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From solo exhibitions by Catherine Opie and Ed Atkins to our pick of festivals, films and restaurants, here’s everything to bookmark for an excellent August
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh: 8 August – 1 November, 2026
Edinburgh: Catherine Opie’s acclaimed National Portrait Gallery exhibition is heading your way, arriving at the Royal Scottish Academy later this week. There, the American artist presents nearly 80 portraits – of herself, her mentors and collaborators, of queer communities, schoolchildren, surfers, protesters and more – made over the course of her three-decade career. By extending the formal language of portraiture historically reserved for those of celebrity and status (think: Velázquez’s majestic court portraits) to subjects outside of that realm, Opie challenges viewers to consider who has traditionally been represented in art, and who goes unseen.
Read Catherine Opie in conversation with Maggie Nelson in our latest issue, here.
Before it closes, be sure to catch Project a Black Planet at the Barbican, a show exploring the influence of Pan-Africanism – a worldwide movement for freedom and unity among people of African descent – on artistic and cultural production from the 1920s to the present day. Pan-Africanism is widely recognised as a driving force in 20th-century global history but its impact on art and visual culture has never been the focus of a major exhibition, until now. The many wonderful artworks on display hail from across Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe, including photographs by Sanlé Sory and Samuel Fosso, sculpture by Melvin Edwards and El Anatsui, a number of new paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye created especially for the show, and much more.
Ed van der Elsken: Up Close at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Until 13 September, 2026
“I sing the praises of life. I am not more complicated than that. I sing everything: love, courage, beauty but also anger, blood, sweat and tears.” These are the words of the late Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken, who is currently the subject of a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. Van der Elsken’s work is exactly that: unfiltered, unfettered, experimental and decidedly hard to pin down, from his earliest reportages in the 1950s, to his very last photo book made in the late 80s. The Amsterdam show confirms this, unfolding across nine rooms and revealing the full breadth of Van der Elsken’s odes to “everything” – including jazz musicians and disaffected youth, street scenes and travel photography, and intimate snapshots of lovers and friends.
The Museum of Sex’s latest show, The Life Force, is made up of 45 works from the Amparo and Manuel Foundation’s extensive collection of international figurative art. Its central theme is the tension between Eros and Thanatos – the life instinct and the death drive – as identified by Sigmund Freud. Presenting paintings, sculptures and drawings by the likes of Katherine Bernhardt, Ma Yanhong Baoji, Oh de Laval, Sarah Lucas and David Shrigley, the curation emphasises vitality as a galvanising force and intimacy as a space of recognition.
Hepworth in Colour at the Courtauld, London: Until 6 September, 2026
If you think you know all there is to know about Barbara Hepworth, think again. The Courtauld’s remarkable exhibition Hepworth in Colour sheds new light on the British artist, honing in on a lesser-studied element of her practice: her obsession with hues. The meticulously researched display centres around a group of carvings in wood and stone, made in the 1940s and adorned with vibrant blues and yellows – some of her earliest experiments with colour in sculpture. These are shown alongside drawings from the same period (painted and graphic works experimenting with different combinations and shades) and pieces from the 50s and 60s, featuring painterly bronze surfaces and a surprising use of coloured marbles. A feast for the eyes.
Ed Atkins: 1 Day in Space at Gladstone, Seoul: 31 August – 31 October, 2026
The British artist Ed Atkins is renowned for his high-definition video work in which technological surrogates are employed to tackle very human themes like time, loss and the fine line between permanence and ephemerality. In a new exhibition for Gladstone’s Seoul gallery, however, he’s taking a more analogue approach to address the same ideas. The show will feature a major new moving image piece as well as a series of expanded photographic works, sculptures and frottages. Here we’ll see Atkins turn his eye away from the “alienation central to the virtual” to grapple instead with “the sentimental logic of the camera” through imagery of domestic life.
Check out Ed Atkins’ Art Project for the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine, here.
At YBCA in San Francisco, surrealist painter GaHee Park will soon unveil her first institutional solo exhibition in the US. The Seoul-born, Montreal-based artist’s work probes themes of fantasy, sexuality and mortality through uncanny depictions of private moments in domestic settings. Animals, fish and insects emerge in unexpected places, while female figures with long nails gaze forlornly out at the viewer or down into cocktail glasses, deep in contemplation. Sensual and unsettling, Park’s paintings deliberately trouble the traditional notion of subject, inviting us to peer behind the curtain.
