Black Rodeo season 1 February to 18 March A season of westerns includes a wide range of revisionist films influenced by Black Power and the civil rights movement, with discussions and conversations featuring Mario Van Peebles, Clive Chijioke Nwonka and film journalist Ellen E Jones. This comic drama explores the roots of an American television institution presided over then and now by Lorne Michaels, played here by Gabriel LaBelle The Fabelmans.
After a couple of period films, this sees Leigh back in the contemporary relationships mode that made his name. Companion Out now Jack Quaid is a standout among the current clutch of young-ish actors making names for themselves in genres like horror and comedy. And so he should be, with Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan for parents. Postponed from 10 January. Catherine Bray.
Craig David 2 to 20 February; tour starts Leeds In the year his classic debut album Born to Do It turns 25, Craig David heads out on an arena tour to remind everyone of those undeniable garage bangers. There will also be a smattering of new songs, including SOS, which sounds ripe for a Love Island sync.
Michael Cragg. Gorgeous album opener Camera should be enough to silence any annoying chatterboxes in the crowd. John Fordham. Andrew Clements. Ithell Colquhoun Tate St Ives, 1 February to 5 May This British surrealist gets a show by the seaside, which makes sense as her wondrous painting Scylla seduces you into a dreamy version of the British shore with two pink pinnacles emerging from green depths. Her cocktail of occult beliefs and artistic experiment is heady and beguiling.
Yet his paintings also take off into fantasy. A boy rides a unicorn or a girl apparently puts on a flying costume — images of longing and hope. See how this ancestor of modern card games became a magic obsession. Jonathan Jones. Rachel Fairburn 6 February to 29 June; tour starts Oxford That this Manc standup co-hosts a serial-killer podcast called All Killa No Filla should offer some clue to her darkly outrageous style — a vibe she has recently started channelling into some bleakly hilarious character comedy.
