Inside the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, works from exciting new and emerging artists from around the world are displayed with an accompanying biography and artist’s statement.

When a nine-year-old girl’s character began to shape a work in progress by Sharon Lockhart, it was the unlikely beginning of an ongoing collaboration – whose results can be seen in a commission for the Liverpool Biennial.

Bob and Roberta Smith’s Art Party is due to open on 21 August. The feature film, produced with director Tim Newton and Stuart Cameron of Crescent Arts will be accompanied by a UK-wide Art Party hosted by key venues.

Art history is replete with romantic mythologies, few more potent than the artist as obsessive maker, working round the clock in his studio or in the landscape, as was the case with one of modern art’s most famous obsessives, Paul Cezanne, around whom Magnus Quaife’s solo show is framed.

In conjunction with the opening of the Liverpool Biennial this weekend, Liverpool Contemporary Arts Fair launches at World Museum today. The event is Britain’s newest international art fair, showcasing work by artists from over 50 international galleries.

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs currently on display on the second floor of the Tate Modern brings together an extensive array of Matisse’s cut-outs from a long list of private and public collections.

During the evening of Friday 27 June and the following Saturday afternoon, the artists of Bow Road Studios in London opened their private working spaces and courtyard to the public.

For the London Design Festival, Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert has joined forces with Champagne Perrier-Jouët to create a unique glass piece called Human Nature to be installed at the V&A.

Memory Lane explicitly prompts memories as a result of reconstructed history through the means of art. It’s the series of photographs, Tito in War by Milomir Kovačević, that commemorates Tito’s portrait in after-war public spaces.

Votes have been counted for the Aesthetica Art Prize People’s Choice Award, and we are delighted to announce that Sybille Neumeyer is the winner. Her work refers to the endangerment of bees.

Lizzie Cawthray is challenging the outdated notions of knitwear with her fresh, stylish and playful company, Needle. After working as the knitwear product developer at LK Bennet, Cawthray decided to focus her attentions on the versatile material.

It has become a rite of passage for the contemporary poet: the attempt to rewrite classical – specifically, Hellenic – literature for the modern day. Yet though the projects seem comparable, their impulses are often wildly different.

Virginia Damtsa is a contemporary art dealer and the Co-Founder of Riflemaker gallery in London. Moving to Paris when she was selected by the Opera National de Paris to train for a career in dance, she studied in Belgium, New York and Cambridge before moving to London.

In the 21 years since Meltdown’s inception, the festival has played host to a conveyor belt of counterculture greats, including David Bowie, Patti Smith, Jarvis Cocker and the late John Peel.

The Fashion and Textile Museum has recently opened its new exhibition Made in Mexico. Curator and artist Hilary Simon has sought to explore and reveal elements of the narrative of Mexico’s history.

ROYGBIV&B takes its name from the acronym for the colours of the rainbow, and the interlinking choral voices singing within a web of loudspeakers are meant to represent the idea of that spectrum.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is open for entries, with a new prize of £5,000 for the Main Prize Winner in addition to group exhibition, publication in an anthology of 100 top emerging artists and editorial coverage in the magazine.

The city-wide Edinburgh Art Festival brings together a diverse line-up of some of the best UK and international artists in a programme of exhibitions, one-off performances and special events at some of Edinburgh’s most unique venues.

The theme for the fifth edition of PhotoIreland Festival is Truth, Fact, Fiction, Lies. Looking at how photography is used for storytelling, the festival presents 27 photographers exhibiting in various venues around the city centre.

Louise Alexander unveils Arik Levy’s first solo show at the gallery. Uncontrolled Nature features a collection of new work in combination with older pieces and Levy showcases a range of sculptures that exist like a trail of landmarks.

Michael Steinpichler was born in Austria but now resides in Costa Rica. Drawing on influences such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin, Steinpichler produces vibrant masterpieces, combining a number of subjects, colours and styles.

Peter Bunnell’s 1970 MoMA show Photography Into Sculpture proved a landmark in photographic practice, through its presentation of images arranged in a sculptural manner.

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz s a British artist who utilises well known imagery from art history to create new hybrids that have an immediate sense of the familiar. This process of re-sequencing creates ambiguous and multi-layered creations.

Part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love, The Human Factor will bring together major works from 25 leading international artists across the last 25 years. The artists involved have all fashioned new ways of using the figure in contemporary sculpture.

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual is a celebration of outstanding poetry and short fiction, which promises to inspire you after reading. This collection unites established and emerging literary talent from across the world.

