Culture
Nobel Prize 2026 in Peace: Navanethem “Navi” Pillay
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to the South African jurist Navanethem Pillay. What the Committee said.
Art
Where to See the Russian Avant-Garde in Britain
By Alexander Stone Britain never set out to become a home for the Russian avant-garde. It has no equivalent of the Stedelijk Museum’s Malevich holdings…
Theatre
Chekhov’s early comedy comes to Cambridge in “Life in…
Before The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov was a medical student in Moscow paying his way with jokes. In the early 1880s he…
Literature
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,…
Design
William Morris’s Red House – Where Arts and Crafts…
In 1859, William Morris married Jane Burden and needed a home. He was twenty-five, a poet and painter, restless and already dissatisfied with the direction…
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…
Visual Arts
