Few companies are more polarizing than Palantir. Shares in the retail investor favorite are up nearly 80% in the past 12 months, despite tumbling almost 30% from their November high, reflecting a market-churning mix of rabid enthusiasm and circumspection for a stock with a valuation of the nosebleed variety. On Monday, the software firm charted a glorious 2026 for the believers. After reporting a ...
Few companies are more polarizing than Palantir. Shares in the retail investor favorite are up nearly 80% in the past 12 months, despite tumbling almost 30% from their November high, reflecting a market-churning mix of rabid enthusiasm and circumspection for a stock with a valuation of the nosebleed variety. On Monday, the software firm charted a glorious 2026 for the believers. After reporting a 70% year-over-year increase in fourth-quarter revenue to $1.4 billion — which beat analysts’ $1.3 billion estimate — executives said they expect revenue to grow 61% this year to $7.18 billion or more. CEO Alex Karp told analysts on an earnings call that it was “one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.” Going All In Palantir’s recent tumble is partly attributable to a broader selloff in traditional enterprise software firms, triggered by fears that AI’s coding capabilities could displace them. But it also faces the simple concern that it’s overvalued. Palantir’s price-to-book ratio of more than 50 dwarfs peers like Broadcom (19.3), Oracle (15.8) and Adobe (10.4). “We cannot rationalize why Palantir is the most expensive name in our software coverage,” wrote RBC analysts, who affirmed the bank’s underperform rating and a $50 price target on the stock last week, implying it could fall nearly 65% from its $147.76 Monday close. They worry Palantir’s revenue from government contracts and the resilience of its commercial enterprise customer base could come under pressure and flagged “rising concerns around privacy and ethics” such as its work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). RBC is a stark outlier. The average analyst price target for Palantir is $201.52, according to Zacks Investment Research. Analysts at William Blair, for example, upgraded the stock to “outperform” before Monday’s earnings. Its “frothy” valuation, the firm’s analysts wrote, has become “more reasonable relative to recent venture rounds for companies tied to th...
On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reaffirmed his company's close ties with Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) after a report suggested the AI startup was dissatisfied with some of the chipmaker's latest offerings and exploring alternatives. Altman Rejects Report, Reaffirms Nvidia Ties Altman addressed the speculation in a post on X, calling Nvidia the gold standard in artificial intelligence hardware and si...
On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reaffirmed his company's close ties with Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) after a report suggested the AI startup was dissatisfied with some of the chipmaker's latest offerings and exploring alternatives. Altman Rejects Report, Reaffirms Nvidia Ties Altman addressed the speculation in a post on X, calling Nvidia the gold standard in artificial intelligence hardware and signaling that OpenAI has no plans to walk away from the partnership. "We love working with NVIDIA and they make the best AI chips in the world," Altman wrote. "We hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time." Altman added that he did not understand "where all this insanity is coming from," an apparent reference to reports questioning the strength of the relationship. Report Points To Growing Pains, Not A Breakup Altman's comments followed a Reuters report that said OpenAI has been dissatisfied with some of Nvidia's newest AI chips and has been looking at alternatives since at least 2025. The report framed the issue as part of OpenAI's broader effort to meet rapidly rising compute needs rather than a wholesale shift away from Nvidia. The scrutiny intensified after The Wall Street Journal reported last week that talks around a proposed Nvidia investment of up to $100 billion in OpenAI had stalled. Nvidia Says $100 Billion Deal Was ‘Never A Commitment' Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang addressed the report over the weekend, saying the massive investment was "never a commitment." However, he said that Nvidia still plans to invest "a great deal of money" in OpenAI. The proposed investment was first disclosed in September 2025 and raised questions about circular investing, given that Nvidia is OpenAI's largest supplier of AI processors. Separately, CNBC reporter Kristina Partsinevelos on Monday said that Nvidia is participating in OpenAI's latest funding round, separate from the earlier, much larger investment proposal. OpenAI: Nvidia Remains Core To Its Compute Stack Sachin Katti, ...
Minnesota Olympians, other athletes speak up about federal agents in Minneapolis toggle caption Matthias Hangst/Getty Images AsiaPac MILAN — The Winter Olympics are set to open this Friday in Italy, some 4,600 miles away from Minneapolis, the epicenter of the uproar over the Trump administration's hardline immigration enforcement tactics. As American athletes turn their attention to the Games here...