Spencer Finch has on the wall of his studio a postcard of a watercolour by Turner. Impressed by its dynamic of figuration and abstraction, Finch seems always to have had Turner in mind with his own manipulations of the elements.

This summer the Lisson Gallery collaborates with Berengo Studio to present an exhibition that coincides with the occasion of the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.

This summer the Camden Arts Centre dedicates all of its galleries and gardens to a large-scale, major exhibition of work by Shelagh Wakely. One of the UK’s most influential artists, the exhibition provides the rare opportunity to experience the ephemeral magic of Wakely’s work.

Ai Weiwei is a master craftsman. His work in porcelain, marble and wood, in particular, is astonishingly comparable in vision and execution to the design talents of Leonardo Da Vinci.

American Artist Cecil Eci’Am Gresham works predominately with painting and mixed media art, but also has a distinct digital photography style, unconventional bold imagery. We speak with him about his ongoing practice.

For the first time in the UK, 40 modern prints from Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders will be showcased at ATLAS Gallery. Lyon immersed himself into the culture of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club from 1963 to 1967 and these images are an iconic representation of that time.

Frieze Art Fair brings together over 160 of the world’s leading contemporary galleries. This year, for the first time, Frieze introduces Live, a showcase for performance-based installations dispersed throughout the fair.

The vote to decide whether Scotland becomes an independent nation takes place on 18 September 2014. Four Scottish photographers are brought together to present their distinctive perspectives on a nation in the midst of intense debate.

This June, the Royal Geographical Society displays a selection of contemporary, creative, resonant and original works by photographers and filmmakers as part of the Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Award.

German artist Sybille Neumeyer stunned judges with Song for the Last Queen in the Aesthetica Art Prize, a beautiful light installation comprised of 7,614 bees collected from a naturally collapsed beehive framed within vials of honey.

Synesthesia is a combination of digital innovation and timeless fashion. Teaming up with Fred Perry for the SS14 campaign, the website is an exploration of synesthesia, when one sensory response induces a sensation in another.

Leeds Art Gallery presents its new sculpture collection in Narrating Objects. The display is designed to explore the relationship between sculpture and narrative, unlocking the stories that surround key works.

Back for its second year after popular success in 2014, Art Everywhere is a large scale project to get work on display around the UK using poster sites as places to see amazing art.

Shortlisted with Alberto García-Alix, Jochen Lempert and Lorna Simpson for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was photographer Richard Mosse, who deservingly took home this year’s prize.

The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world and offers artists the opportunity to showcase their work to wider audiences and further their involvement in the international art world.

The Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition presents eight shortlisted artists contributing outstanding works to contemporary art and will continue to run until 22 June showcasing artistic talent from around the world in a ground-breaking group show.

Alex Prager presents photographs from her highly acclaimed series, Face in the Crowd, at The Arts Club this summer. In this Prager draws from the language of cinema to create large-scale, epic photographs of crowds.

Referred to as the “Olympics of the art world”, Art Basel returns to the Swiss city for its 44th year. With additional events in Miami and Hong Kong, Basel is where it all began for what is the most important art fair organiser in the world.

Nina Fowler has been shortlisted for prizes including The Jerwood Drawing, The BP Portrait and Longlisted for the The Aesthetica Art Prize. She is represented by Galerie Dukan and her work is included in private and public collections in Europe, the USA and Asia.

There are those that argue that talent is not innate. Rather, it is the ironclad will to keep on practising in the face of impossibilities. Then there are others who garner talent by being born talent adjacent. Musician Tunday Akintan is lucky in both ways.

VOLTA10 returns to Basel from 16-21 June. This year the vibrant art fair has teamed up with GalleryLOG to produce a number of inspiring videos that take a closer look at the work produced by a number of artists appearing at VOLTA.

The art of Pierre Soulages, on display at Dominique Lévy Gallery and Galerie Perrotin, exists in another world and defies description. Pierre Soulages is a “proposal about post-war abstract expressionism” according to the exhibition organisers.

VOLTA10 returns to Basel from 16-21 June. This year the vibrant art fair has teamed up with GalleryLOG to produce a number of inspiring videos that take a closer look at the work produced by a number of artists appearing at VOLTA.

Aesthetica is inviting visitors to cast their vote for the Aesthetica Art Prize People’s Choice Award. The exhibition, housed at York St Mary’s – York Art Gallery’s contemporary art space, runs until 22 June and presents the work of eight shortlisted artists.

Tallulah Rendall is not a woman for half-measures. Having shed her six-piece band, the songstress stands feet astride, juggling acrobatic vocals, loop pedals and guitars in a tumult of folk fury.