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.
The analogue is increasingly marginalised in a digital climate that sees images everywhere; in this context the value of art photography is constantly questioned.
A comprehensive study of the progress of feminist art, The Reckoning demonstrates the enormous influence female artists have had, and continue to have.
Lorenzo is a teenaged misfit who takes a strange kind of refuge in the grimy basement of his apartment building, until drug-dependent Olivia appears.
Luciano, a Neapolitan fishmonger, decides he wants to become famous and sets out to be a contestant on Grande Fratello , the Italian version of Big Brother.
The Place Beyond the Pines is an exploration of the things that happen beyond the expectations of society.
Jason Rhoades, Four Roads at ICA Philadelphia will be the artist’s first major exhibition at an American museum, revealing his sprawling environments made from a wide range of materials.
Headphones have gone further than music. Now they’re about fashion and style, and maybe even art as well. Here’s how it happened – and where it’s all going.
Airline Style is a compendium that highlights the different eras in aviation, the accompanying change in styles and the overarching views of society.
Choosing a palette of bright hues, ordinary people and American landscapes, Joel Sternfeld is a multi-award-winning master of photography.
The information available for the V&A’s latest exhibition, Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s instantly inspires thoughts of the 2003 film Party Monster. Curated by Claire Wilcox.
Katie Scott is the detailed hand behind Bombay Bicycle Club’s album cover for How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep. Based in London she explains in this video how she began producing art.
The Edinburgh Art Festival returns to Scotland from 1 August, immersing the city in cultural explorations of art. Running until 1 September, the festival features no less than 50 exhibitions.
Lees Rooney is a collaborative partnership between poet/ writer Janet Lees and photographer/ videographer Rooney. The pair works with a range of art projects that combine words, sound and film.
The diverse art of renowned artist Bruce Nauman is on show in York St Mary’s until 10 November. Nauman rose to prominence in the 1960s working across a broad spectrum of different media.
