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Arnolfini, Bristol

The cat’s out of the bag! For the past four years I’ve been working on a major
exhibition for Hayward Touring. Acts of Creation plunges into the joys and heartaches,

mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through artworks from the feminist avant-
garde to the present day. While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of
European art, we rarely see art about real motherhood, in all its complexity. Acts of
Creation addresses this blind spot in art history, proposing the artist mother as an
important cultural figure. (Ok, plug over.) HJ

9 March – 2 June and touring (arnolfini.org.uk)

Books

Until August, by Gabriel García Márquez

There is nothing better for book lovers than when a lost novel is unearthed, especially
when it’s by the late, great Nobel Prize-Winning author of Love in the Time of
Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Until August follows Ana Magdalena Bach,
who, despite being happily married with a son, travels every August to the island
where her mother is buried and takes a new lover for a single night. A profound study
of desire and womanhood from the titan of Latin American fiction, it will be one of the
biggest literary events of the year. AB

12 March (Viking, £16.99)

Theatre

Player Kings

Manchester Opera House, Manchester and Noël Coward Theatre, London