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
49 voices connected
Lead story · New Museum
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…
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
Arts & Culture·10 July 2019
Tim Ridley works between animals and humans through performance, paintings, drawings, collage and film.
Sol Force · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·6 August 2026
We are thrilled to announce the first in a new series of Featured Artworks. On roughly a monthy timeline we will exhibit a single work from an artist we know or have recently been introduced to. We are proud to show this wonderful work,…
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·18 January 2025
Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, which sold at a New York auction last year for $6.2 million, was chosen for inclusion by Damien Hirst. Photograph: Rhona Wise/EPA
THE OBSERVER · 5 min read
New Museum·23 February 2024
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·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.
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Arts & Culture·8 November 2023
The Olive Network Exhibition was scheduled to take place at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens this summer, but was postponed due to Covid-19 and is now live online to coincide with the launch of the Olive Network. Within the website you will…
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·28 July 2019
Jennifer Steinkamp, Mike Kelley 1 (2007) at Cleveland Clinic. Courtesy artist and Lehmann Maupin Photo: Steve Travarca.
ON Network · 10 min read
Arts & Culture·18 December 2024
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
Education·29 October 2023
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·13 January 2023
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Blues for the Martyrs, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Mohamed Noureldin Abdallah Ahmed. © Kamala Ibrahim Ishag.
ON Network · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·11 October 2022
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
Charities·21 July 2019
Above: 'Moonlight' by Freedom from Torture client Iqbal, to be featured in November's exhibition
ON Network · 3 min read
New Museum·8 January 2019
Soft diplomacy between the two countries starts off with an exchange of art.
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Arts & Culture·7 January 2019
Arts council chairman Sir Nicholas Serota, the outgoing director of the Tate, wants to look at widening access to the arts
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·15 January 2026
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·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·3 December 2025
In late 2017, Branko Milanovic wrote a blog post titled “ The illusion of degrowth in a poor and unequal world .” He penned it, he says, following a conversation he had with a proponent of degrowth, which was me. I wrote a response, which…
JASON HICKEL · 62 min read
Arts & Culture·15 August 2024
The character “集” depicts three birds perched on a single tree. As a verb, it encompasses meanings including to gather, converge, collect, or assemble. As a noun, “集” can be translated as “Atlas” — a collection of art, cultural relics, or…
ON Network · 1 min read
Charities·7 May 2024
Tommaso Della Longa, IFRC spokesperson, at the organisation's headquarters in Geneva on 6 May 2024. (Geneva Solutions/Michelle Langrand)
GENEVA SOLUTIONS · 6 min read
Arts & Culture·16 August 2023
“It’s a cabinet of curiosities of sorts,” Elias Anastas told Artnet News, adding that they will invite creatives “to come and make art out of Palestine.” The aim is to nurture the local Palestinian and Middle Eastern art scene, but also…
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·13 March 2023
Gagosian is pleased to present Rites of Passage at the Britannia Street gallery. Curated by Péjú Oshin, this exhibition features work by nineteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration.
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·12 November 2022
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·20 March 2022
Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to…
ON Network · 1 min read
Climate·2 January 2022
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
Climate·29 April 2021
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
Arts & Culture·7 April 2021
Andria Zafirakou photographed at Alperton community school in Brent, north-west London, 2018. Photograph: Matt Writtle/Eyevine
ON Network · 13 min read
Climate·25 March 2021
The Loess plateau, in China, in 2007, left, and transformed into green valleys and productive farmland in 2019. Composite: Rex/Shutterstock/Xinhua/Alamy
ON Network · 18 min read
Arts & Culture·27 November 2020
The country has just extended its lockdown on cultural venues until at least December 20.
ON Network · 3 min read
Dwelling·17 November 2020
The Lebanese capital hosts up to 200,000 Syrian refugees, many of whom lost their jobs following the explosion. UNHCR estimates that before the blast about 50% of refugees were living in extreme poverty and this has now increased to 80%.…
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·26 July 2020
Drawings, writings, and doodles on a desk: the imprints of school life. Since 2013, the artist Oscar Murillo - in collaboration with the political scientist Clara Dublanc - has collected the canvases they sent to schools around the world,…
ON Network · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·10 June 2020
A “concrete monster” that once housed a fleet of Nazi U-boats in Bordeaux, France, is set to begin a new life as the world’s largest digital art gallery , reports Agence France-Presse .
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·8 April 2020
Ever wondered what it would be like to see a 30-metre-high tree inside Hayward Gallery? Our new exhibition Among the Trees brings together artworks by 38 artists who explore our relationship with trees and forests. Here are five things to…
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·22 February 2020
Massimo Osanna, director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, at the unveiling of one of the painted houses at Pompeii. Courtesy of the Italian Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
ON Network · 3 min read
Humanitarian·18 February 2020
Green shoots ... Sima Mohammedi, 26, a refugee volunteer from Afghanistan, in a garden at the One Happy Family community centre near Moria. Photograph: Byron Smith/Getty Images
ON Network · 18 min read
Arts & Culture·13 February 2020
On the day the UK exited the EU, Portugal became the tenth country to join Evan Roth's Red Lines network . The new network-located videos show coastal sites in Lisbon and Porto where cables that carry the internet emerge from the Atlantic…
ON Network · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·20 October 2019
Rendering of David Kordansky's forthcoming expansion in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of David Kordansky and wHY.
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·26 September 2019
Ibrahim Mahama (b. 1987) may be relatively young, but he has already built a reputation as one of the most renowned Ghanaian artists working today. Best known for his spectacular installations in which he covers monumental buildings – for…
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·18 September 2019
Image: Visualization of Breathe with Me in Central Park, New York City. Visualization by Studio Jeppe Hein. Courtesy: Jeppe Hein and ART 2030
ON Network · 2 min read
New Museum·19 July 2019
Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project , Tate Modern, London, 2003. Courtesy: Getty Images, Photofusion/UIG
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New Museum·8 January 2019
People living with dementia discuss art at a Royal Academy InMind session. Photograph: Roy Matthews
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Uncategorized·2 January 2019
Jonas Wood, Dinosaur Pots Still Life, 2014, is a work that would well-illustrate 'Greenery,' the new Pantone color of the year. via Anton Kern Gallery website.
ON Network · 2 min read
Feed · 19/05/2026
Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes.
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Feed · 05/03/2025
This epochal exhibition is full of works so intimate and expressive that the painters of a medieval Italian city 700 years ago suddenly seem close at hand
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Feed · 20/08/2023
The artist’s oil pastel paintings, shown this summer at DDDD Pictures, have been earning the attention of galleries and critics alike.
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Feed · 21/07/2023
Analysis using AI-assisted facial recognition reveals faces in de Brécy Tondo are identical to those in Sistine Madonna
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Feed · 22/03/2023
Plus, HSBC is piloting an art-finance offering and Nino Meier is opening a second New York gallery.
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