Talk Fuse

    Topic: Art

    Sport and screen adaptations aside, the art world moves at its own pace, and this hub is where that pace is tracked. Coverage ranges across exhibitions, artists, galleries and the wider creative economy, taking in everything from major shows and acquisitions to the market forces and controversies that shape what gets made, shown and collected.

    Art rarely sits apart from the events around it, and stories here often intersect with culture, politics, technology and business, whether that means a work sparking public debate, a new tool reshaping how art is produced, or funding and institutional decisions affecting who gets to create. Following this topic offers a way to keep pace with how creative expression is evolving and being contested.

    For readers with an interest in culture beyond the headlines of the day, this is a place to see how ideas take visual form, how institutions respond to them, and how art continues to reflect and challenge the world it's made in.

    • US music coalition urges US Trade Representative to oppose EU proposal it says could cost American artists nearly $300M a year

      A coalition of US music industry organisations has written to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) urging it to oppose a European Commission proposal that they say could jeopardise nearly $300 million a year in royalties paid to American artists and rightsholders. The proposal would overturn the 2020 RAAP ruling by the Court of Justice…

    • The footballing Fiji wing outscoring Bielle-Biarrey and zeroing in on England

      Fiji wing Jiuta Wainiqolo heads into Saturday’s Nations Championship clash with England in outstanding form, having topped the try-scoring charts in France’s Top 14 and established himself as one of the most exciting wings in world rugby. The 27-year-old, a former footballer who likens his old striking prowess to Harry Kane’s, poses a significant threat…

    • Greaves is first woman to reach European Tour event

      Beau Greaves has become the first woman to qualify for a PDC European Tour event, adding another milestone to a rapidly growing list of firsts in professional darts. In a qualification double-header in Leicester, the 22-year-old from Doncaster secured places in two tournaments, underlining her emergence as one of the sport’s most notable rising stars.…

    • Wales drop Rees-Zammit to bench as Costelow starts

      Wales have dropped wing Louis Rees-Zammit to the bench for Saturday’s Nations Championship match against Argentina in San Juan, with Sam Costelow starting at fly-half. Head coach Steve Tandy has made three changes to the side that beat Fiji 39-24, as Wales seek a third successive Test win — a run they have not managed…

    • Real-life ‘Three Musketeers’ mystery deepens after excavation blunder destroys key evidence

      Officials in Maastricht, the Netherlands, have reported a major setback in efforts to identify skeletal remains that may belong to Charles de Batz de Castelmore d’Artagnan, the French musketeer who inspired Alexandre Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers”. The remains were found near the altar of St Peter and Paul Church in February, and their location was…

    • Slade back in England XV for must-win game with Fiji

      Centre Henry Slade has been recalled to England’s starting line-up for Saturday’s Nations Championship match against Fiji in Liverpool, as head coach Steve Borthwick seeks to end a run of five straight Test defeats. Slade, 33, was overlooked for the entire Six Nations campaign earlier this year but returns after strong domestic form in which…

    • Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

      Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys and one of India’s best-known technology figures, is stepping down as a general partner at Fundamentum Partnership, the venture capital firm he co-founded in 2017. The change coincides with the launch of Fundamentum’s third fund, which is targeting around $200 million. Although he is relinquishing the GP title, Nilekani will…

    • Epilogue SN Operator Review: Super Nintendo Fun

      Technology publication WIRED has reviewed the Epilogue SN Operator, a plug-in cartridge slot that lets people play original Super Nintendo and Super Famicom games on a computer via emulation. Awarded 9 out of 10, the device matters because it offers retro enthusiasts a viable, affordable way to enjoy physical SNES cartridges in 2026, at a…

    • ‘A counter-narrative of history’: Schomburg Center’s 100 years of celebrating Black culture

      The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research branch of the New York Public Library based in Harlem, is marking its 100th anniversary in 2026. Founded on the personal collection of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, an Afro-Puerto Rican archivist who devoted his life to documenting the achievements of the African diaspora after being told…

    • 3 Folk Songs From the 1960s That Are as Visual as Any Painting

      American Songwriter has published a short appreciation piece highlighting three 1960s folk songs it considers strikingly visual, arguing that their writers could conjure vivid mental imagery through words and melody alone. The article frames these tracks as musical equivalents of paintings, where lyrics become physical characters, colours and tangible emotions that listeners cannot help but…