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From exhibitions on Rick Owens, Michael Armitage and Meret Oppenheim to exciting theatrical revivals, these are the events to bookmark for an excellent month ahead
Louise Giovanelli: Still Moving at Grimm 54, White St, New York: Until June 21, 2025
At Grimm 54 in New York, be sure to catch British artist Louise Giovanelli’s new series of paintings: a collaboration with the city’s much-loved cinema Metrograph. These latest works draw on specific moments from films (including Gummo, Kids, Ticket of No Return and Buffalo ‘66 – a selection of which are screening concurrently at the movie theatre. Delicate, luminous and technically complex, the paintings represent the artist’s ongoing examination of the interplay between representation and materiality – all while capturing the cool insouciance of Chloë Sevigny and Christina Ricci in their 90s heydays, bleached eyebrows, metallic eye shadow et al.
Read our interview with the artist here.
Edward Weston: The Matter of Shapes at Fundación Mapfre, Madrid: June 12 – August 31, 2025
The trailblazing 20th-century American photographer Edward Weston is the focus of a forthcoming exhibition at Fundación Mapfre in Madrid, made up of some 200 works, divided into seven sections that examine different phases of the artist’s photographic production. Simple yet extraordinarily detailed, and exquisitely composed, Weston’s still lifes, nudes, landscapes and portraits boast a modernity far ahead of their time and – as the exhibition will set out to prove – are “essential to understanding the new aesthetics of, and emerging lifestyle in, the United States during the Interwar period”.
Rick Owens, Temple of Love at Palais Galliera, Paris: June 28, 2025 – January 4, 2026
At the end of the month, Paris’s Palais Galliera will offer an immersive plunge into the dark and distinct world of Rick Owens – the California-born, Paris-based designer’s first exhibition in his home city. It will come as no surprise to Owens fans to learn that the designer has art directed the exhibition himself: Owens has famously designed every product that’s ever been released under his name. Alongside some 100 garments from across Owens’ career – each a masterclass in drape, texture and silhouette – visitors will encounter objects, artworks, archival documents and installations that shed intimate light on his creative processes, inspirations and idiosyncratic worldview (including a recreation of his and his wife Michèle Lamy’s California bedroom).
Read our interview with the designer here.
Michael Armitage: Crucible at David Zwirner, New York: Until June 27, 2025
David Zwirner has a new gallery space in Chelsea, New York, and its inaugural show – made up of paintings and bronze reliefs by the Kenyan British figurative artist Michael Armitage – is not to be missed. Titled Crucible, the exhibition invites us to meditate on the theme of migration through poetic works painted on Lubugo bark cloth (a traditional Ugandan textile used in funerary rituals) or cast in bronze. Each piece is “marked by a visceral directness that implicates the viewer in the migrant’s journey”, while simultaneously evoking something more dreamlike and intangible – a suspension between “here” and “there”.
Meret Oppenheim at Hauser & Wirth Basel: June 4 – July 19, 2025
If you’re only familiar with Meret Oppenheim because of her famed furry teacup and saucer, Le Déjeuner en fourrure, then Hauser & Wirth Basel’s survey of the German avant-garde artist is here to up the ante. Opening in time for this year’s Art Basel, the show will include paintings, drawings and designs – a number of which have been rarely displayed before – alongside Oppenheim’s work in sculpture, tracking her career from the 1930s through the 70s. In spite of its overlap with multiple movements, including surrealism and dada, Oppenheim’s work defies easy categorisation, a point the exhibition will set out to elucidate along with the artist’s strikingly modern exploration of themes of identity and sexuality.
Thirst: In Search of Freshwater is at Wellcome Collection, London: June 26, 2025 – February 1, 2026
Opening at London’s Wellcome Collection later this month, a new free exhibition will explore “humanity’s vital connection with freshwater as an essential source of life and a pillar of good health for both living beings and land masses”. Tracing the subject across the centuries and the globe – from ancient Mesopotamia to Victorian London to modern-day Nepal – the exhibit will combine art, science, history, technology and Indigenous knowledge to explore “the environmental, social and cultural relationships we have with freshwater”. Visitors can expect to encounter some 125 objects, including new and recent works by photographers M’hammed Kilito, Chloe Dewe Mathews and Adam Rouhana, as well as historical artefacts, meteorological records and vital new research on the subject.
