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@unevn.bsky.social
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 19m
Was this before or after Harry signed on to Netflix? Because nothing says “I hate the media” quite like selling your story to the highest bidder.
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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 52m
"A triumphant farewell celebration for a singular jazz icon": From DownBeat, Sonny Rollins Gets an Epic Send-Off in Manhattan: downbeat.com/news/detail/...
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Sonny Rollins Gets an Epic Send-Off in Manhattan
As emcee Mark Ruffin noted at the commencement of an epic tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, on Sept. 19, the gigantic 125-year-old building has hosted…
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 2h
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 2h
She wrote all that code by hand and it landed on the moon. Such an iconic photo. Here’s to Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026). What an incredible and pioneering woman for science. An inspiration to us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90
Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 3h
Meet the 2026 grantees of the Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund 👋 We're pleased to announce that nine new grants have been awarded from the fund, funded by the Julia Rausing Trust. The awards enable the development and continuation of groundbreaking health and wellbeing programmes in UK museums.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 4h
Then I assume we should stop using Meta’s services - and, while we’re at it, Apple, Amazon and X too. Yeah, thought so. As you were, everyone.
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Stuff By Mark @stuffbymark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I made a grubby old print add for some cut out and keep Clash City Rockers. I’m not sure why. I also made a few prints of it, which can you buy over in my shop if you’re feeling adventurous.
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Socialism for the fat cats" | Yanis Varoufakis on the causes of France protests #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3l-_wA4rq4
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"Socialism for the fat cats" | Yanis Varoufakis on the causes of France protests
YouTube video by BBC Politics
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Militant Tendancy were a credit to themselves and the people of Liverpool. If Kinnock had even an ounce of the courage displayed by those in that council, he wouldn't have lost the GE. Twice.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Only in politics can someone be this utterly out of their depth and still cling to their job. Imagine dealing with this level of confusion in any normal workplace. It’s tragic and, sincerely, genuinely, I find it hard to watch.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s difficult to ignore that the current age of oligarchy in which we are living, widens the fissures between the lucky few who have an opportunity to live creatively and those who don’t. That’s what is meant by opportunity inequality. news.artnet.com/market/lesso...
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Thomas Piketty About Art World Inequality - artnet News
Thomas Piketty’s surprise new bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has implications for New York’s art world.
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Joanie Lemercier @joanielemercier.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Our new project Solar Lab is bringing us to new experimentation spaces: We just did a residency in the hometown of the inventor of the first solar powered engine (Mouchot, 1878) and on the solstice, we activated our solar concentrator at night with low powered lasers and smoke.
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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 02/10/2026
Some lamps I made inspired by brutalism r/brutalism
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 04/10/2026
Fight Club flash website in 1999
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Design Week @designweek.co.uk · 04/10/2026
Capturing the magic of sound! 🎶 We are loving Smiling Wolf’s gorgeous new visual identity for the Liverpool Philharmonic. They beautifully blended the venue's historic Art Deco architecture with bold, modern motion design. See the full rebrand: www.designweek.co.uk/how-smiling-...
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The World Monuments Fund (WMF), an independent organisation, has warned that funding constraints, intensifying climate change, and a lack of access to expertise are putting World Heritage Sites at extreme risk. www.artforum.com/news/wmf-fun...
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Funding Shortages Threaten World Heritage Sites
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has warned that economic constraints, climate change, and withering expertise are making Heritage Sites vulnerable.
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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Art Monthly, Issue 500, October 2026 50TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
Art Monthly magazine October issue with a text-based cover that details an estimate of the magazine’s output over the past half century: 50 years, 500 issues, 1,250 writers, 250 interviews, 1,500 features, 1,750 reports, 7,500 reviews, 12,000 articles, 20,000,000 words, One Art Monthly.
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Graeme Bandeira @graemebandeira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BUCKETS AND BOBBLES Second of the series... Prints are available in my online shop on the link below 👇 graemebandeira.co.uk/shop/product/buckets-and-bobbles/ Original for sale. Get in touch if interested...
