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A roundup of excellent ways to usher in spring, spanning art, photography and film, through to new food destinations and a contemporary dance festival
This week marks the opening of Photographers’ Gallery’s annual showcase of the four projects shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse contemporary photography prize. This year’s nominees are Cristina De Middel, Rahim Fortune, Tarrah Krajnak and Lindokuhle Sobekwa, whose oeuvres range from documentary photography and constructed images to self-portraiture, performance and family archives. And with underlying (and frequently overlapping) themes of migration, community and belonging, as well as intergenerational traditions and rituals, and family memories and histories, the selection couldn’t feel more relevant or stirring.
Polaroids at the Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin: March 7 – July 25, 2025
The Polaroid camera arrived on the market in the 1960s, shortcutting the printing process and changing the possibilities of photography forever. For renowned German fashion photographer Helmut Newton, Polaroids were not only a vital means of preparing for photo shoots – assessing light conditions and refining compositions – but also held fascinating potential as artworks in their own right. Now, the image-maker’s foundation in Berlin will showcase a wide selection of his Polaroids alongside those by other pioneers of the format, including New York-based photographer Charles Johnstone – who made a wonderful Polaroid photobook dedicated to the actress Monica Vitti – Italian artist Maurizio Galimberti, known for his vast Polaroid mosaics, and American portrait photographer Sheila Metzner.
Corps et âmes at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris: March 5 – August 25, 2025
At Paris’s Bourse de Commerce, an arresting new exhibition will explore representations of the body in contemporary art. Featuring work by everyone from Auguste Rodin, Ana Mendieta and David Hammons to Marlene Dumas, Gideon Appah and Arthur Jafa, the show will demonstrate the many ways in which artists express what it means to be human, both physically and metaphysically. “Freed from all mimetic constraints, the body – whether photographed, sculpted, drawn, filmed, or painted – does not cease to reinvent itself,” explains chief curator Emma Lavigne of the show’s central conceit. “[This grants] art an essential organic quality that allows it, like an umbilical cord, to take the pulse of the human body and soul.”
Tracey Emin: Sex and Solitude at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence: March 16 – July 20, 2025
No less corporeal is the soon-to-open Tracey Emin survey at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence: the first major institutional exhibition of the British artist’s work in Italy. Taking “sex and solitude” as its central themes, the show will unite more than 60 works from across Emin’s esteemed career, encompassing paintings, drawings, film, photography, embroidery, appliqué, sculptures and neon installations. Visitors can expect to be taken on “an intensely personal yet universally resonant journey,” including a restaging of the former YBA’s renowned installation Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made (1996), whereby she locked herself in her studio naked and painted non-stop as a form of artistic rebirth.
Rahim Fortune: Reflections at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York: March 22 – May 24, 2025
Rising photography star Rahim Fortune – the image-maker behind our Spring/Summer 2025 cover shoot with Colman Domingo – is the subject of a new solo show at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York: a poignant exploration of what it means to be American. Zooming in on the individual stories of families and communities across Texas and the American South, Fortune probes “the shifting geographies of migration and resettlement”. His intimate landscape pictures and portraits, rendered principally in black and white, are at once timeless and decidedly of our time, subtly revealing the deep-rooted effects of the past upon both the American landscape and the identities of its people.
Arpita Singh: Remembering at Serpentine North, London: March 20 – July 27, 2025
Don’t miss your chance to explore the work of Arpita Singh, one of India’s foremost contemporary painters, who until now has never been the subject of an institutional solo show outside of her home country. Serpentine North’s upcoming survey, Remembering, will bring together key works from across Singh’s six-decade career, highlighting the influence of surrealism, abstraction, figuration and Indian miniature painting on her oeuvre. Large-scale oil paintings, smaller watercolours and evocative ink drawings will reveal Singh’s endless experimentation with colour and her exploration of her own emotional response to womanhood, social upheaval and international humanitarian crises through figuration.
Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge: March 22 – June 29, 2025
At Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, a group exhibition will offer different views on “a world in perpetual crisis”, spotlighting the work of eight contemporary artists “working across forms, territories and generations” for the purpose. Among them are Pia Arke, Justin Caguiat, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Tomashi Jackson, Tarek Lakhrissi, Anne Tallentire, Cecilia Vicuña and Rose Finn-Kelcey, whose 1971 work Here is a Gale Warning (involving the erection of an ominous handsewn flag on scaffolding at Alexandra Palace) lends the show its name. Each of the works on display will demonstrate what the gallery terms “the capacity of artworks to both warn us of political, social and ecological upheaval, and to serve as a source of replenishment.”
