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• How Choreographers Are Using AI As A Subject

  26-11-2025 19:01 via dancemagazine.com
  “As AI technologies proliferate and become an increasingly inescapable fact of modern life, choreographers are not only experimenting with AI tools, but they’re also creating works that grapple with the potential repercussions of artificial intelligence and the existential questions it raises.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• London gets at least one new Banksy mural for Christmas

  22-12-2025 19:12
  Artist confirms image in Bayswater is by him, but gives no indication about another outside Centre Point towerA new Banksy mural that shows two children lying down and looking at the sky has appeared in west London.The artist revealed he was behind the artwork above a row of garages on Queen’s Mews in Bayswater by posting a photo of it to his Instagram account on Monday afternoon. Continue reading...
  
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• CBS News Yanks ‘60 Minutes’ Story On Brutal El Salvador Prison

  22-12-2025 14:30 via variety.com
  Bari Weiss is said to have spiked the show a few hours before it was supposed to run. “The report … was to have featured correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewing deportees who the Trump administration has sent to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador.” – Variety
  
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• Museums Are, Understandably, Freaking Out After The Louvre Heist

  22-12-2025 14:15 via nytimes.com
  In short, they all want to make sure they’re guarding the perimeter. – The New York Times
  
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• Moviegoing Is Split Into Two Equally Miserable Experiences, But You Never Hear About The Second One

  22-12-2025 14:00 via slate.com
  Hell is other people in a cinema, sure, but Hell – especially for a movie that needs an audience – is also no other people. – Slate
  
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• Popular British Children’s Author Is Dropped By Publisher After Allegations Of Harassment

  22-12-2025 13:45 via theguardian.com
  David Walliams, “one of Britain’s most successful children’s authors, was reportedly the subject of complaints that he had ‘harassed’ junior female staff at HarperCollins UK, prompting the publisher to decide it would no longer release new titles by the author.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• This One Little Word Can Make Or Break A Film

  22-12-2025 13:30 via nytimes.com
  You know the word – the f-word. “A single use of the F-word requires at least a PG-13, while additional uses will elevate it to an R.” – The New York Times
  
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• A British Museum Asks Its Visitors To Help Uncover The History Of Its Looted African Treasures

  22-12-2025 13:13 via theguardian.com
  “The museum holds more than 40,000 items from across Africa, many of which were traded, collected, looted or preserved during the era of the British empire. … The names of makers, the cultural significance of objects and the people to which they once belonged are largely unknown.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The best art and photography of 2025

  22-12-2025 13:00
  Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year
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• James Ransone, Actor Who Played Ziggy On ‘The Wire,’ Has Died At 46

  22-12-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  “Ransone was born in 1979 in Baltimore, an advantage in the early 2000s when The Wire, then a little-watched drama on HBO, was looking to cast actors from the city for the show’s second season.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Future Of Film Never Arrived, And Never Will

  21-12-2025 22:00 via theatlantic.com
  “I covered the 3-D boom from the start, and even early on one could see that the golden goose was cooked. It was clear that the marginal returns on 3-D screenings were rapidly diminishing.” – The Atlantic
  
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• In Los Angeles, People Daringly Put Their Faces On Buildings Asking ICE If They’re Next

  21-12-2025 21:30 via theguardian.com
  “Along with projecting portraits of Angelenos, Am I Next? highlights brief stories of people, including US citizens, accosted and snatched out of homes, cars, workplaces and the streets by federal agents, under the word ‘Taken.’” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Why I Stopped Reading Print, And Embraced Audiobooks

  21-12-2025 21:00 via nytimes.com
  “Here’s what I love about listening: I can do it all the time, not just while sitting still. I read … while making my bed, brushing my teeth, unloading the dishwasher, commuting to work, waiting in line, driving and occasionally while falling asleep.” – The New York Times
  
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• Romance Fiction Is Booming, And It’s Not Just Because Of Love

  21-12-2025 20:30 via theguardian.com
  “It is possible, with your small candle, to make your way in the darkness. One delight, against all this. The world crumbles, and lipstick sales go up. And so, too, do sales of romantic fiction.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Wait, The Right-Wing Is Using ‘Theatre Kid’ As An Insult?

  21-12-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  This feels very, let’s say, sixth-grade. One actor: “‘Theater kid’ being the bullied party is a tale as old as time. … We’ve always been the outsiders, the weirdos. It’s a quick cultural shorthand to treat us as the underdog.” – The New York Times
  
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• This Year’s Best Music Was Inspired By Grief

  21-12-2025 19:30 via theguardian.com
  “Death, collapsed relationships, the passing of youth and the inexorable passage of time: these are sombre themes that fit a quite spectacularly grim year. But in the broader context of what’s happening to music, these albums about loss are, oddly, cause for optimism.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Terrible Does A Christmas Movie Have To Be For It To Disappear Forever?

