Perhaps unsuprisingly, The NYT didn’t give Colman Smith an obit when she died in the 20th century. But now: “An occult scholar ... commissioned her to illustrate the tarot deck he was creating in 1909; she was paid a small one-time fee for many months of work and research.” - The New York Times
Mayer and his business partner, filmmaker McG, have renamed it Chaplin Studios, and they’re not thinking small. “We’re doing our best to create kind of a Warhol’s Factory thing of like-minded artists bumping into each other to do their best work possible.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
“Future Fixers was billed as a glossy, family-friendly reality series. ... The show was part Shark Tank, part Lego Masters, and explicitly designed to put girls in tech on prime‑time television.” Then the host’s past caught up with him. - Sydney Morning Herald (Archive Today)
“Singers are tested by every performance, year after year. We are trained to make it look easy. It is never easy. We live through sacrifice, isolation and self-doubt. ... Constant travel (if you’re lucky), fatigue and stress take an emotional and physical toll.” - The New York Times
“I felt untethered. I didn't know where to go, you know, and then I realised that's incredibly human to be lost, and that is absolutely Agnes' story to be lost.” - BBC
Schwartz, who wrote English texts for Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971, said, “Appearing there has now become an ideological statement. … As long as that remains the case, I will not appear there.” - The New York Times
“Midtown marquees were packed with famous names from prestige cable (including more than one Succession sibling) and popular franchises. ... As theater continues to recover from the pandemic, luring audiences off the couch with faces they recognize from the screen has proved a lucrative strategy.” - Washington Post (Yahoo)
Biagio da Cesena, the Papal Master of Ceremonies, and Venetian satirist Pietro Aretino hated the fact that Michelangelo was putting so many naked people on the Sistine Chapel’s wall, saying the painting belonged in a public bathhouse. Bad idea to publicly attack a high-profile artwork while the artist is still working on it. - Artnet
Producer Charlie Brooker proposes scanning the faces of cinemagoers as they enter the theater and then using AI to cast them “randomly” in the actual movie. - Deadline
The move reflects where the entire tech industry is headed — toward a future where screens become background noise and audio takes center stage. - TechCrunch
In 1873, Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway was taken to London by its commissioner. It remained overseas until last year, when a couple of American art collectors acquired it — then sent it to a museum because it wouldn’t fit through the door of their home. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
These dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies are already doing exceptional work, but we’re betting on them to break through in a major way in the year to come. - Dance Magazine
“In a good museum, it’s a lot about imagination. You don’t want to spell things out. We are complex. History is complex, and history has both triumphs and it has dark pages.” - The Times
