From Candice Lin's tales of demonic transformation to Elif Saydam's overlapping of schmaltz and camp

From Yinka Shonibare's bizarre and dreamlike manifestations to a broad retrospective of Hiroshi Sugimoto, spanning decades of conceptually diverse projects on the uncanny 

From a new novel by Teju Cole to the English language debut of an iconic Japanese novel, the frieze team recommend what they’re reading

From a group show at Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, exploring the marginalized and transient to Frank Sweeney’s 1970s bedroom at EVA International in Ireland

From Tetsuya Ishida’s disaffected oil paintings at Gagosian, New York, to Ato Ribeiro’s wooden weavings at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta

From Sarah Lucas’s hotly anticipated retrospective at Tate Britain to Christian Marclay’s Kafkaesque Nightmare at White Cube Mason’s Yard

From Anri Sala’s marbled explorations of divine time at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris to the first show dedicated to Wanda Czełkowska outside of Poland

From a survey of African fashion at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, to Florian Krewer’s animalistic oil paintings at Aspen Art Museum

From Edita Schubert’s performative paintings at Galerie Molitor, Berlin, to Sin Wai Kin’s new video installation at Fondazione Memmo, Rome

From Alix Vernet’s street casts at Helena Anrather, New York, to Myrlande Constant’s mystical tapestries at Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles

From Alexander Tovborg’s spiritual yearning to collective mythologies as told by Miralda

From new fiction by Isabel Allende to the first Bulgarian novel to win the Man Booker International, the frieze team recommend new favourites and future classics

From Mark Bradford’s eloquent abstractions to Keith Haring’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles

From a major Carrie Mae Weems survey in London to a city-wide Biennial in Liverpool 

From Christopher Kulendran Thomas's meditation on art history to an overdue Tom of Finland homecoming

From a group show of funky ceramics at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, to Richard Mosse at Altman Siegel and Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco

From an exhibition of Kaye Donachie’s chalky blue, purple and grey portraits to David Aruquipa Pérez’s photographic archive of Bolivian carnival culture

From Eiko Otake’s installation at Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, to a group show at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, these are the must-see shows

From Marguerite Humeau’s post-apocalyptic world of insects to Michael E. Smith’s unsettling assemblages 

From a group show on the psychological and philosophical dimensions of combat in Turin, to Isa Melsheimer’s enchanted ceramics in Vienna