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From a major Wim Wenders retrospective to an exhibition of Derek Jarman’s paintings, plus new restaurants, films and plays, here’s our round-up of August’s best cultural offerings
Nick Waplington: We Dance in Mysteries at Hamiltons Gallery, London: Until September 23, 2025
At Hamiltons in London, renowned photographer Nick Waplington has compiled a selection of mesmerising photographs taken in New York City between 1989 and 1995. During this period, the British artist began a three-year working and personal relationship with the American fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, spending much of his time photographing the creative hustle and bustle going on at his Manhattan studio. By night, he would turn his lens to the city’s burgeoning house and techno scene – two worlds that riotously collide in this new exhibition, which encapsulates what Waplington terms “the vibrancy of a vanished moment in New York’s cultural history.”
Read our interview with Nick Waplington here.
W.I.M.: The Art of Seeing at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn: August 1, 2025 – January 11, 2026
Film fanatics, now is a good time to start planning a trip to Bonn, where the Bundeskunsthalle has just opened a major exhibition dedicated to the one and only Wim Wenders in celebration of his 80th birthday later this month. The exhibition will take a deep dive into the German auteur’s filmography – from The American Friend and Paris, Texas to Pina, Perfect Days and beyond – showcasing storyboards, props and behind-the-scenes material, as well as the myriad music and art references that have so inspired Wenders over the years. It also sets out to reveal the artist’s broader creative output, bringing together his photographs, collages, drawings and “electronic paintings”, alongside his extensive personal film library and poster collection. Expect a rare glimpse into Wenders’ inimitable world, and a masterclass in visual storytelling.
Emma Amos: Head First at Alison Jacques, London: Until August 9, 2025
At Alison Jacques gallery for just one more week, be sure to catch first UK solo exhibition of African American painter, printmaker and textile artist Emma Amos, who passed away in 2020, aged 83. Amos studied at London’s Central School of Art and Design in the 1950s, before going on to become a pioneering, if under-appreciated, figure in postmodern art. With a strong focus on identity, her output is as colourful and expressive as it is narratively and politically charged – she worked with political and feminist collectives throughout her career, including the Guerrilla Girls, and used her work as a powerful means of interrogating gender and racial inequity in the art world.
In Sequence at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York: Until August 29, 2025
While a picture might be worth a thousand words, images in sequence can say a whole lot more – as the latest exhibition at Bruce Silverstein in New York has set out to prove. Foregrounding consecutive images by photographers including Todd Hido, Ed Ruscha, Adger Cowans, Ryan Weideman and Francesca Woodman, the show explores “how visual sequences structure time and transform the image from a static object into an active participant in a story, building tension, resonance, and pace.” Alongside the big names, Weideman – a taxidriver-cum-photographer – is a revelation, his works comprising selfies and portraits taken in his cab over the past two decades.
Yoshitomo Nara at the Hayward Gallery, London: Until August 31, 2025
This is your last month to catch the Hayward Gallery’s acclaimed exhibition on Yoshitomo Nara, one of Japan’s most famous artists whose work synthesizes Japanese and Western popular culture to playful and incisive effect. Nara is best known for his portraits of children, conveying what Pace Gallery describes as “a range of emotional complexities, from resistance and rebellion to quietude and contemplation”. Many of these feature among the show’s 150 works, which span painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and ceramics, revealing the key moments in the 65-year-old’s artistic evolution to date as well as the influences that drive him, from nature and its mythology to his love of punk and rock music.
If your summer adventures take you to Paris, make time to check out Wolfgang Tillman’s takeover of the 6,000 square-metre library at the Centre Pompidou – the museum’s final exhibtion ahead of its five-year renovation. The show spreads out across tables and walls, playing to the specificities of its environment, and traversing more than 35 years of artistic practice. Visitors will encounter Tillman’s forays into different photographic genres, from portraiture through abstract and documentary photography, curated to raise pertinent questions about our current climate, while the integration of moving images, music, sound and words takes the experience to immersive new heights. A rousing send-off indeed.
