This week's edit - 24th October 2016

Seeing
Philippe Parreno's installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is fascinating and immersive.  Called 'Anywhen', it is a constantly changing and evolving combination of lights, sound, moving sculptural shapes and will be different every time you visit.

Watching
American Honey is one of my favourite films so far this year.  A sun-bleached freewheeling beautiful road trip with stunning performances from its cast of mostly unknowns, it is prompting me to go back and look at director Andrea Arnold's earlier films, of which I have only seen the brilliant Fish Tank.

Reading
I can seemingly never have enough cookbooks and Simple by Diana Henry is the newest addition to my collection.  I love it and am quickly working my way through the simple tasty and healthy recipes.

This week's edit - 17th October 2016

Reading
A Poem for Every Night of the Year does exactly what it says on the tin and is a beautiful looking book as well.

Seeing
Philippe Parreno at Tate Modern is intriguing, thought-provoking and challenging.  Aiming to give the viewer a different experience every time they visit, its combination of lights, sound, installation and video creates a weirdly calm and atmospheric mood in the Turbine Hall.

Watching
My last London Film Festival viewing was the premiere gala of Tom Ford's second film, Nocturnal Animals.  Gripping and stylish, it has shades of Hitchcock and I highly recommend it.

This week's edit - 10th October 2016

Watching

It's London Film Festival time!  So far, I have seen two wonderful films, both of which will be on general release over the next few months.  A United Kingdom is based on the true story of a white woman from London who falls in love and marries Seretse Khama, a future King from Botswana, in the 1940s.  It is warm and romantic and moving.

La La Land is my favourite film so far this year.  A musical romance which is nostalgic for the Golden Age of Hollywood, yet somehow also contemporary and inventive, it is beautiful, dazzling, warm, funny and full of real chemistry between the leads Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

Seeing

Picasso Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery is a fascinating exhibition, showing the breadth of Picasso's genius.  I particularly enjoyed a display of three portraits of three women, each using a completely different style to draw out their personalities and characteristics.

Reading

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple was one of favourite books of recent years, so I am very much looking forward to getting stuck into her next novel, Today Will Be Different.