HEY KITTY GIRL
Fey gays, unite! Hello Kitty’s 50-year journey to total cultural dominance continues with Cute, an exhibition at London’s Somerset House inspired by Japan’s most adorable export. Exploring all things cute, from emojis to memes to the wholesome world of Heartstopper, it features works and culturally significant objects by more than 50 artists and contributors, and even a games arcade. Get your biodegradable glitter on and mount that imaginary unicorn!
Cute runs until 14 April
SPLASH OUT
FEAT.SUKA HORN, DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU
After the success of dance-theatre productions The Great Tamer and Transverse Orientation, Greek director, choreographer and visual artist Dimitris Papaioannou returns to Sadler’s Wells Theatre for the UK premiere of INK. Set in a dark water world, this hyper-visual show sees Papaioannou and dancer Šuka Horn engage in a battle between old and young, father and son, civilisation and wasteland, stewardship and inheritance, and eroticism and torture. Papaioannou has described INK as “an unexpected sequel” to Primal Matter, his London debut back in 2016.
INK runs at Sadler’s Wells Theatre from 28 February to 2 March
ENTER THE DRAGON
Hublot has collaborated with artist Chen Fenwan to produce a limited-edition watch to mark the year of the Wood Dragon in the Chinese calendar. Inspired by the traditional Chinese art of paper-cutting, the Spirit of Big Bang Titanium Dragon timepiece features hands, wheels and H-shape screws that are layered to create a sculpted 3D silhouette of a dragon. The rubber strap boasts a marquetry design that mimics the mythical creature’s scales and is colour-matched to the watch face. Hublot has only made 88 of the Spirit of Big Bang Titanium Dragon timepieces, and its design is pure (dragon) fire.
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LET IT FLOW
The Buxton Crescent Ensana Health Spa Hotel transports guests back to the town’s heyday as a fashionable Georgian spa retreat. A £78-million refurbishment has restored this historic 1780s landmark to its former glory, with its grand interiors and five-star service making guests feel every bit like one of the well-heeled aristocrats who would have spent downtime here taking the town’s famous mineral waters. Guest rooms impress with four-poster beds, clawfoot tubs and views of the adjacent pleasure gardens. But the hotel’s spa is its crown jewel, inclu