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Last Supper forces audiences to reckon with the contradictions of a system that at once gives the pleasure of consuming a fine meal, yet also dehumanizes and even puts to death those within its grasp. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘A saving gesture’: the art exhibition spotlighting US prisoners’ creations
A trio of shows at Michigan’s Grand Rapids Art Museum humanizes people who are incarcerated and celebrates the resilience of creativity
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Peak shit. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Artists Rights Society Launches Partnership with Samsung to License Artworks on Digital Displays
The first artist to be featured in a new ARS-Samsung partnership is LeRoy Neiman, with subscribers having access to 33 of his works.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 29/09/2026
Activists unfurled a 24-foot-long quilt protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence. Made of 11,000 individual patches representing individuals disappeared by ICE in the state, the “Stolen Neighbors” quilt was stitched together by dozens of volunteers.
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Activists Unveil Quilt Honoring Thousands Disappeared by ICE in Minnesota
The Stolen Neighbors Quilt features 11,000 hand-stitched squares in an indictment of violence against immigrants and a “call for political courage.”
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Artforum @artforum.com · 29/09/2026
Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York will carry out a strike action on October 5 if they do not receive a fair contract offer, Local 2110 announced today. The date is perilously close to that of the opening of a blockbuster Roy Lichtenstein exhibition.
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Whitney Union Times Strike Date Ahead of Major Lichtenstein Retrospective
Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York say they will strike on October 5 if they do not receive a fair contract offer.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The director of the Cultural Policy Unit, which has campaigned for UK museums to remain free for all, said: “This is one of the landmark cultural policies of our times, one that has established itself as a universal public good.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Culture secretary confirms free admission for all at England’s national museums will remain
The announcement by Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, came after recent discussions of introducing admission fees for overseas visitors
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 28/09/2026
“We’d rather be working and doing our jobs, but our wages are untenable for making ends meet in New York City,” said the union’s chairperson.
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Whitney Museum Union Sets Strike Date Ahead of Major Roy Lichtenstein Show
“We’d rather be working and doing our jobs, but our wages are untenable for making ends meet in New York City,” said the union's chairperson.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Graphic scores offer black visuality a chance at the mysticism of black sonic improvisation: they offer up sight as a device of occultation and encryption rather than of revelation and description. artreview.com/has-black-mu...
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Has Black Musical Culture Always Been a Visual Culture?
The rich history of black graphic scores represents a visual culture creating space for improvisation, imagination and unknowability in much the way black musical culture does
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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 24/09/2026
🥀 47% drop in the arts' share of GCSE entries in English state schools since 2010 📉 Sharpest drop in arts A-levels in 5 years ⚖️ Widening inequality: students in deprived areas are 3x less likely to take GCSE Drama We look forward to monitoring the Government's progress in reversing these trends.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Artists, students, and cultural workers gathered outside of Colombia’s Ministry of Culture in Bogotá to protest a proposed 30% cut to the cultural budget in 2027 and a suspension of national arts awards. www.artforum.com/news/cultura...
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Cultural Workers Protest Massive Cuts to Colombia’s Arts Funding
The protests were against a proposed 30% cut to the cultural budget in 2027 and a suspension of national arts awards.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Birmingham textile artist Clare Elisabeth said her work, titled Re-Union Jack, incorporated dozens of worn-out flags and was a response to a flag-raising movement that had "caused division in communities across the country". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Birmingham union jack art made from discarded lamp-post flags
The huge union jack was produced using tattered flags previously hung from lamp-posts.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Systemic, institutional prejudice. 👇 An MP has criticised a football policing organisation over comments, he said, linked the Hillsborough disaster to the debate over alcohol restrictions at matches. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Football police's alcohol tragedy link 'sickening', MP Ian Byrne says
The UK Football Policing Unit later said it had not intended to link alcohol consumption with the Hillsborough disaster.
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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“An economic paradigm that pushes institutions of governance and education into a culture of cut-throat, profit-driven single-mindedness does the same harm to art and education as it does to the social fabric in general.”
A photograph of girls pacing in a school courtyard holding placards with phrases such as ‘education is a worldwide solution’ and ‘sexism should never be tolerated’.
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hello Liverpool - the next stop on our 'conversations about extreme wealth' tour. Here, child poverty is higher than the national average, and if you live in a deprived area, you can expect to live 15 years less than someone in a more affluent one.
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Extreme Wealth Line - Liverpool
YouTube video by Patriotic Millionaires UK
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CHARLES, STOP FLEECING BRITAIN. Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocn...