Barbara Kruger: Another day. Another night at Guggenheim Bilbao: Until November 9, 2025
In Bilbao, meanwhile, the Guggenheim is hosting a major survey of the work of Barbara Kruger, shedding light on the ways in which the now-80-year-old American artist harnesses “the power of words and images to question the structures that shape our daily lives”. Employing the visual language of advertising as a means of encouraging critical thinking, her works are filled with shrewd witticisms and sharp truths, from “I shop therefore I am” to “my body is a battleground”. The display covers everything from Kruger’s early paste-ups and large-scale vinyl texts through video installations and audio interventions, as well as new site-specific pieces made for the show, all of which prove her oeuvre as relevant today as ever before.
Read our interview with Barbara Kruger here.
Hip Hop: Living a Dream at Saatchi Gallery, London: Until September 11, 2025
London’s Saatchi gallery has just opened the doors on its latest exhibition: a celebration of hip hop through the lens of three key photographers of the movement, Jamel Shabazz, Joseph Rodriguez and Gregory Bojorquez. From the 1980s onwards, these renowned US photographers have captured the emergence and influence of American hip hop culture across music, graffiti, breakdancing, fashion and beyond. Visitors will have the chance to revisit its inception in New York, peep its rise in Los Angeles, and discover its growth and reiteration across Europe.
Derek Jarman: The Black Paintings at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London: Until September 20, 2025
The final instalment in Amanda Wilkinson’s two-part presentation of Derek Jarman’s Black Paintings is now on view at the London gallery. These works, made between 1984 and 1991, represent the British artist and filmmaker’s most important painting series up until this point, and boast “significant thematic, iconographic and textual parallels” with the films and writings he was producing alongside them. The later works, for instance, contain much of the same imagery as Jarman’s 1990 film The Garden, which draws a line between the persecution of Christ and that of the contemporary queer community. Made up of paint, objects (toys, thorny rose stems, a thermometer) and later tar, these multi-layered pieces “provide a monochromatic window” into Jarman’s creative universe.
Between 1923 and 1926, the fêted American photographer Edward Weston lived and worked in Mexico with his apprentice and lover, Tina Modotti, who would likewise become one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Invigorated by Mexico’s cultural renaissance, the duo set about capturing the country’s landscapes, people and motifs, as well as founding a commercial studio, where alongside portraits of clients, they also photographed friends including Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Now, Throckmorton Fine Art in New York has brought together around 60 of Weston and Modotti’s pictures from the time, revealing the influence of Mexico – and one another – upon their revolutionary practices.
Kwesi Botchway: Be Your Own Cool at Vielmetter Los Angeles: Until September 13, 2025
Ghanaian artist Kwesi Botchway’s must-see solo show at Vielmetter Los Angeles is made up of paintings created during a recent residency in LA. Known for his dynamic portrayals of Black identity, here Botchway has created his most introspective work to date. Each of his protagonists is captured in a moment of contemplation and stillness, exuding a quiet confidence reflective of the show’s title, Be Your Own Cool. A series of 15 smaller portraits, dubbed Community of Freedom Fighters, is also on display – an homage to individuals whose actions and ideologies have helped shape Botchway’s sense of community.
Studio Debris: A Bit of Everything, A Lot of Nothing at Maximillian William, London: Until August 16
At Fitzrovia gallery Maximillian William, don’t miss your chance to explore the ever-imaginative output of Spanish-born, London-based artist Coco Capitán. Spotlighting what the gallery terms the “restless abundance of the artist’s creative processes”, the display is made up of works produced over the last few years – from large-scale photographs, polaroids and paintings to her signature pithy phrases and notes scrawled on hotel stationery – all as playful as they are insightful.
If you’re in search of exceptional live entertainment this month, a trip to Edinburgh for the Fringe and International Festival never disappoints. Alongside anticipated standup shows from Desiree Burch, Rosie O’Donnell, Jacqueline Novak, Ahir Shah and more, we highly recommend the revival of Faustus in Africa! at the Royal Lyceum from August 20-23. Directed by William Kentridge and performed by the Handspring Puppet Company (best known for War Horse), the acclaimed reimagining of the Faustian fable, which first premiered 30 years ago, has been newly updated to confront the climate emergency.
In London, meanwhile, the West End transfer of Till the Stars Come Down by Beth Steel makes for rip-roaring viewing. Set on a hot summer’s day, it sees a close-knit family come together for what should be a joyous wedding celebration. But as drinks flow, tongues loosen and secrets bubble to the surface. Just opened at Soho Place, be sure to see the West End premiere of Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play Every Brilliant Thing, co-created with Jonny Donahoe. Lenny Henry, Ambika Mod, Sue Perkins, Minnie Driver and Donahoe himself will each take turns in the spotlight during the show’s three-month run, enacting a child’s “attempts to ease their mother’s depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world”.
At the Donmar from August 16 to October 4, Mike Bartlett’s latest play, Juniper Blood, tells the story of a couple who relocate to the countryside in search of a quieter life, resulting in a timely exploration of “the true cost of pursuing our ideals in an imperfect world”. At Sadlers Wells, meanwhile, the much-buzzed-about stage adaptation of C. S. Lewis’s beloved novel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, originally devised by Sally Cookson, returns for a limited run. Think: psychedelic visuals, mesmerising storytelling and extraordinary puppetry.
Last but not least, on Friday August 8 at 10am BST, book your tickets for Together For Palestine, a one-off concert taking place at Wembley on September 17. Organised by Brian Eno, the humanitarian fundraiser will bring together artists and musicians looking to show their support for Palestine, while “every penny donated” will go to Palestinian partners through UK charity Choose Love.
This month’s best film releases include the chance to watch everybody’s favourite new couple, Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, in action in The Naked Gun. Widely heralded the best sequel in the franchise, it finds Neeson in the role of Frank Drebin Jr, son of the legendary detective Frank Drebin, now tasked with his own murder case. The three films that make up the Oslo Stories Trilogy (Dreams, Love and Sex), by celebrated Norwegian writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud, are being released across the month, each exploring intimacy through different, equally compelling character studies. (You can get a joint ticket to watch all three films at the BFI on August 16 and 17). While for a truly horrifying horror, there’s the Philippou brothers’ latest offering, Bring Her Back, starring Sally Hawkins as the foster mother from hell.
Another crowned king of horror, Ari Aster, returns with Eddington, a brilliant, utterly chaotic Western for our times, featuring Joaquin Phoenix as a small-town sheriff hellbent on becoming mayor during the Covid-19 pandemic. US filmmaker Eva Victor writes, directs and stars in her debut feature Sorry, Baby, a deftly woven, black codemy-drama about a young woman trying to make sense of life after sexual assault. While Belgium filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are back with Young Mothers, the story of five teenage mums living in a shelter, each striving for a better future for themselves and their babies.
Our top documentary picks this August include 2000 Meters to Andriivka by Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov. Offering searing insight into the human cost of war, it follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. In Motherboard, British director Victoria Mapplebeck compiles 20 years’ worth of footage to reflect upon her joyful, funny and sometimes painful journey as a single mother to her son. While Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk by Sepideh Farsi sees the Iranian filmmaker connect with a Palestinian woman in Gaza, offering a vital first-hand perspective of life under siege.
August has plenty of new openings and culinary collabs to keep our tastebuds tantalised. On August 28, visionary Spanish chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho (of the Michelin-starred Sabor in Mayfair) will open Legado, a new restaurant in Shoreditch centred around lesser-known Spanish recipes and regional culinary traditions. Meat dishes, such as suckling pig from Segovia and lamb from Zamora, will favour a nose-to-tail approach honouring the farmers, animals, and the regions they come from. While Legado’s seafood and fish offerings include tiny Crystal Mediterranean prawns finished with smoked paprika and Moscatel vinegar, and confit lobster with chilli and garlic served on a base of thinly sliced rose potatoes. Plus lots of seasonal vegetable and salad options too.
