Artist’s many influences explored in scholarly exhibition comprising more than 100 pieces at the Barbican

2018 award goes to Lawrence Abu Hamden

The artists’ proposals range from videos of a talking earth and sun to a functioning hair and nail salon

From Superflex’s playground at Tate Modern to a major Basquiat survey at the Barbican

Installation developed by Clare Twomey explores issues around collective labour

New North and South initiative encompasses eight exhibitions and includes artists Raqs Media Collective and Waqas Khan

Debut exhibition at Blain Southern gallery in London is about the role of violence

Frederic Burton spent late career acquiring some of museum’s best-known masterpieces

For nearly half a century, Jacob El Hanani has been composing obsessively detailed drawings using a Rapidograph pen, typically employed by architects

The Chicago-based artist is selling bottles of water for a good cause

The conceptual artist Aaron Flint Jamison caused a stir last month when he decided that for his solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery he would show only works in the gallery’s storage

From slick and surreal photographs at the Serpentine to art in canal boats for the Art Licks Weekend

From Kara Walker's violence to the Morgan Library's opulence

A powerful institution admirably tackles the present moment

London museum and Royal Opera House bring the elite musical form to the masses

Shows in New York, Paris and London mark the artists’ 50th anniversary

Artists invited to create sculptural works with archaeological fragments held in deep storage

It is the only exhibition dedicated to De Stijl to be organised outside of Europe this year

Pairing with US artist Andrew Wyeth will be followed by exhibitions marking the Victorian polymath’s bicentenary

With little money, the Thessaloniki biennial curators press on

Exhibitions at the Israel Museum and the new Palestinian Museum offer differing perspectives

Petrit Halilaj has made 500 sculptures based on images of Neolithic artefacts

New York museum made decision after initially resisting wave of protests

This year’s “quite radical” exhibition in Hull, featuring Lubaina Himid and Hurvin Anderson, touches on social and political topics

The artist was brilliant long before he came to the city, but his US works are his greatest achievements

From Basquiat’s booming Barbican blockbuster to Jasper Johns’s first UK retrospective in 40 years

Disorientation over the designer's work has settled into quaint admiration

From imaginative scale models to a pop-up ‘freak’ show, we pick the must see projects around the city

An exhibition in Gotha looks at her influence

The lowdown on the new Thomas Heatherwick-designed museum in Cape Town. Plus: London's most enticing shows this autumn