Spatial Layers

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, continues their showcase of installation artist Sara Barker, in collaboration with The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.

Wilfredo Lam: Cuban Modernism

The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam is a major exhibition at Tate Modern, London which explores and identifies with the cultural and political contexts of the Cuban artist.

Post-War Aesthetics

For Frieze Masters, Luxembourg and Dayan brought a collection inspired by L’Informe: mode d’emploi and opened the first UK solo exhibition of Rodolfo Aricò.

South Africa: The Art of the Nation

The British Museum, London, opens an all-inclusive and decade-spanning exhibition which presents the rich artistic and cultural tapestry of South Africa.

Protest: Visual Autonomy

Victoria Miro, London, stages a group exhibition by artists concerned with socio-political issues of their day, questioning power structures within societies.

Gestural Vocabularies

Kishio Suga (b. 1944) at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, combines industrial and natural elements to question the uniformity of modular structures.

Žilvinas Kempinas: Kinetic Encounters

New York based Lithuanian artist Žilvinas Kempinas exhibition reflects upon natural phenomena such as light and air at Ikon gallery, Birmingham.

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair: Celebrating Printmaking

Royal Arsenal is one of the most historical riverside locations in London and, this November, provides the setting for the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.

Ecology and Art

Created as a unique opportunity, Jerwood Open Forest is a charitable programme that creates commissioning projects for artists working in a forestry context.

Augmenting the Human Figure

The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics presents a variety of exhibits – objects, images, artworks – representing work from the late 19th century onwards.

Undermining Cultural Associations

Nahmad Projects’ newest exhibition explores the cultural complexities of sexuality, highlighting three artists’ historical and theoretical contexts.

Linear Constructions

Celebrated Brazilian artist Lygia Pape is a pioneering figure in the Neo-Concrete movement. Hauser & Wirth highlights the practitioner’s career.

Frieze Art Fair: Nostalgia and Discovery

With director Victoria Siddall describing this year’s fair as having a “sense of discovery”, Frieze London 2016 offered endless opportunities of exploration.

Dismantling Boundaries

Yinka Shonibare’s sixth solo show at Stephen Friedman displays the absence of the Dutch wax batik textiles for which the artist is known.

Personal and Collective Memory

Carmen Selma is a Spain-based painter. Memory is one of the fundamental pillars of her work. We talk to the artist about the influence of historical contexts.

Akram Zaatari: Decisive Acts

Akram Zaatari’s Letter to a Refusing Pilot draws on a myth recounted to the artist as a child, reflecting on the ambiguities and consequences of refusal.

Brighton Photo Biennial: Reshaping Image

For its seventh edition, the Brighton Photo Biennial brings together fashion and style photography to explore understandings of individual identity.

Agnes Martin: Nuance and Variation

Guggenheim dedicates its autumn show to the work of painter Agnes Martin, beginning with a showcase of early experiments dating back to the 1950s.

Relational Dualisms

before sleep at the end of love (description of a lullaby) is a contemporary opera devised by Sarah Hardie, performed at Bold Tendencies in London.

Hammer Projects: Investigating Contemporary Lebanon

In a Hammer Projects show, Beirut-based Marwa Arsanios investigates the state of contemporary Lebanon through the lens of its landfills.