William Eggleston: Portraits

William Eggleston Portraits at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, surveys the career of the ground-breaking American artist who is regarded as a pioneer of colour photography.

Francis Alÿs: Spatial Justice

Francis Alÿs is included in The Ruya Foundation’s National Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale in May 2017, encompassing the notion of conflict.

Tong Cragg: Material Worlds

The most extensive UK show to date from Tony Cragg is at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, this March. A Rare Category of Objects consists of pieces from up to five decades of the artist’s career.

Pipilotti Rist: Midnight Screenings

Throughout January 2017 Pipilotti Rist’s Open My Glade (Flatten) 2000-2017 is mounted across 60 synchronised electronic billboards in Times Square.

Photographic Dependence

Fondazione Prada finally opens Osservatorio, a reconverted space dedicated to photography and visual languages.

Austere Structures

The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, has recently revealed a unique architectural intervention perched atop the organisation’s campus.

Art Brussels 2017

2017 sees the 35th edition of Art Brussels, one of Europe’s most significant fairs. Since its inception, the festival has evolved into an influential event.

Possibilities of Realism

Hitoshi Tsuboyama tests a neutral approach to space, bringing together a Western three-dimensional style with an oriental planar style of painting.

RIBA: The World’s Best Building

Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) by Grafton Architects has been announced as the first winners of the RIBA Prize for the world’s best building.

Colour as Symbol

British painter Laurence Wood is currently living and working in Hong Kong. Aesthetica discuss with him the notion of influence and cultural awareness.

Celebrating Indigenous Female Art

Who’s Afraid of Colour? at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, brings together over 200 creations from 118 indigenous Australian women.

Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings

In Zaha Hadid’s early paintings and drawings, at Serpentine Galleries, London, viewers see her looking beyond the utopianist forbears.

Cultural Development

The Faena Forum was revealed during Art Basel Miami Beach at the start of December, heralded as a pivotal landmark in the new cultural district.

Making Africa

Making Africa is a collaboration of over 120 artists who aim to provide a new insight into contemporary African design, celebrating its impact upon the art world.

Traditional Methods

In discussion with Aesthetica, George Samual Bothamley highlights the place for traditional art within the contemporary industry.

Miles Aldridge: Analogous Compositions

Please Return Polaroid shares a rare insight into the technical processes of shoots: from storyboarding and initial ideas to the finished composition.

Digital Manipulations

Anne Hoerter discusses the development of a practice based upon the intersection between still life painting and technology.

Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitecture

Celebrated in a major exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, the first in over two decades, Matta-Clark is showcased as a 1970s avant-garde legend.

Private and Collective Memory

The Donata Pizzi Collection is now revealing one of the widest representation of Italian women photographers ever exhibited in the last 20 years.

V&A: Undressed

Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear tells the story of garment design, considering the practical, personal and sensory roles it plays in protecting and enhancing the body.