Dreams of the Everyday at The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney: 21 June–13 September 2025
If you want to know what’s been on Jonathan Anderson’s mind in the build up to his tenure at Dior, look no further than The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney. There, the designer has curated a soon-to-open exhibition in collaboration with Scottish painter Andrew Cranston and gallerist Richard Ingleby, bringing Cranston’s work into dialogue with that of the 20th-century English painter Winifred Nicholson. While separated by time and place, the two painters “are connected by their commitment to a kind of painting that values intimacy over showmanship”. Their works delight in quotidian details, drawing from “daily-life, memory and imagination” to create scenes that are at once comfortingly familiar and otherworldly. (For those down south, the exhibition will relocate to the Holburne Museum in Bath at the start of October.)
In Berlin, Spore Initiative is currently host to aʿmāl al-‘arḍ – Landworks, Collective Action and Sound, a must-see exhibition that first showed as a collateral event at last year’s Venice Biennale. The show unites works by artists, collectives and allies in and around the southern West Bank, each of which explores “land, agriculture and heritage as spaces of resilience, memory and collective practice in a reality where access to these very foundations of life is constantly challenged.” It will unfold in three chapters – focused on survival, care and visibility, respectively – the first of which concludes at the end of June and features work by, among others, Dima Srouji and Jasbir Puar, Researching Palestine, and Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez.
Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025 at the ICA, London: June 24 – September 7, 2025
In 1985, the ICA hosted The Thin Black Line, a landmark show dedicated to young Black and Asian women artists. Now, in honour of its 40th anniversary, works by all of the 11 participating artists – including Sonia Boyce, Ingrid Pollard and Lubaina Himid – will be shown together for the first time since, in a dedicated exhibition at the same venue, curated by Himid. On display, visitors will encounter new commissions in conjunction with pieces that the artists have created in the years since the original exhibition, creating a tangible link between past and present, and “expanding contemporary interpretations and conversations around the practices of these 11 artists today”.
Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens: June 5 – November 2, 2025
This month, the revered South African artist Marlene Dumas will enjoy her first solo museum exhibition in Greece, at the Museum of Cycladic Art, where she will present over 30 paintings and works on paper. These have been selected by Dumas herself from throughout her prolific career and constitute “a cross section of the artist’s eerily beautiful and challenging representations of the human body”. They will be shown alongside brand new pieces, created specially for the show in response to the histories of figuration that Dumas encountered while trawling the institution’s archive, as well as a number of hand-picked antiquities from the museum’s permanent collection.
Hiền Hoàng: Garden of Entanglement at Foam, Amsterdam: June 6 – September 10, 2025
At Foam photography museum in Amsterdam, the Hamburg-based Vietnamese artist Hiền Hoàng – winner of last year’s Foam Paul Huf Award – will soon present a new solo show bringing together three of her latest projects. Hoàng’s pioneering practice blends photography, sculpture, video, installation and performance to investigate themes of migration and humans’ connection to nature. Her latest works – made in collaboration with scientists and technologists – are no exception. In Garden of Entanglement, the exhibition’s titular work, for instance, she uses scientific methods to discover the ways in which urban trees perceive and record human activities to mind-blowing effect.
Make your way to the Courtauld this summer to witness wonderful sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams, three exceptional women artists who, in 1960s New York, produced “startling new bodies of work [that turned] modern sculpture on its head”. Remarkably ahead of their time, each artist employed humour and abstract forms to engage with a “feminist politics of the body”, employing materials such as latex, expanding foam, string, and plaster for the purpose. Many of the works set for inclusion have been loaned from public and private collections in Europe and America, and are rarely seen due to their inherent fragility, making this a one-off opportunity to enjoy some of the 20th century’s most playful yet pertinent sculpture.
June is full of great live productions spanning music, theatre and dance. London’s renowned artist-curated music festival, Meltdown, returns to the Southbank Centre from June 12–22 for its 2025 edition, this time helmed by British rap star Little Simz. Featuring both established and emerging artists from around the world, the lineup includes The Streets, Yukimi (the vocalist from Little Dragon), Ghetts and of course Little Simz herself, accompanied by the Chineke! Orchestra. At the Barbican this month, Cat Power will perform her song-for-song recreation of one of Bob Dylan’s most legendary live sets, known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” but held at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966. It doesn’t get much better than listening to Just Like a Woman interpreted by one of the most emotionally resonant voices of our time.
