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Unseen David Bowie archive items to tour UK in major exhibition

Unseen David Bowie archive items to tour UK in major exhibition

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is set to launch a major touring exhibition of its extensive David Bowie archive, bringing 100 items related to the iconic star to venues across the UK. Titled “David Bowie: On Tour,” the exhibition promises to unveil a significant number of artefacts never before seen by the public, commencing its journey at the V&A Dundee from November 2026 to February 2027. Among the highlights will be original costumes from Bowie’s seminal Ziggy Stardust era, crafted by designers Freddie Burretti and Kansai Yamamoto. The display will also feature sketches from the accompanying tour and an acoustic guitar used by the artist during that transformative period. Sir Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, emphasised the significance of the initiative, stating: “David Bowie: On Tour is a landmark national partnership for the V&A, bringing highlights from David Bowie’s extraordinary archive …

US publishers tell Common Crawl to stop scraping and delete archive

US publishers tell Common Crawl to stop scraping and delete archive

Published by Sam Flores

Common Crawl website. Picture: Shutterstock/IB Photography Digital news publishers in the US have raised “significant legal concerns” over the scraping of their content by Common Crawl Foundation. Trade body Digital Content Next (DCN), which represents many major US publishers, has sent a cease and desist letter via its lawyer to the web archive creator. They called on Common Crawl to immediately stop “scraping, retaining, or sharing copyrighted, paywalled, subscriber-only, or otherwise protected content from DCN member companies in its datasets”. They also requested that publisher content already in the Common Crawl datasets is removed. Since 2008 Common Crawl has scraped billions of pages on the internet each month to create a free archive for the public and is often cited in academic research. The database has been widely used to train major AI models, proving controversial because it gave them access to swathes of publisher articles including, allegedly, paywalled content. Its CCBot is now one of the most blocked AI scrapers by many news websites who do not see the value exchange in allowing their …

Doctor Who archive expert shares update on hunt for missing episodes

Doctor Who archive expert shares update on hunt for missing episodes

Published by Daniella Wilson

Film is Fabulous founder John Franklin has shared an update on the charitable trust’s work to catalogue and preserve private film collections, while also clarifying its current position on missing Doctor Who episodes. Franklin, an established film collector and trustee of Film is Fabulous!, was speaking at the Recovered: The Daleks’ Master Plan comes HOME event at HOME Manchester on Saturday 23 May, following the recent recovery of two missing episodes from the classic William Hartnell serial. Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust run by film collectors, cinema lovers, and vintage television enthusiasts. Its primary objective is to ensure that vulnerable film collections held in the U.K. are preserved when private film collectors, and former industry professionals, pass away. Since 2023, the team have preserved many private film collections. Speaking at the event, Franklin said: “We are fully committed to this, and we are going to do everything we can to save film and preserve film collections and their legacies.” However, he was also clear about where things currently stand with Doctor Who specifically. …

ITN launches paid subscriptions on Youtube to support archive content

ITN launches paid subscriptions on Youtube to support archive content

Published by Sam Flores

ITN archive footage from Tiannamen Square protests News production company ITN has expanded the use of its archive footage into new Youtube channels targeted directly at consumers and hopes some will choose to pay to support the project. ITN has rebranded its ITN Archive channel as Frontline by ITN and launched two other pages: Flashback by ITN and Re-Told by ITN, all using its archive material. Frontline by ITN has the option to support the digitisation of the archive by becoming a member for £3.99 per month. Perks include early access to new videos, members-only polls on what to prioritise in the archives and status updates from the team. ITN said the move shows a “clear ambition to build fandom and long‑term audience engagement around archive content”. It said it is hoping to reach new digital viewers with an interest in history and culture and that it would open up new opportunities for advertisers and brand partners aligned with archive preservation and storytelling. ITN head of digital content Rubina Pabani said: “We’re moving beyond simply …

From the Archive: ‘Radiant, Angry Caravaggio’ | Ingrid D. Rowland, Lisa Yuskavage

From the Archive: ‘Radiant, Angry Caravaggio’ | Ingrid D. Rowland, Lisa Yuskavage

