Critic's Guides

Curated by Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, this year’s edition explores transnational kinships and inherited healing practices to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Gwangju May Uprising

From Cameron Rowland’s deep dive into the history of US policing at Essex Street to Pedro Reyes’s pre-Columbian inspired sculptures at Lisson Gallery, these are the must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze Week

From Rebecca Horn’s kinetic installations to Richard Sides’s matrix, assistant editor Carina Bukuts chooses the exhibitions not to miss

From Gabriel Rico’s immersive installation at Galería OMR to a group show of contemporary sculpture at Galería Hilario Galguera, these are the must-see shows in CMDX

From Charles Gaines at Dia Beacon to Susan Weil at JDJ Gallery, these are the must-see exhibitions in upstate New York

From a historical revaluation of the 1985 New Wave movement to Qiu Zhijie’s performance lectures, these are the best shows from the city

From Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Britain to Haegue Yang at Art Gallery of Ontario, here are Frieze’s must-see shows

What to look forward to in February, from a new body of work by Harare-based painter Misheck Masamvu to a retrospective by Hong Kongese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai

From Nathalie Du Pasquier in Rome to Susan Philipsz in Berlin, these are the best shows in the Schengen

From Gordon Parks’s stunning photographs of Black America to Patrick Angus’s intricate queer portraits, these are the must-see exhibitions to start the new year

From a critical reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ to a research project on the role of photography in the Irish civil rights movement, these are the best shows to stream

From Hilma af Klint in Malmö to Mohamed Bourouissa in Frankfurt

From Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in London to Mary Quant in Dundee

From Joanna Piotrowska in Warsaw to Leonor Antunes in Luxembourg

From Angela Davis in Dresden to Dadaist antics at Zürich's Cabaret Voltaire

From Olivia Erlanger’s aspirational interiors to Juliette Blightman’s Dorothy Iannone-inspired Tarot deck, here are the best shows in and around London 

What’s on in Europe this fortnight: from Rosemary Mayer’s fabric sculptures in Berlin to Isaac Julien’s homage to Lina Bo Bardi in Rome

The gothic tales of notorious racist H.P. Lovecraft provide source material for HBO’s new show about ‘the hauntedness of Black life’

As the third edition of ‘Various Others’ kicks off, Carina Bukuts selects the exhibitions not to miss

The city’s best autumn exhibitions