Last Day to Enter: The Aesthetica Art Prize

Today is the last day to submit to the Aesthetica Art Prize, an international award celebrating excellence and innovation in art around the world.

5 to See: This Weekend

Moving into September, must-see shows use documentary photographs, fashion imagery and new technologies to depict the urban landscape.

UNESCO Creative UK Cities

UNESCO’s Creative Cities network comprises destinations which celebrate innovation. Aesthetica offers insight into these locations.

Unexpected Compositions

Photography at Berlin Art Week questions life in a performance-orientated society through playful, surprising angles and uncanny postures.

Uncanny Portraits

 Katerina Belkina blends photography and painting to craft surreal compositions that combine muted tones and otherworldly elements.

Henry Driver: Immersive Responses

Innovative work by Henry Driver – shortlisted for the 2016 Aesthetica Art Prize – explores the speed at which technology is shaping daily life.

A Global Showcase

START Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery highlights emerging artists, young galleries and art scenes across the globe, offering varied perspectives.

Unseen Connections

Laurent Grasso’s work explores sacred spaces, mythologies and scientific theories through video, sculpture, painting and installation.

Relative Dimensions

Living and working in San Francisco, Colin Pollard’s pop-coloured projects revel in pastel compositions and deceptive block landscapes.

5 to See: This Weekend

Recommended shows running 25-26 August look to contemporary visual culture, investigating the impacts of censorship and media saturation.

AAP: Reinventing the Landscape

With just one week left of our call for entries, we select five artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize who draw on the natural world for inspiration.

Global Voices

The 2018 Liverpool Biennial is a lamentation over what is lost: cultures and identities. Beautiful World Where Are You? works towards an inclusive future.

Prizes for Emerging Artists

Aesthetica selects five awards which foster emerging talent, offering wider platforms for the next generation of creative visionaries.

Adaptable Cities

Experimental design practice Studio INI unveil a kinetic installation at London Design Biennale, responding to the theme of Emotional States.

A Contemporary Retelling

The stories of 1960s and 1970s America are examined in Matt Henry’s photography, which is highlighted in a new show at Polka Galerie, Paris.

Top 10 Cultural Cities

Aesthetica selects ten destinations across the world which offer visually and conceptually arresting architecture, galleries and museums.

Resonant Architecture

Daniel Libeskind is known for a series of striking, resonant and sustainable buildings and design projects, combining intersecting angular forms.

Critical Reflections

Aesthetica Art Prize alumnus Alinka Echeverria combines a background in anthropology with a critical, responsive approach to image-making.

Illusory Compositions

A collection of work by Noémie Goudal comprises constructed images that reinvent built and natural environments through surreal visuals.

Natural Optimism

Maia Flore’s bright compositions combine feelings of joy and freedom with surreal themes, often evoking the very essence of summer.