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A little way along, finding beach showers, she drinks deeply from the small coppery faucet. Ella’s father says you can learn to love yourself just as much as you hate yourself. That the line is very fine, that you just have to click and practise. She is trying. She thinks then of leaving town and walking home, and sets off shoeless and hatless in the melting sun.

New York artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s radical imaginings of space and light showed designer Ben Cobham how to reveal what is often unnoticed or discarded.

More than a decade after its first two perfect seasons, Party Down returns as an ode to failure and delusion.

Léuli Eshrāghi’s TarraWarra Biennial draws on subtlety and small gestures to privilege and celebrate the knowledge of the Majority World.

Maryam Touzani’s gorgeously subtle second film, The Blue Caftan, shows the skill and intelligence of a much more experienced director.

Yuki Kihara is a fa‘afafine artist whose work investigates and reinterprets colonial fantasies of the Pacific – opening the door for others to do the same.