Last month Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko made public accusations against Wiley; now Black Lives Matter activist Derrick Ingram has accused Wiley of rape while they were dating for several months in 2021, and filmmaker/poet Nathaniel Lloyd Richards says Wiley groped him during a date in 2019. - Artnet
The victim, who was six when, on a visit with his parents from France to London in 2019, he fell 100 feet after being thrown, can also now draw, read alone, and get dessert from the refrigerator. His memory, though still impaired, has improved, and he is in school. - The Standard (London)
“His passion for the music was stronger than his patience for taking directions — and when he found out that some of his U.S. jazz heroes were having trouble getting signed back home, he started cutting deals himself.” Then things spiraled upward, for him and the musicians. - The New York Times
“In an industry shaped over the decades by bombastic and hard-charging men, Drescher embraced her idiosyncratic and unabashedly female style. She offered spiritual teachings and brought a Jellycat plush toy to the negotiating table.” And she won. - Los Angeles Times
Jeannette Charles “first acted in small repertory roles in regional theater. But her uncanny resemblance to the queen distracted audiences, who giggled and guffawed when she appeared onstage. That led to her playing the queen professionally.” Long live the double of King Charles III? - The New York Times
Unsurprisingly, “at 98, that makes Van Dyke the oldest actor to receive a Daytime Emmy win.” He said, “I feel like a spy from nighttime television.” - Variety
“Carlos was now in the mode of trying to manage the crisis,” co-founder Samir Rao (who has confessed and is cooperating with prosecutors) testified. “He said he needed to call members of the board and say that I had a mental break or mental health episode.” - Nieman Lab
The artist, who usually styled himself as simply "Ben," was known primarily for enigmatic slogans, scrawled in white or bright-colored paint, which he sometimes hung en masse on walls. He took his own life just hours after his wife of 60 years died of a stroke. - Artforum
"On Friday, after less than an hour of deliberation, the jury … (found) him guilty of embezzling more than $260,000 from the bankruptcy estate of Ace Gallery while he acted as the estate’s trustee and custodian. He faces a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
After 15 years running Geneva's opera house, he returned to Paris to restore the national opera after years of shrinking audiences, administrative turmoil, the flight of top-tier singers, and the difficult opening of the Opéra-Bastille. He had more success than most observers had dared hope for. - Forumopera (France) (via Google Translate)
Peter’s prose was always ruthlessly concentrated. His wit had a bubbling, organic quality: The line punched, but you never heard the clanking windup machinery. He had ready opinions on everything. - Washington Post
The security manager’s days "span 12-plus hours and can wrap as late as 2 a.m., but she doesn’t mind the long days. ‘It’s only for three weeks, and I’m on a high the whole time because I get to watch New York … being celebrated.’” - The New York Times
Venza was "a shoemaker’s son who almost single-handedly delivered to the proverbial ‘vast wasteland’ that was American television in the 1960s and ’70s an oasis of cultural programming, including ‘Great Performances’ and ‘Live From Lincoln Center.’” - The New York Times
Helen insisted that it was the poem’s shape—its form, the thing that made it look unlike any other type of utterance—that gave it meaning. In clear and elegant language, Helen proved this time and again across her 60-year career. - LA Review of Books
Manhattan prosecutors, preparing for retrial after Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned by New York state's highest court in late April, say they'll try to get indictments on additional charges because "some people who were not ready to speak out in 2020 now appear ready to do so in 2024." - CNN
