By Sara Bright Venue: Theatre Royal HaymarketDates: 23 October 2025 – 17 January 2026Performance on 29 October: 19:30 William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Othello receives a bold contemporary makeover at one of London’s most revered West…
By Maria Bregman, writer, litarary and art critic So, there are two auctions. In New York, at Christie’s, a monumental painting by the late Indian…
By Sara Bright So, they robbed the Louvre. In seven minutes. That’s all it took. You could barely make a proper cup of tea in…
By Maria Bregman The numbers for the Helsinki Book Fair are in. 900 speakers. 17 stages over four days. You see figures like that, and…
By Tessa Nolan So the numbers are out for the new Paul Thomas Anderson film. And the verdict is in. It’s a flop. A bomb.…
On 23 October 2025, during Paris Art Week, a monumental blue canvas named California (IKB 71) went under the hammer at Christie’s. Measuring nearly four…
By Tessa Nolan So, they’ve made a spin-off of Money Heist. Of course they have. A prequel about Berlin, the elegant, psychopathic jewel thief. Because when…
By Sara Bright It’s Kim Kardashian’s birthday. And the internet does what it always does. It rolls out the timeline, the highlight reel. The same…
By Alexander Stone You read these stories about space travel, and they always have a certain clean, heroic sheen. The gleaming white suits, the technical…
By Sara Bright Another list of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s best films is doing the rounds. It’s his birthday, or an anniversary of something, and the…