Contemporary chair design exhibition, Make Yourself Comfortable showcases furniture by innovative designers such as Thomas Heatherwick, Amanda Levete, Marc Newson, and Moritz Waldemeyer.

Niki de Saint Phalle’s Mamas are huge, bounding, ecstatic forms, but this major retrospective at Guggenheim Bilbao shows that there is much more to the artist than her voluptuous figures.

Today marks the exhibition preview of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015, with the show opening to the public tomorrow. The exhibition champions excellence in contemporary art from around the world.

Christian Fennesz, Austrian electronic producer and musician, teamed up with Lillevan, German artist and performer to celebrate the work of fellow Austrian Gustav Mahler. We speak to Fennesz.

We delve into the Aesthetica archive and reflect on Bruce Nauman’s exhibition featured in Issue 41. In 2011 Kunsthalle Mannheim celebrated the artist’s 70th birthday with a large-scale retrospective.

The “enfant terrible” of British fashion, Alexander McQueen rose from obscurity to become one of the world’s top contemporary fashion designers.

One of eight finalists, Owen Waterhouse will be showcasing his sculpture Möbius 1.00 in the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition. The piece marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of stainless steel.

140 galleries from 20 countries will converge at Paris’ Grand Palais for a fair focusing on new discoveries, including a plethora of modern and contemporary art, design and photography.

Garry Winogrand has been cited as the central photographer of his generation, named alongside greats such as Walker Evans and Robert Frank. Fundacion Mapfre presents a series of iconic works.

This is Richard Long’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, and a sees heavy exploration of carborundum; a compound of silicon and carbon that Long is experimenting with for the first time.

LUMAS has announced an exclusive gallery event showcasing limited editions of iconic works by the foremost fashion photographers of the 21st century.

After exhibiting across Europe and America, Tom Butler’s latest show builds on the ongoing series of appropriated Victorian cabinet cards. Each subject is transformed as Butler paints each card.

Four of the UK’s leading galleries will host new works by 30 emerging artists as part of the New Art West Midlands 2015 fair. Artists presented have graduated from one of the region’s degree courses.

The late American artist Jason Rhoades said that parking a car was like “placing a sculpture” then Vienna-based Portuguese artist Hugo Canoilas crashing a car must be an act of performance.

As we enter the final week countdown until the Aesthetica Art Prize opens at York St Mary’s, we speak to Irish artist Suzanne Mooney to learn more about her shortlisted pieces Come Away, O’… .

Darren Baker opened summer 2014 and works to promote established and emerging artists. Named after the artist in residence, the gallery breaks down the barriers between artist and audience.

Rikka Ayasaki expresses a variety of emotions using red as her theme colour in a very distinctive movement. Her work is held in many private collections in France, Japan, UK, USA and others.

Anna Lilleengen was longlisted in last year’s Aesthetica Art Prize with her piece Sublime Forest. Based in Yorkshire and Sweden, Lilleengen uses a physical process and deteriorating camera.

Pronoia: Paranoia In reverse, an exhibition curated by Sophie Nibbs, provoked the audience to consider the pressure to constantly pursue happiness.

This solo show from Irish artist Sean Lynch takes as its focus the DeLorean car factory, which operated in Dunmurry, Belfast, for one year from 1981-1982.

The 12th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, in the UAE, curated by Eungie Joo, opened on 5 March to an exhibition of 51 artists that were representative of the region and the rest of the world.

This March artists Marianna Simnett and Lucy Clout, winners of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2015, premiere new moving-image works at Jerwood Visual Arts. We speak to Simnett about her work Blood.

Edmund Clark’s work has always explored politics on a domestic scale, through photography, found imagery and text. The Mountains of Majeed, is currently on display at Flowers Gallery, London.

The crowd of collectors, curators, artists, journalists and cultural aficionados were here for the opening of the studio facilities of the Davidoff Art Residency, the local leg of the Davidoff Art Initiative.

Living and working in Spain, Blacker uses performance, sculpture and drawing to explore themes of symmetry and precision. Her piece The Noble Gases appears in the Aesthetica Art Prize.

