Critic's Guide

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

From an exhibition championing interspecies collaboration to an artist-run restaurant pop-up, here’s what not to miss in Italy this November

From grave rubbings by Scott Covert to sculpted ‘boats’ by Raine Bedsole, discover the shows on view during Prospect.6

From Kathrin Sonntag and Gabriele Münter’s cross-generational lens to Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of stillness, here are the best shows to see in Europe this October

From Chris Ofili’s portraits of Othello at David Zwirner to Barbara Crane’s double-exposed casino signs at Centre Pompidou

From Alberta Whittle’s explorations of the Isle of Bute to Keith Haring’s New York, this year's participants in Glasgow reveal their favourite exhibitions

From Laurent Le Deunff’s faux wood sculptures to a large-scale showcase of Arab modernism, here are the most compelling shows to see during the Games

From Francis Alÿs’s audiovisual playground to Babeworld’s burnout, here are the most captivating exhibitions to see this month

From Joan Jonas’s layered installations to Alexander Apóstol’s archetypal characters of Venezuelan society

From Katrin Hornek’s post-apocalyptic wasteground to Kristof Santy’s majestic magnifications of the mundane, here are our latest cohort’s top spring exhibitions 

From Zineb Sedira’s anticolonial cinema to Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s immersive archives

From Jim Shaw’s hallucinatory visions to Leonard Rickhard’s modernist depictions of infrastructure and machinery, here’s what not to miss this March

From Paul Mpagi Sepuya's self-reflective portraiture to Jan Gatewood's anthropomorphic rabbits

From Shellie Zhang’s altars to elusive homelands to Anna Boghiguian’s chessboard of historical icons

From Mamma Andersson's gothic paintings at David Zwirner to an examination of American mythologies at Bourse de Commerce

From a survey of African fashion at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, to Florian Krewer’s animalistic oil paintings at Aspen Art Museum

From Alexander Tovborg’s spiritual yearning to collective mythologies as told by Miralda

From Shikh Sabbir Alam's wild flora and fauna to Camille Norment's sonic feedback loops