Art
Flights of fancy, bolts of beauty, and true imagination
‘We’ve Always Been the Silent Creators’: Reclaiming Heritage In A Global Fashion Economy
‘I want non-Indian people to wear my brand. I want them to respect Indian fashion the same way people respect Italian textiles…’
Labour of Love: The Women Destigmatising Childbirth in Art
A new generation of women are working to drag childbirth out of the shadows and onto gallery walls…
Welcome to the Manga Boom! Two Comic Book Pros Track Its Rise
What Forbidden Planet’s manga experts witnessed wasn’t a flash-in-the-pan trend, but the beginning of a cultural shift…
The Fabled Rise of Our Fungible Hero: Bobu Revives Literary Tradition
From the outset, Bobu was more than art. He was a test of what might happen if a character could be steered via community votes….
Unlikely Bedfellows: How NFTs and Museums are Forging Digital Art’s New Frontiers
Can museums still fulfil their mission of acquisition, preservation, and stewardship, or will digital art mutate them into something unrecognisable?
From Wooden Swords to Talking Rabbits: Remixing the Samurai
The samurai is rooted in history, or rather, at the point where history and folklore blur…
New Kids on the Blockchain: Who Buys Digital Art?
This new generation of digital art buyers aren’t just interested in new kinds of artwork. They’re a diverse demographic, some interested in digital creations as investments, some…
‘Hidden Stories’: Historical Fiction and the Gift of Empathy
Rosalind Freeborn’s book reimagines the true story of Frederick Blomberg, the supposed son of a king who featured so intriguingly in her family legend...
Production Productivity Hack: The Insane Witchcraft of imgn AI
imgn AI can take a script and perform an almost complete breakdown and scheduling in minutes, including storyboards to visualise the script scenes…
It Lurks Around You: Gothic London
The Gothic. What does that really mean? Most people would conjure up images of black leather boots, black clothes, a bit more black, a few bottles of vodka...
Consider the Word: Elegant
Consider the word ‘elegant’ and try to conjure up a figure more refined than the 19th century English dandy...