue
After shooting Marina Abramovic, Brazilian photographer Gil Inoue creates equally revealing portrait of singer
Who knew concrete could be so cool?
Alien settlement or Swiss gallery? Concrete is full of buildings that stun, amaze and occasionally shock
Rio de Janeiro Wallpaper* City Guide - free download
As the Olympic baton passes to Rio Carol Buffara talks us through its attractions and we give you our city guide
Crystal CG's Olympic Velodrome video
Watch the Tron-inspired video played in the velodrome before every cycling session
James Nachtwey's weightlifters, Cartier Bresson's decisive moment and shooting Olympic swimmers
Phaidon's Eye on the Photography World focusses on the Olympics (and Sigur Rós)
Concrete celebrated by Estonia at Venice Biennale
The modernist quasi-citadel of the Linnahall Convention Center is the focus of homage to concrete architecture
Villa Extramuros by Vora Arquitectura
Villa Extramuros by Vora Arquitectura - a minimalist guest house run by Parisian owners with exquisite taste
Farewell Robert Hughes and thanks
The Shock Of The New broadcaster responsible for turning so many onto art dies after long illness
Dasha Zhukova given Leo Castelli award
Zhukova wins for “pioneering and forward-thinking approach to conceiving of and building new institutions"
Nicole Kidman's Richard Meier designed apartment
For sale: 176 Perry Street one very careful owner and with views of another stunning Meier building nearby
MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch fights back against critics
"It's a wrong idea that to be important you've got to be deadly serious and academic," says "embattled" director
Gillian Wearing photographs Usain Bolt's 100m win
"I was in row 48, quite high up but just above the finishing line – including the men's 100m," says the artist
Olympic cauldron designer Thomas Heatherwick on his latest project for Bombay Sapphire gin
From seed cathedral to Olympic flame to 'gin palace' visitor centre, the designer continues to dominate
The microhotel housing Olympic staff
Wonder why those security staff are so smiley? They're all getting a good night's rest in a designer microhotel
An amaze-ing book display on London's South Bank
Artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo amass 250,000 books - including many Phaidon favourites
Yayoi Kusama covers NY building with Yellow Trees
Japanese artist commissioned to cover a construction site in the meat packing district with netting artwork
Goya masterpiece discovered, Facebook censors Richter, Jeff Koons TV and a new High Line billboard
Phaidon's Eye on the Art World looks at stories in the US, Italy, Switzerland and France
Architects bring new meaning to mansion on the hill
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Spain create an amazingly secluded house in Ayora, near Valencia
Christo in trouble over plans to wrap Arkansas river
Pressure groups unite and force the delay of the artist's latest scheme, Over The River
Hadid in hot water, Chipperfield's common ground, Adjaye's double whammy and a new Fuksas airport
Phaidon's Eye on the Architecture world takes in the latest stories from China, Canada, Georgia and Belgium
Daniel Meadows and one summer in the 70s
Photographer works with Martin Parr author Val Williams on a stunning set of images depicting British seaside life
Mr Brainwash, Banksy and The Beatles
First London show for Banksy collaborator and artist who created Madonna's greatest hits album artwork
Stolen Dali, Raphael and Roy Lichenstein paintings recovered after failed attempts to sell them
Thieves nil - Artworld 3 as artworks, some missing for decades, turn up in unlikely locations
Reinterpreting Hopper, Oscar Niemeyer in 3D, Patti Smith behind the lens and Kodak makes a comeback
Phaidon's photography world news this week takes in stories from South Africa, Australia, the US and UK
Noma at Claridges - the first review
Bloomberg's Richard Vines was among the first people to dine on ants with creme fraiche on Saturday night
Chris Burden installs skyscraper in shopping mall
Four-storey concept house Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper) to be built in a Pasadena shopping centre
Roger Ballen behind the scenes with Die Antwoord
Footage surfaces of photographer Roger Ballen talking with Die Antwoord on the set of I Fink U Freaky
Ferran Adria's new restaurant will be called Jaguar
elBulli creator reveals more details about new Mexican restaurant he will open with brother Albert
Herzog & de Meuron's new art museum almost ready
Herzog & de Meuron's long awaited Parrish Art museum on Long Island will finally open this November
Josef Albers Painting on Paper
Perrin Drumm on the 'freedom and sensuality' of a new show at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York
Zaha Hadid - planners are doing 'enormous damage’
Architect on fiery form during Anglo-Chinese business summit in London
Philip Treacy on show in Trafalgar square
Milliner to rock stars and royals creates iridescent headwear for Sir Henry Havelock as part of Hatwalk
Richard Hamilton MoCA retrospective cancelled
Pop artist's retrospective becomes first high profile casualty of curator Paul Schimmel's abrupt departure
Marina Abramovic on her Meltdown performance
Performance artist is planning to give a women only talk on "female energy" at Antony Hegarty-curated festival
Daniel Libeskind's 18.36.54 House
18 planes, 36 points, and 54 lines of the spiralling ribbon which defines its living spaces - the clue is in the name
Sarah Lucas's Ordinary Things
Henry Moore Institute show sparks lively review likening her to Cézanne, Michelangelo - and Viz magazine
MOMA show looks at new ways to house America
Five architects come up with a plan to reinvigorate America's inner cities - and maybe the economy
Martin Parr invites you to the seaside
Your chance to spend a weekend snapping away with the master of British photography
El Anatsui - the High Line's next star
Discarded bottle caps and mirrors woven together with copper wire will adorn Broken Bridge tapestry
Sir Norman Foster - 'My time as a bouncer'
Architect reveals what it took to get started on stellar career in Architecture Week interview
Naoya Hatakeyama's landscapes of life
SFMOMA's association with Japanese photography continues with first US solo show for Naoya Hatakeyama
Thomas Heatherwick 'huge relief' at Olympic opening
Designer reveals the Bond style secrecy around the planning and creation of 'Betty' - the Olympic cauldron
