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Marshmallow Laser Feast:
The Hidden World of Trees

Experiential artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast has created a “digital double” of Kew Gardens’ Lucombe Oak, on view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Meet the Aesthetica Art
Prize Alumni: Bart Nelissen

Bart Nelissen takes cloud-like digital images and breaks them into small geometric fragments, reflecting our desire to make order out of chaos.

Turner Prize 2025:
Winner Announced

The Turner Prize 2025 has been awarded to Nnena Kalu, an artist best-known for creating bold and abstract site-specific sculptures and drawings.

Rethinking Africa
Through Portraiture

This show traces how photographers across mid-20th century Africa and its diaspora contributed to broader movements for Pan-African solidarity.

Women Behind the Lens:
Exhibitions Redefining Documentary

This winter, exhibitions across Europe, the UK and USA showcase influential documentarians, past and present. This list offers a snapshot of what’s on.

Meet the Aesthetica
Art Prize Alumni: Sof

Italian artist Sof creates works that invite audiences to interact, shaping and moving the piece to create something that is always in the process of creation.

Breaking New Ground

The inaugural Togo Photo Festival provides an international platform for new and emerging photographers from across Togo and West Africa.

Archives Rediscovered

Jack Smith discovered more than 80,000 of his grandfather’s photographs in the family garage, beginning a project to bring the works to light.

Flooded Worlds & Parallel Realities

In a new immersive installation, renowned artist Hito Steyerl explores multiple narratives united by the recurring and unpredictable element of flooding.

Telling New Stories

We’re celebrating the final installment of our MPB: The Next Shot series, looking back at four stories of what it means to pass on your old camera.

Meet the Aesthetica Art
Prize Alumni: Liz Miller Kovacs

Liz Miller Kovacs’ bold self-portraits draw parallels between ongoing environmental destruction and the societal objectification of the female body.

A Legacy of Light:
Rewriting the Canon

A new exhibition at NGV International spotlights the pioneering contribution of women to photography, featuring more than 300 works by over 70 artists.

Shows to See this Month:
Installation & Performance

Introducing a season of ambitious shows that push the boundaries of experiential art, from the 20th century to today’s technology-driven innovations.

Meet the Aesthetica
Art Prize Winner: Tobi Onabolu

The winner of the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize is Tobi Onabolu. We spoke to the artist about his practice and what it means to receive the award.

Memories of Resistance

A landmark immersive exhibition, part of Bradford 2025, explores how British South Asians carved out new space in society using the power of music.

Quiet Moments

Michael Kenna draws on ‘shin shin’ – the quiet stillness of falling snow – in a new exhibition of Japanese landscapes at The Photographers’ Gallery.

Moment Suspended

Brooke DiDonato’s images stretch the boundaries of what is possible, asking us to look at domestic settings, landscapes and everyday objects again.

Fragile Landscape

Ingrid Weyland harnesses scrunched-up paper as a metaphor for humanity’s impact on nature, overlaying forest scenes with twisted print-outs.

Creative Portraiture

Jordan Diomandé shows a masterful command of natural lighting, shooting at golden hour to capture sunlit reflections and dramatic shadows.

Playing in Colour

The imaginative contemporary photography of Dublin-based Sarah Doyle plays with shapes and colours, to offer up a joyful viewing experience.

Sense of Magic

Cig Harvey engages all five of our senses, with pictures that bring together bright floral motifs, domestic interiors and figures in the landscape.

Reflection:
The December / January Issue

The publication thoughtfully examines recent artistic breakthroughs and experiments while exploring possibilities for the future of creativity.

Legacy in Pictures

In Andoni Beristain’s hands, the camera becomes a tool for remembrance and healing, honouring love and loss through 63 symbolic compositions.

Human Expression

Klaus Vedfelt’s Elevate is an invitation to occupy open horizons, where dancers and acrobats rise and fall, jump and fly, against bright blue skies.

Urban Geometry

Blue tones, dark contrasts and buildings are the hallmarks of Marco Wilm’s visual style, finding symmetry and balance within busy cityscapes.

