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National Gallery launches citizens’ assembly as a step towards inclusive governance

From next month (September '25), invitations will be sent to 15,000 households across the UK. Using a ‘civic lottery’ 50 participants will be chosen to take part in the process. From these, 20 individuals will form the citizens’ panel,…

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Arts & Culture·21 April 2026

The Wonderful Culture of Iranian Cinema

This week, I found this post on Instagram and it rang bells - ON Ed

ON Network · 2 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

Arts & Culture·1 December 2025

Emotional labour of social practice artists: moving towards sustainable collective care

by Rebecca Gordon and Naomi White • November 2025 • Journal article

BURLINGTON CONTEMPORARY · 34 min read

Climate·9 September 2025

What if nature could save us?

Exhibition Dates: 08 – 28 September 2025: Featured across JCDecaux-owned bus shelters throughout all five boroughs of New York City. See locations here 14 – 28 September 2025: On view at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City

ART 2030 · 2 min read

United Nations·19 August 2025

International Youth Day

The theme of International Youth Day (IYD) 2025, Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond, highlights the unique role of youth in translating global ambitions into community-driven realities. As development partners work to translate…

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY · 2 min read

Climate·21 July 2025

Assembling Grounds. Practices of Coexistence

The exhibition » Fellow Travellers: Art as a Tool to Change the World « acts as a catalyst for these questions: As a place for possibilities, it offers a platform for artistic projects that demonstrate the benefits of art for society in an…

ZKM KARLSRUHE · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·17 July 2025

Museion Academy – International Symposium: Culture as a Commons

These urgent questions lie at the heart of Culture as a Commons, a three-day international forum that brings together 12 selected cultural initiatives from the Netherlands and Italy. In the framework of this gathering at Museion, they will…

MUSEION ACADEMY · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·28 June 2025

Enduring Game: Expanding New Models of Museum Making

Museums are active agents of social values. Understanding museums and their teams within a social and economic context goes far beyond any standardized political framework or performance checklist.

CIMAM · 3 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·20 March 2025

Shadowily in different tongues

Resiliencia Tlacuache, 2019. © Naomi Rincón Gallardo. Photo: Claudia López Terroso.

E-FLUX · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·8 March 2025

Fundació Miró Mallorca: Max de Esteban

The exhibition, curated by Antònia Maria Perelló, reflects on the human condition, technology and the society generated by post-capitalism in the 21st century. Its launch willl start with an enriching and blatant conversation between the…

Fundació Miró Mallorca · 4 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

Climate·18 February 2025

Alfredo Jaar - The End of the World

Alfredo Jaar. The End of the World , 2024, installation view, Kesselhaus, KINDL, © Alfredo Jaar / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2024, photo: Jens Ziehe

KINDL - BERLIN · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·7 January 2025

Soils - L'Internationale

Soil is a strong and resistant material. It is alive, it breathes, and it can recover. In this exhibition, soil is seen as both matter and metaphor. For some, soil is used as an artistic vehicle. For others, soil is a metaphor for the…

L'INTERNATIONALE · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·31 December 2024

Discover the vibrant textile works of Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

Mirga-Tas is known for her textile collages created with materials and fabrics that are mainly gathered from family and friends. Her visual storytelling comes from a feminist perspective and challenges stereotypical representations of Roma…

TATE ST IVES · 1 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·12 December 2024

Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies

ON SOURCE: E-FLUX June 14–October 12, 2025 Galleri F 15 Albyalléen 60 1519 Moss Norway gallerif15.no momentum.no MOMENTUM, one of the most anticipated events in the Nordic art scene, returns for its 13th edition under the theme…

E-FLUX · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·2 December 2024

Helsinki Biennial 2025: Shelter

The third Helsinki Biennial seeks to shake us out of anthropocentrism in order to better understand the delicate and severely imbalanced relationship between humankind and nature. The curatorial concept questions human dominance by…

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·15 October 2024

Louisiana Museum: Ocean

The exhibition is generously supported by Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond and Det Obelske Familiefond. It is endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

LOUISIANA MUSEUM · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·15 October 2024

Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat

Claire Bown: I note with interest that you say you felt ‘obligated’ to write this book. What inspired you to address the theme of societal collapse in the context of museums? Was there a specific event or realisation that prompted you to…

THINKING MUSEUM · 6 min read

Arts & Culture·19 October 2024

Innovative Museums set to open Globally in 2024

The pandemic left many museums worldwide fighting for survival, with world cities reporting a 48% average fall in museum attendance from 2019 – 2022 (Source: World Cities Culture Report 2022).

