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EXPLORE…PERHAPS FORGOTTEN, WORDS TO RETURN TO
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
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Climate·2 January 2022
5x15 at COP26: Arts and the Imagination
Responsible investing at Rathbone Investment Management. We see it as our responsibility to invest for everyone’s tomorrow. That means doing the right thing for our clients and for others too. Keeping the future in mind when we make…
ON Network · 6 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…
11 min read
Arts & Culture·22 July 2022
The Good Web
Over the past two decades, social media has moved from a space of aspiration for people who study social change, to a space of profound anxiety. If we believe news headlines, social media is responsible for many of the major scourges of…
ON Network · 14 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
Arts & Culture·11 June 2025
Arundhati Roy on Writing in the Information Age
If i had any advice to give to people who want to write…please try and switch off…you don’t need all this information….you don’t need to know everything about everything, it’s unnatural…you need to know the earth, your neighbours, the…
SLU LIBRARIES YOUTUBE · 1 min read
Climate·12 November 2021
Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days
Fri 12 Nov 2021 10.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 13 Nov 2021 05.20 GMT
ON Network · 6 min read
Arts & Culture·31 March 2021
Japan’s cherry blossom viewing parties – the history of chasing the fleeting beauty of sakura
Lecturer in Japanese Studies (Japanese and Comparative Literature), University of Sheffield
ON Network · 4 min read
Climate·2 September 2020
If democracy looks doomed, Extinction Rebellion may have an answer
At the heart of a new climate emergency bill lies a simple idea to cut through Westminster groupthink: a citizens’ assembly
ON Network · 6 min read
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
2 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·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.
7 min read
Climate·18 January 2023
WEF only ‘about tweaking the system’: rogue business leaders call for real wealth distribution
Published on January 18, 2023 19:43. Updated on January 18, 2023 22:25.
ON Network · 9 min read
Climate·11 January 2023
Ozone layer recovery is on track, helping avoid global warming by 0.5°C
NAIROBI, 9 January 2023 – The ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, with the global phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals already benefitting efforts to mitigate climate change. This is the conclusion of a UN-backed panel…
ON Network · 4 min read
Climate·6 January 2022
The world feels fragile, but we can recover from the blows we’ve suffered
Rather more than half of the population of Afghanistan is facing levels of food shortage not seen for decades. Just under 1,500 people died in the Mediterranean during 2021, attempting to flee to a safer environment. The likelihood of…
ON Network · 5 min read
Climate·29 April 2021
Forum for the Future: How will you reboot the future?
How will you reboot the future? New campaign amplifies young voices ahead of major climate conference, COP-26 As the climate and social crises we face intensify, the voices of young people are rightly getting louder. Forum for the Future…
ON Network · 3 min read
Charities·26 December 2020
E-volunteer opportunities. Contribute to international development from home.
Volunteering has always been a great way to give something back and put one’s skills to great use. While these opportunities previously required a physical presence a new form of volunteering is now gaining popularity. E-volunteering, also…
ON Network · 3 min read
Economics·27 August 2020
COVID-19: UN chief outlines path to sustainable, inclusive recovery in Southeast Asia
UNICEF/Fauzan Ijazah A mother and her two-year old daughter at home in Central Java, Indonesia.
ON Network · 3 min read
Health·24 August 2020
Germany & France Propose Reforms To Give The WHO More Power, Funding & Oversight
The World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland
ON Network · 2 min read
Charities·13 April 2020
UN chief calls on religious leaders to unite in the fight against COVID-19
UN Photo/Mark Garten -UN Secretary-General António Guterres meets religious leaders at Gurdwara Kartapur Sahib in Punjab province in Pakistan.
ON Network · 2 min read
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.
11 min read
Charities·29 June 2019
Here’s why some Dutch university students are living in nursing homes
In today’s society both young and old increasingly find themselves living in a bubble of like-minded and similar-aged peers. This is especially true of university students who leave home at 18 to live with people of the same age – who have…
ON Network · 4 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·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
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Feed · 28/11/2025
New film adaptation of Camus’s L’Étranger opens old colonial wounds
François Ozon’s handling of classic novel draws both praise and criticism, including from the author’s daughter
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