Featuring in ASFF 2012, Mark Davenport’s Photoshopping is a film about fame, obession and cynicism. From 9 – 11 November Photoshopping will be screened with 22 other comedies at 1331.

The Smalls, a short film community that supports and advocates independent filmmaking, and filmmaker, Ben Charles Edwards have teamed up to collaborate on a short film starring Sadie Frost.

William Klein, an American who has spent most of his life in Paris, can be compared to the Lost Generation expatriate artists and writers such as Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Man Ray.

With less than a month to go, ASFF has just launched it’s new trailer. Featuring clips from a selection of the 200 films set to be screened, it provides an insight into an innovative collection of short works.

The What-Ifs examines the connectivity of art in society and it’s relationship with the environment. Fiona Ni Mhaoilir employs humour to parody the preconceptions associated with academic theory.

This year’s ASFF will exhibit the festival’s strong links with the world of contemporary art, showcasing an enticing and varied line-up of Artists Films and related masterclasses to new audiences.

The differences between Frieze London and Frieze Masters are undoubtedly the atmosphere in which they are housed and the context and authorship of the work presented. Read our review.

Featuring in part of the Drama stream at ASFF Leanne Welham’s film Nocturn is a piece about insomnia and suburbia. From 9-11 November Nocturn will appear in multiple venues across York.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, BFI have teamed up with a variety of rising stars from the design world to produce a limited edition, collectable set of 12 books.

Photographer Tim Walker’s new exhibition, Story Teller, supported by Mulberry, opens today at Somerset House in London. Mulberry managed to get inside the exhibition a day early.

South London Gallery has given “Shelter” to New York-based artist Rashid Johnson’s first solo exhibition in London. Running until 25 November.

Iris Apfel, the iconic 91-year-old fashion muse, is on the cover of Dazed & Confused’s new art special. Shot by Jeff Bark at Apfel’s home in Manhattan, the feature is styled by Robbie Spencer.

Featuring in less than a month at ASFF, Cockatoo is part of the Comedy screening. Produced by Ninja Milk and directed by Matthew Jenkin, Cockatoo has already proved immensely popular.

CHANEL’s photographic exhibition dedicated to The Little Black Jacket: CHANEL’s classic revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, opened at the Saatchi Gallery on 12 October.

First shown in October 1984, Roads to Wigan Pier consists of the work of six then newly graduated students. They took Orwell’s seminal work, The Road to Wigan Pier as their starting point.

Rupert Blanchard creates bespoke furniture from discarded drawers, secondhand pieces and scrap material, but is adamant that his work should not be considered part of the upcycling trend.

During Frieze Art Fair, artist Toby Ziegler in association with Simon Lee Galley, has installed a site specific show in the basement of Q Park, a car park accessed by lift and concealed below street level.

One of the first things Marcus Hammond did when he bought a church in the middle of the “wrong side of town” in Gainsborough, was paint its front doors hot pink. Regrouping, until 27 October.

There is now less than one month to go until the opening of ASFF. The festival will present a sparkling selection of screenings, premieres and masterclasses in venues across the city of York, UK.

Featuring a carefully curated selection of 41 international contemporary galleries, Multiplied opens today. Christie’s will be home to the UK’s only contemporary prints and editions art fair.

With over 175 of the world’s art galleries exhibiting under one roof, Frieze art fair is notoriously exhausting. Somehow this year it wasn’t, which is quite a telling point for the success of the fair.

With ASFF opening in just over one month, Aesthetica takes the time to interview filmmakers screening films at the festival this year. David Fairhead is the man behind The Long Journey Home.

An installation based exhibition, the Moniker Art Fair runs in Shoreditch’s Village Underground from 11 October. Each artist takes up a designated space to showcase and advertise their work.

In 1972, Impressions opened in a room above a shop in York with their first show. As one of the first specialist photography galleries in the UK it has gone on to play a vital role in championing the form.

