By Sara Bright An Inventory of Hope. The proposition is almost insultingly simple. A boy’s mother is in hospital, having done “something stupid.” He decides…
By Maria Bregman The word “inspiration” is in trouble. It has been hollowed out, flattened by a culture that prefers its heroes simple and its…
By Sara Bright There are certain partnerships in the cultural sphere that feel less like a collaboration and more like a convergence, an inevitable meeting…
By Maria Bregman, writer and music critic To understand the year 2000, you have to understand Fred Durst. To see him then, at the absolute…
By Sara Bright A castle is a statement. It is a declaration of power, a symbol of dominance etched into the landscape. For nine centuries,…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic To adapt a national epic is to walk a tightrope. On one side lies the abyss of slavish…
By Maria Bregman Language has always been a fluid, evolving entity, but the recent additions to the Cambridge Dictionary feel less like a gentle current…
By Sara Bright There is a moment, somewhere around the eighth week of summer, when a collective cultural fever breaks. It is a fever contracted…
By Sara Bright At first glance, the pairing seems unlikely. A Catalan architect whose buildings erupt from the earth like living organisms; a Russian mystic…
There is a precise moment when a building crosses the threshold from architectural landmark to derelict shell. For the Bernat Klein Studio, a Category A-listed…