Routes Transform

Charting one artist’s journey from Florida, all the way to Maine, whilst examining the US landscape, as a site of mythmaking, nostalgia, fracture and longing.

Alejandro Cartagena:
Ground Rules at SFMOMA

Alejandro Cartagena reveals how the camera can be used as a tool to probe questions surrounding urban expansion and public infrastructure in Mexico.

Seeds of Hate and Hope:
Bearing Witness Through Art

A new show at Sainsbury Centre explores how seven different artists have witnessed, experienced and responded to conflicts with powerful artworks.

Witnessing the Ephemeral

Each year, the UK experiences an average of 156 days of rain. That’s almost every other day. It was during one of these downpours that…

Boundless Storytelling: The Visual Art of Lin Cheng

“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” These words from Margaret Atwood, author of The…

Meet the Aesthetica Art Prize
Shortlist: Brendan Dawes

Brendan Dawes is a British artist and designer renowned for his playful yet thought-provoking explorations of data, technology and objects

Movement, Memory and Meaning

Zorg (Yifan Jing) (b. 1998) is a London-based visual artist whose practice is grounded in field research. A graduate in illustration from Goldsmiths, University of…

Winter Exhibitions:
Five Shows to See

Our top five shows this winter encourage audiences to see the world from new and exciting perspectives, rewriting established and traditional narratives.

 The Power of Photography:
Reflections on the RPS Awards 2025

The winners of the 2025 RPS Awards have been announced. It is the world’s oldest photography prize, celebrating the very best of the medium.

Creative Legacies

In the final film of our MPB: The Next Shot series, director Theo Tennant reflects on how his camera shaped his BAFTA Cymru-winning documentary.

Cristina De Middel:
Journey to the Center

Cristina De Middel’s poignant series Journey to the Center, presents a compelling exploration of migration, shared myths and human resilience.

Groundbreaking Perspectives:
2025 Jarman Award Winners

The winners of the 2025 Jarman Award have been announced. This year, the illustrious prize is shared between Morgan Quaintance and Onyeka Igwe.

Meet the Aesthetica
Art Prize Shortlist: Sam Metz

Artist Sam Metz creates sculptures that centre neurodivergence and chronic pain, challenging conventional perceptions of contemporary art.

Chiharu Shiota: Threads
of Memory & Migration 

A new show traces over 20 years of the Chiharu Shiota’s practice, bringing together drawings, sculptures, photographs and huge installations.

Redefining Life

Alive, a new publication from Thames & Hudson, considers the design and technological innovations that are redefining what it means to be human.

Close Enough: Belonging,
Intimacy & Representation

A new show at C/O Berlin presents the work of 12 women photographers from Magnum Photos, whose work questions what it means to be “close enough.”

Staged, Crafted & Constructed:
Expanded Photography

We bring you five contemporary artists who are experimenting with collage, photomontage and digital composition to expand what an image can be.

Meet the Aesthetica Art Prize
Shortlist: Michelle Blancke

Michelle Blancke meticulously uses the camera as a way to preserve quiet moments of wonder and introspection, creating otherworldly images.

Constructing the Past

Julia Fullerton-Batten constructs images that hover between historical record and myth, where the light, costume and gesture expand the detailed narrative.

Behind the Camera

In the next installation of our MPB: The Next Shot series, filmmaker Xiona Li considers how the equipment we use influences our creative paths

The Timeless Power of the Portrait

This year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize winners have been announced, featuring images that showcase character, history and context.

New Music Stage:
Talent & Discovery

We look back at the inaugural New Music Stage, which spotlighted ten bold emerging artists and audiences all-day access to live performances.

Between Reality and Imagination

Konstantin Chaykin is an internationally renowned watchmaker. Now, he’s turning his attention to painting his mechanical creations.

Surrealism in Focus:
Image-makers to Know 

These five contemporary artists continue the rich tradition of Surrealism, creating photographs that give the movement a fresh and modern perspective.

Quiet Resistance

A new exhibition at New Art Exchange presents photographs by Heather Agyepong, who explores rest as an act of personal and political resistance.

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