Art spans visual culture, film, music, design and the objects people make and collect. It includes creative work and the institutions that preserve and present it, as well as the people, businesses and public funding that shape what audiences can see.
These stories matter because art can entertain, challenge how history is told and give communities a shared point of reference. Questions of access, preservation and ownership affect whether cultural works endure and who gets to experience them.
The massively multiplayer online role-playing game has grown into a virtual social space and part of daily life for thousands of playersIn a small stone chapel, on the edgelands of a medieval wilderness, two women are getting married. The attenders are draped in rainbow capes, glowing armour and…
The case has been ongoing since 2024, and claimed the pop star stole lines from poems to write lyrics to songs on ‘Midnights’, ‘Lover’ and ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ and more The post Taylor Swift wins “absurd” copyright lawsuit over her song lyrics appeared first on NME.
Zinc Media Group, the UK-based factual production and distribution company behind labels such as Brook Lapping, Rex, Supercollider and Tern, has launched a dedicated artificial intelligence label called Cicada. The move matters because it formalises the group's growing AI operations into a single unit, reflecting a wider industry…
UK house prices climbed 0.2% in June, ending a four-month period of consecutive monthly declines, with the typical property now valued at £299,330 according to the Lloyds house price index. However, current valuations re
The United States have been knocked out of the World Cup they co-hosted after a heavy 4-1 defeat to Belgium in the opening knockout round in Seattle, ending the campaign before the quarter-finals in what stands as the nation's worst loss in more than thirty years. The result…
Dr Stewart Proper, a Melbourne orthopaedic surgeon based in Glen Iris, has been found by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to have engaged in professional misconduct. The ruling, handed down on Friday, followed both an aggressive outburst he made during an operation and a separate online…
The Daily Mail reports on an exclusive Fourth of July party held at the Executive Branch, an ultra-private members' club in Georgetown, Washington DC. The event, hosted by Donald Trump Jr and financier Omeed Malik, drew senior figures from the Trump administration and became one of the capital's…
The singer joins the label after more than a decade on Epic Records, also part of Sony Music.
