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.

    • Twisted and Hannibal Rising among 2000s thrillers branded worst R-rated flops

      Entertainment website Collider has published an opinion piece by Safwan Azeem listing what it considers the six worst R-rated thrillers released in the 2000s. The article’s central argument is that these films had all the right ingredients for gripping suspense — murder investigations, serial-killer psychology, damaged detectives and stories of obsession — but squandered them…

    • Ahmadinejad appears alive at Khamenei funeral months after reported death

      Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was reported dead by local media at the outbreak of the country’s war with Israel and the United States, has appeared in public alive at the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad, who led Iran from 2005 to 2013, had been believed killed by a missile strike…

    • Tess Rowlatt bailed to four-star Melbourne hotel after meth trafficking guilty plea

      Tess Rowlatt, a 36-year-old Melbourne woman dubbed a “party girl”, has been granted bail after pleading guilty to trafficking methamphetamine and dealing with the proceeds of crime. County Court judge Duncan Allen released the repeat drug offender to a “suitable bail address”, allowing her to move from a cell at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre…

    • Manual controls give way to automated machines, eroding human touch

      In an excerpt from his book *The Small Stuff*, writer Ian Bogost argues that people have gradually lost direct, physical control over the machines and objects in their lives. He contends that unseen choices in design, business and technology have automated away everyday tasks — replacing buttons, levers and manual effort with computers — so…

    • Pete Holmes keeps screen time low and ignores 55,000 unread emails

      Comedian Pete Holmes, star of HBO’s Crashing, spoke to WIRED for its “User Behavior” series about how he keeps his phone use unusually low and why he believes we are all on the verge of “slowly walking away” from our devices. He argues that much of modern digital life amounts to “manufactured urgency” that people…

    • Suno recruits Atlantic and YouTube executives to court music industry

      Suno, the artificial-intelligence music generation company, has hired two experienced music-industry executives into vice-president roles as it seeks to position itself as a partner to the sector rather than an adversary. Grace James, formerly of Atlantic Records, joins as vice-president and head of artist marketing and editorial, while Christian Bowne, previously YouTube’s head of major…

    • 777, a genre-fusing debut single from ONE OK ROCK supergroup YAO

      YAO, a new collaborative project uniting Japanese band ONE OK ROCK with artists Awich, Paledusk and Chico Carlito, has released its debut single, ‘777’. The venture matters as an experiment in fusing acts from different musical backgrounds into a single unit, with its name drawn from the Japanese concept of “Yaoyorozu no Kami”, meaning Eight…

    • Mass Balance sends autonomous chemistry lab into orbit to study disease proteins

      British startup Mass Balance has launched an autonomous, self-run chemical laboratory into orbit, aiming to gather data on hard-to-study, disease-causing proteins in the near-absence of gravity. The grapefruit-sized apparatus lifted off aboard a SpaceX transporter on Tuesday morning and matters because it represents an early step towards using space as a routine research environment for…

    • Norway hit by illness before World Cup quarter-final against England

      Norway’s national football team have reportedly been struck by a bout of sickness ahead of their World Cup quarter-final against England on Saturday. The illness is significant because it raises doubts over the fitness of key players, including striker Erling Haaland, just days before they face England in the last eight. Norway secured their place…

    • Harry attends documentary premiere by antisemitism-accused photographer Misan Harriman

      Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, spent his first night back in Britain attending the London premiere of a documentary about photographer Misan Harriman, a close friend of Meghan Markle who has recently been at the centre of accusations of anti-Semitism. The 41-year-old had reportedly hoped to stay at Buckingham Palace but missed his chance…