An explosive collision of music and dance comes courtesy of Quadrophenia at Sadlers Wells from June 24 to July 13. Drawing on the cult 1979 film of the same name, and the inimitable 1973 album by The Who that inspired it, choreographer Paul Roberts and director Rob Ashford have conjured up a rousing Mod Ballet, performed by dancers dressed in custom Paul Smith.
The award-winning musical London Road is returning to the National Theatre from June 7–21, 14 years after its premiere. Written verbatim from first-person accounts, it documents the experiences of a group of residents living on a quiet road in Ipswich, who find themselves at the epicentre of a murder case in 2006. The Royal Court is also reviving an acclaimed production this June – Sarah Kane’s final play, 4.48 Psychosis, an “unflinching portrait of a psyche teetering on the edge of oblivion”. Returning to the theatre’s upstairs space, where it debuted 25 years ago, the show will run from June 12 to July 5, and sees the entire original cast and creative team reassembled for the purpose. At the Almeida from June 18 to August 16, director Rebecca Frecknall will take on Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, the sequel to the American playwright’s revered autobiographical work Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Set over the course of a single night, it finds a daughter (played by Ruth Wilson) trapped with her volatile father (Michael Shannon) on a farm in Connecticut, where a devastating truth is revealed.
There’s plenty of cinematic escapism on offer this month for anyone wishing to while away the odd grey-sky day. British director Daisy-May Hudson’s stirring and surprisingly life-affirming drama Lollipop tells the story of a young mother’s battle to maintain custody of her children following her release from prison. For a powerful tale of love and resistance in wartime Berlin, be sure to catch From Hilde, With Love from German director Andreas Dresen, which turns the spotlight on Hilde Coppi, a key member of anti-Nazi organisation the Red Orchestra. Red Path, the stirring new offering from Tunisian filmmaker Lotfi Achour, takes viewers on a “dreamlike journey into the wounded psyche of a young shepherd” in the wake of his cousin’s brutal murder (Mubi).
French filmmaker Laura Piani makes her feature debut with romantic comedy Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, in which an aspiring young author and bookshop worker embarks on a writing residency only to find herself entangled in a quintessentially literary love triangle. At Cine Lumiere, catch Three Friends, Emmanuel Mouret’s portrait of a grief-ridden widow and her two closest friends as they struggle to navigate a series of turbulent romantic affairs. Last but not least, don’t miss your chance to see Michael Haneke’s newly re-released psychological drama The Piano Teacher – a meditation on art, sexual repression and the abuse of power that remains just as shocking 24 years after it first hit the big screen.
This month’s unmissable documentary releases include The Encampments by Michael T Workman, which follows the students of Columbia University as they set up an encampment in April of last year to protest the institution’s ties to the war on Gaza – and the national student movement they inspired. In Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf, director Olivia Cappuccini captures an intimate and important portrait of the author, model and leading trans activist Munroe Bergdorf, offering insight into Bergdorf’s personal story as well as her ongoing fight for Black and transgender equality. The Last Journey sees Swedish writer Filip Hammar and his best friend, Fredrik Wikingsson, set forth on a road trip to France with the former’s elderly father in an attempt to rekindle his passion for life.
This month is filled with all kinds of delicious dining opportunities. For an idyllic lunch or dinner overlooking the ocean, Sargasso is a surefire delight. The popular Margate eatery, from the same duo behind Brawn on Columbia Road, has just welcomed a new chef, William Gleave, who is serving up seasonal, ingredient-led dishes with a Mediterranean sensibility. The daily-changing menu prioritises seafood and simple but sumptuous vegetable dishes, from soused sardines on toast and grilled asparagus with anchovy butter to the freshest heritage tomato salad. A glass or two from the seasonally shifting, carefully curated wine list rounds off an exceptional seaside sojourn.
If you’re passing through Borough and fancy a slice of New York-style pizza, check out the newly opened Spring Street Pizza from Michelin-star chef Tom Kemble. Whipping up 12 and 18-inch pizzas, to dine in or take away, Spring Street’s menu ranges from the simple (a mouthwatering Marinara) to the fanciful (think: San Marzano tomato, Rebel Charcuterie pepperoni and Parmigiano Reggiano, topped with hot honey and basil). Refreshing cocktails and creamy vanilla soft serve, with an abundance of topping choices, round off a fun and flavourful experience.