Minnesota Olympians, other athletes speak up about federal agents in Minneapolis toggle caption Matthias Hangst/Getty Images AsiaPac MILAN — The Winter Olympics are set to open this Friday in Italy, some 4,600 miles away from Minneapolis, the epicenter of the uproar over the Trump administration's hardline immigration enforcement tactics. As American athletes turn their attention to the Games here, some — including several from Minnesota, which is home to some of Team USA's biggest stars — have spoken out in the wake of the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in January. "I want to make sure you know who I'm racing for when I get to the start line at the Olympics," wrote Jessie Diggins, the cross-country skiing star and three-time Olympic medalist, in a statement she posted to her Instagram on Saturday alongside a photo of herself celebrating with an American flag at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. Sponsor Message "I'm racing for an American people who stand for love, for acceptance, for compassion, honesty and respect for others. I do not stand for hate or violence or discrimination," the post continued. Diggins, 34, grew up in Afton, Minn., less than an hour's drive from downtown Minneapolis. She is expected to compete in six cross-country events at the Olympics this month and could contend for a medal in all of them. The day after 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot to death by Customs and Border Protection agents on a Minneapolis street, Team USA hockey player Kelly Pannek paused a post-game press conference for her professional team, the Minnesota Frost, to call the aggressive immigration enforcement "unnecessary and just horrifying." "It's obviously really heavy," said Pannek, who is from the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth, as her Frost teammate and fellow Team USA member Taylor Heise — another Minnesota native — nodded. "What I'm most proud to represent is the tens of thousands of people that show up on some of the coldest days of the ...
Few companies are more polarizing than Palantir. Shares in the retail investor favorite are up nearly 80% in the past 12 months, despite tumbling almost 30% from their November high, reflecting a market-churning mix of rabid enthusiasm and circumspection for a stock with a valuation of the nosebleed variety. On Monday, the software firm charted a glorious 2026 for the believers. After reporting a ...
Few companies are more polarizing than Palantir. Shares in the retail investor favorite are up nearly 80% in the past 12 months, despite tumbling almost 30% from their November high, reflecting a market-churning mix of rabid enthusiasm and circumspection for a stock with a valuation of the nosebleed variety. On Monday, the software firm charted a glorious 2026 for the believers. After reporting a 70% year-over-year increase in fourth-quarter revenue to $1.4 billion — which beat analysts’ $1.3 billion estimate — executives said they expect revenue to grow 61% this year to $7.18 billion or more. CEO Alex Karp told analysts on an earnings call that it was “one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.” Going All In Palantir’s recent tumble is partly attributable to a broader selloff in traditional enterprise software firms, triggered by fears that AI’s coding capabilities could displace them. But it also faces the simple concern that it’s overvalued. Palantir’s price-to-book ratio of more than 50 dwarfs peers like Broadcom (19.3), Oracle (15.8) and Adobe (10.4). “We cannot rationalize why Palantir is the most expensive name in our software coverage,” wrote RBC analysts, who affirmed the bank’s underperform rating and a $50 price target on the stock last week, implying it could fall nearly 65% from its $147.76 Monday close. They worry Palantir’s revenue from government contracts and the resilience of its commercial enterprise customer base could come under pressure and flagged “rising concerns around privacy and ethics” such as its work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). RBC is a stark outlier. The average analyst price target for Palantir is $201.52, according to Zacks Investment Research. Analysts at William Blair, for example, upgraded the stock to “outperform” before Monday’s earnings. Its “frothy” valuation, the firm’s analysts wrote, has become “more reasonable relative to recent venture rounds for companies tied to th...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: Triumphal-ISM ! US manufacturing suddenly shows signs of revival; Blackout: The partial government shutdown means no payroll data this week; The metals selloff continues, without getting in the way of stocks or bonds; Crypto has plunged into the deepest of Crypto Winters; AND: A reminder that the Super...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: Triumphal-ISM ! US manufacturing suddenly shows signs of revival; Blackout: The partial government shutdown means no payroll data this week; The metals selloff continues, without getting in the way of stocks or bonds; Crypto has plunged into the deepest of Crypto Winters; AND: A reminder that the Super Bowl halftime show is often political . Some Like It Hot Nobody’s perfect. But taken in isolation, the latest US economic numbers look pretty close. The Institute for Supply Management’s survey of manufacturing, long a reliable economic leading indicator, has been signaling for years that the sector is slumping. It came as a bona fide surprise to see its measure for new orders shoot up last month, putting it now far ahead of inventories. It’s one month’s data point, but it certainly looks like the beginning of a true cyclical restocking boom: The overall number was the strongest since the Federal Reserve started tightening