From an unexpected exhibition of works by a Renaissance oddball at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, to Ming Smith’s first UK solo show at Pippy Houldsworth, London

From Anthea Hamilton's pun-filled retrospective at M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium, to Lap-See Lam's ambitious debut at Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden, here's what not to miss

From Nikita Gale's solo outing at 52 Walker to Nora Turato's eclectic performance at MoMA, these are the must-see shows this month

From a groundbreaking group exhibition of Black ceramicists to Rachel Jones’s suite of colourful, new paintings

From Donna Huddleston's alien divas at Simon Lee to Ulysses Jenkins's caustic juxtapositions at the Hammer Museum, these are the shows currently on our radar

From Max Pinckers's ‘Speculative Documentary’ to James Gregory Atkinson's love song to the German outposts of the Black Atlantic this is what to see within the Schengen

From Blondell Cummings first museum retrospective at Art + Practice, Los Angeles, to Baseera Khan’s major survey at the Brooklyn Museum, these are must-see shows in the US

From Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s interactive exploration of Black trans allyship to Lubaina Himid’s overdue retrospective at Tate Modern

From Ghislaine Leung's solo exhibition at Ordet, Milan, to David Medalla's posthumous showing at Bonner Kunstverein, these are the shows not to miss 

From New Orleans much-anticipated Prospect.5 to Naudline Pierre's first institutional solo exhibition, these are the unmissable shows to see this month

These are the top shows to see in January – from an extensive display of Indigenous Australian stories in Plymouth to a joint Renée Green retrospective in Berlin

As 2021 draws to a close, we revisit the articles which caught the attention of our readers the most

From Naama Tasbar’s sound installation at the Bass Museum, Miami, to Diane Severin Nguyen’s K-pop video on modern-day revolution, here are the must-see shows in the US. 

The best shows to see this winter – from the George Michael-inspired TULCA Festival in Galway to an archive exhibition of Phyllis Christopher’s photographs in Birmingham

From Jasper Johns survey across two major museums to Erna Rosenstein's oneiric tableaux at Hauser & Wirth, these are the must-see show in the US

From Martin Margiela’s underwhelming solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, to a tech-savvy edition of the Athens Biennale, here's European shows on everyone's radar 

From Simone Fattal’s ceramics in response to the archaeological site of Pompeii to Elyse Pignolet’s critique of imperialist visual practices in Los Angeles, here are a selection of exhibitions everybody should be talking about

From Ruth Novaczek's fragmentary films at Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, to Rosa Barba's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe inspired installation at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, here are five shows not to be missed. 

From Rosemary Mayer's long-deserved survey at Swiss Institute, New York, to the 17th edition of MOMENTA in Montreal, Canada, these are the best shows in the Americas

What to see this weekend – from the frustrated sexuality of Jack O’Brien’s sculpture in London to Martha Jungwirth’s energetic abstractions in Paris