International Music and Film

Climate·26 April 2026

A Year in a Field : Earth Day Featured Story

“A silent cry about the climate crisis and a penetrating meditation on what life is. A film full of ideas that resonate deeply, told as a penetrating dream that shakes you awake.“

ON Network · 8 min read

Arts & Culture·15 January 2026

An Unfinished Cinema Abbas Kiarostami

We are pleased to share Abbas Kiarostami’s “An Unfinished Cinema” (1995), a lucid statement on cinema and spectatorship.

E-FLUX · 4 min read

Climate·16 November 2025

Petricor - Un Nuevo Internacionalismo

Earth, hessian, oil painting, poetry, voices of reason, ambient sound, scent and Arcadian landscape featuring an imposing structure, abstracted, broken and forgotten, based on the Berlin TV Tower, a symbol of unification.

ON Network · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·15 June 2025

A World in Need of Poets

We need storytellers who can translate devastation into empathy and urgency.

ON Network · 6 min read

Arts & Culture·8 May 2025

Lower Frequencies: Steve McQueen’s “Bass” as “Cinematic Space”

Steve McQueen, Bass , 2024. Installation view, Dia Beacon, New York, May 12, 2024–April 14, 2025. © Steve McQueen. Photograph by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York.

MUBI NOTEBOOK · 11 min read

Arts & Culture·19 February 2025

Tilda Swinton - Berlin International Film Festival

We can head for the great independent state of Cinema and rest there, an unlimited realm, innately inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonisation, takeover, ownership... or the development of riviera properties.

BERLINALE · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·6 January 2025

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

ON Ed: saw this wonderful film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom recently. Here is a sweet little quote from the film “because teachers touch the future.”

BFI SIGHT AND SOUND · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·18 December 2024

Francis Alÿs’s “The Gibraltar Projects”

Francis Alÿs, Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River , 2008. Made in collaboration with Rafael Ortega, Julien Devaux, Felix Blume, Ivan Boccara, Abbas Benheim, Fundación Montenmedio Arte, and children from Tangier and Tarifa in…

E-FLUX DAVID ZWIRNER · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·24 October 2024

Our real-life deluge: when climate fiction mirrors reality

(Société de lecture/Magali Dougado)

Olive Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·1 October 2024

Javier Bardem: Israel is committing crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Javier Bardem: Israel is committing crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Olive Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·20 August 2024

Wim Wenders on Perfect Days

Wim Wenders reflects on Perfect Days.

Olive Network · 1 min read

United Nations·19 October 2024

Tunes for Transformation: How Ancient Chinese Music Inspires Positive Change

In an ever-evolving world, music has the ability to stand as a timeless catalyst for positive transformation. Beyond notes and rhythms, it carries the potential to bridge divides, stir up feelings and emotions, unlock empathy, shift…

MUSEUM FOR THE UNITED NATIONS · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·1 February 2024

Bridging the gap with classical music

A very special choir presented by Sara Soltani, OLBIOS Correspondent in Austria.

ON Network · 2 min read

Climate·14 February 2023

Geneva film festival spotlights stories of conflict, climate and migration

FIFDH organisers revealed the programme for the 21st edition of the festival at a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday, 14 February. (FIFDH)

ON Network · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·3 January 2023

German Artist Julian Rosefeldt’s New Film Weaves 2,000 Years’ Worth of Cultural History Into a Commentary on Capitalist Greed

Currently on view at Park Avenue Armory, the work is a 24-channel installation that also features the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·17 April 2022

EARTH / PERCENT - EARTH DAY

WHO ARE EARTHPERCENT? EarthPercent is a charity providing a simple way for the music industry to support the most impactful organisations addressing the climate emergency. HOW DOES EARTHPERCENT WORK? We want to encourage artists and…

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·10 March 2022

Violinists Across 29 Countries Play to Support Ukraine

March 9, 2022, 11:46 AM · Violinists across the world have joined together to perform the Ukrainian folk song 'Verbovaya Doschechka' in support of Ukraine.

ON Network · 4 min read

Humanitarian·16 February 2022

Geneva’s human rights film festival poised for ‘emotional’ return to the big screen

Published on 16 February 2022, 04:55. Updated on 16 February 2022, 08:26.

