As part of the UK's largest after-hours cultural festival, more than 500 museums, galleries and heritage sites across the country are turning nocturnal this weekend, inviting the public to experience their collections and history after dark.
Meanwhile Mrs Prada – the living, breathing personification of the word zeitgeist – sent out invitations to view her new collections (notice the plural).
Runaway is among her best collections and displays all of Munro's mastery: the effortless shifts in time, sometimes across decades; the ability to convey an entire life in a few pages; the exploration of complex truths in uncomplicated language.
"Galleries that have collections like ours don't usually reside in Moss Side, which is really where we are," says Balshaw.
Although deputy mayor Jaroslaw Jozwiak says a final decision has not yet been made and this does not represent a liquidation of the museum and its collections, there is no doubt that the loss of this recognised small museum will mean less access to its 20,000 drawings and research facilities.
A handful of objects including a Victorian cast of the head of a hanged man and a delicate lace pillow embroidered with her own hair by a woman arrested hundreds of times for public drunkenness have left one of the most private collections in the world for the first time, for the first public exhibition from the Black Museum of the Metropolitan police.
This time, filming on a tight budget in Hungary, Strickland borrowed butterfly collections from Budapest's museum of natural history and then faced a big decision: should he hire expert advice from a dominatrix or a lepidopterist?
A Family Behind Glass by Matthew Hedley Stoppard (Valley Press), uses inventive language and striking imagery, and is one of the most arresting poetry collections of the year.
This week's poem, Once there came a man, is the fifth in Black Riders and Other Lines, the first of Crane's two collections.
Ghesquière's reign at Balenciaga was renowned for a sci-fi aesthetic, which had been nowhere in evidence during Wang's first two collections.
With an argument always raging about the relevance of this super-luxe area of fashion – where a made-to-order dress can cost about £100,000 – its territory is being encroached upon by the resort collections, the cheaper and more commercial side of ready-to-wear.
