On 23 October 2025, during Paris Art Week, a monumental blue canvas named California (IKB 71) went under the hammer at Christie’s. Measuring nearly four…
By Tessa Nolan So, they’ve made a spin-off of Money Heist. Of course they have. A prequel about Berlin, the elegant, psychopathic jewel thief. Because when…
By Sara Bright It’s Kim Kardashian’s birthday. And the internet does what it always does. It rolls out the timeline, the highlight reel. The same…
By Alexander Stone You read these stories about space travel, and they always have a certain clean, heroic sheen. The gleaming white suits, the technical…
By Sara Bright Another list of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s best films is doing the rounds. It’s his birthday, or an anniversary of something, and the…
By Sara Bright You read a story like this, and it feels like it’s been ripped from the pages of a script. A potboiler. You…
By Maria Bregman Another blockbuster show is coming. Renoir. A big one, this time. Drawings. Over a hundred of them at the Morgan Library in…
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…