From 24 October, Jim Shaw’s 40-year practice will be under the spotlight at Chalet Society. The artist has produced a significant number of paintings, drawings, videos, installations and performances.

Mitra Tabrizian’s Leicestershire makes its UK debut in an exhibition showcasing shots taken in the county still bearing the marks and memories of its once central position in the textile and hosiery industry.

Irving Penn: On Assignment is an eclectic collection of photographs and media taken or published between the 1940s and 2008. Yet there is a unity to the pictures that derives from excellence.

Dorothy Cross Connemara and Turner And Constable: Sketching From Nature straddle an almost two-century gap, contemporary mixed-media on one side, Romantic painting on the other.

Zoe Strauss’s most interesting work may be her most abstract: images of construction materials, earth moving machines, geometry of interiors/ exterior façades, lights in a night sky.

With an interest in the challenges and changes in the art world, FIAC returns for its 40th edition on 24-27 October. The fair aims to be creative and responsive while maintaining a spirit of continuity.

Frieze London is over for another year and now is the time to reflect upon the many works on display. Drawing visitors in immediately was Dan Graham’s Plexiglas spiral sculpture.

The Social: Encountering Photography is the first festival of international contemporary photography in North East England. The event collates new commissions with iconic works.

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.

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.