Set in the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House, The Sony World Photography Awards exhibition presents the best of the 2012 competition.

With a resurgence in the handmade and a push for sustainability, artists are using materials in new and exciting ways. Los Carpinteros open Silence Your Eyes this spring at Kunstmuseum Thun.

Photography In Mexico, now on at SFMOMA, showcases more than 150 works by Mexican photographers as well as American and European artists who found Mexico to be a place of inspiration.

In his latest series, Behind Open Doors, Creedon spent six weeks in Havana studying the complex and dynamic relationships of families.

Karl Markovics discusses his latest film, about 19-year-old Roman Kogler, who takes on a probation job where he must confront the truth about his past.

National identity in music is a hugely complex subject. Where you come from doesn’t just shape the music you make; it shapes how people perceive it and you.

Gerald McMaster is one of the Artistic Directors of the Biennale of Sydney 2012. Along with his co-curator, Catherine de Zegher, created an event that re-examines wider narratives.

Black Pond is a highly original and poignant narrative, which examines the family dynamic through the eyes of one lonely character and the Thompson family.

Since their last album, School of Seven Bells has shrunk from a trio to a duo. Their latest album Ghostory makes a bold statement: the band is very much alive.

Acclaimed visual artist, David Shrigley, brings his popular characters to life in Pass the Spoon, a collaboration with Nicholas Bone and David Fennessy.

Patrick Keiller’s most recent project brings the imaginary to life in a very real and concrete way. Robinson, the enigmatic scholar, seeks to explain the current economic and social condition.

I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith is the product of a decade-long conversation between independent Curator Elizabeth Brown and the artist, examining a little-known body of work.

Cities are often described as living organisms; viewed as subject rather than object. Matthew Picton engages with this traditional of humanising the city by deconstructing the clean.

David Hall is a formative figure in time-based art. Credited with introducing the term “time-based media” into circulation, he followed this by creating the first British course in the subject.

Tina Hage is a London-based artist. She grew up in Düsseldorf and studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne until 2004 and then completed her Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2009.

The 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open this Thursday 29 March. It promises to be a fantastic show with new work by Philip-Lorca diCorcia from David Zwirner.

This month Dublin’s Gallery of Photography plays host to the work of two esteemed photographers – Sebastião Salgado and Per-Anders Pettersson.

Massimo Nolletti’s exhibition is a wonderful celebration of the sounds and vibrations of everyday life. This series of work represents the endless possibilities of photography in an urban setting.

An immobile red hatchback, front smashed against a skewed road sign, blares out hypnotic and maniacal club anthems from its boasting stereo system.

Born into a Muslim family in Birmingham in 1978, London-based artist Idris Khan decided to stop practising Islam when he was fourteen years old.

“Do you hear me?” echoes a haunted voice in a vacuous subterranean space while a man crouches in a cell unable to escape the persistence of the creeping and persistent speaker.

Birdhead’s concern is the flow of power from West to East, as gauged by that thriving metropolis of ever increasing scale, life and culture: Shanghai.

Among the most common and enduring definitions of design is “problem solving.” A problem arises, the designer analyses it and distils it into goals, and then she creates a road map to a solution.

To celebrate the unveiling of the Women’s Designer Galleries in its London store, Selfridges has commissioned The Film Project – a bespoke short film collection. Free screenings continue until 26 March.

The Freud Museum was Sigmund Freud’s home in the last year of his life. The museum has attracted interest in the art world having worked with artists such as Susan Hiller and Mat Collishaw.

The title of the current exhibition of photographs by Raeda Saadeh at Rose Issa Projects, London, is well-chosen as True Tales, Fairy Tales brings together and highlights key aspects of the artist’s work.

Notorious for his controversial and ethically dubious video-works, Santiago Sierra is a contentious and well-known figure in the field of contemporary art.

Having been given the opportunity to exhibit at South London Gallery, Alice Channer took the bold step of creating an entirely new set of works to fill the impressive gallery space.

Irish folk music has played an intrinsic part in the socio-political history of the Irish working-class. Through this medium an injured party could publicly express their frustrations at the hardship.

Marcus Coates is best known for his shamanistic performance works in which he channels and consults animal spirits. This element of his practice has already found its way into Tate Britain’s Triennial.

Song Dong’s current installation, Waste Not, at the Barbican Curve Gallery, stands as the culmination of the hoardings of the artist’s mother, Zhao Xiangyuan.

War, violence, death – these aren’t pretty topics. Nevertheless they’re topics that are explored in Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, an exhibition of artwork by Adel Abdessemed.

Yayoi Kusama is Japan’s best-known living artist. Since the 1940s, she has produced a wealth of work encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture and collage as well as large-scale installations.

Thomas Zipp borrows Sigmund Freud’s Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (1920) for the title of this show at Alison Jacques Gallery in London.

You can’t help but feel like you are disturbing a sense of stillness as you enter the Japan House Gallery at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

There are a lot of projects that get the go-ahead in the name of regeneration, and the savagely debated Jerwood Gallery in Hastings is no exception.

Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating objects and installations from light fixtures. His work focused on drawings and paintings influenced by Abstract Expressionism.

Now in its second year after a successful launch, the Roundhouse’s Reverb Festival aims to dismantle the stuffy, jargon-loaded image of classical music.

Richardson has been inspired by the multiple facets of Hollywood life. In his latest show, TERRYWOOD, at OHWOW, he unveils a series of images of the famous city, as seen through his eyes.

A Special Form of Darkness at Tramway is an open, convivial music/ performance/ ideas hybrid – a cross between a festival, magazine and discussion.

You wouldn’t be to blame if you assumed the banner above the Hayward were a David Shrigley piece. It has the immediacy of his work, and none of the seriousness that represents Jeremy Deller.

Cotton. You’re probably wearing it now. You probably sleep on it every night. The sheer abundance of this material all around us means it usually remains ignored and under-appreciated.

Short & Sweet is a travelling short-film series: an international community of film lovers who father for lively events of short films and socialising. This winter Short & Sweet returns to London.

Canary Wharf Screen is a motion picture screening programme that will launch at Canary Wharf Tube station at the beginning of next month. The project has been initiated by Art on the Underground.

Lynda Benglis’ name has taken on mythical connotations in the art world. Her photographic spread in Artforum sparked controversy at the time, and has been awarded verbal accolades by artists.

Campbell’s soup cans, exclamation marks, kissing couples. Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente. The works of three legendary artists are currently being displayed at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.

Mitchell’s installation arrived in Leeds on 14 February, and just as the carousel in the city’s Valentine’s Fair carries happy lovers of all ages, Mitchell reminds us of an obverse mental maelstrom.

The Japan Foundation has hosted an annual touring film programme since 2004. This year, between 10 February – 28 March, a set of 9 contemporary Japanese films will tour seven UK cities.

When Nalini Malani was invited to create a large-scale new media installation for presentation in India Contemporary at the Venice Biennale, her response was the enigmatic video play Mother India.

The opening of Interplanetary Revolution may feature a cocktail bar, a chorus of ice cream vans, the introduction of another currency and a song by The Factotum Choir that they never quite cracked.