Tag: culture

• The unravelling of the rock festival – Engelsberg ideas

  July 6, 2025

  Despite the peace signs and pat slogans of togetherness and diversity, the rock festival, like the genre it celebrates, has, from its beginnings, had issues with ethical consistency. https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-unravelling-of-the-rock-festival/ more ›

• ‘The very essence of figuration in African sculpture’: works from the collection of Hilde and Dieter Scharf

  June 14, 2025

  In the final decade of his life, Dieter Scharf – scion of one of Germany’s great collecting dynasties – filled his Hamburg villa with exceptional sub-Saharan sculpture. Fifty of these… more ›

• Vessel

  June 9, 2025

  A collective studio on the island of Aegina https://vessel-aegina.com/en/activities/the-only-flowering-plant-in-the-ocean more ›

• Clipse Talk Love, Hate, and What Rap’s Been Missing | GQ

  June 5, 2025

  After more than fifteen years apart, the brothers Thornton, better known as Malice and Pusha T, are back together, with a new Pharrell Williams-produced album that ranks with their most… more ›

• ACCE | New Report Details Rise of Creative Class Impact on Economy, Workforce

  June 1, 2025

  https://secure.acce.org/articles/economic-and-community-development/new-report-details-rise-of-creative-class-impact-on-economy-workforce/ more ›

• What is the cure for the West’s individualist worldview? | Aeon Essays

  June 1, 2025

  It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-the-cure-for-the-wests-individualist-worldview?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=054df2db96-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-947a0f3c79-71652312 more ›

• Trump, Museveni and the anti-LGBT agenda

  March 7, 2025

  Among Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, all signed in the first week of his new term, perhaps the one with the most far-reaching impact was also one of the… more ›

• The Sound of Freedom – The Role of Music in Political Change

  February 22, 2025

  The project on Contested Histories primarily focuses on controversies over monuments, statues, street names, and other tangible representations of historical legacies. However, the project recognises that contested historical legacies can… more ›

• How Zyn Conquered the American Mouth

  February 9, 2025

  Why did Swedish nicotine pouches become a generation’s go-to fix for blasting through long work days and longer nights out? https://www.gq.com/story/how-zyn-conquered-the-american-mouth more ›

• 33 Ways To Improve Your Life, Japanese Style

  February 9, 2025

  Tokyo is a city of extremes. https://www.mrporter.com/en-us/journal/lifestyle/life-lessons-people-tokyo-japan-style-food-24538500 more ›