Ottawa 2026: A Capital Year for Culture
Founded as Bytown in 1826 by Colonel John By during the construction of the Rideau Canal, the town steadily grew through construction and trade. In 1855 it changed its name to Ottawa, to honour the Indigenous peoples and their trading significance (Algonquin word “adawe” means “to trade in Algonquin). Its prosperity and strategic location on […]
Beautiful Books for a Thoughtful Christmas
Books remain among the most personal and enduring Christmas gifts. Chosen with care, they become companions rather than objects – read slowly, revisited often and sometimes kept for a lifetime. From radical cultural studies to poetic city portraits and exquisitely crafted literary editions, these five titles stand out for their beauty, substance and ability to […]
The Ambassador PEEL Playwriting Challenge
At a time when opportunities for emerging writers are increasingly scarce, a new and forward-thinking award has been launched to champion original playwriting talent. The Ambassador PEEL Playwriting Challenge has been created to celebrate gifted, unproduced playwrights, offering a fresh route for new voices to bring their work to the stage. Ambassador Cruise Line is […]
Travellers Tales Opens in Marylebone
In an age when travel inspiration is often reduced to algorithms and scrolling feeds, Travellers Tales offers something refreshingly tactile. Tucked into Marylebone’s quietly cultivated streets, this newly opened bookshop is less about retail and more about reawakening the romance of discovery. At first glance, Travellers Tales presents itself as a beautifully curated travel bookshop. […]
Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals
To mark the 250th anniversary of the mighty artists’ births, Tate Britain in London is mounting Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals. This is the first major exhibition to examine the interwoven lives and work of this country’s finest landscape artists. Two of our most celebrated painters were also two of our most celebrated rivals. […]
Brutal Scotland
Brutal Scotland, the latest chapter in Simon Phipps’ ongoing Brutal series, arrives with the quiet force of a cultural excavation. Where previous volumes have mapped London, the North, Wales and beyond, this instalment turns its gaze to Scotland, a nation whose post-war ambition was not only political or social, but architectural too. As Catherine Slessor […]
Steve McCurry: Four Decades of Conflict and Hope
Humans possess an extraordinary range: the capacity for cruelty, yes, but also compassion, courage and deep devotion. For over four decades, Steve McCurry has captured the full spectrum of this experience through his lens. One of the most celebrated photojournalists of our time, McCurry’s images have borne witness to the best and worst of what […]
Shorelines in Motion: Charles March’s “Sandscript” at Hamiltons
In the newly unveiled body of work entitled Sandscript, the photographer-artist Charles March (better known in aristocratic circles as the Duke of Richmond) invites us to observe what normally goes unnoticed: the ephemeral marks left by wind, wave and seagrass on the sand. His fine-tuned eye turns these transient inscriptions into understated, almost calligraphic, visual […]
Reveries: Marco Sanges Returns to Film at Robertaebasta
Marco Sanges, the Rome-born photographer now based in London, brings his latest exhibition Reveries to the elegant surrounds of Robertaebasta’s Pimlico Road gallery on 20th November, marking a significant homecoming for an artist who has spent his career straddling the line between fashion and fine art, between the digital and the resolutely analogue. For those […]
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
The National Portrait Gallery has a long and distinguished history with Cecil Beaton. In 1968, it showcased its first dedicated photography exhibition of Beaton’s work, made in collaboration with the photographer himself. It was also the first solo survey accorded to any living photographer in any national museum in Britain. Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World, which […]
