The game of Chess is believed to have originated in India in the seventh century and no other game in history has been so widely reflected in art and literature. Chess remains an intriguing subject.

With Americans’ attention directed this autumn toward the Presidential election, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) brings together three internationally celebrated artists.

The WW Gallery presents Second Skin, a solo show of works by Ayuko Sugiura. Working with sculpture and installation, Sugiura presents the viewer with a series of new skins. From 5 September.

The definition of sculpture is currently being put into question here at the Henry Moore Institute. The artist-interrogator is Sarah Lucas. She turns to the sculptural rather than the sensational.

The 19th and possibly final edition of Noorderlicht International Photofestival transcends photographic genres to sketch a picture of the relation between man and nature. From 2 September.

Showcasing the Gallery’s Collection and featuring a group of new acquisitions, Sculpture Is Everything explores the extraordinarily diverse and surprising field of contemporary sculpture.

Slavs and Tatars is a collective whose installations, lectures, publications, and multiples focus on relationships between Western cultures and the Eastern world. From 15 August until 10 December.

The inaugural North Atlantic Pavilion brings together artists from Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands as part of City States at this yearʼs Liverpool Biennial. It features new works from three artists.

Project 4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art has opened the new outdoor Terrace Exhibition area of 1500 squared meters that will be displaying 23 art works selected from artists’ portfolios.

The brick walls of Tramway’s ground floor gallery on Glasgow’s Albert Drive surround the works of Jannis Kounellis. Exhibited pieces are comprised of wool coats, colourful rugs and burlap sacks.

After the big success of the exhibition made by a group of artists from Hamburg at the A Plus A Slovenian Exhibition Centre in Venice, it is time for five Italian multimedia artists to exhibit in Germany.

One of the Forgotten reflects on the consequences of human nature on man and his environment. In an attempt to investigate the subject, the exhibition features the work of nine young artists.

FreshFaced+WildEyed 2012 is The Photographers’ Gallery’s annual exhibition which showcases the quality and breadth of graduates’ practices from photographic courses across the UK.

The theme of dOCUMENTA (13) speaks of the historical premise of the dOCUMENTA event within the context of a particularly contemporary idea of art, one that acts in the present.

Grand Union is an artist run project space in the metallic confides of Digbeth, Birmingham. The current exhibition, The Possibility of an Island, focuses on the question of what an ‘island’ is,

In the shadow of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic tower the sun retreats into the horizon casting an orange haze across. It is in the middle of this that Annex East’s current exhibition One One One is housed.

The Australian Institute of Architects will open their Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennial. From 29 August until 25 November.

Facing The Music is an exhibition focusing on the portraiture and documents of British composers. The collection shows works painted and photographed by a hoard of different artists and assistants.

This group exhibition Fashion! A Selection of Photographs from the Camera Work Collection will present a survey of nine decades of fashion photography. Part of Unseen in Amsterdam.

Tony Cragg at Exhibition Road is a major exhibition of new outdoor sculptures created by one of the most influential British sculptors Tony Cragg for the London 2012 Festival.