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Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Opens its Extensive Archives

Reflections on Fashion takes audiences through 75 years of sartorial history, spotlighting the pieces in the museum’s collection that are part of history.

Irving Penn and
the Afterlife of Fashion

The artist left a profound mark on the history of fashion photography, largely during his collaboration with Vogue magazine spanning over sixty years.

Rhiannon Adam on Space
Exploration and Personal Identity

Rhi-Entry contemplates the abrupt ending of the artist’s planned space mission, and the personal and political ramifications of the sudden cancellation.

Foto Tallinn 2026:
Five Artists to Know

Estonia’s only international art fair dedicated to contemporary photography features 45 creatives who are “shaping the future of photographic art.”

Taryn Simon’s Landmark
New Project at The Guggenheim

The American practitioner has a particular talent for revealing hidden systems of power that shape the world we inhabit, and this new series is no exception.

José Antonio Rosas Discusses
Photographing Collective Euphoria

Over 10 years, José Antonio Rosas has documented some of the world’s greatest celebrations – from Glastonbury and Holi to Kumbh Mela and Carnaval.

London Design Festival 2026:
A Forward-Looking Programme

London Design Festival celebrates its 24th edition this September. The event is a defining moment for UK design, and a key part of the cultural calendar.

Mudam Brings Japanese
Women Artists to the Fore

The first exhibition in Europe dedicated to women artists from Japan, spanning the period from the postwar era to the turn of the twenty-first century.

Iconic Artists who
Work with the Landscape

The Art Travel Book spotlights the power of outdoor installation, asking what art can become when it’s outside of the gallery. We spotlight five favourites.

Huiling Chen Documents Life in China’s Rural Communities

In China’s Hengnan County, Hunan Province, long-term migration to cities is reshaping family and village life. Huiling Chen documents these shifts.

Inside the Worlds of
10 Architects & Designers

Spotlighting 10 remarkable practitioners who are redefining our relationship with space, asking how design addresses social and environmental needs. 

Landskrona Foto Festival
Spotlights Powerful Imagery

The event unites lens-based artists from different parts of the world to approach the timely theme of displacement from multiple angles and perspectives.

Los Angeles Welcomes
a Centre for Narrative Art

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens in LA on 22 September, with shows dedicated to showcasing the shared tradition of storytelling through images.

Hailun Ma Blends
Tradition and Modernity

Foam, Amsterdam, presents the bold work of Hailun Ma, one of the most influential contemporary voices in a new generation of Chinese photographers.

A Brand-New Durham
Destination Opens its Doors

The Light, a new gallery in the city, brings together contemporary art and creativity with local history, scientific discovery and technological innovation.

Anthony McCall Pushes the
Boundaries of Cinema and Sculpture

In New York, Sean Kelly Gallery hosts three iconic installations by the artist, who broke new ground in the 1970s with his luminous “solid light” works.

Dublin’s Gallery Weekend:
When the City Is the Exhibition

Dublin Gallery Week offers a special series of exhibitions and events that showcase the creative and dynamic energy of Irish contemporary art.

Chris Killip’s Enduring
Snapshots of Northeast England

The photographer’s stark images, taken throughout the 1970s and 1980s, made him one of the most influential figures working in British documentary.

Pooya Abbasian on
Plants, Place and Otherness

The Iranian artist, winner of the Lee Ufan Arles Art & Environment Prize, has been interested in invasive plants and their impact on ecosystems for years.

The Edge of Certainty
at Foam Amsterdam

Over more than three decades, Nadav Kander has created some of the most celebrated portrait and documentary images in contemporary photography.

Colourful Portraiture
from the Aesthetica Archives

We spotlight five photographers, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, who create vibrant portraits that use colour to form a single cohesive narrative.

Dawoud Bey Brings
the Past into the Present

The acclaimed artist’s exhibition of photography and film opens at AGO, revealing the weight of history that continues to linger in American landscapes.

The Photographers’ Gallery
Examines Our Bond with Trees

A group exhibition brings together eight acclaimed artists whose work explores trees as the source of origin, memory and belonging in human civilisation.

The After Nature Prize Reveals
Untold Stories in the Landscape

C/O Berlin launches a double showing of works by Stelios Kallinikou and Susanne Kriemann, who navigate military bases and contaminated land.

PhotoDalkeith RSA200:
Two Centuries of Seeing Scotland

A landmark photography exhibition celebrating 200 years of Scottish image-making is at Dalkeith Palace as part of the Royal Scottish Academy’s bicentenary.

