The Edinburgh International Festival opened on Friday 7 August with The Harmonium Project. This year’s programme features 2,300 artists from 39 countries, showcasing opera, theatre, music and dance from across the world.
Samara Golden’s immersive installation The Flat Side of the Knife at MoMA PS1
explores the concept of a 6th dimension.
Dr Sam Lackey works across all aspects of the collections at The Hepworth Wakefield, and is on the judging panel for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016. We speak with the curator about her role.
Mankind’s interaction with the natural world is highlighted in variety of works by photographers including David Maisel and Alex MacLean.
Winner of the IK Prize 2015, Tate Sensorium by creative agency Flying Object offers an immersive exploration of key works from Tate’s prestigious art collection. The project seeks to reunite sight with the senses of taste, touch, smell and hearing.
Three weeks remain in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 call for entries. Longlisted artist Marijke de Goey was selected in 2015 with the sculptural piece Curly Burly (2012), published in Future Now.
For 247 years, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition has offered a snapshot of contemporary art – and this year’s showcase is a riot of colour.
Bernd and Hilla Becher are best known for their heavy-contrast photographs featuring formalist architecture beneath overcast skies, having championed the German ‘New Objectivity’ style.
With three weeks to go until the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries closes, we reflect on the striking variety of artists’ film submitted to the competition including José Ramón Da Cruz’s audiovisual composition Madre Quentina.
We review land artist Richard Long’s new exhibition at the Arnolfini Centre, Bristol which focuses on the artist’s personal relationship to place and local materials in the area where he grew up and lives.
Now in its eighth year, Designs of the Year at Design Museum, London, celebrates projects that enable access and promote or deliver change.
Following its successful inauguration in 2014, Shaped in Mexico returns to London with a selection of over 150 works by 32 international artists. On view from 3 September, this unique, free show will take place at the Bargehouse.
There are 23 days to go in the call for submissions for the Aesthetica Art Prize. In the countdown, we spotlight finalist Rebeka Lord, whose painting Send Me on My Way was published in the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2015, Future Now.
Anish Kapoor returns to Italy with Descension, an exhibition project conceived specially for the former cinema and theatre space of Galleria Continua.
Charles Avery: The People And Things of Onomatopoeia is currently on display at Ingleby Gallery, as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2015.
Clare Lilley is Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), Wakefield, and a member of the judging panel for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016. We speak with Lilley about her work at YSP and curatorial projects further afield.
Foam, Amsterdam, showcases the first solo exhibition of young French artist Noémie Goudal.
John Waters’ Beverly Hills John continues at Sprüth Magers, London, and finds Waters in a more reflective mood, hoping to resolve issues about childhood fame and the horrors of nouveau-riche excess.
As part of our countdown to the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries deadline, we speak to photographer Lottie Davies about her intimate depictions of past moments and hear about her developing career.
