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Paris Photo 2025:
Innovative Curation

Paris Photo returns this November for its 28th edition with a diverse and dynamic programme, featuring 220 exhibitors from 33 countries.

Diane Arbus:
A Constellation of Influence

The retrospective at Berlin’s Gropius Bau presents images that resonate – confirming Arbus’ enduring power and legacy in the photographic canon.

Staged Ambiguity

Gregory Crewdson’s eerie and elaborately staged photographs of suburban American are part of an extensive new retrospective at Kunstmuseum.

Lee Miller: Vision, Fearlessness
and the Power of Photography

Tate Britain’s new retrospective offers the most comprehensive survey of her work ever staged in the UK, presenting 230 prints – many never before seen.

Home, Industry, Photography:
Foto/Industria Returns to Bologna

The Photography Biennial of Industry and Work marks its seventh edition, exploring the intersections of capitalism, labour, technology and visual culture.

This Weekend at Frieze London

The annual fair opens in Regent’s Park. 2025’s edition is a testament to the its enduring influence, featuring more than 280 galleries from 45 countries,

Tradition Meets Innovation:
The Design of Qichao An

Award-winning graphic designer and creative director Qichao An creates intricate artworks seamlessly that Eastern and Western aesthetics.

Embracing the Unknown

Antonia Luxem’s film and multidisciplinary work explores dreams, considering how our sleeping moments can help us see reality from a new angle.

Expanding the Canon

David Benjamin Sherry’s saturated, monochrome photographs of Antarctica highlight the devastating impact of climate change on the region’s ice.

William Kentridge:
The Pull of Gravity

William Kentridge’s monumental sculptures take over Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which presents over 40 works in bronze, steel, paper and plaster.

The Body as Ritual

Marina Abramović reframes desire, ritual and spirituality in a new exhibition at Aviva Studios, combining traditions and folklore from the Balkans.

Art in the Everyday
at Connaught Village

This October, a dynamic art programme offers a new perspective on the London district – best-known for its tree-lined streets and pastel-coloured houses.

Dan Flavin: Illuminating Space

Green, blue, yellow and pink tubes run the length of Lenbachhaus Munich’s ceiling, bathing the entire space – including its visitors – in mesmerising colour.

10 Exhibitions for
Black History Month 2025

Discover 10 key exhibitions showcasing powerful works that explore identity, history and culture through the lens of Black artists and photographers.

Launching the Official
Aesthetica Film Festival Trailer

Get a first glimpse of the 300 short, feature and VR films screening at this year’s Aesthetica Film Festival, which returns to York for five days this November.

Images to Engage the Mind

Fotostiftung Schweiz presents the work of Roger Humbert, whose 70-year career ranged from analogue experiments to digital light compositions.

Where Film Meets Music

Aesthetica Film Festival launches the UK’s first national New Music Stage, featuring 10 talented artists, each with fresh energy and a bold new sound.

Eleanor Antin:
Revolutionary Practice

Eleanor Antin is known for multidisciplinary art, in which she took on a range of personas, each one questioning gender, class, identity and history.

Urgent Dialogues

PHOTOCLIMAT has a distinct focus on grassroots action, focusing on the charities and organisations working for justice, progress and responsibility.

Fragments of Resilience:
Helga Vockenhuber at The Pantheon

In September, one of Rome’s iconic architectural marvels was temporarily transformed by a monumental sculpture: a twisting crown of thorns.

Historic Resonance

Carnegie Museum of Art presents the work of 60 Black photojournalists, who captured both iconic figures and everyday life between 1945 and 1984.

LagosPhoto Biennial 2025: The Expanding Horizons of Photography

LagosPhoto Biennial 2025 explores the theme of ‘incarceration,’ asking how images can expose, resist and reimagine modern systems of confinement.

Playful Disruption

Staged scenes from Margeaux Walter are built on location, taking everyday household objects out of their usual context to create an uncanny effect.

Renewed Viewpoint

A year in the Sonoran Desert is charted through billions of captured data points, illuminating the beauty and fragility of a well-known landscape.

