By Sara Bright On the Croisette last month, Monica Bellucci arrived at the premiere of Léa Mysius’ The Birthday Party wearing a floor-length black Dior…
By Alexander Stone When a rare 1965 Matchbox Wreck Truck crossed the auction block at Vectis Auctions in Stockton-on-Tees in January 2025, fetching an eye-watering…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright Marie Skłodowska-Curie died ninety-two years ago. In 2026, she has never been more present. A building she once worked in…
By Sara Bright Two years ago, Magnus Carlsen was invincible. In a tournament he described as a gruelling marathon of willpower, the Norwegian maestro shook…
By Sara Bright On 12 December 2024, a small, unassuming volume in a faded red leather binding changed hands at Sotheby’s London for £576,000. The…
By Alexander Stone Alexander Stone Beneath the basement of a nondescript office block at 85 Gracechurch Street, archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology made…
By Sara Bright When Kim Kardashian stepped onto the red carpet at the 2024 LACMA Art+Film Gala in Los Angeles on 2 November, she was…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with relentless excellence. Not the burnout of overwork, but the fatigue of watching…
By Sara Bright When the lights dimmed inside All is Joy Studios on Dean Street in Soho last year, what followed was not a conventional…
By Sara Bright You step off the vaporetto at the Giardini and the immediate physical sensation. is a familiar, exhausting density. This is the art…