Now in its eighth year, Designs of the Year at Design Museum, London, celebrates projects that enable access and promote or deliver change.

Following its successful inauguration in 2014, Shaped in Mexico returns to London with a selection of over 150 works by 32 international artists. On view from 3 September, this unique, free show will take place at the Bargehouse.

There are 23 days to go in the call for submissions for the Aesthetica Art Prize. In the countdown, we spotlight finalist Rebeka Lord, whose painting Send Me on My Way was published in the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2015, Future Now.

Keith Arnatt has occupied a key position in the history of British conceptual art for almost 50 years.

Anish Kapoor returns to Italy with Descension, an exhibition project conceived specially for the former cinema and theatre space of Galleria Continua.

Casino at Hangar Bicocca, Milan, is the first solo exhibition in Italy by Damián Ortega.

Charles Avery: The People And Things of Onomatopoeia is currently on display at Ingleby Gallery, as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2015.

Clare Lilley is Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), Wakefield, and a member of the judging panel for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016. We speak with Lilley about her work at YSP and curatorial projects further afield.

Foam, Amsterdam, showcases the first solo exhibition of young French artist Noémie Goudal.

John Waters’ Beverly Hills John continues at Sprüth Magers, London, and finds Waters in a more reflective mood, hoping to resolve issues about childhood fame and the horrors of nouveau-riche excess.

As part of our countdown to the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries deadline, we speak to photographer Lottie Davies about her intimate depictions of past moments and hear about her developing career.

This August marks the 70th anniversary of Indonesian independence. As part of the celebration Cryptic (Glasgow) are putting together the largest show case of Indonesian culture within the UK.

Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980 focuses on the connections among an international scene of artists.

Conceptual artist Denys Blacker uses performance, sculpture and drawing to explore themes of symmetry and precision, as in The Noble Gases, which featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015.

In collaboration with Autograph ABP, London, a retrospective of the late Rotimi Fani-Kayode, a seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art opens at Light Work, New York.

Plunging the spectator into a series of immersive environments, Infinity Theory offers audiences a unique sensory and psychological experience.

In the countdown to the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries deadline on 31 August, we interview 2016 panel judge Pavel S. Pyś, Exhibitions & Displays Curator at the Henry Moore Institute.

ExtraORDINARY at The Lowry, Manchester, explores everyday objects and actions in contemporary art, and will allow visitors to interact and contribute to the fabric of this engaging exhibition.

Tara Donovan’s freestanding sculpture Untitled (Mylar) and expansive installation Untitled (Plastic Cups) are on view at Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh.

Taiwanese artist Wu Tien-Chang’s series of light box stills, interactive video projections and installation explore westernisation in post-war Taiwan in a Collateral Event of the 56th International Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.