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• Alex Winters On Working With Keanu Reeves Again, This Time On Broadway

  10-11-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  “A child actor turned movie star turned director and producer and prolific tech documentarian, Winter’s career has been fitful, searching and unconventional, full of sharp left turns and voracious curiosity.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  13-12-2025 07:00
  Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut stars the 96-year-old June Squibb, while Netflix’s lovable tweefest sees its heroine move to RomeEleanor the Great
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  June Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes and tells the tale of the eponymous Eleanor, a senior citizen recently relocated to New York, who strikes up a friendship with a 19-year old – and then stumbles her way into pretending to be a Holocaust survivor.Lurker
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• The Guardian view on Nnena Kalu’s historic Turner prize win: breaking a glass ceiling | Editorial

  12-12-2025 19:25
  The UK art world is finally becoming more inclusive. But greater support must be given to the organisations that enable disabled artists to flourishThe Turner prize is no stranger to sparking debate or pushing boundaries. This year it has achieved both. For the first time, an artist with learning disabilities has won. Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu took the award for her colourful, cocoon-like sculptures made from VHS tape, clingfilm and other abandoned materials, along with her large swirling vor
  
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• Don’t blame Maria Balshaw for Tate Modern’s failings. Its lack of ambition goes much deeper | Jonathan Jones

  12-12-2025 17:52
  Tate stresses its departing director has ‘diversified’ the collection, but it has hidden its treasures and let its galleries slide into insulting incoherence – and visitors have voted with their absenceIn the last nine years Tate has had some hits, but its misses have become embarrassing. Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is currently occupied by a feeble installation that would be weak in an ordinary-sized art space, let alone this gigantic one. It’s become genuinely hard
  
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• Maria Balshaw to step down as director of Tate after nine years

  12-12-2025 14:18
  Balshaw, who joined in 2017, helped steer organisation through Covid-19 and fluctuating attendanceMaria Balshaw is to step down as the director of Tate in 2026, after a challenging nine-year tenure when she steered the organisation through the Covid-19 pandemic and had to deal with fluctuating attendance figures and financial instability.Balshaw, who joined as director in June 2017 after a celebrated spell as the leader of the Whitworth in Manchester, said it was a privilege to serve as director
  
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• ‘Getting lost is good’: skybridge and floating stairs bring fun and thrills to mighty new Taiwan museum

  12-12-2025 14:16
  With its soaring ceilings, meandering pathways and mesh-like walls, Taichung Art Museum, designed by Sanaa, sweeps visitors from library to gallery to rooftop garden for rousing viewsWalking through the brand new Taichung Art Museum in central Taiwan, directions are kind of an abstract concept. Designed by powerhouse Japanese architecture firm Sanaa, the complex is a collection of eight askew buildings, melding an art museum and municipal library, encased in silver mesh-like walls, with soaring
  
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• Sleeper hits, sci-fi sculpture and Martin Parr on Martin Parr – the week in art

  12-12-2025 13:00
  Artists explore insomnia and snoozing, sculptors imagine alternative futures and we look back with a great British photographer – all in your weekly dispatchTo Improvise a Mountain
  Painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye portrays fictional people in made-up settings. Where does she get her haunting ideas? Here she reveals her inspirations from Walter Sickert to Bas Jan Ader.• MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until 25 January Continue reading...
  
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• Director of Marketing and Communications – Broadway in Hollywood & the Hollywood Pantages Theatre via TOC Arts Partners

  12-12-2025 01:54 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityComing off another extremely triumphant season of productions and record-breaking attendance, Broadway in Hollywood and the Hollywood Pantages Theatre seek an energetic, driven, and forward-thinking Director of Marketing and Communications to join their team as a key leader in this period of forward momentum. The Hollywood Pantages reflects an exciting paradigm in the national theatre landscape because of its ability to attract, enchant, and retain audiences in a post-pandem
  
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• Judi Dench On The State Of Her Memory And Her Eyesight

  11-12-2025 21:02 via theguardian.com
  The 91-year-old acting legend, who has age-related macular degeneration, stopped performing because she can’t see her way around a set or read a script anymore. And she says, “I can’t remember what I’m doing tomorrow, I swear to you,” but can still remember quite a lot of Shakespeare. – The Guardian
  
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• Can Literary Fiction Help Save Classical Music?

