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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Museo Reina Sofía hosts the largest retrospective to date of the work of Cristina Iglesias, one of Spain’s major artists. Her work began to be widely known in the 1980s. Until 13 May.

For Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux, ICO commissioned American designer, Sam Smith to produce the artwork. He approached the project as a film fanatic and an admirer of Reygadas’ Silent Light.

Land Sea Colour is a solo exhibition by artist Jan Dibbets examining his focus on Land-Sea horizons and Colour Studies. The show exposes Dibbets role as a pioneer of conceptualism in the 1960s.

Now in it’s fifth edition, SPILL was established in 2007 by performance maker Robert Pacitti and is now recognised as the UK’s premier Artist-led festival of innovative live work.

The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) at GOMA in Brisbane, Australia, is a pastiche of works from the many regions of Asia, the Pacific, and Australian Aboriginal communities.

In today’s world, do-it-yourself culture is practically omnipresent: be it fashion, furniture, cooking or communication—hardly a single area of everyday life has not been swept up in the DIY revolution.

This exhibition at The Mac, Belfast, is the first significant Andy Warhol exhibition to be presented in Northern Ireland and brings together pieces drawn from the Artist Rooms collection.

Heidi Kilpeläinen, or HK119, has a new album out on 25 March. Her third album, Imaginature embodies nature in a surrealist and spectacular recording of electronic chirps and howling lyrics.

Scotland + Venice will present a showcase curated and organised by The Common Guild. The exhibition will feature new work by artists Hayley Tompkins, Duncan Campbell and Corin Sworn.

Simon Lee Gallery’s new show features a solo exhibition by the influential German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann from 5 April. The exhibition follows the success of Feldmann’s recent travelling show.

In advance of the Birds Eye View film festival, the BFI preview Wadjda, which tells the remarkable story of a young girl growing up in modern-day Saudi Arabia, and her quest to buy her own bicycle.

Crafting ornate, delicate and sometimes shocking body adornments from the tiny frames of lifeless animals, the work of artist, jeweller and taxidermist Reid Peppard is truly unique.

A new online art project has launched today alongside a photographic exhibition at Spacex from 18 May. British artist Layla Curtis’ Antipodes is an online and photographic project.

Collating a significant collection of international contemporary Art, Metropolis: Reflections on the Modern City opens this week at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Louis Vuitton unveiled today Stéphane Couturier’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong: Mutation at Espace Louis Vuitton Hong Kong opening to the public tomorrow, Thursday 21 March.

Peter Jensen has made the innovative decision to debut his Spring/Summer’13 collection for the first time in Britain at The Hepworth. Jensen uses the artist as a starting point for his newest designs.

In a series of moving image works and ceramic sculptures, Melanie Jackson continues her investigation into mutability, which takes its lead from Goethe’s concept of an imaginary plant.

All Visual Arts, Kings Cross is saturated with surrealist sketches, uncanny inks and impossibly detailed drawings. Not just limited to the eight AVA represents, over 21 artists feature in this show.

Lady Gaga famously refers to her followers as “little monsters”, presumably hoping by this to encourage them to reclaim the darker elements of their psyches and feel more comfortable in themselves.

Fossil Collective are a Leeds-based band duo made up of multi-instrumentalists Jonny Hooker and David Fendick. We interview band-member Jonny about the upcoming UK debut album tour.

The Design Museum in collaboration with MADE.com invites the public to commission a new piece of furniture for display in upcoming exhibition, The Future is Here: A New Industrial Revolution.

David Bowie is back at the centre of the public’s consciousness. To celebrate his birthday, Bowie released a surprise single, Where Are We Now?, with the announcement of an album, The Next Day.

The first exhibition of the New Year at Ikon Gallery sees John Flaxman, Timur Novokov and Nastio Mosquito enter a fascinatingly provocative symposium of culture, history and imagery.