While he claimed to have “never got 1 cent” for creating the GIF technology, his invention transformed the internet ecosystem and the ways in which people communicate online. - Slate
Over a 17-year tenure, she stabilized the orchestra's finances; led it through the Great Recession, a bitter 2011 strike, and COVID; saw the appointment of two music directors; and launched an impressive set of new programs, from neighborhood concerts to live-streaming performances. - Detroit Free Press
Not that his influence ever went away, "but if Warhol seems particularly ubiquitous right now, that’s because he is — onscreen, onstage, in museums and in the streets." (The article doesn't even mention Todd Haynes' Velvet Underground documentary, with prominent Warhol moments.) - The New York Times
Renee Fleming’s comment that, as a singer, she doesn’t travel as much as instrumental soloists came just a few minutes after mentioning that she had seen Yannick Nézet-Séguin open the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season and Carnegie Hall’s season—commuting to Paris for concerts in between. - Van
No, it's not that they thought show business was too risky: they literally could not conceive of such a thing as earning a living by telling people jokes you made up. Of course, now that he's on television every week (Saturday Night Live), it makes more sense to them. - Vulture
"It's incredible to consider the lengths we used to go to in forgiving artists for being bad people. ... The myth of the high-functioning addict whose great work was fueled by liquor and drugs has become, if not entirely passé, at least less visible." - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
Likolani Brown Arthurs, 36, spent 15 years dancing with the New York City Ballet. Now, she’s moving to a new stage: NYU Langone’s operating theater, where the retired ballerina will begin her surgical residency. - New York Post
At one point he said: ‘There are important political analysts in the West who claim that it is their part of the world that is to blame for the situation in Ukraine.’ At another moment the 53-year-old pianist asked a military officer: ‘Should we really care about the timeline (of the ‘military operation’)? - Classical Music
"I'm happy at the social change, the craziness of it. The main difference, though, is when I was young … we used political incorrectness as a weapon against our enemies, but we made fun of ourselves first. The trigger-warning crowd does not make fun." - The New York Times Magazine
A Chinese-Indonesian who made his fortune in poultry, Tek, through avid collecting, helped provide artists with livelihoods, and his generous loan policy helped those artists get seen. He founded the Yuz Museum in Shanghai and arranged major partnerships between the Yuz, LACMA, and the Qatar Museums. - ARTnews
A very British tale: "In a six-decade career, Mr. Bowles, who was the son of servants and grew up without indoor plumbing, appeared in a merry-go-round of productions in television, film and onstage, alternating between comedy and drama, hapless heroes and villains." - The New York Times
"In a way, she formed that '80s culture, which became not just an American phenomenon but an international one. We who were in the trenches (couldn't) see it ourselves. ... Annie was able to stand back and see the glamour in it and sell tickets to it." - The New York Times
"I don’t sue people. I will let all these corporations who are old-school robber barons do that. I think copyrights are euphemisms for corporate control on a certain level. Remember when Napster lost its first big lawsuit and the record industry thought it won? Guess what? It didn’t." - The Art Newspaper
"At some point during the pandemic, Hollywood's creative underclass realized it had power — on Slack, on Twitter, and in blind quotes to a trade press suddenly hungry for workplace-misconduct stories. ... Which is where Lacey Leone McLaughlin comes in." - New York Magazine
Barbara Maier Gustern, a celebrated Broadway singing coach who worked with the likes of Debbie Harry, Justin Vivian Bond and Taylor Mac, has died after being shoved to the ground in Manhattan last week. She was 87. - Gothamist
