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These five artists challenge visual conventions, utilising paper construction and staged photography to investigate the materiality of images.
A new exhibition honours a pioneer of experimental music, who repeatedly redefined the boundaries between audio, film, performance and visual art.
The 30th anniversary edition of the prize features an impressive shortlist of photographers: Hoda Afshar, Lotus L. Kang, Sasha Kurmaz and Salvatore Vitale.
MoMA PS1 spotlights the work of Masao Gozu, a photographer who spent decades capturing New York City through the windows of its bars and cafes.
At the Musée d’Orsay, the artist – who is recognised as one of the most influential artists of our times – transforms the façade with striking textual excerpts.
We spotlight five shows that explore how fashion designers and photographers have helped shaped the nature of contemporary art for over a century.
The artist’s radical use of industrial materials – that anyone could buy – is the subject of Some Light at Guggenheim Bilbao, opening this November.
Germany has lost more than 80% of its marshland over the past 300 years. MoMA, New York, offers viewers an audiovisual simulation of these spaces.
Autograph’s latest exhibition spotlights the work of Charan Singh, whose studio portraits examine how gender expression is understood and lived in India.
Newton Foundation spotlights three books by the infamous photographer Helmut Newton, considering how their publication changed his artistic career.
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents a landmark exhibition dedicated to the Brazilian artist Rafael Pavarotti, a defining voice in fashion photography.
An anniversary exhibition revisits Ulay’s radical practice, from institutional dissent to his defining performances with the iconic Marina Abramović.
The photographer documents the communities of Nassau – the country’s capital city – expanding the visual tropes often exported from the Caribbean.
Discover how sound shapes identity, cultural memory and challenges our grasp of the world through the Aesthetica x Audible Listening Pitch.
The relationship between water and human creativity is the subject of High Tide, the latest exhibition at the new BRUSK art space in Bruges.
The Nue Black Aesthetic challenges the conventions of design history, bringing overlooked voices, cultural memory and material innovation into focus.
In Parallax, Stan Douglas examines how images shape collective memory, exposing the ideological assumptions embedded in historical narratives.
Artist Forrest Wu’s practice is concerned with how galleries can become places where people learn and develop – not just where they can look at artworks.
Can technology recover what modernity has taught us to overlook? Mariko Mori’s art returns to this question through encounters with the natural world.
