Critics Guide

From Abbas Akhavan’s time-bending installations to Lu Yang’s existential video series, here’s what not to miss

From a Kai Althoff show in Tramps’ new outpost to a monumental Gerhard Richter survey at Fondation Louis Vuitton

From Tolia Astakhishvili’s transformation of Shoreditch’s oldest building at Emalin to Karimah Ashadu’s study of bodybuilders in Lagos at Camden Art Centre

From Sam Lipp’s campy paintings at Bonny Poon/Conditions, to Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill’s imaginative arachnids at COOPER COLE, here’s what to see during Art Toronto

From Nat Faulkner’s investigations of invisible events to Dominique White’s haunting shipwrecks, here are the best shows to see this August 

From Christopher Wool’s swirling abstractions in the Financial District, to Huma Bhabha’s bronze forms at Brooklyn Bridge Park, these are the must-see exhibitions during Frieze New York

From Yuko Mohri’s delicate musical sculptures to Kapwani Kiwanga’s brilliant beadwork which acts as a meditation on the history of global trade

The most successful off-site Biennale projects this year respond to the spirit and politics of our current moment

From Bettina Pousttchi’s fluid documentation of urban space to Zhanna Kadyrova’s installations devised to help the war effort in Ukraine

From Graham Little’s meditations on beauty to Marie Watt’s expansive material exploration in her first travelling retrospective

From Cauleen Smith's elegiac songbook to Marcel Dzama's surreal landscapes of Canoe Lake, here's what not to miss this March

From Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo’s acid-green dreamscape to Pipilotti Rist’s personal utopia

Amid various exhibitions, CONDO returns to the capital after a four-year hiatus to promote international collaboration between galleries

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

From Cinga Samson’s ghostly figures to Sam Hutchinson’s reckoning with millennium aesthetics 

From Nerhol’s impressionistic abstractions to Cai Guo-Qiang’s AI generated firework explosions

From Marguerite Humeau’s post-apocalyptic world of insects to Michael E. Smith’s unsettling assemblages 

From Rhea Dillon’s Toni Morrison-inspired solo show to a group exhibition of contemporary painting, Louisa Elderton picks her highlights from the German capital

From Elizabeth Price’s exploration of Glaswegian carpets at the Hunterian Art Gallery to Ayo Akingbade’s solo show at Chisenhale Gallery, London

From the science fiction of N.K. Jemisin to the final essays of Janet Malcolm, members of the frieze team select the books they’re most excited about this season