On Thursday night we have a huge opening at Hypha Studios South Bank, an 800m² survey of 36 artists. Come along,6-9pm. hyphastudios.com/nicholas-sta...
Will Jennings
@willjennings.bsky.social
Writer, artist, editor, curator Editor: recessed.space Director: Hypha Studios Teaching: UCL Bartlett Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
Yeah & more people watch TikTok than go to the cinema, does that mean filmmakers should learn from TikTok? No. Without being high & mighty, the function of creatives is to make beauty, the unexpected, the experimental & the divine. Not the easiest or most median. share.google/wKMq4019xzXB...
AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete
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Uzbekistan's modernist architecture has now entered UNESCO's listing as a world heritage asset. A little while ago I visited for @wallpapermag.bsky.social to see it for myself: www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
10 modernist architecture marvels in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The legacy of modernist architecture in Uzbekistan is in the spotlight, including in the country's upcoming pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
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This Tuesday lunchtime I'll be at the Zaha Hadid Foundation discussing how culture can saturate the city, with Cake architects and The Architecture Foundation. Tickets here: shop.architecturefoundation.org.uk/products/unl...
Unlocking Space: Cultural Production in the Contemporary City
A panel convened by CAKE architecture explore how temporarily vacant buildings can become catalysts for culture. Bringing together voices from architecture, development, local government and the arts,...
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Some fragments of the Temple of Herra, the Heraion, on Samosa. The main building was 112x55m and 22m tall, dating from about 530BC.
This is two of my pet hates combined. Mr Fucking Doodle and terrible BBC online culture journalism.
Marta Zboralska@marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 4d agoInfuriating www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I find it hard to stop, even to pause. Today l made myself, and I've sat on a beach for hours doing nothing, other than occasionally getting into water. I've barely even read any words. I've replied to no emails. Not sure I could do a beach holiday for days, but for a moment it's welcome.
Posting a photo of @thefence.bsky.social on its holiday in Samos in the hope that a) the editor commissions me for some words, or b) someone on Bluesky likes my feet & I discover an untapped future income stream.
17 years ago today, Bobby Robson died. Not only an incredible manager (that brought the team I support unimaginable success before moving on to England) he was an empathetic, measured, intelligent, open-minded man. Not long after he died of cancer, I lost both my parents of C, all great people.
Yeah. I am the choice not to use Nespresso because it tastes crap and is environmental garbage.
17 years ago today, Bobby Robson died. Not only an incredible manager (that brought the team I support unimaginable success before moving on to England) he was an empathetic, measured, intelligent, open-minded man. Not long after he died of cancer, I lost both my parents of C, all great people.
Looking for interesting work. Freelance writing, consulting, creative advice, I don't know really, whatever, nice things, with nice people, something that doesn't give me too much anxiety, teaching positions, visiting lectures, literary agents welcome, something that lets me have weekends.
Posting a photo of @thefence.bsky.social on its holiday in Samos in the hope that a) the editor commissions me for some words, or b) someone on Bluesky likes my feet & I discover an untapped future income stream.
I found a triangle in Pythagoreio I wonder if it's the 🔻
Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2
Arts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cuts
University for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero
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Looking for interesting work. Freelance writing, consulting, creative advice, I don't know really, whatever, nice things, with nice people, something that doesn't give me too much anxiety, teaching positions, visiting lectures, literary agents welcome, something that lets me have weekends.
I know Tate are skint. But it's one thing not competing on salary with Louvre Abu Dhabi or the Met, and another not competing with a delivery gig at Papa John's pizza.
“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say
Chris Dillow@chrisdillow.bsky.social · last wk.If this had been policy in the 70s (as it partly was), towns would have produced lots of mining engineers & metallurgists just before pits & steelworks closed. As the yanks say, you should skate to where the puck's going, not to where it is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I'm here for art forgery at the architectural scale. "Italian con artist jailed for building 'world's oldest and largest amphitheatre' 20-years ago" share.google/bZvwpEqvQrol...
Italian conman jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
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It makes me wonder about the parenting when an 8 year old boy is happy to repeatedly shout "batty boy" at a stranger walking past in the street.
The Trump x Superstudio collab is one we weren't waiting for.
Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Book of Blow Job
Will Jennings@willjennings.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: The Amazon Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Amazon Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Block Me Amadeus@blockmeamadeus.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher