By Tessa Nolan On 11 February 2024, during Super Bowl LVIII, Beyoncé stepped out of a Verizon commercial alongside Tony Hale and surprise-released two singles…
By Anne Fry On the highways connecting Taipei to Kaohsiung, glass booths glow in fluorescent pink and red, their neon signs buzzing against the humid…
By Sara Bright There is a photograph Debra Winger keeps from the Sahara. She stands at the edge of the dunes in Tuareg robes, facing…
By Anne Fry For more than two centuries, the Treasury at Petra has drawn visitors through a narrow sandstone canyon to gaze upon its rose-hued…
By Tessa Nolan When Mattel unveiled its “Women in Film” Barbie range in January 2024 – just three months after the Writers Guild of America…
By Sara Bright When Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Barbican Centre on 3 March 1982, the building was already thirteen years ahead of its…
By Sara Bright A naked man dangles from a windowsill five metres above Frogmore Street, one hand clutching the ledge, the other covering his modesty.…
By Sara Bright When Aviva Studios threw open its doors in October 2023, the sceptics had a ready-made narrative: another flagship cultural building that would…
By Sara Bright When the first audiences stepped through the undercroft entrance of Aviva Studios on Water Street in October 2023, they walked past a…
By Tessa Nolan On 20 March 1988, a reggae track written by two of pop’s most prolific songwriters and originally buried as a B-side on…