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Photographers Respond
to Environmental Change

Brighton & Hove’s Photo Fringe asked what photography can contribute to the climate conversation, and 20 talented artists answered.

William Eggleston Finds
the Extraordinary in the Everyday

The Photographers’ Gallery celebrates the 50th anniversary of William Eggleston’s landmark exhibition and book William Eggleston’s Guide

Laurent Grasso:
Entering the Unknown

Electromagnetic energy, radio waves, radiation and cosmic phenomena recur in the artist’s latest show, opening soon at MASS MoCA in Massachusetts.

1-54 London: Rewriting
the Map of African Modernism

1-54 London 2026 positions African art history as a layered field where modern and contemporary are interconnected, not distinct or separate chapters.

A Chorus of Strangers:
Rethinking Belonging in British Art

The landmark 10th edition of the British Art Show explores how art can challenge fears of otherness and difference during long periods of uncertainty.

Arthur Jafa Considers
the Image Under Pressure

New Museum looks back at a forty-year career, in which Jafa has sought to find new forms to capture the rhythm and realities of Black life in America.

Tiffany Sia: The
Architecture of Listening

Tiffany Sia’s Overt Listening, at Kunsthalle Wien this November, uses film, sound and installation to consider how geopolitical power influences lives.

The Art of Being There:
Space and Spectatorship 

Inhabiting Space, the Luciano Fabro show at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, asks whether we are prepared to inhabit art, not simply look at it.

Haegue Yang:
Reimagining Modernism

Haegue Yang’s Through transforms Dia Beacon’s modernist factory into a living, evolving passage where music, myth and industrial materials collide.

Between Land and Sea:
Exploring the Coast Through Art

Museum Kunst der Westküste surveys recent works from its ever-expanding collection that engage with the North Sea and its shoreline in diverse ways.

Watch the Official 2026
Aesthetica Film Festival Trailer

Offering a first look at the 300 films screening across 15 genres at this year’s Aesthetica Film Festival, which runs from 4-8 November in York, UK.

Chang Meng Explores
Bodies, Ecology and Heritage

Chang Meng is a Chinese transdisciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer working across immersive multisensory, performance and site-responsive art.

African Street Photography
Takes Centre Stage in New Book

Thames & Hudson presents a bold, dynamic and definitive survey of street photography from across Africa, featuring thirty-three leading image-makers.

Susan Hiller: Navigating
Dreams and The Unexplained

The Susan Hiller exhibition at KW Institute in Berlin asks a question at the centre of human experience: how do we give form to what we cannot explain?

Inside the Fair: Frieze and
London’s Cultural Economy

Almost 300 galleries from over 45 countries and regions will take part in Frieze Sculpture and Frieze London in a jam-packed programme this October.

10 UK Exhibitions for
Black History Month 2026

This October, we’ve curated 10 must-see exhibitions to visit across the UK – from Plymouth to Perth – that explore Black identity, history and culture.

Designing New Worlds:
Five Exhibitions for the Season

From kitchens and domestic spaces to immersive installations and innovative approaches to materials, design takes several new forms this autumn season.

High Museum Considers
Image-Making as a Way of Life

Examining the careers of Minor White, Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, who were all profoundly influential photographers, teachers, and thinkers.

Through Our Eyes:
Sámi Art and Culture

Somerset House’s latest show is the very first group exhibition of Sámi artists in the UK. They are the only recognised Indigenous people based in Europe.

A Vivid Landscape

In Sanja Marušić’s self-portraits, the artist interacts with an array of structural forms, from bright red metal columns to yellow grid-like environments.

Building a Mystery

Each of Jan Pypers’ cinematic images starts with scale miniatures of swimming pools, gardens and buildings, carefully constructed inside the studio.

Designing a Residence

Looking at the past, present and future of houses produced by and for architects around the world, spanning from mid-century to the contemporary.

Powerful Colourways

A major vertical garden in Madrid is transformed, as colours blend into one another, weaving and swirling from the top to the bottom of each and every frame.

Collective Experience

From major stadium shows to intimate sketches, the Design Museum traces three decades’ work by Es Devlin, all dedicated to bringing people together.

Material Playgrounds

The role of light and colour comes to the fore in Sabine Marcelis’ latest exhibition, foregrounding luminous objects and mesmerising installations.

