By Sara BrightIn 1900, Massachusetts’ female educators faced a labyrinth of constraints that would make even The Handmaid’s Tale’s Aunt Lydia blush. A recently unearthed…
By Sara Bright The UK’s cultural landscape, long celebrated for its gritty realism and regional voices, faces a reckoning. With 32% of major arts leaders…
By Sara Bright In an unprecedented cultural acquisition, Historic England has secured the Janette Rosing Collection – a trove of 8,000 photographs capturing the UK’s…
By Anne Fry When Vincent van Gogh died in 1890, he left behind over 2,000 artworks and a legacy known only to a handful of…
By Sara Bright In a breakthrough merging artificial intelligence with classical scholarship, researchers have decoded the word “διατροπή” (disgust) from a 2,000-year-old scroll carbonised by…
By Anne Fry In a verdict that reverberated through Hollywood and hip-hop circles alike, rapper A$AP Rocky was acquitted of felony gun assault charges on…
By Sara Bright When Jeff Bezos asked followers “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?” hours after Amazon MGM sealed its deal with Eon Productions,…
By Anne Fry In the labyrinthine streets of 1920s Paris, where Gertrude Stein held court and James Joyce scribbled Ulysses in cafés, a young Ernest…
By Sara Bright Demi Moore’s Golden Globe win for The Substance sent shockwaves through Hollywood. A grotesque, darkly comic body horror about ageing and beauty,…
By Sara Bright Over 400 playwrights, poets, and performers have ignited a cultural revolt. In an open letter to the National Endowment for the Arts,…