Constructing the Experimental
RIBA furthers its conversation on how architecture can influence arts, music, film and theatre with ‘The Architects Underground’.
RIBA furthers its conversation on how architecture can influence arts, music, film and theatre with ‘The Architects Underground’.
Next Generation is an annual collaboration with London College of Communication, featuring seven new talents entering the photographic sphere.
The renowned Dutch fair returns, providing a space for photographers that are testing uneven ground through bold, abstracted compositions.
Examining the use of photography to question the nature of accepted truths and subjective realities, the images sit between fact and fiction.
Picking up on small strips of colour within manufactured locations, Kyle Jeffers builds up textures through costume, props and layouts.
Studio Brasch works across fine art and conceptual projects, as well as brand campaigns, visual communication and direction.
Sculpture’s new talents consider the boundaries of the medium and its environmental impact, working with data and electricity, metal and sound.
Kyle Thompson produces photographs that depict feelings of solitude and loneliness in today’s hyper-digitised climate.
Rebecca Reeve’s series Marjory’s World comments upon our increasingly urban existence – a sense of disconnect from the natural world.
The German Democratic Republic was a country ruled by surveillance and constant monitoring; photographs provide a window into the era.
A non-profit organisation takes charge of ocean health through major collaborations with artists, promoting plastic-free lifestyles.
Alessio Albi’s close-up portraits draw attention to finer bodily details – capturing them with mesmerising intensity and heightened colours.
Sebastian Weiss is an architectural photographer who sparks dialogues with buildings. Glass and concrete come together in fluid structures.
ING’s annual Discerning Eye exhibition is now open for entries. Illustrator Gill Button is one of 2019’s panel, translating emotions into artworks.
The story of the British Black Panthers are the subject of an exhibition from iconic photographer Neil Kenlock and curator Mattie Loyce.
As brands place greater emphasis on ethical consumption, Aesthetica selects five new collections that combine style with sustainability.
A maze of organic, chrysalis-like shapes. A psychedelic hub embedded in a grassy bank. SelgasCano’s pavilion links design and nature.
The final chapter in a three part series, ‘Colored People Time: Banal Presents’ is a rarely heard story of a national disgrace in America.
Charlie Goodge sensitively draws attention to texture – velvet curtains and draped tablecloths create sumptuous visual environments.
Top shows look at the legacies of iconic artists, photographers and architects whilst positioning the natural world as a metaphor for global issues.
The story of designers Herman Miller is told over ten chapters and thousands of illustrations in Herman Miller: A Way of Living.
A campus building from biotech company Unither is entirely self-sufficient, offsetting the energy it uses with renewable energy it generates onsite.
Anouk van Kalmthout’s works have become well-known for communicating a sense of the surreal – opening doors beyond perception.
A new exhibition explores the garden’s role in modern society through immersive structures, video installations and sound works.
From leading biennials to top cultural institutions, Aesthetica Art Prize alumni continue to demonstrate excellence across the globe.
Conservation and the fight for our planet occupies the front of collective minds in 2019, and artists are helping to further that narrative.
A swimmer cuts through a sun-dappled pool. Chairs cast shadows in summer light. Poetic work by André Kertész is on view at Jeu de Paume.
Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota is best known for immersive installations of interwoven threads. The largest solo show to date opens in Tokyo.
From key 20th century events to dialogues between painting and photography, these shows demonstrate the importance of images in history.
Spanning 1.5-hectares, and overlooking the Loire River in Nantes, ‘Polaris’ is an architectural delight spanning six mixed-use buildings.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s interactive art environment offers audiences the opportunity to see, hear and touch sounds in the atmosphere.
What will the future look like? This question forms the blueprint for The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art.
A collection of Renzo Piano’s sketches, photographs and plans are published by Taschen with Piano: Complete Works 1966-Today.
‘Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies’ at Wellcome Collection explores representations of chronic illness and experiences of care.
Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Brle Marx sees the lush gardens of the New York Botanical Garden burst into colour.
The 20th century photographer Garry Winogrand was renowned for candid depictions of life in the US. The Brooklyn Museum presents colour work.
Coco Amardeil’s ‘Hello, It’s Me series’ is a searing portrait of adolescence – seen through the cold white glow from phone screens.
Sustainable fashion label Port Zienna returns with a new collection. Inspired by the natural world, it evokes the bright notes of summer.
‘New Horizon’ takes to the skies across Massachusetts from 12 to 28 July in the form of a 100-ft tall, mirrored hot air balloon.
British photographer Martin Parr is widely recognised for a satirical, high-contrast documentation of contemporary British life.
The London Design Festival is an epicentre of global design, covering London with exhibitions, installations, bold architectural design and art.
This weekend’s top picks navigate digital realms, homelands and expansive vistas. Each show is tied to a specific sense of place and time.
1,905 meters above sea level is the Path of Perspectives, ten structural vantage points built from local materials stretching 2.8-kilometers.
To live in a cabin is somewhat synonymous with the idea of returning back to nature. A new publication looks at examples around the world.
Nocturnal Creatures and Whitechapel Gallery showcases the vibrancy and life of East London through sound, video and performance.
‘Access For All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures’ shows how the city copes with human demand through communal architecture.
Ernő Goldfinger was integral to British architecture and design, and is commemorated in a forthcoming publication from Historic England.
Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate with ‘In Real Life’, an expansive retrospective spanning three decades and responding to the climate crisis.
Neon letters. Coca-Cola adverts. Road signs. Since the early 1960s, photographer Lee Friedlander has recorded this urban vernacular.
Tokyo-Yokosuka: 1976-1983 is an artefact from the Japanese economic boom, taken while the capital was in technological overdrive.