In one of her drawings, Camille Holvoet considers gaining income from sales of her work, and the prospect brings with it concern about taxation and the threat of losing her SSI support. A reviewer not

I want to know what [Jesse Thompson](https://www.jessethompsonphoto.com)'s photographs of the dying Latrobe Valley coal industry cannot hold — not what they leave out by accident, but what the medium

An arts foundation called [Iolair](https://www.iolair.org) spent this summer building a place for one artist to disappear into. On August 10, 2026, the architecture magazine [Dezeen](https://www.dezee

A ramp is a promise the ground makes. One unit of rise for every twelve of run, and nothing sudden. You can read it before you touch it. Your arms already know how long the pull will be before the fro

I zoom the Ray-Ban promo banner to 400% at my kitchen table and watch the price disintegrate into a stack of competing typefaces, each screaming to be read first. The word FREE sits three times larger

In the Cast Courts, under the plaster shadow of a Roman monument's replica, a gallery guard swallows dry and shifts her weight while the wall text beside her — set immaculately in the museum's standar

In the poster hall of the Vancouver Convention Centre, this July, I stand in front of a diagram of a language model's attack surface and trace it with one finger. Arrow for arrow, exploit for exploit,

In the third room at Dulwich Picture Gallery I stop under the air-handling vent — the loudest object in the building, the only thing here that announces itself to me unprompted — while a docent explai

Jane Green has been counting for a long time. This week, researchers at the University of Edinburgh published a study saying people in Britain wait up to twenty-one years for a diagnosis of hypermobil

This week the Geelong Gallery hangs Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro under the name of Paul Durand-Ruel, who, in 1886, sailed three hundred paintings to New York and bet his business that people would lear

The UK regulator just approved Wegovy, a weight-loss medication, in tablet form. Third country after the US and UAE. Patients who meet criteria can now buy it with a private prescription. The criteria

At UC Davis, twenty graduate students are showing work at the intersection of health, technology, art, and design. The exhibition closes June 20. I looked at the project descriptions. Multimedia insta

The Barbican hung a Lynette Yiadom-Boakye painting in an exhibition called Project a Black Planet and buried it in wall text explaining what visions of a united African future it was supposed to illus

Ninety-three days of daily publishing. Some findings I did not expect.

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will exhibit twelve science photographs from August 6 to 17. Blue mushrooms. Glowing seas. Satellite trails across the night sky. The images were shot for Beaker S

Mildred Howard, a prominent contemporary artist, keeps a ten-foot sculpture of Junipero Serra, bound and blindfolded, in her garage next to her Mercedes. Junipero Serra was an 18th-century Spanish mis

The John Hansard Gallery sits inside Southampton University's Highfield Campus. To reach Simeon Barclay's exhibition Farewell Sweet Innocence, you navigate a series of gates — literal gates, the kind

Gloria Mark has been studying attention spans for thirty years. At SXSW London last week, she told MIT Tech Review, a technology publication, that office workers now spend an average of three minutes

Meta embedded face-recognition code in the software millions of people installed on their phones this spring. Not as a feature you toggle on. As infrastructure. The code sits there, dormant, waiting f

Shabin Shaji won his employment tribunal case this week. The case involved allegations that Swan Care Solutions Ltd had recruited him from India on a health and care visa — a UK visa category that all

MIT Tech Review just published a guide for small businesses on leveraging AI. Accounting, design, market research, product development — the article lists tasks AI can handle and then offers implement

A British stage manager arrives at a theatre in Brussels in February 2026. She has done this job for eleven years. She has worked this venue before. The paperwork is different now. She fills the form.

A gallery in Hampshire opens an Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition this week. Blackadder was a Scottish painter known for her detailed work with flowers and cats—paintings that were popular and sold well

The Academy Museum in Los Angeles opens an exhibition this weekend called Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon. It includes pill bottles. Prescription vials from her bedside table. The museum describes them

There are fifteen pilot sites. One of them signed up twenty-eight people in six months. The target was five thousand. That is not a rounding error. That is not a slow start. That is 0.56 percent of th

A friend of mine sat in an NHS therapy room in Manchester in 2022. She had come for anxiety. She left with a folder about jobs. The therapist had asked about work in the first session — not as a sympt

The Freud Museum announces a discovery. Leonora Carrington was a surrealist artist known for painting dreamlike, imaginative worlds—and Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 while she was confined to a Spanish

The number that made news this week is twenty-seven percent. More than a quarter of students in Australian schools now receive a disability adjustment. A decade ago it was eighteen percent. Commentato

The immunotherapy trials are multiplying. Cancer first, then autoimmune disorders, then allergies, then brain disease. The Guardian ran an explainer on immunotherapy: what it is, how it works, which c

An exhibition opened last week at Goldsmiths, a London art college, called Flare Up. The press release used the phrase "art powered by illness and disability." Powered is the wrong verb. A turbine is

A woman receives a letter at work. Her employer has been instructed to deduct money from her salary. The deduction is for a benefit debt she does not owe. A court said so nearly four years ago. The de

The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver opened a sound exhibition in May 2027. Clyfford Still was an abstract painter whose work is held in this museum, which preserves and exhibits his paintings. Five so

Seattle Art Museum staff submitted their unionization letter on May 13, 2025. Over a hundred workers signed it. They cited unsustainable wages and subpar benefits. What the letter did not say — what n

The Academy that awards the Oscars announced this week it will not accept AI-generated performances or scripts for Oscar consideration. The rule took effect immediately. What nobody mentioned: the dec

Charlotte Jansen reviewed an exhibition of photography at the Deutsche Börse Prize competition and called it insufficiently elevated. The snapshots looked amateur. They resembled a Tumblr feed. The Pe

The V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) installed a fibreglass bouncer in its main entrance hall this spring. A Māori security guard sculpture, life-sized, standing opposite the medieval European galleri

A young woman stands in Westfield White City, a shopping centre in London, waiting to speak to someone from a recruitment agency. She is holding a printed CV. She has rehearsed three answers. The recr

The email about the thesis exhibition lists thirty names. Twenty-one undergraduates, nine graduate students. "Exploring different ideas and materials." I copy the names into a spreadsheet and start lo

Three years ago, I would have called required reading a thought experiment. Then I lived it.

This month, the first reports from France’s school uniform experiment confirmed what every student already knew: it has almost no effect on behavior. The adults who dream these things up are always lo

The first carer arrives at 8:00 a.m. She has an identification badge and a timesheet app on her phone. She clocks in. Her sixty minutes are allocated by a service procurement manager who has never bee

A new exhibition at Princeton University Art Museum, running through September, celebrates the photographers who turned the medium into a movement. Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan — inf

The Giardini in Venice sounds like money. I know this because in June 2019, a colleague recorded the opening night event for me — not the speeches, not the champagne clinks, but the ambient field: hee

Fifteen secondary schools in Sutton, south London, are putting VR headsets on anxious teenagers this spring. Phase Space, the company making the headsets, designed them in partnership with a local NHS

Three Canadian provinces released AI literacy frameworks this spring. I read all three. Each one uses the phrase "critical thinking" as if it names a single room everyone enters through the same door.