Preserving Memories

Hoarding photographs, art books, newspaper clippings and found items that took her fancy, Vivian Maier filled storage lockers with her bric-a-brac and over 100,000 negatives.

Subtle Discovery

Maroesjka Lavigne spent four months travelling around Iceland in the months between winter and spring photographing this intriguing country along the way.

Constructing Sculpture

German artist Isa Genzken’s first major American retrospective at New York’s MoMA will engage the senses and the mind in an all-out immersive exhibition.

Cultural Politics

A new exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow explores the socio-political undercurrents of European art since 1945 through to the present day.

Challenging Signifiers

Parreno transforms the Palais de Tokyo, an experience rather than an exhibition, Anywhere, Anywhere, Out Of The World  is greater than the sum of its parts.

Unrivalled Iconography

Renowned for impeccable tailoring with unexpected elements lurking beneath each perfect cut, Paul Smith rose from a single, tiny shop in Nottingham.

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is a British sculptor and installation artist who is interested in the potential of materials. Her latest involvement is with Glasstress, as one of 65 artists challenged to work with glass.

American Dreams

Tracing a landscape of signs, buildings and interiors, Jim Dow’s photographs record the character of a past era. Beginning in the 1960s, he has continued to capture these elements all over the world.

Nostalgic Desires

Cally Whitham records the ordinary, transforming it into a surreal landscape, reflecting the way places are perceived through nostalgia and memory.

With A Conscious Eye, Osborne Samuel, London

Osborne Samuel displays the work of three of the UK’s leading contemporary photographers, each of whom use their medium to provide unique and powerful insights into the lives and traditions of various communities and individuals.

Splinter, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London

For the second time, the Michael Hoppen Gallery opens Splinter, a one-day art fair on 30 November. As before, the event will offer a wide range of 19th, 20th and 21st century photography.

Nicola Hicks, Flowers Gallery

The animalistic and savage creatures of MBE award-winning sculptor, Nicola Hicks, find their home at Flowers Gallery, New York. Full of a quiet expression, these towering straw and plaster figures set out to explore the nature of character.

The Uneventful Day, Carroll / Fletcher, London

The Uneventful Day brings together the unique and interconnected work of three young artists: Jim Woodall, Alexander Page and Luke Burton. The show examines humanities’ relationship with landscape and architecture.

Interview: Paul Green, Director of the Halcyon Gallery, on Bob Dylan’s New Sculpture Exhibition

Bob Dylan, known more so for his poetry, music and writing, began introducing his artwork to the world with an exhibition of his Drawn Blank Series in 2007 at the Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz, Germany.

Alex Prager, Face in the Crowd, Corcoran Gallery

Alex Prager has spent the last 10 years constructing imagined scenes for her photographic work. Full of colour, tension and narrative, Prager’s images continue to play with the figure of the woman.

Review of Ana Mendieta: Traces at the Hayward Gallery, London

Traces marks the UK’s first retrospective of work by Ana Mendieta through a show of films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, personal writings and notebooks, and a slide-room.

Brancusi in New York 1913-2013, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

A whole century after first revealing his work to America at the New York Armory Show, the art of the unofficial torchbearer of modernism, Constantin Brancusi, is celebrated in a new exhibition at Paul Kasmin.

Review of Nostalgic for the Future at Lisson Gallery, London

A group show that proposes a dialogue between historical and contemporary sculpture, attempting to draw a line between a lost past, a sensuous present and an imagined future has to work hard to justify its audacious blurb.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries

Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the ICA and will include works by 46 participants. Last year’s edition attracted over 42,000 visitors and highlighted the show as the place to discover the best emerging artists.

AV Festival 14: EXTRACTION, North East England, March 2014

AV Festival 14: EXTRACTION takes place at venues across the North East of England, including Mima, Sage Gateshead, BALTIC, Tyneside Cinema, NGCA, Star & Shadow, Laing Art Gallery and other spaces.