Paris Noir at the Centre Pompidou, Paris: March 19 – June 30, 2025
The Centre Pompidou’s upcoming exhibit, Paris Noir, will trace the presence and influence of Black artists in France during the latter half of the 20th century, elucidating their significant contributions to the evolution of modern art. On display, visitors can admire works by 150 artists from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, including the late Harlem Renaissance painter Beauford Delaunay, Nigerian artist and architect Demas Nwoko, French-Haitian performance and installation artist Élodie Barthélémy and the Dominican-American street artist JonOne. In particular, the show will home in on Paris as a cosmopolitan hub; a place of anti-colonial resistance and creation that has given rise to a wide variety of practices, networks, friendships and ideas.
Michel Auder: Cleopatra at OCDChinatown, New York: February 27 – April 13, 2025
If you love experimental cinema and you happen to be in New York, make your way to OCDChinatown stat. There, screening on loop, you can catch Cleopatra, the free-wheeling 1970 film by influential American-French video artist Michael Auder – a work that had been thought lost until a copy was found among Jonas Mekas’s film archives. Loosely inspired by the 1963 Hollywood epic of the same name, Auder’s Cleopatra is a bold “iconoclastic gesture against dogmatic systems of cinema and its genres”. Extremely well-funded (thanks to Auder’s connections to Warhol’s Factory), the typically raw, diaristic film features Warhol superstars enacting an entirely improvised plot set between upstate New York and Rome. Orgies, skinny-dipping and gladiator-style wrestling ensue.
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour at Charleston, Lewes: March 26 – September 21, 2025
Bloomsbury fans, rejoice. A landmark exhibition dedicated to the multidisciplinary artist Vanessa Bell will soon open within the expressively hand-decorated walls of Charleston, her modernist country bolthole. More than 100 works will be brought together for what is the biggest presentation of her work to date, from vibrant paintings and striking textile and furniture designs to ceramics and book covers, all of which serve to illustrate the full breadth of her talent, imagination and decidedly modern innovation.
La Genevoise at Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva: Until June 22, 2025
At Geneva’s Museum of Art and History, the American sculptor Carol Bove – best known for her deftly rendered large-scale sculptures in steel – has curated a compelling new exhibition dedicated to 15,000 years of Genevan history. Given carte blanche to pick and choose from the museum’s enormous collection, Bove set out to bring together objects with a haptic quality, wherein human presence is felt (think: a Paleolithic stick decorated with carved animals, intricately crafted medieval armour and a crushed, Barbie-pink car sculpture by the Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury). Together, these artefacts and artworks reveal not just the evolving story of Geneva but how humans have used objects over time, while Bove’s considered curation challenges institutional modes of display in playful and surprising ways.
Jim Jarmusch: Some More Collages at James Fuentes, Los Angeles: March 29 – April 26, 2025
Did you know that Jim Jarmusch makes collages? Well the truth is that the Indie filmmaker has been making what he terms “small very minimal collages” using hand-torn newsprint for years. In 2021, he released several of these esoteric works in the form of an art book titled Some Collages. Now, he is back with a show of new cut-outs dubbed Some More Collages, opening at James Fuentes in Los Angeles at the end of the month. “The interesting thing about them is they reveal to me that my process of creating things is very similar, whether I’m writing a script or shooting a film or making a piece of music or writing a poem or making a collage,” Jarmusch explained to the New York Times. “I gather the elements from which I will make the thing first. The collages reduce it to the most minimal form of that procedure.”
March is full of excellent live productions, with an extra special treat in store for dance aficionados in London thanks to Dance Reflections, a month-long festival sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels, bringing some of the world’s most exciting contemporary dance acts to the capital. We’re especially excited for Hagay Dreaming at Tate Modern (March 13-15), an artistic collaboration by Taiwanese-American artist Shu Lea Cheang and Indigenous performance artist and practicing shaman Dondon Hounwn, entwining ancient myths with futuristic technologies. At Sadler’s Wells from March 12-13, Trisha Brown Dance Company will present two captivating works, one old (Brown’s postmodern masterpiece Working Title), one new (In the Fall by French choreographer Noé Soulier). While at Southbank Centre from March 21-22, South African choreographer Robyn Orlin and Johannesburg dance troupe Moving into Dance Mophatong will pay joyful homage to the rickshaw drivers of South Africa’s past in We Wear Our Wheels with Pride.
