Material Complexity

Profiling the announcement of the annual awards through a celebration of structural excellence that pushes beyond aesthetics and functionality.

Haunting Landscapes

Shot largely on the same set of beaches in Portugal over two years, The Accidental Theorist depicts a series of instances that are devoid of explanation.

Creating Connections

Circulation(s) returns for 2018, showcasing the imaginations of emerging photographers that touch upon wider social and political issues.

Spatial Reimagining

Spiral Scratch, a site-specific public art installation creates a kaleidoscopic arena of colour, line and form.

Realigning Representation

Addressing issues of exposure, Whitechapel Gallery in partnership with Collezione Maramotti present the annual Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

Expansive Ideas

Bridging the boundaries between art, culture and philosophy, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival makes sense of the world through a diverse progamme.

Ecological Practice

Michael Pinksy’s innovative Pollution Pods recreate the air in London, Beijing, São Paulo, New Delhi and Tautra, Norway.

Responsive Contributions

Talisman in the Age of Difference at Stephen Friedman Gallery brings together works by artists of African origin and its diaspora.

Re-examining Convention

Foam Talent: New York unites 20 international image-makers, plotting the next chapter for the creation, interaction and circulation of photography.

Delicate Portraiture

Working primarily in staged self-portraiture, Maher is widely known for obscuring the faces of her subjects, using symbol and colour to convey emotion and narrative.

Futuristic Perceptions

Darn Thorn’s series, Aggiornamento, offers an idealised, modernist vision of Ireland through the architectural structures of the 1960s.

Digital Topographies

Doug Aitken’s first video installation in 10 years, New Era, tracks the reflections of Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone.

Responsive Assemblage

Daniel Webb collected all the plastic used in a year – around 4500 pieces, of which 93% wass single-use packaging.

Emphasising the Everyday

Highlighting functionality over complex shapes and unnecessary materials, Embodiment, published by Phaidon examines the portfolio of Naoto Fukasawa.

Dimensional Boundaries

Antony Gormley is known for an interest in the spatial relationships between human bodies and the surrounding landscape.

Theatrical Scenes

Giacomo Infantino’s work uses staged scenes to evoke intimate and personalised narratives. The featured images outline places in Varese.

Aesthetica Future Now Symposium

Future Now provides an imaginative platform for attendees to consider the arts ecosystem within a broader social, political and professional context.

5 to See: This Weekend

The top picks for 24-25 March engage with art history, reinventing traditional approaches through photography and installation.

Cyclical Structures

Work by Nathaniel Rackowe examines the changing nature of the built environment, reflecting on the life cycles of urban dwellings.

Constructed Perceptions

Work by James Casebere features as part of an exhibition exploring the relationship between photography and architecture.

Intangible Materials

James Turrell is internationally known for an engagement with natural and artificial light sources, expanding the boundaries of perception.

Rendered Memories

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, offers an incredibly idiosyncratic installation – a trip down Do Ho Suh’s memory lane.

Endless Vistas

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, revisits Ettore Spalletti’s monochromatic, minimalist panels with What is the most profound in a man, is the skin.

TOAF: Engaging Methodologies

Practitioners featured at The Other Art Fair explore and subvert the everyday through new and surprising methods.

Responses to Globalisation

By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urbanised surroundings. Current exhibitions embrace, escape and offer solutions to this issue.

Idiosyncratic Surroundings

A new exhibition celebrates the British seaside experience through the lenses of Tony Ray-Jones, David Hurn and Simon Roberts and Martin Parr.

Elements of Abstraction

Czech practitioner Jaromír Funke pushed the limits of photography through an experimental use of light and shadow.

Photographic Insights

A strong sense of narrative permeates Robert Frank’s oeuvre. An exhibition explores work created in Paris, England, Wales and the US

Retold Narratives

The Whitworth showcases its latest major moving image acquisition – Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves.

New York Times: Art Leaders Network

New York Times invites a mix of practitioners, industry experts and prolific tastemakers to discuss the most pressing issues in art today.

Vital Perspectives

Only 30% of artists represented by commercial galleries are women. Exhibitors at Photo London foreground a strong female presence.

Fleeting Moments

Monty Kaplan fluctuates between modes of working. Colour is rendered as an emotive backdrop, carrying a sense of joy and woeful nostalgia.

Luminescent Arenas

Dan Flavin’s pioneering body of work is designed to be experienced, engaging with the minimalist language of fluorescent light.

Immersive Surroundings

To mark their seventh consecutive installation at Salone del Mobile, fashion brand COS collaborates with Phillip K. Smith III.

A Painterly Lens

An exhibition at Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, tracks the intercontinental journeys of German photographer Axel Hütte.

Collaborative Activism

The average American spends 7% of their life outdoors. YSP tracks a the work of a charity offering dialogues between societies and nature.

Uncanny Perceptions

Stéphanie Roland reates evocative compositions which are often influenced by science and technology.

Timeless Compositions

Positioning the work of leading 20th and 21st century practitioners alongside emerging artists, a show celebrates photography’s legacy.

The Unbuilt Environment

Photographer Andrew Moore’s oeuvre comprises evocative images of architectural landscapes in Cuba, Russia and Detroit.

Cultural Investigations

Anne Collier interrogates popular culture in order to investigate gender stereotypes, challenging outdated notions of female identity.

Audiovisual Statements

A new show of works by Iván Navarro explores timely themes of migration, propaganda and the collective trauma of the artist’s native Chile.

Sensory Journeys

A new exhibition at Southbank Centre, London, explores the experimental history of the venue by delving into the archives.

Immersive Materials

Olafur Eliasson and Tomás Saraceno’s sculptural works investigate notions of space, making innovative use of colour, form and light.

5 to See: This Weekend

The selection for 17-18 March celebrates the past, present and future of creative practice through performance, installation and images.

A Personal Protest

An exhibition at Asia House, London, examines ideas of space, boundaries and the tensions caused by power imbalance.

Elemental Influence

The Historic Dockyard Chatham hosts Powerful Tides: 400 years of Chatham and the Sea, an exhibition that showcases works inspired by water.

Spatial Tranquility

An exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery transforms the institutional space into a singular, immersive installation.

Miles Aldridge: Vivid Portraiture

Miles Aldridge collaborates with other creatives, building cinematic narratives that engage with image-making from all angles.

Synchronised Environments

A multi-sensory work, consisting of moving illuminated walls, combines light and sound to expand spatial perceptions.

Textual Engagement

Scottish artist Robert Montgomery’s poetic installations engage with contemporary global issues including consumerism, war and injustice.