For the 25th edition, Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum presents a contemplative, luminous structure that engages with light, air and time.

Artist Xinyue Liang deconstructs the use of tradition in art, asking questions of how it can be used to drive innovation and creativity as well as honour the past.

Felicity Hammond tours the UK with an evolving installation that “unveils the machine” – revealing the aggressive processes that enable AI tools to operate.

This issue showcases artists who cut through the noise, using creativity as resistance and reflection, sparking empathy and imagining new possibilities.

Shimmering white veils drop down from the sky in Reuben Wu’s latest body of work, creating the illusion of barriers, or curtains, between worlds.

Balloons, origami butterflies, paper cranes and blooming flowers appear in Fares Micue’s self portraits, which are full of hopeful symbolism.

Amsterdam’s Nxt Museum is a space dedicated to groundbreaking new media art. Its current show is full of large-scale and multi-sensory experiences.

Chou Ching-Hui’s intricate Animal Farm series comprises large-scale, diorama-like scenarios, holding up a mirror to contemporary society.

As definitions of photography change, Felicity Hammond tracks relationships between data mining, image-making and machine learning.

Anne Mason-Hoerter presents a fresh approach to the food photography genre, by cutting and pasting many pictures together from memories.

Diver and photographer Alexej Sachov showcases an underwater series, in which fluorescent shapes float against the darkness, far beneath the waves.

The pioneering collective Squidsoup develops responsive, all-encompassing art installations that combine light, sound and new technology.

Diane Hemingway’s dreamy image collection is a deeply personal, bittersweet reflection on how art and nature can help us navigate grief.

Artist Raymond Thompson Jr.’s new book focuses on previously concealed stories of slaves and runaways, reimagining narratives of the Black experience.

The theme for the 2025 edition of Design Shanghai is Design for Humanity, spotlighting over 600 pieces from brands spanning over 30 countries and regions.

The Goodwood Art Foundation opens to the public on 31 May 2025 with a clear objective: to establish itself as a serious UK centre for contemporary art.

Photographer Thibault Drutel finds moment of deliberate stillness amid perpetual motion and business in Munich’s one hundred subway stations.

C/O Berlin celebrates 20 years of the Talent Award with an exhibition of 14 remarkable documentary photographers who have received the award.

“Are you listening?” asks the Barbican Centre in London, as it launches a huge exhibition that promises to transform the way we think about sound.

Kazuaki Koseki’s captivating photography reflects the ephemeral beauty of the brief moment when firefly populations light up local Japanese forests.