Echoes Preserved

Brendan George Ko’s portraits of friends, often bathed in light and shadow, meet high-quality, crisp close-up shots of foliage to set the scene.

Society Transforms

Right now, Cao Fei is one of the biggest names in the art world. She is making multimedia work about technology and urban change in China.

Distilled Atmosphere

Colour dances across onoko’s pages, forming complex, textured, impressionistic images that bleed into the paper like watercolour paintings.

Sense of Detachment

Out in the landscape, Bootsy Holler harnesses the self-portraiture genre as a way to visualise and work through difficult, personal emotions.

Boundless Imagination

A new architecture book shows what happens when we combine the human imagination with powerful digital tools to realise escapist ideas.

Uplifting Narratives

Fares Micue returns to Aesthetica with positivity and optimism, sharing a joyful outlook on life through a meticulous image-making process.


Contemporary Colour: 10 From Paris Photo

The leading art fair presents endless mirrored rooms, offices overflowing with paper, glimmering night skies and ecosystems teetering on the brink.

Fleeting Moments

Nick Prideaux’s photography captures life’s ethereal, fleeting moments, reminding us of the beauty to be found in our everyday lives.

Moments in Time

The five new photobooks what it means to exist in the modern world, from the complexity of the mother daughter bond to the American Dream.

Artistic Dialogues

Paris Photo puts photography’s biggest names in conversation, from the dawn of the camera to the 21st century. Now, the global art fair returns.

Visionary Portraits 

Dorothea Lange described Consuelo Kanaga as “way ahead of her time” – now a new book traces the life and works of the pioneering photojournalist.

Impressions of the City

Trent Parke presents an impressionistic collection of black-and-white pictures, collated over 25 years, that document the buzz of the city at rush hour.

Reaching Out

Sonia Boyce’s display at Whitechapel Gallery brings together seminal and rare projects that explore interaction, participation and improvisation.

Curator Interview: Wendy Red Star

Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star shares insights into curating the spectacular group show ‘Native America: In Translation’ at Blanton Museum of Art.

Light, Colour, Sound

Light, colour and sound collide to mesmerising effect in a new immersive installation from Aesthetica Art Prize Alumnus Squidsoup.

Reimagined Myths

Lilli Waters’ photographs reimagine the Greek mythological hero Orpheus as a woman, asking vital questions about how we view the female body.

Identity and Belonging

The shortlisted artists in the 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize explore ideas of national identity, family ties and migration.

Where Now?

Artist-led organisation For Freedoms presents their first comprehensive monograph, with over 550 signboards created between 2016 and 2023.

Portrait of a Decade

Discover the art, film, music and cultural moments that shaped the 1980s, a decade of rapid social transformation and technological development.

Seasonal Cycles

Artist Angelica Mesiti explores the relationship between humans, nature and the cosmos in a new installation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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