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.
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.
Cultural identity and systems of belief are questioned in the practice of Yael Bartana. Born in Israel, the artist blends fact and fiction in her photography, film and installation work. Inferno can be seen at the São Paulo Biennial.
To mark its 10th anniversary, Istanbul Modern is home to the first group show to explore the interaction between visual arts, sound and music in Turkey from the Ottoman period to the present.
Designer, painter, educator, mentor and social campaigner, Peggy Angus could be considered one of the 20th century’s most overlooked creative practitioners. Peggy Angus: Designer, Teacher, Painter presents Angus’ artistic and industrial practice in the context of Furlongs.
There is one week left to enter the Aesthetica Art Prize, an annual award which celebrates excellence in contemporary art. Entries are welcome from artists at all stages in their career and working in any medium. We present a selection of longlisted artists from the latest edition of the award.
Unprinted at Paul Stolper gallery, London, is an extensive overview of the art of YBA Angus Fairhurst. Running until 30 August, the exhibition brings together his printed works from 1992 to 2006, including silkscreens and etchings.
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.
The Barbican’s Digital Revolution is an exhibition of 30-ish years of digital art, computers, websites, CGI, music videos and games rather than a manifesto. You feel the future looking over your shoulder throughout, and the future has a tendency to assume we were all quaint.
Manifesta originated in the post-communist period in the 1990s with the aim of balancing the gap between East and West, North and South. Manifesta considers art’s poetic and political nature.
Taking our appetite for sugar as a starting point to create images of a corrupted globalisation, James Ostrer takes over the glass façade and ground floor of the Gazelli Art House.
The Natural History Museum of London is a space of gargantuan proportions. The main entrance leads to a cavernous hall that comfortably houses the skeletal frame of a Diplodocus.
At David Zwirner Gallery, London, iconic British painter Bridget Riley presented a fleetingly immersive survey of current and older works. The Stripe Paintings 1961 – 2014 features 15 paintings and experimental studies on paper.
Over 150 leading authors and artists from more than 30 countries come together for South-East Asia’s most exciting literary event, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF).
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 LCC to survey some of photography’s rising stars.
