Selling a Dream
Journey into a time capsule of luxurious images from 1910 until the 1970s through 250 prints from Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and Deborah Turbeville.
Journey into a time capsule of luxurious images from 1910 until the 1970s through 250 prints from Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and Deborah Turbeville.
Following the inaugural Design Shenzen in 2023, the second edition of the fair returns this March with special exhibitions that embrace outstanding design.
From Latin American innovation in the 20th century, to the legacy of Enzo Mari, we round up five shows that showcase the importance of design today.
The “Acts of Resistance” exhibition offers a survey of changing approaches to feminist protest over the past decade through the work of 16 artists.
We round up five captivating shots from this year’s Open and Professional finalists, from spellbinding portraiture to ethereal architectural compositions.
Simon Phipps’ monochrome images chronicle the post-war architectural heritage of Wales. His new photobook is a bold celebration of Brutalism.
In 2023, Gareth Phillips was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize for his sculptural photobook. We catch up with the artist on his newest show.
Meet the Shortlist | We caught up with Thomas Jenkins about the complex ideas behind his project Chasing Colour and how it’s meant to be viewed.
David van Dartel’s photography focuses on friendship and masculinity, showing moments of tenderness between subjects in soothing landscapes.
Historic house and art gallery Compton Verney celebrates its 20th anniversary with a major new sculpture park spread across 120 acres of land.
Future Gaze is an exhibition showcasing the work of eight photographers who illustrate the threads connecting culture, innovation and tradition.
We spotlight creatives from the Aesthetica Art Prize longlist who create installations. These pieces examine themes like animal rights and ownership.
Meet the Shortlist | Kriss Munsya tells us about the symbolism behind “Genetic Bomb” and how the series confronts colonialism and patriarchy.
“We are part of the environment. We too are of the soil and the elements.” Enuma Okoro curates Hauser & Wirth’s latest exhibition ‘The Flesh of the Earth.’
The Museum of Modern Art brings together the most comprehensive Joan Jonas retrospective to date in the US, spanning more than 50 years’ work.
Aesthetica brings together a list of shows that consider themes like memory and heritage and reinvigorate audiences’ experience of space.
Meet the Shortlist | Edgar Martins’ series ‘I’m Still Here’ is the product of research with prisons and legal medicine institutes based in conflict zones.
What attracts us to street photography time and time again? Eighteen talented contemporary image-makers explore this question in “Street Life.”
Moderna Museet, Sweden, presents ‘Unhealed’ a mixed-media exhibition that brings together the work of artists in the Arab World and its diaspora.
This International Women’s Day, we bring you a list of exhibitions from around the world that celebrate pioneering artists across the ages.
Meet the Shortlist | Sigita Silina is a visual artist whose film explores the future possibility of collective society colliding with technology.
Johny Pitts curates an Haywood Gallery exhibition that focuses on working class British life, turning a viewer’s gaze to history, memory and culture.
Aïda Muluneh’s extraordinary work over the past decade is on display in what is her most comprehensive solo show in Europe to date.
FotoFest Biennial features works by international artists that explore how communities are influenced by social, ecological and other systematic forces.
Riken Yamamoto has been named as the recipient of the annual architectural prize for his projects that bridge the gap between private and public spaces.
Works by David Uzochukwu, Djeneba Aduayom, Helene Schmitz, Ori Gersht and Yan Wang Preston explore our relationship with nature.
Meet the Shortlist | Kenji Ouellet discusses the film “Contrapunctus V” and shares key insights into his experimental and ambiguous work.
Australia’s largest International Photography Festival offers 100 exhibitions, spanning regional, international and Indigenous image-making.
Andrea Torres Balaguer embodies distinct characters in her captivating self-portraits. Here, the photographer tells us more about her work.
In London, V&A’s architecture exhibit shows how, in the context of decolonisation, Tropical Modernism was harnessed to shape ideas of nationhood.
Meet the Shortlist | We talk to British-Ghanaian artist Heather Agyepong about her series ‘ego death’ as inspired by Carl Jung’s concept of ‘The Shadow.’
Aleppo-born artist Iyad Rahwan is based in Berlin. Drawing upon his work as a computer scientist and director of the Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines, his art explores the evolution of AI and its relationship to the human condition.
Yuliia Dzhurenko is a Ukrainian artist whose work is exhibited throughout Asia and Europe. Continuous learning forms the basis of expression in which self-portraits reflect a state of mind. Each piece reveals emotions and sentiments such as irony, loneliness and sensuality.
Pixy Liao’s solo show at Blind Spot Gallery brings together over a decade’s worth of work exploring unconventional elements of gender, sex and love.
Truth Told Slant is an exhibition where contemporary documentary photographers look at the world in ways that are critical, but never detached.
Meet the Shortlist | Antonia Luxem’s film and multidisciplinary work stems from ideas of human perception, dream, anxiety and queer identity.
Mexican-British artist Mónica Alcázar-Duarte speaks about her new show in London. It is rooted in western society’s obsession with technology, speed, expansion and accumulation.
Athina Pappa aka Felix Felis is a Greek artist and illustrator. She explores symbolism and escapism and often references nature and the female. She notes: “I would like for my pieces to be perceived as visual rituals frozen in time that wish to restore the divinity of the female and bring back the equality in the male-female dipole.” Pappa’s work has been exhibited in Europe and the USA. Upcoming events include a solo show at Chalkos Gallery, Thessaloniki in March.
Shepard Fairey is a major figure in street art. For Frieze LA, he’s teamed up with LG OLED to bring his socially-aware graphic works into the virtual realm.
How does a photograph shape our understanding of past, present and future? Foam Talent’s 2024-2025 twenty artists engage with this crucial question.
Multimedia artist Refik Anadol creates digital, large-scale public installations that present real-time generative environments made with AI.
Meet the Shortlist | We asked electronic musician, Mo H. Zareei about some of the ideas that inspired his sound-sculpture Material Sequencer.
Wangechi Mutu’s film ‘My Cave Call’ shows at Saint Louis Art Museum, presenting a mesmerising tale of knowledge, myth and Kenyan oral histories.
Discover photographers from the Aesthetica Art Prize 2024. These creatives explore themes of identity, loss and solitude through striking visuals.
Edward Burtynsky’s exhibition reveals the impact of industry and calls us to reflect on the environmental cost of unbridled development.
Meet the Shortlist | JeeYoung Lee reinterprets her psychological world into elaborate stage sets, which roots her fantastical photography in reality.
Olufemi Olaiya is part of a wider movement by contemporary creatives to redress the balance of history, how it is packaged and how it is told.
Meet the Shortlist | Donna Mclean is interested in beauty, polarity and unease as demonstrated in her miniature oil paintings of atomic bomb explosions.
Sarah Sze presents a mesmerising solo show at Nasher Sculpture Centre, inviting viewers into a collection of new, immersive and site-specific works.
Meet the Shortlist | Caroline Jane Harris’ fragile hand-cut pictures reflect an anxiety around the decline of physical images in the digital realm.