Glasgow International Festival’s seventh edition opens on 8 April 2016. Directed by Sarah McCrory, the 2016 programme is comprised of new works, site-specific commissions and events across the city.
Focused on a series of sculptures from a crucial decade in Alberto Giacometti’s life, this London show provides a deep insight into the development of the Swiss sculptor and painter’s practice.
Whitechapel Gallery’s Electronic Superhighway brings together over 100 works to show the impact of computer and Internet technologies on artists from the mid-1960s to the present day.
Carolina Amaya is a visual artist from Colombia. She works with mixed media materials such as textiles, photography, oil and acrylic, exploring the subject of dreams, intuition and other ways of life.
International Pop navigates a fast-paced world packed with bold imagery, revealing a vibrant period shaped by social, political, and cultural changes.
Kunsthal Rotterdam’s exhibition Astonish Me!, is a collaboration with Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, and includes more than 300 never-before exhibited works, including prints and photomontages.
Dean Melbourne unveils his second solo show in London this February at Gallery 8. Curated by Coates and Scarry, the exhibition showcases Melbourne’s most recent paintings and works on paper.
Returning for its second year as part of Dubai Art Season, World Art Dubai will take place from 6-9 April at the Dubai World Trade Centre and will showcase a global collection of more than 3,000 paintings, sculptures and photographs.
CFCCA Manchester is currently showing Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground, a novel written in a universal language of icons, alongside a recreation of the artist’s studio: we explore the exhibition.
The Aesthetica Art Prize celebrates the work of emerging and established artists from around the world, championing excellence in art across a range of media. Olga Woszczyna was longlisted with her work Entity III, which is influenced by contemporary architecture and goldsmithing. She is inspired by cities with their variety of cultural and design influences and the art of jewellery.
This winter, David Zwirner, New York, hosts an exhibition of new work by Scottish artist Karla Black, the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.
Emotional Supply Chains addresses the construction of individual identity in the digital age, with a selection of works that have all been drawn from the Zabludowicz Collection and produced since the year 2000. Including six new commissions, the show features 16 leading international artists.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens a comprehensive solo exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg in the vast halls of the gallery space in Paris Pantin.
We explore the first UK solo presentation of works by Betty Woodman, one of the most important contemporary artists working with ceramics today, including a number of new mixed media pieces.
20th century sculptor Giacomo Manzù is best known for delicate and moving work focusing predominantly on portraiture and religious imagery. We review his current exhibition at the Estorick Collection.
Vienna-based manufacturer WOKA reproduces iconic lamp designs from the early 20th century, including pieces by the Wiener Werkstätte and the Bauhaus, which have fallen out of production.
Curated by Nate Hitchcock and Annette Doms, UNPAINTED lab 3.0 celebrates new art forms across four days in the city of Munich.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s exhibition Roman Vishniac Rediscovered, reveals the full range of Vishniac’s radically diverse body of work, much of it only recently discovered.
The Aesthetica Art Prize is now open for entries. We rediscover Alexandra Vacaroiu’s work in film, which featured in the Video, Installation & Performance strand of the Art Prize 2015 Longlist.
We review Australian psych-pop band Tame Impala’s sold out, accomplished recent live show at Alexandra Palace, London, which was nothing short of regal rock, filled with enraptured gig-goers.
The British Council and the British Fashion Council showcase innovative work by emerging fashion designers from 24 countries in Fashion Utopias.
Design Shanghai returns for its fourth iteration from 9-12 March. Taking place at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, this year’s fair promises to feature work from over 300 product and design brands.
White Cube Mason’s Yard presents an exhibition of paintings by Korean artist Park Seo-Bo, best known for his Ecriture series of the late 1960s. We review the show, which traces the works’ origins.
YSP hosts the first UK museum exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist KAWS, whose practice includes painting, sculpture, design and more.
In over 100 photographs, sketchbooks and ephemera, this exhibition explores the motivation behind Saul Leiter’s work and is the artist’s first major show in a British public gallery.
The Premiums: Interim Projects 2016 show features the work of artists at the midpoint of their studies at the Royal Academy Schools. We speak to exhibiting artists Adam Shield and Richie Moment.
Mazzoleni London brings together two of artist Piero Manzoni’s most well known series of works, the Achromes (1957–1963) and the Linee (1959–1963).
Roughly a century after the production of the first animated film, the Hirshhorn Museum takes stock of the current state of the art form and considers what it can reveal to us about the information age.
Ana Mendieta: Experimental and Interactive Films is the first full-scale gallery exhibition dedicated to the artist’s filmworks in New York.
Guggenheim Bilbao displays a selection of innovative sculptural works developed by Louise Bourgeois over the course of two decades.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, presents Lost Downtown, the gallery’s first solo exhibition by acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar (1934-1987).
For the first time in over 20 years, Hamiltons Gallery, London, is presenting the work of esteemed photographer Hiro. This retrospective is just a small selection from his diverse and dynamic ouevre.
Since 2012 Sonica has delivered a year round, international programme of sonic and visual art, culminating in a bi-annual festival in Glasgow and now, a two-day travelling show at London’s Kings Place.
Sarah Smith’s As the Crow Flies was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2015. Her photography concerns itself with the continuous search for something that is elusive and unattainable.
Rodney Graham’s debut exhibition at Lisson Gallery, Milan, features the work of a hypothetical artist lost to history, casting himself as the maker of abstract sculptures and paintings.
Through the manipulation of various materials, Michele Mathison transforms everyday objects into charged artistic declarations.
Turner Contemporary launches its 2016 season with a show by Joachim Koester. This display offers a unique opportunity to see JMW Turner’s watercolours juxtaposed with Koester’s films.
Pace gallery, London, is currently hosting The Calder Prize 2005–2015, an exhibition exploring the enduring impact of sculptor Alexander Calder through the work of six contemporary artists.
The Aesthetica Art Prize is now open for entries: rediscover the work of filmmaker Cecilia Stenbom, who featured in the Video, Installation & Performance strand of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 Longlist.
Bridget Smith revisits an early fascination with the architecture and aura of cinema spaces in The Eye Needs A Horizon at Frith Street Gallery, London.
The Walker Art Center and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago unveil plans for a major survey, entitled Merce Cunningham: Common Time, due to open in February 2017.
Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern will examine the relationship between photography and performance, from the invention of photography in the 19th century to the selfie culture of today.
Albers & the Bauhaus at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, will focus on the world-changing designs that emerged out of the revisionist school.
Park Seo-Bo receives his first solo show in the UK at White Cube. Widely considered one of the leading figures in contemporary Korean art, he is best known for his Ecriture series of paintings.
In February 2016, Lazarides will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a group exhibition from the gallery’s most celebrated and pioneering artists. Steve Lazarides discusses the gallery’s future.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Erwin Wurm’s Lost. The show features Wurm’s latest works, in which materiality played a significant role throughout the different steps of their conception.
Timothy Taylor Gallery hosts a showcase of work by Simon Hantaï – a prominent artist recognised for his invention of the pliage method in 1960.
The Indivisible Present is the first exhibition in KALEIDOSCOPE, a year long programme of unfolding exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford in 2016.
Katrina Palmer’s The Necropolitan Line at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, presents writing and sound as sculpture, exploring real and imagined sites, whilst weaving together fact and fiction.
The highlight of the Red Africa season, Things Fall Apart at Calvert 22 presents reflections on African connections to the Soviet Union and related countries. Artist Yevgeniy Fiks discusses the exhibition.
