Where to Get Your Culture Fix This July

It’s that time again! We’ve rounded up the top exhibits, films, books, and TV series that you need to take note of. Keep on scrolling; your culture calendar awaits.

Break in Case of Emergency: A Novel (Knopf Doubleday) by Jessica Winter

In this intriguing summer read, Jessica Winter’s heroine, Jen, joins a feminist nonprofit, only to find a passive-aggressive work environment where the female staff spend all their time sabotaging one another instead of empowering one another.

New Romance: Art and the Posthuman is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia until September 4, 2016.

In this bold new exhibition, curators Anna Davis and Houngcheol Choi pull together artworks from both Australian and Korean creators that provide stimulus to the question of what it means to be a human today and in the future. Insect-like robots, genetic modification, evolution, and mutation are only some of the topics presented that are sure to get viewers thinking.

Ghostbusters hits theatres July 15, 2016.

This gender-swapped reboot of the classic 1980’s franchise Ghostbusters stars comedy queens Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, and is slated to be summer’s must-see blockbuster.

Stranger Things premieres on Netflix on July 15, 2016.

Tapping into a similar ’80s supernatural spirit, Netflix’s newest series stars the oh-so-iconic Winona Ryder as its leading lady. We can only assume the spooky mystery of this young boy’s disappearance will keep viewers clicking on the next episode.

Built, World is on view at the SCAD Museum of Art until September 4, 2016.

In this exhibition, a wide range of media by artists across the globe are displayed to create a conversation around the social landscape, and to examine the different architectural forms that make up our everyday environment.