This first major career retrospective of artist Mr Henry Taylor includes recent, star-making works, from his magazine-cover portrait of Jay-Z to his avant-garde rendering of the Obamas. The exhibition, Henry Taylor: B Side, showcases decades worth of work, with more than 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations, from the 1980s to the present. Family, friends, the local homeless community, and patients from Taylor’s time as a psychiatric nurse serve as his diverse subjects. His unpredictable style is, as novelist Ms Zadie Smith puts it, as genre breaking as jazz and rap, and firmly in the African American aesthetic tradition. The common thread: everyone, no matter who they are, or how they are painted, is met with intense grace and empathy.

Previews from 28 September; opens on 4 October

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In a neat piece of scheduling by the National Art Center, Tokyo, this survey of Mr Yves Saint Laurent’s career comes hot on the heels of the museum’s Mr Christian Dior retrospective from earlier this year. Yves Saint Laurent Timeless Style begins at the House of Dior when, after the founder’s sudden death in 1958, a 21-year-old Saint Laurent stepped into the master’s shoes. It marked the beginning of an equally thrilling career spanning 40 years that would leave an indelible mark on fashion, breaking boundaries in gender and art, told here across 12 chapters and 110 thrilling looks.

From 20 September

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Mr Yorgos Lanthimos excels at assembling bracing takes on the human condition, turning period dramas into outrageously animalistic power grabs in The Favourite or savaging our mating rituals in The Lobster, where Mr Colin Farrell’s character must procreate or turn crustacean. Lanthimos’ latest, Poor Things, looks equally madcap, a fantastical tale about a woman, (The Favourite’s Ms Emma Stone) resurrected in a squeamishly Frankenstein style by a scientist (Mr Willem Defoe). A Venice Film Festival programmer, where Poor Things premieres this month, has politely suggested that what follows is not for everyone. But, if you were cool with the lobster thing, then this a must-see.

In cinemas from 8 December

Succession and The White Lotus banked on our fascination with the nouveau riche behaving appallingly. But no one does bad behaviour better than old money. Which is where Saltburn, from Promising Young Woman writer and director Ms Emerald Fennell, comes in. The film sees young Oxford student Oliver Quick (Mr Barry Keoghan, fresh off his Oscar nomination for The Banshees Of Inisherin) invited by the dashing young aristocratic Felix Catton (Euphoria’s Mr Jacob Elordi) to stay at his family’s estate, Saltburn. Here, Quick finds himself immersed in a world of privilege, obsession and, we wager, plenty of terribly bad behaviour.

In cinemas from 24 November

Over three seasons, Sex Education, Ms Laurie Nunn’s taboo-breaking high-school comedy, has been a constant revelation thanks to its arrestingly candid account of sex and sexuality. It is testament to the writing – and the fresh acting talent that includes Mr Ncuti Gatwa and Ms Emma Mackey – that the show effortlessly tackles the thorniest, horniest dilemmas in hilarious and heartbreaking fashion, and often in the same scene. But four seasons in, it’s time for the kids of Moordale High School, led by amateur sex therapist Otis (Mr Asa Butterfield) to graduate. The final series promises further sexploits, a cameo from Mr Dan Levy and, inevitably, an emotional climax (sorry).

Streaming on Netflix from 21 September

A regular on MR PORTER’s best-dressed round-ups, Mr LaKeith Stanfield is a compelling, charismatic presence whether he’s onscreen or on the Oscars red carpet. The former Atlanta star is the primary draw then, in The Changeling, a new eight-part horror series on Apple TV+, in which he both stars and executive produces. The story, based on the best-selling novel by horror impresario Mr Victor LaValle, is no slouch either, a gripping tale about a guy forced to go on a fantastical odyssey through New York after his wife commits an unspeakable act and promptly disappears. With slick directing duties from Queen & Slim’s Ms Melina Matsoukas, The Changeling looks as stylish and absorbing as its leading man.

Streaming on Apple TV+ from 8 September

Read Ms Zadie Smith’s five hugely acclaimed novels or her vital cultural commentary (see above) and you’ll know the British author is the real deal. But could one of our foremost chroniclers of contemporary life master historical fiction? That’s the question Smith answers with her latest work. Set in 1873, The Fraud interweaves narratives about a literary London set, a real-life trial that gripped England at the time and an enslaved man’s plight. It’s an epic mosaic of Victorian times that, in Smith’s signature smart, mischievous style, gets real about identity, historical truth and who gets to decide what fiction about our lives we can live with right now.

Published on 7 September by Penguin Books

CMAT, AKA Irish singer-songwriter Ms Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, grew up online, a fact reflected in her comic, confessional lyrics (the dating-bio line of “God, self-destruction and a Britney tune” from “I… Hate Who I Am When I’m Horny” is typical), and her musical and stylistic influences (channelling Ms Tammy Wynette and Ms Bonnie Tyler in the open-hearted country rock sound and big-hair front). On paper, this might read novelty act, but on tracks such as the gorgeous single “Where Are Your Kids Tonight?”, a duet with Mr John Grant, CMAT reveals herself to be an old soul with a young spirit, and a very serious proposition at that.

Out 13 October