The 4th edition of Crunch: the Art and Music Festival at Hay promises to be an extravaganza of contemporary art, talks and debates, new music, comedy and cabaret. Entitled Awake in the Universe.

Two shows run parallel to each other at Spike Island, with a variety of motifs exploring common themes: alienation by displacement and its significance in the creation/destruction of meaning.

onedotzero isn’t just one of the leading authorities in digital arts, they are one of our favourites, so when we heard that their adventures in motion festival was to return to BFI, we were more than excited.

The New Museum will present the first New York survey exhibition of the work of German artist Carsten Höller. Over 20 years, Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and test site.

For the first time in history over half the world’s population lives in the city. Orion Contemporary’s forthcoming show takes the work of artists who present their vision of the urban and the rural.

In his current exhibition, Waterfall, now showing at Sherman Contemporary in Sydney, Yoshioka explores the myriad associations conjured by water although not in the guises one might expect.

Stuart McAlpine Miller graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1990. Having worked to develop his unique style, Miller is concentrating his attentions on an exciting new series of work.

Arnolfini is celebrating its 50th anniversary with one of its most thought-provoking, genuinely moving, and tantalisingly challenging exhibitions yet.

Anri Sala is a leading artist who, since dealing with personal experience as a reflection of social and political change in Albania has come to attach an importance to sound in relation to the image.

The profile of artists working in moving image has been elevated in by those who’ve made the leap into cinema, e.g. Steve McQueen, and those taking over leading gallery spaces, e.g. Tacita Dean.

Platform Arts has garnered a reputation for innovative projects and according to its mission statement, it promotes the creation and access to contemporary art practice in Northern Ireland.

Jerwood Drawing Prize has run since 1994, and is exhibited in the Jerwood Space. Later, it will tour to venues including Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff and the Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford.

Abraham Cruzvillegas (b.1968, Mexico City) is an artist and writer who works predominantly in sculpture, using found materials to explore specific local areas in a social and economic context.

Nicolas Ruston is a British sculptor, recognised for his silicone and mixed media works. Ruston is concerned with collective beliefs in relation to the mass media and its version of reality.

The V&A’s new exhibition Postmodernism: Style & Subversion 1970-1990 explores the recent past in design with two decades of hindsight.

The 12th Istanbul Biennial contemplates a world of abstraction, inviting sober reflection when it is needed most.

In its representation of a broad spectrum of narratives, PhotoPhnomPenh offers a unique glimpse into contemporary Cambodia and how local modes of artistic production form part of a global dialogue.

On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, an exhibition at Moma Ps1 examines their impact on our perceptions of culture.

In autumn 2011, a major survey explored a 20 year period in Soviet art and architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts.

One of the World’s most defining art prizes opened in 2011 at Baltic. We explore the shortlist with Godfrey Worsdale, Director of Baltic.