Several variants of abstraction are investigated in an excellent exhibition of drawings, Abstract Drawing, curated by Richard Deacon, the current Last Words artist in Aesthetica. The show at London’s Drawing Room features 57 works.

A group exhibition, featuring work from John Akomfrah, Phoebe Boswell and Rashaad Newsome, will run from 7 March until 10 April at the Carroll / Fletcher gallery in Central London.

Steinkamp is an artist who has been based in digital media and is a pioneer in the world of 3-D animation. Her digitally rendered animations of natural phenomena are projected within the depicted architectural surroundings.

Palais de Tokyo started its programme for 2014 under the title L’Etat du Ciel, which is borrowed from Victor Hugo’s Promontoire du songe, where the he wrote “the sky’s normal state is at night”.

About Colour follows Sarah Moon’s major exhibition last year Alchimies at Muséum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. This show presents pieces she has never displayed to the public before.

Work by New York-based artist, Trisha Baga, goes on display for the first time in a non-commercial gallery in England at Zabludowicz Collection this February. From 27 February until 11 May.

Tord Gustavsen has recorded his sixth album for ECM and is due to go on tour across the USA, UK and Europe this spring and summer. The Norwegian pianist is joined once more by his quartet.

Showcasing an international comprehension of design, Mercedes Benz Kiev Fashion Days were back this season to celebrate their second year at London Fashion Week.

Tate’s Keywords builds on Raymond Williams’ study of the vocabulary of culture and society. Published in 1976, Williams’ Keywords has become a seminal work in English, cultural studies and visual culture.

A massive piece of chalk occupies the kerbside immediately outside the gallery door. Across three of its planes is carved the title of this exhibition by long-term collaborative duo Heather and Ivan Morison at WORKS|PROJECTS.

Cult cool, design duo Virginia Ferreira and Chris Neuman never fail to cause a stir. However this season they have steered away from their archetypal East London look, citing their muse as the refined “Parisian woman”.

Opening this month is Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, a collaborative exhibition from SFMOMA and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA). Until 29 June.

Sarah Maple’s God is a Feminist is an exploration of identity, feminism and religion. Aesthetica speaks to Maple about her controversial work and her thoughts on contemporary feminism.

There is no better way to escape the panic of Central London than slipping through the courtyards of Bloomsbury into SOAS’s Brunei Gallery. It’s worth a visit for the Japanese roof garden alone.

In the 100 days preceding 5 and 6 July, when Yorkshire plays host to the Grand Départ, 47 cultural events will take place across the county backed by Welcome to Yorkshire, Yorkshire Water and the Arts Council England.

Garden Object is a new installation created by Spanish design studio El Ultimo Grito and on display at Rice Gallery, Texas, until 16 March.

Ready for submersion into a harsh urban sphere, Bernard Chandran’s AW14 collection channels all of the strongest parts of menswear tailoring, with the cinching and finesse of women’s wear.

Painting Now at Tate celebrates a selection of five contemporary painters, each displaying a synopsis of their unique stylistic vision. Participating artists include Tomma Abts and Gillian Carnegie.

ARCOMadrid opens 19 February and brings together the best art from artists working in Spain and internationally. The fair is for contemporary art professionals, art-lovers and the general public.

Haus der Kunst reveals a new permanent gallery dedicated to the presentation of its historical archive containing documents on the building’s architecture and history, alongside a talk with Martin Schmidl and Sabine Brantl on 8 March.

Shezad Dawood will premiere his latest short at the Marrakech Biennale at the end of February. Shot in Morocco’s Sidi Ifni, Towards the Possible Film examines histories of violence and future dystopias.

Five key organisations across Bristol join forces to present Bristol New Music from 21 February until 23 February: Colston Hall, Arnolfini, Spike Island, St George’s Bristol and the University of Bristol.

Walk On – From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, 40 Years of Art Walking brings together the work of almost 40 artists including 2 and 3 dimensional pieces, video and performance.

Art Basel Hong Kong opens in May and we’re looking forward to the collaboration featured at the event between one of Hong Kong’s most exciting young artists Nadim Abbas and Absolut.

Darren Almond’s To Leave a Light Impression at White Cube, Bermondsey, includes his photography series Fullmoon and Present Form, enthralling the audience across three large rooms.

