Surrealist artist Eileen Agar’s work fuses abstraction with classical imagery, informed by the natural world and sexual pleasure. This year, the Whitechapel Gallery presents Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, celebrating Agar’s largest exhibition to date, with over 100 paintings, collages, photographs and archive material on show, much of which has rarely been exhibited before.

100 people, 100 years, one community – renowned photographer Jenny Lewis shares the portraits and stories of those living in her neighbourhood of Hackney, East London. Having lived in Hackney for 25 years, Lewis has been documenting people for some time, but her latest publication brings together all ages, revealing not just a neighbourhood, but many vital moments of connection, growth and contradiction.

The Dior Cruise 2022 Collection will be revealed on Thursday 17 June in Athens, Greece. In the same year that Greece celebrates 200 years of independence, Dior reflects on the house’s relationship with the historic capital, playing homage to Dior’s iconic Autumn/ Winter 1951 haute couture shoot in the Acropolis.

From Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele comes Gucci Décor – a collection of distinctive furniture and furnishings, designed to bring a taste of Michele’s romantic stylings to the home. The collection gestures repeatedly towards Gucci’s rich heritage of visionary design, incorporating many of the House’s prevailing motifs, whilst also reaching out to previously untouched product types, including an expertly crafted range of tableware.

Zimmermann’s Resort 22 Ready-To-Wear collection draws on the rose-tinted hues of holiday nostalgia in a launch filled with adventurous designs. In an ode to the playful escapism of the holiday season, Creative Director Nicky Zimmermann incorporates artwork by James Northfield, whose iconic travel posters were featured in Australian state tourism campaigns of the 1950s.

Well-respected ikebana teacher and long-standing Bouquets to Art exhibitor and presenter, Soho Sakai, began practising the ancient Japanese discipline of ikebana in 1957 in Kumamoto, Japan. On 9 June 2021 Sakai will be leading an hour-long flower arranging presentation, where she will be discussing the relationship between ikebana, nature and the expression of emotion through floral design.

The Guardian is hosting a digital festival in celebration of its 200th anniversary, inviting leading industry figures to discuss politics, activism, the environment, art and more. Joining the conversation on 14 June 2021 will be dancer and choreographer Akram Khan and novelist Amitav Ghosh. Both recognised for spreading awareness of environmental issues, Khan and Ghosh will be talking to Guardian editor Alex Clark about their unique creative fields, and how they utilise art to spread awareness of the ongoing environmental crisis.

To showcase the #Dioriviera capsule collection from FW21, Dior have opened a chain of pop-up spaces around the world. Among these locations is the Selfridges pop-up in London, open from Tuesday 1 June. Not only has the store been transformed into a fantasy of the distant French Riviera, but Dior will also be taking over Selfridges’ rooftop restaurant: Dior at Alto. Dressed in toile de Jouy, this exquisite setting will be accompanied by a menu carefully composed in-house by Dior, including some of Monsieur Dior’s favourite dishes.

Cave Things – a shop selling playful and mysterious objects sourced, shaped and designed by Nick Cave – has launched a photobook featuring 100 polaroids of lost gloves, photographed by Cave himself. Documenting the obscure locations that gloves are commonly misplaced, Cave once again gives forgotten objects a story of their own. 100 special edition copies of the book will be released, each including an original polaroid.

Tekla launches its kids collection with a range of unisex sleepwear and bathrobes, all woven from 100% organic, Oeko-Tex certified cotton fibres, meaning that they are free of any harmful chemicals. The collection launched alongside an endearing campaign shoot, photographed by Danish photographer Philip Messmann.