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Back in March, The Residence Gallery’s Ed Lesson and Ingrid Welsh initiated a mail art response to the lack of physical communication at the height of the pandemic. Now, the artists are showing their work in The Correspondence – an exhibition held in east London.

Today, 59 countries open their borders for quarantine-free travel, including France. Oh la la. We asked hip-hop party heads Yard Paris and the co-founder of Paris’ famed La Creole club night to curate a coronavirus-friendly itinerary for your next trip to the capital.

As the lockdown starts to lift, the UK’s galleries are opening their doors to the public so you can finally get your fill of some proper fine art. Social distancing regulations still apply. Enjoy – but wear a mask.

The breakout star of Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk is back on our screens with a role in a comic-book movie. Lockdown might have left her in limbo, but Layne remains resolutely focused on her goal: to break through the boundaries and limitations of Hollywood.

It was during Lesbian Visibility Day when London-based photographer Vic Lentaigne thought to reach out to her queer community. The result is smoochin’, huggin’ and a whole lotta luvin’.

With increasingly exposed police brutality and calls to defund the force, is it time the film industry put one of its most successful genres into custody?

For the fourth and final guest edit of Browns' Family Affair initiative, the renowned fashion visionary taps into his community to curate a manifesto for the future.

The Anti-Racism photography fundraiser features prints by the likes of Corinne Day, Mario Sorrenti, Renell Medrano, Martin Parr and Wolfgang Tillmans that you can pick up for £100 a pop, with all proceeds going to Black British charities.

What do Givenchy’s Matthew Williams, Lily-Rose Depp, and Jeff Goldblum have in common? They are all feasting on the same lit.

Non-essential shopping gets the green-light. But how will coronavirus impact the future of retail? We asked four of our most-loved stores to weigh in.

The British-Zimbabwean comedian and satirist on making his way to viral success, using the news as comic inspiration and how the state of the world has made for some of his best work yet.

Two years ago, 13 photographers were asked to document the last stop of a London tube line. Here, we speak to four of them to find out what they captured – and what they discovered in doing so.

Starting off in BBC soap EastEnders, British-Indian actor Himesh Patel has moved on to roles that go against usual BAME type casting, starring in period drama The Luminaries and Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic, Tenet. It’s all about changing perceptions, he says.

Rock Against Racism was the pioneering UK organisation that used music to take on the fascists of the National Front in the face of violence and establishment cowardice. A new documentary tells its story.

The posters of 36 international artists – including Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Koons, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky and William Eggleston – are on sale to raise funds for queer nightlife collectives experiencing financial hardship due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Pat McGrath muse Paloma Elsesser doles out six Botticelli-worthy poses over Zoom for Sketch Sesh regulars and some of her art-appreciating followers.

The annual Portrait of Humanity award has shortlisted Vivek Vadoliya’s image of 16-year-old Ebony Horse Club rider Maxim to be exhibited 111,000ft above Earth.

Movies. TV. Quibis? Here’s a list of everything that will be gracing a screen or iPhone near you in the next four months that’s worth seeking out.

As a producer on a spine-tingling new podcast based on a popular Reddit creepypasta, Borrasca, Sprouse is banking on his fans to get their scares from what he is calling a radio serial.

Through deft social satire and political allegory, South Korea has not only grasped a defining monster of western cinema for themselves – they’re now leading hordes across the globe with a brand of undead movie-making of their own.

An intensely creative life in 300 items, curated in a new exhibition in Copenhagen. Blood-splattered mementos, artist’s own.

The director of The King of Staten Island pushes the envelope with a risky comedy that pays off in laughs.