Curated thinking on art and science
Ron Howard’s Avedon is a warm, intelligent portrait of a photographer who knew that every image is a construction. From borrowed dogs to an imagined one, it shows how Avedon used the lie to reach the truth, and invites us to watch the film the same way.
A difficult week without Mazowe, softened by Tim Walker at the National Portrait Gallery and some outstanding meals from Spitalfields to Cambridge.
On losing Mazowe and the unspoken cost of having a dog in your life.
A street vox pop asks strangers which artwork they’d own if money were no object, and the dull answers, the ones that sell it on, say a lot about art’s transformation into an asset class.
Six bins and an unhelpful leaflet: how AI helped me build a personal bin widget in 35 minutes.
Photographic contests are an uncomfortable beauty parade built on other people's worst days, yet they remain a vital counterweight to censorship and billionaire media control.
A visit to the National Portrait Gallery's Marilyn Monroe exhibition, read through the parallel history of photography.
Dolly Parton was a broad church. She found me as a boy reading on a Harare verandah while my father played 'Jolene' on vinyl, and she never really left.
Apple's 'unified memory' is just 'soldered on so you can't upgrade' in a nicer suit. And for £12,500 you still don't get a screen or a keyboard.
The eclipse saw colanders liberated from kitchen drawers across the country.