He was always a natural mimic, and he used that ability to make a remarkable career as a voice actor, most famously on The Simpsons. Yet, from his teenage years well into adulthood, he used his talent for becoming other people to avoid the question, “Who is Hank Azaria?” - The Washington Post (MSN)
As partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he had a hand in designing numerous landmarks of contemporary public architecture, in New York — the High Line, the Shed, and major redesigns of Lincoln Center and MoMA — and elsewhere — the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. - CNN
“Thomas Jolly filed a complaint for death threats after receiving homophobic and antisemitic abuse on social networks. The online attacks erupted after Jolly’s acclaimed but controversial opening spectacle on the Seine in July — a queer-inclusive, high-energy fusion of tradition and modernity.” - AP
In radical breaks from the traditions of his profession, “his playgrounds and landscapes emphasized abstract, elemental forms for play and exploration, inserted into gritty New York City public housing projects, light-years away from the ornamental gardening approach that spawned the discipline in the 19th century.” - Bloomberg CityLab
For over a decade before that spring day in 1992, Barry Joule, a Canadian handyman with a rock-star mane, had been one of Bacon’s helpers, doing odd jobs around the artist’s London home and driving him to exhibitions. - The New York Times
“An artist known for his ubiquity around New York City’s cultural scene, (he) nevertheless managed to exist outside its manic commercial hustle, using antique cameras and homemade paints to produce haunting photographs and landscape paintings.” - The New York Times
“Once his jacket and shoes were off, he leaped onto the bed with surprising grace and struck the perfect pose. My only suggestion was for his palms to be facing upward.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Holder was "a standout dancer ... who made his name in the 1960s and early ’70s in pointedly topical works like Astarte, a groundbreaking psychedelic ballet, and The Green Table, a haunting 1930s antiwar ballet made newly relevant by the Vietnam War.” - The New York Times
“Through her work, she was an early—if accidental—proponent of so-called color-blind casting, in which a performer’s race does not limit the parts available to them, long before such a concern became standard in the industry. She deserves compassion, not judgment.”- The Atlantic (MSN)
Maillet “shaped a new literary language for an isolated French-speaking minority, becoming the first non-European to win France’s most prestigious literary prize.” - The New York Times
“Professor Elbow contended that indoctrinating freshmen to think and write in an inflexible, formulaic style — with the teacher as the only audience member — inhibited creativity and confidence at a key moment in their intellectual development.” - The New York Times
Before Mr. Wambaugh’s era as a writer, which began in 1971, police dramas like the television series “Dragnet” were implausible stories about clean-cut heroes doing good. He shattered the mold with portraits of officers as complex, profane, violent and fallible. - The New York Times
When responders examined the bodies, they were already decomposing, showing bloating in the face and partial mummification in the hands and feet. Both Hackman and his wife appear to have fallen suddenly. There were no signs of bodily trauma or of a gas or carbon monoxide leak in the house. - CNN
“An actor who powerfully embodied ordinary men under stress in dozens of films and twice won Oscars for bringing humanizing depth to corrupt lawmen, ... in The French Connection (and) Unforgiven, (he) was found dead Feb. 26 along with his wife at their home in Santa Fe.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
“(The) former child star who appeared in the 1996 Harriet the Spy hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV shows — Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl,” was found dead in her Manhattan apartment Wednesday morning. No foul play is suspected. - AP
