By Sara Bright It’s 110 years today since Edith Piaf was born. That number feels wrong, doesn’t it? It feels too neat. Piaf was never…
By Sara Bright It’s hard to believe Milla Jovovich is fifty. Actually, scratch that. It’s impossible. Not because she looks younger (though she does, in…
By Maria Bregman Pause for a second. Let that sink in. If you grew up in the late nineties, Christina wasn’t just a singer. She…
By Sara Bright “Scooby-Dooby-Doo,” says Daniel Craig, standing over an open coffin in a crypt. It’s a line reading that shouldn’t work. It should be…
By Maria Bregman, writer and art critic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Bregman. Her critical work and essays are featured in major global publications such as Elle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and…
By Sara Bright There are few people who can claim to have invented a genre. Rob Reiner, who has reportedly died in Los Angeles at…
By Katerina Karp, visual artist, volunteer, journalist, creative lead Some of the oldest known examples of textiles have been found in great detail, along with…
By Sara Bright So, Frank Gehry has gone. It feels strange to write those words. Not just because he was ninety-six – and let’s be…
There is a specific, potent brand of quiet panic that Katherine Waterston has entirely mastered. It is not the hysterical, running-down-corridors terror that so often…
On a Tuesday morning in November 2024, I sat in the café of Manchester Art Gallery as a stranger across the table told us she…