Frida Kahlo, The Bride Who Becomes Frightened When She Sees life Opened, 1943. Frida Kahlo is a myth of her own making, filtering a life marked by fiery, painful extremes into a masterfully sculpted self-image. This major touring show, touching down in the UK after its Dublin premiere, pairs her work with that of her husband, the similarly legendary Diego Rivera. At Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 9 July to 2 October Photograph: PR
Arnaud Desjardin, founder of experimental publishers The Everyday Press, is dedicated to realising artists' projects in book form. Here he's setting up a printing press in the gallery, as well as showing old and rare books alongside recent offerings. At Bloomberg SPACE, London EC2, 7 July to 20 August Photograph: PR
K Enters the Castle at Last, 2004. During his later years, RB Kitaj felt he had been so unfairly lambasted by the British art press that he fled back from London to his homeland of the US. His allusions to the work of poets and the cheek which saw him take on such daunting themes as the Holocaust didn't fit with the formal experiments of purist modernism. But narrative painting is no longer so taboo and it is now accepted that painting can tackle similar themes as humanistic novels and arthouse movies. At Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Lakeland Arts Trust, 9 July to 8 October Photograph: PR
No Title (Table and Four Chairs) is exactly what it says – but BIG. With his outlandishly oversized domestic furniture, the sculptor Robert Therrien makes one feel Lilliputian – at times unnervingly vulnerable, at others utterly enchanted. This is a stage set for giants on to which we seem to have wandered uninvited. Therrien's table and chairs come across with such authority that they at least momentarily suspend our disbelief. At Tate Liverpool, 24 June to 16 October Photograph: Marcus Leith
José Guadalupe Posada's The Skeleton of the People's Editor, 1907, stands out amid an extensive exhibition of Mexican prints from the first half of the 20th century, most of which are concerned with or inspired by the world's first socialist revolution of 1910 to 1920. At Hatton Gallery until 13 August Photograph: PR
Becky Beasley, Infirme, 2004/2006. The exhibition features work by Karla Black, Becky Beasley, and Claire Barclay, who each offer different approaches to the fundamentals of object-making: structure and material. Black's sugar-paper confections are ephemeral things, and Beasley makes minimal, hinged wood-works and odd black and white photographs documenting mysterious, shrouded objects. At Spike Island, 9 July to 4 September Photograph: PR
Artists are increasingly readdressing cultural phenomena that are virtually impossible to clearly define: inspiration, intuition, even the contagious influence of aesthetic beauty. In Matthew Donnelly's Fortune Teller (2009, pictured), the magic is heavily and openly underlined with irony. At Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, 14 July to 9 October Photograph: PR
Since the 1960s Michelangelo Pistoletto has been an energetically protean figure. A founding father of arte povera, he's created sculpture from rags, candles and bricks, photorealist paintings, and performances, with people always at the centre of his work. Here, he creates a labyrinth for visitors to wander through, as much a part of the art as the works they'll find within its cardboard twists and turns. At Serpentine Gallery, W2, London, 12 July to 17 September Photograph: PR
