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Webb Space Telescope
We wonder. It’s our nature. How did we get here? Are we alone in the universe? How does the universe work?
The Olive Network
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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Stories
Climate·15 May 2023
We are faced with a climate emergency. Can art help?
We have a climate emergency. Regardless of where one stands on this issue – this is our ‘inconvenient truth’ . Yet the power to reach people has never been greater. Close to 3.2 billion people today are online, about 2 billion are from…
ON Network · 11 min read
Dwelling·8 April 2024
How the solar eclipse may affect the brain and bring people together
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…
ON Network · 8 min read
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…
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·18 January 2025
‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools
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
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
Climate·12 November 2021
Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days
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ON Network · 6 min read
Arts & Culture·12 November 2021
Hiver Nomade - Winter Nomads
Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss-French region, accompanied by three donkeys, four…
ON Network · 3 min read
Dwelling·14 October 2019
Innocence lost: what did you do before the internet?
Yawning gap: days of nothing are a ‘soon-to-be lost plane of human experience’. Illustration: Nathalie Lees
ON Network · 12 min read
Arts & Culture·19 May 2019
Tomorrow is the Question
“Tomorrow is the Question”, installation photo. Photo: Anders Sune Berg
ON Network · 4 min read
Feed
Feed · 31/05/2026
Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong? | Eduardo Porter
A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damned
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Feed · 12/10/2025
Jitish Kallat: Cosmic Calls - Announcements - e-flux
A solo show by Jitish Kallat to coincide with Frieze London 2025.
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Feed · 11/08/2025
On Third Listening - Announcements - e-flux
The third edition of The Listening Biennial invites us to tune into the humming stars above and the countless voices they carry.
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Feed · 30/06/2023
Asteroid City: Wes Anderson's cosmic tale is his most engaging in years
A stand out performance from Scarlett Johansson and some emotional scenes make this one his strongest films to date.
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Feed · 15/10/2022
UBU by Robert Wilson - Es Baluard
Days: October 15, 20, 21, 22 at 8 pm Days: October 16, 23 at 7 pm Aljub (entrance from Passeig Sagrera) Duration: 50 minutes. IMPORTANT: Once the performance has started, admittance into the room will not be allowed Language: Catalan, English Tickets: 25 € In case there are remaining tickets, they will be on sale at the museum’s ticket office […]
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