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From exhibitions on Stephen Jones, Mike Kelley and Deborah Turbeville to exquisite new culinary experiences, here are the best things to fill your diary with this autumn
At MAM Shanghai, this month marks the opening of Marina Abramović’s first-ever museum show in China curated by the museum’s artistic director, Shai Baitel, in close collaboration with the Serbian artist herself. Fittingly, the display will take Abramović’s renowned work The Great Wall Walk as its starting point: a 1988 performance during which she and her then-partner, the German artist Ulay, walked across the historic Great Wall of China. Over 1,000 images of the walk will feature alongside pieces from Abramović’s ongoing series Transitory Objects, featuring sculptures that require visitor activation, and new crystal-based artworks created specially for the MAM survey. Prepare to be energised and engaged in equal measure.
Charles Atlas: About Time at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: October 10, 2024 – March 16, 2025
In Boston, the pioneering American artist Charles Atlas will soon enjoy his first US museum survey. Atlas rose to fame as the in-house filmmaker for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1970s New York, where he worked with the acclaimed choreographer to develop “media dance”, a unique practice wherein the camera and dancers move together in sync. Since then, Atlas has collaborated with such iconic performers as Michael Clark, Yvonne Rainer, Leigh Bowery and Marina Abramović, while evolving his own radical film and video explorations of gender, sexuality and queer identity. Taking place at the ICA, the show will provide an immersive tour of Atlas’s four-decade career, aided by several monumental multi-channel video installations conceived for the occasion.
One of the most tumultuous periods in recent Indian history was bookended by two major events: Indira Gandhi’s declaration of a state of emergency in 1975 and the Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998. In between, the country’s cultural-political landscape shifted dramatically, prompting a variety of powerful artistic responses. At the Barbican, a new group show will feature around 150 works made by 25 artists during this time, many of which have never been shown in the UK before. Highlights will include the paintings of poet, artist and physician Gieve Patel, documenting daily life in the rapidly expanding cities of the 1980s; Sunil Gupta’s tender photo series Exiles (1987), spotlighting the lives of gay men in New Delhi, and a compelling installation by video artist Nalini Malani exploring the impact of India’s nuclear testing.
Delaine Le Bas: Rags Of Evidence at John Marchant Gallery, Brighton: Until October 13, 2024
2024 is a big year for Delaine Le Bas. Not only is the British artist, who hails from a Romani background, a nominee for this year’s Turner Prize, she is also putting on three solo shows across the UK this autumn. At John Marchant Gallery in Brighton, Le Bas will consider the role of clothing in how humans perceive one another, and, more specifically, how it has contributed to the identity she often finds herself fixed with as a Roma woman. The gallery space will be decorated with drapery and calico, providing a deliberately enveloping backdrop for garments handmade by the artist and embellished with slogans, statements and her signature symbology. A selection of portraits of Le Bas, made in collaboration with the photographer Tara Darby over the past 20 years, will also feature in what promises to be a probing examination of “the trap of assumption”.
In Paris, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs’s new exhibition will provide a peephole into the history of privacy from the 18th century to the present day. Private Lives: From the Bedroom to Social Media will bring together 470 works, including paintings (think: Degas bathers and Vuillard interiors) and photographs from intimate image-makers Nan Goldin and Henri Cartier-Bresson. A diverse array of decorative art objects and designs will also feature – from 19th-century wrought-iron beds to fluffy sofas and sex toys – shedding further light on the evolution of our so-called private lives, and the ways in which they’ve shifted and transformed in line with technological advancements.
Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge: October 22, 2024 – February 16, 2025
Ascendant Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera will open her first European solo show at a public gallery this October, presenting a captivating curation of new and recent paintings at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge. These lyrical, semi-autobiographical works see Zvavahera combine layers of colour and texture with artistic techniques such as batik stencilling and block-printing to render dreamlike scenes informed by her own subconscious and “the spiritual traditions she grew up with as a child”.
Stephen Jones: Chapeaux d’Artiste at Palais Galliera, Paris: October 19, 2024 – March 16, 2025
Hats off to the inimitable British milliner Stephen Jones, who this October forms the focal point of a major new exhibition at Paris’s Palais Galliera. There, more than 170 of Jones’s hat designs will be on display alongside archive material documenting his journey from Central St Martins womenswear graduate to one of the world’s most revered hat designers, called upon by Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Vivienne Westwood and many others for his consummate headwear conjurings. The show will also place special emphasis on Jones’s relationship to Paris, not only a hotbed of couture collaboration for the designer but also a key reference point for many of his own collections.
