The best of Contemporary in November, curated by the Serpentine Gallery / Serpentine Gallery / News

As part of Hub Culture's online collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, Ben Jones curates the best things to see in the contemporary art world for November.

London (West End):

Thea Djordjadze - West London Projects (10 Oct-5 Dec)

Delicate hybrid constructions made in-situ by Berlin-based Georgian sculptor

Ed Ruscha Hayward Gallery (14 Oct-10 Jan)

Sometimes it s a word on a box and the box becomes a word, so I m really painting buildings with words on them I never really understood my audience.

Anish Kapoor RA (26 Sep-11 Dec)

To mark his decade as a Royal Academician, Kapoor runs riot with red wax in the neo-Classical temple of the RA

Walead Beshty Thomas Dane (13 Oct-14 Nov)

Beautiful photograms - camera-less, negative-less abstract constructions

Kandinsky Art Prize Blouin Foundation (17 Oct-10 Dec)

Russian artists contend under Oleg Kulik s curatorial eye

Ed & Nancy Kienholz: The Hoerengracht National Gallery (18 Nov-21 Feb)

This 1983 work transforms the Sunley Room into a walk-through red-light district

Candida H fer Florence Ben Brown Fine Arts (7 Oct-18 Nov)

Voluptuous Italian interiors brought into line by the objective German camera lens

Yinka Shonibare Stephen Friedman (16 Oct-14 Nov)

New body of photographs and sculpture looks back at a century of the carcrash

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize National Portrait Gallery (5 Nov-14 Feb) For once, the raw and the overcooked can be equally affecting

A Broken Fall group show Josh Lilley Gallery (14 Oct-18 Nov)

Sculptural vertiginousness, including new work by Conrad Shawcross

Adam Neate Elms Lesters (9 Oct-21 Nov)

If you missed our recent visit, this is impressively instinctive street art talent

Jim Goldberg Photographers Gallery (16 Oct-17 Jan)

Documenting the experiences of people who travel from war-torn, socially and economically devastated countries, to make new lives in Europe.

Letter From the Island group show Orel Art (8 Oct-22 Dec)

Underground 1980s movement Necrorealism disinterred

London (East End):

Robert Kusmirowski Curve Gallery (30 Sep-10 Jan)

Must-see bunker installation amid the Brutalist concrete changing day by day

Fergal Stapleton V22 (11 Oct-13 Dec)

Adding and subtracting sculpturally to/from the 1000sq ft space during show

Sophie Calle Whitechapel Gallery (16 Oct-3 Jan)

Talking to Strangers retrospective which includes the first showing of English translation of 2007Venice Biennale installation Take Care of Yourself .

Re-imagining October Calvert 22 (2 Oct-6 Dec)

3rd group show at this Foundation for Eastern European art, curated by Isaac Julien & Mark Nash

Anne Hardy Maureen Paley (9 Oct-22 Nov)

Complex and absorbing large-scale photos of constructed interiors

Mariele Neudecker RoomArtSpace (9 Oct-29 Nov)

Bristol-based German sculptor of quiet, uncanny power s evocative new vitrines

Dr. Lakra Kate MacGarry (17 Oct-22 Nov)

Tattoed palimpsests over Japanese prints

Billy Childish L13 (13 Oct-14 Nov)

The former Stuckist who taught Tracey Emin how to paint like Edvard Munch

London (North):

The Museum of Everything (18 Oct-18 Dec)

Outsider Art of extraordinary quality in an old factory workshop in Primrose Hill

Pete & Repeat international group show 176 (17 Sep-13 Dec)

36 artists of 15 nationalities who employ strategies of repetition in their work

Keith Tyson Parasol Unit (16 Sep-11 Nov)

The processes of nature evoked in the realm of art, whilst a new and previously undisplayed series called Cloud Choreography emulating nature itself

Grayson Perry Victoria Miro (9 Oct-7 Nov)

Turner-Prize winner s major new tapestry depicting contemporary social woes

Anish Kapoor Lisson Gallery (14 Oct-14 Nov)

New work to accompany the major exhibition at the RA

Head-Wig (Portrait of an Exhibition) Camden Arts Centre (25 Sep-29 Nov)

Polish artist Paulina Olowska curates group show around perceptual ambiguity

Matt Collishaw Freud Museum (7 Oct-13 Dec)

Hysteria curated by James Putnam

Glenn Brown Gagosian Gallery (15 Oct-26 Nov)

He mimics technical aspects of canonical painting whilst being a virtuoso original

Jane Bown King s Place (23 Oct-21 Nov)

Iconic 20^th C. images of British cultural life from the seminal portraitist who has recently decided regretfully to put the lens cap on for good

London (South):

Miroslaw Balka Tate Modern Turbine Hall (13 Oct-5 Apr)

10^th Turbine Hall commission go when it s not crowded or don t go at all

John Baldessari Tate Modern (13 Oct-10 Jan)

When this artist says I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art I believe him

Turner Prize Tate Britain (6 Oct-3 Jan)

Richard Wright should win for his beautiful wall paintings

Roger Hiorns Seizure ArtAngel at Harper Road SE1 (23 Jul-3 Jan)

Yes, they ve taken the padlocks off again following a stay of execution from the bulldozers. Your very last chance to see the project that may win HIM the Turner

Turner and the Masters Tate Britain (23 Sep-31 Jan)

Canaletto, Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian placed next to some of JMW Turner's most dramatic paintings: masterpieces in discussion across the centuries

John Latham Flat Time House (5-22 Nov)

Part Two of The Present Moment/The Whole Event, questioning notions of time

Catherine Yass curates Passing Thoughts & Making Plans Jerwood Space (4 Nov-13 Dec) Focusing on ideas of process in photography

Shake It: Instant History of the Polaroid Pump House Gallery (6 Oct-13 Dec)

Full of surprises, including Hamilton and Warhol, using a nearly defunct medium

New York:

Paul McCarthy White Snow Hauser & Wirth (4 Nov-24 Dec)

Robert Ryman Yvon Lambert (28 Oct-23 Dec)

Marc Quinn: Iris Mary Boone (30 Oct-19 Dec)

Peter Fischli David Weiss Matthew Marks (29 Oct-16 Jan)

David Hockney Pace Wildenstein (23 Oct-24 Dec)

Gerhard Richter Marian Goodman (7 Nov-9 Jan)