Theatre fans, be sure to catch director Omar Elerian’s fresh take on Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist satire Rhinoceros at the Almeida from March 25–April 26. A cautionary tale about “resisting conformity and holding onto what’s left of our humanity”, the much-anticipated show will star Bafta nominee Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù. Based on the true story of Nottingham teenager Jacob Dunne, who fatally punched a man in an unprovoked attack on a night out, Punch by James Graham has been hailed the Olivier Award-winning playwright’s most powerful work yet. It has just transferred to the Young Vic from the Nottingham Playhouse and will run until April 26. Last but not least, don’t miss your chance to see the side-splittingly funny US comedian Jacqueline Novak, who will be performing a new work in progress at Soho Theatre from March 11-28 – the follow-up to her widely acclaimed show Get On Your Knees.
March’s most interesting film releases include On Falling, the impressive first feature from Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira. It follows Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as a warehouse picker in Edinburgh, as she struggles to establish human connections in an algorithm-driven gig economy. South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho returns with Mickey 17, a darkly comic sci-fi based on Edward Ashton’s novel of the same name. It stars multiple iterations of Robert Pattison as a so-called expendable (a disposable, constantly regenerated employee), sent on a dangerous space mission to colonise an ice planet. US filmmaker Steven Soderbergh is also back with tense spy thriller Black Bag, the story of an American intelligence agent forced to choose between his wife and his country when the former, a fellow agent, falls under suspicion of betraying the nation.
Don’t miss Santosh, the searing narrative-feature debut from British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri, centred on a newly widowed young woman in northern India who inherits her husband’s job as a rural police constable on a force rife with corruption and bias. Hidden tensions and unspoken secrets bubble to the surface in Chinese director Jianjie Lin’s Brief History Of A Family: the tale of a well-off Chinese couple whose world is turned upside down when their only son makes an enigmatic new friend at school. The Stimming Pool, from director Steven Eastwood and the Neurocultures Collective, makes for unmissable viewing. Following five neurodiverse artists as they embark on “a singular visual project”, it offers a “fascinating glimpse into their singular perspective on the human experience” (BFI).
For this month’s best documentaries, look no further. First up there’s Twiggy, Sadie Frost’s deep dive into the life and work of British model Lesley Lawson (AKA Twiggy), told through interviews with 60s fashion icon herself, as well as her friends, family and collaborators. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s latest offering Ernest Cole: Lost and Found details the remarkable story of Ernest Cole, the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa. While Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other by Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter shines a light on the relationship between husband-and-wife artist duo Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett as they “navigate love, ageing, and the creative process” in the wake of an accident.
March also boasts plenty of delicious dining opportunities. First up, there’s the first ever international pop-up from Savannah Hagendijk – head chef at Amsterdam’s Michelin-starred Restaurant de Kasat – taking place this Saturday, International Women’s Day, at Firebird in Soho. Housed within a greenhouse, Restaurant de Kas allows diners to eat among the 300 varieties of vegetables, herbs and fruits that supply their kitchen – the epitome of plant-to-plate dining. In London, Hagendijk will apply this intensely seasonal plant-based approach to Firebird’s brand of open-fire cooking in what will surely be a culinary night to remember.
In Cav, the newly opened bar in Bethnal Green, guests can now enjoy the fruits of a year-long kitchen residency, Tasca, inspired by head chef Josh Dallaway and sommelier Sinead Murdoch’s travels in Portugal and Spain. Expect playful twists on traditional dishes such as jambon beurre Gilda, pork and prawn Cachorrinho (Porto’s hotdog), and Barcelona’s famous Bikini sandwich – here made with Tomme de chevre cheese and Iberico ham between brioche, drizzled with smoked maple syrup and served with salted goats milk ice cream – all accompanied with a delicious array of Spanish and Portuguese wines with a focus on sustainable farming.
