The Australian Institute of Architects will open their Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennial. From 29 August until 25 November.
Facing The Music is an exhibition focusing on the portraiture and documents of British composers. The collection shows works painted and photographed by a hoard of different artists and assistants.
This group exhibition Fashion! A Selection of Photographs from the Camera Work Collection will present a survey of nine decades of fashion photography. Part of Unseen in Amsterdam.
Tony Cragg at Exhibition Road is a major exhibition of new outdoor sculptures created by one of the most influential British sculptors Tony Cragg for the London 2012 Festival.
To celebrate 50 years of political independence for Trinidad and Tobago, literature producer Melanie Abrahams and composer Dominique Le Gendre have teamed up to stage a free festival.
Shooting from helicopters, this series by Guy Malin has been photographed around the world from the U.S. to Brazil to Australia. Malin was inspired to take aerial shots from a balcony in Las Vegas.
The magic of film lies in its frame-by-frame flickering approximation of life. The stilling of that movement re-directs the viewer’s gaze towards an entirely new reality. Context and meaning are rearranged.
The second edition in the series marking BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art 10th birthday, the exclusive new colour print by Graham Dolphin whose work Fallen Neverland goes on sale 17 August.
John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as “the worlds most famous unknown artist”. 40 years later, her work is undoubtedly more familiar to the world but for some there still remains an air of detachment.
Out of the Blue Art Gallery presents Around Leh, an exhibition of photographs by Nishant Chandra, exploring the splendid and scenic beauty of the Leh region in monotone greys. From 6 August.
SuperMassiveBlackHole is dedicated to contemporary photography and the photographic imagery resulting from the time-based processes found in many interdisciplinary art practices today.
The Design Museum in London have opened Designed to Win looking at the close links between sport and design. Designed to Win celebrates the ways in which design and sport are combined.
The ninth Edinburgh Art Festival launches today with major exhibitions by leading international artists. Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival dedicated to visual art.
Set in Bolivia in 2000 at the height of the civil unrest, a writer and director team begin shooting an epic take on the life of Christopher Columbus.
While the rest of the world was enamoured with The Beatles, Claude François was a sensation in France.
Matthew Akers delivers a living portrait of Marina Abramović, one of the most radical, provocative, uncompromising and extreme figures of the last 40 years.
Nathalie is consumed by grief when her handsome husband dies, but three years down the line, she surprises herself by falling for an awkward Swedish man.
The wry humour woven through this initially subversive battle of the sexes never really goes away, even as the drama takes on a harsher, realist perspective.
Based on the 1885 novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami is a fast-paced romp through the Parisian high society of the late 19th century.
From the instant 12 Bit Blues starts playing, an incredibly thrilling experience begins. As a listener, you feel like you’ve been given access to a rare privilege.
With their third full-length album, Said the Whale prove themselves to be experts in blending diverse elements into an ultimately harmonious end result.
Room E is a San Diego-based producer and he makes gentle electronica. The album, Penguin Child, is a very relaxed walk through this particular genre.
Taking your title from one of the world’s most celebrated Surrealists means you’ve got to deliver and this doesn’t disappoint.
Meursault have produced a genuinely extraordinary record. Something For The Weakened hangs its hat on its writing and production, and both are almost faultless.
Primarily acoustic, the album prioritises melody, and you’ll find yourself humming some of its tunes when you don’t expect it.
This isn’t so much a book as it is an artefact. Beautiful and intimate, this text offers an overview of Friedrich’s oeuvre.
Ken Price, an internationally renowned ceramic artist, is best known for his abstract shapes constructed from clay.
Bringing together seven distinct bodies of work from 1998 to 2012, Photo Album is a collection that evokes its namesake.
Drape Drape 2 includes 14 designs for tops, dresses, skirts, vests and jackets. The designs have a certain sharp severity that you would expect from the former Head of Garment Design for Muji.
Collins’ text skilfully moves through the different eras of Pop. He also looks at Pop Art in relation to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.
Wegman’s love of Weimaraners has led him to be recognised as one of world’s most widely known conceptual artists.
Ed Atkins’ work investigates materiality and corporeality by working in high-definition video and writing.
New Art Exchange has launched the CULTURE CLOUD, an exhibition showcasing the work of 40 artists selected by public vote to have their works exhibited in the New Art Exchange.
2012 marks the 100th year since Arizona became one of the United States, and this summer The Center for Creative Photography presents a selection of images created in the state.
This September Brancolini Grimaldi hosts There’s Something Happening Here, a group exhibition that showcases the work of a new generation of photographers.
We’re in the age of the iPhone. Nearly everyone has one. how is the music industry coping with the influx of apps?
The first large-scale survey of Land Art takes place at MOCA in Los Angeles, looking at the historical origins of artists’ interactions with landscape.
A new exhibition demonstrates Merce Cunningham’s concept of movement in space and explores his relationship with art and other artists.
Malik Bendjelloul, director of Searching For Sugar Man, discusses how he committed such a curious story to celluloid.
If Cig Harvey takes her inspiration from past and personal experiences, then the world in which she lives must be at once beautiful and terrifying.
Grasscut is a Brighton-based electro-pop band. Formed by Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair in 2009, the band has gone on to achieve widespread critical acclaim.
A rediscovery of the feminist artist Penelope Slinger presents a timely reappraisal of her work for the first time in nearly 40 years.
A new exhibition at Somerset House in London contextualises Brazilian contemporary art and design within the paradigm of international artistic practice.
Utilising Venice Architecture Biennale as a platform, The Way of Enthusiasts compiles the last few decades of Russian art into a comprehensive landscape.
The Dark Half tells the gripping story of a teenage girl’s journey through her troubled imagination, negotiating the boundaries of fact and fiction.
Just off Regent Street, where the heaving bodies and flickers of colour that illuminate the shop windows and populate the pavements collide, is the Bartha Contemporary Gallery.
Art’s Complex is a gallery and studio space for over 300 artists in Edinburgh. Opening today, the studio’s first Summer Show will showcase some of the most exciting works being produced in the space.
Katie Paterson’s practice involves collaboration with specialists in different technologies from astronomers, engineers to radio enthusiasts. Her latest work is titled Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky.
Shimmering eclectic waves, the magic of visual oceans high up a ceiling, endless skies of light flickering and changing in time, impressions created by the new LivingSculpure 3D Module System.
Archipelago Cinema, a floating auditorium designed by architect Ole Scheeren, will form part of the official selection of collateral events in the 13th International Architecture Exhibition.
