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.
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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.
Harry Callahan exposes the urban experience through photography in City at Pace/MacGill Gallery. Running until 8 March, nearly 50 of Callahan’s gelatin silver prints will be on display.
Prints by James Welling, John Chervinsky, Lucas Foglia, Irina Rozovsky and signed copies of Peter Mitchell’s Strangely Familiar are available through Light Work’s 2014 Subscription Programme.
A major non-profit platform, the Dhaka Art Summit was conceived to support museum-quality exhibits in Bangladesh, the development of South Asian art and international artistic exchange.
Beijing’s Liu Wei grew up as part of generation of artists who experienced rapid urbanisation. But there’s no indication of the Chinese cityscape in this White Cube exhibition, Density.
The work of David Bailey is celebrated in Bailey’s Stardust at the National Portrait Gallery, London. All of the images have been chosen by the photographer and make up over 250 portraits.
The second year of Jeddah Art Week presents in its 2014 programme 13 exhibitions, several public performances and an international conference on global visual culture in venues across Jeddah.
Combining action, suspense and intricate detail, Ryan Schude’s photographs tell numerous stories and the viewer’s imagination is left to join the dots and interpret the narrative as they wish.
Boopsedaisy started to focus on photography as a way to release all the creative roadblocks she was finding on her film sets. The results from the first night’s shoot surprised her.
“To ride in New York”, the introduction informs us, “is to have a level of authority over an otherwise untamed landscape.”
Face in the Crowd is the new series of work from Alex Prager, who creates fascinating scenes utilising bright palettes and constructed settings.
Martin Creed’s first ever retrospective opens at the Hayward Gallery, London, this spring, exposing the large body of work of the genre-defying artist.
Music and fashion have a closer relationship than ever; however, the question remains: can musicians be good designers and do the two media interact?
Known for his innovative approach through the “decisive moment”, Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the founding figures of modern photography.
Fanfarlo’s third album, Let’s Go Extinct, is a joy to listen to, infusing pop anthems with lyrical concerns about the future and human evolution.
At the heart of War Room Stories is a wonderful and vast muddle of textures – found sounds, atmospheric synths and subtle movements.
Sensing Spaces sees seven international architecture practices transform the Royal Academy into a multi-sensory experience with site-specific installations.
We rather like the genre name Jones has cooked up to define his music: blufunk. It combines punk, funk and Yoruba rhythms to form a reasonably enticing mix.
The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis is an intimate tale of the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. We speak to cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel about his visual interpretation.
Blue is the Warmest Colour charts the journey of Adèlefrom curiosity to melancholy via all points in between.
A new exhibition opens in New York at the International Center of Photography that interrogates what it means to work in analogue and digital photography today.
Show Time examines art exhibitions from the late 1980s to the present day and looks at how they have altered our understanding of the curator’s role.
Conceived from the notorious club night of the same name, Super Electric Party Machine has concocted a high octane, fierce explosion of an album.
InRealLife opens with the provocative question, “Have we outsourced our children to the internet? And if yes, where are they and who owns them?”
Full of electronica and orchestral echoes, Slo Light is a collection of songs built on suspense and varied levels of noise.
Betrayal and guilt are the recurring themes in Free Fall, Stephen Lacant’s powerful film about forbidden love.
Halsman’s relentless creativity kept his magnificent imagery alive and allowed him to construct a vivid picture of prosperous American society.
