In bloom
Art
“Our souls need it” – floral artist Hamish Powell on the power of nature
End of an era
Daniel Weiss’ new photo book documents the last of the New York pay phones
Aries Arise Archive
This new Aries book is the definitive document of London’s cult streetwear brand
Saturated worlds
“I see my images as film stills from a movie that doesn’t exist” – Miles Aldridge on depicting the hyper-surreal
Online/offline
“I’ll be performing the act of bed rotting” – Qualeasha Wood weaves glitchy tapestries
Wednesday Art Idol
August Sander: the pioneering German documentary photographer who captured the face of a nation
Sarah Lucas: interrogating gender norms through euphemism and innuendo
Claude Cahun: the French surrealist who inspired Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin
Helen Levitt: a pioneer of street photography who captured the theatre of daily life in New York
Jenny Saville: the British painter challenging body norms with studies in human flesh
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
Gerhard Richter: the German master of abstraction reconciling memories of war
SUPERFLEX: the Danish public art collective re-drawing lines of civic power
Forensic Architecture: the architectural detective agency uncovering global human rights abuses
Gillian Wearing: the Turner Prize-winning artist peeling back layers of the human psyche
HERO exclusive
Stefano Gallici’s ongoing visual diary spotlights five LA talents changing the city’s creative landscape
Tagged
Corbin Shaw has created a caged egg to raise awareness of the living crisis
Neither Drums Nor Trumpets
“There’s this blurring of boundaries” – Pam Tanowitz on her Dance Reflections performance
BTS
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna, RZA and Virgil Abloh: Places + Faces take us through their most iconic images
Major refurb
Saint Laurent has produced a series of Charlotte Perriand prototypes
Pics from the underground
Counterculture curator Sheet Noise selects iconic fashion images
Golden Compass
“We’re all shaped by the media we consume” – legendary street artist Shepard Fairey on his new Bangkok exhibition
Beauty in the trashy
“He could be the subject of one of his photos” – Lee Shulman on his new Martin Parr documentary
sex appeal
Ethan James Green on his new exhibition, Bombshell
“I am an antique”
An interview with Peter Berlin – the man, the myth, the bulge
Take your pick
See this year’s Loewe Craft Prize shortlist
Treat yourself
Tenderbooks recommend their must-have photobooks
From Doomguy to Dali
This new Doom game replaces killing the undead with a wine and art day out
Crafted World
Loewe’s major retrospective exhibition is arriving in Tokyo
Home again
Luis Garcia’s photography allowed him to rediscover his Dominican roots