By Sara Bright It arrived with the quiet confidence of a project that knew it was destined to conquer. In a streaming landscape littered with…
By Sara Bright An Inventory of Hope. The proposition is almost insultingly simple. A boy’s mother is in hospital, having done “something stupid.” He decides…
By Sara Bright There are certain partnerships in the cultural sphere that feel less like a collaboration and more like a convergence, an inevitable meeting…
By Sara Bright A castle is a statement. It is a declaration of power, a symbol of dominance etched into the landscape. For nine centuries,…
By Sara Bright There is a moment, somewhere around the eighth week of summer, when a collective cultural fever breaks. It is a fever contracted…
By Sara Bright At first glance, the pairing seems unlikely. A Catalan architect whose buildings erupt from the earth like living organisms; a Russian mystic…
There is a precise moment when a building crosses the threshold from architectural landmark to derelict shell. For the Bernat Klein Studio, a Category A-listed…
By Sara Bright We have a habit of treating art as a form of decoration. We see it as a beautiful, profound, or challenging commentary…
By Sara Bright The Ghosts We Keep The wind that scours the rural Irish landscape in Conor McPherson’s play The Weir is more than just weather. It…
When Steve Martin stood before stadium crowds in the late 1970s, wearing an immaculate white suit, a novelty arrow through his head, and declaring himself…