early in 2022. Earnings and the entire global stock market have been suggesting something like this is afoot; this is one of the clearest confirmations yet from the mainstream data. That said, it maintains another trend — the views of manufacturing executives and consumers (as measured by the Confidence Board) are diverging and forming a perfect K-shape: There are caveats. The Conference Board suggests that consumers feel even worse than they did during the worst of the pandemic lockdowns, which is startling to say the least. Other surveys, such as the University of Michigan’s, show poor confidence, but nothing as bad as this. The notion of a recovery that many don’t feel — with gains for some balanced by a downturn for others — seems stronger than ever. Peter Atwater, the behavioral economist who originated the K-shaped economy during Covid to signify a bifurcated recovery, suggested that the latest data might be distorted by ripple effects from last ye...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Overall Revenue Growth: 70% year over year in Q4. US Business Revenue: 93% year over year growth in Q4. Rule of 40 Score: Reached 127, up 46 points year over year. Total Contract Value (TCV) Bookings: $4.3 billion, up 138% year over year. Top 20 Customers Revenue: Increased 45% year over year to $94 million per customer. US Commercial Business Growth: 137%...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Overall Revenue Growth: 70% year over year in Q4. US Business Revenue: 93% year over year growth in Q4. Rule of 40 Score: Reached 127, up 46 points year over year. Total Contract Value (TCV) Bookings: $4.3 billion, up 138% year over year. Top 20 Customers Revenue: Increased 45% year over year to $94 million per customer. US Commercial Business Growth: 137% year over year in Q4. US Government Business Growth: 66% year over year in Q4. Adjusted Operating Income: $798 million in Q4, representing a 57% margin. Full-Year Revenue: $4.475 billion, 56% year over year growth. Adjusted Free Cash Flow: $2.3 billion for the full year, representing a 51% margin. Customer Count: Grew 34% year over year to 954 customers. Net Dollar Retention: 139%, up 500 basis points from last quarter. Cash and Equivalents: $7.2 billion at the end of the quarter. Q1 2026 Revenue Guidance: Between $1.532 billion and $1.536 billion. Full-Year 2026 Revenue Guidance: Between $7.182 billion and $7.198 billion. Release Date: February 02, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Positive Points Palantir Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:PLTR) reported a 70% year-over-year revenue growth in Q4 2025, marking its highest growth rate as a public company. The company's US business now accounts for 77% of total revenue, with a 93% year-over-year increase. Palantir achieved a Rule of 40 score of 127, indicating strong growth and profitability. The company closed its highest-ever TCV quarter at $4.3 billion, with significant expansions from existing customers. Palantir's US commercial business grew 137% year over year, showcasing strong demand for its AI-driven solutions. Negative Points International commercial revenue growth was relatively modest, with only an 8% year-over-year increase in Q4 2025. The company faces challenges in expanding its international business due to hesitancy and complexity in non-US marke...
The far right is using pork consumption as a means to exclude, just as it was in the Inquisition. It should be a source of joy and community Spain makes the best ham in the world, and a multitude of incredible pork-based dishes. You have your crunchy, salty torreznos de Sori a , fried cubes of pork belly, which make for a fantastic bar snack. Or cochinillo asado , a suckling pig that’s traditional...
The far right is using pork consumption as a means to exclude, just as it was in the Inquisition. It should be a source of joy and community Spain makes the best ham in the world, and a multitude of incredible pork-based dishes. You have your crunchy, salty torreznos de Sori a , fried cubes of pork belly, which make for a fantastic bar snack. Or cochinillo asado , a suckling pig that’s traditionally roasted in a wood oven, and so tender that it’s cut with a plate instead of a knife when serving. For the more adventurous, I recommend exploring the world of regional morcillas or blood sausages. Morcilla de Burgos , made with rice and on the harder side, keeps its structure very well and makes an excellent pintxo when sliced and fried. Or there is the moist and spreadable morcilla de León , which my local butcher sells in jars . Another to look out for is the Basque morcilla de Beasain – made with leeks, it combines fantastically with black beans, cabbage and pickled green chillies to make one of the tastiest stews you’ll ever have. At the pinnacle, you have the gastronomic and cultural phenomenon that is jamón ibérico . It is distinct from lesser forms of jamón as it comes from the famed Iberian pigs, the best varieties of which are fed on acorns. You’ll see whole legs of it hanging in bars and restaurants across the country, and they’re a staple of the Spanish Christmas hamper, often raffled off by bars to their regular customers. Its standing in Spanish culture transcends the food world: Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz met while filming Jamón Jamón , in which the former beats his love rival to death with a leg of ham. Meanwhile, lower-league football side CD Guijelo’s away kit sees them dressed as a plate of the stuff . It finds its way into Spain’s public festivities, such as the Lance al Jamón in the walled city of Morella, where participants have to climb its walls and grab a leg of ham hanging from the ceiling . The contestant able to hang on the longest gets to...
