To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Dover Street Market holds The Next Ten Years: a series of events, installations and products. For the duration of September, the basement and second floor of Dover Street Market will be transformed.
There’s still time to catch Rossetti’s Obsession: Images of Jane Morris at Lady Lever Art Gallery before it closes. The show marks the centenary of Morris’ death and looks at the role she played as Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s muse.
Rotimi Fani-Kayode was an influential figure in 1980s black British and African art, and although his career was cut short by his death at the age of 34, he is one of the most significant names in the history of black photography.
In his lecture The Culture of Violence in the Twentieth Century, Professor of European History Alan Kramer points out that, unlike the Germans, the English did not, during World War I, rely on prisoners of war as a labour force.
In the 60th Edition of Aesthetica we celebrate the emerging photographers that are shaping the future of the image-based practice in The Next Generation. We have partnered with the London College of Communication to survey some of photography’s rising stars.
Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets on display at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art showcases the work of one of the greatest and most confessional artists of the 20th century.
The Aesthetica Short Film Festival is delighted to announce it is now a BAFTA recognised festival, an achievement that is unprecedented for a festival in its fourth year. Programme released in September.
Sam Eugène’s second solo show opens at Art Galleries Europe. A Digital Fauve introduces a brand new artist genre: Digital Fauvism. The form comes from the influence of les Fauves, a group of artists from the early 20th century.
The artists to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize in its 30th year are Duncan Campbell, Ciara Phillips, James Richards and Tris Vonna-Michell. The Prize was founded in 1984 to promote discussion of new developments in British art.
Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and American photographer Anne Collier mark the 20th anniversary of Studio Voltaire with their first solo shows to take place in a London public gallery.
Siren Merete Fristad, artist name “Sirenes” is a Norwegian artist. Her work, since summer 2011, has been festured in several exhibitions internationally in Italy, Spain, Canada and USA.
Fierce is an international festival of live art centred in Birmingham. The festival embraces a diverse range of contemporary artforms and multidisciplinary collaborations, including theatre, dance, music, installations, activism, digital practices and parties.
In 1989, the Scottish artist Caroline McNairn spent a year in Russia and Ukraine. Producing some of her most noted works and exchanging ideas with artists from the about-to-be former Soviet Union, the visit was one of the major influences on McNairn’s artistic output until her death in 2010.
In her digital portraits, Inés Molina Navea superimposes details from photographs of up to five different faces in order to create images of people who have never existed. Molina Navea uses these images to reveal modern ideas of social control.
In the 60th Edition of Aesthetica we celebrate the emerging photographers that are shaping the future of the image-based practice in The Next Generation. We have partnered with the London College of Communication to survey some of photography’s rising stars.
Drawing from Hetherington’s series, Infidel and Diary (2007 – 2008) which documents the experience of war from the perspective of the individual, Infidel consists of large-scale photographs of the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan.
With a few days remaining to enter the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, we celebrate the winning entry for the fiction category from last year, and present an extract of the story by Jennifer Roe.
Lacey Contemporary Gallery is set to open this autumn in Notting Hill London. Placing its artists at the heart of the business, director Andrew Lacey intends to provide a positive environment for his practitioners to work in, allowing them to flourish and evolve over the years.
A series of six unique tapestries by Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry are to be woven throughout the historic setting of the Tudor-Jacobean Temple Newsam House as the final location of the exhibition’s UK tour.
The LAPADA (The Association of Art and Antiques Dealers) Art and Antiques Fair, one of London’s most prestigious art and antiques events, returns to the historic heart of London, within the surroundings of Mayfair’s Berkeley Square.