Every year Robin Rice curates Summertime Salon, a showcase to exhibit the best of her collected artists’ strengths and aesthetics. Representing 56 artists, one of the most exciting parts of the Summertime Salon is the introduction of new artists and of new work by established practitioners.

The Piano Brothers are not brothers by blood but by divine, energetic and rich music that is accessible to everyone. Bound together by the love of all-encompassing music, Dominic Anthony Ferris and Elwin Hendrijanto began performing together in 2009 whilst studying at the Royal College of Music.

Jeannette Montgomery Barron explores the intense world of the New York art scene in the 1980s. Following her own journey to the city and her development as a photographer, Barron was part of a scene at an exciting cultural crossroads.

Australian Painter Ben Quilty was recently announced as the overall winner of the Prudential Eye Award. A competition that seeks to promote artistic talent that previously may have been overlooked. The painter’s work is now on display at the Saatchi gallery, London.

Allan Storer paints large abstract canvases for architects, interior designers and private clients. His influences include 20th. century abstract artists and the squeegee paintings of Gerhard Richter.

Offering an aspiring and established writers the opportunity to publish their work, the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is a chance to further your engagement with an international audience and develop your writing acclaim in the industry.

As part of the first major retrospective of his illustrious 40-year-career, Anselm Kiefer will create a number of new works specifically for the Royal Academy’s Main Galleries as well as an installation for the main courtyard.

A group of six artists have collaborated to create a unique site-specific exhibition and performance piece on the island of Vardø at the extreme north-eastern part of Norway. Taking place in such a secluded location, only a few made a pilgrimage North from Oslo to experience the work on Vardø.

The Official War Poster Artist during the Second World War, who went on to become the foremost graphic designer of the postwar years, Abram Games was awarded numerous prestigious public commissions during his 60-year career.

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag presents ZomerExpo 2014 Light, the largest national sales exhibition held at the museum showcasing a selection of artworks from an open call registration.

From 1964 until 2002, a unique blend of teaching, student engagement and documentation that took place at Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS).

One of the UK’s most ambitious art exhibitions, the third edition of Folkestone Triennial commissions a number of internationally recognised artists to create a collection of new works to be exhibited in Folkestone’s public spaces under the title, Lookout.

Phyllida Barlow is one of those artists who came under the spotlight after a long career and endless efforts. During the last decade her body of work has rapidly emerged and been showcased across the UK, Europe and the USA.

Huis Marseille in Amsterdam showcases the first retrospective of Guido Guidi. Spanning a 40 year career, Guidi’s work in photography highlights his early interest in architecture and explores the environment around him.

This presentation by Victoria Miro at Schloss Sihlberg considers the use of abstraction and repetition amongst the work of three artists: Conrad Shawcross, Yayoi Kusama and Idris Khan.

David Tweedy graduated from Newcastle University with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art in 2013. He has exhibited in the north east of England, as well as in London and Vienna.

The notion of an entire wing of the Guggenheim Bilbao being dedicated to film and video phased me at first. Though increasing numbers of modern art installations seem to feature moving imagery, never had I encountered a space dedicated to the form.

Laurent Grasso is an artist who divides his creative life between Paris and New York, so it is fitting that in September his work will take centre stage both at Paris’s Galerie Perrotin and at Sean Kelly in New York for solo shows.

Mobile phones, watches and other electronic equipment are forbidden within 512 Hours. Marina Abramović clearly wants this to be a purified environment, stripped of all the amenities that might console the idle mind.

Artistic duo Dalziel + Scullion explore the natural world in their innovative and immersive practice. A joint commission from Dovecot Studios and an Lanntair, the pair to produce Tumadh: Immersion.

With a title which references the infamous Black Dahlia murder in 1940s Hollywood, Last Seen Entering The Biltmore is a group exhibition which considers the idea of artifice and draws attention to the idea of the theatrical “backstage” as a threshold where transformation takes place.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is an opportunity to advance your profile on the international art scene and is open to all artists worldwide. One & Other highlights the opportunities presented by the 2015 Aesthetica Art Prize awards.

A secret garden in the heart of a city becomes a space for rediscovering and celebrating the joy and freedom of childhood play, in a commission which brings together the talents of artists Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan.

Inside the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, works from exciting new and emerging artists from around the world are displayed with an accompanying biography and artist’s statement.

When a nine-year-old girl’s character began to shape a work in progress by Sharon Lockhart, it was the unlikely beginning of an ongoing collaboration – whose results can be seen in a commission for the Liverpool Biennial.

