The 1995 chart battle between Blur’s “Country House” and Oasis’s “Roll With It” epitomized Britpop’s manufactured rivalry, a media-fueled clash of class and geography. This…
Luca Guadagnino's Artificial plays the OpenAI story as comedy. Ahead of its BFI London Film Festival Gala on 11 October, what the first reviews say…
The seventh Moscow Fashion Week ran from 26 September to 1 October 2026, with its main programme at the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege” in Moscow.…
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…