We catch up with longlisted Art Prize photographer D. Bryon Darby, whose work investigates perceptions of place as mediated through technology, photography, and personal experience.

Since Rae’s 1991 Waddington Galleries show announced her as a distinctly postmodern abstract painter, it has been common to consider Rae’s work a delicate play between chaos and order.

Sudden Elevation will be relished both by admirers of Ólöf Arnalds’s crystalline voice, and by devotees of the Nordic modern-folk music associated with fellow Icelandic musicians Björk and Sigur Rós.

Marco Sanges shoots a cinematic world of dreams and drama. Exhibited worldwide, Sange’s clients include Agent Provocateur, Vogue, Sunday Telegraph, Photo, Katalog, Dolce&Gabbana and Eyemazing.

Andy Kaufman was one of those mercurial types that we commonly refer to as a ‘genius’. This is owing to his ability to realise, beyond human experience, a new way to practice his craft.

AFA of SoHo will present a collection of new paintings and sculpture by Joe Sorren. The Great Cantaloupe Day will also feature a retrospective of more than 30 graphics and three new releases.

Three new exhibitions have just opened at Margate’s seaside gallery, Turner Contemporary – Carl Andre: Mass and Matter, Rosa Barba: Subject To Constant Change and Turner: Turner’s Perspective.

AWOL Studios provide an artistic home for the burgeoning creative scene in Manchester. AWOL Studios is a cost effective space to an eclectic and diverse range of creative individuals.

British-born, Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean presents her new film project JG at the Arcadia University Art Gallery. JG is the sequel to FILM, Dean’s 2011 project for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

9 Intervals is about dialogue. Dialogue between juxtaposing images, presented on two screens playing in tandem across the walls of Mother’s Tankstation Gallery from 16 January.

Saatchi’s Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union is a broad anthology of Russia’s contemporary cultural offerings. Lightness, is an element scarcely present within this latest show.

Estrangement presents four emerging artists whose practices and nationalities choreograph a sly line between identity, economy, politics and video art history. With work by Samuel Williams.

Kevin Cooley presents his stunning photographs from his Night for Night series in Aesthetica Issue 51. His largescale video installation, Skyward, is currently on show at Pierogi’s The Boiler.

It can be said that art can serve as a universal language. Lesley Dill applies literal meaning to art as a communicative agent by incorporating various forms of language into her multi-faceted work.

Concerned with observing the world, Kevin Cooley captures a profound and intense mood through his treatment of light, colour and object.

The practice of Abraham Cruzvillegas draws on his experiences of growing up in Mexico city, as he creates sculptures that grow from their environment.

Full of flamboyant personality, Garry Winogrand was famed for his street shots of everybody from businessmen to hippies, animals and celebrities.

A survey of light art from the 1960s to the present day at The Hayward Gallery considers the way in which we think about architectural space.

Michael Eastman has spent time in Havana, Paris, Rome and New Orleans, recording in minute detail the distinctive features of each place.

Photographer Thomas Zanon-Larcher blends aspects of film, performance and storytelling in his images, questioning ideals of beauty propounded by fashion.

A major exhibition at the V&A examines the impact and constant evolution of ever-influential musician, style icon and shape-shifter, David Bowie.

We spend some time with shortlisted artist, Damien O’Mara. The photographer will be exhibiting The Trespasser, which depicts suited men in places that are “off-limits” to people in corporate roles.

Juergen Teller’s Woo! is a showcase of the greatest work from Teller’s longstanding, unwavering career. One of the most recognisable about his work is his ability to portray subjects entirely stripped back.

Joy Division’s bass guitarist Peter Hook is in artist conversation at the MCA on Tuesday 5 February. Reflecting on the band he helped co-found and his new book Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division.

Partners in work and in life, Marquis Montes create enigmatic works that draw on many cultural references. Through dramatic staging and invigorating styling, their work captivates the imagination.

Infinity Award winner Viviane Sassen’s visual language is nothing if not intriguing. Her new book chronicles her career in fashion photography through 250 prints.

Drawing on one of the finest and most comprehensive collections anywhere in the world, The Postcard Age presents 400 postcards from the decades around 1900.

Following its predecessor, Sample (2005), Pattern captures a snapshot of the latest designers defining clothes rails today.

This mammoth text is probably one of the most conclusive surveys on the history of abstraction. Exploring its inception and development, this book brings together key works and artists from the period.

In People Apart, the simultaneous historical depth and phenomenological presence of Bryan Heseltine’s photographs are the soul of the work.

In a world of outrageous colours, glitter and Anna Dello Russo, the designers of clear lines and minimal shapes stand apart as intriguing and desirable.

Sprinklings of hushed vocals meet a psychedelic drive worthy of Daft Punk, as the energy is high from the beginning.

Now signed to the highly regarded One Little Indian, Carroll’s latest album marks a turning point, as the label will also be reissuing his first four albums.

Combining a cupboard full of instruments, choral layers and electronic blips, Klak Tik’s second album is the perfect balance of deafening calamity and peaceful clarity.

Keaton Henson’s backstory is so fascinating that there is a tiny risk of it overshadowing the music, but once immersed in his new album, Birthdays, there is no need for concern.

Opening with the provocative question “Are you there?”, HK119 responds to her audience’s presence with a twisting tale of howling vocals and pounding beats.

For their sophomore release, the Dustin Payseur-led Beach Fossils unleash a lo-fi and ethereal studio album worthy of the Brooklynite’s stellar reputation.

If you’ve ever loved, this story of an elderly couple facing the unthinkable – one half of their familiar, codependent unit fading away – will touch a raw nerve.

London’s mean streets and the escalating gang culture that eats up our youth are brought to vivid life in Sally El Hosaini’s searing portrait of modern England.

The voice of the film is one of beauty and innocence, narrated by six-year-old Hushpuppy, as she navigates her world of near orphanhood.

The Pool manages to transcend the standard clichés about India – a feat made more triumphant by the fact that the writer and director are foreigners.

Rust and Bone is a deeply affecting portrait of the gradual coming together of two wounded souls, driven by a brave central performance by Marion Cotillard.

Eugene Jarecki, director of Why We Fight, takes a fascinating, gritty look at the American criminal justice system.

Arriving on the art scene in the 1970s, Linder Sterling is known for her subversive collages combining the female figure with objects and nature.

The Harbourfront Centre in Toronto presents a collection of works from around the globe for World Stage, developing dialogues between cross-cultural performance.

The past five years have seen the music video evolve, resulting in stronger and stranger narratives than ever before.

Cambridge-based four-piece Alt-J spent 2012 scooping up the Mercury Prize, releasing their debut album and gaining plaudits from the music industry at large.

The latest documentary from Marc Isaacs explores universal themes of loss, belonging and the search for home through careful observation of one neighbourhood in North London.

In Scott Graham’s debut feature, a father and daughter coexist in isolation and a relationship marked by complexity.

Although its origins date back to 1996, Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando officially opened its doors in Madrid in 2004. It has since concentrated on promoting unknown or little-known artists.