Miu Miu: Tales & Tellers at Art Basel, Paris: October 16-20, 2024
Miu Miu acolytes in Paris will delight at the news of Tales & Tellers, a public programme of events dreamed up by the Italian fashion house as part of the French capital’s forthcoming edition of Art Basel. The curation will offer visitors the chance to explore the world of Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a series of interventions staged by a different female artist for each of the Miu Miu runway shows, beginning with the Spring/Summer 2022 collection. From October 16 – 20, Art Basel attendees can watch all of the short films and videos that the Women’s Tales have spawned, discover a tailored experience inspired by each collaboration, and enjoy a special series of conversations around their making. Stay tuned for more information, coming soon.
Making a Rukus! at Somerset House, London: October 11, 2024 – January 19, 2025
For a joyous celebration of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans “creativity, activism, community and pride”, don’t miss the newest exhibition at Somerset House, curated by Topher Campbell, the British artist, filmmaker and co-founder of the rukus! Federation archive. The show will unite historic material, contemporary artworks and brand-new commissions to demonstrate that “the rukus! archive – which takes its inspiration from causing a ruckus, or making a noise – is not a work of static historical documentation, but an ongoing and vital series of political and artistic interventions … [by] Black LGBTQ+ people in Britain”.
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit at Tate Modern, London: October 3, 2024 – March 9, 2025
Mike Kelley was a revolutionary artist and a brilliant provocateur. From the 1970s until his untimely death in 2012, the US artist honed a multidisciplinary practice – incorporating drawing, collage, performance, found objects and video – to deliver shrewd, often humorous reflections on identity, culture, and memory. More than a decade after his passing, his work remains just as potent in message and form as it did when it was first unveiled – something you can discover for yourself, courtesy of Tate Modern’s highly anticipated retrospective of his oeuvre. The show will explore all facets of Kelley’s artistic evolution, from his breakthrough “craft” sculptures made from fabric and stuffed toys to his arresting multi-media installations and beyond, while illuminating his enduring influence on contemporary art.
“Fashion takes itself more seriously than I do. I’m not really a fashion photographer,” said Deborah Turbeville, an American image-maker who nevertheless breathed influential new life into the genre. Turbeville began making fashion photographs in the 1970s, soon garnering attention for her unique style, which shunned the prevailing trend for refined glamour in favour of oneiric melancholia. In both her commissioned and private endeavours, Turbeville was breathtakingly experimental. In the words of The Photographers’ Gallery, where a survey of her work is soon set to open, she “ripped, cut and tore her photographs; manipulated, pinned and glued them together to create unique hybrid objects.” Such singular creations will make up the display, in conjunction with fashion stories and personal photographs, to expose Turbeville’s groundbreaking contribution to the history of photography.
In 1985, the late designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery opened the doors of his now-legendary London nightclub Taboo, giving rise to a scene that “used the language of hedonistic excess to create fashion, art and popular culture”. Within its walls, cultural icons like dancer Michael Clark and pop star Boy George danced alongside fashion designers such as BodyMap, Rachel Auburn, John Crancher and Pam Hogg, all dressed in increasingly fabulous creations. This October, London’s Fashion & Textile Museum will bring Taboo back to the capital, showcasing original garments and accessories worn by its regulars, including multiple designs by Bowery, and pieces by John Galliano, John Flett, Stephen Linard and more, in dialogue with photography, film and artworks that encapsulate the spirit of the space itself and the creative environment it fostered.
Great new productions and festivals abound this month. At the Noel Coward theatre from October 8 to late January of next year, Steve Coogan will star in the first stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s cult classic Dr. Strangelove, an “explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction”, reimagined for a 21st-century audience by Armando Iannucci. Another keenly awaited film-turned-stage-production arrives later this month at the Dominion Theatre: the ultimate fashion world dramedy, The Devil Wears Prada, transformed into a musical by none other than Elton John.
