Coverage of art scenes, cultural dynamics, advocacy, and community structures across physical and digital worlds.
Here’s a clean run-down of major upcoming UK music festivals for the rest of 2026, from June onward. This is not every village field with a speaker and a dream, but it covers the big, useful, blog-worthy ones. Quick note Glastonbury is not happening in 2026. The official site says the next Glastonbury will be … Read more
Open: 1 April to 28 June 2026. Venue: Brunel’s SS Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard, Bristol. Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.Important note: Closed Mondays, so it is not available on Monday, 8 June 2026Entry: Free with admission to SS Great Britain For anyone looking for an offline exhibition between 8 and 14 … Read more
This is a list of some of the ongoing exhibitions in the UK. Exhibition Where Dates Type Why it fits M.C. Escher. The Exhibition Somerset House, London 5 Jun to 6 Sept 2026 Art Strongest art pick. Pattern, perception, impossible spaces, optical weirdness. Open Tue to Sun, closed Monday. Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait National Portrait … Read more
A quick guide to five London exhibition openings next week, from Baselitz at White Cube and Le Parc at Tate Modern to Panafrica at the Barbican, Hepworth at the Courtauld, and Survivors at Fitzrovia Chapel.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is facing a copyright dispute from British artist Anouska Samms, who claims that a dress she holds the intellectual property rights to was included in a costume exhibition without credit or permission. Samms has publicly stated that the Met should “take responsibility.” This is not a minor administrative oversight. It … Read more
Second Life Sci-Fi Con is one of the grid’s longest-running resident-made events. Here’s what it is, where it came from, and why it still works.
Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint Garden Museum, London, 2 June to 20 September 2026 This exhibition revisits Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines’s Suffolk home, a creative hub merging painting, gardening, teaching, and lively discussion. Explore connections to Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Beth Chatto, Elizabeth David, Benjamin Britten, and Peter Pears. A newly … Read more
Pride Month is more than rainbow logos and parades. In June 2026, it remains a global act of visibility, memory, protest, and LGBTQ+ community survival.
Second Life is not just an old virtual world. It is a resident-built platform where people create avatars, explore communities, attend events, make art, roleplay, sell virtual goods, and build places that feel genuinely lived in.
A recently discovered painting by Leonora Carrington, made during her confinement in a Spanish psychiatric hospital in 1940, goes on public display for the first time at the Freud Museum London this summer. This post looks at what the work reveals and why Carrington still matters.