Known for avant-garde designs which challenge conventional notions of beauty and taste, Rei Kawakubo has redefined the aesthetics of our time.

Anne-Marie Creamer’s Treatment for Six Characters is part of the Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist. See this work at York Art Gallery from 26 May.

The Edinburgh International Festival reveals its 2017 International Festival Portraits series: a collection of intimately filmed interviews with six artists.

Kaleidoscope examines creative modes of practice from the 1960s through a fresh and surprising lens, one bringing into view the relationship between colour and form.

Eunhyung Kim’s Street is part of the Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist. The film is screened at York Art Gallery from 26 May coinciding with Future Now.

During the international festival of photography, Les Rencontres d’Arles, fotofever exhibits 10 artists working in documentary photography.

Ahead of a panel at Future Now on the state of the multicultural world, Laurence Sillars expands on the relevance of diversity in his role at BALTIC.

Cathedral of the Pines evokes palpable tension in glacial scenes, transforming the rural town of Becket into a spectral land charged with human emotion.

The Afkhami Collection of Modern Contemporary Art showcases a vibrant country producing a wealth of vital cultural expression.

We enter the world of technology 19-21 May. Steina & Woody Vasulka experiment with electronic imaging and Mat Collishaw explores VR.

Aesthetica lists 5 Top Restaurants to visit after a long day of thought-provoking sessions at Future Now, soaking up the rich heritage and buzzing culture of York.

The Unforgetting is an exhibition of photographs and sculpture that explores the textures of personal memory in relation to the experience of trauma.

Luxembourg & Dayan’s The End of Collage, curated by Yuval Etgar, is a captivating survey highlighting the breadth of collage in the 20th century.

Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space focuses on the visual, verbal and sonic experiments of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Alongside the inspiring discussions and the chance to network with those shaping today’s art world, is that it takes place in the beautiful and historic city of York.

Curator Philipp Kaiser transforms the Pavilion of Switzerland into an exhibition titled, Women of Venice, featuring Carol Bove and Hubbard / Birchler.

For his new show at Koenig Galerie, St. Agnes, Anselm Reyle has conceived a spacial installation complete with three geometric, kinetic sculptures.

An-My Lê captures current concerns around war and immigration whilst alluding to the past; The Silent General references Walt Whitman’s Specimen.

Cindy Sherman: Once Upon a Time, 1981 – 2011 at Mnuchin Gallery, New York, features more than two dozen works spanning the breadth of 30 years.

Cities have become a malleable arena for artists; Jasmina Cibic’s Tear Down and Rebuild was shot in the former Palace of the Federation in Belgrade.

Richard Mosse’s Heat Maps has won the Prix Pictet 2017. The accolade was awarded by Prix Pictet Honorary President, Kofi Annan, at the V&A.

As part of the 2017 Photo London Commissions, William Klein has been asked to develop a new 18-metre mural for the space.

Art can connect people from a variety of cultures, backgrounds and socio-economic situations. This is called upon as one of the topics at Future Now 2017.

Now in its third year, Photo London has become a powerhouse for international galleries to showcase the revolution of an ever-expanding medium.

Ahead of a panel on the future of photography at the upcoming Symposium, Thomas Dukes expands on the concept of visual arts in the digital landscape.

From 24 July Bruce Nauman becomes the next focus of the ARTIST ROOMS at Tate Modern utilising light and language to alter spatial perception.

Toby Dye’s The Corridor is a love letter to the work of Stanley Kubrick. The video installation has been shortlisted for the 2017 Aesthetica Art Prize.

Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends is the first 21st-century retrospective of the artist. MoMA presents work from six decades of his career.

Anastasia Schipanova represents a new generation of Russian contemporary artists, who mix expressionism, symbolism and abstractionism.

The 16 practitioners who have been shortlisted for this year’s Aesthetica Art prize discuss contemporary themes and methods of working at Future Now.

[Re]construct demonstrates the ways in which artists have incorporated the materials of architecture through works selected by Arts Council.

As a collateral event of the 57th Venice Biennale, the Museo Correr shows 26 of Shirin Neshat’s portraits from The Home of My Eyes alongside new film, Roja.

Lead airplanes dominate a 1500-square-metre space and converse with a series of paintings in Anselm Kiefer’s installation at Copenhagen Contemporary.

A series of new work by Theo Simpson will be presented at the Webber Gallery Space booth at Photo London, from 18-21 May.

As both architect and designer, Dominika J Rostocka sees interior design as a passionately creative process, but bases an ethos around functionality.

Those attending Future Now have the added opportunity of an exclusive invitation to the Private View of the Art Prize Exhibition.

Shanghai Project’s Seeds of Time takes its title from the documentary of the same name, which shares the exhibition’s call for action regarding climate change.

Esther Hovers’ False Positives features intelligent surveillance systems – cameras that are able to detect deviant behaviour within public spaces.

The first major solo exhibition dedicated to the British artist Damien Hirst in Italy since his 2004 retrospective opens across two Venetian venues.

Anne-Marie Filaire’s Temporary Security Zone at Mucem features a body of work that is dense, engaged, rigorous and monumental.

Design Museum marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. Imagine Moscow explores the city as it was envisioned by a bold generation of architects.

At the heart of Future Now is the understanding that bringing artists together encourages discussion, our portfolio reviews reflect this.

On Kawara’s One Million Years (Reading) opens at Venice Biennale 2017, calling upon volunteers to gather and list dates from the future and the past.

The inaugural Nigerian Pavilion comes to the Venice Biennale featuring the work of three leading Nigerian artists and exploring themes of identity.

Joel Meyerowitz: Towards Colour documents a seminal movement away from monochrome into the search for tonal complexity.

Jane Gottlieb’s compositions are a saturated depiction of cities and nature, reworking recognisable locations into hallucinatory snapshots.

Creatives from the 2017 Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist and longlist participate in a closing event at Future Now; hear from this year’s line-up.

This year’s Belfast Photo Festival challenges the colour binaries of pink and blue that are commonly assigned to newborns at birth.

Culture Shifts: Global at Open Eye Gallery explores the dynamic urban landscapes of Liverpool and Hong Kong as the cities seek to redefine themselves.

Sarah Perks (HOME, Manchester) delves into the various worlds of Artists’ Film, and the spaces in-between, ahead of a session at Future Now.