The Met Gala theme is here and we're counting down to May 2025

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Breaking FARSHUN news; the Costume Institute has announced its 2025 exhibition which means we have our Met Gala theme and ooh boy are we pumped. In adjacent gallery news, the long held question "is this art?" has not been asked by a Dutch gallery worker. Whoopsies.

Fat Bear Week has crowned its incumbent champion (we luv u Grazer), and a Qantas in-flight entertainment fail has us remembering the olden days of forced viewing.

It's shaping up to be a big summer of music movies too, with Paul Kelly, Robbie Williams, Bob Dylan, and Pharrell all having their stories told in different ways. And we're banging on about a heartbreaking film you shouldn't watch on a plane, and the latest season of Slow Horses.

Oh, and if you see this in time, you can still vote for Bang On in the listeners' choice at the Australian Podcast Awards: https://www.australianpodcastawards.com/voting

Met Gala theme announced: https://www.vogue.com/article/superfine-tailoring-black-style-costume-institute-spring-2025-exhibition

Gallery worker bins art: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/08/beer-can-artwork-lam-museum-thrown-out-all-the-good-times-we-spent-together

Fat Bear Week: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-09/fat-bear-week-2024-winner-128-grazer/104448686

Qantas in flight fail: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/business/qantas-airlines-australia-r-rated-movie.html

How to Make Gravy movie: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-09/how-to-make-gravy-movie-trailer-paul-kelly-hugo-weaving-binge/104448648

A Complete Unknown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rHRm5uTQ0&ab_channel=IGN

Better Man: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-03/robbie-williams-biopic-better-man-cgi-monkey-teaser-trailer/104427364

Piece by Piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDlnwQCkiSA&ab_channel=UniversalPicturesAustralia

Oasis tour dates: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-08/oasis-australia-tour-2025-reunion-dates-tickets/104440066

LDR married: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/27/lana-del-rey-married-jeremy-dufrene

All Of Us Strangers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O97iSjvqBlY&ab_channel=SearchlightPictures

Slow Horses S04: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo27sE2fdvs&ab_channel=AppleTV

Bang Back to us: bangon.podcast@abc.net.au

Bang On is an ABC podcast, produced by Double J. It is recorded on the lands of the Gadigal and Wurundjeri peoples. We pay our respects to elders past and present. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the land where we live, work, and learn.

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