By Sara Bright Only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built around 2560 BCE for…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…
By Sara Bright In 1965, at the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart, John Cranko unveiled a ballet that had no right to exist. The intendant…
By Sara Bright There is a particular cruelty to the way the world remembers Priscilla Presley. She is frozen at seventeen, dark-haired and porcelain-skinned, standing…
By Sara Bright When Prince William stood before a gathering at the Saatchi Gallery in the summer of 2024, he was not unveiling a royal…
By Sara Bright The world keeps ending on screen, and audiences keep staying home. That, in the starkest terms, is the paradox confronting post-apocalyptic cinema…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright On a sun-drenched Easter Sunday, 28 April 2024, an 87-year-old man in white arrived by helicopter on the island of…
By Sara Bright When Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment arrived in UK cinemas on 29 March 1985, it carried the weight of a $149…
By Sara Bright In January 1837, a schoolmaster from Kidderminster walked into a parliamentary inquiry armed with nothing but a pamphlet and a radical conviction.…
By Sara Bright Paris Fashion Week 2025 drew to a close on 6 October after 111 shows – more than any other fashion capital managed…