Gallery owner Steve Lazarides’ latest exhibition Bedlam in association with HTC at the Old Vic Tunnels runs until the 21 October. The Lazarides Gallery relishes in fusing art and the experiential.

Man with a Ball, is opening tomorrow at the Gagosian Gallery. Running until 10 November, this major sculpture exhibition was prepared by Franz West up until his untimely death earlier this summer.

August Sander’s photographs encompass all emotions and circumstances that have long been endured by people of both disadvantaged and privileged backgrounds alike.

For the first time since his death, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, are presenting the largest exhibition of over 100 paintings, drawings and sculptures by artist Roy Lichtenstein.

As the heated embers of the summer sun are suddenly dashed with September’s miserable icy rain an unexpected feeling of excitement and elation is bestowed upon the city of Birmingham.

This is The Turner Prize 2012, in the year of royal jubilation, sport spectacle and debt, where all eyes are on London. Expectations, as always, are high as four finalists’ works are revealed at Tate.

New Sensations is due to open on 9 October. Showcasing the leading graduate talents, New Sensations, developed by the Saatchi Gallery, is aimed at shining a light on the best emerging artists.

Founded in 2008, 830 Sign incorporates streamlining trends with a modern take on classics. Inspired by arts, architecture and anatomy, the collections appeal to versatile and avant-garde minds.

Hockney to Hogarth unites the works of 18th century artist William Hogarth, and contemporary artist David Hockney, who both completed a series of works entitled A Rake’s Progress.

Ben Gold was destined to be a photographer. His fate was sealed when, as a teenager experimenting with his camera, he discovered his family house was once owned by founders of Magnum.

John Akomfrah opens his first exhibition for Caroll/Fletcher this Friday. Hauntologies reveals the virtuosity and depth of his practice, as he considers on disappearance, memory and death.

Alpha-Ville 2012 is opening this weekend. Presenting to their guests both Alpha-Ville Live and Alpha-Ville Screening, this London based organisation is dedicated to the promotion of digital culture.

Encounters returns with an even wider and more diverse spectrum of fascinating films, negotiating subjects ranging from the claustrophobia of captivity to the accidental beauty of the workplace.

Rosie Martin’s DIY Couture is the latest publication to hit the shelves, encouraging consumers to pick up a pair of fabric shears and a few bobbins, plug in the sewing machine and get started.

Long forgotten from the Fukushima disaster, Yasusuke Ota turns our attention to the animals left behind in The Abandoned Animals of Fukushima at Huis Marseille from 3 until 14 October.

Moving Image will be returning to the Bargehouse in London’s South Bank this October. The art fair, this year partnering with Aesthetica, will be showcasing 35 single-channel videos and installations.

Klein + Moriyama examines the importance of the urban environment for two of post-war photography’s most compelling and elusive figures.

The rock and roll lifestyle may be all glamour to an outsider, but rockumentary Hit So Hard shows precisely how one musician paid the price for fame.

Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag celebrate their 20th anniversary. A new book examines their unique fusion of graphic design, art, music and fashion.

Formento & Formento is a partnership between BJ and Richeille Formento. Based in the USA, the pair creates cinematic images that rest somewhere between fine art and fashion photography.

Tim Walker presented a breathtakingly surreal exhibition, Story Teller at Somerset House, which combined the worlds of art and fashion.

A new exhibition at SFMOMA surveys the work of artists from six cities that have become burgeoning artistic centres, exploring the changing nature of today’s international artistic landscape.

Musical instrument designers are pushing their creations in new and unexpected directions. In the process, the instruments themselves are becoming a lot more than just tools for making music.

Picked by arguably the most successful fashion blogger, Susie Bubble, this text lists the most influential writers and photographers of the online fashion realm.

These Things Happen offers such a perfect balance of guitar-rich up-tempo treats and laid-back melody that it’s a surprise to discover it’s Burning Shapes’ debut.

Blue-collar black kid meets snooty white rich girl and they play out their rivalries on the running track. And that’s it. Noel Clarke’s script does what it says on the tin.