A new show at the Whitworth Manchester combines Raqib Shaw’s paintings and sculptures with prints, textiles and objects that reveal an intense dialogue between the ages and across continents.

These drawings from the forgotten sketchbooks of the well-known feminist artist Ida Applebroog offer an intimate insight into her struggle with depression during a six-week stay at Mercy Hospital in 1969.

Running parallel to Münster’s Skulptur Projekte, notions of private and public are unsettled in this playful post-minimal exhibition of new works by American artist Tom Burr.

For the 57th Venice Biennale, Greek artist George Drivas offers his customary blend of architecture and film in a narrative video installation that explores the resonances between an ancient story by Aeschylus, involving a group of women seeking asylum, and a 20th-century scientific experiment.

The fair is a theatrical display of extravagance, peppered with instantly recognisable works by big names, which it is a joy to stumble across. But there are also rarer treasures, from a previously unseen Andy Warhol sketch to a recently rediscovered set of dinner plates designed by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.

With an uncompromising certainty of vision, Alice Neel paints individuals, capturing not only their physical likeness and inner character, but also the zeitgeist.

With artificial environments, app-led innovations and a preponderance of site-specific video art, the fifth edition of this 10-yearly project broadens out ideas of public sculpture as never before.

In her latest film, Cork-based artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain uses the perpetual ebb and flow of water and clouds to dissolve the physical integrity of highly constructed cultural institutions.

The V&A presents an exhibition exploring the abstract and architectural shapes of Cristóbal Balenciaga’s work in the 1950s and 60s, drawing out connections between his legacy and contemporary fashion designers.

Japanese-born artist Tadaaki Kuwayama recounts his refusal to dictate how spectators should view his work, his visual dialogue with Frank Stella, and the desire to void his art of meaning.