Great news for cheese lovers: Pick & Cheese, nothing less than the world’s first cheese conveyor belt restaurant, has just opened in Camden, delivering a regularly changing selection of British cheeses sourced from small-scale, artisan cheesemakers and producers. These are paired with delicious and surprising ingredients, from Cropwell Bishop stilton with kimchi to St Ella goat’s cheese with rose turkish delight. Drinks include natural wines and craft beers and ciders from small producers, while pudding provides yet more cheese – this time transformed into gelato.
From August through September, Ham Yard Hotel is bringing a taste of la vie Provençale to Soho, transforming its rooftop into a Mediterranean garden. There, Château La Coste will be providing free-flowing organic rosé (including a new alcohol-free option), alongside seasonal small plates and olive-oil ice cream, all influenced by Provençal cuisine.
Meanwhile, for those in the market for some New York-style slices, Bad Boy Pizza Society has just opened their first permanent restaurant, Bad Boy Pizzeria, on Bethnal Green Road. In addition to traditional hand-tossed, thin-crust pizzas, other Italian-American-inspired highlights include chicken vodka parm, giant caesar sharers, and a deep fried burrata in spicy marinara.
Perhaps you’d like to make the most of the long weekend and venture a little further afield. In which case, we recommend Roam, the new farm-to-fork restaurant at Sandridge Barton – an award-winning vineyard in Devon’s Dart Valley. Its head chef Sean Blood champions a farm-to-fork philosophy, dreaming up seasonal, ethically sourced dishes with ingredients from the estate and nearby regenerative farms. So far, highlights from the daily changing menu have included taleggio flatbread, cod’s roe with pickled cucumber and dill, and dry-aged tuna au poivre with leeks.
Then there’s Tide at Coworth Park, the late-18th-century country house turned luxury hotel near Ascot. Open throughout August, this new seasonal dining concept takes its inspiration from “the natural rhythms of English estate life”, showcasing the very best British produce, from Cornish day-boat fish to Kentish strawberries, and herbs from Coworth Park’s own kitchen garden. Expect such delicacies as grilled scallops with buttermilk and hot sauce, native lobster paccheri with black truffle and aged parmesan, and a panzanella salad with Isle of Wight tomatoes and grilled prawns. Tempting stuff!
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From a major Wim Wenders retrospective to an exhibition of Derek Jarman’s paintings, plus new restaurants, films and plays, here’s our round-up of August’s best cultural offerings
Nick Waplington: We Dance in Mysteries at Hamiltons Gallery, London: Until September 23, 2025
At Hamiltons in London, renowned photographer Nick Waplington has compiled a selection of mesmerising photographs taken in New York City between 1989 and 1995. During this period, the British artist began a three-year working and personal relationship with the American fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, spending much of his time photographing the creative hustle and bustle going on at his Manhattan studio. By night, he would turn his lens to the city’s burgeoning house and techno scene – two worlds that riotously collide in this new exhibition, which encapsulates what Waplington terms “the vibrancy of a vanished moment in New York’s cultural history.”
Read our interview with Nick Waplington here.
W.I.M.: The Art of Seeing at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn: August 1, 2025 – January 11, 2026
Film fanatics, now is a good time to start planning a trip to Bonn, where the Bundeskunsthalle has just opened a major exhibition dedicated to the one and only Wim Wenders in celebration of his 80th birthday later this month. The exhibition will take a deep dive into the German auteur’s filmography – from The American Friend and Paris, Texas to Pina, Perfect Days and beyond – showcasing storyboards, props and behind-the-scenes material, as well as the myriad music and art references that have so inspired Wenders over the years. It also sets out to reveal the artist’s broader creative output, bringing together his photographs, collages, drawings and “electronic paintings”, alongside his extensive personal film library and poster collection. Expect a rare glimpse into Wenders’ inimitable world, and a masterclass in visual storytelling.
Emma Amos: Head First at Alison Jacques, London: Until August 9, 2025
At Alison Jacques gallery for just one more week, be sure to catch first UK solo exhibition of African American painter, printmaker and textile artist Emma Amos, who passed away in 2020, aged 83. Amos studied at London’s Central School of Art and Design in the 1950s, before going on to become a pioneering, if under-appreciated, figure in postmodern art. With a strong focus on identity, her output is as colourful and expressive as it is narratively and politically charged – she worked with political and feminist collectives throughout her career, including the Guerrilla Girls, and used her work as a powerful means of interrogating gender and racial inequity in the art world.
