These Things Happen offers such a perfect balance of guitar-rich up-tempo treats and laid-back melody that it’s a surprise to discover it’s Burning Shapes’ debut.

Blue-collar black kid meets snooty white rich girl and they play out their rivalries on the running track. And that’s it. Noel Clarke’s script does what it says on the tin.

In Nadav Kander’s series Yangtze – The Long River, a body of work for which he won the prestigious 2009 Prix Pictet photographic award, Kander followed the Yangtze River for most of its 4,000 miles.

Orr can make some great beats. Wise has a killer voice. And together, the Brooklyn duo make some beguiling pop music: all sultry textures and tinkling asides.

The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years showcases 153 works by 20 artists who photographed the same subject in the same place repeatedly.

Minus the Bear’s fifth album sees the quintet reunited with former member and long time producer Matt Bayles and is, in many ways, a return to form.

Over more than two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photography with impressive range. This book was created in the course of numerous journeys around the world.

Marking the 125th anniversary of the birth of Le Corbusier, this text illuminates his dynamic relationship with photography.

This is all about the bass: big, crunchy, rumbly synths that will shake any pair of headphones to pieces.

Originally released in 1970, this cult classic tells the story of a well-to-do New Yorker who becomes the landlord of an inner-city tenement.

Rafta lends itself superbly to the screen in this hugely enjoyable – if not exactly groundbreaking – adaptation.

Celebrated for her searching voice and haunting guitar, the American singer makes a welcome return to original material on this tenth album.

Including an introduction by street artist Lady Aiko and an interview with Stencil King, this is a stimulating introduction to stencils, spraypaint and public space.

Yorgos Lanthimos returns this autumn with his third feature film Alps, an extra­ordinary follow-up to Dogtooth, imbued with Lanthimos’ trademark style.

Straddling the worlds of art, architecture and consumer culture, the Bouroullec brothers open their first mid-career survey at MCA Chicago this autumn.

Late September is a portrait of lonely people discovering unpalatable truths about themselves at a 65th birthday party.

The 24 Hour Plays nurtures theatrical talent by putting a select group of young theatre-makers together to create vibrant new work that challenges their creativity.

The Bitter Years offers a poignant and heartbreaking insight into The Great Depression of the 1930s.

Focusing on the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, the narrative develops around the relationship of two young girls, Atafeh and Shireen.

In My View is a valuable collection of vignettes, personal stories, moments and reflections from the contemporary art world’s most recognisable figures.