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.

    • Two new small, powerful Macs

      Apple has refreshed two of its smaller desktop Macs, giving buyers a wider choice of chips just ahead of the company’s September product cycle. The Mac Mini can now be configured with either a new M6 chip or an M5 Pro, while the Mac Studio has also been updated with an M5 Ultra option, giving…

    • China’s humanoid robot games showcase advances and failures

      The World Humanoid Robot Games, a five-day event that concluded this week in Beijing, showcased both dramatic robot failures and striking technological progress, underlining China’s determination to lead the global humanoid robotics race. Alongside spectacular mishaps, such as robots losing limbs, catching fire and toppling into judges’ tables, the competition revealed genuine leaps in hardware…

    • Dolly Parton’s 3 Most Touching Songs About Her Humble Roots

      The article is a listicle celebrating Dolly Parton’s Appalachian upbringing through three of her best-known songs. It highlights how, despite the country music icon’s immense fame and fortune, she consistently paid tribute in her songwriting to the poverty and simplicity of her childhood in a one-room Tennessee cabin with 11 siblings, framing that background as…

    • Sony’s Rumoured to Be Reversing Its Physical Discs Decision, But I Don’t Buy It At All

      Weekend reports have claimed that Sony is reconsidering its decision to stop manufacturing physical PS5 discs from January 2028, following backlash from fans who have staged a “blackout” of the console and threatened to cancel subscriptions. However, Push Square’s editor is sceptical of the rumour, tracing it to unverified speculation on a Eurogamer Spain podcast…

    • British husband searches Nepal flood wreckage for missing newlywed wife

      A British husband, Pramod Poudel, has travelled from Uckfield, East Sussex, to Nepal to search for his newlywed wife Sumitra, 25, after she went missing when a collapsed glacier sent a devastating flood down mountains and through villages along the Nepal-Tibet border. Her final words to him, hours before the disaster struck, were “I love…

    • ‘Ted Lasso’ Meets ‘Arrested Development’ in Netflix’s 2-Part Sports Comedy Series

      Netflix’s sports comedy Running Point deserves wider recognition, blending the uplifting workplace humour of Ted Lasso with the chaotic family dynamics of Arrested Development. Created by Elaine Ko, Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen, the series follows the fictional Los Angeles Waves basketball team and the dysfunctional Gordon family who run it. Despite not…

    • ‘Peanuts’ Killed Off This Forgotten Character After Just 10 Appearances

      In its early years, the comic strip Peanuts featured a character called Charlotte Braun who appeared just 10 times between November 1954 and February 1955 before being written out entirely. Creator Charles M. Schulz was still experimenting with the strip’s cast at the time, and Charlotte’s removal illustrates how the now-iconic Peanuts ensemble only took…

    • Nurture not nature? How young women can learn to better wield economic power | Heather Stewart

      A decade-long research project in Zambia has found that teaching young women negotiation skills as teenagers can significantly improve their long-term economic and social prospects. The study, led by female US academics including Prof Corinne Low of Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, suggests that skills traditionally associated with confident, assertive behaviour can in fact be…

    • When The Police were falling apart in 1983, The Beatles saved the day

      The Police were on the verge of splitting apart in 1983 while recording their fifth album, Synchronicity, despite the record going on to become their biggest commercial success. According to guitarist Andy Summers, tensions were driven largely by Sting’s growing desire to leave and pursue a solo career, which fuelled friction with drummer Stewart Copeland…

    • Before ‘Lanterns,’ Aaron Pierre Quietly Starred in This Forgotten 2-Season DC Series

      Aaron Pierre, who now plays John Stewart in HBO’s new Green Lantern series “Lanterns”, previously had a lesser-known DC role in SYFY’s “Krypton”, a two-season prequel series set 200 years before Superman’s birth. The show follows Seg-El, grandfather of Kal-El, as he navigates political intrigue and threats to his family’s future, with Pierre appearing as…