2019

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Visual Arts 

Painter Anna Liber Lewis and musician Kieran Hebden AKA Four Tet are lifelong friends. Elephant West brings them together for Muscle Memory, a multi-sensory exhibition

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Netflix 

From Jake Gyllenhaal looking arty in Velvet Buzzsaw to Ellen Page's comic book renaissance in The Umbrella Academy, Netflix in February will be full of surreal and fantastic adventures

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Design 

The Design Museum Home Futures exhibition looks at the past, present and future of our living spaces

Tried and Tested

Cinema 

Tackling police brutality and revolt, Monsters and Men feels urgent – only months after Cannes hit BlackKklansman. John David Washington stars

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Fashion 

The Favourite has been a hit with audiences and critics. Now, Kensington Palace is hosting a display of the costumes worn by Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone

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Kids 

After The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Ninjago Movie, the original master builders return with The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part

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Cinema 

Female filmmakers are paving the way for an exciting year in the entertainment industry. From biopics to blockbusters, women are taking the reigns in the new year

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Kids 

After two hit films, How to Train Your Dragon returns to complete the trilogy with The Hidden World this half-term

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Cinema 

A worldwide bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner, The Goldfinch is being turned into the film. Nicole Kidman and Sarah Paulson star

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Cinema 

Richard Linklater adapts Maria Semple's hit novel, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, starring Cate Blanchett as a woman who disappears just before a trip to Antarctica

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Kids 

Joe Cornish made a star out of John Boyega with Attack the Block, now he's back with The Kid Who Would Be King

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Classical Music 

This Burns Night, amidst the candle-lit backdrop of St. James' church, violinist Harriet Mackenzie joins the Piccadilly Sinfonietta to perform Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and other baroque masterpieces

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Cinema 

From a Pulitzer Prize-winner to yet another Little Women remake, books being made to movies are coming thick and fast in 2019

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Immersive 

From MI5 sleuthing to sun-soaked seventies disco, here are the kooky adventures and immersive experiences London will get in 2019

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Netflix 

2019 kicks off with plenty of thrills, laughs, and scares this January. Netflix UK highlights include A Series of Unfortunate Events and the new coming-of-age story Sex Education

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Best of 

From the final season of Game of Thrones to the long anticipated second season of Big Little Lies, 2019 is a year packed with excellent television

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Cinema 

Festival season tickled our tastebuds, but there are many movies to look forward to, 2019 Oscars and beyond. Disney rules, but not alone: 10 upcoming films will change the game

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Lifestyle 

From tracking social media usage to ditching the diet, we round up the lifestyle choices and wellness buzzwords expected to be big this year

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Cinema 

Shoplifters won the Palme d'Or in Cannes and everyone is still talking about Roma – foreign-language cinema couldn't be more exciting. Here are our picks for the new year

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Things to do 

Brace yourselves: it’s a big year for culture in London

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Best of 

Look out for these debut novelists and rising stars of the literary world in the coming months

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Shopping 

Get ahead of the game and start making dates with the best 2019 diaries and planners

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Theatre 

After sell-out shows in Ireland and Edinburgh, Class brings its sharp tale of social inequality to The Bush Theatre in 2019