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.

    • Cassidy: New CDC Director Schwartz ‘will do the right thing’ on vaccine order

      Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he has confidence that new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Erica Schwartz will stand up for science and won’t enforce President Trump’s executive order calling for major changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.  “I anticipate Erica Schwartz will do the right thing,” Cassidy, chair of the Senate…

    • Socialist insurgency heads to Trump’s backyard, targets pro-Israel Democrat

      Democratic Socialist-backed candidate Oliver Larkin is challenging Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz in Florida’s 25th Congressional District primary. The contest is presented as a test of whether recent left-wing primary successes can extend into competitive seats, potentially affecting Democrats’ prospects of retaking the House. Larkin, 33, supports abolishing the US Senate, ending US military aid to…

    • Everything You Need to Know About the Unidos Por Los Nuestros Benefit Concert: Donations, Artists & How to Watch

      Unidos por los Nuestros is a benefit concert and fundraising campaign for communities affected by recent earthquakes in Colombia and Venezuela. It matters because it brings together major Latin artists and media organisations to maintain attention on the disasters and finance both immediate relief and longer-term recovery. The concert is scheduled for Sunday 16 August…

    • Retired general predicts Iran will get more aggressive ‘as we get closer to the midterms’ 

      Retired Gen. Jack Keane forecasted Thursday that Iran’s military would ramp up its campaign against the U.S. approaching the November elections — a move he said would be a miscalculation. “I think as we get closer to the midterms, it’s likely they will,” he told Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney. “And the reason for that…

    • This AI Startup Made a 24-Hour AI News Channel. Who Wants This?

      Mirage, the AI company behind the Captions video-editing app, ran a 24-hour livestreamed news experiment featuring entirely AI-generated anchors. The project tested whether audiences might accept a cable-news-style format in which the presentation, hosts and interviews were artificial, while the underlying stories came from licensed Reuters reporting; it also served to promote Mirage’s Avatar X…

    • Boy, 6, jumped out upstairs window while high on COCAINE, cops say… now his mother has been charged

      A six-year-old autistic boy jumped from a second-storey apartment window in Fairmont, West Virginia, and subsequently tested positive for cocaine, prompting police to charge his mother with felony child neglect. Stevie Thibodeaux, 30, initially told a responding deputy she had been asleep when her son jumped and showed childproof locks she used to keep him…

    • OpenAI is losing its second executive this week

      OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser has said she will leave the company in the coming weeks, becoming the second senior executive to announce a departure this week. Her exit adds to a run of leadership changes as OpenAI prepares for its next stage of commercial growth and a possible public listing. Dresser joined OpenAI…

    • Nicky Jam Releases New Song “La Foto” with Cuban Artist He Discovered on Instagram: Stream

      Nicky Jam has released “La Foto”, a collaboration with Cuban singer El Shadow, whom he discovered after seeing an Instagram post promoting the track. The release highlights how fan-led social-media campaigns can create opportunities for emerging artists to work with established performers. El Shadow, whose real name is Raudel Gómez Hernández, posted a clip in…

    • What we know about the Air Force One ruse

      President Trump departed the NATO summit in Turkey last month aboard an alternate aircraft at the behest of the Secret Service amid what intelligence officials said was a credible assassination threat from Iran. The Washington Post first reported on Monday that Trump hid aboard a catering truck, which typically carries meals and other supplies preflight,…

    • IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

      IBM has partnered with OpenAI to offer its AI models and tools to more large corporate customers through IBM Consulting. The agreement matters because it strengthens OpenAI’s enterprise distribution while allowing IBM to broaden its model-agnostic AI strategy amid intensifying competition for corporate AI spending. IBM will train and certify tens of thousands of consultants…