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.…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright In a consultation room in Gloucestershire, a GP hands a patient not a script for sertraline, but a referral to…
By Tessa Nolan In July 2025, Amy Sherald did something no artist of her stature had done before at the Smithsonian: she walked away. The…
By Sara Bright In September 2025, a federal judge in Rhode Island delivered a verdict that reverberated far beyond the courtroom. U.S. Senior District Court…
By Sara Bright When a Drawing Becomes a Song On 12 May 2026, inside the lobby of Rome’s MAXXI – the national museum of twenty-first-century…