“I was born with a dislocated hip. The doctor said I’d never walk,” remembers Sonia, an Iowa-born horse trainer, in the opening pages of Kathryn Scanlan’s new novel Kick The Latch. “I was in there five months… Ended up I could walk. I attribute that to Dr Johnson. My mom always said, Well, if it wasn’t for Dr Johnson.”

So begins the story of Sonia. As the years unfold, it quickly becomes clear thathellip;

When curating her latest show, Face to Face, for the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, writer and curator Helen Molesworth was inspired by her conflicting feelings about art openings, which arose during the Covid-19 pandemic. Having never really enjoyed the events, especially the small talk they required, she missed them deeply when they were no longer happening, namely because of the ways in which they connected her to whathellip;

With her first solo exhibition Inside, Outside opening at the Truman Brewery, Moroccan artist Zaineb Abelque presents a reflexive meditation on her personal life and the flesh that imbues it with meaning, which for Abelque is, “people, identity, religion”. Exploring the Ramadan and Eid celebration period – a time of year in Islamic faith centred on spiritual introspection, discipline and community – the three tenetshellip;

Kehinde Wiley is the widely acclaimed LA-born, New York-based artist known for his large-scale, maximalist portraits of contemporary Black figures. Often, the people in Wiley’s paintings are passersby scouted in the streets of cities around the world like Mumbai, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro. His figures, usually backdropped by vividly coloured floral patterns or landscapes, are portrayed with the precision of his signature, hyper-realistic stylehellip;

In 1973, a party in the basement of a West Bronx apartment building birthed the genre and cultural phenomenon now known as hip-hop. A new show at Fotografiska in New York – Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious, co-curated by Sacha Jenkins and Sally Berman – chronicles hip-hop’s evolution through more than 200 photographs. Spanning the years 1972 to 2022, the exhibition features both familiar and rare portraitshellip;

Kim Jones’ inspiration for his Dior menswear ebbs and flows like a tide. Or, maybe, you could say he deep-dives through the house’s legacy, looking for unexpected pearls. There was a watery undercurrent – yes, a pun – to his Winter 2023 Dior Men’s collection, but it was also very much a collection embedded in the storied histories of a house with a legacy so rich few could rival it. For this outing, Jones decided not only to pay homage to Christian Dior himself, but tohellip;

Collectivity and connectivity. Since the death of Virgil Abloh in November 2021, Louis Vuitton’s menswear collections have been team exercises in collaboration, both between the members of the house’s design team themselves, and a selection of outside artists and creatives who wish, in some shape or form, to pay homage to Abloh’s legacy and influence.

Jerzy Skolimowski has made his most electric film since the 80s in his 80s. Directed by the 84-year-old Polish auteur with a rock ‘n’ roll punk attitude, EO follows a donkey on a solo, sparse odyssey as he escapes scrapes, lands in sci-fi scenarios, and proves the medium has been wasting its time with human protagonists. Featuring football hooligans, robot creatures, and high-end fashion shoots,hellip;

“I don’t give a shit about the New Romantics,” says the Toronto-based filmmaker Kevin Hegge, who has spent the last decade of his life working on a feature-length documentary about ... the New Romantics. What he means is that he doesn’t care for the common tropes that people fall back on when talking about the movement that emerged out of London’s nightclub scene in the late 1970s and 1980s – the drag-adjacent make-up, the flamboyant style, the blurring of genderhellip;

In 2018, activists staged a die-in beside a 2,000-year-old Egyptian temple in the Sackler Wing of New York’s Metropolitan Museum. The protest targeted the billionaire Sackler family – whose company Purdue Pharma is responsible for the manufacture of prescription painkiller OxyContin – in a bid to hold them accountable for their role in an opioid epidemic that has claimed more than 500,000 lives since 2000 in the US. The next year, the same group launched a blizzard of fake OxyContinhellip;

Tucked away in the chaotic neighbourhood of Chinatown, Emily Adams Bode Aujla’s New York apartment looks like it belongs by the beach in Cape Cod, not in the claustrophobic heart of Manhattan. With rich wood panelling, lacy white curtains, dried flowers, and a corduroy sofa that guests are encouraged to draw on, the apartment – which Emily shares with her husband, business partner and unofficial muse Aaron Singh Aujla – is like a microcosm of the Bodehellip;

Wales Bonner

With references to James Baldwin, the Maharaja and Maharani of Indore, and Josephine Baker, Grace Wales Bonner’s first physical Paris show was culturally rich, as has long been the thread of the designer’s practice – making clothes that not only visually delight but consciously intrigue. Held in the elegant rooms of the Hôtel d’Évreux and produced under the title Twilight Reverie,hellip;

For the first time since he took the helm of Saint Laurent in 2016, Anthony Vaccarello unveiled a dedicated men’s collection in the centre of Paris for the Autumn/Winter 2023 season. It isn’t that he hasn’t been showing menswear, of course – Vaccarello’s men’s shows have trotted the globe, taking place against the exceptional backdrops of California beach-fronts, Venetian lagoons and the Sahara desert. But this time, he brought it back to Saint Laurent’s home in ahellip;

A new book from Hato Press collates three instalments of a long-running series exploring the sumptuous foods seen in films. Cooking with Scorsese: The Collection is described as an “homage to both food, and to films that celebrate eating” in a foreword written by The Gourmand editor Ananda Pellerin. And in a 567-page tome of screenshot sequences from over 50 films, delicacies fromhellip;

Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s orgiastic ode to the debauchery of pre-Code Hollywood, is a curious beast: part love letter to the frontier age of American filmmaking, part furniture-smashing takedown of the era’s whitewashing in the history books. It’s a story with two leads – one, the classic Hollywood ingénue (Margot Robbie) who enjoys a whirlwind rise to the top, and two, a Mexican immigrant (Diego Calva) who we first see pushing anhellip;