by Hal Conte Timing an exhibition can be a knotty problem for an art gallery or museum, but it helps when your subject matter is trending by default. “Breaking the News,” running at the British Library through late August, covers 500 years of media history using old newspapers, video footage, pamphlets, and more. It has […]
by Beatrix Stark Edie Sedgwick is enshrined in popular culture as a 1960s fashion icon and muse to Andy Warhol. The seventh child of Francis and Alice Sedgwick, Edie was born into a life of luxury and privilege. The Sedgwicks were an extremely wealthy, influential American dynasty that stretched back centuries and appeared to live […]
by Beatrix Stark A new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is being performed for the first time in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse as part of the Globe’s Winter 2021/2022 performance series. A story of corruption, deception, and madness, Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most haunting plays. Set in the remote, garish Royal Court of Elsinore in […]
by Hal Conte Timing an exhibition can be a knotty problem for an art gallery or museum, but it helps when your subject matter is trending by default. “Breaking the News,” running at the British Library through late August, covers 500 years of media history using old newspapers, video footage, pamphlets, and more. It has […]
by Beatrix Stark In a televised speech broadcast on Monday, Feb. 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked – and rewrote- history in order to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The once-glorified Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were recast as figures of failure who betrayed the Russian nation by surrendering the territory which now […]
by Hal Conte In Peter Pomerantsev’s book on Russia and so-called “post-truth politics”, he recounts how his father and other Soviet dissidents considered the British Broadcasting Corporation as a light of unshakable truth in a society that could only consider its own, propagandistic media through a cynical and post-ironic lens. David Hendy’s new book on […]
by Abhinav Chaturvedi Over the years, China has been rebooting itself in terms of technological advancement and economic reforms and, slowly and steadily, has climbed the ladder towards a new world order. As the country begins to outpace the U.S as the leading global economic power, it has developed cybersecurity laws (2017) to protect the […]
by Abhinav Chaturvedi Imagine yourself immersed in a virtual reality platform that seems as real as your biological life. Would you devote your time, energy, and sometimes even actual money towards an existence that seems like reality, but is actually an avatar that is being watched, handled, and systematically maintained by a multinational company? Or does […]
by Hal Conte Timing an exhibition can be a knotty problem for an art gallery or museum, but it helps when your subject matter is trending by default. “Breaking the News,” running at the British Library through late August, covers 500 years of media history using old newspapers, video footage, pamphlets, and more. It has […]
by Beatrix Stark Edie Sedgwick is enshrined in popular culture as a 1960s fashion icon and muse to Andy Warhol. The seventh child of Francis and Alice Sedgwick, Edie was born into a life of luxury and privilege. The Sedgwicks were an extremely wealthy, influential American dynasty that stretched back centuries and appeared to live […]
by Beatrix Stark In a televised speech broadcast on Monday, Feb. 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked – and rewrote- history in order to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The once-glorified Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were recast as figures of failure who betrayed the Russian nation by surrendering the territory which now […]
by Beatrix Stark A new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is being performed for the first time in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse as part of the Globe’s Winter 2021/2022 performance series. A story of corruption, deception, and madness, Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most haunting plays. Set in the remote, garish Royal Court of Elsinore in […]
Matilda Smith tells all on the out of this world satellite project that Warwick professors are working on and how it could possible save the planet
