After her still-inadequately-explained sacking in 2020, she went in 2022 to be the Adelaide Festival's artistic director through 2026. She completed this year's event in March but has just resigned to take a major position as Program Director, Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy for South Australia's state government. - ArtsHub (Australia)
“Beginning with Mr. Waugh’s great-grandfather Arthur, the family has produced nearly 200 books and thousands of pieces of journalism; all four of Auberon Waugh’s children, including Alexander, became writers.” - The New York Times
He's famous for “Avenue A Cut-Out Theater, a three-foot-tall cardboard model of his townhouse at 166 Avenue A. He filled it with hand-painted and photographed cutouts of police officers in riot gear, drug addicts, homeless people, sex workers, hawks, pigeons and dogs.” - The New York Times
Jaffe, “an NPR correspondent for roughly 40 years who was known for her unflinching approach to journalism and was the first editor of the network’s initial iteration of the weekly national news show, Weekend Edition Saturday.” - The New York Times
"After a harrowing deep dive through old Trump-rally speeches and xenophobic Tucker Carlson clips, I believe I have come as close as one can to explaining the origins of this bizarre bit. But be warned: Somehow the more you learn, the less sense Trump’s latest obsession makes." - New York Magazine
Ashley Benefield was acquitted of second-degree murder but convicted of manslaughter in the 2020 death of her ex-husband in Florida. The Benefields were the founders of the highly-publicized American National Ballet, which, in 2017, fell apart for lack of funding just as it was about to start rehearsals. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Crawford entirely changed the field. He “was a pioneer who shaped the scope of American music research. … It wasn’t about celebrating an unchanging canon, but about opening up the magic of musical experience.” - The New York Times
"The concept: Dallas for young people. The main characters: twin sisters, one mischievous (Jessica), the other more sensible (Elizabeth).” The Sweet Valley High universe books sold more than 200 million copies and engendered spinoffs and TV shows. - CNN
"Many of Lapham’s innovations at Harper’s and LQ were elegant systems of thievery. (Copyright holders were always paid for the republication of their poetry or prose.) The Harper’s Index and Readings Section and every issue of Lapham’s Quarterly were exercises in the arts of collage and anthology." - The Washington Post (MSN)
He had an international career in a wide repertory and was a star at English National Opera, but his greatest contribution was in British music. Britten wrote several roles for him, and he made over 100 recordings, with his performances of Elgar, Britten, Walton, and British art song being highlights. - Presto Music
"(He) was considered one of the most original and prolific musical voices in Europe and the most performed German composer of contemporary classical music. … He insisted that great art results from aesthetic liberty and intellectual rigor, not adherence to predetermined ideas about beauty." - The New York Times
His goal: “to ask questions, not to provide ready-made answers, to say, in effect, look at this, see how much more beautiful and strange and full of possibility is the world than can be imagined by the mythographers at Time or NBC.” - Harper's
Josh Hartnett, raising goats (and four children) in Hampshire, says, that “‘unlike when he’s in New York or LA, ‘where people only want to talk about your career,’ he says, here ‘nobody cares,’ which is just how he likes it.” - The Guardian (UK)
He was “a big-picture scholar,” readable to non-academics as well as other scholars, and “the theories about resistance to power that he extrapolated led to a new view of supposedly primitive peoples and to a new academic field, resistance studies.” - The New York Times
