By Sara Bright There is something quietly extraordinary about the number 2025. Not in the usual sense – not the way any new year carries…
In the traditional museum, the object is a captive of its label. The small rectangular placard – often printed in austere, sans-serif typography – has…
By Katerina Karp “What is the most effective punishment for a crime?” It is a question that has echoed through millennia, from the Athenian agora…
By Sara Bright. Let’s be honest about the Golden Globes. It’s a dinner party. It’s a place where beautiful people in very expensive tuxedos pat…
By Sara Bright Let’s be honest. The Golden Globes have always been the slightly drunk, slightly embarrassing uncle of the awards season. They are chaotic.…
By Sara Bright The lawsuit against Will Smith is messy. Not messy in the usual “celebrity forgets to pay a contractor” way, but messy in…
By Sara Bright You know that feeling between Christmas and New Year? That strange, static limbo where you don’t know what day it is, you’ve…
By Sara Bright It’s that time of year again. The Great Decluttering. We wipe the dust off our watchlists, delete the shows we promised we’d…
By Sara Bright Chris Rea is dead. It’s one of those headlines that stops you mid-scroll. Not because it’s a shock, exactly – he was…
Kathryn Bigelow does not think of herself as a filmmaker who happens to be a woman. She has always resisted that formulation, and she has…