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Carbon 14: Climate is Culture, the centrepiece of a four-month festival of the same name at the Royal Ontario Musuem, says much about what we’re all talking about these days – the weather.
Art14 London will return to Olympia Grand, welcoming over 180 galleries from 40 countries. Running from 28 February until 2 March, the fair brings together contemporary and modern art.
Stephen Hall, an artist who has been working in New York for many years, was recently part of a featured article in the New York Times and a photo essay by photographer Michael Mundy.
Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) join forces in AISTHESIS to document the work and the research of two leading figures of Environmental Art.
Since its launch in 1999, the Artangel initiative, Open, has sought to commission outstanding works of art by UK artists. In partnership with BBC Radio 4, Artangel Open showcases work across multiple locations and forms of media.
For the Dallas Biennial 2014 (DB14) over 50 national and international artists come together to exhibit work in multiple venues across Dallas. Running for four months, DB14 fills Texas with exhibitions, performances and lectures.
Harry Callahan exposes the urban experience through photography in City at Pace/MacGill Gallery. Running until 8 March, nearly 50 of Callahan’s gelatin silver prints will be on display.
Prints by James Welling, John Chervinsky, Lucas Foglia, Irina Rozovsky and signed copies of Peter Mitchell’s Strangely Familiar are available through Light Work’s 2014 Subscription Programme.
A major non-profit platform, the Dhaka Art Summit was conceived to support museum-quality exhibits in Bangladesh, the development of South Asian art and international artistic exchange.
Beijing’s Liu Wei grew up as part of generation of artists who experienced rapid urbanisation. But there’s no indication of the Chinese cityscape in this White Cube exhibition, Density.
The work of David Bailey is celebrated in Bailey’s Stardust at the National Portrait Gallery, London. All of the images have been chosen by the photographer and make up over 250 portraits.
The second year of Jeddah Art Week presents in its 2014 programme 13 exhibitions, several public performances and an international conference on global visual culture in venues across Jeddah.
Combining action, suspense and intricate detail, Ryan Schude’s photographs tell numerous stories and the viewer’s imagination is left to join the dots and interpret the narrative as they wish.
Boopsedaisy started to focus on photography as a way to release all the creative roadblocks she was finding on her film sets. The results from the first night’s shoot surprised her.
“To ride in New York”, the introduction informs us, “is to have a level of authority over an otherwise untamed landscape.”
Face in the Crowd is the new series of work from Alex Prager, who creates fascinating scenes utilising bright palettes and constructed settings.
Martin Creed’s first ever retrospective opens at the Hayward Gallery, London, this spring, exposing the large body of work of the genre-defying artist.
Music and fashion have a closer relationship than ever; however, the question remains: can musicians be good designers and do the two media interact?
Known for his innovative approach through the “decisive moment”, Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the founding figures of modern photography.
Fanfarlo’s third album, Let’s Go Extinct, is a joy to listen to, infusing pop anthems with lyrical concerns about the future and human evolution.
At the heart of War Room Stories is a wonderful and vast muddle of textures – found sounds, atmospheric synths and subtle movements.
Sensing Spaces sees seven international architecture practices transform the Royal Academy into a multi-sensory experience with site-specific installations.
We rather like the genre name Jones has cooked up to define his music: blufunk. It combines punk, funk and Yoruba rhythms to form a reasonably enticing mix.
The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis is an intimate tale of the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. We speak to cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel about his visual interpretation.
Blue is the Warmest Colour charts the journey of Adèlefrom curiosity to melancholy via all points in between.
A new exhibition opens in New York at the International Center of Photography that interrogates what it means to work in analogue and digital photography today.
Show Time examines art exhibitions from the late 1980s to the present day and looks at how they have altered our understanding of the curator’s role.
Conceived from the notorious club night of the same name, Super Electric Party Machine has concocted a high octane, fierce explosion of an album.
InRealLife opens with the provocative question, “Have we outsourced our children to the internet? And if yes, where are they and who owns them?”
Full of electronica and orchestral echoes, Slo Light is a collection of songs built on suspense and varied levels of noise.
Betrayal and guilt are the recurring themes in Free Fall, Stephen Lacant’s powerful film about forbidden love.
Halsman’s relentless creativity kept his magnificent imagery alive and allowed him to construct a vivid picture of prosperous American society.
Two lost souls seek a light at the end of the long tunnel called marriage and hope to find it on a romantic weekend in Paris.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s The Past follows his multi award-winning drama A Separation with a rigorous examination of truth, history and human relationships.
It’s easy to forget that every dress, coat and shoe begins as an illustration. Julius Wiedemann draws attention to the industry’s reliance on this skill.
Referred to by Oscar Wilde as “the chosen resort of the artistic shopper”, Liberty has maintained its creative relevance for more than a century.
Regularly seeking out abandoned spaces with her camera, VanDeman finds traces of past inhabitants in the remaining furniture, letters and possessions.
In The Silence is the debut of Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir, who is already something of a sensation in his homeland.
Fuerzabruta returns to the Roundhouse, bringing with it an exciting celebration of carnival and street theatre in which reality is disregarded in favour of dreams.
Becoming Traviata takes a look behind the curtain of Jean-François Sivadier’s re-imagining of Verdi’s masterpiece, as it moves around the demise of its namesake, Violetta Valéry, the “fallen woman.”
Filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien’s PLAYTIME at Victoria Miro is an ambitious new body of work exploring the dramatic and nuanced subject of capital.
The Selfish Giant follows two scrappy 13-year-olds as they reject a school system that doesn’t accept them.
A leading British sculptor, Richard Deacon’s work was on display at Tate Britain in a large chronological survey featuring around 40 individual pieces..
Marc Valli’s introduction reminds the reader of the value inherent in painting and its place in the digital world.
Jed Divine’s solo photography exhibition at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery celebrates the development of his work into new territory, interrogating the spaces of the artist’s daily life and experience.
One of America’s most important contemporary photographers will be celebrated at The Hepworth Wakefield this February in the UK’s first major survey of work by Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
Fly fishing is perhaps not the most popular topic for cinema, yet Eric Steel’s lyrical film shows a new side to this niche hobby by focusing on the devotion and love of one woman to her craft.
Joana Vasconcelos’s vibrant and tactile art will be on display at the Manchester Art Gallery. Joana Vasconcelos: Time Machine showcases 20 of the Portuguese artist’s most significant sculptures.
For its 15th edition, Art Rotterdam has moved to a new location at the Van Nellefabriek. The extensive programme includes Main, New Art and Projections – the second edition of the video section.
