Salsali Private Museum in Dubai, UAE, unveils its new solo exhibition by critically acclaimed Iranian artist Reza Derakshani on 18 March, opening to coincide with the citywide Art Week.

Nur Skulptur! (Only Sculpture!) is a collection of 400 works from the Mannheimer Sculpture Collection, including items from art history, forgotten pieces and artworks from the depot.

For the first time in six years, Mike Brodie exhibits a show of new colour images at M+B, Los Angeles. Running from 16 March, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity is a presentation of 30 images.

A very extensive exhibition featuring over 30 works made between 2002 and 2013 is now showing at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Fabric-ation includes sculpture, film, photography and painting.

The Design Museum announces the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. They include the best designs from around the world in the last 12 months across seven categories.

In a celebration of film, unseen footage from the Stanley Kubrick Archive and a film installation by Turner Prize nominated artists, Jane and Louise Wilson, exhibit at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.

The Almeida Theatre opens Before the Party. Directed by Matthew Dunster, Rodney Ackland’s adaptation of Somerset Maugham portrays how the upper middle classes adjusted to post-war life.

Taking my seat for Franko B’s latest performance, Because of Love, 2012, it was hard to pre-empt what this evening was about to offer. The artist renowned for using his body and blood in work.

Contemporary Key is a contemporary art tour company that puts significant emphasis on the joy of learning about art. At the start of each monthly tour, the group meets for a coffee and chat.

A photograph shows a tea green room with decorated marble flooring. The back wall is half-covered with jade wood panelling, and against it sit seven wood-backed, red-cushioned seats.

ASFF allows for both budding and established filmmakers to connect with new, worldwide audiences and interact with some of the biggest personalities in the film industry today.

Abigail Reynolds borrows the title of Kenneth Noland’s 1953 painting, New Light. Reflecting on the city of Plymouth the exhibition runs until 5 April at the Plymouth College of Art Gallery.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. We speak to Ben Jack Nash about his sculptural work that often examines the soul of major catastrophes.

Charles Atlas, award winning artist and filmmaker, opens MC9 at Tate Modern on 19 March. Running for just a week, his multi-channel video installation explores the intersections of media and dance.

Osman will spend 2013 experimenting with the space at his new atelier by inviting a variety of London’s cutting-edge artists and designers. Aesthetica speaks to him about his design process.

Two gentle, reflective and profoundly moving new examples of the form by the theatre’s own Associate Artist, Alexander Wright, the pieces proved to be perfect and complementary partners.

This year’s Armory Show marked 100 years since its first edition in 1913 – one of the single most important events in contemporary art that had featured art by Duchamp, Picasso, and Brancusi and revealed the European avant-garde to U.S.

JVA will exhibit work by three exceptional emerging painters for the Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2013 from the 13 March. The Fellows are Anthony Faroux, Susan Sluglett and Sophia Starling.

Winners of the Aesthetica Art Prize were announced last night at the preview of the Art Prize Exhibition. Damien O’Mara was awarded the Main Prize and Poppy Whatmore collected the Student Prize.

British designer, Haroon Mirza opens his exhibition, Untitled Song, at mima. Living and working in London, Mirza’s influences range from electronics and science to avant-garde classical music.

FACT, Liverpool are launching their newest exhibition: The Art of Pop Video. Opening on 14 March, the showcase recalls some of the most memorable moments in modern music.

The Hepworth presents Jessica Jackson Hutchins in her solo debut in a UK public gallery. Hutchins has engaged with the legacy of Barbara Hepworth as part of the process of making this new body of work.

Aesthetica interviews Sam Curtis, who will be presenting work at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair. He is also due to take part in FORMAT International Photography Festival in March.

We speak to Ben Applegarth, an artist who graduated from Newcastle University with a BA in Fine Art in 2012. His longlisted work, Tangential Meditation is concerned with semiotics and space.

Landmark: The Fields of Photography, is set to be a sweeping overview of the genre of 21st Century Landscape photography. This showcase will be Positive View Foundation’s next major exhibition.

