York Art Gallery’s Art Walk

York Art Gallery’s next Contemporary Art Walk takes place on 23 April, starting with the Aesthetica Art Prize at York St Mary’s. This event leads audiences on a tour around exhibitions and outdoor spaces.

RSA Annual Exhibition , Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture

The RSA Annual Exhibition is a focal point of the Royal Scottish Academy’s programme, showcasing work from academicians the length and breadth of Scotland. It is now in its 188th year.

Review of Ian Kiaer: Tooth House, Henry Moore Institute

In Tooth House, Ian Kiaer responds specifically to the physical context of Galleries 1, 2 and 3 at the Henry Moore Institute. His overall intention is to find alternative purposes for debris.

Shiver Me Timbers! – Nick Jeffrey Exhibition at Hannah Barry Gallery

Comical suggestion or playful interaction? Shiver Me Timbers! – the title of Nick Jeffrey’s solo exhibition at Hannah Barry Gallery, London – presented a matrix of dry existential humour courted by an ambiguous collision of materials.

Apocalypse Postponed: Nadim Abbas at Art Basel Hong Kong

The opening of Art Basel Hong Kong on 15 May sees the return of the popular Absolut Art Bar, a collateral project that for the 4 days of the fair turns a cocktail bar into an art installation and vice versa.

An Insight into About Time at Maddox Arts, London

Six practices, wildly diverse in culture, generation and medium, are united in their subject: our varying perceptions and measurements of time in the exhibition About Time, currently showing at Maddox Arts until 31 May.

Bill Viola: Passions, Kunstmuseum Bern, Museum of Fine Arts Bern

Bill Viola is one of the leading international artists working in video art. For more than 30 years, Viola has been experimenting with tapes, installations, sound environments, electronic-music performances and TV productions.

YIA Art Fair Open for Registration

YIA Art Fair runs in Paris 23 – 26 October during FIAC. Founded in 2010 the event supports the emerging contemporary art scene. The fair seeks out unique venues to allow visitors to experience special spaces and this year the participants take over Carreau du Temple.

Review of Tim Shaw: Black Smoke Rising, mac Birmingham

Almost a decade after the publication of the infamous Abu Ghraib-tortured prisoner images taken during the Iraq war, mac will this month be exhibiting a first major solo show from newly elected Royal Academician Tim Shaw.

Review of Mark Titchner, CGP London

About a decade ago, it seemed Mark Titchner was popping up in every high-profile group show in London, and this exposure naturally led to his Turner Prize nomination in 2006.

Mark Manders: Cose in corso, Collezione Maramotti

Mark Manders’ Cose in corso is currently on display at Collezione Maramotti until 28 September. Bringing together found, reconstructed and reinvented objects, the exhibition is a kaleidoscopic series of organic constellations.

In conversation with Jurgen Winkler, Longlisted Artist for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2013

Having been selected from thousands of entrants to be part of the 100 longlist for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2013, Jurgen Winkler is a contemporary artist who experiments with form and sculpture to visualise human behaviour.

Science Fiction: New Death at FACT, Liverpool

What does “science fiction” mean in the 21st century? A traditional definition is that it is writing, or other artistic works, that presuppose a technology, or an effect of technology, such as humanity has not yet experienced.

Review of Art Paris Art Fair

This year at the Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, there was a dizzyingly fascinating gathering of art galleries from around the world. China was the guest of honour, after Russia last year.

The Other Art Fair, London

The UK’s leading artist-led fair returns to Ambika P3 this April for its sixth edition. The Other Art Fair runs 24 – 27 April and will feature work by 100 of the best, unrepresented artists coupled with a dynamic program of talks, workshops and events.

Interview with Joon Park, Longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2013

The Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition is now open to the public, showcasing innovative works that push the boundaries of media and engage with key issues relevant today.

Ursula von Rydingsvard, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

The highly acclaimed American artist Ursula von Rydingsvard arrives at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, for her first large-scale survey in Europe. The exhibition, which is the artist’s most extensive to date, features more than 40 works of drawing and sculpture made over the last two decades.

Miroslaw Balka: DIE TRAUMDEUTUNG 25,31m AMSL, White Cube Gallery, Mason’s Yard

Since the 10th Unilever Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern back in 2009, this is Miroslaw Balka’s first solo show with new works in London and his fourth at White Cube gallery.

Winners of the Aesthetica Art Prize Announced

German artist Sybille Neumeyer was announced as the winner of the Main Prize for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 at the exhibition preview last night. Her stunning light installation Song for the Last Queen is comprised of 7,614 bees.

Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition Shortlisted Artists

The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition opens this week at York St Mary’s. Celebrating innovative and outstanding artworks, the display features shortlisted pieces from international artists.