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.

    • Bombardier raped woman on morning of her birthday, court martial hears

      A court martial at Bulford Military Court in Wiltshire has heard that Bombardier Michael Murley raped a fellow soldier on the morning of her birthday after she repeatedly told him “no”. Prosecutors allege that Murley pinned the woman down and told her “I would have finished by now if you just let me do it”,…

    • U2 gatecrash a family’s flat in their latest music video

      U2 have released the music video for “Street of Dreams”, the first single from a forthcoming album, and its filming took an unplanned turn when the band ended up commandeering a Mexico City family’s flat. While shooting in Plaza Santo Domingo earlier this year, thunder and rain knocked out the generator powering the production, prompting…

    • The Mound: Omens of Cthulhu revives Left 4 Dead formula from Zeno Clash creators

      Rock Paper Shotgun previews The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian extraction game from Chilean studio Ace Team, the developers behind Zeno Clash, The Eternal Cylinder and Clash: Artefacts of Chaos. Set in the 17th century, it casts four crucifix-wielding, musket-armed Spanish explorers who venture into a monster-filled jungle in search of loot, with the…

    • Age of Umbra: Sallowlands trailer revealed by Critical Role

      Critical Role has revealed the trailer for Age of Umbra: Sallowlands, its latest tabletop role-playing miniseries, exclusively to Polygon. The gothic, horror-tinged series continues the previous Age of Umbra storyline and uses the Daggerheart system, marking another notable release from the popular actual-play company ahead of its debut. The miniseries follows five adventurers — Sister,…

    • Anthropic brings its Claude cowork agent to mobile phones

      Anthropic has announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent for carrying out digital tasks, is expanding beyond the desktop app to run on smartphones and web browsers without requiring an active desktop session. The change matters because it removes the need for users to leave a laptop open to keep the agent running, allowing scheduled…

    • Star Trek Online revives and remakes one of its oldest storylines

      Star Trek Online, the long-running massively multiplayer online game that is now 16 years old, has returned to its roots by digging up and remaking one of its earliest storylines. Rather than pushing solely forward with new content, the developers have chosen to revisit and modernise older material, and the reworked storyline is available for…

    • Netflix strikes video licensing deal with Penske Media brands including Variety and Billboard

      Netflix has agreed a video licensing deal with a range of leading print and digital publishers, bringing their short-form video content onto the streaming platform from 3 August. The partners include Penske Media’s PMX unit — home to Variety, Billboard, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Eater and Indiewire — as well as BuzzFeed Studios, Condé…

    • Netflix strikes video content deal with major magazine publishers

      Netflix announced on Tuesday that it will bring short-form video content from a range of leading digital publishers to its platform, marking an expansion beyond its traditional film and television offerings. The move sees the streaming giant partner with major magazine and media brands to keep subscribers engaged with the personalities and topics they enjoy,…

    • Rolling Stone Video Series ‘The Breakdown’ and ‘My Life in 10 Songs’ Are Headed to Netflix

      Rolling Stone is bringing two of its music video franchises, “The Breakdown” and “My Life in 10 Songs”, to Netflix in the United States and several other countries from August. Both series are built around in-depth interviews in which artists discuss how they created their biggest hits and the songs that have shaped their lives,…

    • Billboard Videos to Be Featured on Netflix as Part of New Partnership

      Netflix has announced a new partnership that will bring videos from a range of digital publishers, including Billboard, to its platform, with the content beginning to appear for subscribers next month. The move is significant as part of Netflix’s broader strategy to diversify beyond traditional series and films into formats such as live events, mobile…