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Living the ancient high life
A recent and surprising discovery has been uncovered in the high altitudes of Uzbekistan’s southeastern mountains. The region was long thought to have been uninhabited because of the problems with…
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Emily Van Hoff’s playful quilts
Graphic designer, Emily Van Hoff, has come up with a new line of quilting fabrics. The new fabrics have been created for Moda Fabrics and will be available next year.…
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So she was turned to a pillar of salt
Jo Rogge, an artist who lives between South Africa and Namibia, is non-binary and creates work that comments and highlights social issues that they have experienced. In this show, just…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each blog is accompanied by a playlist of audio pieces on Spotify, the streaming platform. The playlist brings together disparate music and, sometimes, other audio that has something to do…
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No Dogs
This award-winning film is a hard-hitting, stylish and shocking look at 1930s America.
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Delft tiles… by AI
Artificial Intelligence might be concerning to some but might it also be a useful creative tool? A new company based in the UK makes use of AI to allow users…
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The Spotify playlist
Each week a selection of music is curated to go along with the blog. The playlist can be heard on the player above or by heading over to Spotify and…
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Aboriginal art in New York
Aboriginal art celebrates the land, for it is through painting, singing and dancing that the land can express and become itself. A show in New York’s Asia Society of seventy-four…
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White Cranes and Snowfall
In 2023, UK-based artist, Young In Hong, visited the demilitarised zone that divides the Korean Peninsula. The area, once the site of war, is now a haven, a place where…
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Hawaiian quilts and island ecology
A new book has just been published by Common Threads that explores fifteen contemporary quilts and their relationship to the ecology of Hawai’i. Marenka Thompson-Odlum, a Research Curator at the…
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