Just like men, women are increasingly being told by online influencers that the classic symptoms of middle age could be down to low testosterone. In the second part of this miniseries exploring the hormone, Madeleine Finlay finds out what testosterone supplementation is doing for women. She hears from science journalist Linda Geddes, who is taking testosterone for low libido, and from prof Susan D...
Just like men, women are increasingly being told by online influencers that the classic symptoms of middle age could be down to low testosterone. In the second part of this miniseries exploring the hormone, Madeleine Finlay finds out what testosterone supplementation is doing for women. She hears from science journalist Linda Geddes, who is taking testosterone for low libido, and from prof Susan Davis, a consultant endocrinologist and head of the Monash University Women’s Health Research Programme. Susan explains what the evidence really shows about the benefits and risks of women taking testosterone ‘Frightening’ how easily women can get hold of testosterone, say doctors Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have more in common with cigarettes than with fruit or vegetables, and require far tighter regulation, according to a new report. UPFs and cigarettes are engineered to encourage addiction and consumption, researchers from three US universities said, pointing to the parallels in widespread health harms that link both. UPFs, which are widely available worldwide, are food...
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have more in common with cigarettes than with fruit or vegetables, and require far tighter regulation, according to a new report. UPFs and cigarettes are engineered to encourage addiction and consumption, researchers from three US universities said, pointing to the parallels in widespread health harms that link both. UPFs, which are widely available worldwide, are food products that have been industrially manufactured, often using emulsifiers or artificial colouring and flavours. The category includes soft drinks and packaged snacks such as crisps and biscuits. There are similarities in the production processes of UPFs and cigarettes, and in manufacturers’ efforts to optimise the “doses” of products and how quickly they act on reward pathways in the body, according to the paper from researchers at Harvard, the University of Michigan and Duke University. They draw on data from the fields of addiction science, nutrition and public health history to make their comparisons, published on 3 February in the healthcare journal the Milbank Quarterly. The authors suggest that marketing claims on the products, such as being “low fat” or “sugar free”, are “health washing” that can stall regulation, akin to the advertising of cigarette filters in the 1950s as protective innovations that “in practice offered little meaningful benefit”. Quick Guide What is ultra-processed food? Show Ultra-processed food involves extremely high levels of manufacturing to produce. It includes all formula milk, many commercially produced baby and toddler foods, fizzy drinks and sweets, fast food, snacks, biscuits and cakes, as well as mass-produced bread and breakfast cereals, ready meals and desserts. What do these foods contain? Ultra-processed ingredients include fruit juice concentrates, maltodextrin, dextrose, golden syrup, hydrogenated oils, soya protein isolate, gluten, “mechanically separated meat”, organic dried egg whites, as well as rice and potato starch and c...
Iranians killed in recent protests that rocked the country have been laid to rest in boisterous funerals featuring loud pop music and dancing, apparently intended to convey defiance to the ruling Islamic regime. Instead of holding sombre traditional mourning ceremonies presided over by a Shia cleric, bereaved relatives are turning the burials into exultant celebrations of the lives of their loved ...