Mariko Mori is fascinated by Möbius strips, and in Cyclicscape at Sean Kelly Gallery, creates sculptures which play upon the idea of an infinite loop.

This year marks Zabludowicz Collection’s 20th anniversary and for its spring exhibition the gallery is showing work by collective The Still House Group.

Encompassing film, painting, sculpture and installation, War Requiem explores victimhood and the imagination through thick impasto paintings which transform before the eyes into nameless portraits.

We speak to dancer Kiara Flavin, who plays Young Cathy in Northern Ballet’s transformation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights.

One of eight finalists, British artist John Keane has been shortlisted in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015. Keane’s dramatic Fear paintings draw on archival images from the great Stalinist terror.

Art Fair Tokyo returns this spring. The event enters into its 10th year and to celebrate this milestone event designer Masayoshi Kodaira has produced a selection of visuals for the 2015 fair.

Cornelia Parker is a British sculptor and installation artist who is interested in the potential of materials. In 2013, we spoke to the artist.

To mark International Women’s Day today, we celebrate women in film with an interview with Qatari Filmmaker Sarah Al-Derham. At just 22-years-old, Al-Derham has already directed six films.

NOW at Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, is Michael Craig-Martin’s first major show in Asia. Working as an artist for over 40 years, Craig-Martin was a key figure in the development of London’s YBAs.

With his first London show for 10 years, British artist Hugo Wilson presents a broad spectrum of painting, sculpture, drawing and photography to explore faith and power via various systems of belief.

Inspired by soundscape artist R. Murray Schafer, shortlisted artist Matt Parker’s research investigates the ways in which sound and space influence both our individual and collective experiences.

The Museum of Modern Art is brimming with colour and kaleidoscopic shapes: The Theatre of Painting places works of modern and contemporary Argentine art alongside pieces by Sonia Delaunay.

For China’s biggest design fair, Carpenters Workshop Gallery will present work by Sebastian Brajkovic, Humberto & Fernando Campana, Ingrid Donat, Stuart Haygarth and Studio Drift.

Jason Rhoades, Four Roads at ICA Philadelphia was the artist’s first major show at an American museum. Now, for the first time in the UK, a major exhibition of work by Rhoades will open at BALTIC.

Exhibit Be is an artistic endeavour of epic proportions. Helmed by artist Brandan “BMike” Odums, it is an ode to how art disturbs the waters of our contentment without cornering us with guilt.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. This year’s longlist includes Chilean artist Carolina Redondo.

Dovecot Studios opens a new exhibition of work by Norwegian artist and musician Magne Furuholmen. We speak to Furuholmen about his move into tapestry and how Dovecot inspired the new work.

Walking Legs, is one of Parisian photographer Guy Bourdin’s most loved campaign series. The popular commission is on display at Michael Hoppen Gallery.

The 11th edition of Ceramic Art London, the leading international showcase for contemporary ceramics, returns to London this year to take over the Royal College of Art with 80 ceramic artists.

Since 2011 Sky Academy Arts Scholarships have supported artists under 30 annually with a £30,000 bursary. Last year’s Scholars include artist James Lomax and dancer Eleesha Drennan.

Grace Schwindt’s Only a free individual can create a free society is a captivating feature-length film installation currently in place at Site Gallery, Sheffield and running until 28 February.

Carriageworks is a fitting space to house the grand structures created by artist Zhang Huan in his current exhibition, Sydney Buddha. Viewers are greeted by two five-metre tall structures.

Victoria Miro will be showcasing a selection of international artists at Art Basel Hong Kong. The Hong Kong edition features a variety of galleries from Asia, Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world.

The Tell-Tale Heart, a group exhibition curated by Pilar Corrias (London), Leo Xu Projects (Shanghai) and K11 Art Foundation, will open on 13 March to coincide with Art Basel’s Hong Kong fair.

Antonio Berni: Juanito y Ramona showcases more than 150 works of one of Argentina’s most acclaimed artists of the 20th century. Berni was a well-known public figure by the end of his life.