Psyche and Politics is an exhibition at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden that examines processes and poses the question of how social and political experiences, which are so different all across the globe, can be made visible through art. The exhibition presents the positions of ten international artists, among them Jim Shaw, who deal with the perception of the self and its transformation into the external world. 

The Gaze of Things: Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke shows a selection of works from the Per Amor a l’Art Collection, that constitutes the most important private collection of Japanese photography between 1957 and 1972 outside Japan. The exhibition brings together a selection of images that focuses on the artists, among them João Penalva, involved in the formation of VIVO (1959-1961), as well as the collective responsible for Provoke magazine (Provocative Materials for Thought) (1968). 

Marnie Weber’s centralizing embrace of the societal fringe mimics our globalized reassessment of the dominant point of view, debunking the old norm for a new model where the previously peripheral moves to center stage. Her world of freaky side-show circus characters, runaway waifs and mobile home denizens are counter-culture oddities recast as empowered models of defiantly capable heroes, or at least battered survivors.

Men of Steel, Women of Wonder is a new exhibition developed by Crystal Bridges Assistant Curator Alejo Benedetti that examines art-world responses to Superman and Wonder Woman ranging from their Depression-era origins to today’s contemporary artist interpretations. The exhibition features over 70 paintings, photographs, installations, videos, and more by over 50 artists, among them Jim Shaw.

Maybe Maybe Not presents an emblematic selection of the work of American artist Christopher Wool. It inaugurates the exhibition program of the Hill Art Foundation, a cultural center conceived to offer broad public access to the seminal collection of contemporary and historical works assembled by J. Tomilson and Janine Hill over the past four decades.

This presentation of paintings, works on paper, photographs and prints encapsulates the evolution of Wool's career, ranging from early experiments to more recent explorations of spontaneous gesture and digital intervention. 

Hate Speech: Aggression and Intimacy presents international positions in contemporary art that address forms of ever more aggressive communication and the effects of social media, as well as their media-related facets. The exhibition features various international artists,  including Jim Shaw, and takes as its point of departure the alarming leanings of this development toward what is often much-too-direct speech. 

A common interest in the history of motifs and retail display inspired designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie to form the Atelier E.B fashion label.

Their first exhibition in France combines contemporary creation, the history of fashion and museum design. It opens with a bespoke showroom for their new collection, Jasperwear, and continues with historical research into the figure of the mannequin, from ancient sculpture to department store windows. It ends with a series of commissions by contemporary artists, among them Josephine Pryde. 

Desert X presents a group exhibition curated by Artistic Director Neville Wakefield with Co-Curators Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum, comprised of works by a range of artists including Eric N. Mack and Gary Simmons.  

Desert X® is produced by Desert Biennial, a non-for-profit 501(C)(3) charitable organization founded in 2015 to bring the finest international artists to the Coachella Valley to create art, engage viewers, and focus attention on the valley's environment - its natural wonders as well as socio-political-economic issues that make it vibrant, curious, and exciting. 

Grace Wales Bonner presents the first in a new series of unique projects in the fields of music, fashion, art and design, featuring Eric N. Mack.  Themes of mysticism and ritual permeate Wales Bonner’s exhibition, which explores magical resonances within black cultural and aesthetic practices. 

The Blazing World, Perret’s first major solo exhibition in the UK, explores the subject of witchcraft and the relationship between women’s oppression and the emergence of capitalism. In her immersive installation at Spike Island, a theatrical stage recalls sacred forms of architecture and is punctuated with ritualistic sculptures, puppets and textiles.

Lemme walk across the room, the first New York City solo exhibition by Eric N. Mack, transforms the Brooklyn Museum's Great Hall with a site-responsive installation of new and existing textile-based works hung, mounted, and draped in conversation with the classical architecture of the space. Mack's work explodes the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and fashion, dynamically reflecting and framing the rich visual experiences of the everyday.

The Frist Art Museum presents Claudio Parmiggiani: Dematerialization, the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States. Opening Saturday 2 February 2019, the show continues until 5 May. 

For her second exhibition at Le Consortium, Valerie Snobeck: Build of a Nearby Valley while Looking Afar, Valerie Snobeck presents a body of work made specifically for the exhibition during her residency at the Atelier Calder in the summer of 2018.

Kaleidoscope will take over the entire surface of Spazio Maiocchi in Milan, curating a multimedia experience which brings together a diverse selection of international artists featured in the magazine’s newly-released Fall/Winter issue. After a two-month residency at Spazio Maiocchi, American artist Eric N. Mack allows visitors into his temporary studio, presenting it as an installation and a glimpse into his creative process. A language of the suspended pile, the messy space, of bodies leaving traces behind, the artist’s shamanic combinations of textile, newspaper pages and fragments of everyday objects have an architectural, even Baroque ambition—his painterly gestures sublimated into a “ballad of the black mundane.” 

The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia, has officially announced the impending exhibition Toby Ziegler: Your shadow rising. The show will open Saturday 3 November, and will continue until 25 March 2019.

Philbrook partners with the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation to present a survey of more than 50 prints by Mel Bochner. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

The Phillips Collection, Washington, celebrates the reopening of the newly renovated Phillips House. For the occasion the collection will inaugurate a specially commissioned outdoor sculpture by Angela Bulloch.

João Penalva alludes to the life and work of Stanley Brouwn through a collection of measuring tools and devices, photographs, Brouwn’s artist books and catalogues, and a new artist book produced for this exhibition.

MAMCO presents its first major exhibition of works by Mai-Thu Perret following her nomination for the Manor Prize in 2011. This survey show will explore the full scope of the artist’s practice, which embraces disciplines from sculpture to film, ceramics and performance.

On the occasion of his major solo exhibition at MUDAM Luxembourg, the National Ballet of Portugal will perform Fifteen Dancers and Changeable Tempo at the Grand Théâtre in Luxembourg on 15 September - a ballet created and directed by João Penalva. As an introduction to the performance João Penalva will be in conversation with choreographer Rui Lopes Graça and researcher Carla Montez Fernandes at MUDAM on 12 September.

Run between Edinburgh and Brussels, Atelier E.B is the fashion label under which designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie collaborate.  At the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Atelier E.B will examine the intersecting relationships between art, design, commerce and display through the figure of the mannequin, and includes work by Josephine Pryde.