Art
Flights of fancy, bolts of beauty, and true imagination
Unlikely Bedfellows: How NFTs and Museums are Forging Digital Art’s New Frontiers
Can museums still fulfil their mission of acquisition, preservation, and stewardship, or will digital art mutate them into something unrecognisable?
New Kids on the Blockchain: Who Buys Digital Art?
This new generation of digital art buyers aren’t just interested in new kinds of artwork. They’re a diverse demographic, some interested in digital creations as investments, others fascinated by their aesthetic value…
‘Hidden Stories’: Historical Fiction and the Gift of Empathy
Rosalind Freeborn’s book reimagines the true story of Frederick Blomberg, the supposed son of a king who featured so intriguingly in her family legend...
‘Without Being Rude...’: The Art of Ageing and Ageing in Art
When does a career in art end? What of legacy and fame? And what happens if time tampers with the body needed to combine manual labour and deep, critical reflection?
Women Without Men: Absence and Loss in the Latest 225 Film Club
This is the sixth successive year Rita is hosting the 225 Film Club, a festival screening for short films by female and non-binary filmmakers that seeks to provide support to these directors….
For the Love of Lace: A Look into London’s Anti-Capitalist DIY Communities
The absence of monetary value to lacemaking is ‘liberating’. Amelia, from London Lace Club says: ‘in the city you’re on a constant conveyor belt of manufacturing and output, but lace, in its very essence, provides an escapism from money and capitalism’…
Visions of Creativity: Fight For Sight and the Power of Accessible Art
We teamed up with Fight For Sight and abstract artist Furrah Syed FRSA to help put together what we hope will be an ongoing effort to bring art to the blind and visually impaired…
Salvador Dalí’s Demonic Muse
At her best, Gala was difficult and intense. At her worst, she was nothing short of monstrous. She had no friends and maintained a malevolent distance from her family…
Production Productivity Hack: The Insane Witchcraft of imgn AI
imgn AI can take a script and perform an almost complete breakdown and scheduling in minutes, including storyboards to visualise the script scenes…
The Spirit of Hollywood Star, Mary Pickford, is Driving the New Frontier in Film
Even the shiniest stars can dim with the passage of time, but someone of Mary Pickford’s significance should never have faded into the annals of history…
Summer Rain & Uncertainty: What Light can Louis MacNeice’s Poetry Shed on our Cultural Moment?
What light can Louis MacNeice’s poetry shed on our cultural moment?
Punk Spirit at Pullens Yards: Meet the Artists of Elephant & Castle
Walworth is made up of towering estates and roads of chocolate-box Victorian houses. It is also home to Pullens Yards...
Pay to Play: Rising Bills and Radio Silence
A staggering sum of local stations have seen their airwaves fall flat. Gilles Peterson, somehow, is still feeling optimistic...
A Colour of Many Connotations: Red
Like immorality, blazing red on a woman’s chest, red is little more than what we make of it in our own prudishness or paranoia…
Kutnia: In Touch with Tradition
In London, where the brand colour has got to be a kind of pigeon grey, owning something as vibrant as Kuntia’s designs says that you will not be subdued...
It Lurks Around You: Gothic London
The Gothic. What does that really mean? Most people would conjure up images of black leather boots, black clothes, a bit more black, a few bottles of vodka...
Consider the Word: Elegant
Consider the word ‘elegant’ and try to conjure up a figure more refined than the 19th century English dandy...
Jessica Worrall: Decoding Fashion through Collage
How you present yourself always matters, and no one understands this better than Jessica Worrall, a decoder of fashion language...
Modern Masterpieces: Exploring Emotion & Nature in Jewellery
Jewellery, in its most transcendent form, can be sculpture, art object, pure fashion accessory or good luck charm...
Magic, Might, and Mockery: A Brief History of Conical Hats
Tall conical hats have been fashionably worn as symbols of power and magic. Elsewhere and at a different time, these hats have been used as a method of humiliation for disgraced criminals. How and why have so many different cultures attributed different meanings to the same shape?