Opening on 20 March, Thirteen marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and is the first time the pieces are on display outside of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Samuel Harriman’s work consists primarily of light, however, by using painterly processes, he combines the mediums of installation and painting to intonate the point that the use of light is a form of painting.

Jeremy Hutchison’s i- is invested in the psychology behind consumer culture. Playing with audience expectations, i- features hand models unexpectedly holding lumps of distorted clay.

Bottega Veneta has joined forces with Pieter Hugo to shoot the Spring /Summer campaign. Every season the new collection is conceived and captured by an exceptional photographer.

The Worst of Scottee is a confessional and it’s set out as such: Scottee sits inside a photobooth, profile to the audience and we observe as he tells his story to this modern confession booth.

Paul Gaffney’s We Make the Path by Walking and Michal Iwanowski’s Clear of People will engage with the idea of journeys as both artists document their personal expeditions across the land.

The Jameel Prize is a delightful antidote to any notions of poor taste and bad judgement attempting to taint the validity of Islamic culture, visual or otherwise. Running until 21 April at the V&A.

In this exclusively online exhibition, the second of its kind for Hamiltons, waterscapes and nudes come together to blend two bodies of Tomio Seike’s work in a selection of black and white images.

Infinite City is a group exhibition featuring works from two private collections: the Zabludowicz Collection (located in London, New York, and Sarvisalo, Finland) and Kadist Art Foundation.

Franz Ackermann’s three-dimensional panels comprising of cartographic watercolour drawings and black and white photographs reflect the bare bones of urbanisation as well as globalisation.

Curated by the contemporary arts and education charity Project Space Leeds (PSL), A New Reality Part 1 is The Tetley’s maiden programme, promising a series of cross-disciplinary exhibitions.

Glenn Ligon’s third exhibition at the Thomas Dane Gallery sees inspiration from Steve Reich’s Come Out (1966) manifesting through an ensemble of three monumental screen-printed paintings.

Saudi Arabian artist Faisal Samra’s first solo exhibition in the UK opens at Ayyam Gallery, London on 13 February. The show is a response to Samra’s interest in the process of creation.

Currently on display at Ikon Gallery is David Tremlett’s 3 Drawing Rooms. The exhibition deploys a combination of pastel pigments in paint and engine grease, applied directly to the walls.

A tender, ethereal spirit of the artist is revealed through the works of Hans Josephsohn, currently on display at Hauser & Wirth. A kinetic energy excites the spaces between the sculptures.

Running until 23 March, Gracjana Rejmer-Canovas’ Colour Into Liquid Air, encapsulates the artist’s energetic practice, who is a recent graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art.

Tate Britain’s transhistorical Ruin Lust will reveal the importance of ruins in art from the 17th century to the present day, detailing the evolution of the subject over 400 years. From 4 March to 18 May.

Rankin, Johny Dar and model Tuuli Shipster, have teamed up to produce the stunning calendar. Inspired by the artist’s series, DAR the BOOK, Dar hand-painted his designs directly onto Tuuli’s body.

You can now read Aesthetica Magazine wherever you are with our new digital subscriptions accessible via iPad, iPhone and Android devices. Aesthetica brings you the latest news in contemporary art.

Carbon 14: Climate is Culture, the centrepiece of a four-month festival of the same name at the Royal Ontario Musuem, says much about what we’re all talking about these days – the weather.

Art14 London will return to Olympia Grand, welcoming over 180 galleries from 40 countries. Running from 28 February until 2 March, the fair brings together contemporary and modern art.

Stephen Hall, an artist who has been working in New York for many years, was recently part of a featured article in the New York Times and a photo essay by photographer Michael Mundy.

Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) join forces in AISTHESIS to document the work and the research of two leading figures of Environmental Art.

Since its launch in 1999, the Artangel initiative, Open, has sought to commission outstanding works of art by UK artists. In partnership with BBC Radio 4, Artangel Open showcases work across multiple locations and forms of media.

For the Dallas Biennial 2014 (DB14) over 50 national and international artists come together to exhibit work in multiple venues across Dallas. Running for four months, DB14 fills Texas with exhibitions, performances and lectures.