Our Top Artists from the
Photoworks Festival 2026

The programme considers how identity, place, memory and community are interconnected, asking what it means to live through today’s uncertainty.

Brussels Is Building an
Art Scene Without a Centre

The celebrated event brings together more than 80 galleries, studios, artist-run spaces, institutions and foundations across the Belgian capital for three days.

A Major Display of
Lee Miller’s Photography

Art Institute of Chicago foregrounds 150 works selected from across Lee Miller’s career, celebrating 50 years of innovative and era-defining practice.

The Future of Storytelling
at Aesthetica Film Festival

There’s more than one way to tell a story. This year’s festival expands beyond cinema to incorporate indie games, podcasts and virtual reality experiences.

Nadav Kander’s Personal
Portrait of British Waterways

A new publication collates photographs of the Thames Estuary made between 2015 and 2024, representing Kander’s most personal body of work.

Architecture, Interruption and
Belonging at De La Warr Pavilion

In Bexhill-on-Sea, a visual arts programme unpacks how architecture influences our everyday lives – featuring Prem Sahib and Gordon Matta-Clark.

Reimagining Environments
for the Contemporary Moment

Yuange Sheng explores the shifting relationship between structure, material and life, drawing on a combination of organic and artificial materials.

In Conversation with
Installation Artist Chiharu Shiota

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents the Japanese artist’s largest solo exhibition to date. We caught up with her ahead of the show’s opening.

Rest is Resistance
at Focal Point Gallery

This fascinating group show explores the impact of networked media on our collective mental wellbeing, considering a better, alternative way of existing.

Walker Art Gallery Explores Gender,
Memory and the Stories We Inherit

Two exhibitions in Liverpool, Gender Stories and Sir John Akomfrah’s Listening All Night to the Rain, explore how selfhood and history are constructed.

20th Century Mexican
Photography in Focus at Getty

Instante/revelación brings together 13 influential names, active from the late 1920s to the mid-2010s, to draw a portrait of the country’s visual culture.

Joanne Coates Shines a Light
on Cornwall’s Farming Community

Cornish Gold, a project made as part of a year-long collaboration with local communities, spotlights the overlooked work of flower pickers in Cornwall.

Five Highlights from
London Sculpture Week 2026

London Sculpture Week, featuring the Fourth Plinth, East Bank, Frieze Sculpture, Sculpture in the City and The Line, takes place from 19 to 27 September.

A Landmark Display of
Indigenous North American Art

The unifying theme of Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Hold to This Earth is the landscape, featuring artists representing more than 35 Tribal Nations.

Radical Listening at
Aesthetica Film Festival

Now in its sixth year, the Listening Pitch, a film grant by Aesthetica Film Festival and Audible, provides a platform for ambitious, sound-led documentaries.

Enid Marx and
the Evolution of Design

Compton Verney presents the first exhibition to explore the influential patterns of Enid Marx, as well as her impact on 20th century modern British design.

Chitra Ganesh at Baltic:
Between Storytelling and Semiotics

Baltic presents the first major UK solo exhibition of Chitra Ganesh, featuring a new animation, newly commissioned sculptural works and wall drawings.

Cig Harvey’s Flowers
Remind Us to Live in the Moment

The floral motif is at the heart of a new show in Stockholm, filled with lush, emotive images that convey themes of love, fear, hope, life and death.

Portraits of Youth
at Grace Mews, London

Chardchakaj Waikawee captures the idea of ‘wai run,’ a Thai concept that refers to a particularly youthful or modern way of existing in the world.

Eileen Cowin: Between
Panic and Paradise at LACMA

Cowin is a Los Angeles-based artist who challenges the camera’s traditional claim to truth, blurring the lines between memory, performance and reality.

Ten Artists on their Practice
for World Photography Day 2026

We spotlight 10 photographers, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, to give an insight into those driving lens-based contemporary practice forwards.

Fragile Beauty: Photography,
Desire and the Politics of Looking

This major exhibition explores how photography intertwines desire, identity and vulnerability, questioning who gets to look and who is looked at.

Disrupted Landscapes
Reflect Human Experience

Photo Museum Ireland presents the work of Robert Ellis, which is deeply rooted in the experience of growing up queer and closeted in rural Ireland.

How Eva Besnyö Changed
the Definition of Image-Making

Fotomuseum den Haag celebrates a driving force in Dutch image-making during the 20th century, with a major retrospective of her groundbreaking prints.

Museums and Social Justice:
Towards Reckoning and Change

Who owns the past? How do museums reckon with their history? What comes next? There are just a few of the questions posed by a new book from T&H.

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