5 to See: This Weekend

Moving into May, major art fairs, group shows and solo exhibitions offer deeply conceptual approaches to photography and installation.  

Contemporary Realism

Documentary photographer Martin Parr captures heavily saturated images that observe the idiosyncrasies of the everyday.

5 to Read: This Month

This month’s new releases look at the importance of architectural and photographic forms for the continuation of social innovation and progression. 

Geometric Landscapes

Noémie Goudal’s Telluris, a series of images shot in the Californian Desert, investigates ideas about the formation of the Earth’s landscape.

Constructing Memory

Interested in notions of memory and personal history, Do Ho Suh creates artworks which memorialise details of his everyday surroundings.

Exploring Suburbia

Thomas Jordan is an American photographer, living and working in Illinois. He finds inspiration in Chicago Suburbs, looking for moments of clarity.

Redefining Boundaries

The Sea is the Limit at York Art Gallery brings together 11 artists exploring timely notions of migration, dispossession and national borders.

TOAF: Stylistic Developments

This year’s edition of The Other Art Fair, New York, brings together image-makers interested in the intricacies of the contemporary experience.

Distinctive Expression

Life in Motion: Egon Schiele/Francesca Woodman, opens at Tate Liverpool, exploring the expressive nature of the human body.

Documenting Architecture

As part of La Triennale di Milano, an exhibition tracks Italian artist and photographer Luigi Ghirri’s engagement with architecture.

Software as Language

VR and Data-Influenced Artworks: The New Language of Software, a panel discussion at the Future Now Symposium, looks at new languages.

Capturing Reconstruction

“I came to see the buildings as fossils of a time past.” Danny Lyon’s The Destruction of Lower Manhattan documents a period of transition.

Reassessing Value

Fabio Lattanzi Antinori’s Fortune Tellers investigates negotiation with information systems. The piece is shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2018.

New Possibilities

Art Beijing returns, celebrating China’s rich artistic landscape and engaging with themes such as digitalisation, sustainability and community.

Evolving Platforms

Beirut Design Week 2018 responds to the theme of Design and the City, reflecting the city’s ever-changing urban landscape.

Bauhaus: An Influential History

Thames and Hudson’s The Spirit of Bauhaus historicises the movement’s origins, reminding readers of the roots which led to an ongoing legacy.

Capturing Humanity

Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2018, Shauna Frischkorn contemplates how photography acts as a tool to evaluate the world around us.

Moments of Transition

What does it mean to be in suspense? A collective show from Le Bal, Paris, offers a thoughtful and provoking take on the matter.

Global Signifiers

Sam Johnson finds satisfaction in creating beauty through perceivable mundanity. The images introduce viewers into Jungian landscapes.

5 to See: This Weekend

Exhibitions opening towards the end of April encompass the breadth of contemporary photographic practice.