Elton John will help curate new vinyl subscription service
Experience Vinyl will send subscribers the favourite albums of its star curators, including Quincy Jones and Talib Kweli
Culture
Sweatbox heaven: welcome to the sauna and steam of your dreams
From steamrooms suspended under remote Czech bridges to the Swedish robot sauna straight out of Star Wars, the spa experience is getting a guerilla makeover
V&A hoping for another fashion blockbuster with Balenciaga show
Museum aims to capitalise on label’s current buzz with celebration of original designer’s ‘uncompromising creativity’
Tate Modern to host ‘once in a lifetime’ Picasso exhibition
Landmark show will focus on ‘year of wonders’ 1932, at height of painter’s affair with young lover Marie-Thérèse Walter
From amari mania to a vodka revival: what we’ll be drinking in 2017
If you want to keep up with the in-things in drinks this year, here are four trends that could take off in a big way
Canaletto review – a utopia with its head in the clouds
City Road, London EC1
With its private bar, cinema and pool, London’s latest skyscraper aims to be a new blueprint for communal living. But why does it act as if its neighbours aren’t there?