Altering Our Perception
“I see one function of the museum as being a space for experimentation.” Artist Carsten Höller presents acclaimed installations and relational aesthetics.
“I see one function of the museum as being a space for experimentation.” Artist Carsten Höller presents acclaimed installations and relational aesthetics.
Roy DeCarava took up photography in the 1940s as an information-gathering tool to help with his painting. The results were groundbreaking.
February is LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. From protest photography to untold stories, here’s our pick of key shows and digital resources to explore.
Are there too many images in the world? A new show explores mass media excess and image over-saturation spanning from the 1920s to today.
How do we imagine the future? Designers, visual artists and researchers respond to the experience of living in the anxiety of the present.
Bill Brandt’s photography has often been perceived as “sinister”, capturing dark scenes across turbulent decades of the 20th century.
New Contemporaries continues to play a key role in art from the UK: a story of towering medicine cabinets and potent portraits of identity.
From close-up photography to digital world-building, contemporary artists are always building on the legacies of minimalism and abstraction.
The new print issue of Aesthetica is all about points of view: idea generation and a developing a greater sense of perspective. Read a preview here.
Each year, The Arts Foundation’s Futures Awards take the temperature of contemporary art and design. The 2022 winner is Libita Sibungu.
Deborah Moss is a New Zealand-based artist interested in expressing an intimate connection with the natural world and its transcendent quality through colour and emotive mark making to convey the sensation of being immersed in a place.
From deserts to suburbia, Brooke DiDonato creates an off-kilter universe. Meanings of familiar objects are twisted; laws of physics unhinged.
Digital artist Andres Reisinger establishes a virtual winter haven – a place of respite and simplicity amidst the clutter of life online.
Białowieża Forest, on the border of Poland and Belarus, is the largest surviving remnant of a vast woodland that once stretched across Europe.
WaterAid collaborates with photographer and activist Poulomi Basu on a series exploring the impact of a lack of water on women and girls.
Electronics have become the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. What becomes of old tech? Jeanette May explores this through still life.
On 11 October 1928, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando was first published. Tilda Swinton curates a photography exhibition in response to the book.
By perforating, cropping, cutting and tearing, Canadian artist Amy Friend offers new visions of seascapes, with spellbinding results.
Jessica Mitchell’s photobook is a part-fictional, part-biographical account of a woman coming to terms with her sexuality and sense of self.
