Interview: Photographer Osamu Jinguji

Osamu Jinguji was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1962. The photographer originally worked as an actor and model. Following many career changes, he settled on black and white street photography.

Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Open for Entries

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 is now open for entries, presenting a unique opportunity for emerging and established artists around the world to showcase their work to a wider, international audience. Prizes include publication. an exhibition for shortlisted artists, and up to £5,000 courtesy of Hiscox.

Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

Marian Goodman launches its 2016 season with an exhibition by Steve McQueen. The gallery in Paris presents the artist’s latest film installation.

The Museum of Innocence, Somerset House, London

Created by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk as a physical manifestation of his text by the same name, The Museum of Innocence is relocating from its Istanbul base to Somerset House.

Review of Victor Burgin: UK 76, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

We review Victor Burgin’s seminal photo-text series and ideological snapshot of British society, UK76, at Richard Saltoun, which combined a documentary approach with mass media conventions.

Pop Art Design,The Street, the Store, and the Silver Screen, MCA Chicago

Conceived as a complementary exhibition to Pop Art Design,The Street, the Store, and the Silver Screen celebrates MCA’s holdings of seminal Pop Art.

KAWS, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

For the first UK museum exhibition by the renowned American artist KAWS, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is showing over 20 works inside the Longside Gallery and outside in the grounds of the park itself.

Bruce Conner: It’s All True, Museum of Modern Art, New York, & the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Bruce Conner: It’s All True is the artist’s first monographic museum exhibition in New York, the first large survey of his work in 16 year.

Ciara Phillips, What we recognise in others, CCA, Derry

The show at CCA, Derry, is Ciara Phillips’ first solo presentation in the UK and Ireland since her nomination for the Turner Prize in 2014.

Vogue 100: A Century of Style, The National Portrait Gallery, London

Vogue 100: A Century of Style will showcase the remarkable range of photography that has been commissioned by British Vogue.

Interview: Painter Shulin Sun

Shulin Sun grew up in Beijing, China, combining traditional Chinese painting techniques with elements from contemporary American and European art to convey the strength of nature.

Alice Theobald + Atomik Architecture at BALTIC

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and Ryder Architecture is currently hosting the second in a series of new commissions exploring the relationship between art and architecture.

Interview with Liezel Strauss of Subject Matter Art

Dealers Subject Matter Art make contemporary art photography from established and emerging international artists accessible. They passionately believe that art transforms any space.

Agathe de Bailliencourt, Couleurs du Temps, Blain Southern, London

New paintings from Agathe de Bailliencourt’s Couleurs du temps series are on display at Blain Southern, in the artist’s first UK solo exhibition.

Miró’s Studio, Mayoral

60 years since Joan Miró’s studio was founded in Mallorca, the workshop has been reconstructed in London: a detailed work that mirrors the poetic environment of the avant-garde artist’s atelier.

Review: EMERGENCY at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

Currently occupying the main space in Portsmouth’s Aspex Gallery is EMERGENCY, a group exhibition showcasing the work of 10 early-career artists working across varied media.

Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015

Work by the first national Jerwood/Photoworks Awardees, Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska, and Tereza Zelenkova, is on view at Impressions.

Women: New Portraits, Annie Leibovitz, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London

An international tour of newly commissioned photographs by world renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz launches in January, before travelling across 10 global cities.

Erik Parker In Conversation: Undertow at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

Erik Parker continues to critically chart the world’s current political, social, and economic landscapes in the vibrant compositions featured in his current show Undertow at Paul Kasmin Gallery, NY.

Review of Michael Craig-Martin: Transience, Serpentine Gallery

The Serpentine Gallery’s current exhibition on Michael Craig-Martin brings together era-defining works from 1981 to 2015 that highlight the increasing transience of technological innovation.

Bill Viola, Inverted Birth, James Cohan Gallery, New York

James Cohan, New York, presents Inverted Birth, the gallery’s seventh solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed video artist Bill Viola.

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award: Stav Poleg, Shortlisted Poem

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award annual showcases a broad collection of poetry and short fiction by reputable and promising talent, including author Stav Poleg and her poem What Time.

Lisa Oppenheim, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

American multimedia artist Lisa Oppenheim, known for her evocative camera-less photography via the photogram and experimental films, is exhibiting a new series of works taking inspiration from natural woodgrains entitled Landscape Portraits at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York.

Tromarama, Panoramix, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong

Edouard Malingue Gallery unveils Panoramix, the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong of the Indonesian art collective Tromarama.

Tonico Lemos Auad, De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex

Brazilian artist Tonico Lemos Auad brings a lyrical response to the natural environment and architecture of De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex.

Istanbul – Antwerp. Port City Talks, MAS, Antwerp

This show traces Istanbul’s development as a port in the 19th and 20th century while highlighting a number of similarities with Antwerp.

