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Material Encounters:
The Sculpture of Miao Tan

Miao Tan takes the ancient practice of natural lacquer in a new direction, challenging the perceptions of it as a smooth, finished product.

Xinyue Tao: Creative Enquiry

Xinyue Tao’s practice is shaped by intuition, rooted in photography whilst extending effortlessly into performance, installation and experimental forms.

Derrick Adams: View Master

The ICA reimagines Boston’s Seaport skyline with a new, landmark facade commission by artist Derrick Adams, as well as outdoor, interactive sculptures.

Photography, Memory &
the Politics of the Archive

Hidden Narratives Residency embeds contemporary artistic practice within one of the most significant geographical image collections in the entire world.

Art as Provocation:
Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery

From black holes to boundless mirrors, the Turner Prize-winning artist returns to London with works that inspire a sense of awe, fear and wonder.

Redressing the Balance:
Japanese Women Photographers

This summer, The Photographers’ Gallery in London celebrates the wide-reaching approaches of 27 female artists, active from the 1950s to today.

Yves Saint Laurent:
Fashion and Photography Collide

Yhe International Center of Photography, New York, explores how photography became central to the making of the fashion house of Yves Saint Laurent.

David Ụzọchukwu:
Worlds Beneath the Waves

The artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the USA is a meditation on identity, migration and belonging – a place where mythology and fantasy converge.

Infinite Continuity: teamLab
at the Smart Museum of Art

In a new show at Smart Museum of Art, teamLab builds upon this longstanding practice to expand what is possible with 21st century technology.

Announcing the 2026
Aesthetica Art Prize Shortlist

The 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist comprises 20 international artists who propose creative responses to the most pressing issues facing humanity today.

Rania Matar:
Powerful Portraiture

Rania Matar presents a love letter to the women of Lebanon, through a collection of portraits made in collaboration with individuals from the region.

Laure Prouvost:
Feeling the Universe Differently

We Felt A Star Dying, opening at the Grand Palais, is a monumental, mixed-media work that comes from two years of research into quantum physics.

Celebrating 25 Years
of the The Serpentine Pavilion

Mexican architecture studio LANZA atelier employ 30,000 bricks in their undulating design, as the annual commission marks a quarter of a century.

Art to Know:
Pride Month 2026

June is Pride Month, and we’re spotlighting the top art exhibitions and events that recognise LGBTQIA+ history, call for equality and celebrate queer love.

Future Now Symposium:
2026 Programme Announced

The 12th edition of Future Now returns, bringing together award-winning artists for talks that engage with many themes from our rapidly changing world.

Notes from the Margins:
Allen Ginsberg and Vivian Maier

Howard Greenberg Gallery spotlights two artists work emerged from the social periphery and came to leave an indelible mark on cultural imaginations.

Julio Le Parc:
Dynamic Encounters

Tate Modern celebrates an artist who dedicated his career to engaging the public, employing optical effects and encouraging physical interaction.

Community, Ritual and Tradition:
The Photography of Sophie Green

Documentary photographer Sophie Green’s Tangerine Dreams is a vivid portrait of the communities and subcultures that shape Britain.

PHotoESPAÑA:
Image-Making Reimagined

The photography festival returns, bringing nearly 100 exhibitions to Madrid and cities across Spain, including Barcelona, Santander, Seville and Zaragoza.

126 Galleries, One City:
London Gallery Weekend 2026

London Gallery Weekend provides an opportunity to discover the capital city’s world-class gallery scene, celebrating the city’s diverse creative communities.

Photography, Politics & the
Radical Legacy of Birmingham

Ten.8 afterimage explores the legacy and impact of Ten.8, a photography journal that emerged from the Midlands’ radical cultural and political landscape.

Michelle Sank: Capturing
South Africa’s Drag Scene

Michelle Sank’s Drag Daughters, now on display at Het Zuid-Afrikahuis, Amsterdam, is a powerful series that portrays Cape Town’s influential drag queens.

The History of the Camera

As photography celebrates its bicentenary, Pinault Collection is hosting a major group exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce to mark the anniversary.

Trevor Paglen:
Seeing Like a Machine

The American artist’s new book of essays opens the black box of AI, offering tools to navigate an image culture increasingly shaped by computer vision.

