At the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, Hungary, "about 20,000 books and many valuable manuscripts have been missing since the end of World War II.” But some books have, with great effort and care, made their way back. - The New York Times
Sometimes it’s nearly perfect, as with Scorsese’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Sometimes, it’s a full-on career revival, or reversal (Liam Neeson turning into Leslie Nielsen, perhaps?). - NPR
“We don’t judge Elizabeth harshly for going against polite strictures, because she’s often revealing some hypocrisy or injustice. ... Lizzy generally punches up, directing her barbs at and refusing the marching orders given by those more powerful than she is.” - LitHub
Sirât director Oliver Laxe: “One of the first ideas that I had for this film was a sentence from Nietzsche: … 'I won’t believe in a God who doesn’t dance.’” - Los Angeles Times
Ally Fallon, a 27-year-old from Manchester, won the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize for If You Were Certain, What Would You Do Then? The prize has an OK history: "Past winners include David Hockney, Sarah Pickstone and Rose Wylie.” - BBC
“The abrupt re-scheduled closing is a surprise finish for a staging that has been by all accounts a massive success in London's West End, where it continues to run in its fourth year. The Broadway iteration has struggled to sell the amount of tickets needed.” - Playbill
“Dohnanyi’s adventurous programming, allied to ultra-refined and precise orchestral skills, compelled Time magazine to dub the Cleveland Orchestra ‘the best band in the land’ in 1994.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer
“This feeling of being at the mercy of incomprehensible forces is an old one in art. For 19th-century painters of the sublime like J.M.W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich, nature was humanity’s foil. … , A.I. fits the bill nicely.” - The New York Times
Honestly: “Every jury decision is a copout. All juries are horse-trading and compromising and collectively accepting second-choice movies that no one objects to from film-makers whose prestige they all endorse.” - The Guardian (UK)
“'Moving the equipment with just Kat and an intern is the last thing that would expect Kat to try to do,’ the report stated.” - Boston Globe (Archive Today)
Is this a sign of things to come for next weekend’s big Primetime Emmys night? (Alert: The Pitt won an ensemble casting award, and best guest actor as well.) - The Hollywood Reporter
"Portrait of a Lady belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish-Dutch art dealer who fled Amsterdam in mid-May 1940 to escape the Nazis, but died after falling through an open hatch into the hold of the SS Bodegraven, the ship carrying him to the UK.” - The Guardian (UK)
