Recently, Londoners and visitors might have found themselves sitting on concrete benches, which resemble half open books. Benches not only look like a book, they are fully dressed up by different depictions that resemble and celebrate the literary heritage of London.

The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture has unveiled the latest details of its £200,000 programme of support for artists working across the whole spectrum of the visual arts in Scotland. The organisation has a proud tradition of promoting excellence in contemporary art and architecture.

A group of six artists have collaborated to create a unique site-specific exhibition and performance piece on the island of Vardø at the extreme north-eastern part of Norway. Taking place in such a secluded location, only a few made a pilgrimage North from Oslo to experience the work on Vardø.

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag presents ZomerExpo 2014 Light, the largest national sales exhibition held at the museum showcasing a selection of artworks from an open call registration.

One of the UK’s most ambitious art exhibitions, the third edition of Folkestone Triennial commissions a number of internationally recognised artists to create a collection of new works to be exhibited in Folkestone’s public spaces under the title, Lookout.

Phyllida Barlow is one of those artists who came under the spotlight after a long career and endless efforts. During the last decade her body of work has rapidly emerged and been showcased across the UK, Europe and the USA.

This presentation by Victoria Miro at Schloss Sihlberg considers the use of abstraction and repetition amongst the work of three artists: Conrad Shawcross, Yayoi Kusama and Idris Khan.

Laurent Grasso is an artist who divides his creative life between Paris and New York, so it is fitting that in September his work will take centre stage both at Paris’s Galerie Perrotin and at Sean Kelly in New York for solo shows.

Mobile phones, watches and other electronic equipment are forbidden within 512 Hours. Marina Abramović clearly wants this to be a purified environment, stripped of all the amenities that might console the idle mind.

With a title which references the infamous Black Dahlia murder in 1940s Hollywood, Last Seen Entering The Biltmore is a group exhibition which considers the idea of artifice and draws attention to the idea of the theatrical “backstage” as a threshold where transformation takes place.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is an opportunity to advance your profile on the international art scene and is open to all artists worldwide. One & Other highlights the opportunities presented by the 2015 Aesthetica Art Prize awards.

Inside the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, works from exciting new and emerging artists from around the world are displayed with an accompanying biography and artist’s statement.

Art history is replete with romantic mythologies, few more potent than the artist as obsessive maker, working round the clock in his studio or in the landscape, as was the case with one of modern art’s most famous obsessives, Paul Cezanne, around whom Magnus Quaife’s solo show is framed.

In conjunction with the opening of the Liverpool Biennial this weekend, Liverpool Contemporary Arts Fair launches at World Museum today. The event is Britain’s newest international art fair, showcasing work by artists from over 50 international galleries.

During the evening of Friday 27 June and the following Saturday afternoon, the artists of Bow Road Studios in London opened their private working spaces and courtyard to the public.

For the London Design Festival, Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert has joined forces with Champagne Perrier-Jouët to create a unique glass piece called Human Nature to be installed at the V&A.

Votes have been counted for the Aesthetica Art Prize People’s Choice Award, and we are delighted to announce that Sybille Neumeyer is the winner. Her work refers to the endangerment of bees.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is open for entries, with a new prize of £5,000 for the Main Prize Winner in addition to group exhibition, publication in an anthology of 100 top emerging artists and editorial coverage in the magazine.

The theme for the fifth edition of PhotoIreland Festival is Truth, Fact, Fiction, Lies. Looking at how photography is used for storytelling, the festival presents 27 photographers exhibiting in various venues around the city centre.

Louise Alexander unveils Arik Levy’s first solo show at the gallery. Uncontrolled Nature features a collection of new work in combination with older pieces and Levy showcases a range of sculptures that exist like a trail of landmarks.