For fuss-free Michelin-starred fare al fresco, head to Trivet in Bermondsey, which has just opened up its chic terrace, replete with a dedicated à la carte menu centred around creativity, provenance and seasonal produce. Conceived by head chef Jonny Lake, highlights include such delicious-sounding dishes as grilled Cornish turbot served with cockles, razor clams, white asparagus and sorrel, and caramelised apple terrine with buckwheat chantilly, apple financier, fennel and candied lemon.
Opening in Shoreditch on June 20, Noisy Oyster promises to deliver a modern and unpretentious take on the seafood bistro. The latest venture of Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina, the duo behind open-fire favourite Firebird in Soho, Noisy Oyster will serve dishes that showcase the best of the UK’s seafood, inspired by “key coastal regions in Italy, Spain, Portugal and France”. Expect freshly shucked oysters, pressed skate schnitzel with mixed peach panzanella, and a rotation of pasta plates, rounded off by a sumptuous sundae made with silky vanilla soft serve, brown butter caramel, churros and caviar.
If you’re seeking out excellent Indian cooking in a relaxed setting, head to Notting Hill pub The Princess Royal where Bombay Bustle, the Maddox Street Indian restaurant by Samyukta Nair, is taking up residence for the first week of June. Dubbed The Bombay Royal, the takeover will bring beloved street-food staples and the vibrant flavours of Bombay to west London with a dedicated menu ranging from prawn koliwada with coriander chutney to palek paneer, not forgetting Bombay Bustle’s much-loved butter chicken.
Also in Notting Hill, modern Palestinian restaurant, Akub, is in the midst of a special collaborative series with five chefs, each of whom has conjured up a delicious new addition to the eatery’s brunch menu. For June, Rachel Ama will host her dedicated dish, Ama’s Bloom, showcasing “bold and unapologetic flavours rooted in her Caribbean heritage”. Comprising charred jerk-agave oyster mushrooms, served on a silky bed of pumpkin and butter bean purée and topped with thyme, hazelnut and coriander dressing, and hibiscus bloom, it sounds like the kickstart to Sundays we never knew we needed. Tuck in!
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From exhibitions on Rick Owens, Michael Armitage and Meret Oppenheim to exciting theatrical revivals, these are the events to bookmark for an excellent month ahead
Louise Giovanelli: Still Moving at Grimm 54, White St, New York: Until June 21, 2025
At Grimm 54 in New York, be sure to catch British artist Louise Giovanelli’s new series of paintings: a collaboration with the city’s much-loved cinema Metrograph. These latest works draw on specific moments from films (including Gummo, Kids, Ticket of No Return and Buffalo ‘66 – a selection of which are screening concurrently at the movie theatre. Delicate, luminous and technically complex, the paintings represent the artist’s ongoing examination of the interplay between representation and materiality – all while capturing the cool insouciance of Chloë Sevigny and Christina Ricci in their 90s heydays, bleached eyebrows, metallic eye shadow et al.
Read our interview with the artist here.
Edward Weston: The Matter of Shapes at Fundación Mapfre, Madrid: June 12 – August 31, 2025
The trailblazing 20th-century American photographer Edward Weston is the focus of a forthcoming exhibition at Fundación Mapfre in Madrid, made up of some 200 works, divided into seven sections that examine different phases of the artist’s photographic production. Simple yet extraordinarily detailed, and exquisitely composed, Weston’s still lifes, nudes, landscapes and portraits boast a modernity far ahead of their time and – as the exhibition will set out to prove – are “essential to understanding the new aesthetics of, and emerging lifestyle in, the United States during the Interwar period”.
Rick Owens, Temple of Love at Palais Galliera, Paris: June 28, 2025 – January 4, 2026
At the end of the month, Paris’s Palais Galliera will offer an immersive plunge into the dark and distinct world of Rick Owens – the California-born, Paris-based designer’s first exhibition in his home city. It will come as no surprise to Owens fans to learn that the designer has art directed the exhibition himself: Owens has famously designed every product that’s ever been released under his name. Alongside some 100 garments from across Owens’ career – each a masterclass in drape, texture and silhouette – visitors will encounter objects, artworks, archival documents and installations that shed intimate light on his creative processes, inspirations and idiosyncratic worldview (including a recreation of his and his wife Michèle Lamy’s California bedroom).
