The so-called “Olympics of the art world”, Art Basel, returns to Miami Beach on 5 December, bringing together the international art community for the winter art event of the year.

The comprehensive project América Latina 1960-2013 is a bright example of a discourse presentation in a frame of exhibition space. It aims to give a panorama of Latin American photography from 1960 up to today, and unites 72 artists from 11 countries.

The Catlin Guide 2014 will present the very best in Britain’s most talented new artists. The publication will be available to the public from January at this year’s London Art Fair.

The first major large-scale retrospective in Europe devoted to Photorealism surveys the genre’s development from the 1960s to today through works by Charles Bell, Audrey Flack, and others.

Grayson Perry’s recent work is inspired by Hogarth’s 18th century series, A Rake’s Progress. Perry has applied the narrative to contemporary society, and executed it in the form of six tapestries.

Influential photographer Paul Reas has documented the experiences of the working class. This project comes together in the international premiere of his first major retrospective at the Impressions Gallery.

Georgia Rose Murray uses the subconscious to form coherent narratives for paintings. She clarifies its messages by analysing and depicting them in conjunction with her subjective experiences, through the act of painting.

Discover the highlights from this year’s Aesthetica Short Film Festival and watch a selection of the films we screened across the city of York.

Osborne Samuel displays the work of three of the UK’s leading contemporary photographers, each of whom use their medium to provide unique and powerful insights into the lives and traditions of various communities and individuals.

Mark Bradford’s second show at White Cube, Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank, is soaked in a richly violent dialogue examining the monotonous blood vessels that unite all the vital organs of America – the highways.

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.