Electronics have become the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. What becomes of old tech? Jeanette May explores this through still life.

The word “photosynthesis” translates as “a putting together of light.” Roosmarijn Pallandt’s COP26 sound sculpture delves into this phenomenon.

From children to newlyweds, families to those living alone, photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten takes the temperature of a nation adapting to crisis.

British Art Show 9 is travelling across the UK, exploring themes of healing and reparative history through new works by contemporary artists.

The Light and Space movement continues to offer absorbing and mind-expanding spectacles 50 years after its emergence from California.

2022 is set to be filled with exciting and thought-provoking exhibitions. This is our snapshot of what to look out for over the next six months.

A new exhibition seeks to display Mary Ellen Mark’s significant contribution to the history of American documentary photography.

Here are six artists from the Aesthetica archives who draw on art history: destroying, reinventing and updating the records for 21st century audiences.

Tate Britain’s current exhibition spans Caribbean-British Art from the 1950s to today. It is the first display of its kind in a major national museum.

London Art Fair responds to themes of ecology, migration and political nationalism through the work of 14 contemporary British photographers.

The ethics of representation have never been more important, or more closely scrutinised. Whose stories can we tell, how and why?

Japanese video artist Shigeko Kubota once commented that: “in video’s reality, infinite variation becomes possible.” MoMA showcases her oeuvre.

Lauretta Suter’s characters interact with environments in unexpected ways – standing on chairs, hiding behind cushions or diving into boxes.

Snow covered fields. Icy lakes. Glowing lights. These five lens-based artists create works full of intrigue and atmosphere – evoking winter’s chill.

Art in the Plague Year is a testament to photography as a record, and also as an act of recovery. The online show presents 55 artists.

German artist Benedikt Partenheimer uses concept-led photography and subtle optical tricks to reveal the invisible effects of climate change.

Bright crimson balloons. Colourful gifts, tied with bows. Red velvet curtains and bright orange cocktails. Drawn from the Aesthetica Archives.

What have you been reading this year? Aesthetica rounds up its most-read online articles of 2021, from emerging artists to the latest book reviews.

In 2020, far from her own family in England, Laura Stevens observed an extended French family learning to live together amidst the pandemic.