Featuring Robert Mapplethorpe and Alfredo Jaar, the selection for 15-16 December explores global politics and everyday life through seminal works.

In Transit at SF Camerawork, San Francisco, explores the complex experiences of migration and living between different cultures.

Sweden-born photographer Gabriel Isak returns with Entities, a series of images inspired by existentialism, inner worlds and the self.

Laurie Simmons’ prolific oeuvre is celebrated in a retrospective exploring how image culture creates and perpetuates myths within society.

Tapping into a time-honoured photographic tradition, Winter in Swiss Photography focuses on the dramatic impact of the season.

From new technologies to sustainable regeneration, this selection of contemporary buildings presents new models for the future.

Between 1972 and 1981, John Myers recorded everyday scenes in Stourbridge, West Midlands. A new publication brings these images together.

Fires is the new series from Aesthetica Art Prize alumna Ellie Davies, weaving symbolic narratives between the human and natural world.

Foam’s new exhibition explores the story of food in photography, tapping into issues surrounding domestic space, global consumption and selfhood.

New York-based May Parlar is a photography and video artist creating visual narratives that explore the notion of identity and belonging.

Aesthetica’s selection of exhibitions to see this weekend investigates public and private worlds through photography – in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Exploding Collage combines presentations by three contemporary artists – Nadia Hebson, Linder, and Ursula Mayer.

A new Minimalism exhibition in Singapore brings together artists from around the world as part of a wider global dialogue around the movement.

The Aesthetica Awards are open for entries; accepting innovative submissions for the Art Prize, Creative Writing Award and Film Festival.

160  iconic 20th century works by M. C. Escher are displayed within an environment created by cutting-edge Japanese design studio, nendo.

Mehveş Leliç is an Istanbul-born photographer and whose landscape images explore the relationship between humans and the environment.

From New York to Zürich, Paris to London, art and photography explores the limits of human perception whilst offering social commentary.

This Land at Pier 24 examines aspects of America’s social and political climate – drawing a reflective portrait of daily experience in the US.

Charlotte Prodger wins the 2018 Turner Prize for films shot entirely on iPhone. The works explore queer identity through a personal narrative.

Aesthetica collates 10 organisations providing inspiration for the festive season; delve into our list of creative ideas for art and culture lovers.