Culture

These lot know good art. They’ve been predicting the Next Big Thing since 1949, like Damien Hirst, Mark Leckey and even David Hockney. So take a moment and check out this year’s New Contemporaries – they’ll be filling a gallery near you soon.

Things to watch, follow and listen to ahead of the 3rd November showdown.

A fixation with horror runs in the Cronenberg family. Following in his father’s footsteps, the visionary director uncovers the chilling meaning behind his latest film release.

Inspired by the original football fanzines of the ’80s and ’90s, two lifelong Gooners – Ed Fenwick and Max Giles – decided to set up their own a few years back.

The 16-year-old’s diss track to a Lancashire rival is an improbable mega-hit with TikTok’s American superstars. But does Madison Beer really understand “a manky Scouse brow”?

What do a Glaswegian artist and a former Mr Universe have in common? They're related! And they both love the art of honing a svelte physique.

Taken from the second issue of Scenic Views, an independent interiors magazine by photographer Lorena Lohr and writer Louise Benson, see an exclusive photo series of car and truck interiors in Dover and Japan.

He’s starred alongside A$AP Rocky, been directed by Steve McQueen and will soon be joining season two of TV’s most modish, explosive show, Euphoria.

Homemade rugs are the latest trend to blow up on TikTok and Instagram. Here we profile our favourite tufters flipping their hobby into a side hustle.

These are the breakouts appearing in the highly anticipated Grand Army, Enola Holmes, Tiny Pretty Things and Nocturne, out this autumn.

Teenage TikTokers are going wobbly with excitement for the storied French cookware brand. Whatever next!!!!?

While movie theatres are suffering, Peak TV is climbing higher, reaching further – and reinventing itself as cinema. James Balmont breaks down the cult Japanese and Korean television shows you need to watch.

Jacob Adam Alvarez is the mastermind behind alt-music and culture platform Marquee Marauders Club. But he’s also building a cult following with his collectable pint-sized figurines.

The young Atlanta actor who’s dirt-biking to stardom.

The New Delhi-born photographer has documented LGBTQ+ life for over 50 years in India, the US and here in the UK. Now, The Photographer’s Gallery is commemorating his body of work with a retrospective, from the streets of New York to various parks in Delhi.

Relax. Smoke a fag. Put it out. See your friends. See the sights. Feel alright. Stare at the really good prints by emerging New York-via-Tokyo artist, Monika Mogi.

A slime-filled respite from ongoing global catastrophe, the jelly bean battle royale has become one of the biggest games of 2020. Now its developers want it to become a very different kind of platform.

Following the toppling of racist statues around the world, five Black London-based designers share their visions for systemic, abstract and physical spaces of Black joy exclusively for The Face.

The Czech-born, New York-based photographer presents a series that journeys through her formative years in her small hometown, her escape to New York, her immigrant status – and, now, her vibrant challenges to “oppression and constriction”.

With the help of Jamie Hawkesworth, JW Anderson, Ashley Williams, Ronan McKenzie (and loads more), online marketplace Beirut Re-Store hopes to raise money following the city’s devastating explosion earlier this year.

If you’ve ever studied abroad or simply wanted to, Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s new series Emily in Paris is required viewing.

The Saint Maud actress is about to hit the big time in a billion-dollar TV reboot of Lord of the Rings.

The Fargo actress and skater-slash-Calvin Klein-model may not actually be related – as was once reported – but they sure do share the same creative DNA.