Visionary Enterprise

Looking to the future of creative production, New Designers brings together over 3000 emerging practitioners from leading institutions.

Revisiting America

Looking to the past in order to to reflect upon the present, a new photobook by Matt Henry offers a revealing series of compositions.

Transitory Locales

Investigating spaces of transition, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s oeuvre documents borders and cultural sites to explore lost utopias.

Profiling Innovation

A new book by Libby Sellers, Women Design, profiles 21 pioneers who have shaped the design world over the past 100 years, redressing the gender balance.

Curating Experiences

Pioneering in its extent of research, a new book from Phaidon presents a concentrated and intriguing overview of architectural exhibitions.

Chronicling Globalisation

A show demonstrates how photography and video can be used as tools for both documentation and social discourse.

5 to See: This Weekend

From documentary realism to uncanny compositions, photography shows running 23-24 June engage with diverse aspects of daily life.

Exploring Surrealism

Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain is the first exhibition to track the photographer’s engagement with the movement.

The New York Years

Depicting optimism and honesty, Feinstein’s street photography from the latter half of the century continues to delight and inspire.

Expanding Definitions

In a growing digital landscape, the boundaries of photography are constantly required to evolve. PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai explores this notion.

Representations of Identity

A new publication by Katrin Tiidenberg looks at the social, technological and cultural contexts of the 21st century selfie phenomenon.

Recovering Truth

An honest representation of joy and community spirit erupts from Shirley Baker’s images, which document the effects of urban clearance programmes in Manchester during the 1960s.

10 to See: Summer Shows

This summer’s must-see solo exhibitions, group shows and biennales demonstrate the UK’s dynamic artistic landscape.

Visionary Realism

The first UK retrospective of work by American photographer Dorothea Lange opens at Barbican Centre, London, this summer.

Chromatic Portraits

Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in Color offers personal insight into the photographer’s wider oeuvre and the vividness of the world.

Abstracted Urbanity

An interest in colour, shape and light defines Franco Fontana’s practice, investigating the possibilities of photography.

New Worlds

Constructing a series of neon utopias, Reine Paradis’ surreal images celebrate the perplexities of the contemporary Los Angeles landscape.

Historical Devices

Mark Wallinger’s recently opened public artwork reflects upon notions of justice and democracy, offering an immersive experience.

Diverse Arenas

Bringing together London’s leading galleries, Mayfair Art Weekend celebrates the diversity of London’s artistic landscape.

Reflecting the Present

As part of arts festival Rockaway!, Museum of Modern Art presents Yayoi Kusama’s site-specific installation of Narcissus Garden.

Pastel Roots

Jo Kalinowski is inspired by identities. With British urban roots, she now lives in Australia, exploring the spaces between manmade and natural landscapes.

Urban Anonymity

Delving into the formal structure of the built environment, Michael Wolf’s practice uncovers the complexities of life in the metropolis.

Contemporary Melodrama

Taken between 1974-1976, Langdon Clay’s atmospheric images of cars in New York City capture the aesthetic of an era.

Methodological Practice

Aesthetica Art Prize alumnus Sara Morawetz’s latest project, étalon, is a study of both the length and the lengths taken by science.

Akomfrah: Literary Expanses

The first American survey of work by John Akomfrah investigates the legacy of colonialism, climate change and the experiences of migrants.

Inspiring Narrative

Katrina Palmer’s new piece, opening at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, acknowledges a group of pioneering women during WWI.

Unique Perceptions

Using infrared techniques, artist and photographer Sanne De Wilde captures Pingelap and Pohnpei, islands in Micronesia.

Vacant Architecture

Candida Höfer: Portraits of Spaces depicts empty public places, presenting cultural institutions as devoid of human presence.

5 to See: This Weekend

Exploring the interactions between individuals and the 21st century landscape, must-see exhibitions unearth the uncanny in the everyday.

Industrial Visions

Reshaping our understanding of industrial landscapes, David Maisel’s Atlas demonstrates the physical impact of human activities.

Rewriting Gravity

Inspired by the studio spaces of Luis Barragan, and Ricardo Bofill’s La Muralla Roja, Massimo Colonna’s images provide an arena for uncanny movement.

Future Greats: Free Events

New media has changed the way we communicate. A series of talks at the Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition contextualise the show,

Spatial Responses

Marco Miehling, winner of the 2017 Artists’ Collecting Society Studio Award, creates site specific, spatially & historically responsive works.

Inclusive Practice

Leslie-Lohman Museum brings together work by 12 emerging photographers who engage with ideas of sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity.

Alternative Viewpoints

Bringing together work by Zoe Wetherall and Ashok Sinha, Front Room Gallery’s Strata investigates the medium of aerial photography.

Global Surveillance

Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen, a new show opening at Smithsonian, Washington, occupies the boundaries between art, science and investigative journalism.

Constructing Light

In a new exhibition titled Architecture and People, Nederlands Fotomuseum brings Werner Mantz’s architectural and portrait works together.

Reinventing History

Coinciding with Art Basel, photo basel, Switzerland’s first photography fair, investigates the boundaries between truth and fiction.

Abstract Simplicity

Design duo Objects of Common Interest is known for creating still life installations and experiential environments.

Breaching Boundaries

Founded in 1995 in the city of Gwangju in South Korea, the Gwangju Biennale is Asia’s first and most well-known contemporary art biennale.

Documenting Youth

Tish Murtha captures a sense of timelessness through photography that addresses neglected youth in the north of England.

New Mythologies

Deconstructing myths and clichés, Wild West is the outcome of a trip that Joachim Hildebrand took around the seven states of the American Southwest.

Narratives In Analogue

Wim Wenders’ visual diary of instant snapshots from the 1960s – 1980s offers a glimpse into life on set that predates social media.

Digital Critique

I Was Raised on the Internet looks at a specific moment in time to explore the rapid cultural shifts the world has experienced since the millennium.

Multi-faceted Collections

Identities overlap and intersect: no one is defined solely by their race, gender, class or nationality, but rather by a combination of complex factors. This…

5 to See: This Weekend

Photography exhibitions opening at the start of June offer encounters with the natural environment, testing the limits of representation.

Unparalleled Portraiture

Celebrating 100 years since the birth of Irving Penn, an extensive retrospective of the photographer’s portfolio is presented at C/O Berlin.

10 to See: Degree Shows

In a fast-developing visual and digital world, graduates offer unique, forward-thinking perspectives on a globalised landscape.

A Changing Landscape

The first UK solo exhibition of German photographer, Olaf Otto Becker, opens at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London. 

Cinematic Architecture

Openstudio Architects’ Swartberg House is the subject of a five-channel video installation at La Biennale di Venezia.