Vantage Point 13 at the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah: 8 August – 29 November, 2026
Following an open call for artists whose work “evolves the possibilities of documentary photography”, Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual photography initiative, Vantage Point, will soon return for its 13th edition. This year, six artists working across different geographies and contexts have been selected to create new works for the purpose. The resulting exhibition reveals distinct but interconnected approaches, each as compelling as the next: Luisa Dörr, Latifa AlBokhari and Sathish Kumar “use portraiture and other observational strategies to attend to the nuances of lived experience,” the foundation explains, while Adam Rouhana, Guanyu Xu and Maheder Haileselassie, “shift the focus towards absence and rupture.”
The Northeast Corridor at Huxley-Parlour, London: Until 9 September, 2026
Huxley-Parlour’s current exhibition brings together the work of 16 artists based along America’s Northeast Corridor, the eponymous rail artery that runs down the East Coast from Washington DC to Boston. From Lois Dodd, Nicole Eisenman and Mala Iqbal to Alex Katz, Peter Saul and Peter Williams (the only deceased artist on display), the artists are connected not only by a shared sense of place but also by the region’s vital creative energy, defined by an “enduring spirit of experimentation and exchange” through good times and bad. The exhibition sets out to map this diverse yet interlinked terrain of artistic production, highlighting the unintentional shared aesthetic it has fostered.
Thuy Tien Nguyen: Press, Release at Gasworks, London: Until 13 September, 2026
At Gasworks, catch an impressive new work by rising Vietnamese artist Thuy Tien Nguyen, commissioned by the London non-profit art organisation and the Thailand Biennale. Titled Press, Release, the installation centres on a factory-style conveyor belt made from steel and salvaged fragments of intricately carved wood. Vietnamese, Thai and British vernacular objects jolt backwards and forwards along the belt in a choreographed routine, never quite reaching their intended destination – a pertinent metaphor for “a global system of circulation through which labour and goods flow, and cultures are transformed”.
Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope L at the Drawing Center, New York: Until 27 September
While the American artist Pope L was perhaps best known for his performances – in particular his Crawl series, for which he moved slowly across the streets of New York on his hands and knees – his prolific output extended to writing, installation, painting, collage and objects, as well as a significant number of works on paper. An ongoing exhibition at The Drawing Center in New York shines a light on this lesser-known facet of his practice, foregrounding several interrelated bodies of work on paper that are at once absurd, witty and probing, yet never entirely spelt out (as the artist once said, “I am suspicious of things that make sense”). Together, they make a compelling case that, for Pope L, drawing was never simply a medium but a crucial act of inquiry and a metaphor for artmaking itself.
Although August is notoriously quiet on the theatre and dance front, there are still some exciting productions worth seeking out this month. First up, the new revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s early play How the Other Half Loves, which has just opened at the Old Vic and runs until 19 September. The gist? A witty tale of sex, class and (as one might expect from the comedy-of-errors king) a swirling mess of marital misunderstanding. Arriving at the National Theatre from 19 August–10 October, meanwhile, is Electra/Persona, a new play by Benedict Andrews. Inspired by Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman, it stars Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, reunited after their fantastic turns in Tár. The blurb promises a “thrilling production [that] fuses ancient myth and modern psychology [to explore] identity, and the fragile line between who we are and who we play.” And we, for one, can’t wait.
Matthew Bourne’s award-winning production of The Car Man returns to Sadler’s Wells from 4–22 August. A rousing “dance thriller”, the story draws more on the 1947 film noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice than the Bizet opera. It unfolds in a greasy garage-diner in the American Midwest, where the arrival of a sultry stranger sparks “an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge”.