WORLD CITIES CULTURE FORUM · 2 min read

Climate·27 December 2023

Art Charter for Climate Action

Together International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), Julie’s Bicycle, Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), and ART 2030 have founded an alliance committed to developing a charter that aligns the global art sector…

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·21 May 2023

International Museum Day 2023 to focus on sustainability and well-being

The objective of International Museum Day (IMD) is to raise awareness about the fact that, “Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among…

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·14 December 2022

UNESCO: Culture Protecting Our Heritage and Fostering Creativity

From cherished historic monuments and museums to living heritage practices and contemporary art forms, culture enriches our lives in countless ways and helps build inclusive, innovative and resilient communities.

ON Network · 1 min read

Climate·12 December 2022

How poetry can help address the climate crisis

I want to leap up at the three-nation parley In Whitehorse, Yukon, to warn them the radionuclides absorbed from the lichen they live on may kill them if they don’t drown in droves in crossings flooded out by hydroelectric stations, or…

ON Network · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·12 November 2022

At COP27, Artists Are Installing Their Work to Urge Heads of State to Act on Climate Change

Bodies Joined by a Molecule of Air by Invisible Flock arts studio and Jon Bausor. Photo by Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images.

ON Network · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·7 November 2022

As UN prepares for Cop27, we look at which art initiatives are working alongside governments to create real environmental change

Otobong Nkanga's Unearthed—Sunlight (2021) at Kunsthaus Bregenz, was organised by Art 2030. Photo: Markus Tretter. Courtesy of the artist.

ON Network · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·11 October 2022

‘It’s Time to Wake Up’: Artist Cecilia Vicuña on Her Monumental Soft Sculptures and Their Hard Message About Planetary Survival

Cecilia Vicuna, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu Installation View at Tate Modern 2022. Photo © Tate Photography (Sonal Bakrania)

ON Network · 6 min read

Climate·21 September 2022

Art 2030 - Art For Hope

Art for Hope launched with The Hope Forum during the opening of the 59th Venice Biennale and is running through the 77th United Nations General Assembly and COP 27. The initiative explores how the art ecosystem can respond to the climate…

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·20 September 2022

UN Live - Join the Global We

We are running out of time to act on climate change – but there is hope if we get ‘the many’ across the world involved. Currently, many people are left out of the conversation, and feel little agency in shaping the future of the world;…

ON Network · 1 min read

New Museum·14 September 2022

Register to a NEMO Webinar on sustainability in the museum

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Arts & Culture·31 July 2022

Ghanaian Curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim on Why the Future of the Museum Must Exist Beyond Art’s Traditional Boundaries

A dozen years ago, Nana Oforiatta Ayim worked in the Africa department at the British Museum. Since then, the Ghanaian art historian, filmmaker, and writer has been deconstructing the very idea of it—or rather, the very colonial idea of a…

ON Network · 15 min read

New Museum·11 July 2022

Mal Pelo. Before the Words. Refugio temporal

11 de marzo de 2022 → 28 de agosto de 2022 Comisariado: Ma

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Climate·6 October 2025

Serpentine Galleries: Back to Earth

Seba Calfuqueo, Tray Tray Ko, video, 6’13, 2022, film still, photo by: Sebastian Melo.

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·30 May 2022

Art for a Healthy Planet 2022

“This is a planetary emergency. With humanity on the edge of an abyss, and moving in the wrong direction, the world must wake up. Now is the time to restore trust. Now is the time to inspire hope. And I do have hope. The problems we have…

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·4 September 2023

Featured Story: Progressive International - Introducing the Art of Internationalism

In support of shared struggles for equality, social and ecological justice, Art of Internationalism builds from a place-based understanding of the world: one grounded in situated histories, rooted in communities and lands and intimately…

ON Network · 13 min read

Arts & Culture·3 May 2022

6 museums successfully cementing relationships with their audiences

By thinking outside the box, these cultural establishments have been able to take visitor and audience engagement to new levels.