Meanwhile, at the Barbican from October 9–12 as part of London’s Dance Umbrella Festival, South African choreographer Mamela Nyamza will present her latest work Hatched Ensemble, featuring ten beautifully costumed dancers, the opera singer Litho Nqai and the African traditional multi-instrumentalist Azah. The piece is an extension of Nyamza’s acclaimed 2007 piece Hatched, an autobiographical meditation on her life as a mother, lesbian and artist, and conveys an urgent, subtly spectacular message about the body and its politics.
Be sure to book your tickets for The Fear of 13 at the Donmar Warehouse from October 4–November 30: the first batch sold out instantly and the latest round is released today. Starring Adrien Brody, this new play from Lindsey Ferrentino is based on the true story of Nick Yarris, a man for whom a routine traffic stop gave way to a conviction for murder, and a 22-year stint on death row. While at the Royal Opera House until October 14, opera fans can experience a new staging of Eugene Onegin, Pushkin’s bittersweet tale of memory, longing and desire, set to Tchaikovsky’s great romantic score.
Finally, for book lovers there’s the return of the London Literature Festival to the Southbank Centre from October 23–November 3, a rousing celebration of the written and spoken word. Highlights include Keanu Reeves introducing his new novel The Book of Elsewhere, penned along with China Miéville and inspired by the bestselling BRZRKR comic books; a talk by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, about her husband’s powerful memoir; and a live performance from British rapper (and this year’s festival co-curator) Ghetts.
Cosy cinema trips are essential to making it through autumn’s more miserable days unscathed, and thankfully October has a number of excellent new releases to keep us entertained. A Different Man from American filmmaker Aaron Schimberg is a darkly comic drama about an actor who undergoes drastic surgery to transform his appearance, only to become obsessed with “reclaiming what was lost”. Timestalker, from British actress, writer and director Alice Lowe, follows a “hapless heroine” (played by Lowe herself), as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and is reincarnated century after century. A sci-fi rom-com like no other ensues. Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi traces the evolution of a formative friendship between a young Donald Trump and the US lawyer Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, a gripping origins story elevated by an extraordinary performance from Jeremy Strong as the notoriously cold Cohn.
Kathleen Is Here is the impressive debut feature from Irish actress and director Eva Birthistle. An emotionally fraught study of solitude and hope, it follows an 18-year-old woman as she leaves foster care and returns to her hometown to live in her late mother’s house. Jacques Audiard has turned his opera libretto crime thriller Emilia Pérez into a rousing new Netflix musical, starring Zoe Saldaña as a high-powered lawyer who agrees to help a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) fake their own death before undergoing gender-affirming surgery. While French director Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-winning “fantasy documentary” Dahomey finally arrives in UK cinemas this month – an eccentric, wonderfully original film tracing the repatriation of 26 stolen artefacts from Paris to present-day Benin.
October’s other must-see documentaries include Maroesja Perizonius and Alice McShane’s Children of the Cult, a powerful investigation into the Rajneesh movement, “one of the world’s biggest and most successful cults … [wherein] terrible crimes against children were facilitated and normalised.” Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands by Blair Young and Carla Easton does just what it says on the tin: foregrounding Scotland’s most trailblazing girl bands, from the 1960s to the present day, in the words of the women at their heart. Lastly, there’s the new Apple TV documentary The Last Of The Sea Women, from director Sue Kim, which takes a “breathtaking look” at the lives of the Haenyeo, the free-diving fisherwomen of South Korea’s Jeju Island.
October brings with it a tantalising array of new restaurants, bars and one-off culinary experiences. First up, there’s the newly opened Soma 2.0 in Canary Wharf. The sister space of the award-winning Soho bar, the second Soma has been envisioned as a minimalist speakeasy bar with a menu of drinks inspired by the diverse flavours of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions (think: carom, perilla, coconut, chaat and more whipped up into imaginative cocktails).
If you’re heading to this year’s Frieze, be sure to book your table at Ham Yard’s pop-up restaurant, bar and lounge returning to the Frieze Masters tent for the third year running. Expect a menu of modern European fare, focused around late harvest produce, from beetroot and pomegranate salad with yellow dandelion and smoked almonds to roast chicken coq au vin with girolles mushrooms, pancetta and creamed potatoes. If you’ve only got time for tea, no fear: the eatery’s Dessert Trolley will be serving up an abundance of delicious cakes and puddings just as their vibrant Kit Kemp-designed surroundings.
