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• Olivia Hussey, Who Was Juliet In 1968, Has Died At 73

  29-12-2024 22:00 via bbc.com
  
  “Hussey won the best new actress Golden Globe for her part as Juliet, but decades later she sued Paramount Pictures for sexual abuse as she was aged just 15 when she filmed the movie’s nude scene.” – BBC
  
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• Rewatching Films For Kids To Regain A Sense Of Joy Might Lead Down Some Different Paths

  29-12-2024 21:30 via huffpost.com
  
  “There is less time for impulsiveness and joy, and the bar that Andrews sets as Maria or Mary Poppins can feel unattainable when you’re stuck checking your kid’s head for lice.” – HuffPost
  
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• Turns Out That People Really Like Movies Based On Fan Fiction

  29-12-2024 21:00 via vulture.com
  
  Critics might never see them, and certainly never review them, but “these films are often huge successes for streaming services like Prime Video and Netflix — the Kissing Booth and Through My Window movies have been reliable staples of Netflix’s top ten. They’re popular in theaters, too.” – Vulture
  
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• Ruth Butler, Who Brought Artists’ Muses To Life, Has Died At 93

  29-12-2024 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Butler, who became fascinated by portraits of Rodin’s wife Rose, “was determined to tell not just Rose’s story but those of the muses and partners of Rodin’s contemporaries, the painters Paul Cézanne and Claude Monet.” – The New York Times
  
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• Disney Officially Killed This Game In 2013, But A Group Of Teen Fans Kept It Alive

  29-12-2024 20:00 via wired.com
  
  For the teens at the time, “The thought was mostly like, this will be a fun little experiment. We’ll learn some stuff. Maybe we’ll bring the game back online for a couple months.” Now Toontown Rewritten has 2 million registered users. Will Disney try to shut it down? – Wired
  
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• At The End Of The Year, Theatre Fans Should Tune Into This Streamer

  29-12-2024 19:30 via washingtonpost.com
  Jessica Lange isn’t playing Chekhov, exactly, but in (HBO) MAX’s The Great Lillian Hall, she is playing an actor who’s in Cherry Orchard – and losing her memory. – Washington Post
  
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• Poem Without a Hero

  29-12-2024 19:00 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2024/12/poem-without-a-hero.html" title="Poem Without a Hero” rel=”nofollow”> Drawing by Gerard
  
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• Audiobooks Really Took Off In 2024

  29-12-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  That’s partially due to Spotify – but the service only pays authors when listeners finish a book, so despite the increase in listenership, it may end up devaluing the product. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Real Scenes Of New York Behind Sean Baker’s Movie Anora

  29-12-2024 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Starting at the strip club in Midtown and wending around the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, past the Parkview Diner, Coney Island and Brighton Beach en route to the mansion in Mill Basin that played Ivan’s home, you get a survey of high and low.” – The New York Times
  
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• Paule Vézelay was a marvel, but not the first British abstract artist | Letters

  29-12-2024 18:23
  
  Dr Mark Stocker on the British abstract artists who came before Vézelay, and her former neighbour Charles Jackson recalls visiting her home in LondonIt’s great to see Paule Vézelay being given overdue recognition in a solo exhibition, but neither she nor her obscure friend Marlow Moss was the first British abstract artist (Major show to celebrate UK’s forgotten female trailblazer of abstract art, 24 December).Your report implies that it all began with the
  
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• Indian Time, A Newspaper That Straddled Nations, Has Published Its Final Edition

  29-12-2024 18:00 via cbc.ca
  
  “The shuttering of Indian Time closes the final chapter on a legacy of journalism in this Haudenosaunee community, which sits 120 kilometres west of Montreal, stretching back to the 1960s that at one time produced one of the most influential Indigenous publications on the continent.” – CBC
  
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• Reading Books In High School Is Actually Good For Everyone

  29-12-2024 17:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Whatever you do when you read fiction is commit a small act of empathy. You know, you think about situations that are not like your own. You think about people whose lives are not like your own. And that, I think, is an incredibly useful exercise.”  – The Atlantic
  
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• Replace Notre Dame’s Classic Windows With Modern Replicas?

