Arifa Akbar is Literary Editor of The Independent and inewspapers. She was a judge for the Orwell Prize in 2013, the Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2014 and is on the judging panel for the current Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.
Karen Thomas, a British artist based in France, creates dynamic, painterly depictions of pop culture icons such as Mickey Mouse, which are characterised by their thick, quick brush strokes.
New Photography, MoMA’s longstanding exhibition series of work in photography, returns this autumn.
Pushkin’s Fold is the first solo show by artist Pushkin. Based in Norwich for the past 11 years, his exhibition at Fairhurst Gallery is his first venture into focusing and dedicating all his time to his art.
Artist John Keane, winner of the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2015, joins the judging panel for next year’s award. We continue the countdown to 31 August with a look at Keane’s practice.
There is one month to go until the annual Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries closes. Shortlisted artists will participate in a group exhibition in partnership with York Museums Trust and receive editorial coverage in Aesthetica.
Isabelle Cornaro has created an installation of wall paintings for the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Mazzoleni London announces its forthcoming landmark exhibition of works by Alberto Burri, on display from 2 October – 30 November.
HyperAmerica at Kunsthaus Graz turns its focus on the notion of the American landscape in the second half of the 20th century.
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, presents an exhibition by Peter Doig in the Palazzetto Tito. The show features new paintings and several intimately scaled works drawing on found sources.
An exhibition of new work by Yto Barrada at Pace, London, delving into her research on Moroccan fossils and dinosaurs, and exploring notions of imprint, trace and the status of archives.
Carolina Redondo looks to her origins in the Chilean Pucón for inspiration in her performative practice. We speak to the artist about her use of the body to explore migration and interculturality.
Tate Modern presents the first retrospective of Agnes Martin’s work since 1994, tracing her development from biomorphic abstraction to her mesmerising grid and striped canvases.
The UK’s largest annual visual art festival combines work from Edinburgh’s most prestigious galleries as well as artist-run spaces, and new commissions from emerging and established artists.
Taking its title from a line in a Robert Frost poem, America Is Hard To See at the Whitney Museum Of American Art considers more than a century of modern American art in its social context.
Australian artist Julian Day creates simple but evocative works encompassing installation, video, sound, text and performance. His piece Requiem was exhibited as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 showcase at York St Mary’s.
On view in Ikon’s small turret, the Tower Room, is filmmaker and land artist Julie Brook’s Pigment, an eight and a half minute film, shot in a cave in Namibia with three young Himba women.
The latest in Tate Modern’s ongoing evening performance series, BMW Tate Live, sees a gallery transformed into a theatre space for Paulina Olowska’s project The Mother: An Unsavoury Play in Two Acts and an Epilogue.
One of the most enduring fashion icons of all time, Audrey Hepburn has captivated generations with her unique elegance and style. The National Gallery’s current exhibition covers her early film success to her lasting media image.
