Downing Street advisers are pushing for an early election next year, The Telegraph has been told.
Several senior members of Andy Burnham’s team believe that calling an election in spring would give Labour the best chance of another majority 👇
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Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: https://t.co/aLhVgYXrbi.
Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create.
My reflections on the whole thing:
• Though there are clearly selection dynamics afoot, figuring out some route beyond the current aesthetic moment seems to be of wider interest in the art community than I would have guessed. Many applicants described their dissatisfaction with the status quo, some in strong terms. We had to close applications after a few weeks because there were so many.
• It's too early to call it, but it seems that both beauty as an unapologetic goal (contra much that is in modernist and contemporary approaches), and ways to channel pre-modern styles into something new for the present era, are of growing interest.
• The awards made me reflect on the perhaps obvious issue of how hard it must be for an artist to persistently do something new: schools, galleries, buyers, etc., all have structurally embedded preferences as well. These individual awards made me wonder what form supporting new clusters could take.
• Architecture seems to me like the discipline most ripe for new ideas. One correspondent observed: "American architects are somewhat constrained by the association with the academy, in addition to the well known regulation issues. There is a tendency to overthink things so that the designs are formally interesting to someone deep in the conversation, but lacking poetry and magic. There are more firms in Europe, South America and beyond that “just do things” (especially in places where it is easier to build)." This was evident in the submissions.
• AI seems to be making people rethink things in a quite fundamental way, just as urbanization/industrialization/popularization of photography did at the end of the 19th century. For some that will mean interesting new forms of AI-augmented art, but the effects of the rethinking will likely be wider.
• Arts funding is clearly as precarious and scarce as ever. That's unfortunate, but it probably also means that individual actors can have meaningful impact, and I encourage others to get involved if interested.
• There's a lot to know that is not written down, and I'm very grateful to those who have helped and advised me along the way.
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After years of anticipation, Grand Theft Auto VI is nearly here.
In their first print appearance globally, the game’s protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos cover the New Idols issue with Dazed.
Speaking exclusively with Thom Waite, the creative talents at @rockstargames delve into entertainment’s most exciting new property.
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