A long-awaited retrospective of the Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody exudes humanity; South Africa’s Igshaan Adams is a weaver of dreams; and surrealism meets Asian tradition in the giant goddesses of Bharti Kher

Its works by Moore, Hepworth and Gormley are priceless. But they are at risk – from toxic bird poo, shifting tree roots and 400,000 greasy humans. We spend a day with the team keeping everything safe

Anxiety – and growing up with British TV – inspire Mendick’s huge multimedia show, while the cycle of life explodes from grit and dust in Drew’s fine chapel installation

Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

Lakwena Maciver’s subversive exhibition asks us to actively chuckle at her bold displays of protest and revolution

The late American artist is revealed as a much more complicated, poetic figure in this first major UK show dedicated to his work

An alternative audio tour of Barbara Hepworth’s works is pure poetry, while digital ghosts from slave voyages haunt us. But is there enough sculpture?

The squidgy folds and gelatinous wobbles of work by Rachel Whiteread, Holly Hendry and others are hard to keep your hands off – and tell us much about overcoming sexist attitudes in art

Hauser & Wirth, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; both online
Photographs of trees obscured by painstaking mathematical sequences somehow add up in Gaines’s gorgeous abstractions

It was the year that council housing turned community-minded, King Arthur got a swishy new bridge and the Lake District harboured a gem