In the catalogue prepared for the first ever Contemporary African Art Fair to take place in the world, the foreword by Koyo Kouoh, the fair’s Cameroon-born artistic director, draws attention to many important aspects of the fair.
Frieze week is always a good opportunity to do something spectacular or insane. The surprising marriage of Gonzalez-Torres and Hirst captivates audiences.
This year at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, audiences will have the opportunity to engage with both mainstream cinema, and a programme of thought-provoking artists’ film.
Weetwood Hall plays host to an art conference offering eight speakers the chance to explore the less familiar side of art and examine the difference between artist intent and audience reception.
In conjunction with this Autumn’s Asian Art in London, Rossi & Rossi opens In-Between, a show displaying the artistic brilliance found in a group of Tibetan manuscript covers.
From 24 October, Jim Shaw’s 40-year practice will be under the spotlight at Chalet Society. The artist has produced a significant number of paintings, drawings, videos, installations and performances.
Mitra Tabrizian’s Leicestershire makes its UK debut in an exhibition showcasing shots taken in the county still bearing the marks and memories of its once central position in the textile and hosiery industry.
Irving Penn: On Assignment is an eclectic collection of photographs and media taken or published between the 1940s and 2008. Yet there is a unity to the pictures that derives from excellence.
Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his seventh solo show at the gallery. The exhibition, Central Nervous System, is both a departure from and a continuation of his Neue Welt project.
Dorothy Cross Connemara and Turner And Constable: Sketching From Nature straddle an almost two-century gap, contemporary mixed-media on one side, Romantic painting on the other.
The iconic Palais de Tokyo undergoes a radical transformation at the hand of internationally renown artist, Philippe Parreno, from 23 October until 12 January 2014.
Zoe Strauss’s most interesting work may be her most abstract: images of construction materials, earth moving machines, geometry of interiors/ exterior façades, lights in a night sky.
With an interest in the challenges and changes in the art world, FIAC returns for its 40th edition on 24-27 October. The fair aims to be creative and responsive while maintaining a spirit of continuity.
Frieze London is over for another year and now is the time to reflect upon the many works on display. Drawing visitors in immediately was Dan Graham’s Plexiglas spiral sculpture.
The Social: Encountering Photography is the first festival of international contemporary photography in North East England. The event collates new commissions with iconic works.
After touring the globe offering free programmes and projects concerned with the urban, the BMW Guggenheim Lab has returned to New York with a final exhibition.
BERLONI has opened a new space in central London. Launching with an exhibition by Artists Anonymous, the gallery takes over the entirety of the three-story Margaret Street space.
Tate will stage an international comprehensive survey of the work of Mira Schendel. As one of Latin America’s most prolific post-war artists, she has made an influential contribution to the art world.
As intricate as they are intriguing, Yayoi Kusama’s White Infinity Nets pull the viewer into the depths of the artist’s psychedelic perspective of the world and leaves you, in fact, seeing dots.
