Interview with Corinne Demas, Fiction Winner 2015

Two days remain to enter the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, an international literary prize that enables poets and short fiction writers to showcase their work to a wider audience. We speak with Corinne Demas, this year’s fiction winner, about her literary career.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Countdown: Four Days to Go

Our final weekend of the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries is fast-approaching. There are four days left to submit your artwork to the competition. Today, we reflect on the ever-popular Painting & Drawing category with Brigitte Körber.

Interview with Tom Furse

Universal Music together with Lo Recordings have announced the release of a collection of some of its archived production music tracks, curated by Tom Furse of psych-rock outfit The Horrors.

Alex Newson, Senior Curator at the Design Museum

The judging panel for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 features a selection of key art world professionals with extensive combined expertise. The panel includes Alex Newson, Senior Curator at the Design Museum.

Interview: Sumitra Upham, ICA Reading Room, London

The ICA is currently touring several exhibitions from its Fox Reading Programme across regional museums in the UK with the aim of improve public access to contemporary art and culture.

Burden of Proof, The Construction of Visual Evidence, TPG, London

Looking into instances in which photography is used as evidence in the cases of criminal activity or violent acts, this exhibition examines reliability and authenticity in 11 case studies.

The Aesthetica Art Prize Countdown 2016: 6 Days to Go – Photography

With 6 days to go until the Art Prize call for entries deadline, we highlight Maroesjka Lavigne’s photograph Blue Lagoon (2012), which was selected for publication in Future Now.

Istanbul Biennial 2015: SALTWATER, A Theory of Thought Forms

The 14th Istanbul Biennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms will take place on 5 September until 1 November across 30 venues on both the European and Asian sides of the Bosphorus.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Countdown: 7 Days to Go

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 call for entries countdown continues today looking at Patricia Mato-Mora, a ceramic artist and writer based in London. Her work Untitled (2014) was longlisted in this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize.

Shezad Dawood, It was a time that was a time, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn

Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, opens a new exhibition of work by London-based artist Shezad Dawood, in conjunction with the French Institute Alliance Francaise’s 2015 Crossing the Line Festival.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Countdown: One Week to Go

We’re marking our last week of submissions with work by Frances Bloomfield. Longlisted in the Aesthetica Art Prize for Grand Domestique Dialogue, the artist depicts dream-like narratives.

Review of IM Heung-soon: Reincarnation at MoMA PS1

Currently on view at MoMA PS1, New York, Korean artist IM Hueng-soon’s video installation titled Reincarnation is a deeply ponderous work on the burden of grief, loss and the consequences of war.

Don McCullin, Eighty, Hamiltons Gallery, London

This year marks the 80th birthday of renowned photographer, Don McCullin, and to celebrate this event, Hamiltons Gallery, London, is showing a selection of over-sized silver gelatin prints which are each one of an edition of 15.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Countdown: 9 Days to Go

There are nine days left in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 call for entries. In the countdown, we spotlight Lorenzo Gattorna, whose artists’ film Marshy Place Across (2014) was selected for the publication Future Now.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Countdown: 10 Days to Go

With only 10 days to go until the Aesthetica Art Prize closes for entries, we take a look at the work of Russ Flatt, who was longlisted in the Photographic & Digital Art category in 2015.

Josef Koudelka: Uncertain Nationality, Fundacion Mapfre

Czech photographer Josef Koudelka has taken some of the most iconic photographs of the last 50 years. This exhibition encompasses rare prints, maquettes and vintage photographs.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Countdown: 11 Days to Go

There are only 11 days to go until the Aesthetica Art Prize closes for entries on 31 August. Today, we shine a spotlight on longlisted artist Joomi Chung’s innovative installation entitled Swarm.

Review: Robert Motherwell at Bernard Jacobson Gallery

Robert Motherwell: Black at Bernard Jacobson Gallery focuses on his black and white paintings and highlights the artist’s unique approach to monochromatic Abstract Expressionism.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Countdown: 12 Days to Go

Gareth Jenkins’ abstract, geometric painting is concerned with the reduction of concept, and how line in its simplest form can be used to convey a sense of the object in a non-figurative format.

New British Innovators: Inside Heatherwick Studio, THE QUBE, PMQ, Hong Kong

The British Council has announced that it will stage a new exhibition, entitled New British Inventors: Inside Heatherwick Studio, in Hong Kong this Autumn, showcasing key pieces from the last two decades of work by Heatherwick Studio.