ON Network · 5 min read

New Museum·13 March 2022

Giant Worms And A Tribute To Money Laundering How 47 Artists Are Rethinking The Monument At Goldsmith S Cca In London

Dominic Watson, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art

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Climate·8 February 2022

Green Museums Summit

Inspiring ideas and case studies from museums working towards sustainable futures

ON Network · 1 min read

Climate·16 January 2022

MEG exhibition on indigenous rights, an issue close to International Geneva’s heart

The Geneva Ethnography Museum (MEG) mixes history, artistic expression and activism to retell the story of indigenous peoples’ struggle for their rights, with Geneva as one of the battlegrounds.

ON Network · 4 min read

Climate·14 January 2022

Seven ways museums are responding to the climate crisis

SFER IK in Mexico, an interdisciplinary arts space within the Azulik resort complex near Tulum, designed by the architect and eco-hotelier Eduardo Neira, known as RothPhoto: courtesy of Azulik

ON Network · 13 min read

Education·20 August 2024

Gallery Climate Coalition, Christie’s and ClientEarth launch 'Artists for ClientEarth'

There'll be bluebirds, 2019, oil on linen 134.62 x 170.18 cm. 53 x 67 in. © Cecily Brown. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: Genevieve Hanson A new initiative between GCC, Christies and ClientEarth that began in 2021, again reinforcing how the Arts can play a vital role in creating a thriving future. (O

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Climate·8 November 2021

Museums must take action on climate change now—before it’s too late

The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London Courtesy of the Horniman Museum and Gardens

ON Network · 6 min read

Arts & Culture·12 May 2025

Featured Story: 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

A new book inviting artists to re-think the climate emergency

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·9 December 2021

COP26 PLATFORM

Contribute to the News Feed and read and share Stories from a broad spectrum of sources - UN, Climate Action, News Media, The Climate Coalition, Museums and Galleries, Charities and NGO's - all with a common cause, to raise awareness and…

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·11 August 2021

IdeasCity - New Museum

Image: Artist Theaster Gates in conversation with IdeasCity Detroit Fellows during the IdeasCity Detroit public conference on April 30, 2016. Photo: Justin Milhouse

ON Network · 1 min read

Education·29 October 2023

Going viral, the right way: what it's like running the world’s best museum social media accounts during a pandemic

SOURCE: THE ART NEWSPAPER Going viral, the right way: what it's like running the world’s best museum social media accounts during a pandemic We asked the people behind the Royal Academy’s Twitter, the Met’s Instagram, the Uffizi’s TikTok and the Van Gogh Museum’s Facebook account what 2020 was like

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Arts & Culture·29 October 2023

Atlas of the Future - the power of cultural arts: meet FutureHero Jordi Costa

Jordi Costa is the writer, filmmaker and cultural critic behind the exhibitions at Barcelona’s CCCB , one of Europe’s most diverse, important and creative cultural arts centres.

ON Network · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·17 March 2021

World Health Organization joins art world to launch global campaign confronting mental health toll of pandemic

A still from Ragnar Kjartansson's 2018 video Figures in Landscape (Friday), which will be offered at auction by Christie's on 25 March in support of the Healing Arts campaign

ON Network · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·21 November 2021

Libraries with buckets of love - Atlas of the Future

Project leader - German Florian Heinzelmann and Daliana Suryawinata, Co-founders

ON Network · 4 min read

Climate·17 February 2021

Setting sail to beat plastic pollution - Museum for the UN - UN Live

This March, the world’s first recycled plastic boat – the FlipFlopi – sets sail on its newest voyage around Lake Victoria. Over three weeks it will circumnavigate Africa’s largest freshwater ecosystem from Kisumu, to Kenya and Uganda, and…

ON Network · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·19 January 2021

Museums around the world step up to be transformed into vaccination centres

Museums worldwide, which are currently closed due to coronavirus restrictions, are doubling up as Covid-19 vaccine centres. In England, London's Science Museum is expected to open up for vaccinations, as is the Black Country Living Museum…

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·3 December 2020

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional - How to Tread Lightly

Temporary Exhibition . From 6 October 2020 to 17 January 2021

Roger Thorp · 2 min read

Climate·29 October 2023

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action

NB Olive Network editors note - please visit the MUSEUMS AS CLIMATE ACTION website for full and interactive story.