Another enticing residency to bookmark, Islington’s much-loved Italian eatery Trullo will be delivering their tasty takes on regional Italian dishes at west London department store Harvey Nichols for the next three months. There you can enjoy some suitably luxurious flourishes from the Trullo team in keeping with their new setting. Think: tagliarini with Beluga caviar; grilled dover sole with Palourde clams and Datterini tomatoes; and an Amalfi lemon tart, served with panna cotta and chocolate mousse for pud.
Meanwhile, diners in or heading to Bristol, will be roundly rewarded by a visit to Dongnae, the recently opened Korean neighbourhood restaurant in Redland. Founded by husband and wife chef duo Kyu Jeong Jeon and Duncan Robertson – who met working in Michelin starred kitchens in Paris – Dongnae’s dishes are inspired by Kyu’s childhood in Korea and the couple’s experiences living together in Seoul. We recommend sampling the Hanjungshik (omakase-style) menu, which unites a selection of the chefs’ favourite dishes, from Korean beef tartare with wild mushroom dolsotbap, whelk and perilla muchim, to grilled ork jowl served alongside a taste bud-tingling array of homemade condiments (fresh wasabi heaven).
Bringing the taste of Ukraine to east London, Tatar Bunar, a Ukrainian restaurant from duo Alex Cooper and Anna Andriienko, will open its doors in Shoreditch later this month. Taking inspiration from Cooper’s hometown of Tatarbunary in southern Ukraine, head chef Kate Tkachuk will honour family tradition, presenting a menu based around Cooper’s grandmother’s recipes. This will “celebrate the biodiversity of the Bessarabia region, using produce from the fields, seas and forests,” the founders explain, and will feature hearty traditional dishes including chicken Kyiv and borscht.
Finally, why not combine a Sunday spent looking at art with a tasty feast at The Portrait Restaurant by Richard Corrigan, where storied British catering company Searcys has just launched a new Sunday Lunch. Located on the top floor of the National Portrait Gallery, the restaurant’s latest offering will focus on British seasonal produce – from potato and mussel soup and roasted Jerusalem artichoke with Comté custard for starters to Cumbrian blue grey beef striploin, Herdwick lamb saddle, or corn fed Ajou poussin for the main event. Plus roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, honey carrots and kale in abundance, all while admiring the London skyline. Sundays don’t get much better.
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A roundup of excellent ways to usher in spring, spanning art, photography and film, through to new food destinations and a contemporary dance festival
This week marks the opening of Photographers’ Gallery’s annual showcase of the four projects shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse contemporary photography prize. This year’s nominees are Cristina De Middel, Rahim Fortune, Tarrah Krajnak and Lindokuhle Sobekwa, whose oeuvres range from documentary photography and constructed images to self-portraiture, performance and family archives. And with underlying (and frequently overlapping) themes of migration, community and belonging, as well as intergenerational traditions and rituals, and family memories and histories, the selection couldn’t feel more relevant or stirring.
Polaroids at the Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin: March 7 – July 25, 2025
The Polaroid camera arrived on the market in the 1960s, shortcutting the printing process and changing the possibilities of photography forever. For renowned German fashion photographer Helmut Newton, Polaroids were not only a vital means of preparing for photo shoots – assessing light conditions and refining compositions – but also held fascinating potential as artworks in their own right. Now, the image-maker’s foundation in Berlin will showcase a wide selection of his Polaroids alongside those by other pioneers of the format, including New York-based photographer Charles Johnstone – who made a wonderful Polaroid photobook dedicated to the actress Monica Vitti – Italian artist Maurizio Galimberti, known for his vast Polaroid mosaics, and American portrait photographer Sheila Metzner.
Corps et âmes at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris: March 5 – August 25, 2025
At Paris’s Bourse de Commerce, an arresting new exhibition will explore representations of the body in contemporary art. Featuring work by everyone from Auguste Rodin, Ana Mendieta and David Hammons to Marlene Dumas, Gideon Appah and Arthur Jafa, the show will demonstrate the many ways in which artists express what it means to be human, both physically and metaphysically. “Freed from all mimetic constraints, the body – whether photographed, sculpted, drawn, filmed, or painted – does not cease to reinvent itself,” explains chief curator Emma Lavigne of the show’s central conceit. “[This grants] art an essential organic quality that allows it, like an umbilical cord, to take the pulse of the human body and soul.”
