Culture agenda: The best things to be heard this week in Europe in Europe to be able to see

It is the last week of February and flamboyance is in the air.

From the Renaissance riders from Venice Carnival to the versatility of the 90s Club Legend Leigh Bowery, an infectious type of energy dominates our latest recommendation round -urgently needed to prepare us to crawl out under our showers for spring.

Over there in Berlin, the 75. Film Festival Completed on Sunday and set the sound for the upcoming film year. Bong Joon HOS Satirical Science Fiction were among the outstanding achievements Mickey 17 and Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro poetic O último azul '(' The Blue Trail '). You will find a complete list of Our reviews here – with a summary and more Interviews come.

In the meantime an exhibition in Musée Picasso Paris Spotlights The “degenerate” art rejected by the Nazis and in Rome, 100 works by Edvard Munch Take Palazzo Bonaparte.

Here are the cultural highlights this week.

Exhibitions

View behind shop displays around“Fresh window: the art of the display and the exhibition of art”

Where: Museum Tinguely (Basel, Switzerland)

When: Until May 11th, 2025

In the early 19th century, shop windows were created and changed the consumer landscape. As soon as they only have transactional rooms, they were brightly illuminated for theater creativity – not only to attract buyers, but to project the unique vision and ethos of a brand.

In addition to the trade, these displays took up artistic and cultural importance and capture the environmental character of their time – something that wants to reflect or even shape many renowned artists. Through a huge collection of works by Andy Warhol, Marina AbramovićPeter Blake and Marcel Duchamp, this exhibition examines the shop window as art and inspiration and reveals their role in changing social and cultural stories.

Get into storyboards at “A kind of language: storyboards and other renderings for cinema”.

Where: Oservatorio Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy)

When: Until September 8, 2025

If it seamlessly delves into a scene on the film, it is easy to forget the meticulous planning that went into it. Many famous directors, including Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki and Georges Méliès – a pioneer of storyboarding – start their process by sketching scenes and mentally choreography and visualize the angle that they build.

For Cinephiles, this is a rare opportunity to see the raw creative visions of her favorite film manufacturers with storyboards from Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Alejandro Jodorowsky and so much.

Hug taboo at “Leigh Bowery!”

Where: Tate Modern (London, Great Britain)

When: February 27 – August 31, 2025

Leigh Bowery was really a more unique and was a performance artist, designer, model, club promoter, musician and all-round-lebin icon of the counterculture of the 90s. He was born in Australia, moved to London in the 1980s and became an important part of the city's night life scene, whereby he questioned the world through bombastic ideas, which questioned stereotypes and pulled the polite society into a blade.

A little more than 30 years after his death, Tate Modern pays the indelible effects of the actor on the old and queer culture through the striking 80s and 90s pictures, costumes and examples of Bowery's artistic cooperation, including a painting by Lucian Freud. It is an encapsulation of a chameleonic character, the influence of which continues to drip courageously, such as color on a head over 2025.

Come to the roots of Accra ''What is the 411: strands and structures'

Where: Open Space Contemporary Art Museum (Oscam) (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

When: Until February 28, 2025

The latest exhibition series from Oscam 411, which was curated by fashion editor and stylist Esmeralda Tan, deals with Afro-Caribbean hair and its intersections with Accra, the capital of Ghana's natural habitats. This powerful photo-documentary exhibition, a collaboration with multidisciplinary hairist Asia Clarke and Creative Director/photographer Christian Saint, plays cultural identity and celebrates a unique diaspora community. As part of the event there is also a workshop on African hair aesthetics, including a seminar by Asia Clarke, on February 27 and a panel conversation and closing party on February 28th.

events

Contribute to the charity with art on the “International Women's Day 2025 auction” of a postcard

Where: online in the Dreweatts Auction House

When: February 27 – March 13, 2025

Before the International Women's Day on March 8, the art for a charity organization for postcard (AOAP) organizes an auction with a number of versatile works of aspiring and established artists with female identification. Six guest curators have carefully selected works that represent the many nuanced social and political facets of femininity. The artists include Caroline Coon, Kat Giordano, Ashely January and Ren Yen Song. Everything that is collected for the extremely important work of hepatitis -c confidence in women's prisons. There will also be a public exhibition of the works open from March 4.

Connect Casanovas in the “Venice Carnival”

Where: Venice (and other cities in Italy)

When: Until March 9, 2025

In the past few weeks, tens of thousands of Renaissance-costumed night swears have driven to Venice His annual carnival. From 1162 it was celebrated as a celebration of the Venice Republic's victory against the Patriarch of Aquileia and became a beloved cultural tradition that is honored in various forms across the country. This year's event is dedicated to Giacomo Casanova, an Italian adventurer and notorious women's dealer from the 18th century, which is known for his posthumous memoir 'Histoire de Ma Vie' ('The Story of My Life'). Venetian mask and prepare for frivolity.

Films

See Pamela Anderson Dazzle in 'The Last Showgirl'

In a familiar story of faded glamor and painful nostalgia, Pamela Anderson as Las Vegas Showgirl, who is opposite the closure of her show after 30 years, suddenly plays out of the spotlight. Directed by Gia Coppola, it is a punctual penalty of contemplations about aging and beauty standards as a woman. How inconspicuous social pressure leads to impossible struggles in ourselves. If so much emphasis is placed on superficial, short -lived validation, who is the curtains and the cheers fade?

TV series

Look at the Knockout new series 'Thousand Blows'

Where: Disney+

When: Now available

From the 19th to 20th centuries there was a notorious crime syndicate on the street of London, which often camouflaged as a maid for wealthy households to steal them from them. They were known as forty elephants, and their masterful deception somehow discovered police detection for years. A new show created by Steven Knight ('Peaky Blinders') Henry 'Sugar' Goodson (an increased Stephen Graham).

Go hidden with “REACHER”

Where: Prime video

When: Now available

In the DEGs of winter you sometimes only need a little hidden action and excessive macho-stoizism, such as: “I'm not afraid of death, death is afraid of me”. Give Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson), a retired military officer who is framed for a murder he has not committed and had to be up to date to uncover the dirty deeds and conspiracies of corrupt powers. Based on the series of Books by Lee Child, the popular TV series has now become a film with Tom Cruise in the third season and has to infiltratrate the employees with a drug smuggling to protect a DEA informationant.

Music

Listen to the pop superstar Tate Mcrae's 'so close to what'

The pop princess Tate McRae became famous as a dancer before becoming viral with her 2020 song “You You You You Brake Me First”. Her third album was released last week (February 21) and is one of the largest pop publications so far. You take over Tikkok sounds as you read. Tracks like “Sport Car” feel reminiscent of the breastish radio games from the time of Pussycat Dolls, who attract us so close to “boot jeans and wink into the rearview mirror of a convertible.