Lars Boering, Managing Director, World Press Photo Foundation, discusses the 2019 contest entries, and the essence of “truth.”

Aesthetica selects five new art, design and photography books for May 2020. These titles reflect on the meaning of progress today.

Doorways, staircases, windows and curtains haunt the images of Indonesian photographer Ferdonio Damanik, offering the taste of worlds beyond.

Louisiana Channel is filled with arts and culture videos to watch from home. Aesthetica selects five interviews featuring lens-based artists.

The Broad has launched a new interactive series featuring poets working in a variety of styles to respond to specific artworks in the collection.

8 May 2020 marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. We bring together online arts, photography and history resources.

Amelie Satzger’s retouched photographs reveal an arranged visual world filled with autobiographical motifs, mirrors, balanced fruit and cube rooms.

Alex Prager became a photographer overnight. Her cinematic practice evolved after she came face to face with an image by William Eggleston.

National Portrait Gallery, London, holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Aesthetica picks highlights to explore from home.

Aesthetica selects five images to inspire your poetry and short fiction. They are ideal writing prompts – dreamlike shores and neon streets.

Be inspired by five talents from the 2020 Aesthetica Art Prize – a prestigious international award celebrating innovation and creativity.

‘Will There Be Hope on Doomsday’ is a short series which challenges our conception of apocalypse and imagines utopias in a new, minimalist arena.

Young, Gifted and Black considers themes of race, class and politics, as well as the importance of human dignity.

Karen Khachaturov’s images are firmly lodged in a disjointed fairytale. Each photograph is like a hard-boiled sweet with a salty centre.

Anna Walker Skillman, Owner, Jackson Fine Art, discusses a 30-year history of showing the most distinguished female voices in photography. 

Cig Harvey’s enchanting photography reflects upon familiar themes of home, family, nature and time, uncovering cinematic moments.

‘Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris’ is the latest chapter in High Museum’s ‘Picturing the South’ project.

Paris Photo launches an online viewing room for its inaugural New York edition. Tyler Mitchell is one of the featured photographers.

Vivian Maier’s photographs came to light after her death. Claartje van Dijk, Head of Exhibitions at Foam, discusses their planned show for 2020.

Photographer Charlie Goodge and Art Director Jessica Jung have paired up for an abstract series that parallels architecture and ceramics.