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- Looks like Art Basel Qatar is a hit – maybe not in sales, but def in presentation and market development
- Art meets data: a beautiful collection of data visualisations: raw info like war casualties, language evolution, UFO sightings are transformed into contemplative visual experiences -- hence the title 'data poems' tinyurl.com/2rs9pnmx...
- The always readable Caroline Crampton on an underdiscussed element of novel prep: understanding the space your characters move in
- Frieze magazine bemoans the plight of the independent curator, eg in biennials where "curators are increasingly drawn from the same pool of full-time directorship and curatorial roles"
- "The global human rights system is in peril ... Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72% of the world’s population now living under autocracy." Human Rights Watch just published its 2026 world report
- Indie in Tbilisi: underground music vs The Man (for real)
- #MAGPIESEZ This week's FREE magpie weekly newsletter does Manual Rabaté, Dubai Loop, tax-free art and all that's best on the UAE's arts 'n' culture scene tinyurl.com/bp8a6zd6...
- In the blizzard of AI-makes-a-website-for-you promos, it's refreshing to find a plain-language guide to DIY webbuilding with HTML
- "All serious intellectual work happens on the page ... If you want to contribute to the world of ideas, if you want to entertain and manipulate complex thoughts, you have to read and write." Adam Mastroianni thinks reading is not dead
