Films to see in January 2018
This is the best time of year for cinema-goers. The run-up to awards season is the point to catch all the main contenders.
Books, films, exhibitions
Rachel Whiteread: at the Tate and on TV
Rachel Whiteread was the first woman to win the Turner Prize, in 1993. The artist’s life-size cast of the inside of derelict a house in London’s East End was demolished soon after.
The Grace Jones documentary
I’ve always admired Grace Jones. The strong image, the theatricality, the iconic Nightclubbing album that I still love to play.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Someone asked at the New York launch party what I’m currently reading. I’ve just started Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach and I’m looking forward to putting my fee...
Christian Dior and other exhibitions for style-lovers in Paris, autumn 2017
When Mr That’s Not My Age asked if I’d like to go to see the Rolling Stones in Paris, of course I said ‘Oui.’ Secretly pleased at this opportunity to view a couple of must-see ...
Know Your Style – Book Signing with author Alyson Walsh
Let’s kickstart the week with a spot of action. This short video clip contains a selection of Ayumi Takahashi’s images from Know Your Style.
A fantastic exhibition – Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius – and some fancy pants
How colours ‘breathe’ with light and change throughout the day is something designer Hella Jongerius’ work celebrates. Anyone who has bought something under fluorescent shop lighting...
Jane Campion talks menopause
Though Top of the Lake series two is available to binge-watch on iPlayer, I’m going to savour this one, take each of the six episodes slowly. It’s beautifully shot, strange and brillian...
What the author of Legendary Authors wore
Terry Newman’s Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore is every literature-loving, style maven’s summer bible. Highlighting the key works and wardrobes of 50 writers, from Proust to P...
A Time to Live: A new film from Sue Bourne
With boxes of vitamins and supplements and a lot of chocolate biscuits, director Sue Bourne and her film crew set off in a van around the country to film A Time To Live. The latest documentary from t...
Celebrating the centenary of Lucienne Day
This year is the centenary of textile designer Lucienne Day’s birth and there are a number of exhibitions on around the country, coordinated by the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundatio...
Gillian Ayres exhibition (s)
Gillian Ayres abstract paintings have the same mood-enhancing affect as Matisse’s Cut-Outs or Hockney’s Bigger Splash. There’s a lovely exhibition of paintings and woodcuts fr...