As summer draws to a close, one type of stage is positively thrumming: the festival stage – and there are a lot to choose from this month. Top of our list is Green Man, running from 20–23 August. Not only does the Welsh festival boast an extraordinary setting beneath the Black Mountains in Bannau Brycheiniog and an exceptional musical line-up – this year’s acts include Cat Power, Four Tet, Wolf Alice, Sparks, Cate Le Bon and Anna Calvi – it also hosts a rich programme of comedy, literature, science, film, performance and installation art. Then there are the wellness offerings, led by Soul Stretch, which range from yoga and meditation classes to massages and a wood-fired barrel sauna, all designed to support rest and reconnection. Lastly, those in search of locally sourced refreshment will enjoy Green Man’s dedicated Welsh Beer and Cider Festival, showcasing beers, ales and ciders from some of Wales’ best independent breweries.
For somewhere extra special a little further afield, the Maldives’ Fari Islands Festival is hard to beat. Returning for its second edition from 13–15 August 2026, the festival spans two luxury resorts – Patina Maldives and The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands – where a celebration of music, art, cuisine, wellbeing and culture unfolds against an idyllic oceanic backdrop. This year’s headliners include British actor Rosamund Pike, American designer Sean Wotherspoon, who will be leading a collaborative art residency, and legendary French singer-songwriter Sébastien Tellier. Michelin-starred chef Samuel Lee (of Parisian neo-bistrot SENsation) and Tokyo dining collective WAGYUMAFIA are among the culinary talents conjuring memorable dining experiences across the three-day event.
This month’s best film releases include Love Me Tender from French director Anna Cazenave Cambet – the story of a woman’s gruelling custody battle to keep her son in the face of her ex-husband’s prejudice about her sexuality. The End of Oak Street is the intriguing new offering from US director David Robert Mitchell of It Follows fame. It centres on the Platt family, who must stick together when they find their neighbourhood ripped from suburbia by a mysterious cosmic event. Matthew Johnson directs A24’s anticipated Anthony Bourdain biopic, Tony, charting the formative summer in which a 19-year-old Bourdain first encounters the intense, chaotic world of the professional kitchen.
Jane Schoenbrun returns with the brilliantly offbeat slasher Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which follows a filmmaker attempting to revive a cult horror franchise by coaxing its long-retired original star out of seclusion. Pedro Almodóvar is back, too – with Bitter Christmas, a poignant tragicomedy in which a filmmaker blurs the line between art and life, drawing ever more heavily on the experiences of those around him. While Gregg Araki’s new comedy-thriller, I Want Your Sex homes in on a well-meaning but aimless 20-something whose fantasies soon become reality when he begins working for a renowned artist and provocateur with no regard for office boundaries.
Among this month’s must-watch documentaries is A Child of My Own by Chilean director Maite Alberdi. The Netflix documentary-film hybrid centres on the complex true story of a woman’s unwavering desire to become a mother and an act that sends multiple lives spiralling out of control. Premiering on Mubi later in the month, Ancestral Visions of the Future, by Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, is a striking and intimate meditation on identity, childhood and death told through fragmented narratives and dreamlike imagery. Last but not least, Hanging By A Wire from Pakistani director Mohammed Ali Naqvi tells the nail-biting story of the 2023 cable car accident in which eight students were left dangling above a ravine in Pakistan’s mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.
Foodies, there are lots of enticing new offerings to satisfy your taste buds this August. First up, the new breakfast menu at St John’s wine bar in Neal’s Yard – ideal for anyone looking to grab a sumptuous sarnie on the move, or settle in with a perfectly paired drink for a more leisurely start to the day. Three buns are on offer: the bacon sandwich, the bacon and smoked cod’s roe bun and the anchovy bun, coupled with a refreshing breakfast perry, a glass of St John champagne or a zingy Bloody Mary. What’s not to love?
For tasty Cantonese fare served in a chic terrace setting, head straight for Cafe Kowloon, tucked away on Mentmore Terrace in London Fields. The restaurant has just opened its new outdoor space for the summer months, where you can enjoy its signature dishes – from Carlingford oysters with calamansi, and prawn toast with crispy prawn heads and chilli oil, to short rib with curry sauce, and Hong Kong-style French toast – in leafy seclusion.
If a seriously good bowl of pasta and a crisp glass of wine for £20 sounds like your idea of the dream lunch, make your way to Il Gattopardo in Mayfair, which has just launched its new Pasta & Vino menu. Each week, the team conjures a handmade pasta dish inspired by a different Italian region – this month’s picks are Sicily, Campania, Puglia, Umbria and Piemonte – paired with a matching regional wine. Available from 12pm until closing, the menu is served exclusively at the restaurant’s counter each day.
