Brand writer Nick Carson has joined forces with NB Studio and SEA on a one-off artwork for the Bloomsbury Festival’s 26 Bridges project – a palindromic poem-turned-distorting mirror that flips meaning and perception to raise funds for NHS skin cancer care. A...
Image licensed via Adobe Stock As uncertainty reshapes the industry, studios are betting on smarter processes, bolder thinking and deeper client partnerships. It’s fair to say that, as we edge towards 2026, one word is dominating the creative industries:...
More than just a place to sleep, this Hoxton hotel is betting everything on becoming a genuine platform for creatives. Picture this: you walk into a hotel reception, but instead of corporate beige you’re met with explosions of colour. Comic book characters leer...
My visit to the Northern Festival of Illustration highlighted how a once-overlooked seaside town is becoming one of the UK’s most exciting creative centres. Over the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time in Hartlepool, where my wife and I have a modest...
“Saint Dominic in Prayer,” painted in the workshop of El Greco, is expected to sell for over $150,000 (all images courtesy Christie’s) The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in Upper Manhattan is deaccessioning dozens of European Old Master works, including a...
In a conversation with Duane Linklater published in the brochure for his current exhibition, 12 + 2, at Dia Chelsea, filmmaker and scholar Tasha Hubbard (Peepeekisis First Nation) distills the intertwined erasures effected under colonialism in North America. Over the...
This summer, I took Diné Bizaad (Navajo language) and Diné history classes at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. My time there reminded me of Indigenous tenacity — the quiet, daily work of Native language and history professors, art teachers,...
For Lydia Ricci, a broken pencil, outdated forms, long-ago paid bills, and tattered bits of fabric are prime materials for her elaborate, small-scale worlds. The artist credits her parents’ obsession with collecting as the beginning of what’s grown into a...