From Esmaa Mohamoud at Arsenal Contemporary to the Flag Art Foundation’s group show curated by ex-football player and arts patron Keith Rivers

From Karim B. Hamid at Alchemy Gallery to Sky Hopinka at Broadway

From Ouattara Watts at Karma to Lydia Ourahmane at the SculptureCenter

From Carlito Carvalhosa at Galeria Nara Roesler to Haley Josephs at Jack Barrett

From Lukas Quietzsch at Ramiken to Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art

From Deana Lawson at MoMA PS1 to Kyle Staver at Half Gallery

From Kathy Ruttenberg at Lyles & King to the treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library

From Walid Raad at Paula Cooper Gallery to Daniel Lie at the New Museum

From Robert Irwin at Pace to Barkley L. Hendricks at Jack Shainman

From Meg Webster at the Judd Foundation to Michelle Stuart at Galerie Lelong & Co.

From Hollis Sigler at Andrew Kreps to James Turrell’s ode to Ad Reinhardt at Pace

From Michael Heizer at Gagosian to Frédéric Bruly Bouabré at the Museum of Modern Art

From Rashaad Newsome at the Park Avenue Armory to Hans Holbein at the Morgan Library and Museum

From Danica Lundy's disquieting tableaux of teenage angst to Claudette Schreuders's introspective doubles

From Jennie C. Jones at the Guggenheim to Vincent Smith at Alexandre Gallery

From 20th century Italian masterworks at the Center for Italian Modern Art to Ashley Bickerton’s oceanic sculptures at Lehmann Maupin

From the jewels of the American Folk Art Museum’s collection to Alec Soth’s journey across the US

From Abraham Palatnik’s first posthumous show at Nara Roesler to ayahuasca-inspired ceramics at Salon 94

From an artist couple’s colourful daring at the Museum of Arts and Design to the last chance to see Alexander Calder at the Museum of Modern Art

From the last chance to see Etal Adnan at the Guggenheim to a dynamic group exhibition at Nicola Vassell

From Francesca Woodman at Marian Goodman to Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory

From Joseph E. Yoakum’s mythical drawings at MoMA to SculptureCenter’s ode to Sara Penn and the lost East Village art scene

Our pick of shows on view in local galleries, from Judy Chicago at Nina Johnson to Hernan Bas at Fredric Snitzer Gallery

From Shilpa Gupta's tribute to dissident writers to the UK debut of influential Georgian painter Karlo Kacharava

From Sophie Taeuber-Arp at MoMA to Taryn Simon’s exploration of the NYPL’s picture archive

From a gory dive into Peruvian culture to a reappraisal of Hogarth's xenophobia

From the Neue Galerie’s anniversary show to Donald Judd’s paintings at Gagosian

From the New Museum Triennial to 52 Walker, David Zwirner’s new outpost

From Etel Adnan at the Guggenheim to the final weekend of Kusama's blockbuster show at the NYBG

From a ghost train in an abandoned thermal plant to Tomás Saraceno's glass bubbles filled with his own breath