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…
By Sara Bright Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, working as The Archers, transformed British cinema from documentary realism into a medium of feverish psychological opera.…
The thieves struck just before ten on Saturday evening, while Messina’s streets were still thrumming with the Processione della Vara. By the time the religious…
By Sara Bright The National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun and opened in 1976 on London’s South Bank, embodies postwar Britain’s commitment to public culture…
The Internet Archive lent scanned books like a library and lost. What the Hachette ruling settled, what it left open, and why the fight moved…
A New York court ordered Anna's Archive to pay $19.5m and told registries worldwide to disable its domains. The site kept indexing. Why book piracy…
From 7 to 31 August the Edinburgh Festival Fringe takes over the city again, and the numbers alone explain why it exhausts and thrills in…
Four projects make the shortlist for RIBA's inaugural Conservation Award, announced 15 October at Old Billingsgate alongside the Stirling Prize.