Tracey Emin: Sex and Solitude at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence: March 16 – July 20, 2025
No less corporeal is the soon-to-open Tracey Emin survey at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence: the first major institutional exhibition of the British artist’s work in Italy. Taking “sex and solitude” as its central themes, the show will unite more than 60 works from across Emin’s esteemed career, encompassing paintings, drawings, film, photography, embroidery, appliqué, sculptures and neon installations. Visitors can expect to be taken on “an intensely personal yet universally resonant journey,” including a restaging of the former YBA’s renowned installation Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made (1996), whereby she locked herself in her studio naked and painted non-stop as a form of artistic rebirth.
Rahim Fortune: Reflections at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York: March 22 – May 24, 2025
Rising photography star Rahim Fortune – the image-maker behind our Spring/Summer 2025 cover shoot with Colman Domingo – is the subject of a new solo show at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York: a poignant exploration of what it means to be American. Zooming in on the individual stories of families and communities across Texas and the American South, Fortune probes “the shifting geographies of migration and resettlement”. His intimate landscape pictures and portraits, rendered principally in black and white, are at once timeless and decidedly of our time, subtly revealing the deep-rooted effects of the past upon both the American landscape and the identities of its people.
Arpita Singh: Remembering at Serpentine North, London: March 20 – July 27, 2025
Don’t miss your chance to explore the work of Arpita Singh, one of India’s foremost contemporary painters, who until now has never been the subject of an institutional solo show outside of her home country. Serpentine North’s upcoming survey, Remembering, will bring together key works from across Singh’s six-decade career, highlighting the influence of surrealism, abstraction, figuration and Indian miniature painting on her oeuvre. Large-scale oil paintings, smaller watercolours and evocative ink drawings will reveal Singh’s endless experimentation with colour and her exploration of her own emotional response to womanhood, social upheaval and international humanitarian crises through figuration.
Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge: March 22 – June 29, 2025
At Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, a group exhibition will offer different views on “a world in perpetual crisis”, spotlighting the work of eight contemporary artists “working across forms, territories and generations” for the purpose. Among them are Pia Arke, Justin Caguiat, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Tomashi Jackson, Tarek Lakhrissi, Anne Tallentire, Cecilia Vicuña and Rose Finn-Kelcey, whose 1971 work Here is a Gale Warning (involving the erection of an ominous handsewn flag on scaffolding at Alexandra Palace) lends the show its name. Each of the works on display will demonstrate what the gallery terms “the capacity of artworks to both warn us of political, social and ecological upheaval, and to serve as a source of replenishment.”
Paris Noir at the Centre Pompidou, Paris: March 19 – June 30, 2025
The Centre Pompidou’s upcoming exhibit, Paris Noir, will trace the presence and influence of Black artists in France during the latter half of the 20th century, elucidating their significant contributions to the evolution of modern art. On display, visitors can admire works by 150 artists from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, including the late Harlem Renaissance painter Beauford Delaunay, Nigerian artist and architect Demas Nwoko, French-Haitian performance and installation artist Élodie Barthélémy and the Dominican-American street artist JonOne. In particular, the show will home in on Paris as a cosmopolitan hub; a place of anti-colonial resistance and creation that has given rise to a wide variety of practices, networks, friendships and ideas.
Michel Auder: Cleopatra at OCDChinatown, New York: February 27 – April 13, 2025
If you love experimental cinema and you happen to be in New York, make your way to OCDChinatown stat. There, screening on loop, you can catch Cleopatra, the free-wheeling 1970 film by influential American-French video artist Michael Auder – a work that had been thought lost until a copy was found among Jonas Mekas’s film archives. Loosely inspired by the 1963 Hollywood epic of the same name, Auder’s Cleopatra is a bold “iconoclastic gesture against dogmatic systems of cinema and its genres”. Extremely well-funded (thanks to Auder’s connections to Warhol’s Factory), the typically raw, diaristic film features Warhol superstars enacting an entirely improvised plot set between upstate New York and Rome. Orgies, skinny-dipping and gladiator-style wrestling ensue.
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour at Charleston, Lewes: March 26 – September 21, 2025
Bloomsbury fans, rejoice. A landmark exhibition dedicated to the multidisciplinary artist Vanessa Bell will soon open within the expressively hand-decorated walls of Charleston, her modernist country bolthole. More than 100 works will be brought together for what is the biggest presentation of her work to date, from vibrant paintings and striking textile and furniture designs to ceramics and book covers, all of which serve to illustrate the full breadth of her talent, imagination and decidedly modern innovation.
