Archives de l'Auteur: yguillet
Scientists Know how to solve the climate crisis
Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis – will the world listen? Simon LewisWed 6 Apr 2022 The new IPCC report offers not only hope, but practical solutions. Governments that have signed off on it must now act A solar power plant on Karbi tribal land in Assam state, India, February … Continuer la lecture
Josephine Baker : from dancefloor to Pantheon
Dancer, singer … spy: France’s Panthéon to honour Josephine Baker The performer will be the first Black woman to enter the mausoleum, in recognition of her wartime work Jon Henleyin Paris Sun 28 Nov 2021 ‘Resistance heroine’: Josephine Baker entertains the troops at a London victory party in 1945. Photograph: Jack Esten/Getty Images … Continuer la lecture
The truth is out: Britain’s immigration system is racist. Now let’s fix it.
All parties, including my own, have been complicit in making bigoted laws. Acknowledging this is the first step to rectifying it. Diane Abbott Mon 30 May 2022 A protest march in London against the 1971 immigration bill. Photograph: Frank Barratt/Getty Images The unspoken rationale underlying British immigration policy since the second world war has always … Continuer la lecture
For 50 years, governments have failed to act on climate change. No more excuses.
Conflict and Covid make these troubling times, but national leaders must cooperate and take action now. Christiana Figueres, Yvo de Boer and Michael Zammit Cutajar Thu 2 Jun 2022 Leaders agreed to cooperate on threats faced in common at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, 1972. Photograph: Pressens Bild/AFP/Getty Images At … Continuer la lecture
Robert Frost’s Selected Poems
Why is everything white?
Penguin Modern Classics book-covers
How Penguin’s Modern Classics dared us to judge a book by its cover Jackets from the 1960s editions – Penguin After 60 years of the series celebrating contemporary fiction, have the early jacket designs stood the test of time – and how do you create a cover fit for a classic? by Killian Fox Sun … Continuer la lecture
Architecture on TikTok
A strangely alluring cocktail of dad dancing and traffic chat From rants about famous buildings to unabashed property porn, TikTok is full of riffs on architecture and design. Our man enters a world of eccentric carpeting, lurid mansions and in-depth pavement analysis by Oliver Wainwright Tue 9 Nov 2021 Urban mysteries revealed … @louisatalksbuildings, @talkingcities … Continuer la lecture
Is TikTok a platform for art?
Fab abs, trauma videos and a big pile of sweets: the art and artists of TikTok From the user proudly exhibiting his dad’s nudes to the woman making sculpting dangerous, art on TikTok is direct, intimate and confessional, with little time for the abstract or avant garde Keep it succinct … Nakama Umeboi with a … Continuer la lecture
NFTs are shaking up the art world
‘I went from having to borrow money to making $4m in a day’: how NFTs are shaking up the art world Digital art is a billion-dollar business, with everyone from Paris Hilton to Damien Hirst trading in ‘non-fungible tokens’. But are NFTs just a get-rich-quick scheme masquerading as culture? A motley crew of celebrities have … Continuer la lecture
