The author of The Emigrants and Austerlitz was haunted by his country's, and especially his own family's, history of violence and genocide. - The Observer (UK)
"When Janet Sobel created one of the most recognizable artistic styles, drip painting, on scraps of paper, boxes and the backs of envelopes, she was 45 years old, had never taken a single art class and didn’t even have her own supplies." - The New York Times
The pandemic - and the way the museum treated some of the staff during closures - helped the push for unionization, says at least one digital producer. - The New York Times
Justine Henzell and Mario Van Peebles have done the heavy lifting to rescue, and in some cases help reshoot, their dads' important, overlooked (and in Henzell's case, formerly unfinished) films. - The Guardian (UK)
Timothy Rub now says he should have focused more, and much sooner (perhaps he means before the employees unionized), on gender and racial equity inside the museum. - The New York Times
Author Helen Hoang took her own life experiences and folded them into her novel The Kiss Quotient. "I spent a lot of my life pretending to be something else because I wanted to fit in. I put so much work into trying to fit in." But a diagnosis - and writing a novel - freed her. - NPR
How it's working onstage: "When the guy comes to the rehearsal room he sometimes has this suspicious look. Especially in the beginning, when people were moving their chairs a little bit, he was like, 'Don't do that'." - BBC
With a young independent press, two women in Minneapolis want to take portrayals of Muslims in children's literature to a new place - a place of normality. - Sahan Journal
And her worries about how neither profession seems to be doing much good in this world. "Wash your hands for 20 seconds as often as you like, but you’ll never get that damned spot out: your fingerprints are all over the Earth." - The Guardian (UK)
Todd Bolender and Janet Reed "were expert ballet comedians, a rare talent, and intelligent, witty, well-read human beings" - and responsible for the establishment and quality of many, many U.S. ballet companies. - The Oregonian
Rhoads studied painting, but his fame came from his audiokinetic sculptures, "which ranged from tabletop size to more than 40 feet high, resembled a combination of planetariums, construction girders, carnival rides and pinball machines." - Washington Post
