1. This year’s BAFTA longlist has been announced, with My Week With Marilyn and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy leading the pack with 16 mentions a piece. The narrowed down pool of nominees will be named on January 17, and the awards show will take place on February 12. [via Deadline]

2. Famed photo journalist Eve Arnold — who is perhaps best known for her portraits of Marilyn Monroe and was the first woman admitted into the Magnum photo agency — has died at the age of 99. [via Art Daily]

3. Van Halen played a reunion show last night at a tiny club in Greenwich Village where they announced a 45-date tour that will begin in February. Find what a bunch of music critics had to say about their performance here.

4. Jack White has recorded a cover of Howlin’ Wolf‘s “Evil (Is Going On)” with Tom Jones that will be released later this year on Third Man Records. [via 24Bit]

5. Barnes & Noble says that it plans to break off the brick and mortar bookstores part of its business — which stands to lose twice as much money this year as was previously expected — from its growing Nook digital-book business. [via WSJ]

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Magnum Photos, the cooperative photography agency established in 1947, has a blue-chip pedigree (founders included Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson) and a gigantic scope (a photojournalism collection amassed from across the globe in the 20th century). The archive comprises more than 180,000 images known as press prints, physical copies once circulated to newspapers and magazines before the digital age. Now the organization is moving forward with a one-two punch: after selling its entire photo archive to a collector, Magnum is recreating itself as an authoritative media entity online. After the jump, view an exclusive slideshow of eight photos from the archive.

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