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Me & You

Lorenzo is a teenaged misfit who takes a strange kind of refuge in the grimy basement of his apartment building, until drug-dependent Olivia appears.

Reality

Luciano, a Neapolitan fishmonger, decides he wants to become famous and sets out to be a contestant on Grande Fratello , the Italian version of Big Brother.

The Place Beyond the Pines

The Place Beyond the Pines is an exploration of the things that happen beyond the expectations of society.

Organised Chaos

Jason Rhoades, Four Roads at ICA Philadelphia will be the artist’s first major exhibition at an American museum, revealing his sprawling environments made from a wide range of materials.

Music to Our Ears

Headphones have gone further than music. Now they’re about fashion and style, and maybe even art as well. Here’s how it happened – and where it’s all going.

Airline Style at 30,000 Feet

Airline Style is a compendium that highlights the different eras in aviation, the accompanying change in styles and the overarching views of society.

Momentary Views

Choosing a palette of bright hues, ordinary people and American landscapes, Joel Sternfeld is a multi-award-winning master of photography.

Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s, V&A

The information available for the V&A’s latest exhibition, Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s instantly inspires thoughts of the 2003 film Party Monster. Curated by Claire Wilcox.

Katie Scott, Illustrator and Artist

Katie Scott is the detailed hand behind Bombay Bicycle Club’s album cover for How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep. Based in London she explains in this video how she began producing art.

Edinburgh Art Festival

The Edinburgh Art Festival returns to Scotland from 1 August, immersing the city in cultural explorations of art. Running until 1 September, the festival features no less than 50 exhibitions.

Lees Rooney: High Voltage Acts of Kindness, longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize

Lees Rooney is a collaborative partnership between poet/ writer Janet Lees and photographer/ videographer Rooney. The pair works with a range of art projects that combine words, sound and film.

Bruce Nauman: ARTIST ROOMS On Tour at York St Mary’s, York

The diverse art of renowned artist Bruce Nauman is on show in York St Mary’s until 10 November. Nauman rose to prominence in the 1960s working across a broad spectrum of different media.

Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light

Brandt’s visual explorations of the society, landscape and literature of England are indispensible to any understanding of photographic history.

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist, London

Tate’s recent move to introduce Muslim artists to British and European art enthusiasts is perfectly timed. Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist will be on display at Tate until 22 September.

Thomas Scheibitz: ONE-Time Pad at BALTIC, Gateshead

An exhibition of new and recent work by Thomas Scheibitz, one of the leading German artists of his generation is currently on display at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.

Liam Gillick: For the doors that are welded shut, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Gillick’s third appearance at Kerlin Gallery sees two new works taking over the space – Complete Bin Development is complemented by A Short Song, a wall text in powder coated aluminium.

Interview with Steve Lake, Production at ECM Records

Selected Signs is a collection of six disks featuring the music that was selected for the ECM exhibition, ECM – A Cultural Archaeology, at Haus der Kunst in Munich at the start of the year.

Jeremy Deller: It’s a Kind of English Magic, London

A selection of Deller’s works are on display at the British Council. Currently representing England at the Venice Biennale, Deller’s show in Italy has already attracted over 12,000 visitors per week.

Samuel Wright, Short Fiction Finalist in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition

Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition, Samuel Wright’s stories have appeared in a variety of collections and magazines, including the Bristol Short Story Prize anthologies.

Aesthetica Short Film Festival at V&A Friday Late

ASFF is a celebration of independent film and an outlet for championing short filmmaking. This Friday, a special programme of films from the 2012 festival will be screened at the V&A, London.