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.

    • DJ Heartstring’s ‘Another Year Alone’ Salutes Their Indie Roots

      DJ Heartstring have released ‘Another Year Alone (i love you)’, a new single that draws on the duo’s indie influences while retaining their dance-focused style. The release matters as it shows the pair broadening their sound by combining 1990s dance euphoria with the guitar-driven energy of 2000s indie. The track was inspired in part by…

    • Buried for not being Brueghel: overlooked masterpiece by still-life pioneer discovered in storage area

      A still-life painting long kept in storage at Norway’s National Museum has been reattributed to the Flemish baroque artist Clara Peeters, an early pioneer of the genre. Previously thought to be by Ambrosius Brueghel and later labelled anonymous, the work’s reassessment restores it to a significant female artist and will feature in a major exhibition…

    • ‘Michael’ sequel is officially starting filming soon

      Lionsgate plans to begin filming the sequel to Michael, its Michael Jackson biopic, in late 2026 or early 2027. The studio is targeting a release by the end of 2027 or in the first half of 2028, following the first film’s record-breaking commercial performance. The original film stars Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson and covers his…

    • fakemink Shares New Single ‘Love Is A Dog From Hell’

      UK artist fakemink has released a new single, ‘Love Is A Dog From Hell’, extending a prolific period that has included a mixtape, his debut studio album ‘Terrified’ and international festival appearances. The release matters as it continues the momentum around an artist described as both widely discussed and divisive within the UK music scene.…

    • Stanway boosts Thistle promotion bid – watch live on BBC

      Partick Thistle midfielder Ben Stanway has signed a surprise one-year deal to remain at Firhill, strengthening the club’s bid to return to the Scottish Premiership. Manager Mark Wilson said Stanway’s attachment to the club and desire to achieve promotion were central to his decision, after Thistle narrowly lost last season’s play-off final. The 21-year-old academy…

    • Ravyn Lenae – Blue Island

      Clash Magazine’s review finds Ravyn Lenae’s *Blue Island* to be a warm, cohesive and ambitious album, awarding it 8/10. It says the Chicago artist expands beyond her familiar dreamy minimalism, blending alternative R&B with indie pop, soft rock and guitar-led soul while retaining a distinctive identity. The review highlights opener ‘Handle’ for its energetic, nostalgic…

    • Arun Sood and Angeline Morrison: Donn/Dubh review – British folk giants startlingly transform sacred histories

      Arun Sood and Angeline Morrison’s Donn/Dubh is praised as an ambitious, atmospheric folk album that reimagines sacred histories from the 10th-century Celtic text Saltair na Rann. Drawing on the pair’s Hebridean heritage, it combines Gaelic songs and texts with distortion, drone, dream-pop and post-rock, creating a sound the review finds both unsettling and richly layered.…

    • Win A Chance To Meet Ayra Starr At All Points East On Friday 21st August

      Clash Magazine and Magnum Ice-Cream are offering five people tickets to All Points East Festival on Friday 21 August, including a backstage meet-and-greet with Nigerian singer Ayra Starr. The competition promotes Starr’s forthcoming album, ‘Starr Girl’, and gives winners a signed copy of Clash Magazine. Entrants must be aged 18 or over, follow @ClashMagazine and…

    • Alley Cats review – the genital jokes in Ricky Gervais’s sweary cartoon are just exhausting

      The review finds little to recommend in Ricky Gervais’s Netflix animation Alley Cats, despite its experienced voice cast and a premise that could have supported a more observant comedy. It argues that the six-part series relies too heavily on swearing, nihilism and repeated sexual jokes, making it feel lazy, crude and tiresome rather than edgy.…

    • Ricky Gervais’ Netflix Animated Comedy ‘Alley Cats’ Is Surprisingly Bittersweet: TV Review

      Netflix’s “Alley Cats” is an adult animated comedy created by and starring Ricky Gervais as Gus, an overweight orange tabby living in a derelict London house with fellow stray cats. The review finds its humour unusually subdued and conversational, but says the series is also marked by a surprising melancholy as it portrays the precarity…