La Genevoise at Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva: Until June 22, 2025
At Geneva’s Museum of Art and History, the American sculptor Carol Bove – best known for her deftly rendered large-scale sculptures in steel – has curated a compelling new exhibition dedicated to 15,000 years of Genevan history. Given carte blanche to pick and choose from the museum’s enormous collection, Bove set out to bring together objects with a haptic quality, wherein human presence is felt (think: a Paleolithic stick decorated with carved animals, intricately crafted medieval armour and a crushed, Barbie-pink car sculpture by the Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury). Together, these artefacts and artworks reveal not just the evolving story of Geneva but how humans have used objects over time, while Bove’s considered curation challenges institutional modes of display in playful and surprising ways.
Jim Jarmusch: Some More Collages at James Fuentes, Los Angeles: March 29 – April 26, 2025
Did you know that Jim Jarmusch makes collages? Well the truth is that the Indie filmmaker has been making what he terms “small very minimal collages” using hand-torn newsprint for years. In 2021, he released several of these esoteric works in the form of an art book titled Some Collages. Now, he is back with a show of new cut-outs dubbed Some More Collages, opening at James Fuentes in Los Angeles at the end of the month. “The interesting thing about them is they reveal to me that my process of creating things is very similar, whether I’m writing a script or shooting a film or making a piece of music or writing a poem or making a collage,” Jarmusch explained to the New York Times. “I gather the elements from which I will make the thing first. The collages reduce it to the most minimal form of that procedure.”
March is full of excellent live productions, with an extra special treat in store for dance aficionados in London thanks to Dance Reflections, a month-long festival sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels, bringing some of the world’s most exciting contemporary dance acts to the capital. We’re especially excited for Hagay Dreaming at Tate Modern (March 13-15), an artistic collaboration by Taiwanese-American artist Shu Lea Cheang and Indigenous performance artist and practicing shaman Dondon Hounwn, entwining ancient myths with futuristic technologies. At Sadler’s Wells from March 12-13, Trisha Brown Dance Company will present two captivating works, one old (Brown’s postmodern masterpiece Working Title), one new (In the Fall by French choreographer Noé Soulier). While at Southbank Centre from March 21-22, South African choreographer Robyn Orlin and Johannesburg dance troupe Moving into Dance Mophatong will pay joyful homage to the rickshaw drivers of South Africa’s past in We Wear Our Wheels with Pride.
Theatre fans, be sure to catch director Omar Elerian’s fresh take on Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist satire Rhinoceros at the Almeida from March 25–April 26. A cautionary tale about “resisting conformity and holding onto what’s left of our humanity”, the much-anticipated show will star Bafta nominee Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù. Based on the true story of Nottingham teenager Jacob Dunne, who fatally punched a man in an unprovoked attack on a night out, Punch by James Graham has been hailed the Olivier Award-winning playwright’s most powerful work yet. It has just transferred to the Young Vic from the Nottingham Playhouse and will run until April 26. Last but not least, don’t miss your chance to see the side-splittingly funny US comedian Jacqueline Novak, who will be performing a new work in progress at Soho Theatre from March 11-28 – the follow-up to her widely acclaimed show Get On Your Knees.
March’s most interesting film releases include On Falling, the impressive first feature from Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira. It follows Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as a warehouse picker in Edinburgh, as she struggles to establish human connections in an algorithm-driven gig economy. South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho returns with Mickey 17, a darkly comic sci-fi based on Edward Ashton’s novel of the same name. It stars multiple iterations of Robert Pattison as a so-called expendable (a disposable, constantly regenerated employee), sent on a dangerous space mission to colonise an ice planet. US filmmaker Steven Soderbergh is also back with tense spy thriller Black Bag, the story of an American intelligence agent forced to choose between his wife and his country when the former, a fellow agent, falls under suspicion of betraying the nation.
Don’t miss Santosh, the searing narrative-feature debut from British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri, centred on a newly widowed young woman in northern India who inherits her husband’s job as a rural police constable on a force rife with corruption and bias. Hidden tensions and unspoken secrets bubble to the surface in Chinese director Jianjie Lin’s Brief History Of A Family: the tale of a well-off Chinese couple whose world is turned upside down when their only son makes an enigmatic new friend at school. The Stimming Pool, from director Steven Eastwood and the Neurocultures Collective, makes for unmissable viewing. Following five neurodiverse artists as they embark on “a singular visual project”, it offers a “fascinating glimpse into their singular perspective on the human experience” (BFI).
