By Alexander Stone The British New Wave, emerging around 1960, dramatically shifted cinema’s focus from escapist studio productions to the raw realities of working-class life.…
On 30 July the Mercury Prize reveals its shortlist, the annual dozen Albums of the Year that will be picked over until the winner is…
Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood sends the outlaw to a monastery to die. Hugh Jackman plays him old and ill, Jodie Comer plays…
The inventor of plastination and creator of Body Worlds has died at 81. Cover photo: Nick J. Webb, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
By Sara Bright The Young British Artists fundamentally transformed the UK art scene by turning art into a media spectacle, elevating collectors to kingmakers, and…
On 28 July the Booker Prize reveals its 2026 longlist, the annual Booker Dozen of twelve or thirteen novels that will dominate literary conversation until…
Haute couture is the most guarded corner of the industry. The official Paris calendar admits only a handful of houses, and a place on it…
Simon Stone has built a career on taking the oldest stories and refusing to keep them at arm’s length. His new production of The Oresteia…
The music industry has an unspoken etiquette about release dates. Big artists tend to give each other room, partly out of courtesy and mostly out…
The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the six buildings shortlisted for the 2026 Stirling Prize, and the list carries an unusual symmetry. This…