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♡ art. books. long walks. cold coffee. chewed pencils. sun-baked skin.
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Vignesh Sundaresan (aka Metakovan) has opened Padimai Art & Tech Studio in Singapore, debuting with a collaborative exhibition with Olafur Eliasson. The space explores how digital works are created, preserved and circulated.

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November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social reflects on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw away their collections just yet.
What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch
Maybe don’t throw away all your DVDs just yet.
www.newyorker.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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‘This is a stage on which no individual body is ever still: throughout Shawky’s filmed opera there is physical unrest’ – Hettie Judah on the grand performances of Wael Shawky buff.ly/wCBHcJQ
The grand performances of Wael Shawky
The Egyptian artist’s ingenious operas, which he writes, scores, designs and directs, play around with our ideas about history, writes Hettie Judah
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September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
When put like that… how could any of us come out unscathed?
September 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The EU long championed the idea of "responsibility to protect": that bystander countries should act to prevent atrocities such as genocide happening elsewhere.
It instructed its diplomats on what to watch for and what to do.
So what went wrong?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Why is EU deadlocked on Israeli sanctions over Gaza?
A group of former EU ambassadors and senior staff have begun pressuring member states to take national action
www.irishtimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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If only there were some famous text warning of vainglorious desert-based ambition which could've given us a clue as to how hosting the Winter Olympics in Saudi Arabia would go on.ft.com/3UH13qt
Saudi Arabia’s 2029 Asian Winter Games at risk from snow mountain delay
[FREE TO READ] Kingdom eyes alternative countries to host event after falling behind on construction of desert ski resort
on.ft.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Smells like red wine and cypress jdandkateindustries.com/products/rome
Fall of Rome-Scented Candle
Light it while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles.
jdandkateindustries.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Who doesn’t want to dive right in?
August 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A thoughtful exploration of the MOMENTUM 13 biennale in Norway by Peifen Sung for Harper’s Bazaar China
“When sound takes on the visual world”
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/k0FhROUgcg...
当艺术被听见!走进挪威森林里的Momentum双年展
用“听”的方式认识世界
mp.weixin.qq.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
For those looking for some summer listening, sounds from the MOMENTUM biennale in Norway are being broadcast on Resonance FM… it’s rather wonderful @resonancefm.bsky.social
www.resonancefm.com
Resonance FM | Home
Resonance is a groundbreaking 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayer and live streamed to the rest of the world
www.resonancefm.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“With his hypnotic work from this time, Mucha helped bring the new style of Art Nouveau to its apogee …”
Alastair Smart explores the new Mucha Museum in Prague for Christie’s magazine
www.christies.com/en/stories/a...
July 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
BBC journalist Stephanie Prentice visits Norway to experience MOMENTUM 13: Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies
🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... [from 15.55]
Happy News - The Happy Pod: The surgeon who left his wedding to save a life - BBC Sounds
How Dr Biruk Weyisha put his wedding on hold to perform emergency surgery
www.bbc.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A beautiful review of the wonderful exhibition, 'Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: The Dream Pool Intervals', which @alexanderleissle.bsky.social, writing in @artreview.bsky.social, describes as “spectacular, melancholic, inscrutable”

Until 28 September at Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin

artreview.com/ailbhe-ni-bh...
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: Things Falling Apart
Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world
artreview.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
June 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Looking forward to reading William Chislett’s
‘Los curiosos impertinentes: hispanófilos británicos de los siglos XIX-XXI’ - a gorgeous little book of essays about ‘English-speaking Quixotes’ published by @institutocervantes.bsky.social
cervantes.org/es/sobre-nos...
May 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Giulia Grimaldi invites us to explore the wonderful city of Coimbra by way of 'The Factory of Shadows', a beautiful exhibition by Canadian artists Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller in the Santa Clara-a-Nova Monastery.

Read more in @harpers.bsky.social: www.harpersbazaar.com/it/cultura/a...
Reimmaginare Coimbra grazie all’arte contemporanea
La mostra The Factory of Shadows di Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller a Coimbra
www.harpersbazaar.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Sometimes it pays to listen to people sitting quietly at the back, not just the ones screaming in your face.”
@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on the significant move of young women to the left — reflected neither in current political discussions nor policy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green? | Gaby Hinsliff
Desire for a politics that cares about global and local injustice is sharpening the political gender divide, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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New #Mucha #Museum, Prague: celebrating the Czech master.

tinyurl.com/4hr6kvch
New Mucha Museum, Prague: celebrating the Czech master
The Mucha Museum has just opened its doors in Prague, Czechia, in a restored wing of the Savarin Palace complex
tinyurl.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When UK PM Liz Truss did this, a lettuce outlasted her tenure…

Trump’s tariffs are an economic emergency for Americans
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Trump’s tariffs are an economic emergency for Americans
Misplaced nostalgia is not a good enough reason for something that will only hurt voters
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April 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Veterinarians protest drug restrictions and the imposition of VAT on vet care services, call for alignment with EU #Valencia
www.consalud.es/animalcare/v...
March 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Trump’s approval rating dipping
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approv...
March 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Maslama fue el madrileño andalusí con mayor importancia de su tiempo. Nació en Maŷrīṭ a mediados del siglo X y pasó casi toda su vida en Córdoba.

Allí le pusieron el sobrenombre de al-Maŷrîtî, literalmente ‘el Madrileño’, por lo que C. Tangana no inventó nada.

Sigue👇
February 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Gracias 🩵@gatopormadrid.bsky.social
¡Estoy deseando leerlo!
February 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The art world tends to favour self-promoting extroverts, but it is often the eccentrics and wallflowers who make the most interesting work – Hettie Judah mounts a defence of the retiring artist https://buff.ly/4b4RvwY...
In defence of the outsider artist | Apollo Magazine
The art world tends to favour self-promoting extroverts, but it is often the eccentrics and wallflowers who make the most interesting work, writes Hettie Judah
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February 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM