"Wolf serves as Klein's entry into what she calls the 'mirror world' — where the anti-establishment critiques of the far left become co-opted by the far right, and where what once seemed like a yawning gulf between ostensible opposites has narrowed into a tenuous line." - The New York Times Magazine
"Chase's death leaves a long trail of litigation, with numerous parties accusing him of defrauding them out of investment funds, real estate and loan proceeds … (as well as) using 'bundlers' to raise funds from groups of investors for non-existent movie projects." - Variety
Her breakthrough was 1981's Painting Churches, which won an Obie and, after its 1983 Broadway transfer, became a Pulitzer finalist. Also a Pulitzer finalist was the late-1990s production of Pride's Crossing at San Diego's Old Globe and Lincoln Center. In 1987, her Coastal Disturbances was nominated for three Tony Awards. - Deadline
Wintour, who organizes the annual Met Gala in New York, has planned an event called Vogue World for the start of London's Fashion Week next month. Her intent is to make up for money lost because of Arts Council England's decision to shift funds to organizations beyond the capital. - BBC
Ruiz-Picasso, who had to sue even to be recognized as one of Pablo Picasso's heirs, was appointed administrator in 1989 in order to end fighting among the heirs and lovers after Pablo's death. - The New York Times
The problem is that their society in ancient Gaul and Britain didn't read or write, so the only contemporary descriptions we have today come from Roman colonists predisposed to portray them as barbaric. Archaeology, however, can tell us quite a bit. - Aeon
Yukhym Prigozhin was a mining engineer who helped make the city of Zhovti Vody prosperous. But his brother's grandson grew up to be the notoriously brutal boss of the Wagner Group, which has killed countless Ukrainians, so some in Zhovti Vody want to obliterate Yukhym's name. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Lauren Pazienza, 28, acknowledged throwing 87-year-old Barbara Maier Gustern, a beloved teacher and performer, onto a Manhattan sidewalk and then walking away in March of 2022. Pazienza will spend eight years in prison, minus the time she has served since her bail was revoked in May 2022. - AP
The Wildensteins' business goes back five generations and 150 years; family members have always been secretive, even by art-world standards. But a lawsuit by a disinherited widow has uncovered what a prosecutor alleged is "the longest and most sophisticated tax fraud" in modern French history. - The New York Times Magazine
"Most confusingly, we once had distinct writerly lanes (hers being women’s bodies, sexuality, and leadership; mine being corporate assaults on democracy and climate change). But by the time Occupy happened, the once-sharp yellow line that divided those lanes had begun to go wobbly." - Vanity Fair
One of a very few Black men present from the beginning of the downtown postmodern dance scene, he danced with Merce Cunningham and reviewed for The Village Voice as well as running his own company and founding a trio of eminent older dancers called Paradigm. - The New York Times
Johaar Mosaval has died at 95. Mosaval, who had South Asian ancestry, "was prohibited from touching White dancers with his bare hands" - but progressive ballet teachers smuggled him into a Royal Ballet audition. - Washington Post
Jones might have gotten more fame on TV, but he "began his career at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love for the stage was present throughout his entire career." - Variety
Will this slow the massive project? Macron doesn't think so. The French president "lamented that 'Gen. Georgelin will never see the reopening of Notre Dame with his own eyes,' but added that when it reopens on Dec. 8, 2024, 'he will be present with us.’'"- Associated Press
The promise of SNL under Michaels’ leadership is simple: If you are loyal to the family, you will reap handsome rewards. Over almost 50 years, that promise has come to justify a legacy of alleged workplace abuses ranging from the familiar to the shocking. - LongReads
