Beyond his hands-on work with score paper, he organized, charmed, persuaded, hired and validated. Starting in the late 1950s, he took social and professional mobility to a new level in Black popular art, eventually creating the conditions for a great deal of music to flow between styles, outlets and markets. - The New York Times
Johanson “made nature her medium, transforming highway underpasses, sewage treatment plants and other grimly functional public spaces into sweeping artworks.” - The New York Times
More than a year after allegations of abuse emerged, the Metropolitan Police are sending their evidence out. "The allegations against Brand come from a seven-year period when he was at the height of his fame - hosting national television and radio programmes, and starring in Hollywood films." - BBC
"He was so versatile — his output included plays for radio and stage, films, short stories, novels and poetry — that he was best described as a storyteller. (He) forged a path away from the Latin American tradition of magical realism, looking for the moments of transcendence in everyday life." - The Washington Post (MSN)
The story of Scott Burton is a story about how fragile, mutable and, to some degree, arbitrary art history is. It illustrates how an artist’s legacy can be transformed by one decision. In Burton’s case, that choice was to leave his estate... to MoMA. - The New York Times
After directing the Savannah Ballet and Ballet Oklahoma, Spassoff in 1984 took over what is now the Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia. He led the school for 37 years and saw it through a financial crisis and then independence from the Pennsylvania (now Philadelphia) Ballet. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
She began her career as a backup dancer in Elvis Presley movies and made countless guest appearances on TV series, but she's best remembered for brilliant comedic turns in the films Young Frankenstein, Mr. Mom, and Tootsie, for which she received an Oscar nomination. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"Gérard Depardieu's trial on charges of sexual assault has been postponed until March because the French actor is in poor health, a court in Paris has said." - BBC
Brannon Braga, the writer who took over Voyager showrunning duties from her, said, “Her memory will live on in many ways, but perhaps most of all in the character of Captain Janeway, who reflected the best dimensions of Jeri herself.” - Variety
Although he was widely known as an art critic for the Village Voice during the mid-1980s, and even though he has continued to write literature and art criticism in the decades since, Indiana had by the beginning of the 21st century faded into relative obscurity, with many of his books going out of print. - ARTnews
She had spent decades as a TV and public radio journalist and host, and, this past February, she suddenly found herself unable to utter anything but gibberish. Here's how her neurosurgeon identified and remedied the problem and how she and the therapists recovered her ability to speak. - The New York Times
"If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed," the 66-year-old said. "It scared me because I started to go down a dark hole. So I try to avoid it, because it doesn't make me feel good." - BBC
"In 1905, Morgan’s bibliophilic nephew recommended a co-worker in the library at Princeton: Belle da Costa Greene. … She would remain at the helm of Morgan's library for nearly the rest of her life, and after Morgan’s death in 1913, she led the effort to make his vast private collection accessible to all." - Smithsonian Magazine
"In his 20s, 30s and 40s, his life and career had been not only unorthodox, but by many means, a disaster. … (For) the multitudes of readers who adored him and his work, there might be a message about what we think of as failure and the possibility of redemption." - The New York Times