For more Italian-inspired fun, be sure to check out La Sagra di Shoreditch, a giant Italian street festival paying homage to Italy’s beloved Ferragosto celebrations. Hosted by Big Mamma’s Gloria on 15 August, the event will take over the lush gardens of the Museum of the Home. Guests will take their place at a long communal table to enjoy free-flowing Italian wine, live performances and a four-course feast from some of Shoreditch’s most-loved eateries, including Gloria, Kricket and Blacklock.
Edinburgh Festival-goers, a night at The Palmerston is in order this month. Throughout August, the city’s acclaimed modern European restaurant will host a trio of Sunday dinner takeovers, celebrating the diverse cuisines of Asia and cooked up by chef friends from Edinburgh and Glasgow. The series begins on 16 August with Ghar, the progressive Indian dining concept founded in Edinburgh by Bombay-born chef Yash Rajpal. On 23 August, sisters Fariya and Sahar Sharif of Glasgow favourite Parveen’s will showcase the vibrant flavours of their Pakistani heritage. While on 30 August, Tida Bradshaw of Thai-inspired pop-up Moo Noi will serve a feast combining the bold, herbaceous flavours of Northern Thailand with the finest Scottish produce.
Finally, if you’re looking to take an incredibly relaxing city break centred around delicious food, look no further than Bath’s Francis Hotel. The beautifully renovated Georgian building boasts elegantly decorated bedrooms, a cheery doorman with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the city and a luxurious new spa, replete with reviving facials, restorative massages and an Espuro foam steam bath. But perhaps best of all is the hotel restaurant, the British brasserie Emberwood, which serves up some of Bath’s tastiest dishes, made from seasonal ingredients cooked over an open flame. Sample such delights as coal-roasted Cornish scallops served with garlic butter and gremolata, or burnt aubergine with goat’s curd, confit tomatoes and green beans, followed by the St Mawes market fish of the day or the succulent South West côte de bœuf, alongside Koffmann fries or hispi cabbage. Bon appétit!
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From solo exhibitions by Catherine Opie and Ed Atkins to our pick of festivals, films and restaurants, here’s everything to bookmark for an excellent August
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh: 8 August – 1 November, 2026
Edinburgh: Catherine Opie’s acclaimed National Portrait Gallery exhibition is heading your way, arriving at the Royal Scottish Academy later this week. There, the American artist presents nearly 80 portraits – of herself, her mentors and collaborators, of queer communities, schoolchildren, surfers, protesters and more – made over the course of her three-decade career. By extending the formal language of portraiture historically reserved for those of celebrity and status (think: Velázquez’s majestic court portraits) to subjects outside of that realm, Opie challenges viewers to consider who has traditionally been represented in art, and who goes unseen.
Read Catherine Opie in conversation with Maggie Nelson in our latest issue, here.
Before it closes, be sure to catch Project a Black Planet at the Barbican, a show exploring the influence of Pan-Africanism – a worldwide movement for freedom and unity among people of African descent – on artistic and cultural production from the 1920s to the present day. Pan-Africanism is widely recognised as a driving force in 20th-century global history but its impact on art and visual culture has never been the focus of a major exhibition, until now. The many wonderful artworks on display hail from across Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe, including photographs by Sanlé Sory and Samuel Fosso, sculpture by Melvin Edwards and El Anatsui, a number of new paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye created especially for the show, and much more.
Ed van der Elsken: Up Close at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Until 13 September, 2026
“I sing the praises of life. I am not more complicated than that. I sing everything: love, courage, beauty but also anger, blood, sweat and tears.” These are the words of the late Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken, who is currently the subject of a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. Van der Elsken’s work is exactly that: unfiltered, unfettered, experimental and decidedly hard to pin down, from his earliest reportages in the 1950s, to his very last photo book made in the late 80s. The Amsterdam show confirms this, unfolding across nine rooms and revealing the full breadth of Van der Elsken’s odes to “everything” – including jazz musicians and disaffected youth, street scenes and travel photography, and intimate snapshots of lovers and friends.
