For more than 200 years it has been believed that Shakespeare left his wife in Stratford-upon-Avon when he travelled to London and that a decision to leave her almost nothing in his will meant he probably felt bitterness towards her. - BBC
Since 2020 there have been 32 exhibitions of his work, staged everywhere from the National Gallery in London to Washington DC, Tokyo, California, Ontario, Istanbul and across Europe. The world is currently Hockney mad. - New Statesman
Artist Ogechi Chieke sued under New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law, filing the day before the window closed. The suit claims that Wiley committed a “crime of violence motivated by gender” which “would not have occurred if Plaintiff was male.” (Wiley is an openly gay man.) - Artnet
“(He was) known for his thick applications of paint and his furious brushstrokes … (and) an uncompromising personality; (his) paintings depicted scenes like Noah’s Ark breaking apart in a storm and a huge candy-cane-colored funnel cloud looming over a rural landscape.” - The New York Times
“Lindsey Halligan, 35, is a Trump attorney who seems to have tasked herself as a sort of commissioner — or expurgator, according to critics — of a premier cultural institution.” In fact, the executive order appears to have been her idea. - The Washington Post (MSN)
The movie, described by one outlet as The Big Short meets The Bridge of Spies, was a bit, let’s say, intensified. But the real guy’s “story is especially notable as Tetris continues to thrive.” - The Verge
Known for his work at The Village Voice and The Atlantic as well as for an influential annual critics poll, he, “more than many of his contemporaries, peered beyond the given framework of any musical subject, keen to consider the context, both cultural and commercial.” - NPR
“A scintillating principal dancer for the Paris Opera and New York City ballet companies, (he) took an unexpected leap by taking on yet another career-defining role, as artistic director of a fledgling program in Charlotte that he would help to massively transform over two decades” with his wife, Patricia McBride. - The Charlotte Observer
“He was the cellist of the Juilliard Quartet from 1974-2016, and a renowned teacher at New York’s Juilliard School. … His passion for contemporary music led to him giving premieres of works by composers including Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe and Charles Wuorinen, among others.” - The Strad
“Several dismissed jurors were open about why they couldn’t serve fairly. (One) told a pool reporter, ‘I don’t like the guy; he is a really bad guy.’ One woman said she was the victim of sexual assault. A restaurant maître’d explained, ‘I don’t see how anyone can be impartial.’” - Vulture (MSN)
“The architect behind the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona has been declared ‘Venerable’ by Pope Francis, the second step in the path to canonisation. Gaudí was recognised by the Vatican for his ‘heroic virtues’.” - Dezeen
“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting. (There are) a lot of things I want to do with my life.” - Radio Times (UK)
While she’s best remembered for the TV series, in which she played housemaid Rose Buck, she had an extensive career in theatre, television and film in both the UK and US, from Doctor Who to the Burton-Taylor epic Cleopatra to Hitchcock’s Frenzy to Ron Howard’s Willow. - The Telegraph (UK) (Yahoo!)
For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time. Scott isn’t coming to poetry as a true outsider. - Slate
“Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, gained renown as a young writer with slangy, blistering visions of the corruption, moral compromises and cruelty festering in Peru.” - The New York Times
