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Felt compelled to write about Pope Leo and his remarkable recent speech about cinema: www.vulture.com/article/the-...
The Pope vs. the Algorithm
In his speech to filmmakers last weekend, Pope Leo XIV showed he’s been paying serious attention to the issues facing cinema as an art form.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Best sign of a great piece of writing is it’s on a subject you have absolutely zero time for and you read every word. open.substack.com/pub/theparis...
Shadow Work
Sally Olds gets her fortune told at the MindBodySpirit Festival.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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🇮🇹 Italian journalist dismissed after asking question on Gaza

Gabriele Nunziati was recently dismissed by his employer, the Agenzia Nova agency, after asking a question about Gaza at the European Commission. The incident has raised concerns around press freedom in European countries.
#AFPVertical
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Life-affirming works in the #AGNSW #NaalaBadu: indigenous works in the Yiribana Gallery 2/2 - still from a film from Vincent Namatjira’s studio.
four images from a film of a painter’s studio including six of his paintings and him giving a double thumbs up
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Life-affirming works in the #AGNSW #NaalaBadu: indigenous works in the Yiribana Gallery 1/2 While I was looking at the old ceremonial shield a security officer came and stood so close to me that I could feel his breath.
two paintings by Indigenous artists plus details three paintings by Indigenous artists plus details four paintings by Indigenous artists an old Indigenous wooden shield, a bark painting, and a collection of small colourful figures
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Highlights from the #AGNSW #NaalaBadu #KaldorPublicArtProject 38: works in Thomas Demand ‘The Object Lesson’ 2/2
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Highlights from the #AGNSW #NaalaBadu #KaldorPublicArtProject 38: works in Thomas Demand ‘The Object Lesson’ 1/2
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November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Life-sapping works in #AGNSW #NaalaBadu: despite the wonderful individual works in the #KaldorPublicArtProject 38: Thomas Demand ‘The Object Lesson’, I found the whole display energy-sapping, like being in a huge Bunnings. Thanks Thomas, nice try but get a curator 🙁
eight views of a large display of twentieth century artworks
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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A lovely little exhibition in the #AGNSW #NaalaBadu ‘It Takes a Village’, “a celebration of family and community”, including Marikit Santiago’s wonderful painting ‘Thy Kingdom Come’.
two colourful paintings, one with detail photos showing parents and children three artworks, a domestic setting completely covered in visitors’ chalk marks, a painting of a family outdoors, and a photo of a child’s graffiti
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Recent works in the #AGNSW #NaalaBadu (‘seeing waters’) wing: Louis Fratino, April (after Christopher Wood); Andrew Cranston, Moth; Michael Zavros, The new Round Room; Wendy Sharpe, Trapped in an allegory of my own making; Gajin Fujita, Southland standoff; Michael Pareköwhai, The English Channel
three views of a painting of a naked young man in a room with an open window and table full of objects, plus the 1930 inspiration painting three views of a painting of a red room, with a lamp on a table three paintings two views of a shiny metal sculpture of a man in C18th clothes sitting on a table
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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At the #AGNSW, mediating between the #NaalaNura and #NaalaBadu buildings, is the new commission from 89-yo Korean minimalist sculptor Lee Ufan, ‘Relatum - dialogue’, 2025.
three photos showing two buildings and a reflective wall with two stones
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
igure 3.3. Growth in Incomes at the Very Top, 1917–2006 (in 2006 Dollars) Source: Emmanuel Saez’s computations from IRS income tax statistics, http://elsa.berkeley .edu/~saez
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Little ceramic water bowl for Jasper, at the eclectic #WhiteRabbitGallery shop.
a bowl with a ceramic 3D goldfish in the middle in a cardboard box with the back of a cat’s head looking at the fish
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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More highlights from Judith Neilson’s ever-wonderful #WhiteRabbitGallery #Chippendale: ‘Tender Comrade’ non-heteronormative C21st Chinese art 2/2, with Wang Haiyang paintings, Wang Jun-Jieh’s video ‘Passion’, Qi Wenzhang paintings, Shen Wei photographs, and works by Ren Hang, Xie Yuxin, & comrades.
artworks including shadowy paintings of strange events, a painting of a muscleman with a boxing glove head, and a photo of a man in a bath surrounded by goldfish photos from a stylised film of sailors and a spaceman in front of a suggestive pier paintings of dislocated people in strange outdoor settings artworks including a flooring, a sand message roller, and four dark and mysterious photographs
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Some highlights from Judith Neilson’s ever-wonderful #WhiteRabbitGallery #Chippendale: ‘Tender Comrade’ shows non-heteronormative C21st Chinese art 1/2, including Xia Han’s ‘Humiliation’, ‘Less is More’ & ‘Bitch Boy’, Shih Yung-Chun paintings & installation, and Zheng Bo videos.
an artwork of a huge inflatable naked lying lower body artworks including an inflatable body, a painting, and a screen showing a man dressing as a warrior princess artworks including paintings of dolls and film of men in a forest an artwork viewed through small holes of a dolls house full of objects
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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ICE vs the clergy
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times. Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Day 319 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Always show up! It's the only way to get a treat
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Every ad now
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November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Drink at #TheWharf. After getting rid of fine dining Wharf Restaurant they had the drop-in informal ‘Bar at the End of the Wharf’ but have now reinstated ‘The Wharf Restaurant and Bar’: “wait here to be seated” except it looks just the same. I just want to sit and relax!
a glass of wine with a large bridge in the darkness behind it
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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#Wharf1 #STC Whitefella Yella Tree. Great premise (during English settlement two 15-yo boys meet as messengers from adjoining peoples and fall in love, re-establishing pre-Christian Indigenous queerness) but it was pretty dull - the script has been acclaimed so maybe it was the direction: it sagged.
three photos of a theatrical production showing two young men getting closer and closer
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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#Wharf2 #PlaywroughtProject The Taming of the Shrew. Swift & raucous version of a problematic play, this version has a nifty sex-swap - the matriarchs are bargaining over which son they can marry - and highly enjoyable performances throughout. Not subtle but lots of fun.
a smiling woman dressed in Elizabethan costume and carrying a bat
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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#RoslynPackerTh Lovely to see the kinetic sculpture high up actually working, making clearer its basis on theatrical trick ocean waves machine, the column wave. Sadly no credit I could find.
a series of wavy teal columns mounted horizontally high on a wall
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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#RoslynPackerTh #STC The Talented Mr Ripley. After such a wonderful play Switzerland, it’s with great relief to report that Johanna Murray-Smith & Sarah Goodes have hit gold again: their adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s celebrated book is all-round superb.
three photos from a theatrical production with simple evocative sets, clear lighting and detailed costuming
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Morning walk north through #TumbalongPark, #DarlingHarbour, #Barangaroo, the lovely #BarangarooReserve and unexpected #MarrinawiCove (I love city sea bathing opportunities - see also Syracuse in Sicily!) #Sydneylife
photo over water of tall tower buildings photo over water of a suspension bridge photo over water of a large coat hanger-shaped bridge photo over water, with people swimming and sunbathing, of a large coat hanger-shaped bridge
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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#DarlingHarbour scenes including their clever ‘Dancers Alley’: reflective walls are an open invitation to groups practicing TikTok dances; here they create atmosphere and don’t disturb others.
a sound shell in a park with a city skyline behind a set of buildings by day and night, when the windows glow three photos of a wide thoroughfare with people dancing on either side
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM