Q. What should stay the same? A. ‘Nothing’

A rare view of Laurie Parsons’s work at Germany’s Museum Abteiberg provides space to reflect on art and social engagement

250 works by more than 70 artists and creators from the pre-Columbian period to the present

In the Iranian artist’s work, memory is smudged, an accretion of sorrows or nameless longings, a pile of waterlogged books in a flooded library

An exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, offers compelling evocations of causality and correlation

The sixth edition of the Sri Lankan arts festival uses the sea to press issues of migration and gentrification, climate change and the future of labour in the wake of automation

Eichhorn’s quasi-retrospective at Zurich’s Migros Museum highlights the artist’s complex contestations in simple, often invisible, form

In Perret’s two crafts-filled shows at MAMCO, Geneva, and Spike Island, Birstol, she draws from the fabular women of New Ponderosa

Mikhailov’s photo series ‘Diary’ cheekily exposes the undersides of social suppression in the USSR

The artists’ two-person show at London’s Cell Project Space lays bare the latent economic structures that condition our lives

The artist’s second solo show at Urs Meile in Beijing uses abstract neons to comment on social realities

An immersive installation at Gasworks offers different modes of thinking about ‘the psychic inheritance of an experience for which one has no memory’

On the centenary of its founding in Weimar, ‘bauhaus imaginista’, which takes place in eleven countries, revisits the Bauhaus with an eye to global experiments in radical artistic pedagogy

How much to read into Samuel Beckett’s flirtation with fashion?

frieze’s Editor-at-Large considers what it means to move on

A new series of sculptures is inspired by the Book of Genesis

‘Black people don’t fear the dead, it’s the living we worry about’

Lynne Tillman on the clash between real life and expectation

Recent R&B albums by Kelela, Lafawndah, serpentwithfeet and Solange tune to newly radiant blues

As the world tips towards more reactionary and fascistic regimes, what does it mean to call for artistic freedoms that implicitly reproduce oppression?

A provocative exhibition at Casa Luis Barragán reframes the architect’s home and studio through his class and gay identity

The Hong Kong-born artist showcases the darkly comic potential of cartoon visuals

On the centennial of Cunningham’s birth, how does his legacy prompt us to talk about othered bodies?

Commissioned by Emmanuel Macron, the restitution report by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy has paved the path for former colonisers to return art and artefacts

Is censoring art the solution to divisive politics? Art historian Susanne von Falkenhausen doesn’t think so

The artist’s video installation at Berlinische Galerie sheds new light on female strategies of self-staging

These specially commissioned photographs capture an ever-changing city through portraits of friends 

Negar Azimi visits the Damascus-born artist ahead of her retrospective at MoMA PS1

The work of Martin Creed, Giorgio Griffa and Tatsuo Miyajima all, in their own way, attempt to make sense of a chaotic world

In her solo show at CCA Wattis, San Francisco, the artist invokes sports awards to critique our obsession with victory

Domènec’s show at adn galeria, Barcelona looks to the fraught legacies of Spain’s mass communal housing

An exhibition at Croy Nielsen, Vienna, explores the female gaze on a world which seems murkier than ever

For her fourth exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, the artist paints portraits from her imagination

A retrospective at Neues Museum Nürnberg assembles the artist’s gleeful critiques of social, political and economic conditions  

At Blain|Southern, London, the Mexican artist’s primordial canvases evoke the beginning of the beginning

An exhibition at neugerriemschneider, Berlin, explores the healing properties of sticks as a symbol for social change

At Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, the artist explores technical virtuosity and trompe l’oeil through bronze-branches on fire, fake mirrors and floating candles

At Museu de Arte de São Paulo and Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, hand-woven sculptures inhabit the buildings, incorporating tree trunks and branches

At the heart of Wächtler’s work at Bergen Kunsthall, is a notion of narrative, however fractured, fugitive, misleading or opaque

The latest edition powerfully frames narratives of colonialism, exploitation and survivance

The artist’s new film explores unprecedented levels of intimacy and empathy with its subjects

The artist’s first US survey intervenes in the architecture and collection of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Baum’s work, on view at New York’s Bureau Gallery, calls attention to the overlooked hand labour of the textile industry

At Ortuzar Projects, New York, an exhibition explores the artist’s multidirectional storytelling

At Almanac Projects, London, the artist sheds new light on the way women are turned into objects 

From tarot cards to AA flyers, the artist’s installation at Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf, sketches out a precarious existence