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CHARLES, STOP FLEECING BRITAIN. Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocn...
CHARLES, STOP FLEECING BRITAIN
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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September 23, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Total pixel space contains every possible digital image, including films of your entire life, every life you never lived, and the lives of every other living creature or object that ever and never existed on or off the Earth, from every possible angle. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAe...
Total Pixel Space
YouTube video by Jacob Adler
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September 23, 2026 at 5:33 PM
"Students told researchers they had been discouraged from pursuing the arts by teachers and parents alike, often warned that creative careers were too precarious. Research found that a student’s economic background influenced whether they chose to study the arts at all". artlyst.com/arts-subject...
Arts Subjects Hit Record Low Uptake In England's A-Level Results
Arts subjects hit record low uptake in England's A-level results, accounting for only 10 per cent of all entries in 2026.
artlyst.com
September 23, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Rep. Joyce Beatty Asks Judge to Make ‘Crystal Clear’ Trump Cannot Demolish Kennedy Center in Wake of Viral Photo. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Rep. Joyce Beatty Asks Judge to Make ‘Crystal Clear’ Trump Cannot Demolish Kennedy Center in Wake of Viral Photo
Rep. Joyce Beatty appealed to a federal judge to make "crystal clear" that Trump cannot demolish the Kennedy Center building.
www.artnews.com
September 22, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Two visitors to the Louvre in Paris were arrested Saturday after they installed two paintings in the Salle des États, which houses the Mona Lisa. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Visitors Arrested at Louvre After Posting Their Artworks Near Mona Lisa
Two German nationals were arrested after posting two artworks near the Mona Lisa at the Louvre; the famed painting was not damaged, police said.
www.artnews.com
September 22, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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#Taldíacomohoy de 1930 nacía Antonio Saura, referente de la vanguardia española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y cofundador del grupo El Paso (1957).

Revisamos su trabajo a través del diálogo directo que mantuvo con la obra de Francisco de Goya🧵👇
September 22, 2026 at 8:04 AM
“Can you play it next to Charlie Parker? Can you play it next to Johann Sebastian Bach? Does it still sound worthwhile? If it does – hey, you got something!” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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We often assume that our memories are stored in our brains, just like a hard drive stores data. https://bit.ly/4AfiMbS

In this talk, philosopher Victoria Trumbull argues this is a radical mistake: she argues that the brain enables memory without containing it, and that time itself stores memory.
September 21, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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September 10, 2024 at 8:10 PM
The redoubtable Akala.

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Akala | F64 [S2.EP2]: SBTV
YouTube video by SBTV: Music
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September 21, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Street Art, Athens, 2026.
September 20, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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"Socialism is not about delivering a nice policy agenda that makes a capitalist economy work more effectively. Socialism is about shifting power from capital to labour – with policies a means to this end." Excellent @graceblakeley.substack.com piece. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/how-to-fix...
How to Fix a Broken British Economy
Andy Burnham has correctly diagnosed the problem – the country is run in the private rather than the public interest. Here’s what he must do if he really wants to end the blight of neoliberalism.
graceblakeley.substack.com
September 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Whalers Sketchbook
Watercolor and chalk on paper
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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“Inequality has got worse and worse and worse. Wealth is hoarded in the tiny top percentage, and most people are really, really struggling.”

Deputy Leader Rachel Millward on why the UK needs a wealth tax, on Cathy Newman.
September 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Untitled from Six Geometric Figures, Superimposed in Pairs http://www.moma.org/collection/works/126232
September 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
At the Victoria & Albert Museum, management says that it has offered an ‘average’ uplift of 4.18 per cent – but unions argue that this is skewed by the 6.9 per cent rise that the museum must give its lowest-paid staff to continue paying the London Living Wage. apollo-magazine.com/strikes-nati...
National museums in the UK should expect more industrial action
Relationships between staff and management have taken a dive at institutions from the V&A to the National Galleries of Scotland. What can museums do about it? Conrad Landin reports
apollo-magazine.com
September 20, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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"A genuinely meritocratic society cannot simply teach more people the cultural codes and unwritten rules of the workplace; it must also ask why knowing such codes pays in the first place." commentcentral.co.uk/britains-cla...
Britain’s ‘class ceiling’ won’t be broken by education alone
What does going to the opera have to do with how much you earn? At first glance, not very much. Yet new research suggests our cultural engagements may be mor...
commentcentral.co.uk
September 19, 2026 at 7:50 PM
NME, 12 August 1995.
September 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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There will be a day when we sit our grandchildren on our knees and we tell them...
October 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
John Lennon, Walls and Bridges, 1974.
September 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Wage gaps at US museums have long been a bone of contention, with workers on the front lines often receiving the lowest remuneration and experiencing job precarity. In sharp contrast, museum leaders are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. www.artforum.com/news/unioniz...
Unionized Staff at Three Major NYC Museums Vote to Strike
Unionized employees of the Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York, voted to strike.
www.artforum.com
September 18, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Nikolaos Gyzis, Behold the Bridegroom Arriving, 1899–1900.
September 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Among the AfD’s principal targets is the Bauhaus, the influential school of art, architecture and design founded in Weimar in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in 1933 after being branded insufficiently German. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/08/afd-...
AfD plans financial attack on 'anti-German culture' demanding political loyalty from the arts | Searchlight
The AfD wants artists and cultural bodies to prove their loyalty to German identity before receiving public money, putting theatres and museums in its sights.
searchlightmagazine.com
September 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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If there is a class consciousness in art, then it is to be found in work that urges us to not just look
The Problems of Class and Representation in Art
If there is a class consciousness in art, then it is to be found in work that urges us to not just look
artreview.com
September 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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🚨🚨 BREAKING: Activists have unveiled a 'Cut the Royal Budget' banner in front of Buckingham Palace after MPs voted to give the royals another £50 million in Sovereign Grant money. It's time to scrap the grant, it's time to get rid of the royals. #AbolishTheMonarchy
September 17, 2026 at 7:13 AM