ON Network · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·12 November 2021

Hiver Nomade - Winter Nomads

Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss-French region, accompanied by three donkeys, four…

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·24 March 2021

Jeremy Deller mints his first NFT: here is his advice for other artists

A still from Jeremy Deller, The last day (2021) © Jeremy Deller,

ON Network · 8 min read

Arts & Culture·19 April 2025

The teenagers in crisis at Europe’s borders

Mustafa covers his face with his hand, his body shaking with fear and cold. His other hand is in a cast and sling - an injury sustained during a recent beating he suffered at the hands of police at the border between Bosnia-Herzegovina and…

ON Network · 9 min read

International Music And Film·8 November 2023

Beethoven 250: how the composer’s music embodies the Enlightenment philosophy of freedom

Beethoven statue in Vienna, Austria. Mitzo/

1 min read

Arts & Culture·8 November 2023

Sphinx President Responds to National Crisis

The Sphinx Organization is the Detroit-based national organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts.

ON Network · 3 min read

International Music And Film·6 November 2023

Lubomyr Melnyk on 'Ode to a Nightingale'

Olive Network Editors note: I would like to share a recent story about

1 min read

Arts & Culture·2 February 2020

Honeyland

In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a 50-something woman, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks. Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently maneuvers the honeycomb without netting or gloves. Back…

ON Network · 1 min read

International Music And Film·7 December 2019

A Dog Called Money

1 min read

Arts & Culture·28 June 2025

Watch the Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson/Jonny Greenwood Doc ‘Junun’

Film follows Radiohead guitarist and Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur recording alongside Indian musicians

ON Network · 2 min read

New Museum·10 March 2019

'Geek philanthropy': the gamers raising millions through marathon live streams

Gamers play the endurance driving game Desert Bus as part of Desert Bus for Hope, which launched in 2007 and has raised over $5m for the children’s hospital charity Child’s Play. Photograph: Kolin Toney/Desert Bus for Hope

6 min read

New Museum·15 February 2019

A personal and professional perspective on the school ‘climate strike’

At 11 o’clock this morning thousands of school students in the UK walked out of their lessons to demand increased action on climate change.

5 min read

New Museum·24 January 2019

Could this local experiment be the start of a national transformation?

‘Over the past year, Barking and Dagenham has started to become known as a global leader in taking back control.’ Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

5 min read

New Museum·22 January 2019

Can Art Relax You?

Can art relax you? Sressed Millennials use galleries to unwind, research shows.

2 min read

New Museum·9 January 2019

Choose Love: The world's first store that sells real products for refugees

Every single purchase you make goes towards a similar item for a refugee, delivered via one of the 80+ projects Help Refugees support across the world.

1 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Beauty That Unites: Travels in the Marvelous Harmony of the Chinese people and Vatican Museums

Soft diplomacy between the two countries starts off with an exchange of art.

1 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia

People living with dementia discuss art at a Royal Academy InMind session. Photograph: Roy Matthews

7 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Forest Bathing Is the New Global Phenomenon in Nature Therapy

Shinrin Yoku means “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” In 1982, the Forest Agency proposed Shrinrin Yoku as a different type of therapy which quickly took as picnicking under the cherry blossoms in April and March is a…

3 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Bee inspired: why Oslo has put ecological riches at the heart of the city

Kristina Bjureke, the chief botanist at the natural history museum in Oslo, examines a flowering plant with horticulturalist Tor Mjaaland. Bjureke wrote the plant management plan for city’s hay meadow campaign. Photograph: Jonathan Watts…

5 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

15,000 at Glastonbury set record for biggest human peace sign

People form a giant peace sign at Glastonbury. Photograph: Andy Eliot/PA

5 min read

New Museum·18 September 2019

Emergency Architects & Human Rights

The building is 25 sqm classroom in a dome shape built to host Syrian and Jordanian children in Za’atari village, located just outside of the Za’atari refugee camp, 10 km from the Syrian border.

2 min read

New Museum·7 January 2019

COOL EARTH

Half the world's rainforest has been lost over the past forty years.

1 min read

New Museum·3 January 2019

Artist John Akomfrah Wins Artes Mundi Prize - his work feels particularly urgent.

His work, tackling migration, racism, and religious persecution, feels particularly urgent.

2 min read

New Museum·17 August 2019

Franciscans International - A Voice At The United Nations

We are a Franciscan voice at the United Nations protecting the vulnerable, the forgotten, and our wounded earth through advocacy.

