Phillip Prodger is Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He has joined the judging panel for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize. We speak to Prodger about his curatorial portfolio.
We interview acclaimed Magnum photographers Stuart Franklin and Mark Power, who will be leading the The Magnum Intensive Documentary Photography Course in August.
Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection will feature 60 photographs on view at me Collectors Room, drawn from all periods of her work to provide an overview of her entire career.
Aesthetica talks to experimental singer-songwriter Andreya Triana about her eclectic sound of soul, jazz and acoustic. Triana has collaborated with musicians Flying Lotus and Bonobo amongst others.
Over the past two years, Aesthetica Art Prize longlisted artist Kyler Zeleny has been working on a project centred on found Polaroids. This project has cumulated in a website, Found Polaroids.
The judges for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize, currently open for entries, include Karin Askham, Dean of the school of Media, London College of Communication who established the UK’s first BA and MA courses in fashion photography.
The late sculptor Ian Hamilton Finlay made reference to literature, pre-Socratic philosophy, the French Revolution and classical mythology, chronicled in a retrospective at Victoria Miro.
Comprised of over 200 prints, Another Language presents unseen bodies of work by well-known photographers and lesser-known historic figures. We speak to the show’s curator, Simon Baker.
Shirley Baker’s pioneering 65-year career behind the lens is surveyed at The Photographers’ Gallery, presenting previously unseen colour photographs alongside her black and white images.
The Whitworth and M+ Sigg Collection have joined forces to devise a vibrant new show, designed to promote the emergence of contemporary art practice in China over the last 40 years.
Filmmaker and Turner prize nominee Zarina Bhimji has joined her portfolio of film pieces in a new installation titled Jangbar, which is currently screening at New Art Exchange, Nottingham.
Momart has over 40 years experience in art transport, storage and handling. We speak to Neville Redvers-Mutton, Technical Project Manager, about the company’s ethos and working practices.
Currently on view at kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City is Dr. Lakra’s newest body of work, Monomito, the result of an anthropological and ethnographical study into the history of tattoo subculture.
Herman de Vries represents The Netherlands at the Venice Biennale with his latest exhibition, to be all ways to be. The picturesque Dutch pavilion houses an amalgam of the artist’s recent works.
Turner Prize winner Tony Cragg, who has also represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, curates a show at Blain|Southern, with Andreas Schmitten, Gereon Lepper and Mathias Lanfer.
London-based Barli is making waves with her stunning vocals and minimal electronic beats. She released her critically acclaimed debut E.P. Pebbles, produced by Ton Epoch, in 2014.
Annina Roescheisen is a multimedia artist. Her video piece What Are You Fishing For? was longlisted in the Aesthetica Art Prize, and is next showing in her first solo show in New York.
Tate Liverpool’s major new retrospective Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots is the first exhibition in over thirty years to properly survey the artist’s late works. The show focuses on Pollock’s black pourings.
Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker is a nightmarish, politically charged play performed at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre as part of the Manchester International Festival.
