Traces marks the UK’s first retrospective of work by Ana Mendieta through a show of films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, personal writings and notebooks, and a slide-room.

A whole century after first revealing his work to America at the New York Armory Show, the art of the unofficial torchbearer of modernism, Constantin Brancusi, is celebrated in a new exhibition at Paul Kasmin.

A group show that proposes a dialogue between historical and contemporary sculpture, attempting to draw a line between a lost past, a sensuous present and an imagined future has to work hard to justify its audacious blurb.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the ICA and will include works by 46 participants. Last year’s edition attracted over 42,000 visitors and highlighted the show as the place to discover the best emerging artists.

AV Festival 14: EXTRACTION takes place at venues across the North East of England, including Mima, Sage Gateshead, BALTIC, Tyneside Cinema, NGCA, Star & Shadow, Laing Art Gallery and other spaces.

Paul Fryer utilises electronic media and sculpture to create installation pieces in unexpected exhibition sites. He presented his first solo show in 2005 at Trolley Gallery and has gone on to show work all over the world.

3 am can be an extraordinary hour when some fear ghosts and monsters are on the prowl, when animals feel able to move without human detection and the young feel able to express themselves freely.

Tangier-based artist, Yto Barrada probes into the material history and visual culture of her hometown in this multi-layered exhibition of films, artworks, posters and ephemera, on display at Walker Art Center.

The Marian Goodman Gallery in New York presents a major solo show of Thomas Struth’s photographic art. His work was recently exhibited in a major travelling retrospective.

The wide influence of Surrealism on what art looks like takes an odd turn when we think of these artists: Calder and Melotti, currently showing at the Ronchini Gallery.

The agriculture of sub-Saharan Africa and the labour of everyday life on the land is brought into focus in this new body of work from Jackie Nickerson, on display at Brancolini Grimaldi from 22 November to 25 January.

Although the show presents objects that span the 20th century and move onto contemporary works, there is nothing chronological about the display. The curators must have felt that linear chronology would somehow be anti-surrealist.

Ruth Campbell became the 10th winner of the annual Sproxton Award for Photography, announced at the London College of Communication’s MA Photography Final Show.

Photographer and screenwriter Charlotte Colbert playfully examines the link between the imagined and the real in the context of the home in a new exhibition at Gazelli Art House.

House of Peroni, London, opens its doors to celebrate Italian style and creativity with Miles Aldridge. Fashion photographer, Aldridge, is inspired by Fellini’s era-defining film, 8 1/2.

At London’s legendary White Cube gallery prolific American sculptor Larry Bell presents a survey of new sculpture and paper based works: Mirage Collage and the Light Knots.

Audemars Piguet has teamed up with Galerie Perrotin to present an ambitious installation for Art Basel Miami Beach by French artist duo Kolkoz. The work, Curiosity, will be home to events throughout the week.

The group exhibition Push Your Art is a logical completion for the first edition of international contest for technologically innovative art creation. The 2013 theme is 3D relief.

Curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal and featuring a mixture of new and iconic works, Istanbul hosts the contemporary artist Anish Kapoor in his first major exhibition in Turkey.

Fabio Rossi joined his mother as co-director of Rossi & Rossi in 1988. The gallery was founded by Anna Maria Rossi in 1985 and continues to promote Asian art in the UK.

A visual poem dedicated to William Tillyer, the exhibition brings together the tangible and intangible aspects of his work inspired by the earth, the seas, the skies, and more.

On 19 November a new Tate Britain will be unveiled. The oldest part of the Grade II* Millbank building has been transformed by leading architects Caruso St John.

New works by Lucy Clark, Caroline Daley, Christina Foard, and Sharla Valeski are featured in femme deux. The brainchild of multimedia artist Valeski, this second show celebrates womanhood and empowerment.

ASFF is one of the most exciting site-specific film festivals in the UK. While introducing attendees to memorable short film, it promotes an excursion through the city of York.