Photography, Memory &
the Communities We Risk Losing

Street Level Photoworks hosts the major biannual Jerwood/Photoworks Awards , which spotlights the practice of Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida.

Botanical Observation

The concept of stillness is at the heart of Sergiy Barchuk’s work, capturing crisp images of plants, where each frond and stem is brought into focus.

Aerial Viewpoint

Considering the world from the perspective of the cockpit, capturing the illuminated networks and patterns of sprawling cities 10,000 metres below.

Figures In Motion

Danielle Kwaaitaal directs swimmers underwater, producing sculptural and choreographed pictures where models hover, float and dance in the deep.

The October / November
Issue of Aesthetica is Here

Discover what’s inside the latest edition, World of Possibility, which considers the relationship between the built environment and our imagination.

Charlotte Perriand:
A Modern Trailblazer

The designer left an indelible mark on modernism, revolutionising the way spaces were conceived. Fundació Joan Miró celebrates this legacy.

Five International
Sculpture Exhibitions to Visit

We spotlight five major displays that bring sculpture to the fore, demonstrating what can be done with materials when you venture beyond the obvious.

Tate Britain Looks Back
at the 1990s Cultural Legacy

Tate Britain will stage the first major exhibition to navigate The 90s: Art and Fashion, a decade that was characterised by its creativity and rebellious spirit.

Capturing the Streets
from a New Perspective

These five photographers from the Aesthetica Archive take architecture as their artistic subject, documenting modern urban life in in new ways.

Radical Listening: When Art
Leaves the Gallery & Enters the City

Aesthetica Film Festival’s Radical Listening, with Audible, features three brand new commissions by Steve Messam, Being Now Here and Squidsoup.

Sarah Maple Explores the
Personal, Political and Powerful

Museum Arnhem’s multidisciplinary presentation showcases Maple’s exploration of free expression in relation to cultural identity, religion and gender.

Meet the Artists
Reinventing Food Photography

The five photographers, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, use food in innovate ways to consider how we consume in our throwaway society.

Jessica Backhaus Speaks
the Language of Abstraction

Five years ago, the Berlin-based photographer took her first steps towards total abstraction. Now, her latest book presents the culmination of the process.

Our Top Five New
Photobook Releases

We spotlight publications set to hit shelves this autumn, each one considering the creative figures and questions that define contemporary art.

Marshmallow Laser Feast
and the Limits of Perception

MIT Museum blends contemporary art with science and history to explore how technologies, senses, and media co-evolve to bring the oceans into clear view.

Challenging Traditional
Representations at FOMU

Leonard Pongo has spent the past 10 years travelling the Democratic Republic of Congo, creating work inspired by its traditions, mythologies and culture.

Cécile Lobert: Abstract Expressionism for the 21st Century

Cécile Lobert’s paintings emerge from a rapid-fire process, characterised by spontaneity, with each mark reflecting a raw emotional response.

Sam Taylor-Johnson:
The Self and the Portrait

Rizzoli publishes definitive monograph on the internationally acclaimed photographer turned Hollywood filmmaker, spotlighting her portraits.

Baff Akoto Asks:
Who Gets Remembered?

The exhibition explores memory, grief, justice and the voices of Black and immigrant Britons affected by deaths following police contact since 1969.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Unveils their Autumn Display

YSP presents five bronzes in its historic 18th century Formal Garden, bringing together works by artists exploring metamorphosis, mythology and the body.

Joy Gregory: The Politics
of Beauty, Memory & Looking

Arnolfini’s landmark show brings together more than 150 of Gregory’s photographs, films, installations and mixed-media artworks spanning over four decades.

London Film Festival Expanded:
The New Grammar of Storytelling

The 70th BFI London Film Festival asks what a film festival can become when the screen is no longer a fixed surface but a space to enter, navigate and alter.

Helen Levitt Captures
the City as a Living Image

Helen Levitt captured the poetry of everyday street life through play, humour and fleeting moments. City at Play reveals the depth of her intuitive approach.

Cao Fei Offers Alternative
Visions of the Near Future

Cao Fei presents her largest UK body of work to date, focusing on how AI, automation and virtual life are not speculative but a part of everyday life.

Bristol Photo Festival:
An Expansive Programme

Bristol Photo Festival, the international biennial of contemporary photography, has announced the full programme for its third edition, Time Machine.

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