Shaping Elements

Lachlan Turczan, one of this year’s Lumen Prize finalists, experiments with natural phenomena in order to shape multisensory installation artwork.

Latent Memories

Albarrán Cabrera’s photographs traverse luscious, light-drenched forests and lakes, where sunbeams dapple through tree branches and over the water.

Garden Up Close

Marine Lanier’s Le Jardin d’Hannibal series is set in one of Europe’s highest botanical gardens, home to a variety of plants from the largest mountains.

Evoking Paintings

Cristina Spagnolo showcases crisp photographic portraits and nature images inspired by the light, detail and form of art from the 1500s and 1600s.

Visuals Dissolve

Tommy Goguely’s glitch-like abstractions emerge via a process of damaging camera sensors, where colours smear, crack and split across every page.

Silent Interiors

Architecture is Satijn Panyigay’s subject of choice, creating brooding depictions of empty buildings and cinematically-lit homes under construction.

A Wider Lens:
The October / November Issue

This issue addresses our tense current moment, featuring artists who respond to today’s division and turbulence, calling for action and connection.

Encoded Messaging

In Vienna, a major Brigitte Kowanz retrospective reflects on society’s rapid virtualisation, as well as the transformative impact of the information age.

A Major Reopening at
National Railway Museum

This September, the museum celebrates 50 years. It marks the anniversary with a major reopening: Station Hall, a gallery dedicated to railway life.

Top Five Exhibitions for October

Our top shows for October spotlights artists and creatives who examine identity, heritage and community in a world that is in constant flux.

Reimagined Landscapes

Photographer Daniel Mirer disrupts the myth of the American West, bringing conversations about climate change and colonialism into the picture.

Marina Abramović:
Body as Canvas, Self as Art

Saatchi Yates presents the iconic work of Marina Abramović, an artist who has changed the landscape of contemporary art over the past five decades.

Lines of Belonging: MoMA’s Reimagining of Photography

New Photography marks its 40th year with a bold vision that unites 13 artists from Johannesburg, Kathmandu, New Orleans and Mexico City.

Challenging Narratives

Yuki Kihara’s renowned series Paradise Camp is now on display at The Whitworth, Manchester, presenting a vital recentring of queer, Indigenous voices.

Resonances of Resistance:
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s new installation unfolds as songs, poems and the daily resistance of prisoners in the occupied West Bank.

British Art Fair 2025:
Tradition & Innovation

British Art Fair returns this November with an ambitious programme that reconsiders the historic canon and spotlights bold and innovative new artists.

Poulomi Basu:
Always Coming Home

Focal Point Gallery brings together performance, photography, sculpture, sound and moving-image intertwine to create immersive environments.

Reckoning with the Past

Victoria Miro presents two key works from artist Stan Douglas, which ask audiences to consider the intersections of race, class and colonial history.

Getting Lost

A new exhibition at Castlefield Gallery brings together artists who explore what it means to get lost and what we can discover when we lose our way.

The Presence of Solitude

Val Lee’s poignant moving-image practice reflects on how both personal and collective memory are shaped by contemporary political and social systems.

Redefining Land & Bearing Witness

Two new shows at Art Museum at the University of Toronto presents a dialogue between land, memory and the precarious futures of our environment.

Aesthetica Art Prize
2025 Winners Announced

We announce the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize winners: Tobi Onabolu and Sam Metz, who were announced at the opening of this year’s show at York Art Gallery.

Anish Kapoor Transforms
Subway into a Sculptural Journey

Naples unveils new subway station designed by renowned artist Anish Kapoor, forming a vital part of the city’s bold cultural and urban regeneration.

Storms of Our Time

Prix Pictet returns to V&A for its 11th edition. It invites reflections on the growing volatility of our age, forever poised on the brink of the next crisis.

Portraits of Black Life 

Fotografiska Berlin presents Yero Adugna Eticha’s intimate portraits, which skilfully highlight the joy, resilience and complexity of Black life in Germany.

Somerset House:
Experimentation and Innovation

Somerset House announces its 2026–2027 season, which features artists, collectives and events that continually challenges creative boundaries.

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