UK premiere of choreographer Akram Khan’s take on the Mesopotamian epic poem Gilgamesh. Yet she also makes gorgeously sensual abstract canvases that breathe the politics of beauty. She combats injustice with direct, explicit interventions such as her 1980 video Free, White and 21, and paintings that engage with the history of slavery and apartheid. The 78-year-old Pindell has been fighting racism for decades. It’s a glittering portrait of a gilded age. This exhibition shows how Peter Carl Fabergé, egg-maker to the tsar, set up a London branch in 1903 to sell ornate wonders including a bejewelled cigarette case to the oligarchic Edwardian elite. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 20 Nov to 8 Mayįabulous for fashionistas … and historians of Russian-British relations. This show should be a bracing intellectual blast. Yet she switches to conceptual art to theoretically dissect media images. She won the Turner prize, after all, with an installation that restages Hogarth and paints enigmatic and perturbing narrative scenes. The art of Himid is not everyone’s idea of “modern”. His images of new landscapes and strange beasts are utterly beguiling. This exhibition chases his restless Renaissance spirit by following his journeys to Venice, where he fancied the soldiers, and Flanders where he saw and praised Aztec art. National Gallery, London, 20 Nov to 27 FebĪlbrecht Dürer is the Leonardo of the north, an endlessly curious mind. Moving images … A detail from Albrecht Dürer’s Lot and His Daughters. An underdog story as much about the feels as the fights. Halle Berry directs and stars as Jackie Justice, a disgraced former mixed martial arts fighter, who must get back in the ring to support the son she gave up as an infant following his father’s death.
Highly recommended, and not as twee as that premise might suggest.Ī brainy and brilliant film based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s stately adaptation takes its time to build an intimate portrait of a Japanese theatre director grappling with the infidelities of his late wife, an anxiety he expresses through his work staging a production of Uncle Vanya. It’s a much-overused phrase, but the man is a literal gamechanger.Ī delicate, autumnal, 72-minute dream of a film, the latest from the French director Céline Sciamma finds a little girl connecting emotionally with her mother, in a magic realist time-loop where they are both eight years old. Starring Will Smith, this biopic of Richard Williams, father of Venus and Serena, tells the story of a parent/coach so dedicated to his job that his daughters would transform tennis for ever.
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