What to watch, see and listen to as the season’s change.

It’s nearly time to put your swimming trunks back in the drawer, your sun lotion in the bathroom cabinet and your flip flops in the nearest rubbish receptacle (if we’ve told you once, we’ve told you a thousand times). Yes, summer is drawing to a close, but where Mother Nature denies, Mother Culture provides, because with autumn come some of the most exciting events and offerings of the year. There’s a new novel from Mr Alan Hollinghurst, new films from Mr Noah Baumbach and Mr Darren Aronofsky, and a new play (of an old film) starring Mr Bryan Cranston. Here’s our pick of autumn’s cultural crop.

Mr Aronofsky’s new film, Mother!, appears to follow a familiar horror movie setup. A couple – Mr Aronofsky’s real-life partner Ms Jennifer Lawrence and Mr Javier Bardem – move into an isolated house to begin an idyllic new life, until one night, there is an unexpected knock on the door... Appearances can be deceptive and, this being a Mr Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem For A Dream) film, you can expect a fright fest of the freakiest psychological order.

**In cinemas 15 September

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There’s something unearthly about the music of British singer-songwriter Mr Benjamin Clementine, who famously spent four years homeless and busking in Paris, before record label executives and a Mercury Prize came knocking. Now he’s channelling his feelings of outsiderdom into an ambitious new album of avant-garde and politically engagé gothic chansons, which touch on everything from psychoanalysis to Syria. It’s out of this world in every sense.

**Released 15 September

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Not content with designing everything from felt-tip pens to sofa beds, Japanese design behemoth Muji will soon be opening two hotels in Asia, first in Shenzhen and then Tokyo. The Chinese branch will feature 79 rooms and a recycled-wood interior, while the Japanese iteration will take up the top four floors of a new building that will also house a Muji flagship store, should you find yourself in need of a felt-tip pen (or a sofa bed).

**Opens in Shenzhen in late 2017 and Tokyo in 2019

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After much fanfare, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA to its friends) in Cape Town will open next month. It is the first major contemporary art museum to be built in Africa and will celebrate the continent’s artists. Exhibitions featuring work by South Africa sculptor Ms Nandipha Mntambo, Angolan photographer Mr Edson Chagas and Zimbabwean artist Mr Kudzanai Chiurai will get things under way, in a striking building, a former grain silo, designed by Heatherwick Studio.

**Opens 22 September

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There’s nothing like a bit of scandal to get the pulses quickening, as Booker Prize-winning British novelist Mr Alan Hollinghurst well knows. The focus of his eagerly awaited new novel, his first for six years, is a tryst between two male students at Oxford during the Blitz. Like its predecessor, The Stranger’s Child, there is much more to it, as Mr Hollinghurst spans decades and generations to explore shifting social mores.

**Published on 5 October 

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British pop artist Mr Jamie Hewlett’s work has always commanded attention, from his foul-mouthed, fag-smoking feminist icon Tank Girl, who epitomised girl power long before Ginger Spice reached for that Union Jack minidress, to Gorillaz, his musical collaboration with Blur’s Mr Damon Albarn, which shook up all notions of what cartoons were capable of. Now he’s taking over your coffee table with a Taschen monograph that celebrates his 25-year career.

**Published 16 October 

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If you’re one of those people who get Mr Ben Stiller and Mr Adam Sandler mixed up (for shame!), then seeing them on screen together for the first time in 21 years in Mr Noah Baumbach’s new film may remind you of the differences. They play half-brothers who are reunited, along with their sister (Ms Elizabeth Marvel), following a family crisis involving their father (Mr Dustin Hoffman). Despite being very much adults, the old tropes of familial relations play out for our amusement, if not theirs.

**Launches in November

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There’s much about Network, the 1976 satirical film written by Mr Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Mr Sidney Lumet, that remains as fresh today as it was then. It portrays the outbursts of a frustrated anchorman at the mercy of a soulless television network. So let’s see how it fares on stage in this adaptation from esteemed director Mr Ivo van Hove, which stars Mr Bryan Cranston as newsman Howard Beale. Well, we imagine.

**Opens 4 November

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Ms Jessica Largey may only be in her early thirties, but the California native has already racked up some major achievements (it helps that she started cooking aged five). Among her accolades is the James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef of the year, which she won in 2015 while working at Michelin-starred Manresa in Los Gatos. Breath is bated as she prepares to open her own restaurant in Downtown LA with an emphasis on informal dining and seasonal produce.

**Opens autumn 2017

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While photography buffs love to bemoan the demise of film, the work of Mr Stephen Shore is proof that an exceptional eye can transcend any medium. In the Museum of Modern Art’s comprehensive show of his work from the 1970s to the present, the legendary New York photographer jumps from film to digital, from black and white to colour and, yes, even to Instagram, to capture the beauty in the mundane details of everyday life.

**19 November to 28 May 2018

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