In Sequence at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York: Until August 29, 2025
While a picture might be worth a thousand words, images in sequence can say a whole lot more – as the latest exhibition at Bruce Silverstein in New York has set out to prove. Foregrounding consecutive images by photographers including Todd Hido, Ed Ruscha, Adger Cowans, Ryan Weideman and Francesca Woodman, the show explores “how visual sequences structure time and transform the image from a static object into an active participant in a story, building tension, resonance, and pace.” Alongside the big names, Weideman – a taxidriver-cum-photographer – is a revelation, his works comprising selfies and portraits taken in his cab over the past two decades.
Yoshitomo Nara at the Hayward Gallery, London: Until August 31, 2025
This is your last month to catch the Hayward Gallery’s acclaimed exhibition on Yoshitomo Nara, one of Japan’s most famous artists whose work synthesizes Japanese and Western popular culture to playful and incisive effect. Nara is best known for his portraits of children, conveying what Pace Gallery describes as “a range of emotional complexities, from resistance and rebellion to quietude and contemplation”. Many of these feature among the show’s 150 works, which span painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and ceramics, revealing the key moments in the 65-year-old’s artistic evolution to date as well as the influences that drive him, from nature and its mythology to his love of punk and rock music.
If your summer adventures take you to Paris, make time to check out Wolfgang Tillman’s takeover of the 6,000 square-metre library at the Centre Pompidou – the museum’s final exhibtion ahead of its five-year renovation. The show spreads out across tables and walls, playing to the specificities of its environment, and traversing more than 35 years of artistic practice. Visitors will encounter Tillman’s forays into different photographic genres, from portraiture through abstract and documentary photography, curated to raise pertinent questions about our current climate, while the integration of moving images, music, sound and words takes the experience to immersive new heights. A rousing send-off indeed.
Barbara Kruger: Another day. Another night at Guggenheim Bilbao: Until November 9, 2025
In Bilbao, meanwhile, the Guggenheim is hosting a major survey of the work of Barbara Kruger, shedding light on the ways in which the now-80-year-old American artist harnesses “the power of words and images to question the structures that shape our daily lives”. Employing the visual language of advertising as a means of encouraging critical thinking, her works are filled with shrewd witticisms and sharp truths, from “I shop therefore I am” to “my body is a battleground”. The display covers everything from Kruger’s early paste-ups and large-scale vinyl texts through video installations and audio interventions, as well as new site-specific pieces made for the show, all of which prove her oeuvre as relevant today as ever before.
Read our interview with Barbara Kruger here.
Hip Hop: Living a Dream at Saatchi Gallery, London: Until September 11, 2025
London’s Saatchi gallery has just opened the doors on its latest exhibition: a celebration of hip hop through the lens of three key photographers of the movement, Jamel Shabazz, Joseph Rodriguez and Gregory Bojorquez. From the 1980s onwards, these renowned US photographers have captured the emergence and influence of American hip hop culture across music, graffiti, breakdancing, fashion and beyond. Visitors will have the chance to revisit its inception in New York, peep its rise in Los Angeles, and discover its growth and reiteration across Europe.
Derek Jarman: The Black Paintings at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London: Until September 20, 2025
The final instalment in Amanda Wilkinson’s two-part presentation of Derek Jarman’s Black Paintings is now on view at the London gallery. These works, made between 1984 and 1991, represent the British artist and filmmaker’s most important painting series up until this point, and boast “significant thematic, iconographic and textual parallels” with the films and writings he was producing alongside them. The later works, for instance, contain much of the same imagery as Jarman’s 1990 film The Garden, which draws a line between the persecution of Christ and that of the contemporary queer community. Made up of paint, objects (toys, thorny rose stems, a thermometer) and later tar, these multi-layered pieces “provide a monochromatic window” into Jarman’s creative universe.
