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.

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 simultaneously across the museum, placing contemporary art at the centre of the institution, centring 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.

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.

We spotlight five photographers, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, who create vibrant portraits that use colour to form a single cohesive narrative.

The acclaimed artist’s exhibition of photography and film opens at AGO, revealing the weight of history that continues to linger in American landscapes.

A group exhibition brings together eight acclaimed artists whose work explores trees as the source of origin, memory and belonging in human civilisation.

C/O Berlin launches a double showing of works by Stelios Kallinikou and Susanne Kriemann, who navigate military bases and contaminated land.

A landmark photography exhibition celebrating 200 years of Scottish image-making is at Dalkeith Palace as part of the Royal Scottish Academy’s bicentenary.

The programme considers how identity, place, memory and community are interconnected, asking what it means to live through today’s uncertainty.

The celebrated event brings together more than 80 galleries, studios, artist-run spaces, institutions and foundations across the Belgian capital for three days.

Art Institute of Chicago foregrounds 150 works selected from across Lee Miller’s career, celebrating 50 years of innovative and era-defining practice.

There’s more than one way to tell a story. This year’s festival expands beyond cinema to incorporate indie games, podcasts and virtual reality experiences.

A new publication collates photographs of the Thames Estuary made between 2015 and 2024, representing Kander’s most personal body of work.

In Bexhill-on-Sea, a visual arts programme unpacks how architecture influences our everyday lives – featuring Prem Sahib and Gordon Matta-Clark.

Yuange Sheng explores the shifting relationship between structure, material and life, drawing on a combination of organic and artificial materials.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents the Japanese artist’s largest solo exhibition to date. We caught up with her ahead of the show’s opening.

This fascinating group show explores the impact of networked media on our collective mental wellbeing, considering a better, alternative way of existing.

Two exhibitions in Liverpool, Gender Stories and Sir John Akomfrah’s Listening All Night to the Rain, explore how selfhood and history are constructed.

Instante/revelación brings together 13 influential names, active from the late 1920s to the mid-2010s, to draw a portrait of the country’s visual culture.

Cornish Gold, a project made as part of a year-long collaboration with local communities, spotlights the overlooked work of flower pickers in Cornwall.

London Sculpture Week, featuring the Fourth Plinth, East Bank, Frieze Sculpture, Sculpture in the City and The Line, takes place from 19 to 27 September.

The unifying theme of Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Hold to This Earth is the landscape, featuring artists representing more than 35 Tribal Nations.

Now in its sixth year, the Listening Pitch, a film grant by Aesthetica Film Festival and Audible, provides a platform for ambitious, sound-led documentaries.

Compton Verney presents the first exhibition to explore the influential patterns of Enid Marx, as well as her impact on 20th century modern British design.

Baltic presents the first major UK solo exhibition of Chitra Ganesh, featuring a new animation, newly commissioned sculptural works and wall drawings.

The floral motif is at the heart of a new show in Stockholm, filled with lush, emotive images that convey themes of love, fear, hope, life and death.

Chardchakaj Waikawee captures the idea of ‘wai run,’ a Thai concept that refers to a particularly youthful or modern way of existing in the world.