The Olive Network
We started thinking about the words that have perhaps been most neglected in recent times, and the need to return to them, and with resolve…in all their forms and resonances
Now gathering
12 voices connected
Lead story · Dwelling
The date is 28 May, 585 BC, in what is now present-day Anatolia in Turkey. The Medes, an ancient people from modern-day Iran, and the Lydians – a kingdom from the south of modern-day Turkey – have been fighting for six years. According to…
Arts & Culture·5 December 2025
I love diaries — physical, bound paper books filled with handwriting — more and more as the digital has taken over so much of our lives. I have an existential terror of losing my human coherence, my voice, to the chatbot. Human thought,…
NEW YORK TIMES · 6 min read
Climate·16 November 2025
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
Science & Tech·16 May 2025
A man sells battery-powered radios and torches on a Barcelona street during the blackout in Barcelona, Spain, 29 April 2025. (Keystone/AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
GENEVA SOLUTIONS · 4 min read
New Museum·10 January 2024
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.
7 min read
Humanitarian·4 January 2023
Days after the latest sea rescue of Rohingya refugees by Indonesian fishing crews, UN human rights chief Volker Türk appealed for greater regional protections.
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·31 July 2022
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
Climate·11 July 2022
At what is a critical moment for the sustainability movement, Forum for the Future’s flagship Future of Sustainability campaign shed light on what the past can teach us about our future. These insights formed the basis of our first US…
ON Network · 6 min read
Arts & Culture·16 August 2019
I guess this is a difficult question to answer. When do you actually become a photographer? Is it when you pick up your first camera? Is it when you get your first commission or publication? I started taking pictures more than 20 years ago…
ON Network · 7 min read
New Museum·28 December 2018
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
Uncategorized·24 May 2018
'Art helps us identify with one another and expands the notion of 'we' from the local to the global.'
ON Network · 2 min read
Feed · 23/04/2025
U.N. leaders hailed Pope Francis as a champion of the environment and tireless advocate of refugees and migrants.
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