Between 1923 and 1926, the fêted American photographer Edward Weston lived and worked in Mexico with his apprentice and lover, Tina Modotti, who would likewise become one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Invigorated by Mexico’s cultural renaissance, the duo set about capturing the country’s landscapes, people and motifs, as well as founding a commercial studio, where alongside portraits of clients, they also photographed friends including Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Now, Throckmorton Fine Art in New York has brought together around 60 of Weston and Modotti’s pictures from the time, revealing the influence of Mexico – and one another – upon their revolutionary practices.
Kwesi Botchway: Be Your Own Cool at Vielmetter Los Angeles: Until September 13, 2025
Ghanaian artist Kwesi Botchway’s must-see solo show at Vielmetter Los Angeles is made up of paintings created during a recent residency in LA. Known for his dynamic portrayals of Black identity, here Botchway has created his most introspective work to date. Each of his protagonists is captured in a moment of contemplation and stillness, exuding a quiet confidence reflective of the show’s title, Be Your Own Cool. A series of 15 smaller portraits, dubbed Community of Freedom Fighters, is also on display – an homage to individuals whose actions and ideologies have helped shape Botchway’s sense of community.
Studio Debris: A Bit of Everything, A Lot of Nothing at Maximillian William, London: Until August 16
At Fitzrovia gallery Maximillian William, don’t miss your chance to explore the ever-imaginative output of Spanish-born, London-based artist Coco Capitán. Spotlighting what the gallery terms the “restless abundance of the artist’s creative processes”, the display is made up of works produced over the last few years – from large-scale photographs, polaroids and paintings to her signature pithy phrases and notes scrawled on hotel stationery – all as playful as they are insightful.
If you’re in search of exceptional live entertainment this month, a trip to Edinburgh for the Fringe and International Festival never disappoints. Alongside anticipated standup shows from Desiree Burch, Rosie O’Donnell, Jacqueline Novak, Ahir Shah and more, we highly recommend the revival of Faustus in Africa! at the Royal Lyceum from August 20-23. Directed by William Kentridge and performed by the Handspring Puppet Company (best known for War Horse), the acclaimed reimagining of the Faustian fable, which first premiered 30 years ago, has been newly updated to confront the climate emergency.
In London, meanwhile, the West End transfer of Till the Stars Come Down by Beth Steel makes for rip-roaring viewing. Set on a hot summer’s day, it sees a close-knit family come together for what should be a joyous wedding celebration. But as drinks flow, tongues loosen and secrets bubble to the surface. Just opened at Soho Place, be sure to see the West End premiere of Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play Every Brilliant Thing, co-created with Jonny Donahoe. Lenny Henry, Ambika Mod, Sue Perkins, Minnie Driver and Donahoe himself will each take turns in the spotlight during the show’s three-month run, enacting a child’s “attempts to ease their mother’s depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world”.
At the Donmar from August 16 to October 4, Mike Bartlett’s latest play, Juniper Blood, tells the story of a couple who relocate to the countryside in search of a quieter life, resulting in a timely exploration of “the true cost of pursuing our ideals in an imperfect world”. At Sadlers Wells, meanwhile, the much-buzzed-about stage adaptation of C. S. Lewis’s beloved novel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, originally devised by Sally Cookson, returns for a limited run. Think: psychedelic visuals, mesmerising storytelling and extraordinary puppetry.
Last but not least, on Friday August 8 at 10am BST, book your tickets for Together For Palestine, a one-off concert taking place at Wembley on September 17. Organised by Brian Eno, the humanitarian fundraiser will bring together artists and musicians looking to show their support for Palestine, while “every penny donated” will go to Palestinian partners through UK charity Choose Love.
This month’s best film releases include the chance to watch everybody’s favourite new couple, Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, in action in The Naked Gun. Widely heralded the best sequel in the franchise, it finds Neeson in the role of Frank Drebin Jr, son of the legendary detective Frank Drebin, now tasked with his own murder case. The three films that make up the Oslo Stories Trilogy (Dreams, Love and Sex), by celebrated Norwegian writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud, are being released across the month, each exploring intimacy through different, equally compelling character studies. (You can get a joint ticket to watch all three films at the BFI on August 16 and 17). While for a truly horrifying horror, there’s the Philippou brothers’ latest offering, Bring Her Back, starring Sally Hawkins as the foster mother from hell.