Read our interview with the designer here.
Michael Armitage: Crucible at David Zwirner, New York: Until June 27, 2025
David Zwirner has a new gallery space in Chelsea, New York, and its inaugural show – made up of paintings and bronze reliefs by the Kenyan British figurative artist Michael Armitage – is not to be missed. Titled Crucible, the exhibition invites us to meditate on the theme of migration through poetic works painted on Lubugo bark cloth (a traditional Ugandan textile used in funerary rituals) or cast in bronze. Each piece is “marked by a visceral directness that implicates the viewer in the migrant’s journey”, while simultaneously evoking something more dreamlike and intangible – a suspension between “here” and “there”.
Meret Oppenheim at Hauser & Wirth Basel: June 4 – July 19, 2025
If you’re only familiar with Meret Oppenheim because of her famed furry teacup and saucer, Le Déjeuner en fourrure, then Hauser & Wirth Basel’s survey of the German avant-garde artist is here to up the ante. Opening in time for this year’s Art Basel, the show will include paintings, drawings and designs – a number of which have been rarely displayed before – alongside Oppenheim’s work in sculpture, tracking her career from the 1930s through the 70s. In spite of its overlap with multiple movements, including surrealism and dada, Oppenheim’s work defies easy categorisation, a point the exhibition will set out to elucidate along with the artist’s strikingly modern exploration of themes of identity and sexuality.
Thirst: In Search of Freshwater is at Wellcome Collection, London: June 26, 2025 – February 1, 2026
Opening at London’s Wellcome Collection later this month, a new free exhibition will explore “humanity’s vital connection with freshwater as an essential source of life and a pillar of good health for both living beings and land masses”. Tracing the subject across the centuries and the globe – from ancient Mesopotamia to Victorian London to modern-day Nepal – the exhibit will combine art, science, history, technology and Indigenous knowledge to explore “the environmental, social and cultural relationships we have with freshwater”. Visitors can expect to encounter some 125 objects, including new and recent works by photographers M’hammed Kilito, Chloe Dewe Mathews and Adam Rouhana, as well as historical artefacts, meteorological records and vital new research on the subject.
Dreams of the Everyday at The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney: 21 June–13 September 2025
If you want to know what’s been on Jonathan Anderson’s mind in the build up to his tenure at Dior, look no further than The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney. There, the designer has curated a soon-to-open exhibition in collaboration with Scottish painter Andrew Cranston and gallerist Richard Ingleby, bringing Cranston’s work into dialogue with that of the 20th-century English painter Winifred Nicholson. While separated by time and place, the two painters “are connected by their commitment to a kind of painting that values intimacy over showmanship”. Their works delight in quotidian details, drawing from “daily-life, memory and imagination” to create scenes that are at once comfortingly familiar and otherworldly. (For those down south, the exhibition will relocate to the Holburne Museum in Bath at the start of October.)
In Berlin, Spore Initiative is currently host to aʿmāl al-‘arḍ – Landworks, Collective Action and Sound, a must-see exhibition that first showed as a collateral event at last year’s Venice Biennale. The show unites works by artists, collectives and allies in and around the southern West Bank, each of which explores “land, agriculture and heritage as spaces of resilience, memory and collective practice in a reality where access to these very foundations of life is constantly challenged.” It will unfold in three chapters – focused on survival, care and visibility, respectively – the first of which concludes at the end of June and features work by, among others, Dima Srouji and Jasbir Puar, Researching Palestine, and Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez.
Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025 at the ICA, London: June 24 – September 7, 2025
In 1985, the ICA hosted The Thin Black Line, a landmark show dedicated to young Black and Asian women artists. Now, in honour of its 40th anniversary, works by all of the 11 participating artists – including Sonia Boyce, Ingrid Pollard and Lubaina Himid – will be shown together for the first time since, in a dedicated exhibition at the same venue, curated by Himid. On display, visitors will encounter new commissions in conjunction with pieces that the artists have created in the years since the original exhibition, creating a tangible link between past and present, and “expanding contemporary interpretations and conversations around the practices of these 11 artists today”.
Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens: June 5 – November 2, 2025
This month, the revered South African artist Marlene Dumas will enjoy her first solo museum exhibition in Greece, at the Museum of Cycladic Art, where she will present over 30 paintings and works on paper. These have been selected by Dumas herself from throughout her prolific career and constitute “a cross section of the artist’s eerily beautiful and challenging representations of the human body”. They will be shown alongside brand new pieces, created specially for the show in response to the histories of figuration that Dumas encountered while trawling the institution’s archive, as well as a number of hand-picked antiquities from the museum’s permanent collection.
Hiền Hoàng: Garden of Entanglement at Foam, Amsterdam: June 6 – September 10, 2025
At Foam photography museum in Amsterdam, the Hamburg-based Vietnamese artist Hiền Hoàng – winner of last year’s Foam Paul Huf Award – will soon present a new solo show bringing together three of her latest projects. Hoàng’s pioneering practice blends photography, sculpture, video, installation and performance to investigate themes of migration and humans’ connection to nature. Her latest works – made in collaboration with scientists and technologists – are no exception. In Garden of Entanglement, the exhibition’s titular work, for instance, she uses scientific methods to discover the ways in which urban trees perceive and record human activities to mind-blowing effect.
Make your way to the Courtauld this summer to witness wonderful sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams, three exceptional women artists who, in 1960s New York, produced “startling new bodies of work [that turned] modern sculpture on its head”. Remarkably ahead of their time, each artist employed humour and abstract forms to engage with a “feminist politics of the body”, employing materials such as latex, expanding foam, string, and plaster for the purpose. Many of the works set for inclusion have been loaned from public and private collections in Europe and America, and are rarely seen due to their inherent fragility, making this a one-off opportunity to enjoy some of the 20th century’s most playful yet pertinent sculpture.
June is full of great live productions spanning music, theatre and dance. London’s renowned artist-curated music festival, Meltdown, returns to the Southbank Centre from June 12–22 for its 2025 edition, this time helmed by British rap star Little Simz. Featuring both established and emerging artists from around the world, the lineup includes The Streets, Yukimi (the vocalist from Little Dragon), Ghetts and of course Little Simz herself, accompanied by the Chineke! Orchestra. At the Barbican this month, Cat Power will perform her song-for-song recreation of one of Bob Dylan’s most legendary live sets, known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” but held at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966. It doesn’t get much better than listening to Just Like a Woman interpreted by one of the most emotionally resonant voices of our time.
An explosive collision of music and dance comes courtesy of Quadrophenia at Sadlers Wells from June 24 to July 13. Drawing on the cult 1979 film of the same name, and the inimitable 1973 album by The Who that inspired it, choreographer Paul Roberts and director Rob Ashford have conjured up a rousing Mod Ballet, performed by dancers dressed in custom Paul Smith.
The award-winning musical London Road is returning to the National Theatre from June 7–21, 14 years after its premiere. Written verbatim from first-person accounts, it documents the experiences of a group of residents living on a quiet road in Ipswich, who find themselves at the epicentre of a murder case in 2006. The Royal Court is also reviving an acclaimed production this June – Sarah Kane’s final play, 4.48 Psychosis, an “unflinching portrait of a psyche teetering on the edge of oblivion”. Returning to the theatre’s upstairs space, where it debuted 25 years ago, the show will run from June 12 to July 5, and sees the entire original cast and creative team reassembled for the purpose. At the Almeida from June 18 to August 16, director Rebecca Frecknall will take on Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, the sequel to the American playwright’s revered autobiographical work Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Set over the course of a single night, it finds a daughter (played by Ruth Wilson) trapped with her volatile father (Michael Shannon) on a farm in Connecticut, where a devastating truth is revealed.
There’s plenty of cinematic escapism on offer this month for anyone wishing to while away the odd grey-sky day. British director Daisy-May Hudson’s stirring and surprisingly life-affirming drama Lollipop tells the story of a young mother’s battle to maintain custody of her children following her release from prison. For a powerful tale of love and resistance in wartime Berlin, be sure to catch From Hilde, With Love from German director Andreas Dresen, which turns the spotlight on Hilde Coppi, a key member of anti-Nazi organisation the Red Orchestra. Red Path, the stirring new offering from Tunisian filmmaker Lotfi Achour, takes viewers on a “dreamlike journey into the wounded psyche of a young shepherd” in the wake of his cousin’s brutal murder (Mubi).
