“(He) often noted that the difficulties of getting gallery shows, and the disappointments that often followed, led him to open (the Blitzstein Museum of Art), which he stocked with an ever-growing hodge-podge of his surreal, imaginative, sometimes dark, often playful, paintings.” - Los Angeles Times
“How does one spend 20 years training themselves not to be afraid, only to be reminded that they should have been scared all along? How to return to normalcy after that? High-minded principles, sure — ‘If you retreat, they win,’ etc. … It wasn’t principle that got him through this latest crucible.” - The Hollywood Reporter
What did Picasso’s women have to say on passion and fame? Two left memoirs, others gave interviews, but their eyewitness testimony has been sadly neglected. - The American Scholar
“A pocket dynamo of a man who seemed to bounce as he walked along, Frank Dunlop will be remembered for many outstanding and remarkable achievements, but most notably as the founding director of the Young Vic in 1969 and as a controversial director of the Edinburgh International Festival from 1983 to 1991.” - The Guardian
The 47-year-old Oscar winner has overtaken Scarlett Johansson after the success of Avatar: Fire and Ash added more than $1.2bn to her total. Saldaña’s films have now made more than $15.46bn worldwide, according to the Numbers. - The Guardian
When they looked at this 2,100-ton hunk of metal, they envisioned a floating event space, with two restaurants, six bars, a concert venue and hotel rooms with private sundecks. But as the years have gone by, it seems as if they might have paid $280,000 too much for it. - The New York Times
“(His) popular comic strip captured the frustration of beleaguered, white-collar cubicle workers and satirized the ridiculousness of modern office culture until he was abruptly dropped from syndication in 2023 for racist remarks.” - AP
“Clements joined the Guardian arts team in August 1993, succeeding Edward Greenfield as the paper’s chief music critic. His appointment was clinched by a personal recommendation to the editor from the late Alfred Brendel. … For the next 32 years, Clements ranged across all fields of classical music … and often beyond.” - The Guardian
“(He) rose to prominence in 1968 with the publication of … Chariots of the Gods, … (which) was followed by more than two dozen similar books, spawning a literary niche in which fact and fantasy were mixed together against all historical and scientific evidence.” He became the first winner of the Ig Nobel Prize. - AP
“His detour into literature began in 2000, when he was asked by Martin Blaser, the chairman of N.Y.U.’s department of medicine, to join him and Danielle Ofri, who had worked with Dr. Lowenstein when she was a resident at N.Y.U., to start the Bellevue Literary Review.” - The New York Times
“Susan Sontag once claimed she would be ‘glad to see’ Béla Tarr’s 1994 masterpiece Sátántangó ‘every year for the rest of my life.’ No small compliment given that the film is more than seven hours long.” - The Guardian (UK)
“After his breakout role as Pablo Escobar 10 years ago on Netflix’s Narcos, Moura frustrated his agents by turning down many of the high-profile, lucrative projects that came his way.” Then? The Secret Agent came along. - The New York Times
"Graham … died in 1991 at 96. Tensions between her company and Protas then simmered for a decade before boiling over in a court fight starting in 2001, after which performances by her dancers all but ended for two years. To (his) critics, … he was ‘the most reviled man in dance.’” - The New York Times
