Los Angeles

From Steve McQueen’s Dia exhibitions to Tau Lewis’ first solo museum show, here is what to see this October

An ecofeminist show of 18 artists and collectives at The Brick, Los Angeles, decentres a male perspective – but ultimately can't get away from a human one

At Night Gallery, Los Angeles, the artist’s sardonic creations reveal the human cost of imperial intervention and unchecked capitalism

From sci-fi and queer culture at the USC Fisher Museum of Art to Experiments in Art and Technology at The Getty Center, discover the first round of PST openings

At the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the late artist’s conceptual practice exists in the polarity between obsessive documentation and rigorous anti-interpretation

The Sunset Strip seduces Kim Gordon, while Chris Kraus prefers MacArthur Park

At 52 Walker, New York, the artist honours the poet by bridging her writing and her beloved Los Angeles

The artist, who has a solo presentation in this year’s Focus section, discusses LA landscapes and her work inspired by Haitian myth, childhood memories and the invisible

At Marian Goodman, Los Angeles, the artist’s extraterrestrial works are haunted by real-world doom

At Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, sculptures and collages reference modesty screens, BDSM and gay porn mags to index the trans experience

Utopian sculptures and drawings unexhibited since their making are on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art and Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles

The 39 artists of the sixth edition both capture and prompt tender interactions that tease out overlooked histories across the city

From Tetsuya Ishida’s disaffected oil paintings at Gagosian, New York, to Ato Ribeiro’s wooden weavings at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta

At Regen Projects, Los Angeles, the artist’s multi-media works explore the similarities between entertainment and state oppression

At Night Gallery, Los Angeles, claustrophobic paintings of horse races meditate on risk, desire and control

Inspired by Mesoamerican culture and Mexican modernism, the artist’s materially lush sculptures and drawings aspire to a time beyond geopolitical violence

From Alix Vernet’s street casts at Helena Anrather, New York, to Myrlande Constant’s mystical tapestries at Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles

Using gay print magazines, the artist makes collages that imagine intersectional queer communities

From Mark Bradford’s eloquent abstractions to Keith Haring’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles

Justin Bieber meets Pierre Bonnard in the artist’s new erotic, collage-inflected paintings at Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles