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?
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
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
Jordan Eagles - the man who paints with blood
Hemofields by artist Jordan Eagles celebrates life - not death - in a New York gallery
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
Steve McCurry at St Moritz Arts Festival
Footage from the photographer's recent trip and behind-the-scenes images from his upcoming Pirelli calendar
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"
Ferran Adria on the cover of Wired
Spanish superchef and visionary makes the cover of one of our favourite magazines
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?
Winslow Homer's home opens to the public
Great American painter and printmaker's Maine hideaway set to open later this month
Olympics hits art museum attendance
Visitor number down as much as 40 per cent in August as Olympic fever takes hold of London
Bruce High Quality Foundation go back to school
New York arts collective are back with their own take on the affordable art school
Ed Kashi Instagrams
VII Photo Agency photographer shoots a bunch of Instagram images on his iPhone during Aspen photo workshop
The concrete house with access all areas
Every room in this recently completed concrete Kyoto house by Torafu Architects is accessible by wheelchair
Radical cartography in Oslo
French journalist and cartographer Philippe Rekacewicz explores centres of world power in unusual new show
Venice Biennale 'can't get any worse' says Wolf D Prix
"Venice is no longer about lively discussion and criticism," says outspoken architect. "Architects are playing on a sinking gondola while, outside in the real world, our leaky trade is sinking into powerlessness and irrelevance"
documenta 13 art bought by German Government
Strongest ever show prompts city council to invest heavily in documenta 13 art works
Is Zhao Zhao set to become the next Ai Weiwei?
Ai Weiwei's former assistant, artist Zhao Zhao, is coming under increasing pressure from the Chinese government
New York gets a clearer view
Typeface change spells goodbye to all UPPERCASE signs in favour of easier to read mix of Upper and Lower
Rem Koolhaas wins Jencks Award
OMA founder scoops RIBA award for bringing architecture and contemporary culture closer together
A reset for the digital clock
Czech design group Kibardindesign's White and White Clock is a 3D version of the traditional digital clock
Herzog & de Meuron make mini protest in Venice
Foam interiors of unbuilt Hamburg Elbphilharmonie building are surrounded by uncensored newspaper articles
Marc Quinn sculpture is centre stage at Paralympics
43 feet tall version of disabled artist Alison Lapper sits proudly in the middle of the Olympic stadium
Painted pigeons ruffle feathers at Venice Biennale
St Mark's Square installation by Julian Charriere and Julius von Bismarck criticised by animal rights groups
Kandinsky painting set for new auction record
Studie für Improvisation 8, recognised for its contribution to abstract art, could sell for $30 million at Christie's
Campbells issue Andy Warhol soup cans
Finally a Warhol we all can afford - at 75 cents they're effectively the cheapest Andy artworks on the market
Damien Hirst credits Blue Peter for spin paintings
1975 show featuring a motorised cardboard spinning machine for children “who like to paint but never really know what to draw.” inspired the nine-year-old Hirst as he watched in his parents' house in Leeds
American Airlines 'rebranded' online
But Anna Kövecses's new look for the troubled airline is not what it appears on initial viewing
Toyo Ito and Alvaro Siza win big at Venice Biennale
Ito dedicates Golden Lion for Japanese pavilion to victims of tsunami - Siza takes Lifetime Achievement Award
Meyerowitz honoured, Eugène Atget in Oz, Delhi's new galleries and Willy Rizzo on fashionistas
Phaidon's focus on the photography world takes in stories in the US, UK, India, France, Australia and the Congo
Zaha Hadid praises Olympics architect Frei Otto
Hadid's Arum installation at Venice Biennale pays homage to pioneering work of Munich '72 architect
Is this the last ever painting by Jackson Pollock?
The incredible tale behind Red, Black & Silver - a small painting up for auction next month at Phillips de Pury
"Honey I shrink wrapped the building!"
Architects SO-IL take novel approach to Kukje art gallery in Seoul - enveloping it in chain mail
Ferran Adria - no fan of airport food
If you're returning from your summer break you may have shared an experience with the elBulli star
Norman Foster dazzles at Venice Biennale
Lord Foster teams up with artist Charles Sandison and film director Carlos Carcas at Architecture Biennale
Eames graphic designs on show
Charles and Ray Eames' lesser known graphic design work gets rare outing in London show next month
Frank Gehry designs new Facebook headquarters
Largest open-plan office in the world will feature a park on the roof with a walking trail for employees
Irma Boom designs new Rijks Museum logo
The designer of our Hella Jongerius book Misfit creates new identity for Dutch national arts museum
Guido van der Werve runs for Rachmaninoff
Third instalment of Dutch artist's annual run to composer's grave takes place in New York next week
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