Another crowned king of horror, Ari Aster, returns with Eddington, a brilliant, utterly chaotic Western for our times, featuring Joaquin Phoenix as a small-town sheriff hellbent on becoming mayor during the Covid-19 pandemic. US filmmaker Eva Victor writes, directs and stars in her debut feature Sorry, Baby, a deftly woven, black codemy-drama about a young woman trying to make sense of life after sexual assault. While Belgium filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are back with Young Mothers, the story of five teenage mums living in a shelter, each striving for a better future for themselves and their babies.
Our top documentary picks this August include 2000 Meters to Andriivka by Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov. Offering searing insight into the human cost of war, it follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. In Motherboard, British director Victoria Mapplebeck compiles 20 years’ worth of footage to reflect upon her joyful, funny and sometimes painful journey as a single mother to her son. While Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk by Sepideh Farsi sees the Iranian filmmaker connect with a Palestinian woman in Gaza, offering a vital first-hand perspective of life under siege.
August has plenty of new openings and culinary collabs to keep our tastebuds tantalised. On August 28, visionary Spanish chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho (of the Michelin-starred Sabor in Mayfair) will open Legado, a new restaurant in Shoreditch centred around lesser-known Spanish recipes and regional culinary traditions. Meat dishes, such as suckling pig from Segovia and lamb from Zamora, will favour a nose-to-tail approach honouring the farmers, animals, and the regions they come from. While Legado’s seafood and fish offerings include tiny Crystal Mediterranean prawns finished with smoked paprika and Moscatel vinegar, and confit lobster with chilli and garlic served on a base of thinly sliced rose potatoes. Plus lots of seasonal vegetable and salad options too.
Great news for cheese lovers: Pick & Cheese, nothing less than the world’s first cheese conveyor belt restaurant, has just opened in Camden, delivering a regularly changing selection of British cheeses sourced from small-scale, artisan cheesemakers and producers. These are paired with delicious and surprising ingredients, from Cropwell Bishop stilton with kimchi to St Ella goat’s cheese with rose turkish delight. Drinks include natural wines and craft beers and ciders from small producers, while pudding provides yet more cheese – this time transformed into gelato.
From August through September, Ham Yard Hotel is bringing a taste of la vie Provençale to Soho, transforming its rooftop into a Mediterranean garden. There, Château La Coste will be providing free-flowing organic rosé (including a new alcohol-free option), alongside seasonal small plates and olive-oil ice cream, all influenced by Provençal cuisine.
Meanwhile, for those in the market for some New York-style slices, Bad Boy Pizza Society has just opened their first permanent restaurant, Bad Boy Pizzeria, on Bethnal Green Road. In addition to traditional hand-tossed, thin-crust pizzas, other Italian-American-inspired highlights include chicken vodka parm, giant caesar sharers, and a deep fried burrata in spicy marinara.
Perhaps you’d like to make the most of the long weekend and venture a little further afield. In which case, we recommend Roam, the new farm-to-fork restaurant at Sandridge Barton – an award-winning vineyard in Devon’s Dart Valley. Its head chef Sean Blood champions a farm-to-fork philosophy, dreaming up seasonal, ethically sourced dishes with ingredients from the estate and nearby regenerative farms. So far, highlights from the daily changing menu have included taleggio flatbread, cod’s roe with pickled cucumber and dill, and dry-aged tuna au poivre with leeks.
Then there’s Tide at Coworth Park, the late-18th-century country house turned luxury hotel near Ascot. Open throughout August, this new seasonal dining concept takes its inspiration from “the natural rhythms of English estate life”, showcasing the very best British produce, from Cornish day-boat fish to Kentish strawberries, and herbs from Coworth Park’s own kitchen garden. Expect such delicacies as grilled scallops with buttermilk and hot sauce, native lobster paccheri with black truffle and aged parmesan, and a panzanella salad with Isle of Wight tomatoes and grilled prawns. Tempting stuff!
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