Part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love, The Human Factor will bring together major works from 25 leading international artists across the last 25 years. The artists involved have all fashioned new ways of using the figure in contemporary sculpture.

Spencer Finch has on the wall of his studio a postcard of a watercolour by Turner. Impressed by its dynamic of figuration and abstraction, Finch seems always to have had Turner in mind with his own manipulations of the elements.

This summer the Lisson Gallery collaborates with Berengo Studio to present an exhibition that coincides with the occasion of the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.

This summer the Camden Arts Centre dedicates all of its galleries and gardens to a large-scale, major exhibition of work by Shelagh Wakely. One of the UK’s most influential artists, the exhibition provides the rare opportunity to experience the ephemeral magic of Wakely’s work.

Ai Weiwei is a master craftsman. His work in porcelain, marble and wood, in particular, is astonishingly comparable in vision and execution to the design talents of Leonardo Da Vinci.

For the first time in the UK, 40 modern prints from Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders will be showcased at ATLAS Gallery. Lyon immersed himself into the culture of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club from 1963 to 1967 and these images are an iconic representation of that time.

Frieze Art Fair brings together over 160 of the world’s leading contemporary galleries. This year, for the first time, Frieze introduces Live, a showcase for performance-based installations dispersed throughout the fair.

The vote to decide whether Scotland becomes an independent nation takes place on 18 September 2014. Four Scottish photographers are brought together to present their distinctive perspectives on a nation in the midst of intense debate.

This June, the Royal Geographical Society displays a selection of contemporary, creative, resonant and original works by photographers and filmmakers as part of the Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Award.

German artist Sybille Neumeyer stunned judges with Song for the Last Queen in the Aesthetica Art Prize, a beautiful light installation comprised of 7,614 bees collected from a naturally collapsed beehive framed within vials of honey.

Synesthesia is a combination of digital innovation and timeless fashion. Teaming up with Fred Perry for the SS14 campaign, the website is an exploration of synesthesia, when one sensory response induces a sensation in another.

Back for its second year after popular success in 2014, Art Everywhere is a large scale project to get work on display around the UK using poster sites as places to see amazing art.

Shortlisted with Alberto García-Alix, Jochen Lempert and Lorna Simpson for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was photographer Richard Mosse, who deservingly took home this year’s prize.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world and offers artists the opportunity to showcase their work to wider audiences and further their involvement in the international art world.

The Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition presents eight shortlisted artists contributing outstanding works to contemporary art and will continue to run until 22 June showcasing artistic talent from around the world in a ground-breaking group show.

Alex Prager presents photographs from her highly acclaimed series, Face in the Crowd, at The Arts Club this summer. In this Prager draws from the language of cinema to create large-scale, epic photographs of crowds.

Referred to as the “Olympics of the art world”, Art Basel returns to the Swiss city for its 44th year. With additional events in Miami and Hong Kong, Basel is where it all began for what is the most important art fair organiser in the world.

There are those that argue that talent is not innate. Rather, it is the ironclad will to keep on practising in the face of impossibilities. Then there are others who garner talent by being born talent adjacent. Musician Tunday Akintan is lucky in both ways.

VOLTA10 returns to Basel from 16-21 June. This year the vibrant art fair has teamed up with GalleryLOG to produce a number of inspiring videos that take a closer look at the work produced by a number of artists appearing at VOLTA.

The art of Pierre Soulages, on display at Dominique Lévy Gallery and Galerie Perrotin, exists in another world and defies description. Pierre Soulages is a “proposal about post-war abstract expressionism” according to the exhibition organisers.