For instance, he was a gym rat when he was younger, and even after he was shot he could do 46 pushups. And he encountered, and was influenced by, both Marcel Duchamp and John Cage while he was a teenager in Pittsburgh. - Artnet
"(She was) a trailblazing painter who gained accolades as a Minimalist during the 1960s before diverging from the movement later on" in favor of "'radical figuration.' … Across more than six decades of work, Baer found innovative — and challenging — ways of exploring how the eye perceives an image." - ARTnews
After being named editor in chief in 1978, Mr. Schneiderman elevated The Voice’s journalistic game, diversified a newsroom that was nearly all white and all male, and reckoned with an increasingly competitive landscape in which traditional newspapers and magazines imitated The Voice’s cutting-edge cultural and media coverage, as well as its insouciant tone. - The New York Times
"De Groft became director of the Orlando Museum of Art in 2021 and set out to bring more attention to the museum by programming exhibitions featuring big names in the art world. The museum soon was making headlines, but not in the way De Groft wanted." - Orlando Sentinel (MSN)
"(He had) a long history of provocative offerings including Les Valseuses (Going Places), Tenue de Soirée (Evening Dress) and Trop Belle Pour Toi (Too Beautiful for You). … His greatest successes in the 70s and '80s (were) a series of outrage-baiting films, many featuring Gérard Depardieu, ... exposing wounded male machismo." - The Guardian
Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words. She was certainly a leading pioneer in post-war British theatre’s modernisation – particularly in terms of her theatrical style, as well as her geographic and class origins. - The Conversation
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation. … (He) found his voice in comics that provided a sardonic and sarcastic takedown of authority and conventional wisdom." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"Now 56, she is fresh off a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Babe Paley in Feud: Capote vs. the Swans. In March, she’ll star in the movie The Friend,” and she also has a new book coming out. - The New York Times
The choreographer of exuberant musicals said, “My goal as a dancer and choreographer is to be understood. … Dance should not be a cerebral experience that the dancers have and the audiences watch. I want dancers to communicate something and have the audience receive the same thing.” - The New York Times
Van Kampen, married to actor Mark Rylance, not only "was the first female musical director at both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre,” but she also composed original scores for Broadway musicals and British productions alike. - BBC
In Farewell to Manzanar, Houston “recounts the more than three years and about 10,000 other Japanese Americans endured at the camp until the war ended. Given its location, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, the weather could be fiercely hot or freezing cold.” - The New York Times
Until late in life, her fame as the wife/widow of Laurence Olivier obscured from the wider public (though not from colleagues) her own extraordinary achievements on film and, especially, on stage. - The Washington Post (MSN)
"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences — with an unsettling blend of melodrama, whimsy and nightmarish horror." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Drake’s lawsuit claims that Universal Music Group ‘chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists’ by allegedly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s song with bots and payola. - The Verge
