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Autumn arts preview 2026

Guardian critics pick the best in UK culture and entertainment to look forward to

1 September 2026

  • Statue of Crouching Aphrodite (left) and an Eddie Otchere photo of Metalheadz Sunday Sessions.

    Monet’s Riviera, 90s nostalgia and Bayeux à gogo! The best art and architecture of autumn 2026

    A self-confident woman strides on to the Fourth Plinth, Nan Goldin captures sex, cats and death and even the Turner Prize shows promise this year

31 August 2026

  • Culture Preview Autum 2026 - Stage - Kevin Bridges, Tilda Swinton in Manfred Karge’s Man to Man

    Tilda Swinton’s blast from the past, Kevin Bridges at large and a deepfake ballet: theatre, comedy and dance to see this autumn

  • Culture Preview Autum – Games – There are no ghosts at the grand and GTA 6

    Gems, ghosts and GTA VI: the biggest video games for autumn 2026

30 August 2026

  • Willem Dafoe in Last Fame, Zendaya in Dune 3

    Tom Cruise, Olivia Colman and the return of Rocky: the best films of autumn 2026

  • Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg sits behind a desk with an open laptop

    Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning?

29 August 2026

  • Victoria Rose and Stone Rosenberg

    ‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’: inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @

  • Culture Preview Autum 2026 - Music - Kehlani, Noah Kahan

    The best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more

28 August 2026

  • David Tennant in Time, Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer in Bladerunner 2099

    The 50 best TV shows to watch this autumn

  • Comedian Lara Ricote, with dark wavy hair and a yellow scarf, smiles looking upward

    ‘I’m not even an actor – I was just grieving!’ Rising star Lara Ricote on the heartache behind her new breakup comedy

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