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• From Ballerina to the return of Pulp: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  07-06-2025 07:00
  A ballerina-assassin stalks a spin-off from John Wick, while Jarvis’s wry Britpop greats pick up from where they left off 24 years agoBallerina
  Out nowAna de Armas (Knives Out, Blonde) stars in this literal spin-off of John Wick, pirouetting through events set between films three and four, as ballerina-assassin Eve Macarro. Anjelica Huston, Lance Reddick, Ian McShane and Keanu Reeves return in their respective franchise roles. Continue reading...
  
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• San Diego City Council Promises Not To Cut Arts Funding In Next Budget

  12-11-2025 20:04 via msn.com
  
  “Council members have declared city arts funding off limits for budget cuts next spring, even as they face a projected $111 million deficit. … While the move falls far short of a long-unfulfilled council pledge known as ‘penny for the arts,’ council members said it’s a strong message.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
  
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• Bill Ivey

  12-11-2025 19:52 via artsjournal.com
  
  Bill Ivey died this past weekend; he was eighty-one years old. It came as a shock to us – just last week he was here in Bloomington meeting with our arts policy students, something he loved doing. He was a great friend to our program, generous with his time and advice to students and to younger faculty. He had studied Folklore and Ethnomusicology here at IU, and enjoyed visiting.
  He is best known for having been Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in the last years of the Clint
  
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• The Resurgence Of Music On Physical Objects

  12-11-2025 19:44 via thetonearm.com
  
  Continuing one of the more surprising comebacks of the digital age, vinyl album sales in the United States increased for the 18th consecutive year in 2024.” While CD sales are on the decline, “Cassette tape sales jumped by 204.7% in the first quarter of 2025, hitting 63,288 units. – ToneArm
  
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• The Muppets Come To Netflix And Go Global

  12-11-2025 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  More than almost any other children’s show, Sesame Street seemed to crack the code on how to simultaneously educate and entertain children. – The Guardian
  
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• LA’s TV Commercial Business Is Tanking Too

  12-11-2025 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Production in the third quarter of this year was 18 percent lower than last year, and 40 percent lower than the five-year average, according to a new report from FilmLA, the local government organization that tracks production in the area. – The New York Times
  
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• Explainer: The Crisis At The BBC That Cost The Director-General His Job And Drew A Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Threat From Trump

  12-11-2025 19:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “(A journalist) takes a deep-dive into all the facts of this fast-developing story, and why it’s brought the BBC to an inflection point.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Antique Movie Camera Reviving A Technology

  12-11-2025 18:44 via wsj.com
  
  A handful of rare and cranky antiques are powering the ungainly Hollywood resurgence of VistaVision. The format, developed in 1954 by Paramount, was once used to glorious effect by filmmakers such as Cecil B. DeMille. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Masterworks Sold Shares In $1 Billion Of Art. Good Investment?

  12-11-2025 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  In just eight years, it has become one of the art market’s biggest buyers. Its collection of 500 artworks is now valued at more than $1 billion and its platform has drawn 70,000 investors. – The New York Times
  
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• London’s Royal Opera Institutes Dynamic Pricing, And Top Ticket Prices Soar

  12-11-2025 18:06 via thetimes.com
  
  “(The house) is selling tickets for Siegfried, the third instalment of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle, for up to £415 ($546). This is the priciest known ticket offered for sale in Britain by any publicly subsidised performing arts organisation. RBO receives a state subsidy of over £22 million each year.” – The Times (UK)
  
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• Netflix’s First Venture Into Theme Parks

  12-11-2025 17:44 via npr.org
  
  “This is the first permanent physical manifestation of Netflix for our fans,” says the company’s chief marking officer, Marian Lee. “They’ve been inviting us into their homes for years and years.” – NPR
  
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• Striking British Library Workers Expose Dire Low Pay Consequences

  12-11-2025 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  According to their union, they are offered pay deals so dire that many of them work multiple jobs and live in substandard housing. Seventy-one per cent of respondents to a union survey find their salary insufficient to meet basic needs. – The Guardian
  
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• Hollywood Has Slipped Dramatically In Diversifying

  12-11-2025 17:15 via theankler.com
  
  To my shock, when I looked at the numbers, I found that not only are things not significantly better, 2025 has been worse than any moment in recent times; worse, in fact, than pre-#MeToo. – The Ankler
  
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• Choreography In Space: Exploring The Possibilities

  12-11-2025 17:03 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “How? The answer in (one) case was Velcro-covered suits, … just one form of technology that dancers are using to simulate the effects of weightlessness here on Earth. But for some, the end goal is to experience a true lack of gravity by bringing dance to space.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Staffers Call Strike At Britain’s Tate Galleries

  12-11-2025 16:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Workers at all four galleries — Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, Tate St. Ives in Cornwall, and Tate Liverpool — represented by the Public and Commercial Services Union voted 98% to 2% to walk out from November 26 to December 2 over a pay offer they insist is too low. – The Guardian
  
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• Some US Bookstores Have Set Up Food Banks To Help Cut-Off SNAP Recipients

  12-11-2025 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “With the (federal government) shutdown creating anxiety and uncertainty for those who depend on government aid, many independent bookstores took on a new role as hubs for food donations.” – The New York Times
  
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• US Museums Have Had A Pretty Rough 2025, Finds Survey

  12-11-2025 15:31 via theguardian.com
  
  An American Alliance of Museums survey of over 500 museum directors found that one-third of responding museums have lost government grants or contracts under the Trump administration, one-fourth of them have had to cut targeted programs (e.g., for students or senior citizens), and over one-fourth have canceled programs for the general public. – The Guardian
  
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• Disney’s Standoff With YouTube Could Cost It Quite A Lot

  12-11-2025 15:05 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  “Disney may lose $30 million in revenue per week as its carriage dispute with YouTube TV has left ABC, ESPN and more of the media giant’s channels and programming dark on the Google-owned platform for 12 days.” – TheWrap (Yahoo!)
  