For his solo exhibition at BALTIC 39, Matt Calderwood will create a series of ambitious new sculptures which explore the impact of environment and process on simple everyday materials.

Now in its 11th year, the KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival opens 7 March. Running until 17 March the event offers visitors an opportunity to view the best of Polish Cinema and the visual arts.

Alongside Man Ray’s far larger show at the National Portrait Gallery, Atlas Gallery is showing an intimate selection of about 45 contact prints from the artists collection in the capital this spring.

Berlin is a significant departure from Erwin Olaf’s previous work. The photographer set and filmed this collection on location in six different historical spaces in the grand city of Amsterdam.

The Rose Engine, an exhibition of new work by London-based artist Simon Periton, has been unveiled at The Modern Institute. The show has developed out of his interest in decorative tradition.

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013’s four shortlisted artists are Mishka Henner, Chris Killip, Cristina De Middel and the artist duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.

Spreading across two weekends for the first time, Flatpack Festival returns to Birmingham 21 – 31 March. Includes live scores, parties, cycle-powered screenings and a celebration of Birmingham Arts Lab.

A visit to YSP presents the viewer with a multiplicity of environmental factors. Lakes resolve the undulating volatility of the sculpted landscape; such is punctuated with old and new architecture.

Hanmi Gallery has opened at 30 Maple Street with a showing of 11 artists all exploring the idea of uncertainty. The gallery is truly stripped back, having been returned to its’ pre-refurbished state.

We speak to longlisted artist Daniel Shiel, who uses digital photographic collage work to explore the textures and patterns in everyday objects. His entered works are named Blue and Malakoff.

Aesthetica speaks to the video-artist, photographer, sculptor and musician, Richard T. Walker about his first survey exhibition in the UK. Taking place at Carroll/Fletcher until 13 April.

Running concurrently at Platform Arts in Belfast are the exhibitions I Had No Idea by the London-based artist Keef Winter and Examination by the regional artist Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell.

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective on display at Tate showcases the first comprehensive account of his art since his death. The exhibition is co-organised by the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern.

A unique installation in Kensington Gardens presented by the Serpentine Gallery and The Royal Parks, Rock on Top of Another Rock, is a large-scale sculpture by artist duo Fischli/Weiss.

Moving Image opens next week in New York. For its third edition there is a line up of special projects and panel discussions, besides an international selection of single-channel videos and installations.

Celebrated British artist and curator, Stuart Semple, exhibits alongside two groundbreaking US painters, Roni Stretch and Antoinette Wysocki; both showing work in London for the first time.

A staggering selection of high-calibre work by a multitude of internationally acclaimed artists was performed; the following works exemplify the variety of approaches and mediums showcased.

London’s new global art fair, Art13, opens this week. 70 percent of participating artists will be attending a fair in London for the first time and 50 percent of works will be produced by non-western artists.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art. We speak to Caroline Jane Harris, who explores the intricacies of nature through a labour intensive paper-cutting technique.

Four decades worth of punk feminist work are presented in Linder Sterling’s Paris retrospective. Photography, collage, music and video works have been assembled under the title Femme/Objet.

Version Control is a group exhibition featuring work by 27 international artists and collectives. Spanning a range of media, what links these works is their relation to the notion of ‘performativity’.

The Magic of the State, is Lisson Gallery’s up and coming exhibition and editorial project conceived in collaboration with Beirut, a new art initiative and exhibition space in Cairo. Curated by Silvia Sgualdini.

Babeldom is Paul Bush’s first feature film. Starring Youla Boudali and Mark Caven, the film was part of the Official Selection at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and Sao Paulo Film Festival.

Thomas Dane Gallery, in collaboration with Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago unveils the first survey of New York – based artist Dominick Di Meo’s work outside the United States tomorrow in London.

Ian Andrews’ Rummage Out seizes the impromptu aesthetics of the surrounding shops and art deco interior, to beautifully create a reserved and submissively secular island within the building.