Symbiotic Landscapes

Maik Lipp takes a clean, graphic approach to modern metropolis. Mixed Minimal isolates the beauty of lone architectural elements.

Energetic Arrangement

The French Lesson showcases one of Paul et Martin’s most notable collaborations, a creatively led video achieved through a summery, geometric aesthetic.

Organic Reformation

Experienced in architecture, fashion and design, Julia Körner combines formulae from the natural landscape with technological advancements.

Aesthetica Issue 78

In this era of accelerating post-truth and digital manipulation, where fact converges with fiction, we must ask ourselves – what is going on?

Redefined Possibilities

In an era of post-truth, Unseen Amsterdam explores distorted perceptions, reliability and control through an exciting showcase of contemporary photography.

Dynamic Technologies

A new publication provides a diverse overview of well-known designers and the innovative solutions produced for domestic and urban life.

Investigative Expression

Barbican, London and The Trampery have launched alt.barbican, an initiative featuring practitioners who challenge the boundaries of art and technology.

Reflective Cityscapes

Jersey City-born watercolourist John DuVal strives to capture the light and colour of urban landscapes to create a fresh, yet familiar feel for the viewer.

Digitalised Heritage

Japanese collective teamLab execute a project where non-material digital art can turn into nature without harming its surroundings.

Imaginative Consideration

Andres Serrano’s practice is aligned with baroque painters, translating portraiture dripping with conceptual depth and social consideration into the 21st century.

Pioneering Equality

Brooklyn Museum examines the cultural and aesthetic priorities of black women during the emergence of second-wave feminism in America.

Institutional Development

The V&A’s, London, Exhibition Road Quarter is now open, providing a courtyard as well as a gallery intended to house temporary exhibitions.

Reformed Creation

Design Frontiers offers the work of 30 leading international designers renowned for shaping and leading their respective disciplines.

Investigative Structures

Barcelona plays host to an exposition of the role of a relatively new process, forensic architecture, which is shown to be increasingly vital in a post-truth world.

Metropolitan Introspection

The third annual LensCulture Street Photography Awards invites artists to delve back into the world of the quotidian through the lens of the metropolis.

Public Illumination

Jenny Holzer’s projections take over Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. Working with veterans of recent conflicts, the work fills the interiors.

International Showcase

Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted artist Alinka Echeverría has been selected for the 2017 Foam Talent Call, an internationally renowned platform.

AAP: Contemporary Curating

Jennifer Alexander, Curator of Art at York Art Gallery, sheds light on exhibition practices and curating for the 21st century audience.

Accessible Design

From IKEA to Arne Jacobsen, Scandinavian design has consist­ently been high profile and has become increas­ingly desirable in recent decades.

Meta-Textual Influence

Zoran Poposki explores cultural translation, liminality, identity, and public space through a number of different genres and media.