  29-12-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sacre bleu! What is happening? A French artist won “a competition to replace the existing six windows installed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1844 – even though the windows were not damaged in the 2019 fire.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Frank Auerbach remembered by his son Jake

  29-12-2024 17:00
  
  29 April 1930 – 11 November 2024
  The German-born painter’s love of films, crosswords and a good pub quiz are recalled by his only child, keen to dispel popular ‘myths’ about the artistRead the Observer’s obituaries of 2024 in fullMy father kept things simple. Didn’t learn to drive, couldn’t swim, no bank cards and, until recently, no telephone. He worked 364 days a year until a few years ago. From then on, Christmas Day was sacrificed to “The best
  
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• It’s Public Domain Time For Tintin, Popeye, And A Room Of One’s Own

  29-12-2024 16:30 via npr.org
  
  “Copyright’s awesome … but the fact that rights eventually expire, that’s a good thing, too, because that’s the wellspring for creativity.” – NPR
  
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• The Singer Who Takes Inspiration From Sea Shanties

  29-12-2024 16:00 via artsjournal.com
  Carmen Souza, a Cape Verdean musician, realized that certain words she knew from her childhood derived from British sailors and merchants who “came for the cheap labour, goats, donkeys, salt, turtles, amber and archil,” and “built roads and bridges and developed the natural ports.” – BBC
  
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• Public Broadcasters, Facing The Ire Of Elon Musk, Brace For Huge Funding Battles

  29-12-2024 15:30 via seattletimes.com
  “For decades, National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System have overcome similar threats. But this year, ‘the attention and intensity’ of the calls to defund public media seem greater.” – Seattle Times (NYT)
  
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• Lonely? Turn To Schubert

  29-12-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “His music speaks to something timeless: the longing for connection, and the pain at not finding it. He gives voice, and then consolation, to that part of us that feels alone in the world even when surrounded by people who care for us.” – The New York Times
  
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• Kirsten Simone, Danish Ballet Star, Has Died At 90

  29-12-2024 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “She was one of the first to transcend the Danish repertoire, making her mark in ballets like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty and touring abroad widely.” – The New York Times
  
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• Can This Medieval British Street Be Saved?

  29-12-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Choir singers have lived in two handsome terraces of silvery-pink-stoned medieval houses beside Wells Cathedral for more than 650 years. But the gated close – which is thought to be the most complete and continuously occupied medieval street in Europe – is now in desperate need.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Art World’s Least Powerful Figures In 2024

  29-12-2024 13:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “We’re interested in those left in the shadows of the powerful. That’s where the real stories begin.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Why Breaking Didn’t Break Out At The Olympics

  29-12-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Breaking has evolved greatly since he spun on cardboard in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. Today’s B-boys and B-girls are more diverse, athletic and powerful than ever.” – The New York Times
  
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• Somerset House to reveal the restored ‘Salt Stair’ after fire renovations

  29-12-2024 11:00
  
  London landmark puts symbol of empire at the centre of a new exhibition exploring colonial taxes on commodityA potent symbol of empire that has been hidden for decades at one of London’s landmarks will be open to the public from February.The restored Salt Stair at Somerset House will be home to an exhibition exploring the pivotal role played by the Salt Office, which collected colonial taxes on the commodity. Continue reading...
  
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• From climate denial to gothic movies to ‘treat culture’ … what to expect in 2025

  29-12-2024 06:00
  
  The new US president will almost certainly bring unpredictability but several themes will dominate the year ahead. Observer writers offer their guide on what lies ahead in politics, film, fashion, sport and moreThe only thing that can be predicted with absolute certainty about Donald Trump’s second term as US president is that it will be unpredictable. Trump does not really know what he wants to do on a range of issues. He talks a good game, which is how he got re-elected. But he often see
  
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