START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, 26-29 June, London

START art fair is limited to 44 young galleries showcasing artists from around the world. It offers exhibitors a global platform to display their artists’ work at an important stage in their development.

Review of Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, MCA Chicago

Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illuminates how the ideas at the heart of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo’s paintings still resonate with contemporary artists around the world.

Walid El Masri, Cocoon, Ayyam Gallery, London

This solo exhibition by Paris-based Lebanese painter Walid El Masri reflects a departure from the artist’s ongoing Chair series. In this work an inanimate object provided a point of entry for meditative contemplations on life.

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award: Open for Entries

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is open for entries, presenting a fantastic opportunity for established and emerging writers to showcase their poetry and short fiction to international audiences.

Quirkism II: Ovada, Oxford

Quirkism II, ran throughout May at Ovada, Oxford. The exhibition showcased analytical and confessional works by a number of artists that are at once challenging and exciting.

Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain, GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design

GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design is a pioneering institution bringing new insights into Russian art, design and culture. This summer GRAD presents Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain, an exhibition examining the changing face of Soviet design from the 1917 Revolutions to Perestroika.

Mutations, Tiwani Contemporary

This exhibition introduces four international artists to the UK for the first time: Ruby Oyinyechi Amanze, Douglas Rodrigo Rada, Helo Sanvoy and Shoshanna Weinberger have all exhibited frequently across the globe and this summer will present their work in London at Tiwani Contemporary.

PHotoEspaña, Spain

This year PHotoEspaña will focus on Spanish photography, highlighting the rich energy and diversity offered by photographers across the generations. Now in its 17th edition, the festival is an extensive affair, showcasing 440 artists.

Andy Warhol and Yves Klein, Skarstedt Chelsea Gallery, New York

To add to its two existing locations, Skarstedt opened a new gallery space on the 8 May. Situated in the heart of Chelsea in New York, this gallery joins another on New York’s Upper East Side and one in London, UK.

Jimmie Durham: Traces and Shiny Evidence, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London

For this new solo exhibition, Durham has created an installation that covers the entire gallery space of Parasol unit foundation. The ground floor display is a vivid explosion of industrialisation.

Kay Rosen, Galeri Zilberman

Istanbul’s Galeri Zilberman small but effective exhibition of Rosen’s work is well-timed; particularly so because Rosen’s close following of Istanbul’s Gezi Park protests of summer 2013 has provided the inspiration for the centrepiece to the show.

Aesthetica Art Prize Talks: Mark Doyle, Head of Collector Development North for the Contemporary Art Society

The series of art talks at the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition concludes with a discussion led by Mark Doyle, Head of Collector Development North for the Contemporary Art Society.

Piet Mondrian, Mondrian and his Studios, Tate Liverpool

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s death, Tate Liverpool reveals a new exhibition based around his Neo-Plastic paintings and showcasing the unique environment that the artist created to work in.

Review of George Chakravarthi: Thirteen, Impressions Gallery

Born in New Delhi in 1969, George Chakravarthi moved to the UK at the age of 10. It is therefore a reasonable expectation that the theme of identity is one explored in his work.

Insight into the Work of Dan Lane, Mechanica

Mechanica is a dark yet beautiful take on natural forms by mechanical intervention: an industrial version of life. Each piece is the result of months of searching for parts and features.

Dr. Harold Edgerton, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London

The inventive mind of Dr. Harold Edgerton is responsible for some of the world’s most pioneering photographic devices and techniques. As a scientist, Edgerton worked with the famous marine biologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

The London Festival of Architecture

The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) takes place throughout June, presenting a city-wide celebration of the capital’s extraordinary buildings and landmarks.

Form Follows Function

One of the 20th century’s most eminent designers, Louis Kahn was a Modernist pioneer, as much artist as architect. The Design Museum, London, hosts the first major retrospective for 20 years.

Free Range 2014, The Old Truman Brewery, London

The creative hub of East London, the Old Truman Brewery arts and media quarter on Brick Lane, plays host once again to Europe’s largest graduate art, design and fashion show, Free Range.

Tamsin Greig, Humour in Art, Unlock Art: What’s So Funny?

In Unlock Art: What’s So Funny? Tamsin Greig investigates how humour became central to many of the art movements of the past 100 years. The film examines how artists employed humour in their work to ridicule the status quo.