LACMA celebrates of the work of Paul R. Williams, who built a practice that crossed boundaries of wealth, race and architectural convention.

From 4-8 November 2026, York became a meeting point for the people shaping the future of film, TV, art, sound, games and immersive media. The…

We spotlight five contemporary photobooks that have been featured in Aesthetica Magazine, each one representing a defining moment in the industry.

This winter, Sainsbury Centre brings together 10 internationally acclaimed image-makers who each explore human relationships through the lens.

The first museum survey of Gonzalez-Torres’s work in New York City in 30 years, featuring over 40 of his iconic artworks displayed throughout The Met.

Artist and photographer Gareth McConnell (b. 1972) grew up in Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles, a period spanning the late 1960s to…

Bildhalle, Amsterdam, collates works from different periods of René Groebli’s career, highlighting the “extraordinary diversity” of his pioneering vision.

Highlighting inspiring quotes from ten pioneering artists previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, whose immersive works redefine the gallery space.

The Met brings together more than 80 works by 15 Japanese artists, from the photographer Tōmatsu Shōmei to Okinawan filmmaker Yamashiro Chikak

Miji Ih’s first major solo exhibition discusses the experiences of women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military throughout WWII.

From 4-8 November 2026, the 16th edition of the festival brings five days of inspiring cinema and new ideas across film, games, VR, music and beyond.

A new book celebrates more than 250 figures who have shaped genres such as art, fashion, landscape, portraiture, photomontage and photojournalism.

The artist reconsiders what it means to create, putting the very act of making and unmaking at the heart of meaning, rather than a means to an end.

LACMA presents two concurrent shows dedicated to the idea of “the home of tomorrow,” surveying more than 260 drawings, films, models and various objects.

We spotlight artists from the Aesthetica archive who turn their lens on natural landscapes when they are under cover of darkness, capturing a new world.

The 2026 Siena Awards Photo Festival celebrates world-class photography, showcasing powerful stories, cultures, creativity and perspectives.

Lewis Bush, at International Centre for the Image, examines the dark origins of modern rocketry and space exploration during WWII and the Holocaust.

The prestigious annual award recognises artists whose practices consider the changing relationship between humans and the organic world.

MOCA Jacksonville Romero’s bold practice, which celebrate the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences.

Huss Al-Chokhdar, Hetal Chudasama, Gianni Esporas and Abi Lewis each consider how the past persists within bodies, objects and places.

These five artists challenge visual conventions, utilising paper construction and staged photography to investigate the materiality of images.

A new exhibition honours a pioneer of experimental music, who repeatedly redefined the boundaries between audio, film, performance and visual art.

The 30th anniversary edition of the prize features an impressive shortlist of photographers: Hoda Afshar, Lotus L. Kang, Sasha Kurmaz and Salvatore Vitale.

MoMA PS1 spotlights the work of Masao Gozu, a photographer who spent decades capturing New York City through the windows of its bars and cafes.

At the Musée d’Orsay, the artist – who is recognised as one of the most influential artists of our times – transforms the façade with striking textual excerpts.

We spotlight five shows that explore how fashion designers and photographers have helped shaped the nature of contemporary art for over a century.

The artist’s radical use of industrial materials – that anyone could buy – is the subject of Some Light at Guggenheim Bilbao, opening this November.

Germany has lost more than 80% of its marshland over the past 300 years. MoMA, New York, offers viewers an audiovisual simulation of these spaces.

Autograph’s latest exhibition spotlights the work of Charan Singh, whose studio portraits examine how gender expression is understood and lived in India.

Newton Foundation spotlights three books by the infamous photographer Helmut Newton, considering how their publication changed his artistic career.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents a landmark exhibition dedicated to the Brazilian artist Rafael Pavarotti, a defining voice in fashion photography.

An anniversary exhibition revisits Ulay’s radical practice, from institutional dissent to his defining performances with the iconic Marina Abramović.

The photographer documents the communities of Nassau – the country’s capital city – expanding the visual tropes often exported from the Caribbean.

Discover how sound shapes identity, cultural memory and challenges our grasp of the world through the Aesthetica x Audible Listening Pitch.

The relationship between water and human creativity is the subject of High Tide, the latest exhibition at the new BRUSK art space in Bruges.

The Nue Black Aesthetic challenges the conventions of design history, bringing overlooked voices, cultural memory and material innovation into focus.

In Parallax, Stan Douglas examines how images shape collective memory, exposing the ideological assumptions embedded in historical narratives.

Artist Forrest Wu’s practice is concerned with how galleries can become places where people learn and develop – not just where they can look at artworks. 

Can technology recover what modernity has taught us to overlook? Mariko Mori’s art returns to this question through encounters with the natural world.

Foam, Amsterdam presents the first museum solo exhibition of iconic Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos, recipient of the 19th Foam Paul Huf Award.

National Portrait Gallery’s show is an exploration of queer identity, community, and love through the lens of one of Britain’s most celebrated photographers.

A new book from photographer Jo Ann Chaus turns staged self-portraiture into a wider reflection on the historic perceptions of women in American society.

The annual prize supports photographers at the start of their career, providing them with a huge platform that helps them establish a name in the industry.

Next Door reunites five key artists who started out in Berlin in the 2000s, working in warehouse studios that are adjacent to the contemporary art gallery.

The artist’s psychologically charged black-and-white scenes examine the anxieties of American life in the waning years of the Cold War – and its aftermath.

Gropius Bau brings renewed attention to a trailblazing artist who helped shape East Germany’s underground cultural scene in the late 20th century.

The Photographers’ Gallery brings together Sanlé Sory’s rarely seen colour photographs, capturing daily life, youth culture and fashion in Burkina Faso.

More than 100 international artists come together for a major six-month celebration of the art, music and culture of the streets at the London gallery.

Introducing the educator whose investigations into light and technology helped shape the 20th century quest to establish photography as a fine art form.

Visitors to the Turbine Hall will look up and see an array of wind instruments, percussion, electronics and sculptural objects hanging from above.