Sean Burns

Carlo Ratti’s exhibition trades blue-sky idealism for technological pragmatism, confronting the realities of inevitable and escalating climate change

The artist’s camp, playful sculptures and performances – now at Focal Point Gallery – offer a spirited, surreal attempt to preserve the past

At the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, the artist’s largest exhibition yet features miraculous paintings and drawings that will leave you feeling uplifted 

Other highlights include Fashion Neurosis, a podcast merging psychoanalysis with clothes, and the latest album from Good Sad Happy Bad

From novels to art books to poetry, the frieze team shares the new releases they’re most excited to read

A spectre of danger permeates the works in this impressive survey at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 

A packed survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London reveals an artist who was the architect of his own myth

On the courage and vulnerability of the painter’s diverse subjects – from ancient deities to modern martyrs – ahead of her show at Frith Street Gallery in London

On the eve of the Games, the city’s sports-related cultural offerings prove artists and athletes have more in common than we think 

At 798CUBE, Beijing, the artist presents marvels of engineering with lives of their own

Highlights also include Benjamin Mullinkosson’s club kids from Chengdu and intimate gallery sessions in Glaswegian living rooms

The artist has turned Punta della Dogana in Venice into a world of autonomous AI installations and isolated marine creatures

Adriano Pedrosa’s biennial raises essential questions about representation in the art world, but unfortunately, it feels disjointed

A personal response to the influential artist and performer ahead of his homecoming retrospective and residency in Manchester 

Other highlights include Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon’s anthology of queer photography and the return of Artists Behind Bars

From gallery expansions and closures to social media complicating relational aesthetics, three frieze editors discuss the year in art

From a posthumous Martin Wong retrospective in Camden to Matthew Arthur Williams’s sensitive debut in Dundee 

At the Fine Arts Museum, the greatest delights of ‘Small World’ are artworks that play with an absence of body or sound

Highlights include an album of music produced by visual artists and a cornucopia of hot new shows

Sean Burns on living with a cherished David LaChapelle portrait of the fashion icon