Modern Couples is about desire, intimacy, liberation, non-binary icons, feminism, homoerotic utopias and revolution. But mostly it is about love – a mad, intoxicating kind of love. Featuring more than 40 avant-garde couples, including Pablo Picasso and photographer Dora Maar and model Lee Miller and Man Ray, this show shines a spotlight on the people who were courageous enough to ‘forge new ways of making art and of loving and living’.

The exhibition explores the influence of the intimate relationships between artists on their work – and suggests that the more exhilarating the relationship, the better the art. But what really grabbed our attention was its focus on the integral role the women played in these relationships. It wouldn’t be going too far to say that without these women, who have generally been dismissed as ‘muses’, some of the most important and iconic work of the past 100 years would never have been made.

Jerwood Space is a hidden gem in the back streets of Southwark, London. Located in an old school that has been converted into an arts centre, the Jerwood Foundation runs a programme of exhibitions and awards focused on new talent. It’s current exhibition, Survey, presents new work by 15 early-career artists from across the UK and a walk around it feels like peering into the future of British art.

Survey spans a breadth of disciplines including ceramics, film, performance, podcasts, painting, sculpture, drawing and collage. Some must-sees: Frank Wasser’s fragment of a fictional newspaper that imagines the assassination of Donald Trump and Lindsey Mendick’s ceramic reproductions of objects from within her family home.

Japanese Auteur Hirokazu Koda’s latest film continues the pattern of subtle and nuanced family drama that has run through his work since 2011’s stunning ‘I Wish’. A perceptive exploration of trauma, this film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year and, given its beauty and emotional resonance, it’s not hard to see why.

The film follows a family that shoplift to keep themselves out of poverty, whose lives are upended after they meet, and adopt, a young homeless girl who has survived abuse. As their already unsettled lives become increasingly precarious, the lies and secrets the family tell themselves and each other slowly come into the light.