Critic's Guides

From Karanjit Panesar’s reflections on familial diaspora to concurrent exhibitions by Danielle Dean and Dan Guthrie exploring the representation of Black British life

From a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, examining technology’s influence on painting, to Marc Kokopeli’s reflections on objecthood

From Tarek Atoui’s rousing soundscapes to Pol Taburet’s haunting figures, here’s what not to miss

From Linder’s retrospective at the Hayward Gallery to Claudia Martínez Garay’s detailed critique of Western archives

From Bruce Nauman’s first solo exhibition in the city in three decades, to Togar’s immersive exploration of early cinema, here’s what to see in LA now

From Racheal Crowther’s examination into the ethics of care to SAGG Napoli’s immersive archery installation dissecting strength and gender stereotypes

From Haegue Yang’s paper works to Cristóbal Gracia’s baroque pearl, here’s what not to miss in Mexico City this February

From Sohrab Hura’s autobiographical survey to Les Levine’s parodic installation built around Vincent Van Gogh

From James Lomax’s reflections on freedom and imprisonment to Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby’s exploration into online culture

From an exhibition that positions paintings as ‘Popstars’ in Tokyo to the inaugural group show of a new curatorial collective in Dubai

From a characteristically tongue-in-cheek Yoko Ono exhibition to a group show on the ‘Imaginary Institution of India’

From a bold architectural intervention in New York to a group exhibition in Los Angeles on the science of sex

From a long overdue retrospective of Chantal Akerman to a group show celebrating the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto

From Larry Stanton’s exploration of virility, tenderness, and the AIDS crisis, to Lucy McKenzie’s immersive murals and installations blending mass cultural imagery and objects

From Smita Sen’s work on embodied grief to a group show at a former Green Book destination, here’s what to see now in Miami

From the ongoing photographic series of Barbara Probst to Jenna Bliss’s first US institutional show, here’s what to see in America this December

From The 15th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, to the textile practice of Hamid Zénati, discover the best shows this month

From Shuang Li’s meditations on communication, to Feng Zhixuan’s fusions of the organic and the inorganic, here’s what to see in Shanghai

From Francis Bacon’s survey at the National Portrait Gallery to Imran Perretta’s immersive exhibition at Somerset House Studios

From Ei Arakawa-Nash’s first Asian museum survey to a show of Maureen Gallace’s lean landscape paintings, here’s what to see in Tokyo now