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CHARLES, STOP FLEECING BRITAIN
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Total pixel space contains every possible digital image, including films of your entire life, every life you never lived, and the lives of every other living creature or object that ever and never existed on or off the Earth, from every possible angle. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAe...
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Total Pixel Space
YouTube video by Jacob Adler
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Students told researchers they had been discouraged from pursuing the arts by teachers and parents alike, often warned that creative careers were too precarious. Research found that a student’s economic background influenced whether they chose to study the arts at all". artlyst.com/arts-subject...
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Arts Subjects Hit Record Low Uptake In England's A-Level Results
Arts subjects hit record low uptake in England's A-level results, accounting for only 10 per cent of all entries in 2026.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rep. Joyce Beatty Asks Judge to Make ‘Crystal Clear’ Trump Cannot Demolish Kennedy Center in Wake of Viral Photo. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Rep. Joyce Beatty Asks Judge to Make ‘Crystal Clear’ Trump Cannot Demolish Kennedy Center in Wake of Viral Photo
Rep. Joyce Beatty appealed to a federal judge to make "crystal clear" that Trump cannot demolish the Kennedy Center building.
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two visitors to the Louvre in Paris were arrested Saturday after they installed two paintings in the Salle des États, which houses the Mona Lisa. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Visitors Arrested at Louvre After Posting Their Artworks Near Mona Lisa
Two German nationals were arrested after posting two artworks near the Mona Lisa at the Louvre; the famed painting was not damaged, police said.
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Museo Reina Sofía @museoreinasofia.es · 22/09/2026
#Taldíacomohoy de 1930 nacía Antonio Saura, referente de la vanguardia española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y cofundador del grupo El Paso (1957). Revisamos su trabajo a través del diálogo directo que mantuvo con la obra de Francisco de Goya🧵👇
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Can you play it next to Charlie Parker? Can you play it next to Johann Sebastian Bach? Does it still sound worthwhile? If it does – hey, you got something!” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 21/09/2026
We often assume that our memories are stored in our brains, just like a hard drive stores data. bit.ly/4AfiMbS In this talk, philosopher Victoria Trumbull argues this is a radical mistake: she argues that the brain enables memory without containing it, and that time itself stores memory.
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robinjmac65 @rjmac65.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Liver Building #liverpool #merseyside @angiesliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The redoubtable Akala. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsZZ...
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Akala | F64 [S2.EP2]: SBTV
YouTube video by SBTV: Music
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Street Art, Athens, 2026.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Socialism is not about delivering a nice policy agenda that makes a capitalist economy work more effectively. Socialism is about shifting power from capital to labour – with policies a means to this end." Excellent @graceblakeley.substack.com piece. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/how-to-fix...
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How to Fix a Broken British Economy
Andy Burnham has correctly diagnosed the problem – the country is run in the private rather than the public interest. Here’s what he must do if he really wants to end the blight of neoliberalism.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18/09/2026
“Inequality has got worse and worse and worse. Wealth is hoarded in the tiny top percentage, and most people are really, really struggling.” Deputy Leader Rachel Millward on why the UK needs a wealth tax, on Cathy Newman.
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Sol LeWitt @sollewitt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Untitled from Six Geometric Figures, Superimposed in Pairs www.moma.org/collection/works/126232
John B. Turner Fund
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At the Victoria & Albert Museum, management says that it has offered an ‘average’ uplift of 4.18 per cent – but unions argue that this is skewed by the 6.9 per cent rise that the museum must give its lowest-paid staff to continue paying the London Living Wage. apollo-magazine.com/strikes-nati...
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National museums in the UK should expect more industrial action
Relationships between staff and management have taken a dive at institutions from the V&A to the National Galleries of Scotland. What can museums do about it? Conrad Landin reports
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"A genuinely meritocratic society cannot simply teach more people the cultural codes and unwritten rules of the workplace; it must also ask why knowing such codes pays in the first place." commentcentral.co.uk/britains-cla...
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Britain’s ‘class ceiling’ won’t be broken by education alone
What does going to the opera have to do with how much you earn? At first glance, not very much. Yet new research suggests our cultural engagements may be mor...
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NME, 12 August 1995.
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Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
There will be a day when we sit our grandchildren on our knees and we tell them...
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