The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey, is a series of Yaakov Israel’s stunning photography. Choosing his home nation, Yaakov takes his viewers on a personal journey into Israel.

Between 1947 and 1949, Barbara Hepworth produced around 80 works of surgeons at work. This period of activity followed the friendship that resulted from the hospitalisation of her daughter.

In 1964, Eva Hesse and her husband were invited by Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr. The following 15 months marked a significant transformation in Hesse’s practice.

Arnolfini presents Mikhail Karikis’ new film and sound installation SeaWomen, focussing on a vanishing community of elderly female sea workers living on the North Pacific island of Jeju.

Modern Languages offers the contemporary perspectives of five artists/ designers on the traditions of Irish craft: Nao Matsunaga, Laura Mays, Deirdre Nelson, Ciara Phillips and Barbara Ridland.

Hoxton Art Gallery will present the work of six of their represented artists; Beatrice Haines, HaYoung Kim, Julia Vogl, Nadine Feinson, Nadine Mahoney and Steven Dickie at London Art Fair 2013.

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty sees the choreographer return to the music of Tchaikovsky to complete the trio of the composer’s ballet masterworks that started in 1992 with Nutcracker.

Featuring three large-scale walking sculptures in the landscape and models, drawings and films in the Bothy Gallery, this exhibition at YSP is a timely showcase of James Capper’s career to date.

Occupying a liminal space between nature, science and art, Kate MccGwire’s sculptures are both ominous and sensuous. Made from masses of delicate feathers, they are “impossible creatures”.

Howard Greenberg Gallery presents its worldwide representation of Joel Meyerowitz, whose first solo show with the gallery, 50 Years of Photographs, is a survey of the artist’s career in two parts.

For those unfamiliar with the New Contemporaries premise, the exhibition contains a small selection of this year’s crop of British art school graduates, picked by a panel of previous New Contemporaries.

This January, the recipients of the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards, Ed Atkins and Naheed Raza, premiere their ambitious new commissions at Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, London.

Triumphantly harbouring the works of Beat Streuli’s latest show New Street, Birmingham’s Ikon has been transformed into an ensemble of diverted perception and indirect human observation.

Mark and Kristen Sink present a new body of work. In order to create works with a bold vintage effect, the duo utilised one of the oldest techniques in photographic history: the collodion wet plate.

Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde at MoMA demonstrates a manifold of approaches to making artworks in Japan’s post-war period. The selection embodies radical dissent and new political visions.

Jane Edden’s Ornithomorph is built upon the artist’s fascination with the way animals are collected, classified and catalogued. She has adopted a scientific system of labelling and nomenclature.

The majority of David Shrigley’s work currently exhibited at Bradford 1 Gallery is drawn in pen. However, there are a healthy number of colour monoprints also on display. Until 19 January.

FACT Liverpool presents: Winter Sparks. Running until 24 February, this interactive programme of works is literally electric. Visitors can expect to experience a personal light and sound show.

Mariko Mori invites visitors of the Royal Academy to take part in “a prayer for peace and harmony for each living being on Earth” with immersive installations which reflect the artist’s Buddhist beliefs.

A pioneer of photographic art, German artist Floris Neusüss depicts the human form, nature, and aspects of domestication through his camera-less photographs. Currently on view at ATLAS Gallery.