5 to See: This Weekend

This weekend’s round-up reinvents the built environment through virtual simulations, photography and sculpture.

Addressing Diaspora

Signs of Empire, New Museum, New York, shines a light on John Akomfrah’s exploration of the global black diaspora through moving-image installations.

Uncanny Encounters

Evelyn Bencicova interprets contemporary life through an existential yet highly curated approach to visual art and photography.

Traversing Mythologies

A show at Center for Creative Photography, Arizona, taps into the mythos of the American Dream through a selection of key artists.

Eclectic Approaches

From portraiture to landscape, fine art to architecture, Robin Rice Gallery’s Summer Salon 2018 offers a diverse range of approaches.

Chronicles of Modernity

A collection of images by Mama Casset and an unknown photographer offer new perspectives on 20th century Senegal.

A Distinctive Landscape

Steve Fitch’s collection, entitled Vanishing Vernacular, captures the distinctive roadsides of Western America.

Rural Escapism

The Hepworth examines the intermediate points between urban and rural; a series of photographers convey Britain’s desire to preserve the natural world.

Industrial Topographies

By capturing impact of human intervention in the natural landscape, Edward Burtynsky reveals the effects of industrialisation.

Vibrant Cities

Positioning city architecture as a locus for social interaction, Fred Herzog’s bright images focus on public spaces and crowds of people.

5 Photobooks to Read This Summer

A selection of this season’s must-read publications respond to key contemporary themes of post-truth, media culture, race and gender.

Observing Architecture

Focusing on 10 key photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, a show reveals iconic architect Denise Scott Brown’s interdisciplinary lens.

Cultural Identifiers

MoMA, Focal Point Gallery and the current issue of Aesthetica look towards utopian ideals through architecture and photography.

TOAF: New Ventures

The Other Art Fair’s Bristol edition is an international place for emerging creatives to showcase their works from around the world.

Charting Creativity

A show celebrates the legacy of influential fashion photographers, tracking the genre’s transformation into an art form.

Curating the Everyday

Dutch multidisciplinary artist Erwin Olaf rewrites the conventions of fashion photography through highly stylised, affecting works.

Changing Gaze

Some things are not meant to be seen. But Trevor Paglen has made it his mission to highlight secret CIA prison sites, spy satellites and military installations.

5 to See: This Weekend

Moving into July, new photography and moving-image exhibitions explore notions of selfhood, representation and globalisation.

Multiple Selves

ICP’s survey of an intergenerational group of women artists from the 1990s to today explores the self in its multiplicity rather than its singularity.

Repositioning Reality

Documenting  the world from above, a new exhibition offers new angles on the urban and natural environment,