For this month’s best documentaries, look no further. First up there’s Twiggy, Sadie Frost’s deep dive into the life and work of British model Lesley Lawson (AKA Twiggy), told through interviews with 60s fashion icon herself, as well as her friends, family and collaborators. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s latest offering Ernest Cole: Lost and Found details the remarkable story of Ernest Cole, the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa. While Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other by Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter shines a light on the relationship between husband-and-wife artist duo Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett as they “navigate love, ageing, and the creative process” in the wake of an accident.
March also boasts plenty of delicious dining opportunities. First up, there’s the first ever international pop-up from Savannah Hagendijk – head chef at Amsterdam’s Michelin-starred Restaurant de Kasat – taking place this Saturday, International Women’s Day, at Firebird in Soho. Housed within a greenhouse, Restaurant de Kas allows diners to eat among the 300 varieties of vegetables, herbs and fruits that supply their kitchen – the epitome of plant-to-plate dining. In London, Hagendijk will apply this intensely seasonal plant-based approach to Firebird’s brand of open-fire cooking in what will surely be a culinary night to remember.
In Cav, the newly opened bar in Bethnal Green, guests can now enjoy the fruits of a year-long kitchen residency, Tasca, inspired by head chef Josh Dallaway and sommelier Sinead Murdoch’s travels in Portugal and Spain. Expect playful twists on traditional dishes such as jambon beurre Gilda, pork and prawn Cachorrinho (Porto’s hotdog), and Barcelona’s famous Bikini sandwich – here made with Tomme de chevre cheese and Iberico ham between brioche, drizzled with smoked maple syrup and served with salted goats milk ice cream – all accompanied with a delicious array of Spanish and Portuguese wines with a focus on sustainable farming.
Another enticing residency to bookmark, Islington’s much-loved Italian eatery Trullo will be delivering their tasty takes on regional Italian dishes at west London department store Harvey Nichols for the next three months. There you can enjoy some suitably luxurious flourishes from the Trullo team in keeping with their new setting. Think: tagliarini with Beluga caviar; grilled dover sole with Palourde clams and Datterini tomatoes; and an Amalfi lemon tart, served with panna cotta and chocolate mousse for pud.
Meanwhile, diners in or heading to Bristol, will be roundly rewarded by a visit to Dongnae, the recently opened Korean neighbourhood restaurant in Redland. Founded by husband and wife chef duo Kyu Jeong Jeon and Duncan Robertson – who met working in Michelin starred kitchens in Paris – Dongnae’s dishes are inspired by Kyu’s childhood in Korea and the couple’s experiences living together in Seoul. We recommend sampling the Hanjungshik (omakase-style) menu, which unites a selection of the chefs’ favourite dishes, from Korean beef tartare with wild mushroom dolsotbap, whelk and perilla muchim, to grilled ork jowl served alongside a taste bud-tingling array of homemade condiments (fresh wasabi heaven).
Bringing the taste of Ukraine to east London, Tatar Bunar, a Ukrainian restaurant from duo Alex Cooper and Anna Andriienko, will open its doors in Shoreditch later this month. Taking inspiration from Cooper’s hometown of Tatarbunary in southern Ukraine, head chef Kate Tkachuk will honour family tradition, presenting a menu based around Cooper’s grandmother’s recipes. This will “celebrate the biodiversity of the Bessarabia region, using produce from the fields, seas and forests,” the founders explain, and will feature hearty traditional dishes including chicken Kyiv and borscht.
Finally, why not combine a Sunday spent looking at art with a tasty feast at The Portrait Restaurant by Richard Corrigan, where storied British catering company Searcys has just launched a new Sunday Lunch. Located on the top floor of the National Portrait Gallery, the restaurant’s latest offering will focus on British seasonal produce – from potato and mussel soup and roasted Jerusalem artichoke with Comté custard for starters to Cumbrian blue grey beef striploin, Herdwick lamb saddle, or corn fed Ajou poussin for the main event. Plus roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, honey carrots and kale in abundance, all while admiring the London skyline. Sundays don’t get much better.
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