So Kae Tempest on 08/11 at O2 Brixton, that is at home. A different and shorter version of the set available here: youtu.be/IlLebbmgryo?...
And one quote to sum his latest work up: "With all the problems that we have to contend with / Why are trans bodies always on the agenda?"

Round #3: Kae Tempest, discovered through his writing when we saw Wasted at the Midlands Arts Centre c. 2013 and whom I have seen twice since in concerts, plus twice more as play director. His texts were always powerful, but this album, Self-Titled, is another level of raw, yet also joyful at times.

This past year, the situation facing intersex people in the UK (and some other parts of the world) has grown worse because of politically-inspired efforts to erase the biologically complex nature of sex. This has real world effects on people's lives; it is social anxiety enacted on intersex bodies.

Marmottan Monet had an exhibition on sleep ("Sommeil") which is full of little gems from less known and more famous artists, and where the curator made debatable labelling choices too. I could spend ages writing alt-text to share it all, so I'll just focus on a lesser known artist, Fernand Pelez.

This was a lil' uncanny just after finishing a novel where the main character grew up in my hometown, left at about the same age as me, and revisits it years later. I do visit regularly, but somehow it keeps coming back on my radar this year, or I keep wanting for some reconnection to my roots.

The Marmottan Monet runs exhibitions showing one contemporary artist at a time "dialoguing" with Monet. Currently, they are showing Jean-Baptiste Sécheret, who painted at least 8 views of the beach in Trouville, with an angle that always shows my hometown on the other side of the Seine mouth.

So it's likely both a language and a content thing. The content I can sometimes get in English fiction, but I haven't found an English-speaking writer yet who gives the writing style that gives me joy. Something a little more modern and urban, more spoken words like maybe - recommendations welcome!