ON Network · 4 min read

Climate·27 November 2020

On Culture and Climate: Artist Talk with John Akomfrah and Olafur Eliasson

Artists Akomfrah and Olafur Eliasson join National Geographic Magazine editor in chief Susan Goldberg for a discussion on their significant work as both artists and advocates for climate reform, while touching on the ways that artists…

ON Network · 1 min read

New Museum·27 November 2020

Galleries start to clean up their environmental act with new climate coalition

The Gallery Climate Coalition will enable the sect

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Arts & Culture·27 November 2020

As Germany Extends Its Lockdown, Shuttered Museums Are Offering Up Their Galleries to Cramped and Poorly-Ventilated Schools

The country has just extended its lockdown on cultural venues until at least December 20.

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·29 October 2023

Climate crisis: how museums could inspire radical action

The Gallery of Ecological Art (formerly China gallery) at the British Museum of Decolonised Nature. Image courtesy John Zhang and Studio JZ, Author provided

ON Network · 15 min read

Climate·14 February 2024

Kate Raworth and Hans Ulrich Obrist: Turning a Radical Idea Into Action

That’s the starting point of Doughnut Economics, a concept that began on the back of an envelope and is fast becoming a global community of changemakers who are putting regenerative and distributive design into practice – in cities,…

ON Network · 1 min read

New Museum·5 November 2020

New York Times - The Museum Is the Refugee’s Home

Liu Xiaodong, in his painting “Refugees 4” (2015), depicts Syrian refugees at the port of Lesbos gathered together in a moment of rest. A show at the Phillips Collection features 75 artists on migration and displacement. Credit... Liu…

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New Museum·1 April 2024

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières

Since 2007, Bibliothèques Sans Frontières has worked to bring knowledge and information to those who are most in need. Libraries are simultaneously excellent places for personal growth and collective development . However,…

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New Museum·10 January 2024

Featured Story: Why we need museums now more than ever

To those who aren’t as passionate about the power of museums as readers of this blog, it can often seem that such institutions are merely places where forgotten objects go to enjoy their final years.

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New Museum·28 October 2023

THE TIME IS NOW / Museums as agents of change hosted by the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live

This UN75 Webinar features pioneering museum leaders from around the world in dialogue about how the cultural sector can confront the most pressing social and environmental issues facing humanity. As bearers of history and physical places…

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Arts & Culture·11 September 2020

Hauser & Wirth Has Rallied More Than 100 Art Stars to Donate Works for a Fundraiser to Rescue the Queens Museum and 15 Other At-Risk New York Nonprofits

Jack Pierson, Inquire Within (2020). Image courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects.

ON Network · 3 min read

New Museum·6 October 2025

Museums Are Experts at Thinking Long-Term. That’s Why They Must Lead the Fight for a Greener Future—Before It’s Too Late

Nick Merriman, chief executive of the Horniman Museum & Gardens. Photo by Tania Dolvers

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New Museum·6 June 2020

Gallery Climate Coalition: The Green debate

One of the most urgent issues in the art world's mission to go green is t

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New Museum·23 February 2024

New New Deal: Towards a New Era of Social Imagination

The community-centered approach of the Federal Art Project can be an inspiration in a time when the current system must be rethought.

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New Museum·6 November 2023

To Survive the Challenges Ahead, Cultural Institutions Will Need to Redefine the Value of Art.

The director of A Blade of Grass explores how the lockdown era might present an opportunity to change the way the art ecosystem functions.