Summer of Sculpture
at Leeds Art Gallery

A new seasonal series of sculpture exhibitions will see works by world-renowned artists like Hans Arp and Garth Evans go on show in Leeds this summer.

Time and Place:
The June/July Issue

Inside the June / July issue of Aesthetica, artists, architects and photographers invite readers to engage with a slower, more attentive way of seeing.

Portraits in Bloom

The boundaries between self and organic world dissolve in Tamara Dean’s portraits, as the artist navigates bright bushes and towering treetops.

Into the Wetlands

Frank Relle travels along Louisiana’s waterways, recording otherworldly images of cypresses by using an intricate lighting system rigged to his flatboat.

Buildings Redefined

Renowned architect Kengo Kuma reflects upon a decade of structures, dedicated to renewing the bonds made between nature, people and places.

Analogue Landscape

Svetlana Talanova makes her works by hand in the darkroom, using photosensitive paper to show how patterns can often recur across humans and plants.

Graphic Playtime

Photomontages by Daniel Rose collide leaves and branches with geometric shapes, offering a fresh new perspective on the Japanese art form of ikebana.

Delicate Vignettes

Nuno Serrão’s minimalist images offer small parts of wider and complex narratives that are united by cinematic aesthetics and a sensitivity to the world.

Enduring Symbolism

A new exhibition as part of Rencontres d’Arles 2026 reassesses the long history of flowers in photography, from a contemporary viewpoint.

Cameras in the City

Street photographers offer an array of different perspectives on Tokyo, a global metropolis that is known for its blend of tradition and futurism.

Sculpted Geography

Linda Burris Webster draws attention to various geopolitical concerns, tearing, twisting, cutting, crumpling and reshaping maps into sculptures.

BRUSK and the Future City

In the heart of Bruges’ vast museum quarter lies art gallery BRUSK, a brand new cultural landmark with international appeal and fascinating exhibitions.

Mary Ellen Carroll: Redefining Art

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents the first major museum exhibition to survey over four decades of work by the artist Mary Ellen Carroll.

The Future of Photography

Foam Amsterdam acknowledges an extraordinary wave of 30 image-makers shaping the future of lens-based art, as part of this year’s Foam Talent Award.

Reconfiguring Perception
at Hauser & Wirth Menorca

Hauser & Wirth Menorca presents Directionless, a group exhibition that begins from the premise that we are living in a moment of profound disorientation.

Josef Koudelka: A Unique Mind

Aperture’s Josef Koudelka: Diaries offers their readers a rare glimpse into the mind and artistic process of one of the world’s more celebrated photographers.

Anonymous Snapshots

Fotografiska Berlin spotlight’s Lee Shulman’s The Anonymous Project, one of the biggest archives of analogue amateur photography in the entire world.

The Shape of the Invisible

Gagosian hosts the first ever presentation of Air Package in a Ceiling, a monumental installation conceived by Christo in 1968 but never realised.

Australia’s Major New Museum 

Powerhouse, Australia’s largest museum group, is undertaking one of the world’s most significant museum projects, opening in Sydney in late 2026.

Rencontres d’Arles 2026:
An Expansive Programme

The celebrated photography festival returns for its 57th edition this summer, spanning archives, major monographic exhibitions and emerging scenes.

Es Devlin: Artistic Exchange

Internationally renowned artist and designer Es Devlin will present Library of the Four Winds this summer, a new public sculpture at Castle Howard.

Cultural Dialogues

Part of Oulu2026’s European Capital of Culture, Climate Clock is a public art trail that reflects on our relationship with nature and climate warming.

Constructing the Self:
The Art of Huang Ziyue

Huang Ziyue is part of a generation of artists grappling with the unstable and ever-shifting boundaries between selfhood and the digital world.

Weathering the Storm

MoCP hosts the 11th edition of the Prix Pictet, which spotlights photographers who examine both the natural and metaphorical repercussions of a storm.

Enduring Phenomena

Saatchi Gallery’s major exhibition explores how the two most powerful phenomena in the sky have long inspired humanity’s creativity, curiosity and belief.

Future Geographies

Vancouver Art Gallery’s ambitious new exhibition asks one major question: how do we face worsening ecological change with anything other than despair?

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