The sad, Airbnb-inflected tale of an artist whose family and nonprofit are at odds, not only dividing the artist's art from artist's house (with that fence), but setting townspeople against each other every day. - The New York Times
Leadership bungled budgets and staff during the pandemic - but aslo has a longstanding, baked-in message that Muslim Americans say fuels war and Islamophobia. - Hyperallergic
Author Rebecca Donner knew little about her great-great-aunt. Turns out she (and her husband) were one of the most famous American spy couples of the Resistance during WWII. - The New York Times
OnlyFans isn't famous for its fanfic. Now, one author "says she’s already made more money in the first two days since releasing 'Ezekiel in the Snow' than she has ever been paid for her work by a literary magazine, publisher, or museum." - LitHub
The National Museum will return "religious and cultural artefacts include sculptures, photos and a scroll are worth around $2.2m." They are suspected of being stolen or looted. - BBC
The Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater "champions Puerto Rican and Latino artists and produces original bilingual plays and musicals," and is about to build a new center in the South Bronx. - The New York Times
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
