Five million people are currently missing out on 5G in the UK, creating a ‘connectivity gap’ that threatens to widen the existing digital divide between some rural or deprived communities and the rest of the country. Vodafone and Good Things Foundation, the UK’s leading digital inclusion charity, have been working together for a number of
A fifth of homebuyers spend less than 20 minutes looking at a home before deciding to make an offer, with viewers more likely to focus on artwork and furniture than structural features, research suggests. The average time for looking around a property before settling on buying it was about 49 minutes, according to a survey
This event will take place at the Museum and online via Zoom With Peter Vass, Fellow of Oxford Brookes University Some of the best 20th-century British pictorial art was not found in museums and galleries, but on tanker lorries and in underground stations. In a series of three talks, Peter Vass shows how artists like Piper,
“TRY taking a picture with your phone camera and zoom in,” says our guide as we crowd around a piece of chewing gum stuck on the pavement, squinting to see it better. Sure enough, when I pinch and stretch the photo on my phone screen, I can make out a kitchen scene, with a tiny
Even in 1480s rural Essex, women were battling the gender pay gap. On one farm in Stebbing near Braintree in 1483, 27 men and 16 women were hired to bring in the harvest. The men were paid 4p a day – but for Cateryn Lytyll, Marget Pers and the 14 other women, the rate was
Artist Esme Layne, one of the Wellingborough residents who submitted work, said the exhibition is a “public representation of black Britishness”. Growing up during the seventies and eighties, Esme says she experienced racism that left her “with a sense of not belonging”. She said: “While I consider myself a black British artist, my ancestry is
London’s museums and galleries are great, sure. But there’s a whole country of great museums and galleries to explore, and there’s no better month to do it than August. London’s art spaces are either shut for the holidays and putting on boring group shows, but art is thriving outside of the capital. There’s brilliant photography
Click here for more information and to enter on the Homiens website The Homiens Art Prize Entries close 11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 31, 2024. The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize valued at $24,000 USD annually, and open to all artists. All art forms, mediums, and completion dates are eligible. We
El Anatsui’s spectacular shimmering TSIATSIA – searching for connection (2013) adorns the University of Edinburgh’s handsome Old College Quad courtesy of Talbot Rice; Do Ho Suh explores ideas of home at National Galleries of Scotland; and Ibrahim Mahama has made a series of new works responding to the railway that runs beside the gallery at
A reclusive artist whose work hung alongside masters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí has agreed to the first major exhibition of his dream-like paintings half a century after he withdrew from the art world. Henry Orlik, now 77 and living near Marlborough in Wiltshire, was in his 20s when his talent was recognised