Glasgow readers, head down to Miller Street where Margo, a new underground restaurant and bar from renowned restaurateurs Scoop, will open its doors on October 28. Inside, chef Robin Aitken will be conjuring up a changing menu of snacks, small plates and sharing dishes with an emphasis on Scottish seafood and seasonal produce sourced from the finest growers and makers. Its opening offerings include smoked haddock churros; half Creedy Carver duck with liver parfait, marmalade and toast; and skate wing with kumquat kosho, trout roe and green peppercorns. Tempting stuff.
Transporting Londoners to Istanbul in a matter of bites, all-day Turkish restaurant Leydi has just set up shop in the historic Spiers & Pond building in Farringdon. Go hungry to feast on breakfasts of böreks, tahini and stuffed lavash rolls, lunches of house-made döners and Islak burgers (a spiced beef köfte bun drenched in garlic tomato sauce), and a dinner menu brimming with tasty mezze like muhammara and baked hummus, and a modern take on traditional meat dishes cooked on the mangal.
Sesta, a new restaurant and wine bar from Drew Snaith and Hannah Kowalski, has just arrived on Wilton Way in Hackney. An inviting neighbourhood destination centred around British seasonal ingredients, Sesta boasts an à la carte menu of creative, contemporary takes on British and European classics. These include braised smoked eel and lovage quiche with parmesan soubise; cider flambee mussels with caramelised cream, lemon verbena and bottarga toast; and stone fruit pie, with stone custard and caramelised milk for pudding. Dalston diners eat your hearts out.
Last but certainly not least, from October 5, bookings can be made for truly singular experience, curated by champagne house Dom Pérignon and three-Michelin-starred chef Clare Smyth. Taking place at Smyth’s revered restaurant Core by Clare Smyth on November 5, the Four-Hands Dinner will pair dishes conceived by Smyth and Andreas Caminada, another three Michelin-starred chef from Switzerland’s Schloss Schauenstein, with individual cuvées from the Dom Pérignon portfolio, including the two newest vintages. Each of the six exquisite courses will revolve around the theme of tactility, a concept at the very heart of Dom Pérignon, experimenting with textures, weight, volume, shape, contours and temperature in dialogue with the cuvées that accompany them. Bottoms up!
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From exhibitions on Stephen Jones, Mike Kelley and Deborah Turbeville to exquisite new culinary experiences, here are the best things to fill your diary with this autumn
At MAM Shanghai, this month marks the opening of Marina Abramović’s first-ever museum show in China curated by the museum’s artistic director, Shai Baitel, in close collaboration with the Serbian artist herself. Fittingly, the display will take Abramović’s renowned work The Great Wall Walk as its starting point: a 1988 performance during which she and her then-partner, the German artist Ulay, walked across the historic Great Wall of China. Over 1,000 images of the walk will feature alongside pieces from Abramović’s ongoing series Transitory Objects, featuring sculptures that require visitor activation, and new crystal-based artworks created specially for the MAM survey. Prepare to be energised and engaged in equal measure.
Charles Atlas: About Time at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: October 10, 2024 – March 16, 2025
In Boston, the pioneering American artist Charles Atlas will soon enjoy his first US museum survey. Atlas rose to fame as the in-house filmmaker for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1970s New York, where he worked with the acclaimed choreographer to develop “media dance”, a unique practice wherein the camera and dancers move together in sync. Since then, Atlas has collaborated with such iconic performers as Michael Clark, Yvonne Rainer, Leigh Bowery and Marina Abramović, while evolving his own radical film and video explorations of gender, sexuality and queer identity. Taking place at the ICA, the show will provide an immersive tour of Atlas’s four-decade career, aided by several monumental multi-channel video installations conceived for the occasion.
One of the most tumultuous periods in recent Indian history was bookended by two major events: Indira Gandhi’s declaration of a state of emergency in 1975 and the Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998. In between, the country’s cultural-political landscape shifted dramatically, prompting a variety of powerful artistic responses. At the Barbican, a new group show will feature around 150 works made by 25 artists during this time, many of which have never been shown in the UK before. Highlights will include the paintings of poet, artist and physician Gieve Patel, documenting daily life in the rapidly expanding cities of the 1980s; Sunil Gupta’s tender photo series Exiles (1987), spotlighting the lives of gay men in New Delhi, and a compelling installation by video artist Nalini Malani exploring the impact of India’s nuclear testing.
