At Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, the UAE-born artist pays homage to his local terrains

Most works carry a subtle political charge that amounts to a thoughtful critique of the injustice of our times

The strongest exhibitions in the 58th Venice Biennale find creative freedom in failure 

At Metrograph, New York, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s newly remastered Hyènes offers a darkly comic metaphor of globalization

Two exhibitions, at MoMA and David Zwirner, reveal how the impresario and his milieu defied the rationalism of 20th-century art

Following her fellowship grant from United States Artists and an exhibition at Wrightwood 659, the designer and theorist discusses solutions to right-wing immigration policies and neoliberal economic development

In the artist’s first US survey at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, abstract paintings and sculptures evoke women’s bodies in pleasure and pain

A provocative exhibition at Casa Luis Barragán reframes the architect’s home and studio through his class and gay identity

From Vincent Fecteau’s killer cats to Aki Sasamoto’s barroom tricks, a selection of exhibitions not to miss

A survey at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, revisits the artistic movement and sheds new light on its demand for political change 

‘Appointed by Barack Obama in 2009, Sotomayor is the fourth woman and the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court’

In a survey at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick capture life within the US prison industrial complex 

With the Menil Drawing Institute opening on the eve of the US midterm elections, what Houston says about the future of the country

At LABOR, Mexico City, the artist has dug a four-metre manhole to raise questions about the future of his hometown

The second oldest exhibition in the world, held at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, makes the case for ‘museum joy’

Handing authorship of the biennial to a diverse group of artists is a democratic gesture but conveniently deflects and disperses blame

‘This retrospective portrays an inveterate outsider, a champion of the different and disempowered, as a fixture of a canon he reviled’

The artist discusses the objects, ideas and artworks that have shaped her practice

Even as right-wing politics increasingly tries to enforce them, remembering that nature and art know no borders

At the crux of this ambitious show lies the question: who is this triennial really for?