By Maria Bregman You see the dates, the venues in Piccadilly and Mayfair. You see the theme: “Cinema of Higher Values – Beyond Differences, Towards…
By Maria Bregman So the list is out. The annual ritual of the Grammy nominations. The press releases land, the headlines get written, and for…
By Maria Bregman This November, London is getting ready for the 15th So Independent International Film Festival (SIFFA), which is also its tenth birthday. From…
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 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 Maria Bregman Another blockbuster show is coming. Renoir. A big one, this time. Drawings. Over a hundred of them at the Morgan Library in…
By Maria Bregman I saw another one of those lists the other day. You’ve seen them. ‘Stars Who Grew Up in the Countryside’. It’s a…
By Maria Bregman Someone sent me a link the other day. A YouTube video. ‘Fountain Of Sighs’, it was called. From 1995. And the sound…
By Maria Bregman Art Basel has a new hire. A ‘Global Head of Collector and Institutional Relations’. It’s a very grand, very corporate-sounding title for…
By Maria Bregman So, the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to László Krasznahorkai. And the first question most people will ask is… who? Look, the…