From Munch’s marvelous misery to the changing face of Mecca

From the Merrie Monarch's display of power at the Queen's Gallery to a family-friendly Winnie-the-Pooh show at the Victoria and Albert Museum

From Chinese workshops to artists' studios, find out what to see beyond the fair

From Rose Wylie’s parade of footballers and royalty to Arthur Jafa’s powerful video collage of African-America culture

From a precocious photographer to a 45th birthday

From Modigliani’s "indecent" nudes to two shows exploring very different relationships

From an art history lesson in drawings to channelling grief through painting

From Pussy Riot's immersive penal colony installation to a final chance to see Francis Kéré’s Serpentine Pavilion

From a divine Renaissance man to Indian Modernists

From the British Museum's Lion Man to Matisse's studio studies at the Royal Academy

From Canadian artists to a Korean film-maker whose work deals with history and trauma

Nothing is quite black and white at the National Gallery, while Marie Jacotey’s enigmatic illustrations provide further mysteries

From abstract photographs of pre-Columbian monuments to a fairy-tale forest

From Cézanne’s ballsy portraits to a Tove Jansson survey showing that she was much more than Moomin’s mother

From ancient Crete to contemporary China

From Soutine’s flushed-cheek portraits to Alex Katz’s 10ft-tall sculpture of his wife Ada 

Celebrate Halloween with ghosts, spirits and souls

From John Akomfrah’s video on the threat of climate change to Nick Goss’s paintings of a great flood via Katharina Grosse’s paint-splashed walls

From a union of three vastly different artists, to a look at Modern fashion

Lygia Clark’s spray gun painting is complemented by a survey of radical Latin American female artists

The unlikely friendship of Dalí and Duchamp is explored at the RA, while Superflex turn Tate Modern into a playground

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

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

From Baroque Mexico to a New York that never was

From Rachel Whiteread’s mummified air to the burial rituals of the mysterious Scythians

From Austrian Expressionism to American abstraction

From Giacometti’s reunited Women in Venice to an exploration of bird nests and egg collecting

From children's art through the work of David Smith

From 66 Iranian photographers to Joel Meyerowitz’s slick city scenes