Iranians killed in recent protests that rocked the country have been laid to rest in boisterous funerals featuring loud pop music and dancing, apparently intended to convey defiance to the ruling Islamic regime. Instead of holding sombre traditional mourning ceremonies presided over by a Shia cleric, bereaved relatives are turning the burials into exultant celebrations of the lives of their loved ones in what analysts say is an intentional snub to the culture of piety demanded by Iran’s theocracy. Many funerals have reportedly been staged only after relatives were forced to pay large sums to retrieve the bodies from official morgues. There have been reports of bodies only being released after relatives sign statements saying that the deceased belonged to the Basij, a pro-regime militia, a tactic designed to bolster the authorities’ designation of protesters as “terrorists” who attacked security forces and to raise the reported number of casualties on the regime’s side. Some projections have estimated that 30,000 were killed in the demonstrations that broke out in late December and spread across the country. Other estimates have suggested even higher numbers. Iranian sociologists say the mood of the resulting funerals carries a message of rebellion in the face of the lethal crackdown. View image in fullscreen Iranians gathering while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran on 9 January. Photograph: Khoshiran/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images “Many of today’s mourners … do not want the grief over their loved ones to bear any trace of the religious mourning that is emblematic of the subculture shared by their killers,” said Hosein Ghazian, a US-based Iranian commentator. “Instead of outwardly expressing grief, they choose to display joy. This joy carries a powerful political message of persistence in the struggle against bloodthirsty oppressors.” Footage of several funerals has been shared on social media. Rather than overt grieving, the videos depict euphoric s...
Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market’s biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that y...
Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market’s biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers. Rob Haward, the chief executive of the Devon-based company which delivers about 70,000 boxes a week, said the company had gained new customers and existing clients had spent more. “We haven’t seen the market grow as much as this for 20 years,” he said. Haward said the rapid market growth in 2024 had continued last year amid greater awareness of healthy diets and “increased concerns about where you can go to get food you can trust”. It represents a bounceback for the sector, which has had a difficult period since the credit crunch and slowed during the pandemic. Riverford’s sales of organic meat were particularly strong, accounting for a tenth of sales, as shoppers sought out a trusted source of higher welfare meat. However, its operating profits slid back to £3.4m from £4.7m a year before. Haward said the company had absorbed some rising costs rather than passing them on to its customers. Prices rose 3% in its financial year as Riverford and its suppliers battled higher wages, energy costs and pressure on operations from Brexit-linked paperwork on imports from its farms in France and Spain. Haward said growth had dipped last summer, after its financial year end, during the long spell of hot weather but rebounded over Christmas and into the new year. He expects sales to continue to rise as the wider organic food market continues to grow – just 2% of UK food sales are organic – well behind ...
At first, Mike made Tamsin feel good about herself – and his love-bombing led her to leave her family and resign from her job. Soon she had lost her car, phone and all her money Tamsin met Mike in the summer of 2022. He was a mechanic in a garage that she walked past twice each day between home and work. After a while, he’d call out “good morning” or “good evening” and she’d wave and smile back. T...
At first, Mike made Tamsin feel good about herself – and his love-bombing led her to leave her family and resign from her job. Soon she had lost her car, phone and all her money Tamsin met Mike in the summer of 2022. He was a mechanic in a garage that she walked past twice each day between home and work. After a while, he’d call out “good morning” or “good evening” and she’d wave and smile back. Then the exchanges got a little longer. (“Hard day?” “Looking forward to dinner?”) Six months later, Mike and Tamsin exchanged numbers. Within two years, her life was wrecked. She had left her marriage, lost her home, quit her job, and sold her car and her phone, spent all her savings and racked up tens of thousands in debt. (Under her current repayment plan, it will take another eight and a half years to pay back her creditors.) Tamsin’s story seems scarcely credible and she is mortified to have to tell it. She stumbles through, piles of notes on her lap and a support worker from Victim Support at her side. Every few minutes, she breaks off to say, “It sounds so stupid”, “I sound like an absolute nutter” or “Where was my head?” In truth, she spent two years in the company of a psychopath, a master manipulator. He is in prison now, serving a 22-year sentence, but not for romance fraud, or anything involving Tamsin. Her experience, police have told her, “would not stand up in court”. Continue reading...
1. The capabilities of AI models are improving A host of new AI models – the technology that underpins tools like chatbots – were released last year, including OpenAI’s GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 and Google’s Gemini 3. The report points to new “reasoning systems” – which solve problems by breaking them down into smaller steps – showing improved performance in maths, coding and science. Ben...
