From a major Carrie Mae Weems survey in London to a city-wide Biennial in Liverpool 

From Christopher Kulendran Thomas's meditation on art history to an overdue Tom of Finland homecoming

From a group show of funky ceramics at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, to Richard Mosse at Altman Siegel and Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco

From an exhibition of Kaye Donachie’s chalky blue, purple and grey portraits to David Aruquipa Pérez’s photographic archive of Bolivian carnival culture

From Eiko Otake’s installation at Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, to a group show at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, these are the must-see shows

From Marguerite Humeau’s post-apocalyptic world of insects to Michael E. Smith’s unsettling assemblages 

From a group show on the psychological and philosophical dimensions of combat in Turin, to Isa Melsheimer’s enchanted ceramics in Vienna

From a group show of Black artists at Johnson Lowe to Ignacio Gatica’s multi-media sculptures, here are the best shows to see across the US right now

From César Aira’s visions of ancient Rome to a posthumous collection of strange tales by Izumi Suzuki, the frieze team selects the books they’re reading this season

From Rachel Whiteread’s entropic assemblages at Luhring Augustine to a Lizzi Bougatsos performance tribute at TRAMPS

From Celeste Rapone's evocation of not-so-blissful domesticity at Josh Lilley, London, to Leo Robinson’s dense webs of allusion and appropriation at Chapter, Cardiff 

From Bekhbaatar Enkhtur’s sleeping wax figure at Matèria, Rome, to Cindy Sherman’s baroque selfies in tapestry form at Aarhus Art Museum

From the first survey of Puerto Rican art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, to the tribute to Lizzi Bougatsos’s life at TRAMPS

A free art writing course for aspiring critics, which takes place in London in the summer

From Sonia Boyce’s triumphant Venice installation at Turner Contemporary, Margate, to an exhibition that channels artists’ spiritual relationship with nature at Modern Art, London

From Joan Brown’s documentation of everyday personal experiences at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California to Mohammed Sami’s evocative canvases at Camden Art Centre, London

From a groundbreaking Vermeer exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to an epic Florentina Holzinger performance at Berlin’s Volksbühne

From a Joan Brown retrospective to an exhibition of Julien Bismuth, here are the best shows to see in the US right now

From an exhibition of Hugo Crosthwaite at Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, to a survey of Deana Lawson at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, here are the best shows to see across the US right now

From Elizabeth Price’s exploration of Glaswegian carpets at the Hunterian Art Gallery to Ayo Akingbade’s solo show at Chisenhale Gallery, London