With everything going on in the UK (and the world) today... Events like this are needed more than ever. You should join @myfanwytristram.bsky.social and @rickardsisters.com at the @leedslitfest.bsky.social PLACARDS & PANELS event. Get your ticket here: www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/placa...

Join us from 6–14 June for a city-wide celebration of words & imagination. Our biggest collaboration yet as we bring together more than 50 events across 16 venues. Lots of the city’s best writers joined together with friends from afar. LLF 2026 PROGRAMME 👇👇👇 www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/

I'm looking forward to reading Leigh Raiford's new book When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (also great 40% discount offer available via @dukepress.bsky.social) www.dukeupress.edu/when-home-is...

BREAKING: Second Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Liam Shrivastava has been elected Mayor of Lewisham – huge congratulations!

Workers at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City joined three dozen UAW Local 2110 organizers to picket the museum’s annual gala, demanding higher wages and better benefits.

On May 11, join Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg for a virtual panel to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how efforts have changed between 2019 and 2026, the repression of Stop Cop City activists, and much more. RSVP below! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/m...

A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher Walter Benjamin emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/faPpUP

Today marks the launch of our Theory Sale! Don't miss out on your chance to save 40% on a selection of key texts both old and new.

The UK's biggest conference for arts, culture and heritage marketers returns this summer, heading back to Leeds for three days of learning, connection and inspiration.

Independent venue closures, social media algorithms and the rise of generative AI are all part of an ecosystem that artists say is becoming increasingly difficult for working musicians to weather.

DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”

After 14 years, the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan will terminate its master of arts degree in curatorial practice when program founder and chair Steven Henry Madoff retires in May 2027.

Before In the Wake, there was Monstrous Intimacies. A major work.

Join us on March 2 for an exclusive conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis, whose distinctive voice challenges the power structures and inequities of the contemporary art world.

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

If art institutions want to stand with people whose lives have been upended by detention and deportation, their solidarity has to show up as time, protection, and material support that outlasts a social media post.

15 days to go to Bold Politics Live! Get your ticket at: Bhgp.link/bold-politics

Next mixer alert: join us at City Screen Picturehouse York on 18 February with pals York Filmmakers! This is your chance to meet potential collaborators and share ideas. Attendance is free, but you’ll need to sign up in advance: bit.ly/fhn-mixer #Filmmaking #YorkEvents #FilmNetworking

The BFI Film Audience Network conference is coming to Newcastle in September 2026! Join us to connect with colleagues, learn from peers behind some of the most innovative BFI FAN projects, and discover fresh ideas for reaching and engaging audiences. Registration coming soon rb.gy/dnw3bu ⏳

Cultural organizations across the US closed today in solidarity with immigrants. Public gestures of support are unfolding in NYC, where two weeks ago, a group of Tribeca galleries met to address an influx of street vendors in the area, many of whom are immigrants under threat.

On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday. archive.ph/GFWzW

A gem of a conversation on persistence in organisaing @deathpanel.bsky.social Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Philadelphia is suing the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service after officials removed artwork and panels about the history of slavery from Independence National Historical Park on Thursday.

Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies. n.pr/4oAZ5o5

Antonia is an amazing photographer and this project is fierce. Please consider backing it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...

Ruth Asawa—a child of immigrants persecuted for their national origin—forged an art of connection that expressed a determination to be, and to make others feel, at home in the world. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wdv39J

We’re teaming up with @balticgateshead.bsky.social for Uncommon Voices, a special evening of short films exploring how working-class filmmakers are capturing class experiences in Britain today. 4 December | BALTIC, Gateshead Book your ticket: bit.ly/3JDO336 🎟

I fear that many more of us will find ourselves asking the same question unless we can end this nightmare soon.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

Challenge your expectations in this landmark group exhibition Coming next in The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery... 💛 [uz], [uz], [uz]: Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds 💛 Featuring over thirty modern and contemporary artists who were born in or have significant connections to Yorkshire.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

Truly awful news. Ruthless, short-sighted and ill-informed. I remember working at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social about a decade ago and the University taking great pride in being one of the biggest languages departments in the country… Where’s that pride gone?! www.bbc.com/news/article...?

Published today ! @methuendrama.bsky.social a timely contribution and a great addition to our Performance + Design series #XR

Celebrating the publication of our very own @sophiebishop.bsky.social's first book, 'Influencer Creep'! 🎉 We are hosting a book launch on the 19th November (followed by a drinks reception), and everyone is welcome: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/events... 📚 Order the book: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...

Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...

'Burger explained. “I think that’s exciting, because if your employees are thriving, then the museum is really going to be thriving.”' hyperallergic.com/1055754/detr...

Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic - fixed term contract - #AcademicJob www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG344/l...

Lecturer in Media and Film deadline 7 November #AcademicJobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE715/l...

We're delighted to be hosting... In Conversation: ‘Notions Of Care’ – A Response to Turner Prize 2025 Thursday 27 November 17:30 - 19:30 Treasures of the Brotherton library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Final call for exhibitors in the North! 🚨 Want to bring bold, brilliant cinema to your community? Our Film Exhibition Fund closes Monday 3 November – get up to £10k per project, per year to support programming, marketing, staffing, accessibility and more. Apply now: bit.ly/fhn-fef

Authors Catriona Ward, Michael Cisco, Greg F. Gifune & Leila Taylor join tQ writers Sean Kitching and Mat Colgate to bring you what they consider to be the best novels, short stories and graphic novels in the genre The 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st century so far… buff.ly/C4B49ZM

as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!

Check out BE MY REBEL by Antonia Tricarico on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...