  11-12-2025 20:32 via publicbooks.org
  Since 2020, well over a dozen novels have taken classical music as their setting. Of course, novels about classical music are nothing new. But what is notable about this recent surge in classical music fiction is that many of these texts center on a scathing critique of the industry itself. – Public Books
  
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• Why Does It Seem Like Every Major Cultural Institution In Melbourne Is Named After The Same Person?

  11-12-2025 20:04 via abc.net.au
  Well, because that person, Ian Potter, was extraordinarily generous, as his widow and his foundation continue to be. But when your sister gets angry because she was waiting for you at one Ian Potter Museum while you waited for her at another, you realize there must be a better way. – ABC (Australia)
  
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• “Nutcracker” From Behind The Stage

  11-12-2025 19:44 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh’s production has evolved its own traditions and superstitions. During some performances, performers pass a Heinz ketchup packet while onstage, like a hot potato. Whoever has it at the end loses. Another tradition: Dancers owe a dollar for every mistake. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Americans’ Obsession With Renovation And Makeovers — And The White House

  11-12-2025 19:31 via nytimes.com
  The White House has explained the East Wing’s demolition as “renovation,” and the necessary prelude to a multimillion-dollar ballroom. This is the architectural equivalent of a celebrity-style makeover: a redo to admire as a luxury commodity, an old building rejuvenated, history erased. – The New York Times
  
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• Have Stripped Public Media Of Funding, Now Republicans Want To Cancel NPR, PBS Station Licenses

  11-12-2025 19:15 via arstechnica.com
  The CPB is set to shut down after Congress approved President Trump’s request to rescind its funding. The Center for American Rights said the CPB shutdown should be used as an opportunity to reassign spectrum used by NPR and PBS stations to other entities. – Ars Technica
  
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• Poetry And Politics In The U.S., Then And Now

  11-12-2025 19:01 via daily.jstor.org
  Verse was used as a political tool going back all the way to the Revolutionary War. Walt Whitman considered poetry to democracy, which “waits the coming of its bards … in the twilight of dawn.” And the connection of poetry to politics continues today with Joy Harjo and Amanda Gorman. – JSTOR Daily
  
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• Mark Swed: LA’s Best Classical Music Of 2025

  11-12-2025 18:31 via latimes.com
  Classical music’s survival instincts proved reliable. New leaders of L.A.’s arts institutions are bringing vitality to the region, empowering musicians and giving fans hope and optimism. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Baritone Jubilant Sykes, Stabbed and Killed

  11-12-2025 18:15 via nytimes.com
  After the Santa Monica Police Department responded to a call about an assault at a house around 9:20 p.m., officers found Sykes, 71, with critical injuries consistent with a stabbing, the authorities said in a news release. He was pronounced dead at the scene. – The New York Times
  
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• How Do You Keep “Nutcracker” Costumes Looking Fresh For 30 Years?

  11-12-2025 18:03 via torontolife.com
  The National Ballet of Canada’s costumes, designed by Broadway mainstay Santo Loquasto, have absorbed a lot of wear, tear, and sweat over three decades. Here wardrobe chief Stacy Dimitropoulos, resident cutter Chris Read, and several company dancers talk about costume care and maintenance. – Toronto Life
  
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• The People Who Are Using AI To Do Their Thinking

  11-12-2025 17:44 via theatlantic.com
  For this set of compulsive users, AI has become a primary interface through which they interact with the world. The emails they write, the life decisions they make, and the questions that consume their mind all filter through AI first. “It’s like a real addiction.” – The Atlantic
  
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• How Warner Bros. Sale To Netflix Could Change Movies

