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Diana Markosian:
Between Presence and Absence

Gallerie d’Italia presents a new body of work by photographer Diana Markosian, which confronts the relationship between love and heartbreak.

Frida Kahlo:
The Making of an Icon

This summer, Tate Modern will present a new major exhibition exploring how Frida Kahlo became a global icon and lasting influence on a generation of artists.

Enter Art Fair:
Dynamic Curation

The latest edition of Enter Art Fair presents 80 leading galleries, connecting international audiences with some of the most exciting artists working today.

Xin Zhang: A New Perspective

Xin Zhang is a London and Beijing artist and rope practitioner whose practice interrogates the intersections of intimacy, resistance and the body.

Tilda Swinton:
Experimental Cinema

Tilda Swinton, an iconic, daring performer and subversive visual artist, takes center stage in a personal exhibition of her artistic collaborators.

Five Images from
All About Photo Award 2026

We spotlight five photographers from the All About Photo 2026, which this year were selected by Magnum photographer Steve McCurry.

Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire

Vietnamese multidisciplinary artist Nhu Xuan Hua reflects on the fragility of how shared stories are communicated – or withheld – across generations.

Turner Prize 2026:
Shortlist Announced

The four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize are Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku, representing the best of visual art.

Five Exhibitions for Earth Day

We celebrate Earth Day 2026 with five exhibitions that highlight the beauty of our natural environment, as well as the urgent need for sustainable action. 

Ai Weiwei: Art as Witness

A unique 24-hour performance piece by artist and activist Ai Weiwei will be at Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International, between 3 and 4 July

Ed van der Elsken:
Pioneering Street Photography

Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam celebrates the legendary street photographer Ed van der Elsken with a major exhibition spanning decades of his renowned career

Shared Experiences

An exhibition of portraits by the legendary Mary Ellen Mark and the acclaimed Sabiha Çimen celebrates the timeless activities of girlhood.

Learning Without Walls: Inside
Falmouth University’s Online Art MA

What does it mean to make art together, apart? As digital infrastructures reshape collaboration, we learn how a leading UK university is responding.

In Conversation with Zed Nelson

The Anthropocene Illusion, a solo presentation by Sony Photographer of the Year 2025 Zed Nelson, is on view at Somerset House as part of this year’s prize.

The Enduring Power of Montage

Thames & Hudson’s Cut Out presents the untold relationship between photography, feminist art, and collage through the V&A’s extensive collection.

Verner Panton:
Form, Colour, Space

Chairs hung from the ceiling. Colourful playgrounds as interior spaces. Two-metre-high seating towers. Vitra Design Museum marks 100 years of Panton.

Five Photographers
from CONTACT Festival

Toronto-based CONTACT Photography Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary this summer, featuring a wide range of exhibitions across the city.

History in Technicolour

MK Gallery presents a major exhibition dedicated to colour photographs by the pioneering French photographer and painter Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Francesca Woodman:
Landmark Self Portraits

In Rome, Gagosian presents a new exhibition that focuses on Francesca Woodman’s connection to Surrealism, through black-and-white self portraits.

Fanglin Luo: Embodying Tradition

London-based artist and curator Fanglin Luo’s interdisciplinary practice seamlessly moves between performance, painting and photography.

Surrealism in the
Contemporary World

A new exhibition at VISU Contemporary spotlights the women artists who are continuing the long tradition of Surrealism for the modern age.

You’re Not Alone:
A Cultural Icon in 360°

This spring, a new immersive experience dedicated to David Bowie is opening at London’s Lightroom, transporting viewers into his creative mind.

The Presence of Ice:
Sebastião Salgado’s Glaciers

A new collection of Sebastião Salgado’s photographs is dedicated to some of the planet’s most remote places, drawing attention to decline and melt.

Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2026

The 10th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a remarkable display of creativity, place and dialogue, acknowledging a vibrant art scene.