1 min read

New Museum·23 August 2024

Claudia Sings Sunshine On A Rainy Day | WaterAid

Claudia's village, Lubunda , is in a disadvantaged part of northern Zambia, where people once relied on dirty, distant and dangerous water sources.

1 min read

Uncategorized·2 January 2019

Playing For Change

Playing for Change is a multimedia music project, created by the American producer and sound engineer Mark Johnson with his Timeless Media Group, that seeks to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. Playing For…

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·1 January 2019

Landfill-harmonic: the Mexican music school on the edge of a rubbish dump

Band members carry their instruments home after practising at the Vicente Guerrero music school. Photograph: Ginnette Riquelme for the Guardian

ON Network · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·1 January 2019

In Pursuit of Silence

“I am undone by this film… it lands in the mind, at least to this reviewer, with an impact reminiscent of seeing 1982’s Koyaanisqatsi for the first time… Shen’s In Pursuit of Silence incessantly inspires and sometimes takes the breath away…

ON Network · 1 min read

New Museum·1 January 2019

EducAid - learning for life in Sierra Leone

What are the important skills, behaviours, and attitudes that students need to become contributing global citizens?

3 min read

New Museum·1 January 2019

A Sweet Gig: Danish Beekeeping Program Employs Refugees

By operating urban beehives year-round, Bybi helps the environment, gives training, and creates opportunity.

4 min read

New Museum·30 December 2018

Cahier Africain

In the beginning there was a notebook. A notebook about hundreds of broken lives and tragic fates. Director Heidi Specogna wastes no time and shows it to us in the very beginning. She uses the photos of men, children and teenagers, as well…

2 min read

New Museum·30 December 2018

A World Not Ours

The Schwarz Foundation has recently opened A World Not Ours , its exhibition for the summer, curated by Katerina Gregos. The exhibition takes place at the Foundation’s venue in Greece, Art Space Pythagorion , on the island of Samos, one of…

15 min read

New Museum·14 April 2026

Featured Story: A knowledge transporter in Afghanistan

School teacher Saber Hosseini from Bamyan, Afghanistan, cycles more than an hour to deliver books to children in remote villages in the province.

2 min read

New Museum·24 September 2019

Dancing out of poverty in South Africa

Taking the floor: Dane Hurst and the Rambert dance floor he moved to South Africa. Photograph: Karl Schoemaker for the Observer

8 min read

New Museum·28 December 2018

From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world

From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world

11 min read

New Museum·28 December 2018

Diverse candidates make history in US midterm elections

Some of the winners in Tuesday’s US midterm elections will make history when they take office. Here’s a round-up of some of those breaking barriers Stateside, from people of colour to LGBT candidates

2 min read

New Museum·28 December 2018

ABBIE TRAYLER-SMITH 'AFTER DARKNESS'

Anima-Mundi is proud to present Abbie Trayler-Smith’s ‘After Darkness’, an extraordinary exhibition of photography capturing the devastating effects of Isis on the landscape and people of the region.

3 min read

New Museum·27 December 2018

12 Ways The Arts Can Encourage Climate Action

An art installation made with parts of Greenland’s ice cap in Paris at COP21 by Olafur Eliasson. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

5 min read

New Museum·23 November 2023

Francis Alys - to work with refugees

Francis Alÿs to work with refugees in Iraq and meet Isil’s victims

2 min read

New Museum·24 September 2019

David Nott on Desert Island Discs

He works across three London hospitals performing general, vascular, trauma & reconstructive surgery. In addition, for the past two decades, he's spent several weeks every year working in conflict zones around the world for Médecins…

1 min read

New Museum·16 May 2018

Global reasons to be cheerful - David Byrne

1. Healing the divide Georgetown is one of Texas’s most conservative suburbs, but gets all its electricity from renewable sources. Its mayor, Dale Ross, a Republican in what is considered oil country, made a decision in 2015. He ignored…

2 min read

Arts & Culture·18 July 2025

The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians

With war ravaging their homeland, the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians has been scattered across the globe. But five years since the violence erupted, the group are reuniting for a cathartic tour – and opening Glastonbury

ON Network · 8 min read

New Museum·16 October 2025

Featured Archive Story: Ubuntu - I am because we are

An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the children whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran…

2 min read

New Museum·27 November 2025

Featured: Utopia For Realists - and how we can get there.

Visited the Wellcome Collection yesterday and came away with Utopia For Realists (ON Ed) Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think you know. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey…

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