From a group show of Black artists at Johnson Lowe to Ignacio Gatica’s multi-media sculptures, here are the best shows to see across the US right now

From César Aira’s visions of ancient Rome to a posthumous collection of strange tales by Izumi Suzuki, the frieze team selects the books they’re reading this season

From Rachel Whiteread’s entropic assemblages at Luhring Augustine to a Lizzi Bougatsos performance tribute at TRAMPS

From Celeste Rapone's evocation of not-so-blissful domesticity at Josh Lilley, London, to Leo Robinson’s dense webs of allusion and appropriation at Chapter, Cardiff 

From Bekhbaatar Enkhtur’s sleeping wax figure at Matèria, Rome, to Cindy Sherman’s baroque selfies in tapestry form at Aarhus Art Museum

From the first survey of Puerto Rican art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, to the tribute to Lizzi Bougatsos’s life at TRAMPS

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From Sonia Boyce’s triumphant Venice installation at Turner Contemporary, Margate, to an exhibition that channels artists’ spiritual relationship with nature at Modern Art, London

From Joan Brown’s documentation of everyday personal experiences at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California to Mohammed Sami’s evocative canvases at Camden Art Centre, London

From a groundbreaking Vermeer exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to an epic Florentina Holzinger performance at Berlin’s Volksbühne

From a Joan Brown retrospective to an exhibition of Julien Bismuth, here are the best shows to see in the US right now

From an exhibition of Hugo Crosthwaite at Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, to a survey of Deana Lawson at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, here are the best shows to see across the US right now

From Elizabeth Price’s exploration of Glaswegian carpets at the Hunterian Art Gallery to Ayo Akingbade’s solo show at Chisenhale Gallery, London

From an exhibition dedicated to underground filmmaker Bruce Baillie to a group show addressing the absence of Roma visual culture in European art history

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From the science fiction of N.K. Jemisin to the final essays of Janet Malcolm, members of the frieze team select the books they’re most excited about this season

From a survey of Deana Lawson to an international exhibition foregrounding US imperialism since 1945, here are the top shows to see across the US

From Nan Goldin’s canonical photography at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, to Yayoi Kusama’s bold palette at M+, Hong Kong, here are five institutional exhibitions not to be missed

From Alexandre Diop’s Berlin-inspired exhibition at Spinello Projects, Miami, to Mikołaj Sobczak’s riotous institutional solo at Kunsthalle Münster

From an exhibition of Zineb Sedira’s maritime works at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, to Anne Imhof’s labyrinthine locker room at Sprüth Magers, London