Published by Jenni Sidey

In the May 27, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books, Ingrid D. Rowland wrote “Radiant, Angry Caravaggio,” a look at the tempestuous life and brilliant art of the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. For this episode of Private Life, Rowland’s essay is read by the artist Lisa Yuskavage. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Yuskavage has shown her paintings in solo exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo. Through June 26, her show “Lisa Yuskavage: Checklist” will be on view at David Zwirner Gallery in New York. This reading accompanies the Private Life episode featuring Rowland in conversation with host Jarrett Earnest. Source link

Gianna Corvino of The NY Archive Thinks Getting Dressed ‘Should Feel Like Making a Sandwich’

Gianna Corvino of The NY Archive Thinks Getting Dressed ‘Should Feel Like Making a Sandwich’

Published by Daniella Wilson

What’s old is new again! Gianna Corvino, founder of The NY Archive, the vintage destination adored by stars including Sabrina Carpenter, Hailey Bieber, Tate McRae, Ariana Grande, Lily Allen, Elizabeth Hurley, and Anne Hathaway, is giving summer style a nostalgic update. Known for sourcing archival pieces for celebs and insiders alike, Corvino is expanding her once appointment-only showroom into a fashion warehouse designed to bring her finds and new brands together on May 31 in New York City. “The NY Archive Collective really feels like the culmination of years of world-building,” she tells ET. The NY Archive/Instagram “I wanted to create a permanent space where your childhood Barbie dream house meets your grown-up Sex and the City fantasy. From the zebra couches to the pink shelving lined with archival designer shoes and bags, every detail is intentional,” the entrepreneur adds. And while Carrie Bradshaw’s wardrobe still dominates mood boards, Corvino’s storefront will feature a rotating selection of curated vendors, allowing shoppers to easily mix trends from the past and present. “The Collective allows us to …

Thomson Reuters boss says AI licensing deals only involve archive text

Thomson Reuters boss says AI licensing deals only involve archive text

Published by Sam Flores

Steve Hasker, president and CEO, Thomson Reuters, speaking at the Truth Tellers Summit in London on Wednesday 6 May 2026. Picture: Reuters/Chris J Ratcliffe Thomson Reuters president and CEO Steve Hasker has set out the three key ingredients the news agency and business information giant has looked for when it comes to agreeing licensing deals with AI companies. Hasker told the Truth Tellers Summit in London last week that 175-year-old Reuters has focused its deals on its text archive, while setting them at the “highest price” possible and keeping them brief in length so they will need to be renegotiated. He said generative and agentic AI feels like it will be “more transformational and more disruptive” than the arrival of the internet, Google and social media. “And so I think that the opportunities and the risks could be, and likely will be, even bigger as newsgatherers license or don’t license their content,” he said. Hasker said Reuters has “taken a cautious approach with that in mind”. “We have done a select number of deals. I …

Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive

Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive

Published by skeptic

People always hold up their phones to record special moments at concerts, but they often never revisit those videos. Gigs, a new concert-tracking app launching this week, wants to change that. The iOS app helps live music fans turn their years of concerts, tickets, and photo and video memories into a personal archive with the help of Apple’s on-device AI. To add a concert to Gigs, users can import a ticket, email, screenshot, or even a website link, and the app will use Apple’s Foundation Models to extract the dates, venues, lineups, and other information to fill out the listing. For those who already track their concert history elsewhere, like Setlist.fm or Concert Archives, there’s the option to automatically import years of concert and festival attendance by linking their accounts. Image Credits:Gigs Once the concerts have been added to the app, users can sync those dates to their personal calendar, get ticket sale reminders, browse expected set lists, and view other info about the show or artist. When the concert ends, the app reminds the …

From the Archive: ‘The Banality of Empathy’ | Namwali Serpell, Lovia Gyarkye

From the Archive: ‘The Banality of Empathy’ | Namwali Serpell, Lovia Gyarkye

Published by José Betancourt

In March 2019 Namwali Serpell wrote for the NYR Online about a choose-your-own-adventure-style episode of the television show Black Mirror, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hannah Arendt, and Violet Allen’s story “The Venus Effect,” among other subjects, in an expansive essay on about narrative empathy. In this episode of Private Life, “The Banality of Empathy” is read by the writer Lovia Gyarkye. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. This reading accompanies the Private Life episode featuring a conversation with Serpell. You may read “The Banality of Empathy” at this link. Source link