By Sara Bright Anastasiia Ledovskaia, an artist who records as Lemy, has secured this July’s Creativity’s Prize for Performing Arts with her track, “Boy.” The…
By Sara Bright Trying to pick shows at the Edinburgh Fringe is its own special kind of madness. With thousands of options, the program itself…
By Sara Bright Helen Mirren’s cinematic career spans over five decades, encompassing an eclectic spectrum of characters from Arthurian sorceresses to British monarchs. Born Ilyena…
By Sara Bright Carys Davies’s historical novel, Clear, has won the main prize at the Wales Book of the Year awards. The news was shared by…
By Sara Bright Look closer. That simple instruction, so often a casual suggestion, becomes a profound mandate when standing before a work by Donald Rust.…
By Sara Bright Pablo Picasso is not a painter; he is a weather system. An elemental force that swept through the 20th century, tearing up…
By Sara Bright There is an old, rather grim alchemy at the heart of pop music. It is the art of turning the lead of…
By Sara Bright Some paintings are pictures. Others are documents. A select, rare few are crime scenes. Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait of 1434 is…
By Sara Bright She stands in the Louvre, a silent storm of Parian marble, drawing pilgrims by the million. They come to gaze upon what…
When Netflix announced that Lena Dunham was creating a new romantic comedy series set in London, the cultural press braced itself for a seismic transatlantic…