Featuring in less than a month at ASFF, Cockatoo is part of the Comedy screening. Produced by Ninja Milk and directed by Matthew Jenkin, Cockatoo has already proved immensely popular.

CHANEL’s photographic exhibition dedicated to The Little Black Jacket: CHANEL’s classic revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, opened at the Saatchi Gallery on 12 October.

First shown in October 1984, Roads to Wigan Pier consists of the work of six then newly graduated students. They took Orwell’s seminal work, The Road to Wigan Pier as their starting point.

Rupert Blanchard creates bespoke furniture from discarded drawers, secondhand pieces and scrap material, but is adamant that his work should not be considered part of the upcycling trend.

During Frieze Art Fair, artist Toby Ziegler in association with Simon Lee Galley, has installed a site specific show in the basement of Q Park, a car park accessed by lift and concealed below street level.

One of the first things Marcus Hammond did when he bought a church in the middle of the “wrong side of town” in Gainsborough, was paint its front doors hot pink. Regrouping, until 27 October.

There is now less than one month to go until the opening of ASFF. The festival will present a sparkling selection of screenings, premieres and masterclasses in venues across the city of York, UK.

Featuring a carefully curated selection of 41 international contemporary galleries, Multiplied opens today. Christie’s will be home to the UK’s only contemporary prints and editions art fair.

With over 175 of the world’s art galleries exhibiting under one roof, Frieze art fair is notoriously exhausting. Somehow this year it wasn’t, which is quite a telling point for the success of the fair.

With ASFF opening in just over one month, Aesthetica takes the time to interview filmmakers screening films at the festival this year. David Fairhead is the man behind The Long Journey Home.

An installation based exhibition, the Moniker Art Fair runs in Shoreditch’s Village Underground from 11 October. Each artist takes up a designated space to showcase and advertise their work.

In 1972, Impressions opened in a room above a shop in York with their first show. As one of the first specialist photography galleries in the UK it has gone on to play a vital role in championing the form.

Gallery owner Steve Lazarides’ latest exhibition Bedlam in association with HTC at the Old Vic Tunnels runs until the 21 October. The Lazarides Gallery relishes in fusing art and the experiential.

Man with a Ball, is opening tomorrow at the Gagosian Gallery. Running until 10 November, this major sculpture exhibition was prepared by Franz West up until his untimely death earlier this summer.

August Sander’s photographs encompass all emotions and circumstances that have long been endured by people of both disadvantaged and privileged backgrounds alike.

For the first time since his death, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, are presenting the largest exhibition of over 100 paintings, drawings and sculptures by artist Roy Lichtenstein.

As the heated embers of the summer sun are suddenly dashed with September’s miserable icy rain an unexpected feeling of excitement and elation is bestowed upon the city of Birmingham.

This is The Turner Prize 2012, in the year of royal jubilation, sport spectacle and debt, where all eyes are on London. Expectations, as always, are high as four finalists’ works are revealed at Tate.

New Sensations is due to open on 9 October. Showcasing the leading graduate talents, New Sensations, developed by the Saatchi Gallery, is aimed at shining a light on the best emerging artists.

Founded in 2008, 830 Sign incorporates streamlining trends with a modern take on classics. Inspired by arts, architecture and anatomy, the collections appeal to versatile and avant-garde minds.

Hockney to Hogarth unites the works of 18th century artist William Hogarth, and contemporary artist David Hockney, who both completed a series of works entitled A Rake’s Progress.

Ben Gold was destined to be a photographer. His fate was sealed when, as a teenager experimenting with his camera, he discovered his family house was once owned by founders of Magnum.

John Akomfrah opens his first exhibition for Caroll/Fletcher this Friday. Hauntologies reveals the virtuosity and depth of his practice, as he considers on disappearance, memory and death.

Alpha-Ville 2012 is opening this weekend. Presenting to their guests both Alpha-Ville Live and Alpha-Ville Screening, this London based organisation is dedicated to the promotion of digital culture.

Encounters returns with an even wider and more diverse spectrum of fascinating films, negotiating subjects ranging from the claustrophobia of captivity to the accidental beauty of the workplace.

Rosie Martin’s DIY Couture is the latest publication to hit the shelves, encouraging consumers to pick up a pair of fabric shears and a few bobbins, plug in the sewing machine and get started.

Long forgotten from the Fukushima disaster, Yasusuke Ota turns our attention to the animals left behind in The Abandoned Animals of Fukushima at Huis Marseille from 3 until 14 October.

Moving Image will be returning to the Bargehouse in London’s South Bank this October. The art fair, this year partnering with Aesthetica, will be showcasing 35 single-channel videos and installations.

Klein + Moriyama examines the importance of the urban environment for two of post-war photography’s most compelling and elusive figures.

The rock and roll lifestyle may be all glamour to an outsider, but rockumentary Hit So Hard shows precisely how one musician paid the price for fame.

Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag celebrate their 20th anniversary. A new book examines their unique fusion of graphic design, art, music and fashion.

Formento & Formento is a partnership between BJ and Richeille Formento. Based in the USA, the pair creates cinematic images that rest somewhere between fine art and fashion photography.

Tim Walker presented a breathtakingly surreal exhibition, Story Teller at Somerset House, which combined the worlds of art and fashion.

A new exhibition at SFMOMA surveys the work of artists from six cities that have become burgeoning artistic centres, exploring the changing nature of today’s international artistic landscape.

Musical instrument designers are pushing their creations in new and unexpected directions. In the process, the instruments themselves are becoming a lot more than just tools for making music.

Picked by arguably the most successful fashion blogger, Susie Bubble, this text lists the most influential writers and photographers of the online fashion realm.

These Things Happen offers such a perfect balance of guitar-rich up-tempo treats and laid-back melody that it’s a surprise to discover it’s Burning Shapes’ debut.

Blue-collar black kid meets snooty white rich girl and they play out their rivalries on the running track. And that’s it. Noel Clarke’s script does what it says on the tin.

In Nadav Kander’s series Yangtze – The Long River, a body of work for which he won the prestigious 2009 Prix Pictet photographic award, Kander followed the Yangtze River for most of its 4,000 miles.

Orr can make some great beats. Wise has a killer voice. And together, the Brooklyn duo make some beguiling pop music: all sultry textures and tinkling asides.

The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years showcases 153 works by 20 artists who photographed the same subject in the same place repeatedly.

Minus the Bear’s fifth album sees the quintet reunited with former member and long time producer Matt Bayles and is, in many ways, a return to form.

Over more than two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photography with impressive range. This book was created in the course of numerous journeys around the world.

Marking the 125th anniversary of the birth of Le Corbusier, this text illuminates his dynamic relationship with photography.

This is all about the bass: big, crunchy, rumbly synths that will shake any pair of headphones to pieces.

Originally released in 1970, this cult classic tells the story of a well-to-do New Yorker who becomes the landlord of an inner-city tenement.

Rafta lends itself superbly to the screen in this hugely enjoyable – if not exactly groundbreaking – adaptation.

Celebrated for her searching voice and haunting guitar, the American singer makes a welcome return to original material on this tenth album.

Including an introduction by street artist Lady Aiko and an interview with Stencil King, this is a stimulating introduction to stencils, spraypaint and public space.

Yorgos Lanthimos returns this autumn with his third feature film Alps, an extra­ordinary follow-up to Dogtooth, imbued with Lanthimos’ trademark style.