In her latest series, the artist flirts with silhouettes and revels in cunning – the art of luring, hooking and capturing the viewer

In Manyen Distans, the photographer’s surreal image evokes the lougarou of Haitian folklore – a werewolf-like shapeshifter glimpsed at the threshold between worlds

His referential grottoes, forests, glaciers and mythical islands seem playful at first, yet closer attention reveals environments charged with psychological unease

In her Vienna studio, Müller navigates the margins of art history, delighting in gaps, absences and overlooked stories

For more than a decade, the artist has rendered flesh, desire and damage into paintings where the image itself becomes the body

As the President reshapes the nation’s capital, the city’s arts community struggles to withstand an administration obsessed with the arts

The influential sculptor, whose mammoth works adorned the Met’s façade, reflects on the spiritual blind spots and esoteric histories behind her nearby Guggenheim show

Novelist Stephanie Wambugu considers how the late artist’s eroding land works preserve memory and mark the passage of time

How a DIY Culver City watering hole, opened by New York artists in the early 2000s, became LA’s art-world gathering place

With his Bangkok-based studio, Supermachine, the designer proposes buildings to bend, weather and endure, imagining a city shaped by survival

The artist and curator reflects on the making of a form-defining exhibition, which lends its title to a new suite of columns in our January issue

At the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, the award-winning installation honours the past, present and future of First Nations Australians

At neugerriemschneider, Berlin, the artist’s vivid computer generations suggest that technology won’t erase human labour but reconfigure its temporality

Eschewing conventional retrospective models at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, the exhibition raises enduring questions of legacy and loss

Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath channel private and social longing, curating a show that shines most when engaging with the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s collection

At Sadie Coles HQ’s new Savile Row gallery, the artist’s subjects gather in smoke-filled bars and boxing rings, their gazes unwavering, their power unmistakable

At DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, a two-artist show about inheritance opts for connection over closure

Uniting 50 female artists across the MENA region, ‘Horizon in Their Hands’ explores how craft became a form of artistic liberation

Her retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago highlights politically transformative relationships between Black women

At Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, the work follows an Irish Nigerian driver’s extraordinary night-time trip through the streets of both cities

Bernardo José de Souza’s exhibition turns outer space inwards, building an environment where desire resists the pull of power

‘The Three-Legged Cat’ reimagines the biennial format as a site of slow repair, touching on resilience and futurity

His show at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver treats the suspension of time as a test of endurance

At P420, Bologna, a group show featuring artists across four continents transforms acts of looking into gestures of empathy, urging us to pause and re-examine the world around us

At White Cube Paris, the artist combines domestic forms with eerie, David-Cronenberg-esque human figures to create surreal, haunting objects

Led by artistic director Philippe Parreno, the fourth Okayama Art Summit is strange, beautiful and often off-putting

At Victoria Miro, London, a multi-screen installation offers new, alternative perspectives on a 110-year-old film

At Kunstmuseum Basel, a group show charts 250 years of Western art’s fascination with the uncanny

Her sumptuous works at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are unified by a propulsive, blooming quality

At CIRCUIT Centre d'art contemporain, Lausanne, she retools modernist furniture into a vehicle for care, desire and vulnerability

At Neither in London, the artist’s love potions seductively blur the line between remedy and poison

In his show at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, the artist considers war, occupation and their aftermaths in his birthplace

In a series of videos at Amant, Brooklyn, the artist’s alter ego accesses truths about existence, time and reincarnation

At CCA Berlin, the artist’s quiet studies of skin and surface reveal how the body both shelters and estranges us

At The Modern Institute, Glasgow, frenetic acrylic paintings and transformed found objects appear momentarily frozen – pinned in space as if caught mid-burst of becoming

At Fluentum, Berlin, the artist’s films ask how justice survives when power turns abuse into spectacle

At David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, a nighttime exhibition with live musical performance celebrates the creative legacies of Black Americans

At diez gallery, Amsterdam, the artist exhibits stark images of the six-metre-tall hedge that shields the billionaire’s property from public view

At Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, the artist’s show about Egypt’s sun-dried tomato economy evokes mythologies around the mineral

At Ciaccia Levi, Paris, the artist’s ‘clothing-images’ repurpose second-hand garments into sculptures which question the performativity of identity

This year, centred on collaborative partnerships and social justice, Ireland’s premier art festival presents a dynamic programme of process-driven, community-focused works

At Bureau, New York, his airbrushed paintings feature enigmatic forms that evoke the first cracklings of consciousness

At David Zwirner, London, the artist’s nocturnal, otherworldly paintings are full of enigmatic symbols

At the Secession, Vienna, the artist’s hybrid works dwell in the in-between, embracing a fluid space of encounter