Coverage of art scenes, cultural dynamics, advocacy, and community structures across physical and digital worlds.
Second Life has one of the longest-running user-created virtual economies online. From selling mesh clothing and scripted systems to DJing, running venues, renting land, and cashing out through the LindeX, residents have built a complex economy of digital labour, creativity, services, and exchange.
Second Pride is one of Second Life’s longest-running LGBTQ+ community events, celebrating queer identity, creativity, fundraising, and digital belonging since 2005.
Not every meaningful Second Life destination has to be vast. Sometimes a café with roses and a chalkboard is enough. A reflection on why small spaces, seasonal care, and friendship are the real culture of the grid.
Grid Survey is one of the most useful independent resources for understanding Second Life as a living world, not just a platform. It tracks the regions, resident counts, ownership patterns, and economic signals behind the grid’s changing geography.
Second Life’s mainland has always been a bit of a mess. Not in a bad way. In the way that things are when they have actually been lived in. It sprawls across continents that were never designed to be coherent. Roads go places without obvious reason. Waterways appear between regions like they were planned by … Read more
This week’s art news brought a surprisingly human set of stories: children being trusted in gallery spaces, famous painters revealed as serious printmakers, a heritage battle in Rome, and a quiet argument that arts funding needs to grow up.
Glinka Gallery in Second Life shows how digital galleries can support disabled artists through visibility, access, community, and ongoing in-world exhibitions.
The sixth edition of SecondLife For AISM brings art, music, and fundraising to Second Life in support of the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association. Running 15 to 30 May 2026, it proves virtual worlds can carry real ethical weight.
David Sainsbury has donated £91.2 million to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. The gift will fund major upgrades, but it also raises difficult questions about philanthropy and the future of UK museums.
Goldsmiths CCA’s FLARE-UP explores illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness through contemporary art, access, care, activism and embodied experience.