The Serpentine Gallery's exhibition 'Thoughts in the Roots' is the most comprehensive survey of Giuseppe Penone’s practice in a major London institution to date. Featuring installations, sculptures and works on paper from 1969 to the present, the show explores the breadth of materials Penone has embraced throughout his career and his investigation of the poetic relationship between humans and nature. Situated both in the galleries and outside in Kensington Gardens, the presentation is both powerful and delicate, focusing on nature’s hidden structures, rhythms, and gestures.

Jenny Saville’s first solo exhibition in Austria – Gaze – provides a retrospective insight into the development of her artistic career over the last twenty years, including new works. For over three decades, Saville has explored the centuries-old tradition of representing the human body. Drawing inspiration from the annals of art history – from Old Masters such as Leonardo and Raphael through to Egon Schiele, Picasso, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud – hers is a painterly practice defined by physicality, carnality and the interplay between new and old media.

'Marcel Breuer and a Committee of Twelve Plan a Church' offers a first-hand description of the design and construction of Breuer's church at St. John's Abbey, written by Father Hilary Thimmesh, a monk and a member of the original building committee. This meeting-by-meeting account of the process, enhanced by shrewd observation and gentle wit, conveys the complexities faced by both the architect and the client and demonstrates how courage and faith all played a part in realising what became of one of the most important churches of the 20th century. The recent film The Brutalist, is inspired by this excellent book.

Brady Corbet’s epic film The Brutalist follows a fictional 20th century Bauhaus-trained architect, László Tóth, who flees Holocaust-torn Europe for America. The film is a tour de four addressing the human drive to pull meaning out of tragedy and horror - touching on how America’s wave of mid century immigrants remade the nation in their image and in turn it remade their own identities, alongside the uneasy pact between integrity and sponsorship that every artist must navigate for themselves.

Skarstedt London presents 'On Ugliness: Medieval and Contemporary', with artworks spanning the twelfth century to the present day to examine the evolution of the grotesque as a universal theme. Four medieval stone heads serve as a touchstone for the show that also features works by George Condo, Nicole Eisenman, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, Pablo Picasso, and Thomas Schütte. The works on display simultaneously delight and disgust, highlighting the power of the grotesque to defy artistic conventions through exaggeration, fragmentation, and metamorphosis.

Listen to fashion designer Bella Freud's podcast where each week she invites a guest, from Stefano Pilati to Zadie Smith, to explore the connection between fashion and identity and what we reveal through the clothes we wear. The conversations expand into deeper discussions on life’s universal themes – love, identity, culture, anxiousness, and even politics – diving into the unspoken language of clothing and the ways in which we use style to navigate and communicate in the world.

Sophie von Hellermann's exhibition 'Moonage' at Pilar Corrias transforms the gallery into an environment that channels the fever of a daydream, where the real becomes remodelled by the subconscious. Von Hellermann borrowed the title from David Bowie’s track ‘Moonage Daydream’, which introduces Bowie’s character Ziggy Stardust as a means to explore forms of creativity that subvert the status quo. Illuminated by lamps, von Hellermann’s images sweep across every wall and surface, as if scattering unfolding dreams across the gallery.  

In 'Naked Portrait' Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, through her diary and other accounts of sitting for him. Enthralled by his genius, it was only after his death that she began to question the version of events she had come to accept. The shock of the truth is profound but what emerges is her love and compassion not just for herself as a vulnerable young woman, but for the man himself, who is shown in all his brilliant complexity.

Renowned jewellery expert and editor at British Vogue Carol Woolton's new book 'If Jewels Could Talk' is a treasure trove of forgotten stories about jewels throughout history. The publication delves into the history, cultural significance and eclectic trivia of jewellery - from Viking silver torques, Imperial jade in China, sixteenth-century Posy rings, snake motifs, Roman cameo carving, Hindu wedding jewellery, Etruscan gold, Ancient Greek coins and Wedding pigs in China.