By Alexander Stone So, the Nobel announcements have landed. The annual ritual where a handful of academics are briefly pulled out of their labs and…
By Sara Bright Another one. Another glossy, expensive-looking series about a wealthy, powerful family imploding under the weight of its own secrets. This time it’s…
By Maria Bregman I saw another one of those lists the other day. You’ve seen them. ‘Stars Who Grew Up in the Countryside’. It’s a…
By Maria Bregman Someone sent me a link the other day. A YouTube video. ‘Fountain Of Sighs’, it was called. From 1995. And the sound…
By Maria Bregman Art Basel has a new hire. A ‘Global Head of Collector and Institutional Relations’. It’s a very grand, very corporate-sounding title for…
The Beautiful Anxious Mess Is Gone. Diane Keaton is gone. And the obituaries will all say the same things. They’ll talk about Woody Allen, of…
By Katerina Karp, visual artist, volunteer, journalist, creative lead Sometimes, the most meaningful cultural projects begin not in boardrooms or curatorial meetings, but in quiet…
By Sara Bright Margaret Thatcher would have been 100 this week. And the country, as always, will split neatly down the middle. There will be…
By Sara Bright An artist takes a Soviet MiG-21 fighter jet, a decommissioned killing machine, and covers it in 35 million tiny, hand-threaded beads. It’s…
By Alexander Stone The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been announced. And the committee, in its infinite wisdom, has decided the best way to explain…