Delaine Le Bas: Rags Of Evidence at John Marchant Gallery, Brighton: Until October 13, 2024
2024 is a big year for Delaine Le Bas. Not only is the British artist, who hails from a Romani background, a nominee for this year’s Turner Prize, she is also putting on three solo shows across the UK this autumn. At John Marchant Gallery in Brighton, Le Bas will consider the role of clothing in how humans perceive one another, and, more specifically, how it has contributed to the identity she often finds herself fixed with as a Roma woman. The gallery space will be decorated with drapery and calico, providing a deliberately enveloping backdrop for garments handmade by the artist and embellished with slogans, statements and her signature symbology. A selection of portraits of Le Bas, made in collaboration with the photographer Tara Darby over the past 20 years, will also feature in what promises to be a probing examination of “the trap of assumption”.
In Paris, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs’s new exhibition will provide a peephole into the history of privacy from the 18th century to the present day. Private Lives: From the Bedroom to Social Media will bring together 470 works, including paintings (think: Degas bathers and Vuillard interiors) and photographs from intimate image-makers Nan Goldin and Henri Cartier-Bresson. A diverse array of decorative art objects and designs will also feature – from 19th-century wrought-iron beds to fluffy sofas and sex toys – shedding further light on the evolution of our so-called private lives, and the ways in which they’ve shifted and transformed in line with technological advancements.
Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge: October 22, 2024 – February 16, 2025
Ascendant Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera will open her first European solo show at a public gallery this October, presenting a captivating curation of new and recent paintings at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge. These lyrical, semi-autobiographical works see Zvavahera combine layers of colour and texture with artistic techniques such as batik stencilling and block-printing to render dreamlike scenes informed by her own subconscious and “the spiritual traditions she grew up with as a child”.
Stephen Jones: Chapeaux d’Artiste at Palais Galliera, Paris: October 19, 2024 – March 16, 2025
Hats off to the inimitable British milliner Stephen Jones, who this October forms the focal point of a major new exhibition at Paris’s Palais Galliera. There, more than 170 of Jones’s hat designs will be on display alongside archive material documenting his journey from Central St Martins womenswear graduate to one of the world’s most revered hat designers, called upon by Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Vivienne Westwood and many others for his consummate headwear conjurings. The show will also place special emphasis on Jones’s relationship to Paris, not only a hotbed of couture collaboration for the designer but also a key reference point for many of his own collections.
Miu Miu: Tales & Tellers at Art Basel, Paris: October 16-20, 2024
Miu Miu acolytes in Paris will delight at the news of Tales & Tellers, a public programme of events dreamed up by the Italian fashion house as part of the French capital’s forthcoming edition of Art Basel. The curation will offer visitors the chance to explore the world of Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a series of interventions staged by a different female artist for each of the Miu Miu runway shows, beginning with the Spring/Summer 2022 collection. From October 16 – 20, Art Basel attendees can watch all of the short films and videos that the Women’s Tales have spawned, discover a tailored experience inspired by each collaboration, and enjoy a special series of conversations around their making. Stay tuned for more information, coming soon.
Making a Rukus! at Somerset House, London: October 11, 2024 – January 19, 2025
For a joyous celebration of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans “creativity, activism, community and pride”, don’t miss the newest exhibition at Somerset House, curated by Topher Campbell, the British artist, filmmaker and co-founder of the rukus! Federation archive. The show will unite historic material, contemporary artworks and brand-new commissions to demonstrate that “the rukus! archive – which takes its inspiration from causing a ruckus, or making a noise – is not a work of static historical documentation, but an ongoing and vital series of political and artistic interventions … [by] Black LGBTQ+ people in Britain”.
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit at Tate Modern, London: October 3, 2024 – March 9, 2025
Mike Kelley was a revolutionary artist and a brilliant provocateur. From the 1970s until his untimely death in 2012, the US artist honed a multidisciplinary practice – incorporating drawing, collage, performance, found objects and video – to deliver shrewd, often humorous reflections on identity, culture, and memory. More than a decade after his passing, his work remains just as potent in message and form as it did when it was first unveiled – something you can discover for yourself, courtesy of Tate Modern’s highly anticipated retrospective of his oeuvre. The show will explore all facets of Kelley’s artistic evolution, from his breakthrough “craft” sculptures made from fabric and stuffed toys to his arresting multi-media installations and beyond, while illuminating his enduring influence on contemporary art.
