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Historic Resonance

Carnegie Museum of Art presents the work of 60 Black photojournalists, who captured both iconic figures and everyday life between 1945 and 1984.

LagosPhoto Biennial 2025: The Expanding Horizons of Photography

LagosPhoto Biennial 2025 explores the theme of ‘incarceration,’ asking how images can expose, resist and reimagine modern systems of confinement.

Playful Disruption

Staged scenes from Margeaux Walter are built on location, taking everyday household objects out of their usual context to create an uncanny effect.

Renewed Viewpoint

A year in the Sonoran Desert is charted through billions of captured data points, illuminating the beauty and fragility of a well-known landscape.

Shaping Elements

Lachlan Turczan, one of this year’s Lumen Prize finalists, experiments with natural phenomena in order to shape multisensory installation artwork.

Latent Memories

Albarrán Cabrera’s photographs traverse luscious, light-drenched forests and lakes, where sunbeams dapple through tree branches and over the water.

Garden Up Close

Marine Lanier’s Le Jardin d’Hannibal series is set in one of Europe’s highest botanical gardens, home to a variety of plants from the largest mountains.

Evoking Paintings

Cristina Spagnolo showcases crisp photographic portraits and nature images inspired by the light, detail and form of art from the 1500s and 1600s.

Visuals Dissolve

Tommy Goguely’s glitch-like abstractions emerge via a process of damaging camera sensors, where colours smear, crack and split across every page.

Silent Interiors

Architecture is Satijn Panyigay’s subject of choice, creating brooding depictions of empty buildings and cinematically-lit homes under construction.

A Wider Lens:
The October / November Issue

This issue addresses our tense current moment, featuring artists who respond to today’s division and turbulence, calling for action and connection.

Encoded Messaging

In Vienna, a major Brigitte Kowanz retrospective reflects on society’s rapid virtualisation, as well as the transformative impact of the information age.

A Major Reopening at
National Railway Museum

This September, the museum celebrates 50 years. It marks the anniversary with a major reopening: Station Hall, a gallery dedicated to railway life.

Top Five Exhibitions for October

Our top shows for October spotlights artists and creatives who examine identity, heritage and community in a world that is in constant flux.

Reimagined Landscapes

Photographer Daniel Mirer disrupts the myth of the American West, bringing conversations about climate change and colonialism into the picture.

Marina Abramović:
Body as Canvas, Self as Art

Saatchi Yates presents the iconic work of Marina Abramović, an artist who has changed the landscape of contemporary art over the past five decades.

Lines of Belonging: MoMA’s Reimagining of Photography

New Photography marks its 40th year with a bold vision that unites 13 artists from Johannesburg, Kathmandu, New Orleans and Mexico City.

Challenging Narratives

Yuki Kihara’s renowned series Paradise Camp is now on display at The Whitworth, Manchester, presenting a vital recentring of queer, Indigenous voices.

Resonances of Resistance:
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s new installation unfolds as songs, poems and the daily resistance of prisoners in the occupied West Bank.

British Art Fair 2025:
Tradition & Innovation

British Art Fair returns this November with an ambitious programme that reconsiders the historic canon and spotlights bold and innovative new artists.

Poulomi Basu:
Always Coming Home

Focal Point Gallery brings together performance, photography, sculpture, sound and moving-image intertwine to create immersive environments.

Reckoning with the Past

Victoria Miro presents two key works from artist Stan Douglas, which ask audiences to consider the intersections of race, class and colonial history.

Getting Lost

A new exhibition at Castlefield Gallery brings together artists who explore what it means to get lost and what we can discover when we lose our way.

The Presence of Solitude

Val Lee’s poignant moving-image practice reflects on how both personal and collective memory are shaped by contemporary political and social systems.

Redefining Land & Bearing Witness

Two new shows at Art Museum at the University of Toronto presents a dialogue between land, memory and the precarious futures of our environment.

Aesthetica Art Prize
2025 Winners Announced

We announce the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize winners: Tobi Onabolu and Sam Metz, who were announced at the opening of this year’s show at York Art Gallery.

