Wednesday Art Idol
Art
August Sander: the pioneering German documentary photographer who captured the face of a nation
Sarah Lucas: interrogating gender norms through euphemism and innuendo
Claude Cahun: the French surrealist who inspired Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin
Helen Levitt: a pioneer of street photography who captured the theatre of daily life in New York
Jenny Saville: the British painter challenging body norms with studies in human flesh
balaclava palava
Fashion
Raf Simons reveals his FW21 campaign shot by Willy Vanderperre
hound of hades
“Violence always weaves in and out of my work,” US artist Mark Bradford on confronting historical trauma
Crooner’s delight
Music
Jarvis Cocker and Wes Anderson have collaborated on a new album for The French Dispatch
taking the piss
Thirsty? British artist Gavin Turk is flogging cans of his own urine
A tale of two sisters
Film+TV
Shared psychosis and intergenerational trauma: Northern Irish director Cathy Brady on her blistering debut, Wildfire
not to be missed
Buy tickets to see Denis Villeneuve talk about Dune in London
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
cabinet of curiosities
Inside Alessandro Michele’s fantastical Gucci stationary store
if it ain’t broke
JW Anderson launch their second collection dedicated to Oscar Wilde
kit reveal
Dior and Kim Jones unveil new uniforms for Paris Saint Germain
Megalopolis
20 years in the making, Francis Ford Coppola will start work on his new film next year
hybrid forms
Loewe’s new Eye/Loewe/Nature collection is a triumph in patchwork and upcycling
bubblegram
Balenciaga present the Laser Cube, a shoe hologram inside a block of glass
porcelain distortion
Rachel Kneebone: the artist balancing beauty and chaos in motion
Cut-and-paste
Speaking to Jim Jarmusch: the legendary filmmaker talks us through his collage art compositions