Ben Zank revels in the unconscious condition; using the stark semantics of straight lines, his characters nestle within the clutches of desolate landscapes.

Barbican, London and The Trampery have launched alt.barbican, an initiative featuring practitioners who challenge the boundaries of art and technology.

The RIBA Stirling Prize is presented to RIBA Chartered Architects and International Fellows for seminal constructions.

Jersey City-born watercolourist John DuVal strives to capture the light and colour of urban landscapes to create a fresh, yet familiar feel for the viewer.

Japanese collective teamLab execute a project where non-material digital art can turn into nature without harming its surroundings.

Andres Serrano’s practice is aligned with baroque painters, translating portraiture dripping with conceptual depth and social consideration into the 21st century.

Brooklyn Museum examines the cultural and aesthetic priorities of black women during the emergence of second-wave feminism in America.

The V&A’s, London, Exhibition Road Quarter is now open, providing a courtyard as well as a gallery intended to house temporary exhibitions.

Australian born Jules Wright nurtured original female talent through the Women’s Playhouse Trust and founded the Wapping Project in 1981.

Design Frontiers offers the work of 30 leading international designers renowned for shaping and leading their respective disciplines.

Barcelona plays host to an exposition of the role of a relatively new process, forensic architecture, which is shown to be increasingly vital in a post-truth world.

The third annual LensCulture Street Photography Awards invites artists to delve back into the world of the quotidian through the lens of the metropolis.

If art represents the transitions within culture, what are we learning about systematically labelling bodies?

Jenny Holzer’s projections take over Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. Working with veterans of recent conflicts, the work fills the interiors.

Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted artist Alinka Echeverría has been selected for the 2017 Foam Talent Call, an internationally renowned platform.

Jennifer Alexander, Curator of Art at York Art Gallery, sheds light on exhibition practices and curating for the 21st century audience.

From IKEA to Arne Jacobsen, Scandinavian design has consist­ently been high profile and has become increas­ingly desirable in recent decades.

Zoran Poposki explores cultural translation, liminality, identity, and public space through a number of different genres and media.

The Vitra Design Museum presents an alternative to an increasingly urbanised society where affordable housing seems like an unattainable idea.

“Love happens here” is a phrase found across London this month. The Photographers’ Gallery who show their solidarity with an offsite exhibition.

22-23 July. Offering a global perspective on digital and societal changes, these exhibitions document the pivotal transitions of an era.

Olga Lomaka plays with recognisable images and products of consumerism, pooling contrasting beliefs to give a second meaning to hidden symbols.

Founding directors of The Modern House Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill shine a new light on Modernist architecture from the 1920s to the present day.

The 1980s were a turbulent time in Britain; this decade is the focus of The Place is Here, an exhibition set between the South London Gallery and MIMA.

Kurt Tong’s (b. 1977) current exhibition The Queen, The Chairman and I, reflects upon the self as an amalgamation of disparate parts.

Gleaming Lights of the Souls by Yayoi Kusama remains a beautiful part of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

Yusuke Sugiyama uses the concept of boundaries to explore the spaces in between; somewhere between abstraction and embodiment, reality and memory.

A new, wide-ranging exhibition from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs attempts to tackle some of the biggest issues facing cities today.

American photographer Emma Elizabeth Tillman (b. 1986) evokes everyday nuances in her debut series Disco Ball Soul (2017).

Nu’a Bön is a Hawai’i-born artist influenced by spiritulaity. He explores sacred places and sites of human conflict in the sumi-e style.

Hanna Tuulikki’s startling and lyrical Air falbh leis na h-eòin | Away with the Birds, is grounded in the ecological rather than the fantastical.

Karl Kobitz’s collection of some of Milan’s most architecturally intriguing entryways or “Ingressi”, is a visually impressive work.

White Cube’s latest exhibition reveals how there is a vast and raging female presence amongst those associated with the surrealist movement.

Photofairs Shanghai is Asia Pacific’s leading contemporary art fair dedicated to photography and moving image.

States of America (2017) is the the largest overview of North American documentary photography in recent years.  

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, brings together a collection of Jamie Hawkseworth’s images offering a nuanced and empathetic portrayal of England.

MACK publish stills from Richard Mosse’s Incoming, a film that captures the refugee crisis through thermographic weapons and imaging technology.

Unseen Amsterdam is devoted to identifying, and fostering the talents of emerging and established innovators.

 Into the Light (2017) ultimately dissembles traditional notions of architecture, subverting the ways in which viewers engage with liminal spaces.

The biennial Artists’ Award, hosted by the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is the first worldwide award to be judged solely by artists, and it shows. 

Every two years, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson offers the prestigious HCB Award. The latest winner has just been announced: Guy Tillim.

With the weekend in sight, time and space for contemplation is on the horizon. The 5 to See for 14 – 16 July traces the common links in humanity.

A celebration of photography takes place in Shanghai; the fourth edition of PHOTOFAIRS features notable names alongside new talent.

The Time is Now is curated to expand on the MoMA’s, New York, current show Making Space: Women Artists & Post-war Abstraction.

Cerith Wyn Evans’ installation evokes a playful manipulation of space and time through a spectacle of light.

In The Whiteness of the Whale, British photographer Paul Graham examines the intersections between race and social status in America.

This year’s Lyon Biennale questions the meaning of modernity in our ever-shifting world. It forms the second installment of what will become a themed trilogy.

Chrystal Lebas’ Regarding Nature explores the dynamic between human beings and the organic landscape as two interacting spheres of life.

The exhibition considers the subtle differences between regions, highlighting how and why they remain a source of inspiration.

Thomas Ruff’s photographs question and redefine the artistic potential of the craft as a platform for social commentary.