"The problem with comics is … it's not challenging anymore because I know how to do it. My life is about the search, not getting comfortable. I like the chaos. I'm not going to live another 300 years. I have to explore everything I can before dying." - Publishers Weekly
His design work on restoration of two New York landmarks, the Statue of Liberty and the Woolworth Building, first brought him renown. He went on to do the Ritz in Paris, the Getty Center in L.A., and the homes of the rich and famous from Calvin Klein to Bill Gates. - Architectural Record
"Like Callas, Ms. Scotto possessed a voice that was riveting without being traditionally beautiful. … Also like Callas, she was known for fully inhabiting her roles, bringing intense dramaticism to an art form in which singers had once been content to stand onstage and trill." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"For the editors of I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks, the answer was obvious. … 'They had an understanding that I wasn't the best choice — I was the only choice,' Mr. Herzog said. 'When you look at the text, it becomes quite self-evident.'" - The New York Times
"'She was a special person and merited a special send-off,' said Patrizia Mosca, a newly retired civil servant who said that she didn’t typically attend public funerals — 'not even for the popes.' But Ms. Murgia was different." - The New York Times
"The show had a resilience that no one back then could have predicted. It continued to run at Sullivan Street for more than 17,000 performances, finally closing in 2002." Jones also co-wrote I Do! I Do! and other musical. - The New York Times
"In that first summer, after Hitler’s accession to power, there can have been few clearer illustrations than the example of Hannah Arendt that it wasn’t up to individuals to decide who and what they were." - LitHub
While the filmmaker and actor was by no means a leftist, he was outraged by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee and considered it unconstitutional for Congressmen to, in effect, put US citizens on trial for political opinions. So he moved his family to Ireland. - History Today
Marden’s style may have made him different from many of his colleagues with more explicitly conceptual ambitions, but he continued to find admirers because of it. - ARTnews
Explaining the decision in a 1,400-word blog, the museum’s exhibitions project manager, Chris Moore, brands Rowling a ‘cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity’. - Spiked
"Boyd's tenure at the RSC (2003-2012) helped rejuvenate the organisation after the rocky stewardship of his predecessor Adrian Noble. It also saw him direct a cycle of eight of Shakespeare's historical plays in the space of just two years, a process he admitted left him exhausted but satisfied." - The Guardian
"In a checkered filmmaking career spanning 50 years, Mr. Friedkin was regarded as both a cinematic pacesetter, responsible for two box-office juggernauts, and a director who struggled to replicate the commercial and critical highs of his heyday in the early 1970s." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"Andrade rose from the clubs of Rio, where she performed as a teenager, to forge a six-decade career, recording more than 35 albums as a pioneer of what she came to call bossa-jazz." - The New York Times
Modern Photography "was as devoted to the technical side of photography as it was to its aesthetics. Ms. Scully focused on the latter, and under her tenure the magazine was instrumental in the emerging recognition of photography as art." - The New York Times
