A personal response to the influential artist and performer ahead of his homecoming retrospective and residency in Manchester 

Other highlights include Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon’s anthology of queer photography and the return of Artists Behind Bars

From the postponed Lagos Biennial to the first career retrospective of architect I.M. Pei at M+ in Hong Kong, these are the top picks for the year ahead

From gallery expansions and closures to social media complicating relational aesthetics, three frieze editors discuss the year in art

From a posthumous Martin Wong retrospective in Camden to Matthew Arthur Williams’s sensitive debut in Dundee 

At the Fine Arts Museum, the greatest delights of ‘Small World’ are artworks that play with an absence of body or sound

Highlights include an album of music produced by visual artists and a cornucopia of hot new shows

Sean Burns on living with a cherished David LaChapelle portrait of the fashion icon

A collaboration between designer Jonathan Anderson and sculptor Lynda Benglis raises questions about the role of art on the runway

At the centre of the artist’s exhibition at Paris’s Bourse de Commerce is a sophisticated collage of her life in film

Other highlights include a collection of poetry and ephemera by US writer John Wieners and a beautiful monograph of the Scottish painter Carole Gibbons

Other highlights include Plaster, a quarterly poster magazine dedicated to contemporary artists, and a new stage adaption of Derek Jarman’s Blue 

The artist discusses his first survey, at Hayward Gallery, London, which ambitiously reconfigures his acclaimed spaces and sculptures

Michael Costiff, John Foley, Pam Hogg and Princess Julia pay tribute to the pioneering fashion designer and activist

Sean Burns speaks to the artist about the current protests in her home country and how the art world can better act in solidarity with the insurgents

From Howardena Pindell’s harrowing retrospective at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, to Garrett Bradley’s moving debut at Lisson Gallery, London

Other highlights include James St James’s Night Fever podcast, plus new and upcoming book releases from Rosanna McLaughlin and McKenzie Wark

Sean Burns visits a nascent gallery that is fast becoming a champion of intersectional voices from across the capital

Angel Lambo speaks to frieze Assistant Editor Sean Burns about his documentary film profiling the community and architecture of two legendary residential blocks

Mariama Attah, Anna Frances Douglas and Jeremy Millar revisit John Berger’s famed television series and book