On 26 September the Turner Prize 2026 exhibition opens at MIMA, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The shortlisted work will be on show there…
Benjamin Britten did not discover Aldeburgh. The Suffolk fishing town had existed for centuries before Britten settled nearby in 1942, and it would have continued…
Katy Perry's Lifetimes concert film reportedly took about £21,000 in 150 UK cinemas. The verified context, a $134m tour and the economics of event cinema,…
Serbian painter Ratko Torma gives thoughts and fears a physical shape in oil. Two canvases from his series Mental Constructions.
By Sara Bright Charles Dickens didn’t just write novels; he pioneered a dynamic, serialized form of storytelling with The Pickwick Papers that fundamentally reshaped literary…
The 83rd Venice International Film Festival runs from 2 to 12 September on the Lido, and for anyone who follows cinema seriously it marks the…
By Sara Bright Ealing comedies, produced under Michael Balcon, offered a unique lens on postwar Britain’s spirit. Amidst austerity and rigid class structures, films like…
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has died aged 97. From Infinity Nets to mirror rooms and pumpkins, how her hallucinations became one of contemporary art's most…
By Sara Bright The Bloomsbury Group, a collective of early 20th-century English writers, intellectuals, philosophers, and artists, challenged Victorian rigidity through radical honesty. Beyond their…
There is a particular strangeness to living inside a culture that talks to itself through film dialogue. An American will tell you something is “a…