Objects as Alchemy
Tom Baker offers a playful glimpse at the shifting role of materials. Taking the role of the alchemist, he attempts to purify and transform the elements.
Tom Baker offers a playful glimpse at the shifting role of materials. Taking the role of the alchemist, he attempts to purify and transform the elements.
Magnum Streetwise, a new Thames & Hudson volume, features more than 300 examples of street photography pulled from the archives.
Aesthetica selects top art and photography publications for November. These books look at activism, belonging and pre-digital visual culture.
Art exhibitions are constantly evolving. The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition offers a new approach to curation, featuring 450 small works.
For its eighth cycle, the Prix Pictet award in photography and sustainability turns its lens on the theme of “hope.” 12 artists respond.
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition returns to Mall Galleries, London, this month. Aesthetica speaks to artist Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf.
Aesthetica selects must-see shows for early November. Each exhibition reflects the human condition in today’s changing world.
Referencing the famous 15th century painter Hieronymus Bosch, ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ is based around the metaphor of the garden.
Miami-based Anastasia Samoylova’s FloodZone is a series responding to the problem of rising sea levels. It is an account on the climatic knife-edge.
A rainbow of geometric shapes obscures the faces of Julie Cockburn’s found photographs. Bright colours transform vintage studio portraits.
Tom Spach’s book is aesthetically compelling, leaving readers to re-assess their emotions about intertwining concrete and plantlike.
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, which showcases both emerging and established artists, returns to Mall Galleries, London, this November.
The passage of time – from Ancient Greece to the present – is the inspiration behind surrealist artworks from Turkish artist Uğur Çakı.
Groundbreaking photography. Expansive natural landscapes. Cultural exploration. Top shows use the lens to ask key questions about identity.
People in the UK check their smartphones every 12 minutes. There is an inability to switch off. This new state of being is explored at Somerset House.
The new publication ‘Model City Pyongyang’ is a photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea’s ‘model’ utopia.
Aperture and Dawoud Bey collaborate on a new workshop publication that distils approaches, teachings and insights about photography.
Sound installation, street photography and visionary design. Recommended shows move from 20th century history to future civilisations.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns for 2019, highlighting the next generation of contemporary visual artists in an expansive show.