Anish Kapoor Transforms
Subway into a Sculptural Journey

Naples unveils new subway station designed by renowned artist Anish Kapoor, forming a vital part of the city’s bold cultural and urban regeneration.

Storms of Our Time

Prix Pictet returns to V&A for its 11th edition. It invites reflections on the growing volatility of our age, forever poised on the brink of the next crisis.

Portraits of Black Life 

Fotografiska Berlin presents Yero Adugna Eticha’s intimate portraits, which skilfully highlight the joy, resilience and complexity of Black life in Germany.

Somerset House:
Experimentation and Innovation

Somerset House announces its 2026–2027 season, which features artists, collectives and events that continually challenges creative boundaries.

Reclaimed Narratives

A powerful new exhibition at FOMU Antwerp spotlights photography from Palestinian women. Their images are a bold and defiant act of resistance.

Echoes & Evolutions
Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels

Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels is a landmark piece of environmental art. Spruth Magers in New York presents a fascinating insight into the iconic work.

Shaping the Future
of Contemporary Art

This autumn, Aesthetica presents two landmark exhibitions: the Aesthetica Art Prize and Future Tense: Art in the Age of Transformation.

Tyler Mitchell:
Reimagining Black Dandyism 

Tyler Mitchell’s new show at Gagosian, London presents a nuanced exploration of Black identity through fashion, portraiture and visual narrative.

Phantasmatic Screens:
Tiffany Sia & the Poetics of Exile

Tiffany Sia explores notions of memory amongst diasporic and displaced communities, considering how we tell stories of places that we no longer live.

Stepping into Nature

The 2025 After Nature Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize, hosted at C/O Berlin, champions those working at the intersection of art and ecology.

London Sculpture Week 2025: The Capital Becomes an Open-Air Gallery

London Sculpture Week unites five major public art initiatives: Frieze Sculpture, Sculpture in the City, The Line, the Fourth Plinth, and East Bank.

Flash of the Past

A new publication from Penguin looks back at the career of Martin Parr, who has photographed the humour and absurdity in daily life for decades.

Fostering Connection

A new cultural and civic event spotlights nine photographers and visual artists, who reckon with how cultural memory can shape creative practice.

Bradford 2025:
A Legacy Beyond Measure

Bradford City of Culture 2025 announces its closing programme, bringing a landmark year of art and community engagement to a fittingly bold end.

Unlocking London:
Open House Festival 2025

London Open House Festival invites both visitors and residents to step into some of the city’s most iconic buildings that are often closed to the general public.

Five New Photobooks to Read

We bring you five new photobooks to enjoy this autumn. Their topics range from iconic figures in architecture, to the reality of present-day dating.

Encountering New Perspectives

Barbican Centre places contemporary artist Mona Hatoum in dialogue with iconic creative Alberto Giacometti in a groundbreaking new exhibition.

Looking Towards the Sky

Artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul brings together moving image and theatre to create an immersive exploration of time, memory and place.

Framing the Horizon

Helsinki Biennial 2025 invites visitors to immerse themselves in nature, transforming the city’s iconic landscape into a vibrant artwork in its own right.

Ann Hamilton:
Responding to Space

We speak to the renowned American visual artist, who transforms the immense top floor at Salts Mill in Bradford for her largest solo UK installation to date.

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures

A major retrospective at The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates a taboo-breaker and trailblazer: an artist unafraid to confront beauty, decay and mortality.

Reframed Narratives

Ajamu X’s latest exhibition at Foam Amsterdam questions: How can stories of queer communities be preserved when they are deliberately excluded?

Nadav Kander: After Dark

The acclaimed photographer’s upcoming exhibition in London encourages pause and contemplation via three compelling, otherworldly bodies of work.

MPB: The Next Shot –
the Story Behind the Lens

MPB: The Next Shot invites filmmakers to explore the intersection of memory, technology and artistic growth by sharing stories of their old camera kit.

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