Beautiful Madam Butterfly

What: Madam Butterfly with English National Opera Where: London Coliseum, WC2 When: 14th Oct - 1st Dec 2013 Price: Various

AMS album of the week: Free Your Mind

Cut Copy's Free Your Mind

Album Review: Deaf Havana

This show made me realise they’re not wrong (maybe grammatically, but, you know…). Surrounded by teenagers having the time of their young lives, I came to the startling realisation that I am no longer young.

1:54 - African Art

Kamil McClelland vistis the world’s first contemporary African art fair

Oneohtrix Point Hecker

Riaz Agahi examines albums from modern ambient’s greats

More Than A Hipster Art Safari

Kamil McClelland explores one of the world’s leading art fairs

Live Review - London Grammar

Fred Fyles has an ambivalent experience at Electric Brixton

Japanese Sex and Pleasure

So the British Museum is putting on an exhibition on Japanese pornography? Is that even allowed?! Cast away your narrow western minds and think again. For that’s what this exhibition will do — make you think again.

Extreme Art Attack

Fred Fyles witnesses the destruction

Emiel’s Guide to Classical Music (Part I)

Episode 1: What is Art?

Cho Chang Goes To Work in a Chinese Factory

Could it be that there is no other play with a more sarcastic title than The World of Extreme Happiness?

Arcade Fire: REFLEKTOR

Stuart Masson previews Arcade Fire’s latest effort.