By Sara Bright On 23 June, the United Nations marks International Widows’ Day – a date established in 2011 to draw attention to the millions…
By Sara Bright There is a peculiar assumption that London’s cultural calendar peaks in summer, when the parks fill with festivals and the galleries mount…
By Sara Bright For a decade, it was known by its postal address – 1 Undershaft, a string of characters that told you where to…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of exhaustion that settles over an awards ceremony when it spends its opening twenty minutes trying to…
By Sara Bright She looked like someone’s grandmother. That was the point. With her cat-eye glasses, her pearls, her carefully curled hair and her perpetual…
By Sara Bright Two years ago, Cecilia Alemani’s Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale made history by featuring a record number of artists…
By Sara Bright Another year, another round of retrospectives on Jean-Claude Van Damme. The internet dutifully assembles its ranked lists – Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Universal Soldier,…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of Hollywood stubbornness that cannot be taught. Val Kilmer had it in abundance. He was the actor…
By Sara Bright There is a peculiar silence at the heart of the global plastic crisis – the silence of 52.1 million metric tonnes of…
By Sara Bright When The Umbrella Academy returned to Netflix on 8 August 2024 for its fourth and final season, it carried the accumulated weight…