Spring has officially sprung, which means warmer weather, chocolate eggs and lots of vibrant outdoor events are on the horizon.
This week, however, might find you wanting to stay inside a little longer as series 2 of Daredevil: Born Again arrives on Disney+, and Liza Minnelli’s gossipy memoir calls for an extension on the cosy escapism.
If bold, challenging and somewhat surreal exhibitions are your thing, three news ones across the continent honour Matisse, Maria Lassnig alongside Edvard Munch, and Greek Weird Wave director, Yorgos Lanthimos.
Finally, if you’re feeling sexy but confused, Robyn’s new album gets it – and is the perfect way to pep yourself up for a season of renewal.
Whatever you decide to do – or if you have any suggestions of interesting events happening in your area – let us know via our Instagram messages.
Exhibitions
Matisse: 1941–1954
When: 24 March – 26 July 2026
Where: Grand Palais (Paris, France)
After building a successful career of wild and vibrant artistry, Henri Matisse decided to completely reinvent himself. The later years of his life became a pivotal time for his experimentation, the French artist finding a new fascination with creating cut-out gouaches. Simplistic shapes are emboldened by colour, liberated from old forms in a way that captures the free-flowing, abstract experiences of life. The Grand Palais is displaying these, alongside more than 300 books, paintings and drawings that trace Matisse’s output from 1941 to 1954. Find out more here.
Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch: Painting Flow = Life Flow
When: 27 March – 30 August 2026
Where: Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany)
Few people will be unfamiliar with Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, but by pairing his works with those of Austrian artist Maria Lassnig’s, the Hamburger Kinsthalle reveals fascinating new perspectives. More than half a century separates Munch and Lassnig’s careers, but together their visions dance in synchronicity: captivating expressions of inner emotions that explode outwardly with visceral intensity. Joint themes of love, grief, loneliness, fear and joy are given new depth through the over 180 works on display, including rarely show paintings and works on paper. Find out more here.
Bonus highlight: The absurd, haunting and humanistic photography of Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is on display at Onassis Stegi, Athens, until 17 May. Find out more here.
Movies
They Will Kill You
Where: Cinemas
When: 25 March
If horror cinema has been trying to tell us anything, it’s to never apply for a housekeeping position. After last year’s The Housemaid, They Will Kill You sees another young housekeeper (Zazie Beetz) embroiled in bloody violence – this time against a satanic cult lurking in a luxurious New York high-rise. Directed by Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die! and No Looking Back), it looks like a mash-up between The Raid, Ready or Not and a little bit of Kill Bill. Expect non-stop adrenaline shot action, and spliced, axed and brutally dismembered bodies as the villains realise they’ve messed with the wrong sacrificial lamb.
Bonus highlights: Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Manis now available on Netflix, while Marc, Sofia Coppola’s new A24 documentary about fashion designer Marc Jacobs, will show in select theatres from 27 March.
TV series
Daredevil: Born Again (Season 2)
Where: Disney+
When: 25 March
Disney’s reboot of the mega popular Daredevil series is back for a second series, with masked vigilante Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) still attempting to fight for justice against a backdrop of governmental corruption. After season 1’s cliffhanger, in which it was discovered that New York Mayor and former mob boss Wilson Fisk, AKA Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio), had set up an independent nation that houses a secret prison, Murdock is back to forming a resistance team while battling painful memories from the past. Crash collision course ahead.
Bonus highlight: Season 2 of One Piece, Netflix’s hugely popular, anime-adapted pirate adventure series, is now streaming.
Music
Robyn: Sexistential
When: 27 March
It’s been 8 whole years since we last had an album from Robyn, so the release of Sexistential feels like a big deal. During her hiatus, a lot also changed for the Swedish singer-songwriter. She’s now a mother, which becomes a core theme here as she reckons with biological and psychological desires; the tensions between parental and sexual identity. As she sings in the album’s title track: My body’s a spaceship with the ovaries on hyperdrive / Got a whole universe inside that exists in between my thighs.
Raw, confessional and often humorous, it’s the kind of album to abandon yourself on the dance floor to.
Bonus highlights: ‘Against the Dying of the Light’ by José González and ‘The Former Site Of ‘ by The New Pornographers are both out on 27 March.
Books
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli
When: Out now
Liza Minnelli turned 80 this month, and what a life she has had! An affair with director Martin Scorsese, tearing off Peter Sellers’ hairpiece, struggles with addiction, and claims that her ex husband David Gest stole her eyelashes.. are just some of the juicy revelations featured in her new memoir. Co-written with journalists Josh Getlin and Heidi Evans, and guided by her taped conversations with American musician Michael Feinstein, it’s a candid insight into the performer’s life that captures showbiz’s heady atmosphere of glamour and grotesquery.
