Out & About Winter 2018

Pick of the ARTS

Whodunnit with a twist

Murder for Two The Watermill, Bagnor Wednesday, January 30 to Saturday, February 23 www.watermill.org.uk The theatre’s new season opens with a revival of the hit production that premiered at The Watermill in 2017, the hilarious high-energy musical whodunnit Murder For Two . This hysterical blend of music, mayhem and murder was a huge hit Off-Broadway. It is directed by Luke Sheppard, director of Olivier award-winning musical In The Heights . Ed MacArthur and Jeremy Legat will reprise their performances as Officer Marcus Moscowicz and The Suspects in this murder mystery with a twist. The production is currently on a national tour and will be followed by a second London transfer from December before the four-week run in Bagnor. Picture: 2017 production credit Scott Rylander

Superstar of contemporary art

Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford

February 7 to June 9 www.ashmolean.org

This major exhibition of the work of Jeff Koons (b1955) is being curated by the artist himself, together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal. Since he burst onto the contemporary art scene in the 1980s Koons has been described as the most famous, important, subversive, controversial and expensive artist in the world. The show features 17 important works, 14 of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. They span the artist’s entire career and his most well- known series, including Equilibrium, Statuary, Banality, Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball sculptures and paintings. Koons, who throughout his career has pushed at the boundaries of contemporary art practice, stretching the limits of what is possible, said: “I couldn’t think of a better place to have a dialogue about art today and what it can be”. Photo Seated Ballerina – mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent colour coating © Jeff Koons

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