The avant-garde may be cool, but friendship is infrastructure. A reflective blog post on how creative practice is shaped not by lone genius, but by the conversations, conflicts, jokes, and care that friendships carry into the studio, the gallery, and the digital world.
Exhibition Where July relevance Type Waldmüller: Landscapes National Gallery, London 2 July to 20 September 2026 Art, landscape painting Ana Mendieta Tate Modern, London 15 July 2026 to 17 January 2027 Contemporary art, performance, earth-body work Tracey Emin: A Second Life Tate Modern, London Open through July, until 31 August 2026 Contemporary art, autobiography, body, … Read more
A look at Surrealism Beyond Borders, the Met and Tate exhibition that reframed Surrealism as a global movement of freedom, resistance, feminism, exile, and anti-colonial imagination.
Practical UK heatwave hydration advice for hot, humid weather: what to drink, warning signs to watch for, and how to keep yourself and vulnerable people cool.
How humidity, warm nights and brick-built housing make UK heatwaves harder to manage.
A personal reflection on using AI in the arts as a support tool for thinking, writing, research, and planning, while keeping final art outcomes grounded in human authorship.
Scheduled for: 23 May 2026, 10:00 AM GMTCategory: Second Life, Virtual Events, Digital Arts Key points The Grid Gets Its Close-Up Second Life is getting ready for its 23rd birthday, and this year the grid is rolling out the red carpet. SL23B will run from 18 June to 19 July 2026, with Second Life’s official … Read more
Linden Lab has published a new round of Second Life pricing changes, and the headline sounds simple enough: lower land prices, reduced LindeX buy fees, and expanded value for paid membership. On the surface, that sounds positive. Land has long been one of the highest costs in Second Life, and anything that makes virtual land … Read more
Pride Month did not arrive polished and corporate. It arrived at the end of a truncheon. A history of Stonewall, the first UK Pride march, and how Second Pride in Second Life carries that lineage into virtual space.
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