Get a first glimpse of the 300 short, feature and VR films screening at this year’s Aesthetica Film Festival, which returns to York for five days this November.

Fotostiftung Schweiz presents the work of Roger Humbert, whose 70-year career ranged from analogue experiments to digital light compositions.

Aesthetica Film Festival launches the UK’s first national New Music Stage, featuring 10 talented artists, each with fresh energy and a bold new sound.

Eleanor Antin is known for multidisciplinary art, in which she took on a range of personas, each one questioning gender, class, identity and history.

PHOTOCLIMAT has a distinct focus on grassroots action, focusing on the charities and organisations working for justice, progress and responsibility.

In September, one of Rome’s iconic architectural marvels was temporarily transformed by a monumental sculpture: a twisting crown of thorns.

Carnegie Museum of Art presents the work of 60 Black photojournalists, who captured both iconic figures and everyday life between 1945 and 1984.

LagosPhoto Biennial 2025 explores the theme of ‘incarceration,’ asking how images can expose, resist and reimagine modern systems of confinement.

Staged scenes from Margeaux Walter are built on location, taking everyday household objects out of their usual context to create an uncanny effect.

A year in the Sonoran Desert is charted through billions of captured data points, illuminating the beauty and fragility of a well-known landscape.

Lachlan Turczan, one of this year’s Lumen Prize finalists, experiments with natural phenomena in order to shape multisensory installation artwork.

Albarrán Cabrera’s photographs traverse luscious, light-drenched forests and lakes, where sunbeams dapple through tree branches and over the water.

Marine Lanier’s Le Jardin d’Hannibal series is set in one of Europe’s highest botanical gardens, home to a variety of plants from the largest mountains.

Cristina Spagnolo showcases crisp photographic portraits and nature images inspired by the light, detail and form of art from the 1500s and 1600s.

Tommy Goguely’s glitch-like abstractions emerge via a process of damaging camera sensors, where colours smear, crack and split across every page.

Architecture is Satijn Panyigay’s subject of choice, creating brooding depictions of empty buildings and cinematically-lit homes under construction.

This issue addresses our tense current moment, featuring artists who respond to today’s division and turbulence, calling for action and connection.

In Vienna, a major Brigitte Kowanz retrospective reflects on society’s rapid virtualisation, as well as the transformative impact of the information age.

This September, the museum celebrates 50 years. It marks the anniversary with a major reopening: Station Hall, a gallery dedicated to railway life.

Our top shows for October spotlights artists and creatives who examine identity, heritage and community in a world that is in constant flux.