Recently opened at the Grand Palais until 21 July, this retrospective shows off 20 works and is the first video art exhibition at the National Galleries. The experience of going to the exhibition visit is conceived as a journey.

The Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition is now open to the public, showcasing innovative works that push the boundaries of media and engage with key issues relevant today.

The highly acclaimed American artist Ursula von Rydingsvard arrives at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, for her first large-scale survey in Europe. The exhibition, which is the artist’s most extensive to date, features more than 40 works of drawing and sculpture made over the last two decades.

One of the main programmes for the 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Memories Can’t Wait – Film without Film, will bring together works that take place in a cinema but play with the normal viewing situation.

Don’t let the title, Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s, fool you. These calm, classically proportioned clothes have nothing to say about social or economic upheaval.

Since the 10th Unilever Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern back in 2009, this is Miroslaw Balka’s first solo show with new works in London and his fourth at White Cube gallery.

In the booklet of his new album, Mutations, Vijay Iyer states: “our intent, as players and observers, is to place ourselves fully in the moment with sound.” This desire was perfectly executed at the European Premiere of the record at Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Living in today’s world of gratuitous violence, high technology and professionally formulated plans for the future one may not find it surprising that our methods and ideas have historical roots in Fascism.

Artist Burak Delier’s exhibition Freedom Has No Script including a new commission by Iniva opened at Rivington Place last week. The artist explores the relationship between capitalism and art.

German artist Sybille Neumeyer was announced as the winner of the Main Prize for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 at the exhibition preview last night. Her stunning light installation Song for the Last Queen is comprised of 7,614 bees.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 launches today. In anticipation of tonight’s opening, we speak to last year’s winner Damien O’Mara who took home the Main Prize award with his photographic piece.

Helen Paris is a picture of elegance in this new performance from Curious. In fact, the entire piece is elegantly carved: with deep red furniture, black dresses and classical overtures, it’s the very epitome of a Sunday Times afternoon.

This year’s Prix Pictet exhibition will go on show at the V&A in London. The show marks a collaboration between the Prix Pictet and the V&A museum, which was the first museum in the world to begin collecting photography as an art form.

Newly extended due to popular demand is Hello, My Name is Paul Smith at London’s Design Museum, that will run until 22 June. Looking at the work of this British Designer, the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of work.

The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition opens this week at York St Mary’s. Celebrating innovative and outstanding artworks, the display features shortlisted pieces from international artists.

Barrie Dale is a primarily a scientist, but is also known for his painting and his music. All around him he sees nature being destroyed, to the point where it is possible to envisage none being left, so he became a conservationist.

Incorporating drawings, models, sketches and collages, Bernard Tschumi explores the detailed and lengthy process of design involved in architecture.

The organic sculptures and magical universe of Ernesto Neto take over the gallery at Guggenheim Bilbao, allowing audiences to engage with their senses.

Biyi Bandele’s big screen adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s seminal novel pares down the story but maintains a personal, evocative impression of Nigeria’s post-colonial struggle.

Sean Gandini brings a unique approach to juggling with Smashed, an homage to Pina Bausch and the mathematics of dance, featuring four crockery sets, nine performers and 80 apples.

Ayoade’s adaptation of the existentialist Russian novella, The Double, is a dark comedy that sees Eisenberg perform two opposing manifestations of the same self.

A compelling volume of post-war posters from the National Archive, which paint a portrait of the changing concerns of British government from 1945 to 1975.

Born in Santa Margherita Ligure in 1930, Gianni Berengo Gardin has produced more than 200 books and exhibitions in his 60-year career.

Edited by Testino and featuring pieces from his private archive, the volume brings together the duo’s best work.

A retrospective of Robert Heinecken at MoMA explores an artist whose work questions and subverts the imagery associated with popular media.

Short Term 12 taunts and tricks you with soft focus and witty quips, providing the sugar for the incredibly moving medicine of the story underneath.

One-man powerhouse Rob Jones returns for his third full-length album, rather charming and doting, jam-packed with meandering guitar melodies.

Kate Moross is a veritable design chameleon, whose portfolio boasts a diverse range of work.

Both a documentary photographer and cultural commentator, Phil Bergerson has spent the past 20 years constructing a visual historical record of the depleting remnants of the American Dream.

For Those in Peril follows the aftermath of a fishing accident that claimed five lives in a remote Scottish village.

A haunting record, Abandoned City isn’t just about capturing the vibe of the cities left behind; it’s concerned with working out what loneliness means.

The astonishing re-staging of one of Germany’s most internationally renowned contemporary artists is playful, bewildering, enticing and hypnotic.

Women Photographers is a definitive collection, which details 60 biographies of the most influential female photographers of the 19th century to the present day.

Mixing precise colour palettes with beautiful settings, Kourtney Roy regularly appears as her own subject, taking on different personas in a myriad of contexts.

Raw, naked emotion remains through Strangers, a collection of songs about real people and real life situations with each number having a distinct sense of place.

Opera, and indeed classical music generally, is healthy and thriving. However, there is still a need to attract the attention of the younger generation.

Humorous and bright, this is a joyful exploration of Dalí’s world and gives intriguing and comprehensive insights into his personal development and his art.

Spending two years as curator of the Frieze Foundation, Sarah McCrory is familiar with commissioning public art. She steps into the role of Director for the 6th Glasgow International festival.

Denis’ latest offering is littered with abusers and victims. The cause of their woes appears to be Laporte, a rich businessman, who becomes the focus of a thirst for retribution.

Berlin-based Denitza Todorova’s hip-hop-layered lyrics don’t waste time on metaphors, instead they are clear and concise with lashings of attitude.

Each song on this record is beautifully crafted, resembling a soundscape more than a traditional piece of music.

Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low cost anti-retroviral drugs in the global South, causing millions of unnecessary deaths.

Vijay Iyer’s Mutations is a montage of piano, electronics and strings. Constructed from fragmented melodies, the instrumental songs are ever-evolving.

Art & Ecology Now is an extensive survey of nature’s impact upon art’s involvement and responsibility in saving the planet.

A celebration of adolescence in all its acne-ridden, rebellious glory, Matt Wolf’s Teenage is a compelling joyride through the evolution of the teenager.

Less a consideration of the inflexibility of faith than a portrait of desperate women, Fill the Void is a brave film.

The UK’s original contemporary graphic arts festival, Pick Me Up, returns for the fifth year. Celebrating graphic art in all its various formations, the event transforms Somerset House.

It’s one of life’s niggles that food never looks quite as good as it does in the picture. Be it glamorised packaging or botched recipe attempts, so often one is left thoroughly underwhelmed.

Video artist Julia Weißenberg is one of eight finalists selected for exhibition in the Aesthetica Art Prize show, taking place at York St Mary’s – York Art Gallery’s contemporary art space.

After the devastation caused by World War II, Britain was in desperate need of optimism and re-development. During the course of the war Britain suffered the tragic loss of 383,800 soldiers’ lives.