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The growing visibility of Rosana Paulino’s work reaches a new chapter with the opening this week of her first solo exhibition in Paris, at Mendes Wood DM’s outpost in the French capital. Titled “Bloom in the Sunlight, Dream in the Moonlight,” the exhibition introduces new plant goddesses into the Afro-botanical pantheon Paulino has been building since 2019 as part of her ongoing series “Senhora das Plantas” (Lady of the Plants), which elevates Black women to the status of goddesses in communion with nature, without implying a romanticized view. The 16 paintings—five on paper and 12 on canvas—take on renewed vitality on a larger scale and via a deeper exploration of color and increasingly ingenious bodily poses.

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TEMPORARY PLEASURE AND THE EPHEMERAL NIGHTCLUBFor most of its history, the nightclub was built on a simple premise: you had to be there. John Leo Gillen was born and raised in a nightclub in the west of Ireland, and came of age just as the nightclub began to disappear. Outside the family business he threw illegal raves, then learned architecture to build temporary club spaces. Temporary Pleasure, the practice he founded, combines the two — the architecture of a club with the emotion of a rave — into a single idea: the ephemeral nightclub. His projects include Choreomania at Horst Arts & Music, Joyride at the Barbican and The Superclub at WeCanDance, and he is the author of Temporary Pleasure: Nightclub Architecture, Design & Culture 1960–Today (Prestel, 2023). designboom speaks with Gillen about time as a design material, the crowd as the show, and why the moments that matter most can’t be captured.‘The nightclub once offered something radical: a moment suspended in time that could only be experienced by those who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time,’ Gillen tells designboom.

There is not one weak sketch in the opener of Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s comedy – they will have you weeping tears of laughter. Now in its second series, expect returning characters and new ones. There are lifestyle influencers shopping at Asda; hipsters spending all day in an overpriced trinkets boutique; and Mary Poppins at a gynaecological appointment. It also guest stars Steve Coogan, Sian Clifford and Jamie Demetriou. Hollie RichardsonThe Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn8pm, BBC One This minor variation on the Repair Shop formula continues: the barn is still open but the gang embark on a few road trips. Most notable this time is the Ukrainian tsymbaly (a hammered dulcimer) belonging to a woman from Cornwall. Once it’s been lovingly restored, it’s moving to see it being played. Phil HarrisonPortrait Artist of the Year 20268pm, Sky Arts

It begins on Christmas Day, 1996: “It’s been a lovely day … I realised how much I love my family.” It ends three years later: “I’m lying on the floor in floods of tears and all I want to do is die.” Say what you like about adolescence but it is nothing if not an emotional tumult. “If I’d known as a teenager,” says the comedian Jon Richardson ruefully, “that I’d one day write a book about them, I couldn’t have bookended my teenage diaries with better quotes to show what a storm of shit those years can be.”The book is The Teenage Diaries of a Stand-Up Comedian, and it has been two years in the making. Two years that, if not quite the hormonal rollercoaster the book itself records, have been quite the ride. The project is borne of a crossroads moment in the Lancashire man’s midlife, after he experienced bereavement, serious illness among family and friends, and the breakdown of his marriage to fellow comic Lucy Beaumont. The last was an inevitably very public ending, splayed across the tabloids, to a relationship which itself played out in public, courtesy of the couple’s acclaimed mockumentary about their domestic arrangements, Meet the Richardsons.