Like any artist, Ono wanted recognition, but she was never driven by a desire for wealth and fame. Whether she sought them or not, though, she has both. - The New Yorker
"The 62-year-old is also facing a fifth charge of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. He was not asked to enter pleas for the alleged offences from 2005 to 2013 ... (and was) given unconditional bail." (Pleas will be entered on July 14.) - BBC
On June 21, Nye Ffarrabas turns 90. She is "in the midst of several new Fluxus projects". When asked whether she had any advice for her 20-year-old self, without hesitating she smiled and said, "Forget the 1950s."
A good run indeed. At 63, an age when many if not most opera singers have retired, Fleming is still keeping extremely busy — and her projects have nothing to do with nostalgia. - San Francisco Classical Voice
He had two stays in the gay community of Cherry Grove, neither during high season, during which he worked on Another Country (May 1959) and Blues for Mister Charlie (September 1963). It wasn't a comfortable place for him, and not only because the Grove was, back then, very white. - Literary Hub
"At the end of the day, the only people who care about your image in a movie is the marketing department." Hanks discusses finding his way into Col. Tom Parker (in the upcoming Elvis) and working with "a particular countenance that I carry into any movie." - The New York Times Magazine
One of a small group of writers who got Israeli literature established on the world stage, "(he) tackled a variety of narrative forms — from surrealist to historical — and delved into knotty or uncommon subjects ... in an oeuvre of 11 novels, three short-story collections and four plays." - The New York Times
After a wave of outrage over the original story erupted not only on social media but among the newspaper's staff, the column in question was removed and replaced with the columnist's apology. The Herald's editor has expressed contrition as well. - The Guardian
Amid an absolute avalanche of online criticism, the SMH has activists shaking their heads. "The 42-year-old Australian actress, who is known for roles in Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect among others, said it was a 'very hard situation but trying to handle it with grace.'" - BBC
Elizabeth Shaw had quite a life: "From a childhood living above the Ulster Bank in Belfast's York Street, via the London Blitz to four decades spent as an artist in communist East Germany, hers is a remarkable 20th century life story." - BBC
A teenaged Rego fled Portugal for London at her parents' urging when dictator Salazar came to power. Her series of paintings about women suffering after illegal botched abortions is considered to have helped Portugal legalize the medical procedure in 2007. - Hyperallergic
Merriman "plumbed dozens of French governmental archives for the information that invigorated his fast-paced books about anarchists, terrorists, leftists and ordinary people in France." - The New York Times
"At his peak, Mr. Lurie's evocative caricatures appeared in about 1,000 publications with more than 100 million readers in 100 countries. ... He welded drawing and writing into a mightier-than-the-sword instrument ... whose imagery, he said, conveyed even greater impact than photography." - The New York Times
In 1993, Ellen Futter she became the first woman to run a major museum based in New York - and she's had a long tenure, during which time she "has presided over a museum that seems both frozen in time and propelled forward by change." - The New York Times
The director/author/entrepreneur, who turns 80 on Labor Day, "thinks of himself primarily as a writer — he has written poetry and kept journals throughout his career — and has long maintained that his writing, not his films, will be his legacy." - The New York Times
