The UK’s largest annual visual art festival combines work from Edinburgh’s most prestigious galleries as well as artist-run spaces, and new commissions from emerging and established artists.

Taking its title from a line in a Robert Frost poem, America Is Hard To See at the Whitney Museum Of American Art considers more than a century of modern American art in its social context.

Australian artist Julian Day creates simple but evocative works encompassing installation, video, sound, text and performance. His piece Requiem was exhibited as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 showcase at York St Mary’s.

On view in Ikon’s small turret, the Tower Room, is filmmaker and land artist Julie Brook’s Pigment, an eight and a half minute film, shot in a cave in Namibia with three young Himba women.

The latest in Tate Modern’s ongoing evening performance series, BMW Tate Live, sees a gallery transformed into a theatre space for Paulina Olowska’s project The Mother: An Unsavoury Play in Two Acts and an Epilogue.

One of the most enduring fashion icons of all time, Audrey Hepburn has captivated generations with her unique elegance and style. The National Gallery’s current exhibition covers her early film success to her lasting media image.

Images Moving Out Onto Space at Tate St. Ives brings together eight artists, including Bridget Riley and Liliane Lijn, with works of kinetic painting and sculpture spanning 50 years.

Gallery 268, London, presents Matt Gee: Nutri-Artifice, consisting of two bodies of work which resonate in between art and science with a visual language reminiscent of props used in a laboratory.

In a Venetian house in sight of the Giardini della Biennale, Luxembourg & Dayan presents Minjung Kim: The Light, The Shade, The Depth featuring the artist’s paintings from the past 15 years.

Fyoder Dostoyevsky’s The Crocodile was made into a hilarious play for this year’s Manchester International Festival. The bizarre comedy involves a civil servant who is swallowed up by a crocodile.

Multi award-winning photographer Simon Norfolk holds his third exhibition with Michael Hoppen Gallery, showing images taken between 2013 and 2014 in the war-torn Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan.

British artist Peter Liversidge reflects on the idea of the ‘proposal’ in his conceptually-based practice, using analogue and antiquated technology to both initiate and document his artistic activities. We speak to Liversidge about new show By the Book.

Oscar Niemeyer: The Man Who Built Brasilia will showcase a century of the great architect’s work.

Theories on Forgetting at Gagosian, LA, maps evolutions of cultural symbolism through the work of 18 contemporary artists.

A Yorkshire-wide celebration of the life and work of British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro opens this week.

The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, presents the first European solo exhibition of Indonesian artists’ collective Tromarama. Until 6 September.

The Photographer’s Gallery, London displays a new series of works by British artist Julie Cockburn.

The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, will be exhibiting Richard Mosse’s The Enclave, an immersive, six-screen video art installation.

For its first project with ARTIST ROOMS, Aberystwyth Arts Centre will present an exhibition of works by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

We highly recommend popping into Grimaldi Gavin, London, to see Tomoko Yoneda’s Beyond Memory.

Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh presents the first solo exhibition in Scotland of internationally renowned Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, Aggregations.

Robilant + Voena announces the opening of German Photography at its St Moritz gallery. With work from Elger Esser and Candida Höfer.

Richard Long’s career of creating art through his engagement with and movement through the landscape is celebrated by his home city.

This September, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, showcases the work of renowned photographer and multimedia pioneer, Jürgen Klauke.

Hamiltons Gallery, London, presents Polaroids, a diverse selection of colour and black and white photographs from the archive of renowned Italian fashion photographer Paolo Roversi.

The key feature of Fiona Tan’s new show is a re-imagining of the 1950s fairground attraction ‘Jonah the Giant Whale.’ Depot presents a cabinet of curiosities housed in a 71-foot long vehicle.

Phillip Prodger is Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He has joined the judging panel for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize. We speak to Prodger about his curatorial portfolio.

We interview acclaimed Magnum photographers Stuart Franklin and Mark Power, who will be leading the The Magnum Intensive Documentary Photography Course in August.

Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection will feature 60 photographs on view at me Collectors Room, drawn from all periods of her work to provide an overview of her entire career.

Aesthetica talks to experimental singer-songwriter Andreya Triana about her eclectic sound of soul, jazz and acoustic. Triana has collaborated with musicians Flying Lotus and Bonobo amongst others.

Over the past two years, Aesthetica Art Prize longlisted artist Kyler Zeleny has been working on a project centred on found Polaroids. This project has cumulated in a website, Found Polaroids.

Experience the first-ever survey exhibition in New Zealand of moving image artist, Yang Fudong.

The judges for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize, currently open for entries, include Karin Askham, Dean of the school of Media, London College of Communication who established the UK’s first BA and MA courses in fashion photography.

BOZAR presents Chinese Utopias Revisited – The Elephants, a group show with a focus on contemporary Chinese art, opening 17 July.

Five Decades is a comprehensive survey spanning the last 50 years of El Anatsui’s celebrated career.

Les Rencontres d’Arles opens today with a vibrant programme of photography exhibitions and events taking place over the summer until 20 September.

For Ever Amber is the first major account of the AmberSide Collection started by a group of like-minded students at Regent Street Polytechnic.

For the Triennial of Photography Hamburg, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting some 100 works by internationally renowned artists.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, artist Sonia Delaunay celebrated the modern world of movement, technology and urban life.

26 contemporary artists including Thomas Grünfeld and Elad Lassry reinterpret the art historical theme.

Launched in 2007, the biennial Manchester International Festival champions new works across performing arts, visual arts and popular culture.

Tony Cragg’s first exhibition at Lisson Gallery Milan consists of several new sculptures in bronze, wood and stone, alongside a number of works on paper.

Pieter Vermeersch at Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong includes two recent ensembles of oil-on-canvas gradient fades and a wall painting installation.

This thematic group show at Foam, Amsterdam, immerses visitors in the dazzling London of the 60s, an era bursting with possibilities.

Passing Leap at Hauser & Wirth, New York takes its title from the name of a complex trapeze trick. A passing leap is a manoeuvre of great precision.

A visionary architect, urban planner, theorist and artist, Le Corbusier made a profound impression on 20th century architectural design.

Venice-based siblings Laura and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana are internationally renowned artists and descendants of the Venini glassware dynasty.

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon, open from 2 July. The exhibition is a rare chance to the works of several leading photographers of the 20th century.

City Lights is the newest exhibition in a series of exciting and educational events happening at London-based gallery Lights of Soho until 5 July.

The late sculptor Ian Hamilton Finlay made reference to literature, pre-Socratic philosophy, the French Revolution and classical mythology, chronicled in a retrospective at Victoria Miro.