The Wayne McGregor and Random Dance project, part of Aperto, brings together Fondazione I Teatri with Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara for the world premiere of site-site-specific performance Scavenger.

Alison Goldfrapp takes the lead in an exhibition series turning performer into curator. The initiative behind the programme binds the space between the performing and visual arts.

Anton Smit is an established South African sculptor, known for his overwhelming heads & monumental sculptures. His practice comprises figures, masks, and abstracts.

Lisson Gallery is widely known as one of the most influential and longest-running contemporary art galleries in the world. Its two exhibition spaces in London champion the careers of pioneering artists.

Tradition and modernity in Afghanistan come into dialogue with one another in this Leighton House Museum exhibition, running from 15 November until 23 February.

Since 2002, Art Basel in Miami Beach has become the premiere destination for the international art world. This year’s show brings together 258 galleries, from 31 countries.

Hepworth Wakefield welcomes a new Chief Curator, Andrew Bonacina. He plays a key role in the programming of the main gallery and The Calder, the new contemporary art space.

Last night saw the closing ceremony of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival. It was a fantastic affair, with guests joining us from all across the world.

From 14-17 November Paris Photo will be hosting 135 galleries at the Grand Palais, including 27 newly selected participants and 27 publishers specialising in photography books.

It was fantastic to see so many of you at Meet the Filmmakers. BBC Radio Leeds film critic Tony Earnshaw led a discussion with creatives from all corners of the globe.

Celebrating a career that spans over four decades through 65 photographs, Sprüth Magers presents artist Stephen Shore’s, first London solo show for over six years.

Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion, is an exhibition of nearly 100 dresses, skirts, gowns and suits that celebrate the innovation of Japanese fashion designers.

Text and image meet, clash and play off each other in this new exhibition of the work of pioneering conceptual artist Victor Burgin at the Richard Saltoun Gallery, London.

Family Politics is the newest Jerwood Encounters exhibition and presents new commissions and work by six photographers relating to the theme of family relationships.

The year of 1879 when Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee in Switzerland also marked the establishment of Kunstmuseum Bern, the country’s oldest art museum.

Paintings, drawings and sculptures by Alison Turnbull and Matt Calderwood all respond to the history, space and elemental forces making an impact upon the De La Warr Pavilion.

Jan Krugier has represented many major artists, and later became the world’s foremost Pablo Picasso dealer. One of the pieces set for auction is a wooden African mask from the Ivory Coast.

All This Can Happen, a 50-minute film by David Hinton and choreographer Siobhan Davies, opens with images of men who cannot walk. It is neither documentary nor constructed reality.

Doug and Mike Starn appear in their first UK solo show at HackelBury Fine Art. The identical twin brothers work collaboratively to defy categorisation with their broad practice.

Recording journeys made and food tasted on his travels around the world, Subodh Gupta’s pictorial archive glimpses into the interior life of one the most audacious contemporary artists.

Running from 7 November, Silkscreens includes 16 images, selected by gallery owner Tim Jefferies, from Moriyama’s broad portfolio and produced exclusively for Hamiltons as silkscreens on canvas.

Steve Rose of the Guardian Guide on the Aesthetica Short Film Festival: “It’s not just the ‘what’, it’s the ‘where’ with this festival, which is as much a treasure hunt as a chance to see some new short films.”

The eclectic and multi-form work of Ad Reinhardt (1913- 1967) comes into focus in this inaugural exhibition of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, from 7 November until 18 December.

With the Barbican hosting its finale, this comprehensive review of the relationship between Pop Art and design from Vitra Design Museum has just gone up a notch.

The Tetley is set to open 29 November in Leeds. Aesthetica speaks to Co-founder and Director Kerry Harker and Curator Zoë Sawyer about the new gallery and the first exhibition A New Reality.

Bringing together a group exhibition of 20 young to mid-career artists from Australia, The Fine Art Society Contemporary examines the current masterpieces coming out of the country.