Features
Research to Focus on Creativity in Towns
A project to understand how culture is funded and engaged with across England will examine the distribution of cultural infrastructure and how people take part. (read more)
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Society
Gelling the Community: Notting Hill 2018
Notting Hill’s extensive groundwork gels the community together and has given it an extra impetus and meaning, especially in the aftermath of the Grenfell fire tragedy.
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News
China Changing Festival Returns for Grand Finale
Southbank Centre’s China Changing Festival celebrating innovative contemporary Chinese culture returns with a packed four-day programme for its grand finale. (read more)
News
St Albans Museum + Gallery, Opens
A new centre for arts and culture has opened in St Albans City. (read more)
Features
Tearing Up Social Mores: The Party
A deliciously bitey satire on bourgeois pretensions, The Party is a reflection on the stage of politics. (read more)
Art
Art that Bends the Mind: Fiumano Clase Gallery at London Art Fair
Contemporary gallerists Fiumano Clase showcase their chosen few at the 2018 London Art Fair. (read more)
Society
Existence, Absence. A Tao of Time
Often, we know of the existence of freedom only by its absence. (read more)
Society
The real cost of music?
Suffering for your art is common practice, but is it worth dying for? (read more)
Society
Speak. Or Forever Hold Your Peace?
Constant communication communicates nothing. Would it help to stop and think? (read more)
Sound
Slippers and Chardonnay Time? (Womadelaide Epilogue)
25 years of festivals proves that, despite grumbles from the old ‘uns, Womadelaide knows best. (read more)
News
In Car Cow Avoidance Systems GO!
Automated cow avoidance for cars on Indian roads (read more)
Art
Moroccan Pop: Hassan Hajjaj
Moroccan Roll: Hassan Hajjaj blends US, Arabic and London imagery in a pop art approach that is all his own (read more)
Sound
Womadelaide Walkies: Saturday Footmash
Can an old fella still handle festivals? Fruitbats and foot care at Womadelaide (read more)
Sound
Pay the Fiddler. When Can We Have Sustainable Music?
Perhaps we need a sea change in culture, where art and artists come to be valued once again. (read more)
Sound
Towards a Sustainable Music
Making a living is just one aspect of the sustainable music industry that isn’t happening (read more)
News
Que Bueno! Bilingualism Saves Brains
Bilingualism may save brain resources as you age (read more)
News
Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies
Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery (read more)
Art
Blasted Feminism: Group X, Wyndham Lewis, and Women
Not one to court populist acclaim, Wyndham Lewis looked upon feminism with a mixture of admiration and scorn (read more)
Art
I wanted to actually capture some of the sky. (Interview: Nicola Anthony)
‘As a species we adapt. Many suffering, and others denying. This is a classic reaction to trauma.’ (read more)
News
Tastes Like Chicken? Wiggly Meat and the Rise of Edible Insects
The buzz about edible bugs: Can they replace beef? (read more)
News
The Myth of the Mediterranean Diet is Fact. Almost
Mediterranean diet associated with lower risk of death in cardiovascular disease patients (read more)
Society
Brudging the Issue With the EU Referendum
We keep getting what we deserve and we never ask why. (read more)
Art
Heads Up For a Load of Hieronymous Bosch
Sneaky September Madrid getaway? Add Bosch at the Prado for some cultural heft (read more)
Features
Ban the Burkini? Or Ban Middle-Aged White Male Decision-Makers?
Legislation covers everyone, not just the few women who dress in a way you find threatening (read more)
Society
Drugs: The Only Issue In Which Ignorance is a Virtue
Maybe our ‘war on drugs’ should be reframed as a ‘war’ on ignorance (read more)
Art
On Snapchat, Azealia Banks, and New Media Plagiarism
Whilst being influential is satisfying, it’s frustrating watching your artwork become an unattributed meme (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016
Colours and curios from the UK’s premier folk event – Cambridge Folk Festival, photos. (read more)
Art
Sand, Solitude, Space. Zakaria Wakrim: Amarg (Photography)
Zakaria Wakim’s photography encounters the heart of solitude in the Sahara desert (read more)
Sound
Mature, Complex, with a Lasting Finish. NOS Primavera Sound, Porto
NOS Primavera Sound leaves a lasting impression on Trebuchet’s man in Portugal (read more)
News
Shake Dem Pixels: Sexualization in Video Games Down
Sexualizaton of female video game characters has diminished since the 1990s (read more)