Places Transform 

French photographer Olivia Lavergne curates ambitious scenes, investigating how rainforests are conjured up within the public imagination.

Creative Destination 

California’s iconic homes are the subject of an architecture book that collates buildings which respond to their natural surroundings.

Into the Unfamiliar 

Michelle Blancke takes us into dark, enigmatic and unusual woodland locations. They are all carpeted with mosses and lurid lichen growth.

Visionary Storyteller 

Tyler Mitchell is making waves across art and fashion with portraits of Black life centring on self-determination and the joyous everyday.

Portrait of Emotion 

Djeneba Aduayom’s bright photographs take bubbles as a metaphor, featuring subjects who find themselves caught in translucent spheres.

American Dreaming

CCCB’s exhibition ‘Suburbia: Building the American Dream’ surveys the development of this idealised lifestyle from the 19th century to the present.

Art for Advocacy

April is Autism Awareness Month, and a new contemporary art and photography marketplace is launching a fundraiser in support of the community.

Physical Care: The Tokyo
Contemporary Art Award

This year’s winners, Saeborg and Tsuda Michiko, present two very different exhibitions that offer a lens through which to view contemporary Japan.

The Bodies of Today:
Whitney Biennial 2024

The longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States returns with a line up that includes filmmaker Isaac Julien and singer Holland Andrews.

The Power of Listening:
Forecast 8

This year’s festival transformed passive listeners into active participants, presenting collaborative artistic projects which amplified often-unheard voices.

Landscape and Identity:
Malta’s 2024 Art Biennale

This spring, Malta shows its first contemporary art biennale with a line up that includes Adama Delphine Fawundu, Cecilia Vicuña and Laura Besançon.

Architect Interview:
Building Joyful Spaces

“Design should inspire, incite, complement and celebrate our lives.” Learn more about a design studio committed to creating joyful spaces.

Playful Forms

Gerwald Rockenschaub presents his eighth solo show at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, with an installation that prioritises colour and shape.

Street Photography Now

Colour, light and shadow are important ingredients for a successful photograph. Five artists single out moments where people, buildings and objects meet.

Otherworldly Landscapes

Meet the Shortlist | We asked photographer Yevhen Samuchenko about the inspirations behind his picturesque shots of an unusual Pink lake in Ukraine.

Photography & Literature:
Annie Ernaux’s Encounters

Maison Européenne de la Photographie pairs Annie Ernaux’s book with over 150 images that capture the intricacies of daily life and experiences in Paris.

The Deutsche Börse 2024
Photography Foundation Prize

The annual award at The Photographers’ Gallery announces its shortlist: Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Hrair Sarkissian, Lebohang Kganye and Valie Export.

Landscape Glitch

Meet the Shortlist | Margeaux Walter is a fine art photographer who stages site-specific interventions that disrupt the natural scenery.

Selling a Dream

Journey into a time capsule of luxurious images from 1910 until the 1970s through 250 prints from Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and Deborah Turbeville.

Highlights from Design Shenzhen

Following the inaugural Design Shenzen in 2023, the second edition of the fair returns this March with special exhibitions that embrace outstanding design.

Conscious Composition:
Design Exhibitions to Know

From Latin American innovation in the 20th century, to the legacy of Enzo Mari, we round up five shows that showcase the importance of design today.

An Ongoing
Fight for Freedom

The “Acts of Resistance” exhibition offers a survey of changing approaches to feminist protest over the past decade through the work of 16 artists.

Sony World Photography:
Open and Professional Awards

We round up five captivating shots from this year’s Open and Professional finalists, from spellbinding portraiture to ethereal architectural compositions.

Urban Views

Simon Phipps’ monochrome images chronicle the post-war architectural heritage of Wales. His new photobook is a bold celebration of Brutalism.

Interstates of Becoming

In 2023, Gareth Phillips was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize for his sculptural photobook. We catch up with the artist on his newest show.

