Visionary Altitudes

Jeffrey Milstein’s aerial photographs provide new perspectives on the urban landscape through geometry, colour and form.

Uncanny Interiors

Ann Shelton’s body of work occupies the space between documentary and conceptual photography, investigating collective histories.

Contemporary Assertions

This Synthetic Moment brings together a diverse selection of artists using photography as a means to assert a strong sense of identity.

Vibrant Approaches

In an accelerating landscape, fresh ways of understanding the world become important. Bloomberg New Contemporaries offers insight.

Uninhabited Meaning

Gerry Johansson’s images are devoid of human presence, yet reflect the lives of individuals in fresh and revealing ways.

Cultural Possibilities

A new exhibition questions how India’s past, present and future are represented from a female perspective.

Exhibitions of Change

YSP has consistently positioned itself within the arena of creative social change, a notion continued in a collection that, quite simply, makes a difference.

Uncovering Realities

Conceptual artist He Xiangyu’s recent film, The Swim, captures the uncanny truths of the practitioner’s childhood home.

Complex Representations

In an age of gratuitous image editing and fake news, it is hard to distinguish artificiality from reality. Alex Prager investigates this confusion.

Institutional Deception

A site-specific installation by Christopher Page transforms the gallery space through a series of illusions.

Transcendental Meanings

Visionary artist Gordon Parks gave a voice to the under-represented through photography, words and music.

Interconnected Disciplines

Theo Simpson combines materials, processes and technologies from the past and present to open up fresh dialogues.

MACK: Curated Perceptions

The way society consumes information is shifting. MACK foregrounds the enduring conceptual importance and materiality of their volumes.

Abstracted Ideals

Valérie Belin is interested in artificiality and reality, questioning the construction of ideals by abstracting the human form.

Confined Representations

Notions of incarceration impact individuals on a global scale. Prison Nation, a new exhibition at Aperture Foundation, examines the relationship between art and imprisonment, investigating…

Constructed Information

Public museums are cathedrals of knowledge. Jason Larkin highlights the visual presentation of war and conflict in such institutions.

5 to See: This Weekend

Façades are designed to conceal hidden realities. Exhibitions running 13-14 January construct and dissect exteriors to investigate such illusions.

Effervescent Twilight

Brassaï’s evocative body of work examines daily life in Paris. His images of the nocturnal landscape make meaningful use of light.

Expansive Visions

White Cube showcases Andreas Gursky’s Rückblick. The artist’s monumental photographic work critically examines the impact of capitalism.

Meaningful Deconstruction

The term “soft power” is used to described how political rhetoric is deployed through culture. Jasmina Cibic examines this rhetoric.

Shared Reminiscence

An exhibition of immersive work by Do Ho Suh at Smithsonian, Washington, invites viewers to reflect on notions of home.

Unrelenting Mechanisms

Jules Spinatsch explores the pervasive nature of technology in the 21st century, investigating the relationship between humans and machines.

Unreliable Interpretations

In the digital age, meaning becomes relative. Works on display at Smithsonian reflect the power of photographs to shape narratives

Tangible Illumination

A new exhibition showcases Anthony McCall’s light installations, creating forms which are at once volumetric and ephemeral.

Contemporary Rebalance

In 2016, a “World’s Top 100 Artists” list included only 22 women. London Art Fair addresses issues of representation through Dialogues.

Celebrating Simplicity

Jon Setter’s images feature geometric fragments, eradicating all structural complexities and conveying a simplified, poetic expression of surrounding spaces.

Expansive Vistas

A retrospective tracks the career of Balthasar Burkhard, an artist who transforms two-dimensional images into monumental pieces.

Urban Wilderness

The average American spends 93% of their life indoors. Lucas Foglia investigates the relationship between society and nature.

Recurring Voyages

Liverpool is undergoing a period of urban transformation. Tom Wood commemorates an integral part of the community’s quotidian.

Unassuming Explorations

Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places traverses the American vernacular landscape with an objective eye.

Mundane Curiosity

Swiss photographer Willy Spiller’s chronicles of life in L.A and New York foreground the absurdity of the quotidian.

Complex Overtones

Chou Ching Hui’s unflinching satirical eye is key to the success of a series compositions, providing an alternate view of reality.

Erwitt: An Influential Journey

In 1951, Elliot Erwitt was drafted into the US Army. Carrying a Leica camera, the practitioner began crafting an enduring legacy.

Unremitting Endeavour

A retrospective of works by Susan Meiselas at Jeu de Paume, Paris, questions the nature of documentary photography.

Enduring Design

Les Arts Décoratifs celebrates the 70th anniversary of the House of Dior with an exhibition comprising over 300 objects.

5 to See: This Weekend

Structures define the everyday human experience. The selection for 6-7 December examines the varied manifestations of the term.

Abstracted Metropolis

Michael Wolf’s focus lies within mega cities, capturing the monumental architecture and vernacular culture of the metropolis.

Nocturnal Reflections

In Ivan Mikhailov’s city, rockets are reinvented for use in children’s playgrounds. The disused icons are a subject for an exhibition.

Creative Regeneration

KAAN Architecten’s vision aim sto combine existing structures with a fresh, contemporary layer dedicated to the creative industry.

Structural Balance

Landscape photographer Toshio Shibata investigates the boundaries between man made structures and nature.

Doris Duschelbauer

Photographer Dale M Reid uses darkroom techniques to imbue her botanical subjects with personality and emotion, evoking their stories.

Undisguised Encounters

Notions of identity were challenged in the 20th century. MOCA recognises this history by bringing together three influential practitioners.

Final Beginnings

Guggenheim’s Art and China after 1989 brings together works which define contemporary Chinese experience in universal terms.

Monumental Journeys

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise follows the narrative of four Japanese boys, documenting the monumental sites visited in the 16th century.

Charlotte Pann

Austrian artist Charlotte Pann focuses on what she refers to as “the phenomenon of relation as a base for and as a result of spatial constellation”.

Fictitious Immersion

Lori Nix / Kathleen Gerber creates fictional urban landscapes that function as dystopias and alternate histories.

Creative Forces

Following a two-year redevelopment project, Kettle’s Yard brings together 38 diverse practitioners for its opening exhibition.

Video Profile: Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner focuses on the concepts of identity and celebrity, with each piece exploring the allure of the person behind the composition.

Unexplored Visions

The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world. Magnum photographers respond to its harsh terrain and sublime landscape.

Commercial Facades

Alex Da Corte: Harvest Moon is the first in a series of new window installations at New Museum, New York.