By Sara Bright There is an origin story behind the anticipation that grips the capital whenever the Flame International Awards are mentioned. It is during…
By Sara Bright Pop music is an industry designed to consume youth and spit out the bones. It possesses no structural capacity for aging women.…
By Sara Bright You step off the vaporetto at the Giardini and the immediate physical sensation. is a familiar, exhausting density. This is the art…
By Maria Bregman London, April 2026. There is an intriguingly stubborn quality in the loopiness of a wooden strip of sculpture. The strip doubles on…
By Sara Bright There is a distinct, heavy hum that settles over the Olivier Theatre just before the house lights go down. It is a…
By Maria Bregman The 2026 Bafta TV nominations are out. It is a heavy list. If you want to know exactly how the British television…
By Sara Bright At the Cristea Roberts Gallery during the Georg Baselitz exhibition. The show was called Geschichte and ran from late January to the…
By Maria Bregman It was raining on Sunday, which is basically the only tradition the British Academy manages to uphold with any real consistency. The…
By Tessa Nolan There are songs that lodge themselves in the cultural spine. You hum them without knowing where you heard them. Greensleeves is one…
By Sara Bright Ben Platt is coming to London. It’s happening in July. But he isn’t doing the Palladium. He isn’t taking over the Adelphi…