The Collection: Nina Leger trans. Laura Francis - daring, direct and richly imagined

Challenging the language of desire to construct a playfully original female gaze

Jeanne – employment, age and appearance unknown, motives unknowable – is building a collection of penises. In street after street, she feigns dizziness; on the inevitable approach of a man eager to lend his help, she leads him to a hotel room. After the encounter, she does not retain any recollection of this man’s face, body or name; in the intricate interior of her memory palace, only the textured details of the penis, the "shape, the form, the particular warmth, the density, the smell", are carefully preserved.

Cindy Sherman: #untitled, BBC Four review - portrait of an enigma

★★★★ CINDY SHERMAN: #UNTITLED, BBC FOUR Secretive life & complex work of the American artist

A glimpse into the secretive life and complex work of a major American artist

Cindy Sherman predicted the selfie, so goes the claim. From our current standpoint, it is all too easy to analyse her many hundreds of photographic self-portraits made since the late 1970s as cultural forebears of the digital medium.

Die Zauberflöte, Glyndebourne Festival review – high jinks in the Grand Mozart Hotel

★★★ DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL High jinks in the Grand Mozart Hotel

Some delicious singing cuts through fanciful upstairs-downstairs frolics

Die Zauberflöte rarely attracts the plain cooks of the operatic world. Mozart’s farewell opera chucks so many highly-spiced ingredients into its outlandish pot – pantomime and parable, burlesque and ritual – that many productions opt for one show-off recipe that promises to unify all its flavours into a single, spectacular dish.

Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek: 'Is our film porny?'

EWA BANASZKIEWICZ AND MATEUSZ DYMEK: 'IS OUR FILM PORNY?' Directors of My Friend the Polish Girl respond to claims they've set the female cause back two decades

Directors of My Friend the Polish Girl respond to claims they've set the female cause back two decades

Spoiler alert: About sixty-four minutes into our debut feature film, one of the main female characters undresses for the camera. Alicja is being filmed by the other protagonist, a young American documentarian named Katie. As the sexually charged long take progresses, it becomes apparent that what started out as an erotic provocation (catering to Katie’s palpable attraction to her) gradually descends into Alicja’s traumatic memory of sexual abuse.

Florence + the Machine, BST Hyde Park review - mastering the matriarchy

★★★★ FLORENCE + THE MACHINE, BST HYDE PARK Mastering the matriarchy

Florence Welch delivers the perfect set for London's biggest summer festival

It’s a rare thing that musicians sound better live than they do on Spotify. But Florence Welch sings a note perfect set – even when jumping up and down like a pogo stick, whirling and spinning, or sprinting along the front of the stage to meet fans.

P!nk, Principality Stadium, Cardiff review - stunning theatrics astound

Back and bolder than ever, P!nk opens her UK tour in Cardiff

“I want to be just like P!nk,” a little girl screams as the lights begin to dim and the introductory music grows louder. It’s no wonder this leg of the Beautiful Trauma World Tour sold out in under 15 minutes. The whole stadium is packed full of adoring fans, in a sea of varying shades of pink, visiting from all over the UK and some further afield. A man takes to the stage offering an out-of-tune version of the 20th Century Fox intro sequence, gesturing towards a popular viral video shown onscreen.

CD: Kate Tempest - The Book of Traps and Lessons

Dynamic force in British poetry takes a bleak left turn that's sometimes musically flat

Here’s a strange thing: sit in a quiet room reading through the poems that make up Kate Tempest’s third album and her swirling collage of words drags you in. It’s an opaque concept work, mingling themes of a broken Britain, teetering on the brink of socio-political disaster, with the gritty, urban search for love in a time where sex is served up like fast food.

Freedom Fields review - Libya’s next freedom fighters

★★★★ FREEDOM FIELDS How Libyan women use football to break boundaries

Insightful documentary shows how women use football to break boundaries

Set in the months and years after the Libyan revolution, Freedom Fields follows several women aiming to compete in international football. The documentary finds the players excitedly preparing for their first overseas tournament.