The Bluecoat presents a series of striking black and white images by Tricia Porter which document the everyday lives of those living in inner city Liverpool in the early 1970s. On display until 5 July.
The painter Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was one of the most creative and groundbreaking female artists of the 20th century and this retrospective at Tate Modern highlights her innovative designs.
David Zwirner presents a collection of work by celebrated artists John McCracken and Franz West at the annual Frieze New York art fair. We speak to Greg Lulay, Director at David Zwirner.
In 2015 the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize presents a new section, In Focus, exhibiting previously unseen and recent prints by the award-winning South African photographer Pieter Hugo.
The 2015 shortlist has been announced for the ninth annual Catlin Art Prize, which aims to promote the work of emerging artists in their first year after graduation from the UK’s art schools.
Tom Lovelace’s interdisciplinary practice challenges the traditional definitions of art forms, breaking down the assumed boundaries between photography, sculpture, performance, and more.
Frieze New York 2015 sees Cecilia Alemani curate the art fair’s Projects and Sounds programme which features work from Korakrit Arunanondchai, Pia Camil, Alicja Kwade and Xaviera Simmons.
Tamas Dezso’s Notes for an Epilogue and Here, Anywhere are on-going bodies of work depicting a time of transition in rural Romania and Hungary following the fall of Communism in the late 1980s.
In addition to the annual Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK’s leading documentary film festival, Crossover, an international digital media training organisation, will curates Interactive at Sheffield.
The third Art15 will give an overview of current contemporary practice as well as Modern artworks from established and emerging galleries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and America.
Throughout her career, Portuguese artist Helena Almeida has questioned the limits of traditional media by using her body as the subject of her work.
Transcendence is the first US solo show to come from British, Paris-based photographer and artist Anouska Beckwith, created in collaboration with young New York curator Andi Potamkin.
It’s not often that a private foundation opens its doors to their new space and blinds you with its beauty. Fondazione Prada achieved this through a careful selection of space, architecture and art.
Tate Britain announces the shortlist for the Turner Prize 2015. Assemble, Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers have all been selected for this year’s exhibition at Tramway, Glasgow.
The Aesthetica Art Prize lunchtime talks programme continues this week with Whitney Hintz from the Hiscox Collection in conversation with Jenny Alexander, Senior Curator of Art at York Art Gallery.
Patricia Mato-Mora is a London-based ceramic artist and writer. Her work was selected for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize longlist and is featured in 2015’s guide to pioneering artists, Future Now.
Intimate Material Systems at Alejandra von Hartz Gallery features new site-specific works by Miami-based artist Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova. The exhibition consists of several wall pieces.
Artist Richard Heslop has created a film in response to a radio play by Simon Armitage. Entitled The Raft of the Medusa the project is a commission from Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network.
Sarah Lucas will present her much anticipated solo exhibition in the British Pavilion as part of the 2015 Venice Biennale. Most recently, a survey of her work featured at Tramway in Glasgow.
Working with sculpture, video and installation, Débora Delmar aka Debora Delmar Corp aims to explore the manner in which globalised consumer culture has come to influence modern life.
Londoner James Mathé aka Barbarossa builds on his contemplative and introspective 2013 album Bloodlines with his latest offering Imager, an album that melds romanticism with melancholy.
Living and working in the UK, Athens-born artist Emi Avora looks to her Greek ancestry for inspiration. Her painting and drawing installations reflect on political developments in the country’s history.
There is one month to go to enter short film into ASFF 2015. Until 31 May, entries are open for the fifth year of the BAFTA qualifying festival, a dynamic addition to the international film festival circuit.
Swiss-born artist Pamela Rosenkranz’s work embodies a foreboding view of the contemporary world and its central tenets. Her latest exhibition Our Product at the Venice Biennale is no exception.
A short film about the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition 2015 is now available to watch, presenting insights into the work of the shortlisted artists through interviews, clips from the preview night and close ups of the stunning pieces.
For the latest in their Cryptic Nights series of events, Glasgow producing art house Cryptic presents new work from Craig Ritchie Allan, who, under the name Numbercult, creates performances.
The first large-scale survey of Land Art took place at MOCA, Los Angeles, in 2012. This exhibition looked at the historical origins of artists’ interactions with landscape. Featured in issue 48.
In Carol Bove’s first show at David Zwirner, London, The Plastic Unit, the subtle elegance emitted from the Mayfair townhouse, is sharply placed at odds with Bove’s curious combinations of materials.
John Keane has focused on a range of political questions of our age throughout his career, coming to prominence in 1991 after having been appointed official British war artist during the Gulf War.
In a selection of previously unseen collaged and painted sketchbooks, rarely seen super-8 films and recent tapestries, this show follows the development of ‘provincial punk’ in the early 1980s
The Argentine photographer Annemarie Heinrich had to keep her pioneering spirit under wraps during her lifetime as she experimented with photographing nudity in the early 20th century.
In the setting of the Giardino della Marinaressa, and as an official Collateral Event at la Biennale di Venezia, YSP presents a major open-air exhibition of sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Me and Mine explores empathy and the way in which entering someone else’s pain allows one to see the world through another’s eyes, to travel.
We take a moment to speak to San Fermin band leader Ellis Ludwig-Leone, who studied music composition at Yale and was an assistant to contemporary classical music composer and arranger Nico Muhly.
Historical Futures brings together the works of Blair Cahill, Cheryl Papasian, Necole Schmitz and Alex J Wood that incorporate traditional, craft-based media to examine the contemporary world.
Inspired by research-based social documentary projects, Andrade transforms real objects and events into dramatically-lit photographic tableaux.
Overshadowed by the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco, 2014 was also the year of José Guerrero. Born in 1914, he was an important Spanish artist of the second half of the 20th century.
Husky Rescue’s new album The Long Lost Friend: Special Edition is out on Catskills Records now. The title of the album comes from the story of a real lost friend.
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, enlisted the help of video and installation artist Mona Hatoum in the curating of this small exhibition of the artist’s works from the 1980s to the present day.
In 2014 the Museum of Modern Art hosted a retrospective of the work of artist Christopher Williams. The show displayed iconic pieces which unravel the parade of contemporary media.
We speak to Matt Hawthorn, Head of Art and Design at York St John University, about his current research into the identity and importance of performance in today’s contemporary art world.
Arebyte Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Zoë Hough which explores issues surrounding ageing and the desire for control over our bodies.
Since 2008 Swedish artist Tobbe Malm has been living and working in Norway and creating his metal sculptures full time.
Light Show at MCA Australia explores the versatility of light as a sculptural medium through installations from a diverse selection of international artists.
Fresh from New York, The Still House Group brought its brand of ever-evolving DIY art to London for the first time in Testing Ground: Still House Group at the Zabludowicz Collection.
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s new classical music and fine arts festival is centred in the Dallas Arts District and is anchored by live performances.
Todd Antony has been longlisted in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015. The artist travels across the world to capture the lives of extraordinary people.
Celebrating a century of resort and swimwear style, publishers King & McGaw have delved into the archives of its partners to present iconic prints of swimwear from the 20th century.
We speak to Ukrainian artist Anastasiya Lazurenko about her presentation at The Other Fair alongside her ongoing quest explore the female body image and to reflect the truth in photography.
Last year Aesthetica interviewed artist Susan Hiller about her practice and participation in group exhibition Slow Learner at Timothy Taylor Gallery.
