Connecting art lovers across genres, tastes and locations, The Other Art Fair draws together some of the most talented emerging artists under one roof to showcase the best in independent art.

The Whitechapel Gallery in collaboration with Max Mara have announced the five shortlisted artists for their fifth Art Prize For Women. The Prize is the only visual art prize for women in the United Kingdom.

In just three weeks time the Aesthetica Short Film Festival will open across the city of York. ASFF is a celebration of independent production and an outlet for championing short filmmaking.

An extensive collection of works executed throughout the life of Marc Chagall is given refreshed perspective at Liverpool Tate. Dream-like visions are derived from Jewish and Russian folk-art.

Debating the art of performance and the storytelling demanded in everyday life, the Biennale de Lyon joins together nine international artists, rarely seen in France, in a non-stop programme of events.

Gathering together some of the most iconic female figures of the last century, Francesco Vezzoli’s debut exhibition in the Middle East celebrates the feminine in its most admired and glamorous form.

Born in JiNan City, China in 1990, SunYinXiaowen has grown up all over the world – living in Germany, China and the UK. Based in London, SunYinXiaowen will take part in Shoreditch Fashion Show.

Sarah Lucas understands the seriousness of her task, which is to take a critical stance on gender and sexuality through a masterful manipulation of form. Her new show opens at Whitechapel on 2 October.

Stuart Semple (b.1980) invites visitors to suspend disbelief, to take a dive of trust into the fictitious and turn away from essential truths as he presents a new solo exhibition at the Bauer Art Foundation.

Now ranked as one of the foremost exponents of surrealism in Britain, painter Desmond Morris encapsulates the sociological importance of art through his paintings and books.

Michael Fentiman’s Royal Shakespeare Company production brings this early tragedy piece back to ruddy health, as it delights in the fun that can be had with a stage heaving with mutilated corpses.

Lutz Bacher’s first major solo show in the UK is a well-crafted introduction to an artist whose concerns for identity, sexuality and the body are often concealed by a playful exterior.

Multiplied, returns to Christie’s South Kensington this October for the fourth edition of the contemporary art fair. Included in the event will be 41 international contemporary galleries.

Shooting his images from a distance, Leonard Freed allows his subjects to remain natural and undisturbed by his camera. His observations of people reflect Freed’s deeply ingrained interest in life.

Ikon’s most comprehensive exhibition to date of paintings by British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965), evokes sensations of being caught between one place and another, drawn from personal experience.

Examining the ways in which women have been represented in relation to war and industry in modern and contemporary art, Women, War, and Industry opens at The San Diego Museum of Art.

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin will celebrate its 25th anniversary this autumn. Happy Birthday showcases pieces throughout Emmanuel Perrotin’s career, most of which are now in private collections.

Australia, hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts and Patroned by the Prince of Wales, flaunts the region’s lively works of art, including paintings, photographs, watercolours and multimedia.

VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary returns for its ninth edition. This year there will be new participants, including three from Berlin and galleries from Moscow, London and the rest of Europe.

Ancient tradition and contemporary innovation merge as one in the singular work of Hiromi Moneyhun. A native of Kyoto, Moneyhun is a self-taught artist who creates intricate paper cut pieces.