Welcome to The Skilbeck Scrolls!

As the global public takes to social media by the billions, citizen journalism is flourishing, and global media empires are tottering and scrambling to reinvent their ‘business model’ in mass firings and casualisation of journalistic labour forces (witness the current shifts at the UK’s BBC, as one example of many). The past couple of years’ turbulence in the mainstream press is no more keenly felt than in the arts media, where your humble scribe found many a commission over the past couple of decades; yet as the doors of the old publishing model close, new doors to communication open in fresh forms and modes of digital media. Celebrating the spirit of re-invention and re-birth, we are launching this weblog under a new name and purpose, to bring readers informed comment and critique on international contemporary arts and culture and feminism, and to interweave comment and critique with the ancient practices of the oracle, gazing from the windows of the air-bus, and reading the signs in the clouds... Ladies, gentleman, and many shades in between and beyond, we hope that you may join us on our flight!