Artist Georgina Starr’s Before Le Cerveau Affamé, currently on show at Cooper Gallery and curated by Sophia Hao, is an adventure from a sleepless mind.

Practitioner Asli Çavuşoğlu’s Murder in Three Acts (2012) is a thrilling allegorical exploration of this theme, which has its UK premiere just as the crowds gather for the madness of Frieze Art Fair.

Mike Kelley made a name for himself as an artist of international influence. The exhibition at MoMA is the largest of the artist’s work to-date and the first comprehensive survey since 1993.

Exploring the world through the medium of beeswax and raw pigments provides Edinburgh-based Mexican artist Kari de Koenigswarter with an in-depth understanding of how it evolved.

John Cheim is known as one half of influential New York gallery Cheim & Read. Cheim is also an outstanding book designer and has produced a number of important artist publications.

Gagosian Gallery will be participating in Frieze London with an installation of five major works by Jeff Koons. The pieces included are Ribbon, Cat on a Clothesline, Sacred Heart, Lobster and Titi Tire.

For the first time Texas and New York-based artist Jeff Elrod appears in a solo exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery. The pieces chosen are from a new body of large-scale abstract paintings.

Connecting art lovers across genres, tastes and locations, The Other Art Fair draws together some of the most talented emerging artists under one roof to showcase the best in independent art.

The Whitechapel Gallery in collaboration with Max Mara have announced the five shortlisted artists for their fifth Art Prize For Women. The Prize is the only visual art prize for women in the United Kingdom.

In just three weeks time the Aesthetica Short Film Festival will open across the city of York. ASFF is a celebration of independent production and an outlet for championing short filmmaking.

An extensive collection of works executed throughout the life of Marc Chagall is given refreshed perspective at Liverpool Tate. Dream-like visions are derived from Jewish and Russian folk-art.

Debating the art of performance and the storytelling demanded in everyday life, the Biennale de Lyon joins together nine international artists, rarely seen in France, in a non-stop programme of events.

Gathering together some of the most iconic female figures of the last century, Francesco Vezzoli’s debut exhibition in the Middle East celebrates the feminine in its most admired and glamorous form.

Born in JiNan City, China in 1990, SunYinXiaowen has grown up all over the world – living in Germany, China and the UK. Based in London, SunYinXiaowen will take part in Shoreditch Fashion Show.

Sarah Lucas understands the seriousness of her task, which is to take a critical stance on gender and sexuality through a masterful manipulation of form. Her new show opens at Whitechapel on 2 October.

Stuart Semple (b.1980) invites visitors to suspend disbelief, to take a dive of trust into the fictitious and turn away from essential truths as he presents a new solo exhibition at the Bauer Art Foundation.

Now ranked as one of the foremost exponents of surrealism in Britain, painter Desmond Morris encapsulates the sociological importance of art through his paintings and books.

Michael Fentiman’s Royal Shakespeare Company production brings this early tragedy piece back to ruddy health, as it delights in the fun that can be had with a stage heaving with mutilated corpses.

Lutz Bacher’s first major solo show in the UK is a well-crafted introduction to an artist whose concerns for identity, sexuality and the body are often concealed by a playful exterior.

Multiplied, returns to Christie’s South Kensington this October for the fourth edition of the contemporary art fair. Included in the event will be 41 international contemporary galleries.