Couture as Creative Dialogue

The UK’s first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer’s influence and tracing its origins.

The Photography Show:
Contemporary Experimentation

This April, galleries from around the world come together as part of The Photography Show, taking place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

Five Images from
World Press Photo 2026

World Press Photo spotlights the photojournalists who capture familiar narratives and unspoken ones, broad perspectives and intimate insider views

Malta Biennale 2026:
An Expansive Programme

Malta Biennial returns for its second edition this spring. The event operates at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural heritage.

Senga Nengudi at Whitechapel:
A Dance of Form, Body and Space

Whitechapel Gallery presents a rare archival exhibition of the work and practice of pioneering American artist and educator Senga Nengudi.

The Poetics of Desire

Fotografiska Shanghai tracing the artist’s practice, spanning two decades through over 100 works that explore visual resistance and bodily narrative.

Angelica Mesiti: Traces in Time

Museum Tinguely in Basel presents five installations by Angelica Mesiti, who has worked between performance, sound and video since the early 2000s.

The Endurance of Brutalism

This new exhibition spotlights Scotland’s post-war modernist architecture, selected from Phipps’ photographs of 160 buildings across the country.

Art of Noise:
How Design Shapes Music

Cooper Hewitt in New York traces the history of music and design through an array of archival objects, including posters, album art and equipment.

Can Love Be A Photograph:
Forty Years of Inez & Vinoodh

Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents a major show celebrating the career of legendary photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

Martin Parr:
Defining Modern Life

Foam pays tribute to the legacy of photographer Martin Parr with a new exhibition, which brings together a selection of his most iconic works.

New Photobooks
Released this Spring

These five new publications spotlight some of the most prominent figures working in photography, alongside exciting emerging voices in the space.

Moment of Stillness

Tina Simakova is a master of natural light and minimal settings, using them to create atmospheric portraits rooted in intimacy and vulnerability.

Silent Tension

Chrissy Lush’s figures are often set within domestic and suburban environments, responding to external pressures located just outside the picture frame.

Radiant Horizons

Linda Westin brings methods from neuroscience into artworks. These pictures present forest canopies like portals into other worlds, where the skies glow.

Sights Reframed

In portraiture, Senay Berhe demonstrates a considered approach to framing and lighting, whilst also emphasising the depths of human emotion.

Building the Future

A new publication highlights BIG’s two-decades-long pursuit of innovative architectural forms that surprise, engage and transform the way we live.

A Legacy Visualised

West African symbolism, cinematic storytelling and personal history come together in a celebration of Côte d’Ivoire’s photographic landscape at ICP.

A Dark Waterway

Jane Fulton Alt has spent more than 40 years visiting a lake in northern Wisconsin, where the season for water lilies is as fleeting as the light.

Altered Landscapes:
The April / May Issue

In Aesthetica’s latest print edition, creatives explore how histories – whether personal, political or both – are written into the spaces we inhabit everyday.

Sculpting with Light

Harold Ross’s long exposure Night series, in which trees and clearings are bathed in a bright white glow, evokes a feeling of enchantment and mystery.

Histories Connected

Steve McQueen presents a powerful ensemble of multimedia works that explore the boundaries of imagination, memory, space and time.

Isamu Noguchi:
The Politics of Space

High Museum presents the artist’s first retrospective in over twenty five years, featuring nearly two hundred objects, many never or rarely exhibited.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Focus & Desire

Fotomuseum Winterthur presents the artist’s first major show in Switzerland, offering audiences the chance to witness his intimate portraits up close.

Ernesto Neto: Sensorial Experiences

Museum of Fine Art, Houston presents Ernesto Neto’s soaring crochet installation, that fills the gallery space with spiraling colour and movement.

Aesthetica Art Prize:
Celebrating 20 Years 

The Prize marks its 20th anniversary with four exhibitions across North Yorkshire galleries, bringing together fifty talented artists from previous editions.

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