“Fashion takes itself more seriously than I do. I’m not really a fashion photographer,” said Deborah Turbeville, an American image-maker who nevertheless breathed influential new life into the genre. Turbeville began making fashion photographs in the 1970s, soon garnering attention for her unique style, which shunned the prevailing trend for refined glamour in favour of oneiric melancholia. In both her commissioned and private endeavours, Turbeville was breathtakingly experimental. In the words of The Photographers’ Gallery, where a survey of her work is soon set to open, she “ripped, cut and tore her photographs; manipulated, pinned and glued them together to create unique hybrid objects.” Such singular creations will make up the display, in conjunction with fashion stories and personal photographs, to expose Turbeville’s groundbreaking contribution to the history of photography.
In 1985, the late designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery opened the doors of his now-legendary London nightclub Taboo, giving rise to a scene that “used the language of hedonistic excess to create fashion, art and popular culture”. Within its walls, cultural icons like dancer Michael Clark and pop star Boy George danced alongside fashion designers such as BodyMap, Rachel Auburn, John Crancher and Pam Hogg, all dressed in increasingly fabulous creations. This October, London’s Fashion & Textile Museum will bring Taboo back to the capital, showcasing original garments and accessories worn by its regulars, including multiple designs by Bowery, and pieces by John Galliano, John Flett, Stephen Linard and more, in dialogue with photography, film and artworks that encapsulate the spirit of the space itself and the creative environment it fostered.
Great new productions and festivals abound this month. At the Noel Coward theatre from October 8 to late January of next year, Steve Coogan will star in the first stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s cult classic Dr. Strangelove, an “explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction”, reimagined for a 21st-century audience by Armando Iannucci. Another keenly awaited film-turned-stage-production arrives later this month at the Dominion Theatre: the ultimate fashion world dramedy, The Devil Wears Prada, transformed into a musical by none other than Elton John.
Meanwhile, at the Barbican from October 9–12 as part of London’s Dance Umbrella Festival, South African choreographer Mamela Nyamza will present her latest work Hatched Ensemble, featuring ten beautifully costumed dancers, the opera singer Litho Nqai and the African traditional multi-instrumentalist Azah. The piece is an extension of Nyamza’s acclaimed 2007 piece Hatched, an autobiographical meditation on her life as a mother, lesbian and artist, and conveys an urgent, subtly spectacular message about the body and its politics.
Be sure to book your tickets for The Fear of 13 at the Donmar Warehouse from October 4–November 30: the first batch sold out instantly and the latest round is released today. Starring Adrien Brody, this new play from Lindsey Ferrentino is based on the true story of Nick Yarris, a man for whom a routine traffic stop gave way to a conviction for murder, and a 22-year stint on death row. While at the Royal Opera House until October 14, opera fans can experience a new staging of Eugene Onegin, Pushkin’s bittersweet tale of memory, longing and desire, set to Tchaikovsky’s great romantic score.
Finally, for book lovers there’s the return of the London Literature Festival to the Southbank Centre from October 23–November 3, a rousing celebration of the written and spoken word. Highlights include Keanu Reeves introducing his new novel The Book of Elsewhere, penned along with China Miéville and inspired by the bestselling BRZRKR comic books; a talk by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, about her husband’s powerful memoir; and a live performance from British rapper (and this year’s festival co-curator) Ghetts.
Cosy cinema trips are essential to making it through autumn’s more miserable days unscathed, and thankfully October has a number of excellent new releases to keep us entertained. A Different Man from American filmmaker Aaron Schimberg is a darkly comic drama about an actor who undergoes drastic surgery to transform his appearance, only to become obsessed with “reclaiming what was lost”. Timestalker, from British actress, writer and director Alice Lowe, follows a “hapless heroine” (played by Lowe herself), as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and is reincarnated century after century. A sci-fi rom-com like no other ensues. Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi traces the evolution of a formative friendship between a young Donald Trump and the US lawyer Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, a gripping origins story elevated by an extraordinary performance from Jeremy Strong as the notoriously cold Cohn.
