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.
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.
Benton End, once home to Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines and the Colchester–Ipswich art school they ran from it, has reopened its Walled Garden — renewed in collaboration with Sarah Price.
The last week has been faintly intolerable in the UK as temperatures climbed to 37.5 degrees and every social
The Nobel Prize’s integrity is a reminder that excellence still prevails over politics. Amid funding cuts and cynicism, the MacArthur Fellows highlight America’s diversity and brilliance - an antidote to the relentless noise and despair of the news cycle.
Milton Glaser once remarked that computers can make things faster, but not always better. GenAI, in its quest for the most probable response limits potential if entirely relied on.
A cultural roundup: Real Hackney Dave’s bold screen prints, Professor Alexander’s disaster foresight lecture, a landmark tree photobook, Niwaki’s Field Report, Apple’s awe-inspiring launch, Jony Ive’s design insights, and the urgent crisis of US leadership amid famine and displacement.
BFI screens Love+War on Addario’s fearless lens on conflict; McCullin tours UK; Parr, Flach & Miller talks at Gresham; Wellcome’s Thirst explores water; 50Best celebrates global sandwiches; Vitsoe revives Rams’ 931 bag; retail notes on Desktronic trees & Kolor’s inclusive packing.
The Tour of Britain swept past the end of our road, and with only a Leica in hand, I gambled on catching speed with slowness.