Art Dealer Theo Waddington Discusses Hoyland, Caro, Noland at Pace Gallery

Pace London is currently exhibiting works by John Hoyland, Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland, celebrating the friendship, connections and mutual influence between the three artists.

Review of Qwaypurlake at Hauser and Wirth Somerset

We explore Hauser & Wirth Somerset’s Qwaypurlake, a group exhibition that presents a fictional reimagining of the Somerset landscape, constructing an alternative, dystopian future for the area.

Alexandre Da Cunha, Free Fall, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Following up on Alexandre Da Cunha’s first show, Full Catastrophe, in 2012, Thomas Dane Gallery presents Free Fall, from 21 January 2016.

5 To See in 2016

The New Year is the ideal moment to plan ahead and discover what’s new. An inspiring array of shows are igniting the way in the art world, from Not Vital at YSP to Daniel Buren at BOZAR.

Brian Griffiths; Bill Murray, BALTIC

The vast space of BALTIC’s Level 4 gallery provides the venue for a solo exhibition by Brian Griffiths that plays with scale, size and the idea of measurement. Bill Murray: a story of distance, size and sincerity takes inspiration from the contrast between interior life and public image.

Works to Know by Heart: An Imagined Museum, Tate Liverpool

An Imagined Museum: works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections sees three museums bring together over 60 major artworks.

Don McCullin: Conflict – People – Landscape, Hauser & Wirth Somerset

One of the world’s most celebrated photojournalists, and creator of some of the most unforgettable images of conflict around the world, this exhibition takes a broader view of Don McCullin’s career.

Interview: Photographer Larry Woodmann

Larry Woodmann’s cinematic photographs encompass roadside documentary of America, and his impressions of life on the streets of Milan, his permanent home. We speak with the photographer.

Andrea Büttner, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

The Walker Art Center presents the first US solo show of the work of German artist Andrea Büttner, including a newly commissioned installation.

Interview with Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Assistant Curator, Alexander Calder, Tate Modern

Furthering Tate Modern’s reassessments of key figures in modernism, Performing Sculpture reveals how motion, performance and theatricality underpinned Alexander Calder’s practice.

A Retrospective on Julia Margaret Cameron, V&A

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), one of the most important and innovative photographers of the 19th century, the V&A is showcasing more than 100 of her photographs from its own collection including original prints.

Francesca Woodman, On Being an Angel, FOAM, Amsterdam

Organised by the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, On Being an Angel displays 102 photographs taken by the American artist Francesca Woodman.

Interview with Jonathan Watkins, Dinh Q. Lê, The Colony, Ikon Gallery

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in collaboration with Artangel, unveils The Colony (2016), a major new commission of video work by acclaimed Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê. Opening on 27 January.

Shirazeh Houshiary, Through Mist, Lehmann Maupin, HK

Shirazeh Houshiary’s paintings, sculptures and animations play with binaries such as transparency and opacity, presence and absence, materiality and intangibility, and light and darkness.

Review: Brave New World, DOX Centre, Prague

The Brave New World exhibition at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, is based on a comparison of social models as described by Huxley and Orwell with the work of contemporary artists.

Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London and New York

Flowers Gallery hosts the 33rd edition of the annual Small is Beautiful exhibition simultaneously in London and New York.

Susan Philipsz, War Damaged Musical Instruments, Tate

As part of its ongoing commemorations of the centenary of the First World War, Tate Britain presents a new sound installation by the Turner prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz.

Lina Selander: Moment. Moderna Museet, Stockholm

One of Sweden’s most innovative filmmakers, currently exhibiting both at the Venice Biennale and at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Lina Selander’s work contrasts temporal images to explore the territories between fight and flight, boundaries and ownership.

Dan Flavin, It is what it is and it ain’t nothing else, Ikon Gallery

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, hosts a major exhibition of fluorescent light works by Dan Flavin, one of the most important post-war American artists.

Tibor Reich, Whitworth, Manchester

A new retrospective celebrates the centenary of Tibor Reich, a pioneering post-war textile designer, who brought modernity into British textiles.

Review Gerhard Richter at Dominique Lévy, London

Dominique Lévy, London, is showing Gerhard Richter’s original Colour Charts from the 1960s. At once paradoxical and coalescent, the Colour Charts highlight an important moment in the artist’s career.

Irving Penn: Flowers at Hamiltons Gallery, London

Hamilton’s Gallery, London, is currently showing Irving Penn’s Flowers photographs. The series initiated from an assignment by Vogue USA, and is shown here for the first time in its entirety.

Robert Capa, Capa in Color, Jeu de Paume, Paris

Recently presented at the International Center of Photography, Capa in Color presents Robert Capa’s colour photographs to the European public.

Mat Collishaw, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall

For his largest UK show yet and his first in a UK public gallery for a decade, British artist Mat Collishaw is exhibiting sculpture, photography, film and installation at New Art Gallery Walsall.