By Sara Bright “Fashion is Art,” proclaimed the Costume Institute. The celebrities, for the most part, heeded the message by becoming walking, sparkly and sometimes…
By Sara Bright Two years ago, Magnus Carlsen was invincible. In a tournament he described as a gruelling marathon of willpower, the Norwegian maestro shook…
By Sara Bright On 12 December 2024, a small, unassuming volume in a faded red leather binding changed hands at Sotheby’s London for £576,000. The…
By Sara Bright When Sue Tilley first trudged up the three flights of stairs to Lucian Freud’s Paddington studio in 1991, she was a benefits…
By Sara Bright Sir Antonio Pappano describes the moment he first raised a baton to the London Symphony Orchestra as though he were recounting a…
By Sara Bright In June 2026, Christophe Leribault stood before the French Senate’s Culture Committee and delivered a verdict that would have been unthinkable a…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright West End box office revenue topped £1.07 billion in 2023. In 2025, London’s theatre district pulled in 17.64 million theatregoers…
By Alexander Stone On a sweltering Friday evening in Peckham last July, a warehouse behind the vinyl-forward bar Jumbi was vibrating – not from the…
By Tessa Nolan When Tschabalala Self’s Lady in Blue is craned onto the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square this September, it will mark a quiet…
By Alexander Stone Alexander Stone Beneath the basement of a nondescript office block at 85 Gracechurch Street, archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology made…