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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
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Lead story · Arts & Culture
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…
Climate·12 December 2022
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
Uncategorized·30 December 2018
The Syrian city of Aleppo crumbles into rubble, assailed by Russian bombs, government artillery and chemical weapons. In the heat of battle, Turkish troops and Kurdish fighters turn on one another, fighting their age-old war, though both…
ON Network · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·3 November 2023
Curators: Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of Sharjah Art Foundation & Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, director of KADIST Paris
ON Network · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·15 June 2025
We need storytellers who can translate devastation into empathy and urgency.
ON Network · 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
Arts & Culture·24 January 2021
Poet Amanda Gorman reads The Hill We Climb during Joseph Biden's Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, DC Photo: AP/Patrick Semansky, Pool
ON Network · 5 min read
Climate·5 April 2024
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization.
ON Network · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·31 March 2021
Lecturer in Japanese Studies (Japanese and Comparative Literature), University of Sheffield
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·8 June 2019
Katrina Naomi is a contributing poet and artist to Sol Force.
Sol Force · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·12 June 2026
The Other Tree of Guernica (edited still), 1969. Dir. Pedro Lazaga Sabater.
e-flux Education · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·1 December 2025
by Rebecca Gordon and Naomi White • November 2025 • Journal article
BURLINGTON CONTEMPORARY · 34 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
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
Education·1 September 2019
‘There should be a place for the arts in all schools.’ Students at the In Harmony school in West Everton, Liverpool. Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos/Antonio Olmos
ON Network · 5 min read
Charities·29 June 2019
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
Charities·19 November 2022
by Nicky Stephens, ShelterBox Digital Marketing & Innovation Manager 16/11/2022
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·11 June 2025
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
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
New Museum·31 July 2019
The curator of the Golden Lion-winning Lithuanian Pavilion in Venice is wedding art and environmentalism in new ways.
11 min read
Arts & Culture·28 December 2018
During the summer of 2013, Lamp Community, a homeless shelter in L.A., held a photography class.
ON Network · 5 min read
Arts & Culture·29 July 2024
The Mapping Journey Project, 2008–11 (installation view, Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale, 2024). Photo: Marco Zorzanello. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
ART REVIEW · 13 min read
Arts & Culture·3 January 2023
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·12 November 2021
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ON Network · 6 min read
Education·6 April 2020
In the midst of fear and isolation, we are learning that profound, positive change is possible. By Rebecca Solnit Tue 7 Apr 2020 06.00 BST D isasters begin suddenly and never really end. The future will not, in crucial ways, be anything like the past, even the very recent past of a month or two ago.
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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·28 July 2026
Among the voices: ’We can either continue on our current path, a treacherous ‘new normal’and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet.' Volker Turk, United…
ON Network · 1 min read
Climate·10 June 2026
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling…
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·20 March 2025
Resiliencia Tlacuache, 2019. © Naomi Rincón Gallardo. Photo: Claudia López Terroso.
E-FLUX · 3 min read
Climate·1 December 2023
Climate change has increased levels of uncertainty about our future. As its impacts intensify over time, one thing has become certain: We will leave the Earth to today’s children and young people, and to future generations.
ON Network · 2 min read
New Museum·23 November 2023
Francis Alÿs to work with refugees in Iraq and meet Isil’s victims
2 min read
New Museum·6 November 2023
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·29 October 2023
NB Olive Network editors note - please visit the MUSEUMS AS CLIMATE ACTION website for full and interactive story.
ON Network · 4 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
Humanitarian·6 June 2022
A woman holding a placard reading 'I'm Russian, I stand with Ukraine' takes part with others in a protest of Russians living in Switzerland against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, May 4, 2022.…
ON Network · 7 min read
Climate·16 January 2022
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
Arts & Culture·11 November 2021
Good Chance theater company, The Walk , featuring the Little Amal puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company, as seen in London. Photo by Nick Wall, courtesy of Good Chance theater company.
ON Network · 4 min read
Climate·15 January 2021
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ON Network · 11 min read
New Museum·5 November 2020
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
Climate·13 February 2019
Superflex, Dive-In (2019) at Desert X. Photo by Lance Gerber.
ON Network · 8 min read
New Museum·24 January 2019
‘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
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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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
1 min read
Arts & Culture·4 September 2023
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·23 November 2020
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold - Associate Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures, UCL
ON Network · 4 min read
Humanitarian·9 January 2019
It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night;
ON Network · 2 min read
Feed · 22/11/2025
Gaza Poets Society, launched in 2018, is a community dedicated to poetry and literature in Gaza.
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Feed · 04/08/2025
Eastern Ukraine’s biggest city is unsettlingly close to the Russian border and vulnerable to missile strikes, but there is a determination to maintain a cultural life, and a poetry festival is testament to the resilience and creativity of its people
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Feed · 14/07/2025
Verde-Distância, Bienal das Amazônias 2025 // August 29–November 30, 2025
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Feed · 25/11/2024
Rising as a rebuttal to fascism, sexism and war in the 1920s and 30s, surrealism was a response to ‘a world gone mad’. As the movement marks its centenary, two new shows are celebrating its past and future
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Feed · 21/04/2024
200 years after the revolutionary Romantic poet’s death, Greeks are celebrating his place in their national pantheon
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Feed · 17/12/2023
Editorial: Traditionally looked down on by the poetry establishment, those specialising in performance deserve their new chance to shine
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Feed · 11/12/2023
A Convening of Civic Poets seeks to probe the relevance of the figure of the civic poet and their redefinition on civic engagement.
View in FeedFeed · 02/06/2023
A Kenyan poet reflects on flooding in Somalia and its former coloniser, Italy.
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Feed · 13/12/2022
Using poetry to explore climate change can empower and inspire people to act and make a difference.
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Feed · 08/11/2021
Research has found that poetry can make people feel the urgency of climate change more keenly.
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Feed · 28/09/2021
A childhood encounter with a hyena inspired Hawa Jama Abdi’s first verse. Now she is part of an arts project designed to encourage women storytellers - and unite all Somalis
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Feed · 21/01/2021
Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in US history, delivered a poem that recalled the Capitol riots and looked to the future
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