There's magic in the air in the arts this week. Can you feel it? Take Thomas Heatherwick, for instance, the 3D designer .
Read Benjamin Secher's interview on advice for Milton Keynes (hold your nerve!) and what makes a person so happy. .
That reminds me. Happy. Are you?
No? Stuck in the office? Then what you need is .
It's a heartwarming tale of Mumble the penguin, unable to hold a note in a frozen world where singing is all. But born dancing to his own And while we're on things cinematic did we mention? .
Well not us exactly, more Kate Winslet. But the Daily Telegraph - that's there too. The film is Holiday.
. (And by the way, that's just what life is like here - promise.) And just before we go, a final sprinkle of fairy dust.
Spare a glance, on these cold dark nights, for the magic hour. , a time when the world seems magical. perfect, John Huston's 1987 film of the James Joyce short story was its director's swansong, an exquisite dance to the music of time performed by a miraculous ensemble cast.
The highlight of the NFT's Huston season, and quite possibly the year. the sickening hype, treat this exhibition just like any other, ticking off the work you like and ignoring the stuff you don't. Serpentine Gallery, London W2 (020 7402 6075), until Jan 28.
Miraculous effects of illusion achieved with extraordinary economy. National Gallery, London WC2 (020 7747 2885), until Jan 21. video, photographs, texts and installations by the most important British artist to emerge in the 1990s.
Royal Scottish Academy Building, his vocal and chamber music, performed by the Belcea and Endellion Francesca Zambello's showy production is dignified by Semyon Bychkov's superb conducting. Royal Opera House, London WC2 (020 7304 4000), Sat, Wed. Cooke directs superb productions of these two great, late Shakespeare enthralling family drama about love, loss and the consolation of art.
Cracking new play from the highly promising Dennis Kelly about the debt-ridden way we live now. Young Vic, London SE1 (020 7922 2922).
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