Kathleen Is Here is the impressive debut feature from Irish actress and director Eva Birthistle. An emotionally fraught study of solitude and hope, it follows an 18-year-old woman as she leaves foster care and returns to her hometown to live in her late mother’s house. Jacques Audiard has turned his opera libretto crime thriller Emilia Pérez into a rousing new Netflix musical, starring Zoe Saldaña as a high-powered lawyer who agrees to help a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) fake their own death before undergoing gender-affirming surgery. While French director Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-winning “fantasy documentary” Dahomey finally arrives in UK cinemas this month – an eccentric, wonderfully original film tracing the repatriation of 26 stolen artefacts from Paris to present-day Benin.
October’s other must-see documentaries include Maroesja Perizonius and Alice McShane’s Children of the Cult, a powerful investigation into the Rajneesh movement, “one of the world’s biggest and most successful cults … [wherein] terrible crimes against children were facilitated and normalised.” Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands by Blair Young and Carla Easton does just what it says on the tin: foregrounding Scotland’s most trailblazing girl bands, from the 1960s to the present day, in the words of the women at their heart. Lastly, there’s the new Apple TV documentary The Last Of The Sea Women, from director Sue Kim, which takes a “breathtaking look” at the lives of the Haenyeo, the free-diving fisherwomen of South Korea’s Jeju Island.
October brings with it a tantalising array of new restaurants, bars and one-off culinary experiences. First up, there’s the newly opened Soma 2.0 in Canary Wharf. The sister space of the award-winning Soho bar, the second Soma has been envisioned as a minimalist speakeasy bar with a menu of drinks inspired by the diverse flavours of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions (think: carom, perilla, coconut, chaat and more whipped up into imaginative cocktails).
If you’re heading to this year’s Frieze, be sure to book your table at Ham Yard’s pop-up restaurant, bar and lounge returning to the Frieze Masters tent for the third year running. Expect a menu of modern European fare, focused around late harvest produce, from beetroot and pomegranate salad with yellow dandelion and smoked almonds to roast chicken coq au vin with girolles mushrooms, pancetta and creamed potatoes. If you’ve only got time for tea, no fear: the eatery’s Dessert Trolley will be serving up an abundance of delicious cakes and puddings just as their vibrant Kit Kemp-designed surroundings.
Glasgow readers, head down to Miller Street where Margo, a new underground restaurant and bar from renowned restaurateurs Scoop, will open its doors on October 28. Inside, chef Robin Aitken will be conjuring up a changing menu of snacks, small plates and sharing dishes with an emphasis on Scottish seafood and seasonal produce sourced from the finest growers and makers. Its opening offerings include smoked haddock churros; half Creedy Carver duck with liver parfait, marmalade and toast; and skate wing with kumquat kosho, trout roe and green peppercorns. Tempting stuff.
Transporting Londoners to Istanbul in a matter of bites, all-day Turkish restaurant Leydi has just set up shop in the historic Spiers & Pond building in Farringdon. Go hungry to feast on breakfasts of böreks, tahini and stuffed lavash rolls, lunches of house-made döners and Islak burgers (a spiced beef köfte bun drenched in garlic tomato sauce), and a dinner menu brimming with tasty mezze like muhammara and baked hummus, and a modern take on traditional meat dishes cooked on the mangal.
Sesta, a new restaurant and wine bar from Drew Snaith and Hannah Kowalski, has just arrived on Wilton Way in Hackney. An inviting neighbourhood destination centred around British seasonal ingredients, Sesta boasts an à la carte menu of creative, contemporary takes on British and European classics. These include braised smoked eel and lovage quiche with parmesan soubise; cider flambee mussels with caramelised cream, lemon verbena and bottarga toast; and stone fruit pie, with stone custard and caramelised milk for pudding. Dalston diners eat your hearts out.
Last but certainly not least, from October 5, bookings can be made for truly singular experience, curated by champagne house Dom Pérignon and three-Michelin-starred chef Clare Smyth. Taking place at Smyth’s revered restaurant Core by Clare Smyth on November 5, the Four-Hands Dinner will pair dishes conceived by Smyth and Andreas Caminada, another three Michelin-starred chef from Switzerland’s Schloss Schauenstein, with individual cuvées from the Dom Pérignon portfolio, including the two newest vintages. Each of the six exquisite courses will revolve around the theme of tactility, a concept at the very heart of Dom Pérignon, experimenting with textures, weight, volume, shape, contours and temperature in dialogue with the cuvées that accompany them. Bottoms up!
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