Fiona Shaw presents her version of The Rape of Lucretia at Glyndebourne. This is Glyndebourne’s first production of Britten’s masterpiece since its world premiere at the opera house in 1946.

Renowned for transforming the domestic and everyday urban objects into sculpture, Burlington Gardens, the Royal Academy’s new venue for contemporary art, comprises over 50 pieces from Bill Woodrow’s oeuvre in a new exhibition.

Chris Burden is a master of many modes of expression. But his capacity with design, architecture and engineering dominates his current exhibition, Extreme Measures, at the New Museum.

The Czech Centre Prague maps the development of German design from the late 19th century up to the present day in this largest exhibition of its kind, from 4 October until 28 November.

Covering all genres of Patrick Lichfield’s photography, landscape, portraiture, fashion and nudes, The Little Black Gallery displays the first exhibition of his Caribbean images.

Art Cinema at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) returns for a one-off special event. Previous events have included work by artists Salvador Dali, René Clair and Rachel Maclean.

The designs of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel have influenced and inspired designers for decades. The Chanel Legend at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag explores the company and its creative directors.

New York City is transformed into the performance capital of the world as the biennial Performa returns for its fifth edition. 2013 sees more than 100 separate shows presented.

David Johnson makes installations, usually using existing objects with projections or light. His work is concerned with the basic nature of reality: mind and world, spirit and matter, being and nothingness.

Adam Chodzko launches his first solo exhibition at Marlborough Contemporary from 6 November with a brand new multimedia project, Room for Laarni, Image Moderator.

In the catalogue prepared for the first ever Contemporary African Art Fair to take place in the world, the foreword by Koyo Kouoh, the fair’s Cameroon-born artistic director, draws attention to many important aspects of the fair.

Frieze week is always a good opportunity to do something spectacular or insane. The surprising marriage of Gonzalez-Torres and Hirst captivates audiences.

This year at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, audiences will have the opportunity to engage with both mainstream cinema, and a programme of thought-provoking artists’ film.

Weetwood Hall plays host to an art conference offering eight speakers the chance to explore the less familiar side of art and examine the difference between artist intent and audience reception.

In conjunction with this Autumn’s Asian Art in London, Rossi & Rossi opens In-Between, a show displaying the artistic brilliance found in a group of Tibetan manuscript covers.

From 24 October, Jim Shaw’s 40-year practice will be under the spotlight at Chalet Society. The artist has produced a significant number of paintings, drawings, videos, installations and performances.

Mitra Tabrizian’s Leicestershire makes its UK debut in an exhibition showcasing shots taken in the county still bearing the marks and memories of its once central position in the textile and hosiery industry.

Irving Penn: On Assignment is an eclectic collection of photographs and media taken or published between the 1940s and 2008. Yet there is a unity to the pictures that derives from excellence.

Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his seventh solo show at the gallery. The exhibition, Central Nervous System, is both a departure from and a continuation of his Neue Welt project.

Dorothy Cross Connemara and Turner And Constable: Sketching From Nature straddle an almost two-century gap, contemporary mixed-media on one side, Romantic painting on the other.