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.
Second Life art deserves to be written about as contemporary art. Not as a cute digital footnote. Not as nostalgia. With Raglan Shire’s 21st Artwalk opening across five regions, it is doing what art is supposed to do: gathering people around images, spaces, and shared attention.
Second Life’s new user problem is not only technical. New residents need help taking the social step from logging in to belonging.
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 Life’s onboarding has improved. Retention hasn’t. Here’s why people leave, what actually makes them stay, and why the community matters more than the platform.