From Bridget Riley's trippy canvases to Eduardo Paolozzi's war-wearied sculptures

From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum

The best shows to see outside of Fiac, from a literary contextualisation of Francis Bacon to Kiki Smith's coin collection

From atmospheric photographs by Roy DeCarava to Lily van der Stokker's riffs on medicine and doctors

From an expansive exhibition on colonial legacy to a torn apart racing car channelling Tiepolo and Top Gear

From Lempicka’s first US show in nearly six decades to Jacolby Satterwhite’s intimate and immersive environment

From the Neue Galerie’s Kirchner retrospective to John Singer Sargent’s rarely seen charcoal portraits at the Morgan Library and Museum

From Grayson Perry's piss-take pots to Dayanita Singh's mobile museums

From the Met Breuer’s Vija Celmins retrospective to Kehinde Wiley’s first public sculpture

The West Coast gallery season opens with its own slate of must see shows, from Tala Madani's scatological depictions of motherhood to Kenny Scharf's jabs at consumerism

From the LMCC’s Art Center inaugural season to William Powhida’s watercolour memes

From the Met’s first façade commission to Jean-Marie Appriou’s surreal equines

From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots

From Helen Beard's sexually fluid paintings to Helene Schjerfbeck's unique Nordic Modernism

From the Rubin Museum's meditation on “power” to the Costume Institute's celebration of camp

From the relationship between humans and nature at the Cooper Hewitt to love and unity at the Ford Foundation

Trisha Brown, Samson Young and James Richards are among the highlights of this year's cultural offering in the Scottish capital

From a travelling survey show on Stonewall to bronze sculptures of everyday objects

From the magnetic Takis at Tate Modern to destruction and preservation of culture at the Imperial War Museum

From Félix Vallotton's psychologically charged interiors at the Royal Academy of Arts to the many many faces of Cindy Sherman at the National Portrait Gallery

From the poster master Alphonse Mucha to Mrinalini Mukherjee's organic, sexual forms

From the little-known Renaissance painter Bartolomé Bermejo at the National Gallery to the Hayward Gallery's huge group show exploring gender fluidity

From Hito Steyerl's Park Avenue Armory takeover to Simone Leigh's commanding Plinth commission

From the towering ambitions of a young Picasso to Rebecca Horn's Body Fantasies

Celebrate Pride Month with commemorations of Stonewall's 50th anniversary

From Michael Rakowitz’s recreations of bombed artefacts at the Whitechapel Gallery, to Faith Ringgold’s story quilts at the Serpentine Gallery

From gender bending fashion at the MFA, Boston to Joan Jonas's animal treasure hunt at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

From a major survey of Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner at the Barbican, to rooftop sculptures at Bold Tendencies in Peckham

From Tibetan Buddhism on the battlefield to Theresa Chromati's women on a journey

From the largest Leonardo da Vinci show in half a century, at the Queen's Gallery, to the first retrospective of Luchita Hurtado at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery