Social Space

Toby Paterson returns to Edinburgh to create a new work inspired by Patrick Geddes’ surveys of cities as a means to study human activity and society.

Accelerating Visions

Willi Ruge, ­who captured much of the excitement and anxiety spreading across Europe at the time, is honoured in a retrospective at CO Berlin.

Urban Manoeuvres

New York hosts the seventh edition of the Performa Biennial this November. This year’s collaboration, brings together creatives that consider urban life.

Urban Renaissance

100 Great Street Photographs brings together a new generation of talented artists who have embraced modern technology to capture the world around us.

Authentic Form

Photographer Ed van der Elsken sought in reality an aesthetic form, an authenticity that was devoid of artifice. Camera in Love runs until 24 September.

Louise Bourgeois: New Perspectives

The work of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is viewed from a new perspective in an exhibition at MoMA, New York, through printmaking and illustration.

Transient Heritage

Tamas Dezso paints a portrait of Romania. The country is struggling to shed the shackles of its political past, which pervades its rural heritage.

Global Imaginations

The Design Museum, London, has announced the shortlist for the 10th anniversary celebrations of the world’s best designs.

Charting Authenticity

The Photographers’ Gallery’s latest exhibition offers an insight into the polaroids of a previous generation through the cinematic vision of Wim Wenders.

Photographic Resurgence

LE BAL, Paris, displays a range of Magnum Photos’ treasures from books and publications dating from the creation of the co-operation in 1947.

Vivid Histories

Julie Cockburn’s delicate embellishment of photographs is the focus of a new exhibition at London’s Flowers Gallery this September.

Monochromatic Visions

Sanne De Wilde delves into the visions of the people of Pingelap and Pohnpei, two islands where a high percentage of the population have achromatopsia.

Centenary Style

The Grand Palais in Paris celebrates the centenary of the birth of photographer Irving Penn in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Reflective Documentation

Saatchi Gallery and Huawei’s #SelfExpression competition invites anyone with a smartphone to turn their gaze away from the self to the world.

Evolving Aesthetics

In An Incomplete History of Protest, Whitney Museum, New York, explores its collection and archive with a focus on activism and politics.

Spatial Environments

Ambienti/Environments centres on Lucio Fontana’s pioneering work in the realm of installation art, along with a selection of his seminal Ambienti spaziali.

Vintage Highways

Photographer Josef Hoflehner’s sleek and stylish yet unstaged imagery takes viewers back in time, focusing on car designs from the 1960s and 1970s.

Sublime Landscapes

Adam Jeppesen searches for the silence and spirituality in desolate landscapes and the physical elements in his latest exhibition, Out of Camp.

Exuberant Youth

Having presented Malick Sidibé’s first solo exhibition outside of Africa in 1995, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain now pays tribute to the artist.

Sequential Urbanity

Swedish photographer Mårten Lange has released a The Mechanism, a despondent sequence that forms a sci-fi story about contemporary life.