MACK launches a new edition of Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth to coincide with the first exhibition in London dedicated to the series.

A pioneering American opera, Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), is the focus of an exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, opening in October.

Bilad es Sudan, showing at Aperture Foundation New York following an initial run in Paris, represents the fruits of Claude Iverné second excursion.

Through a sophisticated use of camera and post-production techniques, photographer Bastiaan Woudt gives a contemporary twist to the classical.

With more than 110 galleries from 27 countries and works from over 500 artists, Viennacontemporary is the highlight of the Viennese autumn art season.

25-27 August. This collection reveals the current state of equilibrium between reflection and foresight, demonstrating a dialogue with the past.

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that celebrates poetry and short fiction. Enter by 31 August.

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings explores how the artist’s relationship with the South has shaped her highly experimental and haunting work.

FOAM closes this year’s programme with a retrospective of André Kertész and contribution to the visual language of 20th photography.

In the past two years the Hirshhorn has held dual galas with the aim of honouring artists whose works make up the museum’s expansive collection.

Elliott Erwitt’s negatives from Pittsburgh are collated into a publication for the first time. They capture the spirit of city’s people amidst industrial architecture.

Professor Neville Brody discusses a new MA course at RCA, that incorporates cultural shifts into the digital realms.

Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. Submit by 31 August.

Cig Harvey’s photographs create a fantasy version of life experiences. Her latest work transforms ordinary scenes into sublime moments.

Design Week Mexico has announced the programme for its ninth edition, promoting the field as a tool for economic, social and environmental development.

In 2016, Keith Harrison was awarded a £30,000 commission through the Jerwood Open Forest initiative. Joyride is a community focused event.

Justyna Mielnikiewicz explores borders as ever-changing spheres of influence. She captures life on the European frontier and historical narratives.

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery hosts a new initiative with Olafur Eliasson that addresses global temperatures and topographical responsibilities.

Carolina Mizrahi’s block palette installations evoke questions about gender and sexuality in a new show at Daniel Raphael Gallery, London.

Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always asks how popular culture, and its compendium of imagery and words, has influenced contemporary art.

 This Autumn, New York’s MoMA PS1 hosts a comprehensive retrospective covering over six decades of work by Carolee Schneemann.

The 2017 City of Culture has partnered with RIBA to commission Pezo von Ellrichshausen and Felice Varini to design a structure for the centre of Hull.

States of America looks back on a generation of documentary photographers who captured the former decades that shaped Trump’s America.

From clothing that can double as a tent, to improved signage in a refugee camp, Beazley’s designs of the year offer practical, real-life solutions.

Monica Bonvicini develops an installation for Berlinische Galerie’s large exhibition hall comprised of gender-specific and power-conscious allusions.

At the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Design for the Stage course offers learning through collaboration.

Toby Paterson returns to Edinburgh to create a new work inspired by Patrick Geddes’ surveys of cities as a means to study human activity and society.

Willi Ruge, ­who captured much of the excitement and anxiety spreading across Europe at the time, is honoured in a retrospective at CO Berlin.

New York hosts the seventh edition of the Performa Biennial this November. This year’s collaboration, brings together creatives that consider urban life.

100 Great Street Photographs brings together a new generation of talented artists who have embraced modern technology to capture the world around us.

Photographer Ed van der Elsken sought in reality an aesthetic form, an authenticity that was devoid of artifice. Camera in Love runs until 24 September.

The work of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is viewed from a new perspective in an exhibition at MoMA, New York, through printmaking and illustration.

Tamas Dezso paints a portrait of Romania. The country is struggling to shed the shackles of its political past, which pervades its rural heritage.

The Design Museum, London, has announced the shortlist for the 10th anniversary celebrations of the world’s best designs.

Melissa Regan Agency, in partnership with Mark Shaw archive, stages the first of a series of exhibitions of the fashion photographer’s epic work.

Created with young women from the Youth Sociotherapy Center in Rudzienko, Sharon Lockhart’s Little Review comprises translations, a new film, series of photographs and educational workshops.

The Photographers’ Gallery’s latest exhibition offers an insight into the polaroids of a previous generation through the cinematic vision of Wim Wenders.

LE BAL, Paris, displays a range of Magnum Photos’ treasures from books and publications dating from the creation of the co-operation in 1947.

Julie Cockburn’s delicate embellishment of photographs is the focus of a new exhibition at London’s Flowers Gallery this September.

Sanne De Wilde delves into the visions of the people of Pingelap and Pohnpei, two islands where a high percentage of the population have achromatopsia.

The Grand Palais in Paris celebrates the centenary of the birth of photographer Irving Penn in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Saatchi Gallery and Huawei’s #SelfExpression competition invites anyone with a smartphone to turn their gaze away from the self to the world.

In An Incomplete History of Protest, Whitney Museum, New York, explores its collection and archive with a focus on activism and politics.

Ambienti/Environments centres on Lucio Fontana’s pioneering work in the realm of installation art, along with a selection of his seminal Ambienti spaziali.

Photographer Josef Hoflehner’s sleek and stylish yet unstaged imagery takes viewers back in time, focusing on car designs from the 1960s and 1970s.

Adam Jeppesen searches for the silence and spirituality in desolate landscapes and the physical elements in his latest exhibition, Out of Camp.

Having presented Malick Sidibé’s first solo exhibition outside of Africa in 1995, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain now pays tribute to the artist.

Swedish photographer Mårten Lange has released a The Mechanism, a despondent sequence that forms a sci-fi story about contemporary life.

Tate Modern’s Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power is a rare opportunity to see era-defining artworks that changed the face of art in America.

As August approaches, the Online Viewing Room at David Zwirner has curated a selection of images that express the notion of summer.