The Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence programme provides a platform to celebrate new and emerging designers at an early stage in their career. The programme is now in its sixth year.
Londonewcastle Project Space opens an exhibition of works by Alex Noble entitled Creatures from the Kaleidoscope. Noble’s work fuses fashion and art in an immersive landscape of visceral aesthetics.
Drawn in Cursive takes inspiration from The Queens Gambit: one of the oldest known opening moves in a game of chess and positional play where you force your opponent to either accept or decline.
For this year’s Frieze London, Frieze Talks will include: Jérôme Bel, Meredith Monk and Stephen Shore as part of the line up of international artists, filmmakers, curators and cultural commentators.
Exploring history, individual and collective memory and loss, Indrė Šerpytytė exhibits a solo exhibition at Ffotogallery. The showcase coincides with Lithuania taking up the Presidency of the European Union.
Cyprus-born artist Haris Epaminonda has a new exhibit on display at Modern Art Oxford. The exhibit features four screens in a blackened room playing a continuous loop of tableaux filmed in Cyprus.
The pedestal is a sort of prosthesis for objects; it is their feet, their legs. It gives an object strength, lifts it up. Cassie Raihl’s first solo show at Dodge Gallery comprises of variations on the pedestal.
This September the border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed will transform into one giant screen for the ninth Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival featuring newly commissioned and curated films.
Steven Bode has been the Director of Film & Video Umbrella for 20 years. Formed in the early days of moving image artworks, the company has played an important role in promoting moving image.
IBeauty Without Irony (BWI) showcases the first edition of the Biennale of International Art in Essaouira, Morocco: AIR/PORT, a cultural exchange between Essaouira and port cities across the world.
The Fruitmarket Gallery’s new exhibition of Gabriel Orozco’s (b.1962) work maps the way in which a central artistic motif migrates and mutates its way through a whole body of multi-material work.
The four moving-image artists have now been selected for the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards. The chosen artists are Lucy Clout, Kate Cooper, Anne Haaning and Marianna Simnett.
Gallery for Russian Arts and Design (GRAD) is a contemporary art space in London dedicated to creating a setting for graphic arts and works in other media from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Encounters returns to Bristol to showcase the very best of short film and animation from across the globe. Running 17-22 September, the event captures a snapshot of the most interesting emerging talent.
Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition 2012, Isabel Bermudez was born in Bogota in 1968 and grew up in London. Her poetry has been shortlisted in a number of competitions.
The Light Inside, currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, explores the remarkable career of James Turrell. The artist has created some of the most beautiful art of our time.
Plunging audiences into a landscape of video and light, The Magic Know-How is Laura Buckley’s 3D sound and light collage. Exhibited at Site Gallery, Sheffield from 10 August until 21 September.
SHORT BREATHS is Brancolini Grimaldi’s first exhibition of work by Miles Aldridge to coincide with his major retrospective at Somerset House, I Only Want You to Love Me, (10 July until 29 September).
Showcasing the work of five new artists, SHOT is a collection of contemporary painting, reflecting on the place the form holds in the modern world. Running until 31 August at ARTECO Gallery, London.
Eternity is a Long Time, an exhibition devoted to the American artist, Mike Kelley, who helped trace out new avenues in the history of contemporary art is currently on display at HangarBicocca.
The Institute of Art and Ideas has released a new debate online with a panel of professionals including Courtauld scholar Julian Stallabrass, art historian Griselda Pollock and artist Sidsel Christensen.
The Royal Academy’s retrospective of the work of Richard Rogers is dedicated to exploring the conceptual strategies that shaped the architect’s evolving practice. In London until 13 October.
Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition 2012, Anna Wallace-Thompson is a Middle Eastern contemporary arts journalist who grew up predominantly in Dubai.
Complete Freedom, the first UK solo exhibition by acclaimed Syrian artist Khaled Takreti, presents a new body of mixed media and film works examining the validity of the term ‘freedom’.
Through collage, John Stezaker examines the subversive elements within found images, such as film magazines, vintage postcards and illustrations. Stezaker won the Deutsche Börse prize in 2012.
Incorporating a film and a series of new paintings into her latest exhibition at White Cube, Sarah Morris’ Bye Bye Brazil is named after Carlos Diegues’ ground-breaking film from the 1970s.
Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition, Nick Boreham writes poems and short stories which have appeared in a number of publications including Poetry Scotland and Equinox.
Natural Selection is a group show that focuses upon the tension between the man-made and nature. The eight artists use a variety of media including drawing, sculpture, photography and installation.
The great American photographer Edward Steichen took what were probably the first fashion photographs in 1911. Since then it has become a unique platform for commerce and creativity.
The James Barnor archive is the product of a career spanning more than 60 years. Barnor was born in Accra in 1929. He began his photographic career when he opened a makeshift studio in Jamestown.
In a celebration of contemporary art, outstanding works shortlisted from the Aesthetica Art Prize will be displayed in the setting of York St Mary’s – York Art Gallery’s contemporary art space.
Created last year, Ken Griffiths’ series of photographic portraits capturing people and places celebrates individuals who continue to make remarkable contributions to their communities.
Patricia Casey is an Australian artist whose work combines photographic montages with embroidery, to create complex images that are both seductively beautiful and psychologically unsettling.
American artist Cecil Gresham, works predominantly with DLSR and SLR photography, but also has a distinct painting style, absent of structure. His images incorporate an abstraction of facts.
Jo Holland makes photographic prints without the intermediary of either camera or negative, directly exposing the object through the focusing lens onto what becomes a unique lifochrome print.
Washington DC-based artist Bijan Rashedi’s abstract oil paintings have been a great compliment to the sophistication needed for decorating industrial interiors, law firms, private collections and more.
Family dysfunction remains throughout in Broken , Rufus Norris’ powerful film of Daniel Clay’s novel of random cruelty and forced teenage evolution.
Punchdrunk’s new production, The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, invites audience members to immerse themselves in a world created exclusively for them.
Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr are not only well known for being outstanding British photographers, but for capturing the English landscape with familiarity.
A major three part retrospective of artist James Turrell displays his pioneering explorations of light, space and time.
Oscar winning director Fernando Trueba’s latest film, examines the relationship between the artist and the model, against the backdrop of World War II.
Fresh perspectives on listening are offered at South London Gallery in a show utilising sound sculpture and performance to explore the moment of hearing.
Referring to his role as an artist as one that is “to create a situation in which the viewer is at the centre”, Eliasson’s main preoccupation is the audience.
Gail Albert Halaban traced the steps of legendary artist Edward Hopper, travelling to Massachusetts to record the houses he painted 100 years before.
Weegee’s unique documentary portraits of New York crime scenes coincided with the end of the Depression, the repeal of Prohibition, and a governmental crackdown on organised crime.
Combining colour, everyday objects and portraiture, Blackmon’s works are endlessly fascinating, and every return glance reveals a new angle or shape.
Described by Life photographer David E. Scherman as a “renaissance woman”, Lee Miller balanced a career as a model and an incredibly talented photographer.
Joyce Carol Oates’ story of political disillusionment, feminine power and the naïvety of youth is brought to the screen once again by director Laurent Cantet.
Zaha Hadid is a phenomenon. The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in its 26 years, she defined a radical new approach to the field.