Bob and Roberta Smith’s Art Party is due to open on 21 August. The feature film, produced with director Tim Newton and Stuart Cameron of Crescent Arts will be accompanied by a UK-wide Art Party hosted by key venues.

Art history is replete with romantic mythologies, few more potent than the artist as obsessive maker, working round the clock in his studio or in the landscape, as was the case with one of modern art’s most famous obsessives, Paul Cezanne, around whom Magnus Quaife’s solo show is framed.

In conjunction with the opening of the Liverpool Biennial this weekend, Liverpool Contemporary Arts Fair launches at World Museum today. The event is Britain’s newest international art fair, showcasing work by artists from over 50 international galleries.

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs currently on display on the second floor of the Tate Modern brings together an extensive array of Matisse’s cut-outs from a long list of private and public collections.

During the evening of Friday 27 June and the following Saturday afternoon, the artists of Bow Road Studios in London opened their private working spaces and courtyard to the public.

For the London Design Festival, Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert has joined forces with Champagne Perrier-Jouët to create a unique glass piece called Human Nature to be installed at the V&A.

Memory Lane explicitly prompts memories as a result of reconstructed history through the means of art. It’s the series of photographs, Tito in War by Milomir Kovačević, that commemorates Tito’s portrait in after-war public spaces.

Votes have been counted for the Aesthetica Art Prize People’s Choice Award, and we are delighted to announce that Sybille Neumeyer is the winner. Her work refers to the endangerment of bees.

Lizzie Cawthray is challenging the outdated notions of knitwear with her fresh, stylish and playful company, Needle. After working as the knitwear product developer at LK Bennet, Cawthray decided to focus her attentions on the versatile material.

It has become a rite of passage for the contemporary poet: the attempt to rewrite classical – specifically, Hellenic – literature for the modern day. Yet though the projects seem comparable, their impulses are often wildly different.

Virginia Damtsa is a contemporary art dealer and the Co-Founder of Riflemaker gallery in London. Moving to Paris when she was selected by the Opera National de Paris to train for a career in dance, she studied in Belgium, New York and Cambridge before moving to London.

In the 21 years since Meltdown’s inception, the festival has played host to a conveyor belt of counterculture greats, including David Bowie, Patti Smith, Jarvis Cocker and the late John Peel.

The Fashion and Textile Museum has recently opened its new exhibition Made in Mexico. Curator and artist Hilary Simon has sought to explore and reveal elements of the narrative of Mexico’s history.

ROYGBIV&B takes its name from the acronym for the colours of the rainbow, and the interlinking choral voices singing within a web of loudspeakers are meant to represent the idea of that spectrum.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is open for entries, with a new prize of £5,000 for the Main Prize Winner in addition to group exhibition, publication in an anthology of 100 top emerging artists and editorial coverage in the magazine.

The city-wide Edinburgh Art Festival brings together a diverse line-up of some of the best UK and international artists in a programme of exhibitions, one-off performances and special events at some of Edinburgh’s most unique venues.

The theme for the fifth edition of PhotoIreland Festival is Truth, Fact, Fiction, Lies. Looking at how photography is used for storytelling, the festival presents 27 photographers exhibiting in various venues around the city centre.

Louise Alexander unveils Arik Levy’s first solo show at the gallery. Uncontrolled Nature features a collection of new work in combination with older pieces and Levy showcases a range of sculptures that exist like a trail of landmarks.

Michael Steinpichler was born in Austria but now resides in Costa Rica. Drawing on influences such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin, Steinpichler produces vibrant masterpieces, combining a number of subjects, colours and styles.

Peter Bunnell’s 1970 MoMA show Photography Into Sculpture proved a landmark in photographic practice, through its presentation of images arranged in a sculptural manner.

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz s a British artist who utilises well known imagery from art history to create new hybrids that have an immediate sense of the familiar. This process of re-sequencing creates ambiguous and multi-layered creations.

Part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love, The Human Factor will bring together major works from 25 leading international artists across the last 25 years. The artists involved have all fashioned new ways of using the figure in contemporary sculpture.

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual is a celebration of outstanding poetry and short fiction, which promises to inspire you after reading. This collection unites established and emerging literary talent from across the world.

Spencer Finch has on the wall of his studio a postcard of a watercolour by Turner. Impressed by its dynamic of figuration and abstraction, Finch seems always to have had Turner in mind with his own manipulations of the elements.

This summer the Lisson Gallery collaborates with Berengo Studio to present an exhibition that coincides with the occasion of the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.