Vaishnavi Pandey

Touch Me Not is an ongoing exploration of the lack of touch and intimacy between couples who were kept apart during the lockdown.

Vanessa Endeley

Vanessa Endeley was born and raised in Lagos. Her individual portraits are brought to life using a lot of colour, and are often obscured by blindfolds.

Robin Hunter Blake

Robin Hunter Blake’s images document irreplaceable moments with unique people, whilst projecting the artist’s search for identity.

New Creatives: 10 Shows to See

How have artists responded to the pandemic? What are the latest trends, ideas and media? Discover our top 10 graduate shows. You saw them here first.

Personal Projections

Tsai-Ling Tseng is an award-winning and recognised Taiwanese artist with a studio practice based between Taipei and Brooklyn. She has been awarded with admission into highly selective artist residence programmes such as Anderson Ranch Arts Center, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Architectural Collage

The Serpentine’s 20th Pavilion splices together architectural features from culturally significant structures and buildings across London.

An Artistic Cosmos

Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most important contemporary artists. Aesthetica interviews the curator of a new retrospective in Berlin.

Global Resonance

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is back for its 25th edition. The shortlist presents artists who use the medium in original and surprising ways.

New Directions

Minneapolis-based painter Owen Brown holds degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago. His works are known for their luminosity, colour range and ebullient geometries. He notes: “outrage can guide my brush towards the figurative; at other times I am captured by the language and longing of abstraction.”

Improvisational Spirit

Julia Buruleva’s bright, bold and unusual images combine performance and installation – filled with a spirit of experimentation and play.

A Pioneering Lens

James Barnor is a highly significant modernist photographer, best known for capturing iconic images of London and Accra during the 1960s.

Visual Ambiguities

“Mystery feeds my imagination.” Erwin Olaf’s latest photobook delves into 40 years’ work. The artist speaks to Aesthetica about the new release.

Altered Landscapes

Ellen Jantzen is drawn to the natural world: oceans, rivers, lakes and mountains. Yet, her artworks do not depict nature as we know it.

Glasgow International: Highlights

This year’s festival explores the theme of attention: how we observe things and the people around us. We pick out five exhibitions to see.

Creative Journeys

Art holds up a mirror to our times. The past year has been a period of uncertainty, but also innovation. How are new artists responding?

Ecstatic Bodies

The entwining of sexuality with spirituality defines Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s remarkable oeuvre, proposing new visions of Black queer masculinity.

Protecting our Waterways

“Public spaces are for the free exchange of ideas.” At Mazzoleni London, Melissa McGill draws attention to the impact of rising sea levels.

Embracing Change

After over a year online, how do we keep things fresh and exciting? University of Worcester’s creative talents have embraced this opportunity.

Distorting Reality

In Luka Khabelashvili’s images, green grass warps like a painting by van Gogh and clouds cover faces. This is our world, but not as we know it.

Looking Twice

Leo Fitzmaurice has perfected the art of the double take. His sculptures, on view at Humber Street Gallery, encourage audiences to look again.