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New Museum·19 March 2020

Conservators at the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Are Donating Their Face Masks and Gloves to Front-Line Medical Workers

A conservator at work. Photo by Fabian Strauch/Picture

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Arts & Culture·15 February 2020

Graciela Iturbide at Tate Modern

A leading photographer in Latin America, Iturbide’s work has been collected by art museums across the world. She has described photography as ‘a pretext to know the world, to know life’. Her images in Mexico capture people, rituals and…

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·12 February 2020

How Activists Made the Art World Wake Up to the Climate Crisis

From school strikers at the Royal Shakespeare Company to a Trojan horse at the British Museum, protests over oil sponsorship have gripped the arts

ON Network · 10 min read

New Museum·20 January 2020

Sustainability at the Horniman Museum and Gardens

Here at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, we're working har

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New Museum·12 January 2020

‘CONNECTED BY A THREAD’. Arts Territory Exchange. Residency in Sustainable Practice.

The ARTS TERRITORY EXCHANGE is an organisation which facilitates creative exchange across borders and works with artists in remote locations and those whose work explores ideas of place, territory and environment. ATE’s work involves the…

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New Museum·14 February 2024

We Make Tomorrow summit

Join us for our flagship 2020 summit We Make Tomorrow: Creative climate action in a time of crisis to be at the forefront of an urgent and creative plan for change.

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New Museum·20 November 2019

The Future Architecture Platform

The Future Architecture platform is a well-balanced ecosystem of European cultural players in architecture who perform specific roles within a complex European architecture program. It connects multi-disciplinary emerging talents to high…

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Arts & Culture·22 November 2019

Rembrandt and Velázquez Lived in Warring Nations and Never Met. And Yet They Painted Like Brothers

Side by-side comparisons of ancient and modern Masters have been a bankable formula for blockbuster museum exhibitions for quite some time now, but they seem particularly popular lately.

ON Network · 5 min read

New Museum·1 February 2020

Steve McQueen hopes Year 3 work will inspire art's next generation

McQueen with one of the school classes featured in the project. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

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New Museum·21 October 2019

World's Largest Lesson - Project Everyone

World’s Largest Lesson is an on-going initiative from Project Everyone delivered in partnership with UNICEF and many other organisations to bring the Global Goals to children across the world.

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New Museum·19 July 2019

‘Hard Truths to Face’: Tate Declares ‘Climate Emergency’

Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project , Tate Modern, London, 2003. Courtesy: Getty Images, Photofusion/UIG

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New Museum·31 July 2019

‘We Have More Agency Than We Realize’: Serpentine Curator Lucia Pietroiusti on How the Art World Can Tackle Climate Change

The curator of the Golden Lion-winning Lithuanian Pavilion in Venice is wedding art and environmentalism in new ways.

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New Museum·16 July 2019

Serpentine Gallery - General Ecology

General Ecology is the Serpentine’s long-term and ongoing project researching complexity, posthumanism the environment and climate change. General Ecology manifests through publications, exhibitions, study programmes, radio, symposia and…

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New Museum·27 June 2019

The Serpentine Galleries Join 30 British Cultural Institutions in a Pledge to Reduce Their Carbon Footprints

The Serpentine Gallery in London. Courtesy of the Serpentine Galleries.

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New Museum·17 September 2019

ART-2030 CONNECTING ART AND THE UN GLOBAL GOALS

ART 2030 works with art as the key to achieve the UN Global Goals by opening people's hearts, minds and imagination - to inspire action for a healthy and sustainable future.

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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

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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.

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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

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New Museum·22 January 2019

Can Art Relax You?

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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…

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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…

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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

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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.

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New Museum·7 January 2019

COOL EARTH

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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

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New Museum·28 December 2018

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

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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

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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.

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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

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New Museum·23 November 2023

Francis Alys - to work with refugees

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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National Gallery launches citizens’ assembly as a step towards inclusive governance

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The Wonderful Culture of Iranian Cinema

An Unfinished Cinema Abbas Kiarostami

Emotional labour of social practice artists: moving towards sustainable collective care

What if nature could save us?

