By Tessa Nolan When David Hockney’s Bigger Christmas Trees illuminated the twin north chimneys of Battersea Power Station on the evening of 1 December 2023,…
By Sara Bright When Christopher Nolan revealed in May that his forthcoming The Odyssey – the first feature film shot entirely on IMAX cameras, budgeted…
By Sara Bright When Frida Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) hammered at $47m on the evening of 20 November 2025, the room at Sotheby’s New…
By Sara Bright Francisco Goya’s unflinching gaze, which once fixed upon the follies of eighteenth-century Spain and the horrors of Napoleonic war, is experiencing a…
By Tessa Nolan There is a moment early in The Strangers when Ekow Eshun describes taking a Brillo pad to his own face at the…
By Sara Bright On 18 July 1937, Adolf Hitler inaugurated the Haus der Kunst in Munich with a speech declaring “merciless war” on cultural disintegration,…
By Alexander Stone When Nazir Afzal, the chancellor of the University of Manchester, co-authored the Class Ceiling report in January 2026, he expected confirmation of…
By Sara Bright The UK creative industries generate £123bn in gross value added to the economy and employ 2.42 million people. They are, by the…
By Maria Bregman London, April 2026. There is an intriguingly stubborn quality in the loopiness of a wooden strip of sculpture. The strip doubles on…
By Sara Bright A naked man dangles from a windowsill five metres above Frogmore Street, one hand clutching the ledge, the other covering his modesty.…