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article culture schedule Apr 6, 2026 visibility 20 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

‘Barbara Windsor smacked our bottoms!’ Pet Shop Boys on showstopping visuals, horrified bosses – and snubbing the queen

The Pet Shop Boys have released a comprehensive 600-page visual monograph titled 'Pet Shop Boys: Volume,' documenting over 40 years of their aesthetic evolution. The book explores the duo's collaboration with high-profile artists, photographers, and directors including Wolfgang Tillmans, Alasdair McLellan, Derek Jarman, and long-time designer Mark Farrow. It highlights how Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe utilized the music industry's 1980s boom to treat pop music as a 'Gesamtkunstwerk' (total work of art), merging avant-garde fashion, minimalist graphic design, and cinematic music videos.

newspaper The Guardian open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule Mar 29, 2026 visibility 24 link 14 artists

The MAGA Theory of Art

The article examines the aesthetic dimensions of the MAGA movement, comparing and contrasting it with historical fascist regimes, particularly Nazi Germany. It argues that while both movements share a theatrical, media-savvy approach to politics and a resentment of cultural elites, MAGA lacks the disciplined, sophisticated aesthetic program and the cadre of high-profile artists and designers that characterized Nazi cultural production.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule Dec 1, 2025 visibility 9

huge library of ashurbanipal

The British Museum houses the Library of Ashurbanipal, a collection of approximately 30,000 cuneiform tablets from the Assyrian Empire, discovered in the 19th century. Created by King Ashurbanipal (r. 669–631 BCE), the library contains texts on astronomy, medicine, history, and literature, including the Epic of Gilgamesh. The tablets survived a fire set by invading Babylonians and Medes, which hardened them. Recent excavations in Nineveh have uncovered more tablets and a 20-foot-tall winged bull statue, while the British Museum's Ashurbanipal Library Project, now led by curator Jon Taylor, focuses on digitizing and studying medical texts.

newspaper Artnet News open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 11 link 3 artists

justin allen new language wendys subway

Justin Allen celebrated the launch of his debut book *Language Arts* (2024), published by Wendy’s Subway, with a live reading at Performance Space in New York’s Lower East Side. The book merges music, dance, performance, and language, including a poem "140 BPM" that recreates nights at Bushwick’s Bossa Nova Civic Club. Allen, who grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to New York City, draws on influences from experimental punk, indie sleaze artists like Santigold and M.I.A., and his own invented language, Hatnahans, to craft a work that blends leftist critique with speculative fiction and club culture.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule Apr 1, 2026 visibility 21 link 1 artist

5 Art Job Openings That Are Definitely Not Exploitative

Hyperallergic published a satirical list of five fictional art world job openings, each parodying exploitative or absurd practices common in the industry. The positions include an Instagram comment moderator for a collector, an assistant to a famous artist with invasive demands, a "sentence complicator" for an art institution, a residency where the artist pays to work, and an endurance-based performance art participant compensated only with "exposure."

newspaper Hyperallergic open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule Jul 4, 2025 visibility 12 link 1 artist

Glastonbury is over—but what might it look like in the future? Artists are proposing a sustainable model

Glastonbury festival has concluded, and cleanup efforts are underway to address the estimated 4,000 tents left behind, alongside other waste. However, the Shangri-La stage offered a different vision: instead of traditional art installations, it featured allotments, plants, and seeds for festival-goers under the banner of "The Wilding." Creative director Kaye Dunnings led a reset focused on nature, community, and sustainability, with works like Sonic Bloom (a collaboration with charity Sounds Right) and Coral Manton's crop-circle-inspired installation Field Work. Shangri-La also purchased a nearby plot to tend plants for reuse in future festivals, aiming for a sustainable exhibition model.

newspaper The Art Newspaper open_in_new Read original