But now it has reopened as this highly participatory, energetically interactive new museum where kids can play and learn on their own terms. Young V&A Bethnal Green, London The Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood will be remembered by many as a nostalgic collection of old toys with everything from Victorian dolls’ houses to Action Man. It is a space between states, an anomalous entity that literally straddles the border line where two languages, English and French, blend. Lawrence Abu Hamdan Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, to 30 September A film installation about the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, founded in 1904, which serves communities on both sides of the border between the USA and Canada. Expect to be shocked and nauseated by some of the imagery. His themes range from war to Christianity to Covid. Howson paints in a hyperbolic yet precise way that is both surreal and expressive. Peter Howson City Art Centre, Edinburgh to 1 October The muscular Scottish painter gets a stuffed retrospective spanning four floors of this gallery to mark his 65th year. Highlights include portraits by Lavinia Fontana, considered the first female career artist the Sienese painter Simone Martini’s precociously realistic and touching scene, Christ Discovered in the Temple, painted in 1342 and a disconcerting portrait of Henry VIII. Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool The Walker’s excellent collection of European art from the 14th to 17th centuries has been given a new hang in refurbished galleries. Photograph: National Museums Liverpool/Walker Art Gallery You are inside his head.” Andrew Clementsīaroque chick … Lavinia Silentium by Fontana. The listener, says Barry, “is hearing the world’s sounds as he heard them. The BBC Philharmonic perform Gerald Barry’s score, which takes its cue from Franz Kafka’s habit of wearing earplugs to shut out the noise of the world around him. Kafka’s Earplugs Royal Albert Hall, London, 3 August Prom 26 offers the first notable premiere in a generally lacklustre Proms season season for new works. Above all, he is still a thrilling virtuoso, as his live shows confirm. Michael CraggĬourtney Pine Jazz Cafe, London, 4 & 5 August For more than 30 years, the UK saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist has shifted boundaries, crossing over into ska, hip-hop, drum’n’bass and beyond. Wizkid Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, 29 July The Afrobeats superstar, whose list of collaborators reads like a who’s who of rap and R&B, (Drake, Beyoncé, Dave, to name just three), arrives in London for a massive one-off stadium show as part of his extended tour in support of last year’s fifth album, More Love, Less Ego. Art-pop practitioner Christine and the Queens will also be on hand to add some theatricality. Wilderness Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, 3 to 6 August In need of escapism? You could do worse than heading to the Oxfordshire countryside for this dance-leaning festival featuring headliners the Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim, alongside DJs such as Honey Dijon and DJ Paulette. Music for the Tilted generation … Christine and the Queens. Lars von Trier retrospective Curzon cinemas nationwide, 4 August to 1 September Including Breaking the Waves, The Idiots and Melancholia, this season dedicated to the celebratedcinema’s Danish enfant terrible represents either a chance to revisit some of the most impactful films ever committed to film, or – even better – engage with the work for the first time on the big screen. The Beanie Bubble Out now Starring Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks and Sarah Snook and based on the 2015 book The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette, this comedy-drama from Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash explores the crazed gold rush that saw clueless investors contribute to the inflation of one of the greatest market bubbles of all time. A dreamy, tragic coming-of-age story with a knockout score by Air, it’s well worth a trip to the cinema to see this restoration on the big screen. The Virgin Suicides Out now Back in 1999, well before Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola made her debut with the stunningly assured Virgin Suicides, adapted from the acclaimed novel about the Lisbon sisters by Jeffrey Eugenides. Talk to Me Out now A group of teenagers use an embalmed hand to conjure spirits from the beyond, in the kind of “surely you would never …” scenario that always turns out so well for characters in horror films, although not always with such entertaining results for the audience as in this spry and watchable Australian debut.
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