Urban Living

Aperture’s touring exhibition, Tiny: Streetwise Revisited, provides a moving education about one of the more complex sides of American life.

Questions of Identity

Carolina Arantes’ ongoing project, First Generation, has won the 2017 Firecracker Photographic Grant, an initiative to support women photographers.

Talent Exposure

This year’s Expo Chicago coincides with the Chicago Architecture Biennial and marks a new partnership with Palais de Tokyo and Institut Français.

Balancing Materiality

Ellie Davies, Shortlisted Artist from the Aesthetica Art Prize,has been awarded at the 2017 Magnum Photography Awards.

Building Cultural Milieu

Swab Barcelona brings together galleries from around the world to showcase young, emerging talent in contemporary art.

Colour Intervention

For her first institutional solo exhibition in London, Katharina Grosse creates a new work painted in situ at the South London Gallery. From 28 September.

Revolutionary Curation

Frieze Masters returns this October for its sixth edition, featuring highlights from the last 6,000 years of art history through more than 130 dealers.

Surrealist Reflections

Hawk Alfredson is a New York-based artist born in Sweden. He has worked exclusively in oil for 40 years, exhibiting in galleries and museums internationally. We talk to the painter about his life and practice.

Transformative Topographies

Liza Dracup utilises the Yorkshire landscape as the locus of her practice. A new show at Impressions Gallery offers a series of nocturnal portraits.

Natural Living

Swedish architecture firm Tham & Videgård Arkitekter reveals its latest project: a tent-inspired house poised on the edge of Krokholmen.

Technological Identities

Amidst the information maelstrom, MoMA looks back in time to the computer age, when technical thinking began to guide the hands of artists.

Magnum: Enduring Forms

In Our Time at the Magnum Print Room, London, is a testament to the work, resonance and continued relevance of the agency over the past 70 years.

Disparate Narratives

The fourth edition of Haus der Kunst’s Capsule programme sees artist Polina Kanis expand on a practice consisting mainly of single-channel videos.

Drawing Parallels

To coincide with the opening of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, founding Director Professor Anita Taylor expands on the importance of drawing.

Industrial Nostalgia

Bernd and Hilla Becher systematically documented the soon-to-be-forgotten architectural forms of industry. Sprüth Magers reflects on this inventory.

Next Generation 2017: Reformed Archetypes

Olivia Lynch’s photography explores cyclical natures in relationships and traditional portrayals of female psychosis through rose-tinted images.

The Residency: Spontaneous Practices

Fact Not Fiction Films’ second documented artist in residence, Melody Park,  paints quickly without interpretation.

Identity Tropes

Stedelijk Amsterdam mounts a series of shows this year and next that explore different aspects of the theme migration.

Frieze: Global Footprints

The 15th edition of Frieze London takes place next month, an event with more than 160 galleries that showcases the ambitious visions of contemporaries.

Integral Expanse

Established in 1989, the Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta is involved in a multitude of projects worldwide. Its focus is on collaborative scenarios.

Imaginative Platforms

The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, returns to London as one of the leading fairs that promotes the discovery of emerging talent.

Momentary Lives

Only the Lonely offers a comprehensive survey of William Gedney’s documentary and street work, including his acclaimed series of rural Kentucky.

5 To See: This Weekend

8-10 September. Delving into shows that reflect upon creative methods as multi-disciplinary, reactive and revolutionary in their own times.

Next Generation 2017: Social Arenas

As part of Aesthetica’s collaboration with LCC, Nicola Muirhead is a British-Bermudian documentary photographer and visual storyteller.

Tonal Virtuosity

The diversity of Bruno Barbey’s imagery has shaped his reputation as a photo journalist. Fotografie Forum shows 100 photographs taken across the world.

The Residency: Scientific Approaches

Fact Not Fiction Film’s documentary explores artists in da Vinci residencies. Dr Suzi Morris, blurs the lines between viral landscapes and painting.

Transient Luminosity

Vancouver Art Gallery reflects upon Stephen Shore’s important body of images created during visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982.

Composed Reality

Mirroring Life, a retrospective of the work of influential photographer André Kertész, comes to Foam Amsterdam this autumn.

Textured Expressions

Goldsmithing and textiles have inspired Germany-based Christina Pauls to combine these forms of design. We talk to the artist about her practice.

Categorical Environments

Launched to coincide with the museums’ centenary, IWM’s, London, Conflict Now features opinions of individuals who have worked in areas of conflict.

Digital Insights

Fly-Baden offers new experiences through the discovery of destinations. Using social media platforms to promote journeys into new landscapes, the destination looks towards the future…

Modernist Landscapes

Throughout his 60 year career Roberto Burle Marx designed 2,000 gardens around the world; he also discovered around 50 new plant species.

Urban Mutation

Centre Pompidou-Metz’s Japanese season features an exhibition that pays homage to key architects and urban developments in Japan from 1945 to today.

Channeling Discoveries

START returns to London’s Saatchi Gallery this September, showcasing emerging artists to offer collectors and enthusiasts contemporary expression.

Convivial Space

The 2017 edition of Maison & Objet will explore the theme Comfort Zone. François Bernard curates objects by leading brands in the Inspirations Space.

Naturalistic Inquiries

The Bowes Museum have two parallel exhibitions open this summer, both of which attempt to open up perspectives about nature and create an interactive museum…

Rediscovering Industries

Giant Year Gallery was established in 2012 by Solan Chiu, focusing on the promotion of local contemporary ceramic art at START Art Fair 2017.

Geometric Connections

Marietta Varga reframes our relationship with brutalist architecture. Her images draw attention to the playful nature of landmark buildings in the UK.

Cultural Topographies

Dieter Seitz leads viewers on a journey that begins in the original nomad’s land and ends in the cities of Kazakhstan, the homeland of today’s urban nomads.

Photofairs: New Canons

For the 2017 edition of PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai, the event has launched a new initiative, entitled Spotlight, that highlights the work of Ren Hang.

Complex Perspective

A new anthology, edited by Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton, champions the works of emerging female photographers and offers unforeseen points of view.

Transformative Environments

MFAH continues its series of grand-scale, immersive exhibitions with Pipilotti Rist: two mesmerising works newly acquired by the Museum.

Sustaining Practices

The first Artists Collecting Society (ACS) Studio prize offers a current student or recent graduate the opportunity to cover the costs of a studio in the UK.

Nomadic Darkness

Joel Meyerowitz draws inspiration from the hours of dusk; capturing the stark moments of darkness in neighbourhoods from the 1970s and 1980s.

Revolutionary Politics

Whitney Chadwick’s The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism concentrates on the crucial role of women in the surrealist movement.

Community Landmark

A new iconic landmark is revealed ahead of next month’s Chicago Architecture Biennial. The latest addition to the city is the El Centro facility; a Northeastern Illinois University satellite venue.

Creative Paths

Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration represents a much needed enquiry into the realities of how creative people work.

Environmental Intrusion

Man-Made Landscapes sheds light on humankind’s exploitation of nature through images by Edward Burtynsky, Mishka Henner and Yvon Lambert.

Refined Sensibilities

Hans Hansen captures inanimate things. The objects in his images are isolated and illuminated; form, colour and materials are meticulously compared.

Glacial Visions

The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography hosts the first Russian show of the photographer and environmental activist Sebastian Copeland.