The RBSA Prize Exhibition 2026 – An Uneasy Barometer of British Art
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Culture
Supertri Toulouse: Closing the 2026 Triathlon Season
Once a year, Toulouse lets people into the Garonne, and Supertri is the reason. Maria Bregman reports from a triathlon in the historic heart of…
Nobel Prize 2026 in Peace: Navanethem “Navi” Pillay
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Art
The RBSA Prize Exhibition 2026 – An Uneasy Barometer…
Turn off the Georgian calm of St Paul’s Square into Brook Street and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists announces itself without ceremony. The RBSA…
Best Contemporary British Painters Under 40
Where to See the Russian Avant-Garde in Britain
Theatre
How to start a career as a theatre director…
You do not need a degree or a licence to direct plays in the UK. Most directors get started by directing student, fringe or community…
Film
Music
Fashion
Hair, Six Toes and the Price of Rebellion on…
From Julia Roberts in 1999 to an unshaven model at MM6 x Havaianas in Milan: how body hair went from accident to campaign to runway,…
Alexander McQueen – The Craft of Confrontation and Theatrical Grandeur
Vivienne Westwood – Rebel Tailor, Political Icon
Design
Terence Conran’s Habitat – Reshaping British Homes
In 1964, Terence Conran opened Habitat on Fulham Road, fundamentally altering British domestic taste by proving that modern, well-designed homewares could be both stylish and…
William Morris’s Red House – Where Arts and Crafts Began
Britain’s Brief Spark – The 1951 Festival and the Architecture of Hope
Bauhaus: The Design Ideas That Still Shape Everything
Architecture
Unbuilt: Why the World’s Most Ambitious Architecture Never Makes…
By Alexander Stone The most dangerous building in the world is the one that exists only on paper. It has no budget overruns, no planning…