It’s official: exhibition season has started again.  With Gerard Byrne opening at Whitechapel Gallery last week, tomorrow sees the opening of Woo! A new exhibition of work by German photographer Juergen Teller.

This is Teller’s first UK exhibition in a decade.  One of the finest photographers of his generation, Teller crosses with ease between the worlds of fashion, art and advertising. Coming to prominence in the 1980s, this new show traces a line through his career.  We have some of the first images of Kate Moss, modelling at fifteen; Teller’s cover image for Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 You; portraits of stars including Kurt Cobain and Vivienne Westwood; and the iconic images created for the ongoing Marc Jacobs advertising campaigns.

In addition, the exhibition presents a series of works from his weekly column in Germany’s Die Ziet Magazin, and two very recent series’, Irene im Wald and Keys to the House, which explore a more personal side to the flamboyant photographer, detailing his homes in Germany and Suffolk.

Instantly recognisable, is the one overriding aspect of Juergen Teller’s work.  Across fashion, art and advertising -- each of them a world of transience of their own -- this is high praise indeed.

Juergen Teller: Woo! opens at the ICA tomorrow, until 17 March.

What Richard Did is a remarkable feat in contemporary cinema: an independent film that is both complex and subtle, that hints at greater forces and that speaks volumes within its quiet, mannered tone.

Our eponymous hero is an unlikely lead.  An alpha male.  A handsome, blue-eyed boy who is also a good-natured overachiever and his school’s rugby star.  Films like this are seldom made about men like this.  Richard’s story becomes increasingly tense when he falls for Lara, the girlfriend of his rugby teammate Conor.  If most films of this kind are about the struggles of growing up and how people cope with their coming-of-age, What Richard Did has more in common with European auteurist cinema: this is an examination of psyche and is about the limits of control.  By the time we see what it is that Richard actually did, we’re certain that the film’s denouement can only be breathtakingly abrupt.

It’s difficult to explain this film without comparing it to others of its kind, without placing it in a context.  What Richard Did defies the context that it lays for itself and is truly a gem, unlike any film you’ve seen in recent months.  The film is poetic, thoughtful and its restlessness remainders long in the memory.  A bigger name director with a bigger name star would have this plastered in multiplexes throughout the country.  See it while you’re still in-the-know.

What Richard Did is on release.

In his 83 years, Wililam Burroughs lived many different lifetimes.  He was a novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, poet and performer.  A significant figure of the Beat Generation (and probably the only one who had the literary respect of the whole movement), Burroughs has been a major influence on more people than you’ll realise and that could possibly be listed here: Andy Warhol, Gus Van Sant, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, JG Ballard, Will Self, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Tom Waits, Hunter S. Thompson, Keith Haring, David Cronenberg.

You can walk into any bookshop anywhere in the world and buy a book by William Burroughs.  It’s not very often in London that you can walk into a gallery and see an exhibition of his paintings.  Welcome to All out of time and into space, a new exhibition of work by Burroughs at October Gallery.  The gallery owners knew the artist and for this exhibition have collaborated with Burrough’s long-time editor.  It features his paintings, drawings and a selection of his art objects.

Like his fiction, Burrough’s art is about transgression from the linear; it’s about corruption of the established routine.  For a man predominantly known for his writing, his visual artwork retains the immediacy and the power of the mind under distress.  He used the ‘cut-up’ technique, splicing together paint and various cultural reference.  Always an arbiter of style, this is a show that sustains itself well beyond the initial burn of the reverential flame.

William Burroughs: All out of time and into space is at October Gallery until 16 February.