Berlin-based Denitza Todorova’s hip-hop-layered lyrics don’t waste time on metaphors, instead they are clear and concise with lashings of attitude.

Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low cost anti-retroviral drugs in the global South, causing millions of unnecessary deaths.

Each song on this record is beautifully crafted, resembling a soundscape more than a traditional piece of music.

Vijay Iyer’s Mutations is a montage of piano, electronics and strings. Constructed from fragmented melodies, the instrumental songs are ever-evolving.

Art & Ecology Now is an extensive survey of nature’s impact upon art’s involvement and responsibility in saving the planet.

A celebration of adolescence in all its acne-ridden, rebellious glory, Matt Wolf’s Teenage is a compelling joyride through the evolution of the teenager.

Less a consideration of the inflexibility of faith than a portrait of desperate women, Fill the Void is a brave film.

“To ride in New York”, the introduction informs us, “is to have a level of authority over an otherwise untamed landscape.”

Face in the Crowd is the new series of work from Alex Prager, who creates fascinating scenes utilising bright palettes and constructed settings.

Martin Creed’s first ever retrospective opens at the Hayward Gallery, London, this spring, exposing the large body of work of the genre-defying artist.

Music and fashion have a closer relationship than ever; however, the question remains: can musicians be good designers and do the two media interact?

Known for his innovative approach through the “decisive moment”, Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the founding figures of modern photography.

Fanfarlo’s third album, Let’s Go Extinct, is a joy to listen to, infusing pop anthems with lyrical concerns about the future and human evolution.

At the heart of War Room Stories is a wonderful and vast muddle of textures – found sounds, atmospheric synths and subtle movements.

Sensing Spaces sees seven international architecture practices transform the Royal Academy into a multi-sensory experience with site-specific installations.

We rather like the genre name Jones has cooked up to define his music: blufunk. It combines punk, funk and Yoruba rhythms to form a reasonably enticing mix.

The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis is an intimate tale of the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. We speak to cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel about his visual interpretation.

Blue is the Warmest Colour charts the journey of Adèlefrom curiosity to melancholy via all points in between.

A new exhibition opens in New York at the International Center of Photography that interrogates what it means to work in analogue and digital photography today.

Show Time examines art exhibitions from the late 1980s to the present day and looks at how they have altered our understanding of the curator’s role.