Evening Standard - ES Magazine
CAPITAL GAINS features a Steve McQueen dream team
1 WATCH THIS SPACE
Timeless timepiece fans should head to Westfield White City stat for Tudor’s newly opened boutique, its first in Europe. A history wall will showcase the brand’s impressive heritage and there’ll be vintage styles aplenty to swoon over. (tudorwatch.com)
2 McQUEEN DREAM TEAM
There couldn’t be a more relevant TV proposition than ‘a show created and directed by Steve McQueen, about the experience of black people in Britain starring John Boyega and Letitia Wright
(left)’. Before this genuine small-screen event airs on the BBC, the London Film Festival is opening on 7 Oct with free sneak preview cinema screenings of Small
Axe. Grab your tickets this week. (bfi.org.uk)
3 GET BAKED
The team behind
ES favourite Jolene in Newington Green have just welcomed a big sister to their foodie family. Big Jo in Holloway will focus firmly on its much-lauded baked goods and pastries while also housing a 60-seat restaurant, pizza ovens and fermentation lab for drinks. Open now (big jobakery.com)
4 MORE THAN MEETS THE AI
Far from traditional photography, Trevor Paglen’s striking floral works, created during quarantine, are created using computer algorithms. This is unmissable commentary on surveillance and the politics of images. Until 10 Nov. Pace Gallery, 6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair, W1 (pacegallery.com)
5 Suits YOU, SIR
Famously known as one of the nicest chaps in fashion, Sir Paul Smith is celebrating his 50th year in business in suitably stylish fashion with this handsome ode to the 50 objects that have most influenced him. ‘Paul Smith’ by Paul Smith is out 1 Oct (£49.95; Phaidon)
6 Get your ROCKS OFF
Going to the cinema is now A Thing once again. And Rocks, the already critically lauded story of a teenage girl who finds herself looking after her little brother when her mum disappears, is well worth putting yourself in front of a big screen (in a mask) for. In cinemas now
7 RÓISÍN MACHINE
We’re cheating a bit with the headline above, as the name of the new Róisín Murphy album is also Róisín Machine. But… what a title, right? The good news is that the album itself is excellent, and contains a song called ‘Shellfish Mademoiselle’. What more do you want? Out 25 Sep