Lots of amazing art to see now and in the coming weeks, including five days, 12-16 June, with Turbine Hall at Tate Modern carpeted in UK AIDS Memorial Quilts. ■ The project was initiated by CHARLIE PORTER, who included a surprising eight-page visual interlude of AIDS Quilts in his new novel ‘Nova Scotia House’. ■ It’ll be a beautiful event, and tears will flow. ■ An extra special feature: ‘There Is a Light That Never Goes Out’, a 52-minute documentary, detailing the 1994 display of memorial quilts in Hyde Park. The film (see still above), which was only recently rediscovered in VHS form, will screen for the first time ever, every hour at Tate Modern’s cinema space during the exhibition. ■ Some spectacular talking heads make cameos, from BOY GEORGE and RIFAT OZBEK, to INXS singer MICHAEL HUTCHENCE. Wow! It’s heartbreakingly beautiful. So make sure to put that on your London agenda.

Remember PAUL THEK? His name popped up in our 2019 interview with fashion legend MANFRED a.k.a. THIERRY MUGLER, who was recalling his years living in Amsterdam in the 1960s. “I had a love affair with this amazing American artist PAUL THEK,” said MUGLER, “a very sexy, beautiful man who really invented installation art.” ■  Anyhoo, PAUL THEK (1933-1988) is the star at Thomas Dane Gallery in London, an exhibition curated in part by Dior’s JONATHAN ANDERSON. ■ Our friend HYNAM KENDALL went to see and reports the following: PAUL THEK returns to London. But not as you know him. No guts, no wax. ‘Seized by Joy’ is a quiet resurrection, devotional in nature. Small paintings on newsprint. Ink and gouache. Watercolour landscapes, dazed and dream-like. Words scrawled like after-thoughts, sun-warped on paper. Often tender as an old wound. You stand there, looking, thinking about love. Maybe God. Death and delight. The intimacy is almost indecent.

And then quickly over to Berlin, for ‘A Heart That Beats – Focus on Queer Ukrainian Art’ at the Schwules Museum. ■ It’s a show curated by ANTON SHEBETKO and MARIA VTORUSHYNA and while, sadly, Ukraine has been in the news for over two years now, there’s not been too much focus on the country’s resilient queer communities. Above, a photo by VIC BÁKIN.

Opening next week at Centre Pompidou is a big, big WOLFGANG TILLMANS show. So, now is your time to re-read PAUL FLYNN’s thrilling portrait of WOLFGANG, from Fantastic Man no. 11 in 2010, with photos by ALASDAIR McLELLAN. ■ Favourite pull-quote from that story: “It is so not what you would expect of me.” Or this one: “Oh, super!”

■ MOHAMED BOUROUISSA at Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Italy.

■ Near-forgotten physioplastic sculptor THEODOR SCHOKKER is subject of a retrospective show, in Amsterdam, in the artist’s old atelier.

■ CELIA HEMPTON, a favourite contemporary painter here at FM HQ, can be seen at Flatland Projects in Bexhill-on-Sea (a solo) and also at Lisson Gallery in London (group show). Of the latter, WILLY NDATIRA sent the image above –  thanks!

And I’m currently reading ‘De sprong in het licht’ (something like ‘the jump into the light’), a brand new biography of MARLOW MOSS, and it’s a page turner! ■ Author FLORETTE DIJKSTRA goes sleuthing around Europe, trying to uncover some of the many mysteries around MOSS, an English artist whose work often resembles PIET MONDRIAAN, and who, of course, just by the fact that she was a female artist (albeit with a mega masculine appearance) was completely ignored by art history. The book’s a treat, for those of you who read Dutch…