  21-12-2025 19:00 via archive.ph
  Bad, really bad. “It’s a mistake to compare this stuff to other films. It is, indeed, a mistake to compare it to any other artistic enterprise. What we’re dealing with is closer to tinsel or snow in a can. Christmas movies are mere decoration.” – Irish Times (Archive Today)
  
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• AOL Instant Messenger Taught The Internet To Chat

  21-12-2025 18:30 via artsjournal.com
  But it wasn’t supposed to exist at all – and it’s only thanks to a “semi-rogue” group that we all know ROTFL, LOL, and so much more. – The Verge
  
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• Veronica Gosling obituary

  21-12-2025 18:21
  My grandmother, Veronica Gosling, was a writer, visual artist and curator whose life brimmed with curiosity and creative energy. To many, she was a distinctive artistic presence in Exeter, always asking “Why not?” and “What if?”Veronica, who has died aged 94, was drawn to found objects for their shapes, textures and hidden histories, liberating them from their original purpose and setting them loose in new imaginative lives. In periods of upheaval she turned to painting,
  
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• Tate’s greats are certainly not kept hidden from view | Letters

  21-12-2025 18:06
  Roland Rudd of Tate responds to an article by Jonathan Jones that questioned the organisation’s ambition and priorities. Plus a letter from Liz Goddard on Máret Ánne Sara’s installation at Tate ModernOne of the joys of art is that it never fails to spark debate. In that spirit, I always enjoy Jonathan Jones’s reviews, but I must disagree with his particular criticism that Tate has hidden its treasures (Don’t blame Maria Balshaw for Tate’s failings. Its
  
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• Some Pretty Big TikTok Creators Are Worried About New US Ownership

  21-12-2025 18:00 via variety.com
  And that’s because of censorship. – Variety
  
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• You’re Probably Going To Watch A Movie On, Or Over, Christmas, Right?

  21-12-2025 17:30 via vulture.com
  How to pick an (Oscar) winner: “The presumptive top five in the Best Picture race includes two auteur-driven blockbusters, one old-school weepie, one timely social drama, and one family saga by a venerated European director.”– Vulture
  
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• What Directors Have To Say About ‘Wasting’ Money On Their Movie Sets

  21-12-2025 17:00 via yahoo.com
  “You don’t have a right to make your movie, because it costs so much and you need so much help. You do have to earn the right to make your movie. That is a part of our job.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• K-Pop Demon Hunters, But Make It Classical

  21-12-2025 16:30 via bbc.com
  Does this have rizz? Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins has recorded a classical reinterpretation” of “Golden,” from K-Pop Demon Hunters. – BBC
  
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• Manchester Museum seeks help to uncover hidden histories of African collection

  21-12-2025 16:00
  New Africa Hub confronts colonial-era silences by asking visitors to share insights on 40,000 objectsIt’s a rare thing for a museum to talk about what it doesn’t know. But unanswered questions and archival silences are at the heart of the new Africa Hub at Manchester Museum, north-west England, which is inviting people around the world to help fill the gaps.The museum holds more than 40,000 items from across Africa, many of which were traded, collected, looted or preserved during the
  
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• Literary Authors Are Writing Romances Under Pseudonyms And Never, Ever Talking About Romance In Public

  21-12-2025 16:00 via lithub.com
  Gross. “Every type of writing requires specific attention to detail. For people not to take that seriously (and to ask for your help in promoting their work when they don’t do anything to help boost other people’s work) is pretty shitty behavior.” – LitHub
  
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• Rosa Von Praunheim, The Pioneer Of Gay Cinema In Germany, Has Died At 83

  21-12-2025 15:30 via theguardian.com
  “His second feature, entitled It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, premiered at the Berlin film festival in 1971 and has since been described as Germany’s ‘Stonewall moment,’ radically breaking conventions in its portrayal of queer life.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Sorry, TrumpKennedyCenter Dot Org Is Not Available

  21-12-2025 15:00 via yahoo.com
  Why? Because a comedian knew what was coming. “Morton isn’t in the game to sell off his domains. … Instead, he buys them with the express purpose of turning them into seemingly legit websites that, upon closer inspection, often skewer their namesakes.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• ‘Am I Next?’ protest art in downtown LA boldly asks who’s safe from ICE

  20-12-2025 18:00
  Public exhibition, featuring billboard-sized portraits projected onto buildings, calls attention to Trump administration’s attacks on civil libertiesEach evening, drivers on the busy 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles pass billboard-size portraits of Angelenos that flash across the side of a building with a simple message next to their faces: Am I Next?Three Los Angeles institutions have teamed up to launch a response to federal immigration raids in the nation’s second-largest city,
  
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• ‘Geometric lines, strong colours and shadows created a striking image’: Anne Rayner’s best phone picture

  20-12-2025 12:00
  A sci-fi playscape at an exhibition in Gateshead had the photographer’s granddaughter entrancedAnne Rayner was enjoying a day out with her husband, Bob, and two-year-old granddaughter Phoebe when she took this photo. The three of them had headed into Newcastle city centre to find some fun, while Rayner’s daughter-in-law was caring for Phoebe’s siblings, six-month-old twin boys, at home.Walking along the quayside and crossing the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, they point
  
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