From Candice Breitz’s triptych about sex workers to Christiane Möbus’s petrified wood auction in the city’s oldest church

Jump aboard Tauba Auerbach's dazzling fireboat for the Public Art Fund and then get lost in a concrete utopia at MoMA

From a show on humour at the South London Gallery's new Fire Station space, to Samuel Courtauld’s Impressionists at the National Gallery

The power of Black artists resonates at the Brooklyn Museum, while Medieval monsters lurk at the Morgan Library

Mika Rottenberg’s surreal world lands in London’s newest space, Goldsmiths CCA, while the “king of cling” Azzedine Alaïa captivates at the Design Museum

From long-hidden sculptures to a Land Art pioneer’s early cogitations

From the artist-curated Bienal de São Paulo to a sweeping survey of Latin American art by “radical women”

From righteous indignation to interactive play

Michael Jackson is a thrilling muse at the National Portrait Gallery, while ancient Egypt is given a modern twist at the British Museum

Celebrate Independence Day with American stories from the Museum of Arts and Design to the Met

From Christo’s huge floating sculpture in Hyde Park to the intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum

From a smiley snowman to an "awareness of death"

From a gesamtkunstwerk designed to awaken the senses to a five-decade survey of Bruce Nauman

From Gainsborough's friendly cows to Giacometti's depictions of people

From the carnage of the First World War to a Brazilian helping hand during the Second World War

From a Pride Month celebration to an homage to a New York legend

From the Hayward Gallery’s sparkly and surreal Lee Bul survey to the final paintings of Howard Hodgkin

From an artist's urban dreams to a country in mourning

From a church divided by concrete walls to a dose of Brexit washed down with cups of tea

From William Eggleston's America to Lynda Benglis's homecoming

From rejuvenated “killed negatives” to a new lease of life for the UK’s only Michelangelo marble

From Georgia O’Keeffe in Hawaii to paintings from New Spain

From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery

From earthly bodies to Ellsworth Kelly in black and white

A few things at the fair that caught our eye at the second edition of Manhattan fair

From paths towards enlightenment to Kanye's rants

Rodin takes on the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum while James Cook sets sail for the British Library

Different approaches to place, cities and landscape, from the Brooklyn Museum to the Met

From the high emotions of Taryn Simon’s professional mourners to photography galore at Somerset House and the Hayward Gallery

From a flooded Times Square to hopeful aliens