MIT Museum blends contemporary art with science and history to explore how technologies, senses, and media co-evolve to bring the oceans into clear view.

Leonard Pongo has spent the past 10 years travelling the Democratic Republic of Congo, creating work inspired by its traditions, mythologies and culture.

Cécile Lobert’s paintings emerge from a rapid-fire process, characterised by spontaneity, with each mark reflecting a raw emotional response.

Rizzoli publishes definitive monograph on the internationally acclaimed photographer turned Hollywood filmmaker, spotlighting her portraits.

The exhibition explores memory, grief, justice and the voices of Black and immigrant Britons affected by deaths following police contact since 1969.

YSP presents five bronzes in its historic 18th century Formal Garden, bringing together works by artists exploring metamorphosis, mythology and the body.

Arnolfini’s landmark show brings together more than 150 of Gregory’s photographs, films, installations and mixed-media artworks spanning over four decades.

The 70th BFI London Film Festival asks what a film festival can become when the screen is no longer a fixed surface but a space to enter, navigate and alter.

Helen Levitt captured the poetry of everyday street life through play, humour and fleeting moments. City at Play reveals the depth of her intuitive approach.

Cao Fei presents her largest UK body of work to date, focusing on how A.I, automation and virtual life are not speculative but apart of everyday life.

Bristol Photo Festival, the international biennial of contemporary photography, has announced the full programme for its third edition, Time Machine.

The exhibition brings together the work of Laetitia Vançon and Giya Makondo-Wills, whose series are responding to this year’s theme of “On the Cusp.”

Ten of the UK and Ireland’s emerging voices have been announced for the New Music Stage at the BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica Film Festival.

Guggenheim Bilbao displays the two channel video installation Ever is Over All, three decades after it was premiered at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997.

For more than twenty years, the artist has dedicated their practice to making Black LGBTQIA+ people visible in South Africa and all around the world.

Foam Amsterdam’s exhibition questions stereotypes and preconceptions of what a woman could and should look like, and asks the viewer to think twice.

Eli Schlappi’s paintings are enriched by many years of engagement with Chinese medicine, Daoist thought and East Asian calligraphic tradition.

Aesthetica Film Festival returns to York, bringing together over 300 films and creative talent from across the global screen and media industries.

This new retrospective spotlights the photographic archive of Vivian Maier, who documented life in Chicago and New York throughout the 20th century.

Hauser & Wirth London’s two concurrent exhibitions spotlight the works of two iconic artists, placing Sherman and Simpson in direct artistic dialogue.

Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition to explore pictorialism as a global movement, bringing together over 200 rare prints by over 80 artists.

These five photographers, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, create works that play with the visual landscape in new and innovative ways.

The monumental installation, first produced for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2011 and now on view in LA, stands as her defining tribute to the medium.

Smithsonian invites us to consider what the next chapter of American image-making might look like, through the lens of projects from the 1970s.

We caught up with the photographer ahead of a major retrospective opening at National Gallery of Victoria, her biggest exhibition in Australia to date.

Four exhibitions unfold across Groninger Museum, placing contemporary art at the very centre of the institution, presenting a radical, experimental spirit.

A major exhibition opens in Cornwall this autumn, exploring humanity’s relationship with the natural world, from prehistoric times and into the future.

This extensive retrospective foregrounds a hugely influential artist whose genre-defying practice looks at femininity, history, race and systems of control.

The Hammer Museum at UCLA announces its full Fall 2026 exhibition lineup, featuring five exhibitions by celebrated artists hailing from around the world.

We spotlight five exhibitions, on display around the world, that look back at the rich history of street photography and consider its future possibilities.

Rhi-Entry contemplates the abrupt ending of the artist’s planned space mission, and the personal and political ramifications of the sudden cancellation.

The Image Centre in Toronto presents an exhibition of Richard Avedon’s portraits that asks viewers to consider the physical realities of the aging process.

Estonia’s only international art fair dedicated to contemporary photography features 45 creatives who are “shaping the future of photographic art.”

The American practitioner has a particular talent for revealing hidden systems of power that shape the world we inhabit, and this new series is no exception.

Over 10 years, José Antonio Rosas has documented some of the world’s greatest celebrations – from Glastonbury and Holi to Kumbh Mela and Carnaval.

London Design Festival celebrates its 24th edition this September. The event is a defining moment for UK design, and a key part of the cultural calendar.

The artist left a profound mark on the history of fashion photography, largely during his collaboration with Vogue magazine spanning over sixty years.

The first exhibition in Europe dedicated to women artists from Japan, spanning the period from the postwar era to the turn of the twenty-first century.

The Art Travel Book spotlights the power of outdoor installation, asking what art can become when it’s outside of the gallery. We spotlight five favourites.

In China’s Hengnan County, Hunan Province, long-term migration to cities is reshaping family and village life. Huiling Chen documents these shifts.

Spotlighting 10 remarkable practitioners who are redefining our relationship with space, asking how design addresses social and environmental needs. 

The event unites lens-based artists from different parts of the world to approach the timely theme of displacement from multiple angles and perspectives.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens in LA on 22 September, with shows dedicated to showcasing the shared tradition of storytelling through images.

Foam, Amsterdam, presents the bold work of Hailun Ma, one of the most influential contemporary voices in a new generation of Chinese photographers.

The Light, a new gallery in the city, brings together contemporary art and creativity with local history, scientific discovery and technological innovation.

In New York, Sean Kelly Gallery hosts three iconic installations by the artist, who broke new ground in the 1970s with his luminous “solid light” works.

Dublin Gallery Week offers a special series of exhibitions and events that showcase the creative and dynamic energy of Irish contemporary art.

The photographer’s stark images, taken throughout the 1970s and 1980s, made him one of the most influential figures working in British documentary.

The Iranian artist, winner of the Lee Ufan Arles Art & Environment Prize, has been interested in invasive plants and their impact on ecosystems for years.

Over more than three decades, Nadav Kander has created some of the most celebrated portrait and documentary images in contemporary photography.