  11-12-2025 17:35 via newyorker.com
  In Hollywood, concern about whether Warner Bros. will remain a theatre-centered business is haunted by historical echoes of earlier seismic shifts in the movie business. It seems existential, perhaps portending the end of mainstream moviegoing. – The New Yorker
  
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• Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum announces southern outpost in Eindhoven

  11-12-2025 17:28
  Museum, which includes rich collection of Vermeers and Rembrandts, currently shows only fraction of its 1m objectsAmsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, which holds the world’s largest trove of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, has announced plans to open an outpost in Eindhoven.The museum, which showcases only a fraction of its more than 1m objects, said on Thursday it would construct the 3,500 sq metre centre over the next six to eight years. Continue reading...
  
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• The Trumped Up Kennedy Honors

  11-12-2025 17:15 via newyorker.com
  Every detail of the ceremony appeared to have been plucked from Trump’s mood board, an indelible blend of revanchist impulses and eighties camp. – The New Yorker
  
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• Disney Will License Its Characters To OpenAI’s Video Platform And Invest $1 Billion In Company

  11-12-2025 17:05 via msn.com
  “The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos using Sora, OpenAI’s short-form AI video platform, of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters. … ChatGPT will also be able to generate images of Disney’s multibrand licensed characters.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Broadway Attendance From New York’s Suburbs Is Lowest In 30 Years

  11-12-2025 16:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “According to data released … on Wednesday, less than 13% of admissions in (2024-25) came from the surrounding New York suburbs, which was the lowest percentage on Broadway in 30 years. The demographic, which once made up 20% of the audience, has been trending down over the past few years.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum To Open Its First Satellite

  11-12-2025 16:06 via apnews.com
  And no, it’s not in Abu Dhabi. It will be in the south of the Netherlands, in the high-tech hub of Eindhoven. The new museum, planned to cover more than 3,500 square meters (37,673 square feet) near the city’s central railway station, is scheduled to open in six to eight years. – AP
  
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• Nathalie Stutzmann, Atlanta Symphony Music Director, Takes On A Second Position

  11-12-2025 15:34 via moto-perpetuo.com
  Next September, the French contralto-turned-conductor will begin a four-year term as music and artistic director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. She succeeds Kazuki Yamada, music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK. – Moto Perpetuo
  
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• “The Sistine Chapel Of The New Deal” In Danger Of Demolition By Trump Administration

  11-12-2025 15:01 via newrepublic.com
  The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. contains perhaps the most important New Deal-era murals in the city — works by Philip Guston and Seymour Vogel as well as Ben Shahn’s monumental The Meaning of Social Security. The Trump administration is currently soliciting bids for the building’s demolition. – The New Republic
  
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• The Muny In St. Louis To Get $9.5 Million Renovation Next Fall

  11-12-2025 14:30 via stlpr.org
  The beloved outdoor theater will replace all 11,000-odd seats and make structural improvements to protect against flooding, which caused serious damage after a torrential 2022 rainstorm. – St. Louis Public Radio
  
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• Performance At La Scala Ends Early After Conductor Riccardo Chailly Falls Ill

  11-12-2025 14:03 via gramilano.com
  During the second intermission of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk on Wednesday evening, a very weak Chailly was taken to a Milan hospital and the third act was cancelled. The 72-year conductor, who has a history of heart disease, is in his last season as La Scala’s music director. – Gramilano (Milan)
  
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• The world’s most sublime dinner set – for 2,000 guests! Hyakkō: 100+ Makers from Japan review

  11-12-2025 12:46
  Japan House, London
  The fruit of a two-year odyssey through the workshops of artisans using ancient techniques, this delightful show features rippling chestnut trays, exquisitely turned kettles and vessels crafted from petrified leatherAs a retort to the doom-mongering prognostications of AI’s dominance over human creativity, it is momentarily comforting to tally up the things it cannot do. It cannot throw a pot, blow glass, beat metal, weave bamboo or turn wood. Perhaps, when it has assum
  
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