The Museum of Sex’s latest show, The Life Force, is made up of 45 works from the Amparo and Manuel Foundation’s extensive collection of international figurative art. Its central theme is the tension between Eros and Thanatos – the life instinct and the death drive – as identified by Sigmund Freud. Presenting paintings, sculptures and drawings by the likes of Katherine Bernhardt, Ma Yanhong Baoji, Oh de Laval, Sarah Lucas and David Shrigley, the curation emphasises vitality as a galvanising force and intimacy as a space of recognition.
Hepworth in Colour at the Courtauld, London: Until 6 September, 2026
If you think you know all there is to know about Barbara Hepworth, think again. The Courtauld’s remarkable exhibition Hepworth in Colour sheds new light on the British artist, honing in on a lesser-studied element of her practice: her obsession with hues. The meticulously researched display centres around a group of carvings in wood and stone, made in the 1940s and adorned with vibrant blues and yellows – some of her earliest experiments with colour in sculpture. These are shown alongside drawings from the same period (painted and graphic works experimenting with different combinations and shades) and pieces from the 50s and 60s, featuring painterly bronze surfaces and a surprising use of coloured marbles. A feast for the eyes.
Ed Atkins: 1 Day in Space at Gladstone, Seoul: 31 August – 31 October, 2026
The British artist Ed Atkins is renowned for his high-definition video work in which technological surrogates are employed to tackle very human themes like time, loss and the fine line between permanence and ephemerality. In a new exhibition for Gladstone’s Seoul gallery, however, he’s taking a more analogue approach to address the same ideas. The show will feature a major new moving image piece as well as a series of expanded photographic works, sculptures and frottages. Here we’ll see Atkins turn his eye away from the “alienation central to the virtual” to grapple instead with “the sentimental logic of the camera” through imagery of domestic life.
Check out Ed Atkins’ Art Project for the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine, here.
At YBCA in San Francisco, surrealist painter GaHee Park will soon unveil her first institutional solo exhibition in the US. The Seoul-born, Montreal-based artist’s work probes themes of fantasy, sexuality and mortality through uncanny depictions of private moments in domestic settings. Animals, fish and insects emerge in unexpected places, while female figures with long nails gaze forlornly out at the viewer or down into cocktail glasses, deep in contemplation. Sensual and unsettling, Park’s paintings deliberately trouble the traditional notion of subject, inviting us to peer behind the curtain.
Vantage Point 13 at the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah: 8 August – 29 November, 2026
Following an open call for artists whose work “evolves the possibilities of documentary photography”, Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual photography initiative, Vantage Point, will soon return for its 13th edition. This year, six artists working across different geographies and contexts have been selected to create new works for the purpose. The resulting exhibition reveals distinct but interconnected approaches, each as compelling as the next: Luisa Dörr, Latifa AlBokhari and Sathish Kumar “use portraiture and other observational strategies to attend to the nuances of lived experience,” the foundation explains, while Adam Rouhana, Guanyu Xu and Maheder Haileselassie, “shift the focus towards absence and rupture.”
The Northeast Corridor at Huxley-Parlour, London: Until 9 September, 2026
Huxley-Parlour’s current exhibition brings together the work of 16 artists based along America’s Northeast Corridor, the eponymous rail artery that runs down the East Coast from Washington DC to Boston. From Lois Dodd, Nicole Eisenman and Mala Iqbal to Alex Katz, Peter Saul and Peter Williams (the only deceased artist on display), the artists are connected not only by a shared sense of place but also by the region’s vital creative energy, defined by an “enduring spirit of experimentation and exchange” through good times and bad. The exhibition sets out to map this diverse yet interlinked terrain of artistic production, highlighting the unintentional shared aesthetic it has fostered.
Thuy Tien Nguyen: Press, Release at Gasworks, London: Until 13 September, 2026
At Gasworks, catch an impressive new work by rising Vietnamese artist Thuy Tien Nguyen, commissioned by the London non-profit art organisation and the Thailand Biennale. Titled Press, Release, the installation centres on a factory-style conveyor belt made from steel and salvaged fragments of intricately carved wood. Vietnamese, Thai and British vernacular objects jolt backwards and forwards along the belt in a choreographed routine, never quite reaching their intended destination – a pertinent metaphor for “a global system of circulation through which labour and goods flow, and cultures are transformed”.
Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope L at the Drawing Center, New York: Until 27 September
While the American artist Pope L was perhaps best known for his performances – in particular his Crawl series, for which he moved slowly across the streets of New York on his hands and knees – his prolific output extended to writing, installation, painting, collage and objects, as well as a significant number of works on paper. An ongoing exhibition at The Drawing Center in New York shines a light on this lesser-known facet of his practice, foregrounding several interrelated bodies of work on paper that are at once absurd, witty and probing, yet never entirely spelt out (as the artist once said, “I am suspicious of things that make sense”). Together, they make a compelling case that, for Pope L, drawing was never simply a medium but a crucial act of inquiry and a metaphor for artmaking itself.
Although August is notoriously quiet on the theatre and dance front, there are still some exciting productions worth seeking out this month. First up, the new revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s early play How the Other Half Loves, which has just opened at the Old Vic and runs until 19 September. The gist? A witty tale of sex, class and (as one might expect from the comedy-of-errors king) a swirling mess of marital misunderstanding. Arriving at the National Theatre from 19 August–10 October, meanwhile, is Electra/Persona, a new play by Benedict Andrews. Inspired by Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman, it stars Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, reunited after their fantastic turns in Tár. The blurb promises a “thrilling production [that] fuses ancient myth and modern psychology [to explore] identity, and the fragile line between who we are and who we play.” And we, for one, can’t wait.
Matthew Bourne’s award-winning production of The Car Man returns to Sadler’s Wells from 4–22 August. A rousing “dance thriller”, the story draws more on the 1947 film noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice than the Bizet opera. It unfolds in a greasy garage-diner in the American Midwest, where the arrival of a sultry stranger sparks “an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge”.
As summer draws to a close, one type of stage is positively thrumming: the festival stage – and there are a lot to choose from this month. Top of our list is Green Man, running from 20–23 August. Not only does the Welsh festival boast an extraordinary setting beneath the Black Mountains in Bannau Brycheiniog and an exceptional musical line-up – this year’s acts include Cat Power, Four Tet, Wolf Alice, Sparks, Cate Le Bon and Anna Calvi – it also hosts a rich programme of comedy, literature, science, film, performance and installation art. Then there are the wellness offerings, led by Soul Stretch, which range from yoga and meditation classes to massages and a wood-fired barrel sauna, all designed to support rest and reconnection. Lastly, those in search of locally sourced refreshment will enjoy Green Man’s dedicated Welsh Beer and Cider Festival, showcasing beers, ales and ciders from some of Wales’ best independent breweries.
For somewhere extra special a little further afield, the Maldives’ Fari Islands Festival is hard to beat. Returning for its second edition from 13–15 August 2026, the festival spans two luxury resorts – Patina Maldives and The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands – where a celebration of music, art, cuisine, wellbeing and culture unfolds against an idyllic oceanic backdrop. This year’s headliners include British actor Rosamund Pike, American designer Sean Wotherspoon, who will be leading a collaborative art residency, and legendary French singer-songwriter Sébastien Tellier. Michelin-starred chef Samuel Lee (of Parisian neo-bistrot SENsation) and Tokyo dining collective WAGYUMAFIA are among the culinary talents conjuring memorable dining experiences across the three-day event.
This month’s best film releases include Love Me Tender from French director Anna Cazenave Cambet – the story of a woman’s gruelling custody battle to keep her son in the face of her ex-husband’s prejudice about her sexuality. The End of Oak Street is the intriguing new offering from US director David Robert Mitchell of It Follows fame. It centres on the Platt family, who must stick together when they find their neighbourhood ripped from suburbia by a mysterious cosmic event. Matthew Johnson directs A24’s anticipated Anthony Bourdain biopic, Tony, charting the formative summer in which a 19-year-old Bourdain first encounters the intense, chaotic world of the professional kitchen.
Jane Schoenbrun returns with the brilliantly offbeat slasher Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which follows a filmmaker attempting to revive a cult horror franchise by coaxing its long-retired original star out of seclusion. Pedro Almodóvar is back, too – with Bitter Christmas, a poignant tragicomedy in which a filmmaker blurs the line between art and life, drawing ever more heavily on the experiences of those around him. While Gregg Araki’s new comedy-thriller, I Want Your Sex homes in on a well-meaning but aimless 20-something whose fantasies soon become reality when he begins working for a renowned artist and provocateur with no regard for office boundaries.