International Youth Day

Assembling Grounds. Practices of Coexistence

Museion Academy – International Symposium: Culture as a Commons

Enduring Game: Expanding New Models of Museum Making

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

Shadowily in different tongues

Fundació Miró Mallorca: Max de Esteban

Tilda Swinton - Berlin International Film Festival

Alfredo Jaar - The End of the World

Soils - L&#x27;Internationale

Discover the vibrant textile works of Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

Francis Alÿs’s “The Gibraltar Projects”

Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies

Helsinki Biennial 2025: Shelter

Louisiana Museum: Ocean

Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat

Innovative Museums set to open Globally in 2024

Art Charter for Climate Action

International Museum Day 2023 to focus on sustainability and well-being

UNESCO: Culture Protecting Our Heritage and Fostering Creativity

How poetry can help address the climate crisis

At COP27, Artists Are Installing Their Work to Urge Heads of State to Act on Climate Change

As UN prepares for Cop27, we look at which art initiatives are working alongside governments to create real environmental change

‘It’s Time to Wake Up’: Artist Cecilia Vicuña on Her Monumental Soft Sculptures and Their Hard Message About Planetary Survival

Art 2030 - Art For Hope

UN Live - Join the Global We

Register to a NEMO Webinar on sustainability in the museum

Ghanaian Curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim on Why the Future of the Museum Must Exist Beyond Art’s Traditional Boundaries

Mal Pelo. Before the Words. Refugio temporal

Serpentine Galleries: Back to Earth

Art for a Healthy Planet 2022

Featured Story: Progressive International - Introducing the Art of Internationalism

6 museums successfully cementing relationships with their audiences

Giant Worms And A Tribute To Money Laundering How 47 Artists Are Rethinking The Monument At Goldsmith S Cca In London

Green Museums Summit

MEG exhibition on indigenous rights, an issue close to International Geneva’s heart

Seven ways museums are responding to the climate crisis

Gallery Climate Coalition, Christie’s and ClientEarth launch 'Artists for ClientEarth'

Museums must take action on climate change now—before it’s too late

Featured Story: 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

COP26 PLATFORM

IdeasCity - New Museum

Going viral, the right way: what it's like running the world’s best museum social media accounts during a pandemic

Atlas of the Future - the power of cultural arts: meet FutureHero Jordi Costa

World Health Organization joins art world to launch global campaign confronting mental health toll of pandemic

Libraries with buckets of love - Atlas of the Future

Setting sail to beat plastic pollution - Museum for the UN - UN Live

Museums around the world step up to be transformed into vaccination centres

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional - How to Tread Lightly

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action

On Culture and Climate: Artist Talk with John Akomfrah and Olafur Eliasson

Galleries start to clean up their environmental act with new climate coalition

As Germany Extends Its Lockdown, Shuttered Museums Are Offering Up Their Galleries to Cramped and Poorly-Ventilated Schools

Climate crisis: how museums could inspire radical action

Kate Raworth and Hans Ulrich Obrist: Turning a Radical Idea Into Action

New York Times - The Museum Is the Refugee’s Home

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières

Featured Story: Why we need museums now more than ever

THE TIME IS NOW / Museums as agents of change hosted by the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live

Hauser & Wirth Has Rallied More Than 100 Art Stars to Donate Works for a Fundraiser to Rescue the Queens Museum and 15 Other At-Risk New York Nonprofits

Museums Are Experts at Thinking Long-Term. That’s Why They Must Lead the Fight for a Greener Future—Before It’s Too Late

Gallery Climate Coalition: The Green debate

New New Deal: Towards a New Era of Social Imagination

To Survive the Challenges Ahead, Cultural Institutions Will Need to Redefine the Value of Art.

Conservators at the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Are Donating Their Face Masks and Gloves to Front-Line Medical Workers

Graciela Iturbide at Tate Modern

How Activists Made the Art World Wake Up to the Climate Crisis

Sustainability at the Horniman Museum and Gardens

‘CONNECTED BY A THREAD’. Arts Territory Exchange. Residency in Sustainable Practice.

We Make Tomorrow summit

The Future Architecture Platform

Rembrandt and Velázquez Lived in Warring Nations and Never Met. And Yet They Painted Like Brothers

Steve McQueen hopes Year 3 work will inspire art's next generation

World's Largest Lesson - Project Everyone

Soils - L'Internationale