1. The capabilities of AI models are improving A host of new AI models – the technology that underpins tools like chatbots – were released last year, including OpenAI’s GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 and Google’s Gemini 3. The report points to new “reasoning systems” – which solve problems by breaking them down into smaller steps – showing improved performance in maths, coding and science. Bengio said there has been a “very significant jump” in AI reasoning. Last year, systems developed by Google and OpenAI achieved a gold-level performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad – a first for AI. However, the report says AI capabilities remain “jagged”, referring to systems displaying astonishing prowess in some areas but not in others. While advanced AI systems are impressive at maths, science, coding and creating images, they remain prone to making false statements, or “hallucinations”, and cannot carry out lengthy projects autonomously. Nonetheless, the report cites a study showing that AI systems are rapidly improving their ability to carry out certain software engineering tasks – with their duration doubling every seven months. If that rate of progress continues, AI systems could complete tasks lasting several hours by 2027 and several days by 2030. This is the scenario under which AI becomes a real threat to jobs. But for now, says the report, “reliable automation of long or complex tasks remains infeasible”. 2. Deepfakes are improving and proliferating The report describes the growth of deepfake pornography as a “particular concern”, citing a study showing that 15% of UK adults have seen such images. It adds that since the publication of the inaugural safety report in January 2025, AI-generated content has become “harder to distinguish from real content” and points to a study last year in which 77% of participants misidentified text generated by ChatGPT as being human-written. The report says there is limited evidence of malicious actors using AI to m...
Say someone brings you a bouquet of flowers. You get a vase and one by one intuitively place each stem inside, allowing an arrangement to unfold on its own. It was on this level, as lead curator Nikhil Chopra suggests, that the Kochi-Muziris Biennale was not curated so much as created. On a stroll through the largest contemporary art biennale in south Asia, creation takes centre stage. Against the...
Say someone brings you a bouquet of flowers. You get a vase and one by one intuitively place each stem inside, allowing an arrangement to unfold on its own. It was on this level, as lead curator Nikhil Chopra suggests, that the Kochi-Muziris Biennale was not curated so much as created. On a stroll through the largest contemporary art biennale in south Asia, creation takes centre stage. Against the backdrop of the coastal city’s lush strip of backwaters and the historic Fort Kochi, works by 66 artists animate Kerala’s grand colonial warehouses and bungalows where art feels less installed than encountered. The idea, as the biennale’s title For the Time Being suggests, is to enter, be present and exit, said multidisciplinary artist Chopra, who curated the show with artist-led organisation HH Art Spaces which he co-founded in 2013. “This allowed us to use time in a way as material, as clay or wood or charcoal, where we would invite time into each and every one of the artworks we were presenting and be present in the moment.” View image in fullscreen Indelible Black Marks by Kulpreet Singh, 2022. Photograph: courtesy of Mirchandani + Steinruecke gallery In our age of distraction, the biennale offers no instant gratification. Take Birender Kumar Yadav’s installation Only the Earth Knows Their Labour on the exploitative brick industry’s forgotten labourers, or Kulpreet Singh’s Indelible Black Marks, where a video plays in a straw-walled enclosure, showing as sheets of canvas are dragged poetically across scorched fields, mimicking farmers ploughing the land. “There are a lot of factors that contribute to the pollution in Delhi, but it’s easy to blame on farmers,” said Singh, 40, who was born into a farming family in Punjab. Now in its sixth year, half of the artists at the show are Indian and Keralan, a quota which Chopra and the curatorial team dedicated much of their time. Not a single international flight was taken to scout invitees, boasted Chopra. Instead, they leaned...
In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos. Whether moving independently or embedded with troops, Guardian reporters witnessed the violence on the ground The allied attack on Iraq began on 20 March 2003. The Guardian’s 4am edition on Friday 21 March carried the headline : “Land, sea and air assault.” The report was by Julian Borger in Washi...
In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos. Whether moving independently or embedded with troops, Guardian reporters witnessed the violence on the ground The allied attack on Iraq began on 20 March 2003. The Guardian’s 4am edition on Friday 21 March carried the headline : “Land, sea and air assault.” The report was by Julian Borger in Washington and Rory McCarthy in Camp As Sayliyah, on the outskirts of Doha, the capital of Qatar. It opened: “The ground war began in Iraq last night as British and American marines stormed beaches on the Gulf coast in an assault on the south-eastern city of Basra, while explosions lit up Baghdad under a heavy bombardment by cruise missiles.” The first British fatalities came shortly afterwards when a US helicopter crashed in Kuwait, killing all on board. Suzanne Goldenberg’s front-page report from Baghdad revealed that only two hours after the decapitation effort, Saddam Hussein himself had made a defiant appearance on television. A Guardian leader stated that the plain fact was this first “surgical strike” had missed its mark. Even had it reached its target, it would have been difficult to applaud. “State-ordered assassination sets an abominable precedent that encourages unwelcome emulation … The US must tread carefully – for the legal and moral grounds for this war are already very shaky.” Continue reading...
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