Among this month’s must-watch documentaries is A Child of My Own by Chilean director Maite Alberdi. The Netflix documentary-film hybrid centres on the complex true story of a woman’s unwavering desire to become a mother and an act that sends multiple lives spiralling out of control. Premiering on Mubi later in the month, Ancestral Visions of the Future, by Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, is a striking and intimate meditation on identity, childhood and death told through fragmented narratives and dreamlike imagery. Last but not least, Hanging By A Wire from Pakistani director Mohammed Ali Naqvi tells the nail-biting story of the 2023 cable car accident in which eight students were left dangling above a ravine in Pakistan’s mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.
Foodies, there are lots of enticing new offerings to satisfy your taste buds this August. First up, the new breakfast menu at St John’s wine bar in Neal’s Yard – ideal for anyone looking to grab a sumptuous sarnie on the move, or settle in with a perfectly paired drink for a more leisurely start to the day. Three buns are on offer: the bacon sandwich, the bacon and smoked cod’s roe bun and the anchovy bun, coupled with a refreshing breakfast perry, a glass of St John champagne or a zingy Bloody Mary. What’s not to love?
For tasty Cantonese fare served in a chic terrace setting, head straight for Cafe Kowloon, tucked away on Mentmore Terrace in London Fields. The restaurant has just opened its new outdoor space for the summer months, where you can enjoy its signature dishes – from Carlingford oysters with calamansi, and prawn toast with crispy prawn heads and chilli oil, to short rib with curry sauce, and Hong Kong-style French toast – in leafy seclusion.
If a seriously good bowl of pasta and a crisp glass of wine for £20 sounds like your idea of the dream lunch, make your way to Il Gattopardo in Mayfair, which has just launched its new Pasta & Vino menu. Each week, the team conjures a handmade pasta dish inspired by a different Italian region – this month’s picks are Sicily, Campania, Puglia, Umbria and Piemonte – paired with a matching regional wine. Available from 12pm until closing, the menu is served exclusively at the restaurant’s counter each day.
For more Italian-inspired fun, be sure to check out La Sagra di Shoreditch, a giant Italian street festival paying homage to Italy’s beloved Ferragosto celebrations. Hosted by Big Mamma’s Gloria on 15 August, the event will take over the lush gardens of the Museum of the Home. Guests will take their place at a long communal table to enjoy free-flowing Italian wine, live performances and a four-course feast from some of Shoreditch’s most-loved eateries, including Gloria, Kricket and Blacklock.
Edinburgh Festival-goers, a night at The Palmerston is in order this month. Throughout August, the city’s acclaimed modern European restaurant will host a trio of Sunday dinner takeovers, celebrating the diverse cuisines of Asia and cooked up by chef friends from Edinburgh and Glasgow. The series begins on 16 August with Ghar, the progressive Indian dining concept founded in Edinburgh by Bombay-born chef Yash Rajpal. On 23 August, sisters Fariya and Sahar Sharif of Glasgow favourite Parveen’s will showcase the vibrant flavours of their Pakistani heritage. While on 30 August, Tida Bradshaw of Thai-inspired pop-up Moo Noi will serve a feast combining the bold, herbaceous flavours of Northern Thailand with the finest Scottish produce.
Finally, if you’re looking to take an incredibly relaxing city break centred around delicious food, look no further than Bath’s Francis Hotel. The beautifully renovated Georgian building boasts elegantly decorated bedrooms, a cheery doorman with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the city and a luxurious new spa, replete with reviving facials, restorative massages and an Espuro foam steam bath. But perhaps best of all is the hotel restaurant, the British brasserie Emberwood, which serves up some of Bath’s tastiest dishes, made from seasonal ingredients cooked over an open flame. Sample such delights as coal-roasted Cornish scallops served with garlic butter and gremolata, or burnt aubergine with goat’s curd, confit tomatoes and green beans, followed by the St Mawes market fish of the day or the succulent South West côte de bœuf, alongside Koffmann fries or hispi cabbage. Bon appétit!
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