Critic's Guide

From Pol Taburet’s ghoul-like figures to Eva Helene Pade’s painterly reckoning with sacrifice and femininity, here’s what not to miss this summer 

From Katelyn Eichwald’s yearning-laced paintings to a weekend-long durational performance by Allen-Golder Carpenter

From chemical paintings by Antonia Kuo at Chapter NY, New York, to Pedro Gómez-Egaña’s disorienting installation at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

From Arturo Kameya’s paintings of mundane yet precious childhood ephemera to a retrospective of Augusta Curiel’s photography

From Maia Ruth Lee’s sculptural explorations of migration to Nazanin Noori’s interrogation of Iran’s recent political history

From Sam Moyer’s doubleheader to Kang Seung Lee’s poignant investigation of ageing, here’s what to see in New York now

From a group show of German photography centred on typologies to Berlinde De Bruyckere’s religiously charged sculptures

From Christine Sun Kim’s explorations of American Sign Language to Ilê Sartuzi’s investigations into surveillance and museal security 

From Wakaliga Uganda’s gutsy geopolitical satire to Yuge Zhou’s exploration of urban living, here’s what to catch in the Windy City

From Karanjit Panesar’s reflections on familial diaspora to concurrent exhibitions by Danielle Dean and Dan Guthrie exploring the representation of Black British life

From Sasaoka Yuriko’s explorations of animal labour to Wing Po So’s deep dive into traditional Chinese medicine

From Tarek Atoui’s rousing soundscapes to Pol Taburet’s haunting figures, here’s what not to miss

From Linder’s retrospective at the Hayward Gallery to Claudia Martínez Garay’s detailed critique of Western archives

From Bruce Nauman’s first solo exhibition in the city in three decades, to Togar’s immersive exploration of early cinema, here’s what to see in LA now

From Racheal Crowther’s examination into the ethics of care to SAGG Napoli’s immersive archery installation dissecting strength and gender stereotypes

From Smita Sen’s work on embodied grief to a group show at a former Green Book destination, here’s what to see now in Miami

From The 15th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, to the textile practice of Hamid Zénati, discover the best shows this month

From Shuang Li’s meditations on communication, to Feng Zhixuan’s fusions of the organic and the inorganic, here’s what to see in Shanghai

From Francis Bacon’s survey at the National Portrait Gallery to Imran Perretta’s immersive exhibition at Somerset House Studios

From Ei Arakawa-Nash’s first Asian museum survey to a show of Maureen Gallace’s lean landscape paintings, here’s what to see in Tokyo now