He won an Oscar for the stirring score to 1981's Chariots of Fire, which was followed by Blade Runner a year later. Paying tribute, US composer Austin Wintory wrote on Twitter that Vangelis "changed an entire era of music". - BBC
“We had a few fully-masked concerts. We did livestreaming. We had a couple of adverts filmed here. We sold takeout meal kits when we couldn’t open the restaurant. The biggest one of all: we repurposed the theatre lobby into a wine bottle shop.” - Toronto Star
For some philosophers, the experience of color is most similar to that of pain: an internal state that resists quantification. But who wouldn’t rather philosophize about azure instead of aches and pains? - Lapham's Quarterly
Many of us find ourselves in the alienating position of using (even relying on) technology companies we distrust and hate, knowing that they are bad for us and for society, but somehow being unable or unwilling to escape. - New Statesman
At the end of a bumpy Broadway season that started late and was repeatedly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the once-ordinary rituals of Tonys time have taken on a new significance this spring, as a beleaguered theater industry grasps for reassurance. - The New York Times
"Starting out as an informal gathering of local men painting wherever they could find some shade, Papunya Tula has become one of the most respected players in the world of Indigenous art, with two art centers (in tiny desert towns) and an art gallery in Alice Springs." - Smithsonian Magazine
A “classic” is not an entry on some fixed list of books. Most of the time itis just a term for older—let’s say >25 years—books that we still read. Claiming that the classics are just the work of “straight cis Western white men” doesn’t strike me as a progressive stance. - CounterCraft
"Their domestic partnership was not a secret. Lewis often was and sometimes still is made over into Cather's secretary (she wasn't) rather than being recognized for what she was: a highly compensated professional woman with a demanding office job who was also Cather's romantic partner and her editor." - Literary Hub
A new game, Artle, launched by the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, invites art lovers to guess the artist in four attempts using visual prompts from their oeuvre. - Hyperallergic
Igor Zelensky, 52, former principal of the Mariinsky and New York City Ballets, resigned last month as artistic director of the Bavarian State Ballet after refusing to denounce the invasion of Ukraine. He's reportedly the partner of Putin's second daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, and they have a five-year-old daughter. - The Moscow Times
Einstein had been a well-paid man. His Princeton salary of $10,000 – roughly $180,000 in today’s money – was set by the university to exceed that of any American scientist. But his earnings in life were insignificant compared to his earnings in death. - The Guardian
Not all of these women are forgotten: Clara Rockmore (the first virtuoso of the theremin) and Pauline Oliveros are remembered, and Wendy Carlos, Eliane Radigue, and Laurie Anderson are still with us. But there were also Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Jacqueline Nova ... - BBC
"Perhaps (this) is why the campus lends itself so readily to satire; it's one of the few places contained yet familiar enough in which to stage a comedy of manners." - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
"Hollywood did not create this country's desire for green lawns — that longing originated when wealthy Americans tried to replicate the resplendent gardens of French and English nobility of centuries past. Then Hollywood did what it does best: propagate the myth through relentless, omnipresent imagery." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
