Influence
The title News from Nowhere has inspired many enterprises, including a political bookstore in Liverpool, a theatre company and a track on Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A short film of the same name described a fiction trip by Morris up the River Thames exploring ideas of aesthetic and socialism. An underground newspaper at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, IL in the late sixties early seventies. A contemporary art exhibition at the Lucy Mackintosh Gallery in Lausanne, Switzerland, with six British artists: Michael Ashcroft, Juan Bolivar, Andrew Grassie, Justin Hibbs, Alistair Hudson, and Peter Liversidge during April–May 2005 .
Socialist folk singer Leon Rosselson tribute to Morris, "Bringing the News from Nowhere," is the eponymous song of his 1986 album and is also the title of his 1993 songbook.
News From Nowhere was an influencing factor in historian G. D. H. Cole's conversion to socialism.
The book News from Gardenia by Robert Llewellyn was influenced by this book.
In 2003 the Italian progressive rock band Floating State published the album "Thirtheen tolls at Noon" (Lizard Records), including the 44 minutes long suite "Pilgrimage to Nowhere", inspired by William Morris book "News from Nowhere"?
Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho was inspired by the book in their collaborative project "News from Nowhere" (2012)
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