For the second time, the Michael Hoppen Gallery opens Splinter, a one-day art fair on 30 November. As before, the event will offer a wide range of 19th, 20th and 21st century photography.

The animalistic and savage creatures of MBE award-winning sculptor, Nicola Hicks, find their home at Flowers Gallery, New York. Full of a quiet expression, these towering straw and plaster figures set out to explore the nature of character.

The Uneventful Day brings together the unique and interconnected work of three young artists: Jim Woodall, Alexander Page and Luke Burton. The show examines humanities’ relationship with landscape and architecture.

Phantoms in the Front Yard, an all-male painting collective that exalts the romantic vision of old-world figurative realism in art, has just unveiled a pop-up exhibition at the HSBC headquarters in Vancouver.

Philip Davenport curates the world premiere of The Dark Would as part of the Summerhall Winter Visual Arts Programme. This exhibition seeks to re-position artists alongside poets and “outsiders” and free up space for a new wave of practitioners.

Bob Dylan, known more so for his poetry, music and writing, began introducing his artwork to the world with an exhibition of his Drawn Blank Series in 2007 at the Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz, Germany.

Alex Prager has spent the last 10 years constructing imagined scenes for her photographic work. Full of colour, tension and narrative, Prager’s images continue to play with the figure of the woman.

Florian Pumhösl’s minimalist triptychs are available to explore once more at Lisson Gallery. Made up of a series of three plaster panels progressing in size, these works create an abstract visual language.

Traces marks the UK’s first retrospective of work by Ana Mendieta through a show of films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, personal writings and notebooks, and a slide-room.

A whole century after first revealing his work to America at the New York Armory Show, the art of the unofficial torchbearer of modernism, Constantin Brancusi, is celebrated in a new exhibition at Paul Kasmin.

A group show that proposes a dialogue between historical and contemporary sculpture, attempting to draw a line between a lost past, a sensuous present and an imagined future has to work hard to justify its audacious blurb.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the ICA and will include works by 46 participants. Last year’s edition attracted over 42,000 visitors and highlighted the show as the place to discover the best emerging artists.

AV Festival 14: EXTRACTION takes place at venues across the North East of England, including Mima, Sage Gateshead, BALTIC, Tyneside Cinema, NGCA, Star & Shadow, Laing Art Gallery and other spaces.

Paul Fryer utilises electronic media and sculpture to create installation pieces in unexpected exhibition sites. He presented his first solo show in 2005 at Trolley Gallery and has gone on to show work all over the world.

3 am can be an extraordinary hour when some fear ghosts and monsters are on the prowl, when animals feel able to move without human detection and the young feel able to express themselves freely.

Tangier-based artist, Yto Barrada probes into the material history and visual culture of her hometown in this multi-layered exhibition of films, artworks, posters and ephemera, on display at Walker Art Center.

The Marian Goodman Gallery in New York presents a major solo show of Thomas Struth’s photographic art. His work was recently exhibited in a major travelling retrospective.

The wide influence of Surrealism on what art looks like takes an odd turn when we think of these artists: Calder and Melotti, currently showing at the Ronchini Gallery.

The agriculture of sub-Saharan Africa and the labour of everyday life on the land is brought into focus in this new body of work from Jackie Nickerson, on display at Brancolini Grimaldi from 22 November to 25 January.

Although the show presents objects that span the 20th century and move onto contemporary works, there is nothing chronological about the display. The curators must have felt that linear chronology would somehow be anti-surrealist.