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Newton Foundation spotlights three books by the infamous photographer Helmut Newton, considering how their publication changed his artistic career.
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Newton Foundation spotlights three books by the infamous photographer Helmut Newton, considering how their publication changed his artistic career.
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents a landmark exhibition dedicated to the Brazilian artist Rafael Pavarotti, a defining voice in fashion photography.
Fifty years after Ulay challenged the Neue Nationalgalerie, an anniversary exhibition revisits his radical practice, from institutional dissent to his defining performances with Marina Abramović.
The photographer documents the communities of Nassau – the country’s capital city – expanding the visual tropes often exported from the Caribbean.
Discover how sound shapes identity, cultural memory and challenges our grasp of the world through the Aesthetica x Audible Listening Pitch.
The relationship between water and human creativity is the subject of High Tide, the latest exhibition at the new BRUSK art space in Bruges.
The Nue Black Aesthetic challenges the conventions of design history, bringing overlooked voices, cultural memory and material innovation into focus.
In Parallax, Stan Douglas examines how images shape collective memory, exposing the ideological assumptions embedded in historical narratives.
Artist Forrest Wu’s practice is concerned with how galleries can become places where people learn and develop – not just where they can look at artworks.
Can technology recover what modernity has taught us to overlook? Mariko Mori’s art returns to this question through encounters with the natural world.
Foam, Amsterdam presents the first museum solo exhibition of iconic Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos, recipient of the 19th Foam Paul Huf Award.
National Portrait Gallery’s show is an exploration of queer identity, community, and love through the lens of one of Britain’s most celebrated photographers.
A new book from photographer Jo Ann Chaus turns staged self-portraiture into a wider reflection on the historic perceptions of women in American society.
The annual prize supports photographers at the start of their career, providing them with a huge platform that helps them establish a name in the industry.
Next Doors reunites five key artists who started out in Berlin in the 2000s, working in warehouse studios that is adjacent to the contemporary art gallery.
The artist’s psychologically charged black-and-white scenes examine the anxieties of American life in the waning years of the Cold War – and its aftermath.
Gropius Bau brings renewed attention to a trailblazing artist who helped shape East Germany’s underground cultural scene in the late 20th century.
The Photographers’ Gallery brings together Sanlé Sory’s rarely seen colour photographs, capturing daily life, youth culture and fashion in Burkina Faso.
More than 100 international artists come together for a major six-month celebration of the art, music and culture of the streets at the London gallery.