Experiencing Colour

Meet the Shortlist | We caught up with Thomas Jenkins about the complex ideas behind his project Chasing Colour and how it’s meant to be viewed.

The Beauty
Of Friendship

David van Dartel’s photography focuses on friendship and masculinity, showing moments of tenderness between subjects in soothing landscapes.

A Site of Discovery: Compton Verney

Historic house and art gallery Compton Verney celebrates its 20th anniversary with a major new sculpture park spread across 120 acres of land.

Imagining Tomorrow

Future Gaze is an exhibition showcasing the work of eight photographers who illustrate the threads connecting culture, innovation and tradition.

Transformative Environments

We spotlight creatives from the Aesthetica Art Prize longlist who create installations. These pieces examine themes like animal rights and ownership.

Sparking Generational Change

Meet the Shortlist | Kriss Munsya tells us about the symbolism behind “Genetic Bomb” and how the series confronts colonialism and patriarchy.

The Flesh of the Earth

“We are part of the environment. We too are of the soil and the elements.” Enuma Okoro curates Hauser & Wirth’s latest exhibition ‘The Flesh of the Earth.’

Exquisite Performance

The Museum of Modern Art brings together the most comprehensive Joan Jonas retrospective to date in the US, spanning more than 50 years’ work.

Major European Shows This Season

Aesthetica brings together a list of shows that consider themes like memory and heritage and reinvigorate audiences’ experience of space.

Disrupted Identity

Meet the Shortlist | Edgar Martins’ series ‘I’m Still Here’ is the product of research with prisons and legal medicine institutes based in conflict zones.

A Keen Observer

What attracts us to street photography time and time again? Eighteen talented contemporary image-makers explore this question in “Street Life.”

Social Upheaval

Moderna Museet, Sweden, presents ‘Unhealed’ a mixed-media exhibition that brings together the work of artists in the Arab World and its diaspora.

International Women’s Day:
Key Art Exhibitions this Season

This International Women’s Day, we bring you a list of exhibitions from around the world that celebrate pioneering artists across the ages.

Evolving Humanity

Meet the Shortlist | Sigita Silina is a visual artist whose film explores the future possibility of collective society colliding with technology.

After the End of History:
British Working Class Photography

Johny Pitts curates an Haywood Gallery exhibition that focuses on working class British life, turning a viewer’s gaze to history, memory and culture.

The Keepers of History

Aïda Muluneh’s extraordinary work over the past decade is on display in what is her most comprehensive solo show in Europe to date.

FotoFest Biennial: 5 Images to Know

FotoFest Biennial features works by international artists that explore how communities are influenced by social, ecological and other systematic forces.

Pritzker Architectural Prize 2024:
Winner Announced

Riken Yamamoto has been named as the recipient of the annual architectural prize for his projects that bridge the gap between private and public spaces.

Impact of Pictures

Works by David Uzochukwu, Djeneba Aduayom, Helene Schmitz, Ori Gersht and Yan Wang Preston explore our relationship with nature.

Investigating the Mind

Meet the Shortlist | Kenji Ouellet discusses the film “Contrapunctus V” and shares key insights into his experimental and ambiguous work.

PHOTO 24:
Towards the Future

Australia’s largest International Photography Festival offers 100 exhibitions, spanning regional, international and Indigenous image-making.

Artist Interview: Conceal & Reveal

Andrea Torres Balaguer embodies distinct characters in her captivating self-portraits. Here, the photographer tells us more about her work.

Architecture Reclaimed

In London, V&A’s architecture exhibit shows how, in the context of decolonisation, Tropical Modernism was harnessed to shape ideas of nationhood.

The Undiscovered Self

Meet the Shortlist | We talk to British-Ghanaian artist Heather Agyepong about her series ‘ego death’ as inspired by Carl Jung’s concept of ‘The Shadow.’

New Realms, New Questions

Aleppo-born artist Iyad Rahwan is based in Berlin. Drawing upon his work as a computer scientist and director of the Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines, his art explores the evolution of AI and its relationship to the human condition.