A slew of new books discuss the social and political history of scent, from holy smokes to slave ships

The 1994 exhibition, ‘The Institute of Cultural Anxiety’, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London resonates powerfully with the culture and politics of 2019

An exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, offers compelling evocations of causality and correlation

‘I stayed first for an hour, then whole afternoons and, eventually, days’

Lyon, France

W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

On Alan Clarke’s Rita, Sue and Bob Too, the death of Ian Brady, and what laughter might conceal

Blain | Southern, London, UK

The Hayward Gallery at 180 The Strand, London, UK

Various venues, UK

One hundred years since the birth of dada, what does the future hold for Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn in Cumbria?

Mortality, madness and misgivings in the work of Bedwyr Williams

Nottingham Contemporary, UK

The first of a new series that sees regular frieze contributors choose the best current exhibitions from their city

Almine Rech, London

How London's gentrification impacts on artists

Richard Saltoun, London, UK

Acting, therapy, song and humour

Kestle Barton, Cornwall, UK

Campoli Presti, London, UK