Interview with Artist Salvatore Arancio

Salvatore Arancio talks with Aesthetica about science and psychedelia in his solo show at Rowing Projects. The exhibition has been put into dialogue with Samara Scott’s cabinet room project Cd0xdsspi.

Adrian Melis: The Value of Absence at Kunsthalle Basel

Kunsthalle Basel’s calendar includes the first solo show by the Cuban artist Adrian Melis. In the centre of the work of the Havana-born artist are depictions of the socialist and capitalist economic system.

C’est Wouf ! by M/M (Paris) at Air de Paris, France

Air de Paris unveils their new exhibition C’est Wouf ! by M/M (Paris). Art as practised by M/M(Paris) is a cumulative affair, spreading from medium to medium in a process of endless expansion.

Lottie Davies: Memories and Nightmares, London

Lottie Davies focuses her work on stories and personal histories, embracing the tales and myths society uses to construct life, and LA Noble Gallery present…

Pae White: Too Much Night, Again, London

Pae White has created a maze of black, red, blue and purple threads which reach from and terminate into the gallery walls as endless and bewildering as the sleepless nights that conceived it.

Open End: Goetz Collection at Haus der Kunst, Munich

Open End is the fourth exhibition in an ongoing series of presentations of film and video works from the Goetz Collection in Haus der Kunst. Featuring the work of 14 renowned international artists.

BiennaleOnline: Emerging Artists Of The Future Announced

The online platform ART+ announces 180 of the most promising emerging artists at a critical moment, when they are poised to become established artists, chosen by 30 world-leading curators.

Diffusion

An international exhibition of photography, European Chronicles in Cardiff uses lens-based media to initiate debate about European social identities.

Pedro Reyes

Transforming confiscated firearms into musical instruments and shovels, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes believes in the ability of art to change societies permanently.

The Phoenix Foundation

With a sound blessed with beautiful melodies set amidst lush soundscapes, they have crafted their unique style with a loving attention to detail.

Vito

Vito Russo believed that he should be able to live his life as he chose, with a passion that eventually became politicised as his life, and those of his friends, became a struggle against injustice.

Collecting Art for Love, Money and More

An insider’s guide for the modern art buyer, Collecting Art for Love, Money and More reveals the motivations and secrets of successful collectors.

F*ck For Forest

Marczak brings free love to the fore in his new documentary F*ck For Forest, which follows a Berlin-based charity that believes that sex can change the world.

Planet of Snail

The hero is Cho Young-Chan, a deaf-blind South Korean man on the cusp of a sensory rebirth as he begins to escape from the isolation of his condition.

Surrealism in Latin America

Examining both visual and literary Surrealism, this text explores in intricate detail how the movement embraced different avant-garde ideas and practices.

Love Crime

Love Crime is laden with too many easy clichés – not to say much too drawn out – to warrant fully the descriptions it has earned as “taut thriller” or “modern Noir”.

Mice Parade

Named after a bar in Madrid, noted to be a haven for flamenco, Candela is strongest where it references tight, Spanish guitar-laden anguish.

Secret Diary

College instantly demonstrates his ability to reproduce aspects of existence electronically, as his striking first notes echo a heartbeat gasping to live.

The Pigeon Detectives

It can’t be denied that We Met at Sea is both unpredictable and full of life, driven by punchy guitars and melodies that will easily set feet tapping.

STRFKR

The new release from STRFKR radiates a feel-good electro-pop vibe, hovering somewhere between the grooves of Passion Pit and the electronica of MGMT.

Sightseers

Sightseers accompanies ordinary couple Chris and Tina on a far from idyllic caravanning holiday, as they begin to bump off their fellow campers.

Zaytoun

Set during the first Lebanese war, Zaytoun opens in Beirut as the Palestinian protagonist, Fahed roams the crumbling streets selling cigarettes.

Seaside Polaroids

Jon Nicholson ventures into the realm of nostalgia with his latest book, a collection of 70 Polaroids of British seaside resorts.

Hiss Golden Messenger

A Biblical thread runs through this album, weaving faith and emotive frankness into this tapestry of senses, addressing the relationship between past and future.

Art & Queer Culture

In this first book to be published on criticism and theory regarding queer culture, Phaidon has set the bar high.

Our World Now 6

A picture is worth a thousand words, which is certainly the case in Our World Now 6, a collection of 319 photographs recorded by Reuters in 2012.

NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

The latest exhibition to open at the New Museum in New York City captures a specific moment in time highlighting the intersection of art, pop and politics.

Rudy Burckhardt

Refusing simply to angle his lens at those he passed in the street, Rudy Burckhardt managed to record the shapes, patterns and architecture of his locations, leaving society to weave in and out of the frames.

Astrid Kruse Jensen

Astrid Kruse Jensen builds her entire portfolio on dynamic oppositions; girls in dazzling red chase across black backdrops and glowing light highlights silhouettes.

2013 Sony World Photography Awards

The Sony World Photography Awards collate thousands of remarkable images that uncover the secrets of humanity through countless pairs of eyes.

Game Music Levels Up

Video game music has changed and evolved with the current trends. For the musicians creating it, things have never been better.

Amalia Pica

Amalia Pica’s first major museum show explores her vast oeuvre, highlighting her ongoing preoccupation with modes of communication.

Thursday Till Sunday

Dominga Sotomayor’s debut feature recalls road trips, hours of travelling, fatigue and children’s games as a family in crisis travels through the Chilean desert.

Rune Guneriussen

Rather than producing didactic works that regulate understanding, Guneriussen creates captivating structures without an obvious, readable form.

Evening Hymns

Jonas Bonnetta returns, under the new name Evening Hymns, with a passionate landscape of instrumental harmonies and lyrical memories.

Akram Khan

This spring, Sadler’s Wells celebrates 100 years since Stravinsky’s influential ballet, The Rite of Spring, with work from choreography’s golden boy, Akram Khan.

BAFTA Shorts 2013

Long seen as the crudité to the blockbuster’s entrée, the short film is about to morph from a stepping stone into the main presentation.

Julio Le Parc

A landmark exhibition of Julio Le Parc’s work at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, looks at the pioneer of “Op” and kinetic art’s ongoing contribution to contemporary art.

Interview with Lemaitre

Taking inspiration from an assimilation of influences, Lemaitre have reached number one in the iTunes Electronica chart. Aesthetica speaks to the Norwegian duo about their work and future projects.

Aesthetica Art Prize Interview with Winner Poppy Whatmore

The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. We speak to winner Poppy Whatmore about her approach to sculpture and her involvement in the Prize.

Man Ray: Portraits, London

The works showcased in this exhibition are arranged chronologically according to specific stages of Man Ray’s artistic career, commencing in New York and concluding in Paris. At NPG until 27 May.

David Bowie Short Films

The Space presents five short films, made in collaboration with the V&A, which each explores the genius of David Bowie on occasion of the first full-scale retrospective of his career, David Bowie is.

Jimmy De Sana at Wilkinson Gallery, London

Wilkinson Gallery announces it’s third solo exhibition by Jimmy De Sana (1950 – 1980). The exhibition will open on 5 April and will include colour photographs, produced during the late 70s and 80s.

Brett Weston: Nudes & Dunes, Michael Hoppen

For the first time in the UK, Michael Hoppen exhibits a comprehensive vintage selection of Brett Weston’s Nudes and Dunes. Weston developed a clear sense of form and an interest in abstraction.

6 To See This Bank Holiday Weekend

The Bank Holiday is a great time to explore new exhibitions. From Amsterdam to New York we uncover the best in contemporary art in international galleries across a variety of practices.

Syngenta Photography Award Finalists Announced

The finalists of the Syngenta Photography Award were announced today. The three names shortlisted for the Professional Commission are: Jan Brykczynski, Pablo Lopez Luz and Mimi Mollica.

Todd James: World Domination, London

There still is a certain mystery to the character of the celebrated artist Todd James: an internationally recognised practitioner who began his career as a child in the New York City subway system.

Johan Van der Keuken: Up to the Light, Amsterdam

Up to the Light focuses on the way in which filmmaker and photographer Johan Van der Keuken brought together contrasting images in his films and observed a world in constant transition.

Review Of Kochi-Muziris Biennale

The announcement of a new biennial prompts the question: why? The art world is saturated with 250 large-scale recurring exhibitions. Kochi-Muziris Biennale comes as a pleasant, and exciting, surprise.

Art Paris Art Fair

Art Paris Art Fair arrives this weekend at Grand Palais. Hosting 20 countries and 143 galleries it presents modern and contemporary art. The event previews on 27 March and runs until 1 April.