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Landmark Designs

Susan Kare is the creator of Macintosh’s original icons, typefaces and user interface graphics – one of the world’s most influential women in technology.

Crystallised Memories

How does it feel to leave home? Photographer Luca Iovino explores memory and moving in his debut book, ‘The Name We Hold’, published by Disko Bay.

Intersections: The October / November Issue is Here

This issue celebrates how, when we open our minds to unexpected collaborations, we allow ourselves to be surprised, challenged and transformed by ideas.

10 to See:
Black History Month 2024

Aligned with the theme of Black History Month 2024 – Reclaiming Narratives – these are 10 shows in which creatives take on the role of chroniclers.

Fleeting Moments

The International Centre of Photography celebrates the resistance, self-expression and community spirit captured across 50 years of street photography.

Moments of Nostalgia

Based in Accra, Ghana, Carlos Idun-Tawiah is tapping into childhood memories and family photo albums to construct fictional narratives.

Spatially Responsive

Site-specific sculpture and installation are used to push back against art’s commodification and reproduction in Cerith Wyn Evans’ latest exhibit.

The Self Reflected

Charting the role of mirrors in the history of art, from Renaissance paintings to the latest in photography and immersive installations.

Details Up Close

Unnoticed moments are the subjects of Lotte Ekkel’s images, from single leaves to moonlit raindrops and eerie, lonesome tree branches.

Echoes Preserved

Brendan George Ko’s portraits of friends, often bathed in light and shadow, meet high-quality, crisp close-up shots of foliage to set the scene.

Society Transforms

Right now, Cao Fei is one of the biggest names in the art world. She is making multimedia work about technology and urban change in China.

Distilled Atmosphere

Colour dances across onoko’s pages, forming complex, textured, impressionistic images that bleed into the paper like watercolour paintings.

Sense of Detachment

Out in the landscape, Bootsy Holler harnesses the self-portraiture genre as a way to visualise and work through difficult, personal emotions.

Boundless Imagination

A new architecture book shows what happens when we combine the human imagination with powerful digital tools to realise escapist ideas.

Uplifting Narratives

Fares Micue returns to Aesthetica with positivity and optimism, sharing a joyful outlook on life through a meticulous image-making process.

40 Years of the Turner Prize

This year marks the 40-year anniversary of the Turner Prize, which returns to Tate Britain for the first time in six years. Here are the shortlisted artists.

Collective Action

Decades on from the Miners’ Strikes, the political, social and economic toll of the events continues to run deep. A new photobook chronicles 1984-1985.

Sculpted Matter

“You can’t really pick your medium. Your medium picks you.” Today, we present sculpture exhibitions from Anya Gallaccio, Takis and Saad Qureshi.

Identity in Focus

These five photography shows on display this autumn explore national, cultural and personal identity through intimate and reflective images.

Skin and Metal

Photographer Vera van Dam’s debut monograph focuses on the connection between women and cars, with tender close ups and moody shots of seats.