Once taboo topics, sex dolls and sex robots have hit the mainstream and are more advanced than ever. GQ lifts the lid on Pandora’s box to discover Harmony and Samantha. It was later featured on episode 271 of HBO's Vice News Tonight on January 12, 2018 for a segment about sex robots.

The Whitechapel Gallery is welcoming visitors once again to its triennial open submission exhibition, The London Open. The East End Academy began in 1932 as a metaphorical "two fingers" to typical gallery shows. Today the show continues to introduce works created by artists aged 26 or over who live and work in London, with 48 artists showcasing their art at the Whitechapel Gallery after a thorough process of applications and studio visits over three months.

With conceptual artist Duggie Fields' 70th birthday coming up, we revisit what makes (and continues to make) him such an important British artist and fashion icon.

Entering through the doors of a subway car and navigating the ascending steps, we spin through the revolving door to be transported to New York. Just moments before, we were in London.

From 2010 to 2011, millions of sunflower seeds spilled across the floor of the Tate Modern. From far away, each one looked identical, but they were all individually handcrafted in porcelain. As Ai Weiwei's successful Sunflower Seeds installation came to its close, the artist was detained in his home country of China for 81 days. The Chinese authorities confiscated his passport and he has been unable to leave since then. Sunflower Seeds might have been one of the first instances where the British public was directly exposed to Weiwei's work, but it certainly wasn't the last.

The Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition 2015, which has been running every year for the past 247 years, is back on. Here are the artworks you need to see.

It's bad luck in theatre land to speak the name of Shakespeare's play Macbeth out loud. It is instead referred to simply as "the Scottish play." Thankfully for us, our non-theatre affiliation allows us to say the name as much as we please. It's a good thing too, because all we want to do is rave about the new teaser trailer for Justin Kurzel's Macbeth.

Calixto Bieito's raunchy production of Georges Bizet's Carmen at the English National Opera proves that opera is no longer for the old (or boring). For those of you hoping to expand your horizons, Carmen is the perfect introductory sampler to whet your appetite and keep you coming back for more. The image of opera-goers squinting into their binoculars with their powdery, wrinkly faces is over. A younger audience is quickly encroaching into operatic territory, and here's why.