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• Antiquities Stolen From National Museum Of Damascus

  12-11-2025 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  Thieves smashed open a door on Sunday night and reportedly took ancient Roman marble statues and gold items. The museum had reopened for good, with its collection intact, only this past January after extended closures due to the Syrian civil war and subsequent uprising against the Assad regime. – ARTnews
  
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• Actress Sally Kirkland, 86

  12-11-2025 14:06 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  A Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award winner and Oscar nominee for the 1987 film Anna, in which she plays a great Czechoslovak actress trapped in New York’s avant-garde scene, she had over 260 roles in a decades-long career, from Andy Warhol to The Sting to 2006’s Factory Girl. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Sex, lies and pistachio shells: the disturbing dream worlds of artist Joseph Yaeger

  12-11-2025 07:00
  The American takes strange film stills and turns them into monumental watercolours, full of Catholic guilt and paranoia – and it’s made him the most talked-about painter of the moment‘All paintings are in their own way accusations and confessions,” says Joseph Yaeger. “It’s what Polygrapher is about.” This is the title of the artist’s new exhibition, his first since joining the prestigious London gallery Modern Art in 2024, for whom it marks the op
  
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• Musicians Of Venice’s Opera House Lead March Through City To Protest Music Director

  11-11-2025 21:01 via apnews.com
  
  “On Monday, musicians, singers and stagehands (from Teatro La Fenice) marched through Venice with workers from other Italian opera houses. … They were joined by season-ticket holders, music students and Venetians worried about the future of artistic independence at La Fenice — and across Italy.” – AP
  
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• Bart Sher: Theatre As Catalyst For Change

  11-11-2025 20:31 via observer.com
  
  “I think theatre is a catalyst for change,” Sher said. “I don’t think you make theatre pieces to tell people how to change. We tell stories that express people’s ability to handle ambiguity, deal with problems, see conflicts and make decisions.” – New York Observer
  
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• Inside The Negotiations That Ultimately Kept Broadway Actors From Striking

  11-11-2025 20:03 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  As the union’s executive director, Al Vincent Jr., tells it, Actors’ Equity was much closer to declaring a work stoppage than we might think. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Life or death in Joseph Wright’s 1768 painting | Letter

  11-11-2025 18:31
  Harriet Monkhouse responds to a review of the National Gallery exhibition that includes An Experiment on a Bird in the Air PumpRe Jonathan Jones’s review of the Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition at the National Gallery, and his 1768 painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (Wright of Derby: From the Shadows review – science, skeletons and a suffocated cockatoo, 4 November), the good news is that the bird probably doesn’t die after all.An episode of Radio 4’s
  
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• JMW Turner’s mother deserves respect and understanding too | Brief letters

  11-11-2025 18:31
  Exploring neurodivergence | Volunteer plants | Frankie the flamingo | Thriving jazz | Young letter writersI’m glad we’re starting to look at historical figures through the lens of neurodivergence (Documentary explores whether JMW Turner may have been neurodivergent, 10 November). But why give JMW Turner the benefit of 21st-century advances in neuroscience and not afford the same courtesy to his mother, Mary, who was “believed to have had a psychiatric disorder and would fly int
  
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• ‘Harlem has always been evolving’: inside the Studio Museum’s $160m new home

  11-11-2025 11:03
  The iconic museum, which was founded in 1968, has been rehoused in 82,000-sq-ft building providing a new destination for Black art in New York CityCall it the second Harlem renaissance. On Manhattan’s 125th Street, where a statue of Adam Clayton Powell Jr strides onwards and upwards, and a sign marks the spot where a freed Nelson Mandela dropped by, there is bustle and buzz.The celebrated Apollo Theater is in the midst of a major renovation. The National Black Theatre is preparing to move
  
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• Tony Foster: Painting at the Edge review – going deep in the quest for extreme landscape painting

  10-11-2025 12:00
  At 79, the British artist is still skirting real peril, questing across the planet to depict the unspoiled vastnesses shown to grand effect hereTravelling with Tony Foster comes with a disclaimer. According to the terms of the contract signed by the British painter’s prospective companions: “You must have sufficient personal insurance for your body to be flown home in case of fatality.” Or, as he warns beforehand: “There will be times on this journey when you wish you wer
  
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• Zohran Mamdani has made the future a bit brighter | Brief letters

  09-11-2025 18:00
  New York’s mayor-elect | Foxhunting | Local shops | Where’s cool? | Guardian letter writersThere must surely be a lesson for so-called centre-left politicians in the UK and elsewhere following the stunning victory by Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral election (How Mamdani built an ‘unstoppable force’ that won over New York, 6 November). If people are offered bold, progressive solutions and an inclusive message of hope for the many, they usually embrace the opportunit
  
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• ‘Bike lanes are great – I hope these issues get resolved’: Rafael Escobedo de la Riva’s best phone picture

  08-11-2025 12:00
  On a street in Tenerife, an architect spotted a graphic composition - and evidence of drivers resisting changeRafael Escobedo de la Riva was heading home from his office in Santa Cruz de Tenerife when he took this image. New bike lanes had recently been installed and it seemed to be taking drivers time to adjust. “There was some resistance and a lack of understanding by local people of this new way of moving around the city,” Escobedo de la Riva says.He took this image in the af
  
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