A two-time Oscar nominee who’s widely expected to get another nomination for her performance as Circe, Morton said, “I’ve got really good agents and a manager, but at the end of the day, I’m 49. I do believe I’m a good actor, (but) there are other good actors out there.” - Variety
After emerging internationally in the late 1970s, he established himself as one of the leading specialists in the operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. He guest-conducted at most of the world’s major opera houses and served as music director of the Teatro Regio in Turin for three years in the 1990s. - Moto Perpetuo
In poems, short stories, novels, and two widely-praised (and occasionally censored) books of young-adult fiction, he drew on his gay identity and on life on the US-Mexico border around El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. He received the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2013 for his story collection Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club. - AP
After a life and career around Europe that might euphemistically be described as picaresque, da Ponte fled to Philadelphia and New York, ran a grocery store in rural Pennsylvania, and ended up as Columbia University’s first professor of Italian. For eight generations, his family has held onto his memory. - The New York Times
“It was theater that ultimately changed her life. Between the ages of 14 and 16 she began acting while, offstage, she kept stealing food to survive, used drugs and accumulated several arrests for violent incidents.” - El País English
“The 89-year-old Oscar-winning actor has voiced God and presidents, and he is the go-to narrator for your favorite documentarian. He still brushes aside the impact of his immediately recognizable, resonant baritone.” - The New York Times
Pastore once said, “It’s easier for me to play a tough guy than it is to play the good guy. … I grew up in a tough neighborhood. I didn’t study the classics. I’m a street actor. A lot of my training was on the set.” - The New York Times
Perhaps the bike-loving, gardening, SCUBA-diving actor is having what might be called another moment, a few years after Past Lives garnered her some attention. - The New York Times
“The choreography that he and Feuer created — like that of their contemporary Paul Taylor, in whose notorious Seven New Dances (1957) she had performed — experimented with stillness, pedestrian poses and unadorned walking. Chained to each other, they blew up a balloon with a bicycle pump.” - The New York Times
An anatomist by training, he developed a technique called “plastination” which prevents the decay of corpses and leaves them flexible. He used that technique on dozens of bodies, many with skin removed to display musculature, and set them in various poses for his traveling exhibitions — which attracted both excited crowds and horrified criticism. - AP
A scathing, six-part investigation by Le Monde delves into the scope of his power, wealth, and alleged rivalries within the Arnault clan, described as “the last royal family of France.” The report devotes a chapter to Arnault’s engagement with the arts, titled: “Bernard Arnault, the generous patron, in love with the arts and tax exemptions.” - ARTnews
“Forti burst onto the New York dance scene at the dawn of the ’60s with her seminal ‘Dance Constructions,’ works in which dancers responded to cheap, ready-made objects that prompted improvisational actions such as leaning, climbing, or whistling.” - Artforum
After deliberating for roughly two hours, the jury in a Buffalo courtroom convicted Hadi Matar, 28, on all charges. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison, which he’ll serve after his 25 years in a New York state penitentiary for attempted murder. - The Telegraph (UK) (Yahoo!)
As also happened in defendant Hadi Matar’s New York state trial for attempted murder (for which he was convicted in February 2025), he declined to testify himself and his attorney called no witnesses. - AP
