Other highlights include Arika’s return with a five-day programme in Glasgow and an exciting lineup of shows in London

A packed survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London reveals an artist who was the architect of his own myth

On the courage and vulnerability of the painter’s diverse subjects – from ancient deities to modern martyrs – ahead of her show at Frith Street Gallery in London

On the eve of the Games, the city’s sports-related cultural offerings prove artists and athletes have more in common than we think 

At 798CUBE, Beijing, the artist presents marvels of engineering with lives of their own

Highlights also include Benjamin Mullinkosson’s club kids from Chengdu and intimate gallery sessions in Glaswegian living rooms

Our tips include a suite of raw meat paintings by Zhao Gang and a trip into the monstrous world of Jenkin Van Zyl 

The artist has turned Punta della Dogana in Venice into a world of autonomous AI installations and isolated marine creatures

Adriano Pedrosa’s biennial raises essential questions about representation in the art world, but unfortunately, it feels disjointed

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