Category Archives: Arts & Literature

Culture & Politics: The Drift – February 28, 2023

The Drift Magazine – February 28, 2023 Issue – We called it heterosexual oppression. Like replacing a piece of your skull with a smartwatch.

Electric Bodies | Medical Technology Takes Over

Through a growing focus on healthcare monitoring in recent years, Apple has positioned its wearables as essential accessories for the technophile and the casual hypochondriac alike. 

Like so many other predictions of collapse, exaggerated.  Methylphenidate  for Miriam. Two executives showed up for a meeting dressed as Woody and Buzz Lightyear. A source of revolutionary Marxist critiques, an outright conservative, a peddler of flimsy conspiracy theories. Some days I am so filled with myself I can see nothing. I am not going to apologize for the empire, for our history. Bravissima! Stealth, he kept no socials. She had martini-glass tits. In this city every boy is an isotope. Enter among the truly civilized peoples. Cruising for difference. The body of a bear, the nose of an elephant, the paws of a tiger, the tail of an ox, and needle-like hairs. Wainscoting for an all-knowing liberalism. How can a narrow regional tabloid claim itself The World? The surrealist didn’t prescribe life-sized butter ears. Spend how you want the sixtyish years you have left of your life

Words Exchanged | Italophone Somalia, Then and Now

“Italian language teaching is back in Somalia!” the Italian embassy in Somalia tweeted in late September 2021, announcing a new program at the Somali National University that would reintroduce the language of the country’s former colonizer.

Immersive Art: ‘Bigger And Closer – David Hockney’

ARSCRONICA (February 27, 2023) – “It’s just a peaceful, wonderful experience, beautifully explained, both vocally and in type at the top of the screens,” says Derek Hutcheson Du Chap, a decorator visiting from Glasgow. David Hockney’s first immersive show opens to the public in London offering a hypnotic, multi-sensory journey through the British artist’s decades-long career, from sun-drenched California swimming pools to the Normandy countryside. (AFP)

Launching our programme with a collaboration with David Hockney in February 2023, we invite the world’s leading creative minds to use our vast space and revolutionary technology to create something completely new. 

Lightroom is located in King’s Cross on Lewis Cubitt Square, adjacent to Coal Drops Yard and Central St Martin’s. The innovative showspace was designed by 59 Productions in close collaboration with Haworth Tompkins, who have designed the venue as a sister space to the award-winning Bridge Theatre. Along with a generous Foyer and gift shop, the space also contains a bar and seating area in collaboration with St John.

Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – March 6, 2023

“The Florida BookoftheMonth Club” by Barry Blitt.

The New Yorker Magazine – March 6, 2023 Issue:

Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness?

A diagram of lines and shapes with several of them being a profile of a face.

New computer systems aim to peer inside our heads—and to help us fix what they find there.

The End of the English Major

A statue of Shakespeare is surrounded by colorful moving machines representative of the STEM disciplines.

Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?

Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It

Farmland surrounded by green algae water.

Fertilizers filled with the nutrient boosted our ability to feed the planet. Today, they’re creating vast and growing dead zones in our lakes and seas.

International Art: Apollo Magazine – March 2023

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Apollo Magazine – March 2023

How Italy protected its art from the Nazis

An exhibition in Rome recounts the complicated tale of efforts to safeguard masterpieces across the country during the Second World War

4 things to see this week: Egyptomania

Our hand-picked selection of ancient Egyptian treasures includes a breastplate once worn by an actual pharaoh and a glittering golden crocodile

Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’

The Week In Art Podcast (February 24, 2023): Nigeria heads to the polls this weekend; what are the implications for its museums and art scene?

Dolly Kola-Balogun, director of the Retro Africa gallery in Abuja, reflects on the candidates and discusses the importance of art, and culture more widely, to the country’s future. We also talk to Patrick Bringley, the author of a new book All the Beauty in the World: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, in which he reflects on his experiences as a guard at the museum and coming to terms with the loss of his brother.

And this episode’s Work of the Week is Boats in Front of the Grotto in the Park at Méréville by Hubert Robert. It features in The Garden: Six Centuries of Art and Nature at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, whose curator, Magnus Olausson, tells us about the painting.All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, by Patrick Bringley, Simon and Schuster (US) $27.99, out now. The Bodley Head (UK), £20, 16 March.The Garden—Six Centuries of Art and Nature, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, until 7 January 2024. 

Arts & Life: FT Weekend Magazine – Feb 25, 2023

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FT Weekend Magazine – February 25, 2023 issue:

Joshua Reynolds’ ‘Portrait of Omai’ is a national treasure. Why is Britain struggling to keep it?

The fight to save the iconic work reflects a painful truth about the UK’s financial state

It’s time for a serious tax on guns in America

‘Not one inch’: unpicking Putin’s deadly obsession with the details of history

Culture: Country Life Magazine – Feb 22, 2023

Country Life Magazine – February 22, 2023 issue:

Notes from an old master

Charlotte Mullins talks to Dutch Old Masters dealer Johnny van Haeften about Brexit, biscuits and the state of the art market

Beauty is in the eye of the brush holder

Michael Prodger explores the ugly face of art, complete with jutting jawlines, rubbery lips and potato-shaped noses

Go ahead, jump!

Traditionally a symbol of fertility and a fairy-tale prince, our frogs are facing an uncertain future, discovers Ian Morton

A cut above

A trio of British growers offers advice to Tiffany Daneff on how to start a cutting garden

The ‘firework’ master

The multitalented John Piper should be celebrated as one of the great polymaths of the 20th century, argues Peyton Skipwith

Reviews: Times Literary Supplement – Feb 24, 2023

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Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS (February 24, 2023) features Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the US and the First World War; @SarahJLonsdale on Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby; @nicolaupsonbook on Josephine Tey; @MirandaFrance1 on the Condor trials; @cesca_peacock on Poets in Vogue – and more.

Preview: London Review Of Books – March 2, 2023

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London Review of Books (LRB) – March 2, 2023 issue:

This Concerns Everyone

All of us depend, in early age and often at the end of life, on the care of others. We are shaped by individual, consequential but highly contingent acts of care, or their absence. 


Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care 
by Madeleine Bunting

The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling

Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet by Nancy Fraser

Top of the Lighthouse

It is one of the curious qualities of the lighthouse that while its raison d’être is to be visible, durable and stable in the most adverse conditions, it is often seen as a site of ambiguity and insecurity.