Social injustice is a common theme in the works of Nick Cave; this installation stems from the deaths of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown in police hands.

Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, delves into the cultural tapestry of North England, highlighting its profound influence on fashion, visual arts, culture and music.

Are you really my friend? at MASS MoCA reaches into the deeper questions of contemporary society: how our very existence is changing due to technology.

Gillian Wearing’s Rock ‘n’ Roll 70 at the ICA, Boston, consists of digitally enhanced portraits in an investigation of technology and modern day society.

Copiously applied oil paint forms the thick, textural layers of Jason Martin’s new works at Lisson Gallery, London, pushing boundaries into sculpture.

NGV Melbourne have commissioned a dynamic reinvention of the suburban car wash built in the Grollo Equiset Garden this spring.

Previously exhibited in New York and due to show in Dusseldorf mid next year, Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective is travelling across cultural art capitals.

To celebrate the developing world of digitalisation, Kunsthal Rotterdam represent an impressive range of over 30 pieces from the Brown Family Collection.

To kick-start Camden Art Centre’s 2017 programme, Joachim Koester takes over three gallery spaces with an immersive installation of film, digital video, photography and audio, spanning a 12 year career.

The Prix Marcel Duchamp brings together the most innovative contemporary artists in France and to encourage new artistic forms at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Moich Abrahams discusses the dialogues between contemporary practice and the digital age, including spontaneity and the longevity of painting.

Francis Alÿs is included in The Ruya Foundation’s National Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale in May 2017, encompassing the notion of conflict.

Throughout January 2017 Pipilotti Rist’s Open My Glade (Flatten) 2000-2017 is mounted across 60 synchronised electronic billboards in Times Square.

Fondazione Prada finally opens Osservatorio, a reconverted space dedicated to photography and visual languages.

Hitoshi Tsuboyama tests a neutral approach to space, bringing together a Western three-dimensional style with an oriental planar style of painting.

British painter Laurence Wood is currently living and working in Hong Kong. Aesthetica discuss with him the notion of influence and cultural awareness.

Who’s Afraid of Colour? at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, brings together over 200 creations from 118 indigenous Australian women.

In Zaha Hadid’s early paintings and drawings, at Serpentine Galleries, London, viewers see her looking beyond the utopianist forbears.

Making Africa is a collaboration of over 120 artists who aim to provide a new insight into contemporary African design, celebrating its impact upon the art world.

In discussion with Aesthetica, George Samual Bothamley highlights the place for traditional art within the contemporary industry.