A mask made of mirrors. Shoes formed from pots and pans. Joana Vasconcelos is a leading Portuguese conceptual artist creating sculptures.

Karina Smigla-Bobinski celebrates the first prototype general use computer – examining interactive software through installation.

A house designed for watching the sunset. Mirrored structures standing in the landscape. Not Vital connects architecture and perception.

We live, work and sleep surrounded by buildings. So how does architecture shape our experience of the world? Samstag Museum of Art explores.

COLLECTIBLE Design Fair highlights innovative projects from across the world. Aesthetica selects five talents from this year’s event.

The Sony World Photography Awards returns for 2020, announcing the finalists and shortlist whilst introducing a new Environment category.

Dawoud Bey’s photos capture African American communities from the 20th century to today – exploring identity and representation.

Grayson Perry is a chronicler of contemporary life. A new show highlights the artist’s early works, exploring gender, identity and class.

Henry Moore met photographer Bill Brandt during WWII. A new publication cements the artists’ legacies as British pioneers.

Art has a proven positive impact on our mental health. Wysing Arts Centre invites artists to place works in unexpected locations.

We are living at a time of fast-paced technological development. Cao Fei’s digital art treads the boundaries between physical and virtual worlds.

Viviane Sassen’s ‘Venus & Mercury’ is a photography series is inspired by accounts of the French royal court in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Trees play an essential role in our lives. A new exhibition at Hayward Gallery highlights the importance of the world’s forests through art.

Emmanuelle Moureaux’s ‘Slices of Time’ is a rainbow installation that responds to the Greenwich Peninsula – encouraging audiences to reflect on what is happening in the here and now.

Each day, more than three billion images are shared on social networks. Jeu de Paume examines the production of these photographs.

Photographer Lottie Davies recreates the fictional journey of William Henry Quinn – a character deeply affected by the events of WWII.

Jamal Nxedlana’s images are rooted in an Afro-Surrealist style, “creating an alternative image repertoire to tackle biased views of Africa.”

How do designers shape the way we understand the world around us, as we tackle the climate emergency, political tensions and digital ethics?

Expanding the dimensions of traditional photography, Haser uses paper-folding techniques, collage and mixed media to blur distinctions.

Data plays a huge role in our lives today. Emmanuelle Moureaux creates an immersive installation that assesses how numbers are related to memory.

After half of Claudia Andujar’s family were killed in WWII, she dedicated five decades to photographing and raising awareness of the Yanomami people.

Alex Fruehmann’s dark and dramatic expanses immerse the viewer in the hyperreal, inviting them to revel in the negative space.

Diane Arbus revolutionised portraiture, producing distinctive, direct images that celebrated diversity and humanity. A new show opens at AGO.

Mirror images. Checker-board clothing. Identical models. Twins is an immersion into the eccentric and playful world of photographic duo LM Chabot.

Olga Urbanek’s photographs are clever and considered juxtapositions of form, colour and texture, placing individuals in unexpected scenarios.

Cornelia Parker has spent the last 40 years making installations that make sense of the volatile, violent and precarious world in which we live.

Aleksander Małachowski works at the intersection of photography, geometry and symmetry. His minimal images focus on the spaces that we inhabit.

This year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize highlights how imagery can be used to question ideas of truth in the information era.

Cerith Wyn Evans’ bold, linear neon sculptures utilise light and shadow to explore truth in a climate of fake news and digital misinformation.

The Aesthetica Art Prize returns with artworks making sense of our changing world, responding to digital identities and global constructs.

Yara El Turk is a Lebanese interior designer whose art series Metamorphosis of Reality focuses on mystery by using different materials, which emanates the idea of a persistent mutation of thoughts and emotions.

Amidst a climate emergency, The Art of Earth Architecture questions how natural materials can contribute to a sustainable future.

James Turrell’s latest colour-changing light works, on view at London’s Pace Gallery, offer a moment of quiet in a fast-paced world.

“Photography for me is a ritual.” Graciela Iturbide is considered one of the greatest photographers in Latin America. A new show opens at NMWA.

Saudi Arabia’s new Ministry of Culture marks a turning point in the nation’s history. A new residency programme seeks seven artists.

Federica Belli taps into a quality of light that is filled with narrative and intimacy. Portraits are aglow with shadow and highlight.

“We might not have a future unless we do something to mitigate what’s happening.” Cornelia Parker is speaking at Future Now 2020.

Aesthetica selects recommended shows for late January – offering viewers contemplative landscapes, utopian visions and feminist artwork.

Martin Parr is one of the world’s most celebrated documentary photographers. He will discuss a distinguished career at Future Now 2020.

“Photography for me is a ritual.” Graciela Iturbide is considered one of the greatest photographers in Latin America. A new show opens at NMWA.

German-American photographer Evelyn Hofer created a photographic kaleidoscope spanning almost half a century and a variety of genres.

Louis Draper recognised that photographs can serve as a powerful form of resistance. His images are full of strength, wisdom and dignity.

A year after his release from a Dhaka jail, Bangladeshi photographer, writer and activist Shahidul Alam features at Rubin Museum.

Martin Parr, Cornelia Parker, Nadav Kander and John Keane are key speakers for this year’s edition of the Aesthetica Future Now Symposium.

Aesthetica selects five exhibitions opening this weekend. They are self-reflective and intimate – delving into personal and familial histories.

British artist Bettina Newbery paints fine oil portraits inspired by fashion and popular culture. The past year has seen the creation of works rich in geometric evolutions, portraying modern women.

Studio Ma is currently eyeing up the opportunity to design the world’s first ultra-green museum – a firm committed to buildings that respond to nature.

Do objects have souls? Lee Ufan’s largest outdoor sculpture project in the USA consists of mostly unaltered boulders and stainless-steel plates .

A new Shirin Neshat show engages with the world through lens-based media, demonstrating the power of art to deconstruct the political climate.

For photographer Giorgia Bellotti, forests, fields and neighbouring mountainsides are platforms on which to explore the unconscious.