The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

To utilise the Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year, let’s ‘manifest’ a culturally rich week ahead. 

We’re almost in December now, and that means things are about to get seriously festive. Over in Berlin, this takes the form of magical illuminated Christmas trees and pulsing techno beats at Dark Matter Winterlights 24, a light exhibition inspired by the city’s infamous clubbing scene. 

If you’re feeling reflective, what better place to ponder the concepts of beauty than Paris’ Louvre Museum, which recently unveiled an immersive exhibition exploring the subject of aestheticism across art and history. Alternatively, escape into pure (Final) fantasy in Milan, with the largest European retrospective of Japanese illustratorYoshitaka Amano’s works. 

While Halloween might be behind us, witchiness is still in the air as Hollywood’s adaptation of the broadway hit musical Wicked hits big screens. If you can’t be bothered to broomstick over there, Disney+ also just released Marvel’s big buddy movie Deadpool & Wolverine.

And if all else fails you could always curl up with "Cher: The Memoir, Part One", the singer’s new exhaustive tell-all.

Go forth and believe in life after love, manifest, watch, listen and, most importantly, enjoy.  

'A Fragile Correspondence' Venice Biennale exhibition at V&A Dundee (Scotland)

A journey across three remarkable Scottish landscapes, this new exhibition forms part of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, an international exhibition of architecture from nations around the world. Scotland’s entry sweeps through the wilderness of Loch Ness, the seashore of the Orkney archipelago, and the industrial bones of the Ravenscraig steelworks, exploring the ways in which environments and language interact with