In close cooperation with the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum Folkwang is organizing a major retrospective of the Dutch artist Aernout Mik. The exhibition will initially take place in Paris at the end of March, 2011, in October in Essen and at the beginning of 2012 in Amsterdam.

Made in Brunel showcases the brightest creations from Brunel University’s globally renowned School of Engineering and Design. This generation’s emerging talent present an outstanding array of technological, sustainable, humanistic and virtual innovation. This year Made in Brunel represents the journey that our students undertake and the story behind the creations on show in June at Bargehouse. To witness the start of some of these journeys see the Exhibitors page and find out what our projects are all about.

The International Design Alliance (IDA) is a strategic venture between the international organisations representing industrial design, communication design and interior architecture/design. The alliance was created by its founding partners, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) and the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) in 2003. In 2008, the IDA welcomed the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) to the alliance as the third partner.

This exhibition is one of the first exhibition projects on the subject of the history and development of the music video. The importance of the video as an artistic genre will also be emphasized: it brings together painting, film, photography and performance. The presentation comprises up to 100 of the most important international video clips – from early avantgarde films to current positions.

re:publica is Europe’s most exciting and Germany’s biggest conference when it comes to blogs, social media, and our society in the digital age. From April 13 – 15 re:publica is going to take place in the heart of Berlin, with 2011 also being its 5th anniversary. The political and cultural, but most of all very zeitgeisty event has evolved from an informal blogger meetup to an essential date for media professionals. What once started with 800 attendees in 2007 attracted the impressive number of 2700 participants only three years later.

The ideas of Postmodernism emerged first in architecture. While the Modernist slogan had been 'less is more', architects like Robert Venturi, Michael Graves and Aldo Rossi insisted that 'less is a bore'.

The V&A has commissioned artist Mat Collishaw to animate the Museum's architecture with a work of haunting beauty. A monumental zoetrope - the cylindrical device first designed in 1834 to project a rapid succession of images to simulate motion - is the result. Magic Lantern transforms the Museum's edifice into a beacon of light, brought to life by fluttering moths visible from dusk each evening. Exploiting the theme of enchantment to the full, Collishaw plays with scale, much like Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by grabbing the attention of South Kensington passers-by with his monumental fluttering moths in the Museum's uppermost dome, the crown cupola.

Fashion in Film: Melodrama is a series of film screenings exploring fashion as a key to the melodramatic imagination.

In the latest edition of MADProjects, which explores emerging trends and innovations in the design world, the Museum of Arts and Design presents Patrick Jouin: Design and Gesture.

New Photography 2010 presents four artists — Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho — whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema.