"Two Just Stop Oil protesters who threw cake at a waxwork of King Charles in October have been ordered to pay £3,500 in compensation to Madame Tussauds."

"It’s the first country in the world to do so"

"The Czech writer died nearly a century ago, but is enjoying a renaissance on TikTok and Twitter"

How to "kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections."

"The geopolitical economy of deglobalization."

"On gold extractivism in Turkey and resistance."

"Alex Estorick: You’ve both been heavily involved with the NFT community over the past year, so I’d like to start with some reflections. If 2021 was the year of the NFT explosion, what was 2022 the year of?"

"Thelonious Monk had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop."

"A slab of pink stands on a shimmering gold base, its surface iced with globules of a glossy blue substance the colour of bubblegum and the look of buttercream. Nearby is a collection of smaller forms, all also brightly daubed like cakey _...Read More_

"The artist’s work is characterised by a sense of mystery, maybe even nonexistence"

"Cometh the hour, cometh the man. The artist and knight of the realm is on a quest to save the nation from its worst tendencies"

>"Nothing, Forever, generated by AI tech DALL-E and Chat GPT, is like Seinfeld, There’s always something to watch on Twitch, whether that’s your fave musicians talking about video games or your fave streamers discussing politics. Now _...Read More_

"Over the past fifteen years, Will Benedict (*1978) has built up a body of work that acts as both fable and mirror for the universal ambiguities and conditions of human life. Working across media from painting to video, his practice might _...Read More_

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"The civilization state is reemerging and taking us beyond the opposition between liberalism and nationalism."