The Latest Breaking News from Derek Jarman

From The Nutcracker in Glasgow and the Human League in Cardiff to Messiaen in Manchester and Maggie Mistletoe in Farnham, our critics pick the best cultural events in the run-up to Christmas

Writers and artists are often inspired by the landscapes they encounter or inhabit, and one of the most distinctive is Dungeness in Kent, on England’s south coast. This headland is punctuated by converted lookout towers, fishermen’s cottages, tanneries and wood-panelled artists’ studios, turquoise crab nets and rusted anchors.

Tafakory’s blend of reality and fiction is ‘a compelling exploration of displacement, memory and resistance’ according to the judging panel

Architectural photographer Gilbert McCarragher invites you into Prospect Cottage, the personal sanctuary of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman

The Spanish director’s latest film, The Room Next Door, in which Tilda Swinton plays a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life, premieres at the Venice film festival

Comedy auteur Torres’s surreal new opus, Problemista, is also the basis for a friendship with arthouse queen Swinton. Cinema’s oddest new couple talk South Park scatology, mortifying restaurant behaviour and cutting-edge queerness

A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

Video artists Larry Achiampong and Rosalind Nashashibi are among those nominated for the prestigious £10,000 prize – which has a strong record of spotting UK art talent

My attempts to cultivate kerb appeal have been a revelation — now I’ve joined the residents’ association to encourage the neighbours

The easy freedom of this medium allowed the artist to range over subjects as diverse as Tarot, male nudes at Fire Island and a friend’s flat – and offer clues to his more public feature films

A vivid account of bringing a garden back to life underlines the importance of outdoor space for all