Bridging the boundaries between art, culture and philosophy, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival makes sense of the world through a diverse progamme.

Michael Pinksy’s innovative Pollution Pods recreate the air in London, Beijing, São Paulo, New Delhi and Tautra, Norway.

Talisman in the Age of Difference at Stephen Friedman Gallery brings together works by artists of African origin and its diaspora.

Foam Talent: New York unites 20 international image-makers, plotting the next chapter for the creation, interaction and circulation of photography.

Darn Thorn’s series, Aggiornamento, offers an idealised, modernist vision of Ireland through the architectural structures of the 1960s.

Doug Aitken’s first video installation in 10 years, New Era, tracks the reflections of Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone.

Daniel Webb collected all the plastic used in a year – around 4500 pieces, of which 93% wass single-use packaging.

Highlighting functionality over complex shapes and unnecessary materials, Embodiment, published by Phaidon examines the portfolio of Naoto Fukasawa.

Antony Gormley is known for an interest in the spatial relationships between human bodies and the surrounding landscape.

Giacomo Infantino’s work uses staged scenes to evoke intimate and personalised narratives. The featured images outline places in Varese.

Future Now provides an imaginative platform for attendees to consider the arts ecosystem within a broader social, political and professional context.

The top picks for 24-25 March engage with art history, reinventing traditional approaches through photography and installation.

Work by Nathaniel Rackowe examines the changing nature of the built environment, reflecting on the life cycles of urban dwellings.

Work by James Casebere features as part of an exhibition exploring the relationship between photography and architecture.

James Turrell is internationally known for an engagement with natural and artificial light sources, expanding the boundaries of perception.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, offers an incredibly idiosyncratic installation – a trip down Do Ho Suh’s memory lane.

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, revisits Ettore Spalletti’s monochromatic, minimalist panels with What is the most profound in a man, is the skin.

Practitioners featured at The Other Art Fair explore and subvert the everyday through new and surprising methods.

By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urbanised surroundings. Current exhibitions embrace, escape and offer solutions to this issue.

A new exhibition celebrates the British seaside experience through the lenses of Tony Ray-Jones, David Hurn and Simon Roberts and Martin Parr.