French filmmaker Laura Piani makes her feature debut with romantic comedy Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, in which an aspiring young author and bookshop worker embarks on a writing residency only to find herself entangled in a quintessentially literary love triangle. At Cine Lumiere, catch Three Friends, Emmanuel Mouret’s portrait of a grief-ridden widow and her two closest friends as they struggle to navigate a series of turbulent romantic affairs. Last but not least, don’t miss your chance to see Michael Haneke’s newly re-released psychological drama The Piano Teacher – a meditation on art, sexual repression and the abuse of power that remains just as shocking 24 years after it first hit the big screen.
This month’s unmissable documentary releases include The Encampments by Michael T Workman, which follows the students of Columbia University as they set up an encampment in April of last year to protest the institution’s ties to the war on Gaza – and the national student movement they inspired. In Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf, director Olivia Cappuccini captures an intimate and important portrait of the author, model and leading trans activist Munroe Bergdorf, offering insight into Bergdorf’s personal story as well as her ongoing fight for Black and transgender equality. The Last Journey sees Swedish writer Filip Hammar and his best friend, Fredrik Wikingsson, set forth on a road trip to France with the former’s elderly father in an attempt to rekindle his passion for life.
This month is filled with all kinds of delicious dining opportunities. For an idyllic lunch or dinner overlooking the ocean, Sargasso is a surefire delight. The popular Margate eatery, from the same duo behind Brawn on Columbia Road, has just welcomed a new chef, William Gleave, who is serving up seasonal, ingredient-led dishes with a Mediterranean sensibility. The daily-changing menu prioritises seafood and simple but sumptuous vegetable dishes, from soused sardines on toast and grilled asparagus with anchovy butter to the freshest heritage tomato salad. A glass or two from the seasonally shifting, carefully curated wine list rounds off an exceptional seaside sojourn.
If you’re passing through Borough and fancy a slice of New York-style pizza, check out the newly opened Spring Street Pizza from Michelin-star chef Tom Kemble. Whipping up 12 and 18-inch pizzas, to dine in or take away, Spring Street’s menu ranges from the simple (a mouthwatering Marinara) to the fanciful (think: San Marzano tomato, Rebel Charcuterie pepperoni and Parmigiano Reggiano, topped with hot honey and basil). Refreshing cocktails and creamy vanilla soft serve, with an abundance of topping choices, round off a fun and flavourful experience.
For fuss-free Michelin-starred fare al fresco, head to Trivet in Bermondsey, which has just opened up its chic terrace, replete with a dedicated à la carte menu centred around creativity, provenance and seasonal produce. Conceived by head chef Jonny Lake, highlights include such delicious-sounding dishes as grilled Cornish turbot served with cockles, razor clams, white asparagus and sorrel, and caramelised apple terrine with buckwheat chantilly, apple financier, fennel and candied lemon.
Opening in Shoreditch on June 20, Noisy Oyster promises to deliver a modern and unpretentious take on the seafood bistro. The latest venture of Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina, the duo behind open-fire favourite Firebird in Soho, Noisy Oyster will serve dishes that showcase the best of the UK’s seafood, inspired by “key coastal regions in Italy, Spain, Portugal and France”. Expect freshly shucked oysters, pressed skate schnitzel with mixed peach panzanella, and a rotation of pasta plates, rounded off by a sumptuous sundae made with silky vanilla soft serve, brown butter caramel, churros and caviar.
If you’re seeking out excellent Indian cooking in a relaxed setting, head to Notting Hill pub The Princess Royal where Bombay Bustle, the Maddox Street Indian restaurant by Samyukta Nair, is taking up residence for the first week of June. Dubbed The Bombay Royal, the takeover will bring beloved street-food staples and the vibrant flavours of Bombay to west London with a dedicated menu ranging from prawn koliwada with coriander chutney to palek paneer, not forgetting Bombay Bustle’s much-loved butter chicken.
Also in Notting Hill, modern Palestinian restaurant, Akub, is in the midst of a special collaborative series with five chefs, each of whom has conjured up a delicious new addition to the eatery’s brunch menu. For June, Rachel Ama will host her dedicated dish, Ama’s Bloom, showcasing “bold and unapologetic flavours rooted in her Caribbean heritage”. Comprising charred jerk-agave oyster mushrooms, served on a silky bed of pumpkin and butter bean purée and topped with thyme, hazelnut and coriander dressing, and hibiscus bloom, it sounds like the kickstart to Sundays we never knew we needed. Tuck in!
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