By Sara Bright In a city that once spun more cotton than anywhere else on earth, the threads have not gone silent. They have simply…
By Sara Bright What is one of the earliest subjects in art – as well one of the most censored? The breast. First carved onto…
By Sara Bright In a candlelit room at Sennowe Park, the Edwardian country house in Norfolk that has been home to the Temple-Richards family for…
By Sara Bright A portrait has never been a mirror. It is a negotiation – a silent contract between the one who looks and the…
By Sara Bright When Kirsha Kaechele admitted in July 2024 that the Picasso paintings hanging in her Ladies Lounge at Hobart’s Museum of Old and…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Endless Column by Hank Willis Thomas, previously exhibited in Regent’s Park, London. (Creative Commons) While wandering through…
By Alexander Stone When Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, emerged from a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow in March 2025, he was carrying…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright In an age dominated by digital precision, one artist is proving that the most powerful statements emerge from the tactile…
By Sara Bright When Sue Tilley first trudged up the three flights of stairs to Lucian Freud’s Paddington studio in 1991, she was a benefits…
By Sara Bright In June 2026, Christophe Leribault stood before the French Senate’s Culture Committee and delivered a verdict that would have been unthinkable a…