Art 

City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris 1920s–1940s
National Gallery Singapore

Between the two world wars, Paris was a playground for artists such as Picasso and Dalí. This group show reframes the era from an Asian perspective, spotlighting talented painters, such as Georgette Chen and Amrita Sher-Gil, and Paris-based designers and furniture makers from Asia. Often sidelined at the time, this overdue corrective explores their influence on Western art.
‘City of Others’ runs from 2 April to 17 August 2025

Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão: Between Your Teeth
Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian 

Varejão is one of Brazil’s leading contemporary artists, famed for using cracked Portuguese tiles as a visual metaphor for subjects such as colonialism and religion. She co-curates this two-hander, drawing parallels with the work of Paula Rego, who shared a desire to tackle taboos.
‘Between Your Teeth’ runs from 11 April to 15 September 2025

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Photography

Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

A trained photographer, Sugiura’s first multimedia works happened by chance in 1967 when she moved to New York and couldn’t find a darkroom. Coating canvases in photo emulsion started a lifetime of experimentation. The artist has oscillated between the soft expressiveness of her brush and the focus of her lens ever since.
‘Kunié Sugiura’ runs from 26 April to 14 September 2025

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Books

Children of Radium 
Joe Dunthorne

In this memoir, poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne investigates the life of his great-grandfather Siegfried, a Jewish scientist who worked in Germany between the wars developing, among other substances, radioactive toothpaste and poison gas. Siegfried wrote a near 2,000-page memoir, which Dunthorne’s father called “a bit of a slog”. By contrast, Children of Radium is anything but: a funny and moving family history that troubles even as it entertains.
‘Children of Radium’ is published on 3 April

The Accidentals
Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey

Nettel, one of Mexico’s most well-regarded authors, returns with a collection exploring the ways in which ordinary lives can turn upside down. Sometimes these changes, such as the one described in “The Pink Door”, are brought about by magic. Other stories, such as the brilliantly menacing “Playing with Fire”, suspend us in a space somewhere between realism and horror-tinged fantasy.
‘The Accidentals’ is published on 10 April

On the Calculation ofVolume, Books I & II
Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J Haveland

The first two books of Danish writer Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation ofVolume are published simultaneously. They follow Tara, a bookseller, as she lives repeatedly through the same November day. If the conceit isn’t original, the beauty and philosophical heft that Balle brings to it is.
‘On the Calculation ofVolume’ Books I & II are published on 10 April

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TV

Government Cheese
Apple TV1

David Oyelowo, alongside his wife and producing partner Jessica, signed a first-look deal with Apple TV+ after his work on their series Silo convinced him of the streamer’s commitment to originality and artistic integrity. Their collaboration, surrealist comedy Government Cheese, features Oyelowo as a 1960s family man intent on grabbing his slice of the American dream.
‘Government Cheese’ is released on 16 April

The Eternaut
Netflix

One of Argentina’s most celebrated literary works, The Eternaut is a dystopian comic series about the survivors of a mysterious, toxic snowfall, now left to battle new oppressors. It proved unexpectedly prescient for its writer, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, who was disappeared by the country’s military dictatorship in 1977. Now, a Spanish-language adaptation shot in Buenos Aires hopes to honour his legacy.
‘The Eternaut’ is released on 30 April

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Music 

Slipper Imp and Shakaerator
Babe Rainbow

Listening to Babe Rainbow will immediately transport you to their native Rainbow Bay in East Australia. This album was recorded in a warehouse on a banana farm and is full of their trademark sunny acid-pop sounds. The breezy “Long Live the Wilderness” hides the track’s theme of the loss of innocence. Another highlight is “Like Cleopatra”, featuring fun synth-funk beats.
‘Slipper Imp and Shakaerator’ is released on 4 April 

Jesucrista Superstar
Rigoberta Bandini

This is Spanish singer Paula Ribó González’s follow-up to her successful 2022 record La Emperatriz. The 22-track album traverses from the danceable electro pop of “Kaiman”, which sounds like it could be a winning Eurovision entry, to the poignant single “Pamela Anderson”, a tribute to the American actress. A big summer tour across Spain is on the horizon.
‘Jesucrista Superstar’ is out now

Music Can Hear Us 
DJ Koze

The German DJ and music producer returns with an album released on his own label, Pampa Records. The cosmic-inspired record has an A-list set of contributors, including Damon Albarn on “Pure Love” and Ada and Sofia Kourtesis on “Tu Dime Cuando”. Progressive house track “Unbelievable” is a highlight, as is the otherworldly cover of the 1983 iconic summer hit “Vamos a la Playa” by Italian duo Righeira.
‘Music Can Hear Us’ is released on 4 April

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Film 

The End 
Joshua Oppenheimer 

Having made The Act of Killing, one of the most inventive documentaries in memory, and followed it up with further acclaimed non-fiction work, it would have been easy for filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer to remain in his comfort zone. Instead, he has defied expectations by returning to cinemas with an audacious post-apocalyptic musical starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon as the heads of a family clinging to their privilege after an extinction-level event.
‘The End’ is released on 28 March 

The Most Precious of Cargoes
Michel Hazanavicius

The first animated feature to compete for the Palme d’Or since Waltz with Bashir in 2008 takes on similar themes of war, dehumanisation and trauma. In this case, a fairy-tale retelling of the Holocaust centres around a baby abandoned just outside Auschwitz. It’s a lyrical fable that includes the perspective of those who enacted these horrors – and some who defied them.
‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ is released on 4 April

The Amateur
James Hawes

In troubled times, escapism and familiarity can be attractive, so the timing of The Amateur could not be more perfect. James Hawes’ spy thriller is based on the 1981 Robert Littell novel, which was previously adapted for the screen starring Christopher Plummer. It has now been reimagined with Rami Malek as a CIA operative who goes on a quest to avenge his wife’s death.
‘The Amateur’ is released on 11 April