There's no way to sum up her influence, but: "Lewis was an artist, an activist, a historian, an author, a curator, a professor, a gallerist, a collector and a beloved mentor who helped document and elevate work by Black artists for almost eight decades." - Los Angeles Times
London absolutely sucks for wheelchairs and the people using them. "Somewhere, the ghost of Virginia Woolf was smiling knowingly, or maybe rolling her eyes. Anonymous was a woman, indeed. I couldn’t get the wheelchair down the corridor, so I hopped out and walked." - LitHub
"The Cultural Workers United (CWU) movement, as AFSCME has dubbed their campaign, has taken hold at museums like MOCA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art," and now the Academy Museum. - Hyperallergic
If history musicals don't succeed this season, it won't be for sheer effort, or numbers. The doubt is always there: Hamilton made it, but can anything else? - The New York Times
The actor died suddenly at 67 last week, and many people are remembering him for Goodfellas. But the true breakout was Something Wild, wherein he shone off the screen. "By all accounts, Liotta was a lovely man in person. On-screen, there was no one scarier." - Washington Post
The winner was Triangle of Sadness, a Swedish comedy (because class war is hilarious) by Ruben Ostlund, who also won in 2017 for the art-world sendup The Square. - NPR
The FBI's Art Crime Team is really quite interested "the authenticity of 25 paintings that the Orlando Museum of Art says were created by Basquiat and are on exhibit there." - The New York Times
Jeff VanderMeer investigates Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness, and our devastating realities. "Just as the inhabitants of Winter have dozens of words for snow and ice, we need as many words for ecocide. If fiction can be useful here, it is rendering the crime more visible." - Orion
Translators "advocate for untranslated authors, bringing them to the attention of agents and editors. They act as de facto ambassadors for their authors, helping them navigate the press and social media — none of which, by the way, is compensated." So share their names, publishers. - The New York Times
The best thing at the Portland Art Museum isn't the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera show that's been traveling the country since 2018. It's the huge, collaborative murals in the museum's sculpture court. - Oregon ArtsWatch
If so, despite massively climbing COVID-19 numbers, which one is going to dominate the summer? (Probably dinos, but what about the little French-ish shell?) - Vulture
"The whole room just lost it. ... To see her coming full circle, from a little girl watching him serve, and he had worked this luncheon for years, to having his daughter be a nominee was just one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments." - The New York Times
A nonbinary composer gets their debut with a piece called "Ode to Liberty." Subtle? No (nor were Tchaikovsky or Beethoven in their day). "That a piece written by a young, Black, queer composer debuted in Florida could be taken as a political statement in itself." - Tampa Bay Times
Good question. The boring answer - "A production designer works with the director and the producer (or showrunner) to build a story’s world." - can lead to an exciting chase for the right designs all over town, the internet, and the world. - Los Angeles Times
