Investigative Expression

Barbican, London and The Trampery have launched alt.barbican, an initiative featuring practitioners who challenge the boundaries of art and technology.

Imaginative Consideration

Andres Serrano’s practice is aligned with baroque painters, translating portraiture dripping with conceptual depth and social consideration into the 21st century.

Pioneering Equality

Brooklyn Museum examines the cultural and aesthetic priorities of black women during the emergence of second-wave feminism in America.

Metropolitan Introspection

The third annual LensCulture Street Photography Awards invites artists to delve back into the world of the quotidian through the lens of the metropolis.

Fluctuating Ideals

If art represents the transitions within culture, what are we learning about systematically labelling bodies?

International Showcase

Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted artist Alinka Echeverría has been selected for the 2017 Foam Talent Call, an internationally renowned platform.

AAP: Contemporary Curating

Jennifer Alexander, Curator of Art at York Art Gallery, sheds light on exhibition practices and curating for the 21st century audience.

Dynamic Gradations

“Love happens here” is a phrase found across London this month. The Photographers’ Gallery who show their solidarity with an offsite exhibition.

5 To See: This Weekend

22-23 July. Offering a global perspective on digital and societal changes, these exhibitions document the pivotal transitions of an era.

Visualising Unrest

The 1980s were a turbulent time in Britain; this decade is the focus of The Place is Here, an exhibition set between the South London Gallery and MIMA.

Documenting History

Kurt Tong’s (b. 1977) current exhibition The Queen, The Chairman and I, reflects upon the self as an amalgamation of disparate parts.

Capturing Intimacy

American photographer Emma Elizabeth Tillman (b. 1986) evokes everyday nuances in her debut series Disco Ball Soul (2017).

Excavating Identities

White Cube’s latest exhibition reveals how there is a vast and raging female presence amongst those associated with the surrealist movement.

International Platforms

Photofairs Shanghai is Asia Pacific’s leading contemporary art fair dedicated to photography and moving image.

Pivotal Transitions

States of America (2017) is the the largest overview of North American documentary photography in recent years.  

Authentic Observations

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, brings together a collection of Jamie Hawkseworth’s images offering a nuanced and empathetic portrayal of England.

Global Platforms

Unseen Amsterdam is devoted to identifying, and fostering the talents of emerging and established innovators.

Alternative Spaces

 Into the Light (2017) ultimately dissembles traditional notions of architecture, subverting the ways in which viewers engage with liminal spaces.

Communal Legacy

The biennial Artists’ Award, hosted by the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is the first worldwide award to be judged solely by artists, and it shows. 

Everyday Resistance

Every two years, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson offers the prestigious HCB Award. The latest winner has just been announced: Guy Tillim.