Fabio Lattanzi Antinori’s Fortune Tellers investigates negotiation with information systems. The piece is shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2018.

Art Beijing returns, celebrating China’s rich artistic landscape and engaging with themes such as digitalisation, sustainability and community.

Beirut Design Week 2018 responds to the theme of Design and the City, reflecting the city’s ever-changing urban landscape.

Thames and Hudson’s The Spirit of Bauhaus historicises the movement’s origins, reminding readers of the roots which led to an ongoing legacy.

Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2018, Shauna Frischkorn contemplates how photography acts as a tool to evaluate the world around us.

What does it mean to be in suspense? A collective show from Le Bal, Paris, offers a thoughtful and provoking take on the matter.

Sam Johnson finds satisfaction in creating beauty through perceivable mundanity. The images introduce viewers into Jungian landscapes.

Exhibitions opening towards the end of April encompass the breadth of contemporary photographic practice.

German photographer Michael Wolf’s first complete photographic series goes on display at Flowers Gallery, London.

The arts industry, like any other, still carries a certain amount of imbalance. Ahead of Future Now, Amira Gad, Serpentine Gallery, looks directly at the issue.

The design for the new National Museum of Qatar by Jean Nouvel is inspired by the desert rose, featuring a series of interlocking discs.

The digital age has changed our perceptions of physical space. Leading practitioners swap traditional media for the language of technology .

Trevor Paglen’s practice reflects on surveillance, shedding light on state operations whilst engaging with its impact on everyday life.

Ben Dobson (his work appeared in the June / July issue) co-organised the SciArt Exhibition in Cambridge. We ask him about his work, prepared with skill for the microscope and camera.

A solo show of works by Trine Søndergaard at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, offers dialogues between past and present.

Daniel Alexander’s series, examines the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, considering its enduring legacy.

Hand-cut line by line, Jukhee Kwon’s Babel Library is created from disposed editions of Encyclopedia Britannica. Transforming whole objects into another through deconstruction, brings them back to life…

The vastness of the Scandinavian landscape is highlighted in Norway Contemporary! currently on show at Museum Kunst der Westküste.

Work by Guido Guidi examines the geometric structure of the built environment through an abstracted visions of colour and form.

Barbican Centre runs concurrent exhibitions of work by documentary photographer Dorothea Lange and British artist Vanessa Winship.

Large format photographers from the 1960s and 1970s granted Matt Porch his main inspiration – the resulting works both glamourise and simplify streets.

Known for a bold and playful use of colour and form, graphic artist Camille Walala creates interactive installations and large-scale murals.

Encompassing 40 photographs, Silver Lake Drive is a major new exhibition that marks the first mid-career survey of Alex Prager at The Photographers’ Gallery.

Set against the backdrop of rural Japan, Carine Thévenau’s series documents the structural ephemera of empty playgrounds in winter.

It is less than a month to go until the Future Now Symposium, a two day event which brings together leading arts organisations.

For the April / May issue of Aesthetica, Sailor Jerry called for artists to submit flash illustrations that reflected the brand. The winners are announced.

In Their Own Form brings together photographic and video works exploring a range of Afro-Diasporic experiences.

Museum of Contemporary Photography considers the ongoing history of National Parks by delving into its photographic archives.

Adelaide Damoah’s practice involves using her body as a “living paintbrush” to paint or print onto various surfaces. Damoah discusses her series.

Stefanie Moshammer combines fiction and reality, tapping into key contemporary questions about the nature of truth in the digital age.

A new exhibition of works by Viviane Sassen at the Hepworth Wakefield offers fragmented compositions and hyperreal landscapes.

Between 1976-1991, documentary photographer Tish Murtha recorded the lives of communities in the North East of England.

An exhibition of work by Yto Barrada at Pace/MacGill Gallery features a photographic project created in the artist’s hometown, Tangier.

A series of photographs by Andrew Jackson explores the identities of migrants from Jamaica, investigating ideas of memory and family.

Harry Gruyaert was one of the first European photographers to embrace the potential of colour. His iconic work is on show at Fotomuseum Antwerp.

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt highlights photographers working at the forefront of environmental awareness.

Key fairs, awards and solo shows running 21-22 April celebrate the diversity of human experience through innovative practice.

The cinematic images of photographer Todd Hido are both compelling and melancholy, drawing upon memories of vanished suburban neighbourhoods.

The World Photography Organisation announce the overall winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2018.

Anja Niemi returns with an uncanny series that lookg at the iconic image of the cowboy, a symbol largely drawn from the myths of wild west movies.

French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili creates films, photographs, video installations and prints that explore migration and displacement.

A show investigates the relationship between biological and architectural forms, drawing comparisons that link nature and technology.

Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten’s most recent body of work is inspired by the River Thames and its historical significance.

Launching as part of Milan Design Week, BEEM, a new collection of LED lamps looks to the future through an engagement with notions of form.

Set against the backdrop of a changing cultural landscape, Ffotogallery retraces 40 years of history by delving into the archives.

A new piece by artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, Fly Paper, opens The Stores’ new exhibition studios in Berlin.

Ahead of a panel discussion at Future Now, Jasmina Cibic explores how artists’ film is establishing itself as a standalone genre that reflects social attitudes.

Solar Gate, a new 10-metre high sundial, uses solar alignment to mark significant times in Hull’s cultural history.

Blurring the lines between artificiality and reality, Noémie Goudal combines sublime natural landscapes with staged interventions.

A collaboration between MVRDV and Bvlgari at Milan Design Week challenges the rules of design by offering a 360 degree experience.