"(The question) is a matter of wide speculation. New Criterion says they burned their correspondence when she wed. However, Morisot’s letters with her sister show their flirtation was not always a delight. …Morisot rebuffed her mother’s persistent matchmaking, but she obliged Manet’s eventual suggestion that she marry his brother." - Artnet
Across six decades, starting in the early 1960s, he appeared in nearly 200 films and television shows — some years he was in as many as half a dozen movies. - The New York Times
"'Dame Tracey' has a ring about it. It's really cool. I don't think there's ever been one before." She might not have become Dame Tracey if she hadn’t been alerted to a letter marked 'urgent' sitting unopened at her former studio. … I get the feeling she hasn’t stopped smiling since." - BBC
Kazuko Shiraishi shot to fame when she was just 20 with her “Tamago no Furu Machi” (“The Town that Rains Eggs”). A pioneer of performance poetry, she was known for her Ginsberg-esque public readings (occasionally with Ginsberg himself), sometimes accompanied by jazz, and she created Japan's Beat poetry scene singlehandedly. - AP
From early on, Radcliffe was aware of two competing drumbeats—two inevitable destinies, usually somehow intertwined, that were being predicted for him. - The Atlantic
Among her discoveries, many of whom Gladstone Gallery still represents, are Matthew Barney, Joan Jonas, Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, Wangechi Mutu, Carrie Mae Weems, Richard Prince, … - ARTnews
"Best known for her role opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant in Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman — for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress — Aimée also starred in such art house standouts as Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8½, Demy’s Lola, and Bertolucci’s Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man." - The Hollywood Reporter
"(He) was playing the roguish John Falstaff in “Player Kings,” an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s two “Henry IV” history plays, directed by Robert Icke. Theatergoers were startled when McKellen lost his footing and fell off the stage in a (fight) scene." The 85-year-old actor is expected to fully recover. - AP
Gunn’s early poetry was erudite, witty, and elegantly wrought, but it was usually coolly detached, framed in meter and rhyme. As he progressed as a poet, he experimented with free verse and syllabic friskiness, juggling tradition and innovation as he merged high and low themes. - ArtsFuse
"He was most famous for his ‘écritures,’ or written paintings, often rendered in white handwritten letters scrawled on a black background. His aphorisms included ‘Ce texte ne peut pas changer le monde’ (‘This text cannot change the world’) ‘Oublier que j’oublier.’” - The New York Times
Running as an independent candidate, Eike Schmidt came in second place with 33% of the vote, far ahead of most candidates but ten percentage points behind Sara Furano of the center-left Democrat Party. Florence leans center-left politically, so Schmidt isn't favored to win in the final round. - Artnet
The Dallas Arts District is just a microcosm of the growth and expansion that's happened after the Dallas Museum of Art and the Meyerson Symphony Center. Who knew that within 25 years, we would have the Winspear Opera House, the Wyly Theatre, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Perot Museum and the Moody Performance Center? - KERA
"The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto is considered one of his classic designs, with floating forms of glass, metal and concrete. ... In the U.S., Maki’s projects included the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and 4 World Trade Center in New York." - AP
"(He) brought a gritty realism to his portrayal of cops, boxers and all manner of tough guys, memorably playing a mobster in The French Connection and starring as one of his hometown’s most irascible mayors, Fiorello La Guardia, in a one-man show that he performed around the world." - The Washington Post (MSN)
A very popular performer at the Paris Opera Ballet, he left after getting caught in the middle of a notorious battle between Rudolf Nureyev and Maurice Béjart. Following a very successful freelance career, he ran the ballet troupes in, successively, Bordeaux, Avignon, Marseilles and Nice. - ResMusica (via Google Translate)
