The best children's and young adult books of 2018 (so far)

The best children's and young adult books of 2018 (so far)

12 new good books to read this July

Inside Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

The exhibition's curators talk us through the enduring style legacy of Frida Kahlo From Harper's BAZAAR

The V&A’s Next Exhibition Is About Mary Quant

Celebrating the swinging 60s

V&A to open a second museum inspired by Balenciaga

The venue will be in Stratford

Five reasons to visit the RA Summer Exhibition

It’s the gallery’s 250th anniversary and they are celebrating in style

Books Of The Month: 'Florida' And 'Warlight'

A dark short story collection from Obama's favourite writer and a new novel from the author of 'The English Patient'

See a preview of the Azzedine Alaïa exhibition

The highly anticipated exhibition opens at The Design Museum tomorrow From Harper's BAZAAR

The Instagram book clubs you need to know about

From Emma Watson's and Reese Witherspoon's to the feminist girl gang From Cosmopolitan

7 books to read while you wait for Big Little Lies

Get ready to lose yourself in some amazing storytelling. From Cosmopolitan

London opens public exhibition for suffrages

Sadiq Khan opens a expansive public exhibition to celebrate those who contributed to women receiving the vote

Andreas Gursky, Hayward Gallery, London, review: Great and fascinating detail

The Hayward Gallery has re-opened after two years of closure for a refurbishment. Except on the top floor, which now has those conical skylights in place that Henry Moore recommended be put in at the beginning. Now they are in at last, and we have the beneficence of natural light streaming down – which is a welcome addition.

Lady Windermere's Fan, Vaudeville Theatre, London, review: Jennifer Saunders is inspired casting

Kathy Burke directs this second major production in the year long celebration of Oscar Wilde's work that Dominic Dromgoole and his new company Classic Spring are bringing to the West End. Like their version of A Woman of No Importance, which kicked off the season, this revival helps to rejuvenate the play by some sparky casting and by pouring real feeling into the creaky melodramatic conventions from which Wilde, in his first West End foray, was unable to free himself. If Lady Windermere's Fan is not as good a play, it similarly demonstrates the author's shrewd empathy for the position of women and for the sacrifices and accommodations forced on them by polite society.

Chanel Just Opened A Members-Only Club In New York City

Here's how to get into the Coco Club

There's an Entire Exhibit in Paris Dedicated to YSL's Most Gorgeous Designs and It's a Must-See

*Books ticket to France*

18 books to read before they're turned into films

So you can be the one who says "well, this wasn't the same in the original..." From Cosmopolitan UK

Dali/Duchamp, Royal Academy, review: A sometimes silly, sometimes lovely juxtaposition of the artists' work

Was there really much in common between that consummate, wax-moustachioed showman Salvador Dali and the cerebral, secretive Marcel Duchamp, founding father of conceptual art, and inventor of the idea of the ready-made? Things will be a little easier next year, when the Royal Academy finally expands into the space once occupied by the old Museum of Mankind on its 250th birthday.

Romeo and Juliet, Royal Festival Hall, London, review: an uphill struggle

English National Ballet's Romeo and Juliet is full of things that don't fit. Rudolf Nureyev's production has bright ideas that don't find satisfying theatrical shape, while this revival has been squeezed onto the ballet-unfriendly stage of the Royal Festival Hall. The revival marks the 40th anniversary of Nureyev's 1977 staging.

Coming Clean, King's Head Theatre, London, review: an entertaining revival of Kevin Elyot's debut play

Just as the Park Theatre is presenting the posthumous premiere of Kevin Elyot's play Twilight Song, the King's Head offers us the first London revival of the dramatist's debut piece, originally seen at the Bush in 1982. Adam Spreadbury-Maher's production headlines the theatre's 2017 Queer Season.

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London, review: fascinating and necessary

This huge show is both a visual presentation and a densely worked, heavily documented argument. It is the story of the emergence of the black art of America during the fraught, politically contested era of 1963 and on. It takes in movements, key historical moments across the nation – the death of Martin Luther King (his soaring voice greets us as we walk into the first room), the Watts riots in Los Angeles, the emergence of the Black Panthers – and it shows us the art which emerged as a direct consequence of the struggle to create a black voice, a black identity.

Rock royalty descend on Pink Floyd retrospective at the V&A

Rock royalty turn up to Pink Floyd retrospective at V&A museum in South Kensington

Shaping fashion: Behold the V&A's 2017 Balenciaga retrospective

London’s Victoria and Albert museum has played host to some of the greatest fashion exhibitions of the past decade; from 2013’s David Bowie (which sold 311,956 tickets), The Hollywood Costume show in 2012 (251,738 tickets) and, of course, Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty expo that raked in half a million visitors. 

Could art classes be the new book clubs?

“Wow, that’s brilliant,” exclaims a tourist, cooing over my boyfriend’s easel, as we stand side-by-side painting the view outside’s Mayfair’s Connaught hotel. Who knew that a five-star art course would be the activity that pushed my previously happy relationship to the brink? In contrast, Terence, my beloved, spent his teens mooning moodily about an art room, and has been known to whip out a sketch pad while on hols.

A new Buckingham Palace exhibition will show off the Queen's royal gifts

Put the Palace’s latest exhibition on your summer to-do list now.

Le Sacre du printemps, Sadler’s Wells, London, review: This is the best staging of Le Sacre I know

Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is terrifying. It’s a coup for English National Ballet to acquire this production, another sign of artistic director Tamara Rojo’s ambitions for the company. Created in 1975 for Bausch’s own dancers, this Sacre has been danced by only one other ballet company, the Paris Opéra.