" remains best known for her breakthrough 1994 feature The Silences of the Palace, a lyrical study of a woman's return to an abandoned royal residence, which tackled the themes of exploitation and trauma as experienced across generations of Arab women. It won a string of international awards." - The Guardian
Her inaugural poem made her a superstar. And while her rise may seem swift and meteoric, Sharon Marcus, an English and comparative literature professor at Columbia University, says we’re overdue for a poetic mega idol. “There have been celebrity poets for a long time. It’s more unusual to not have a celebrity poet — to have long periods of...
McGee, the prodigious dean of Detroit’s visual arts scene whose works can be seen everywhere from the Detroit Institute of Arts to the Broadway Station of the People Mover and who made invaluable contributions as an influential teacher, gallery owner and arts advocate dating back to the 1960s, died Thursday afternoon of natural causes at his home in Detroit....
Nemser started calling out sexism in the art and art history worlds half a century ago. "Her serious criticism and scholarship belied a whimsical streak she would occasionally indulge, as she did in a 1973 issue of The Feminist Art Journal when she parodied the Gilbert and Sullivan song 'I’ve Got a Little List,' from The Mikado, substituting 'piggy'...
"Emily Johnson, an Indigenous self-described dancemaker and choreographer published a letter she sent to the National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday detailing what she calls “abusive” experiences working with Jedediah Wheeler, executive director of Montclair State’s Office of Arts and Cultural Programming." - Politico
Yeun, who got the job as Glenn on The Walking Dead five months after he moved to Los Angeles, is starring in Minari right now - the movie famous at the moment because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn't consider this extremely American story American enough since the protagonists mostly speak Korean. "Minari premiered at Sundance and took home the...
Look ... "He wasn’t just a pro. If there were a fabulous comic-book A-team of character actors — an Expendables, a Wild Bunch, an Avengers Initiative — Christopher Plummer would have been the one you put in charge of it, the Reed Richards or Morpheus of the crew. And he would probably have designed and built the headquarters but...
Jones dropped out of college, and yes, started his career working in the shipping room at 20th Century Fox. "The Los Angeles native scored Academy Award noms for his work on comedy film series It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and the Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier-starring Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Jones also cut films such as...
Peter Yarrow said Feeney was "joyous and fiery in her determination to use her music to elevate those who are most marginalised and to move towards greater justice in the land." - The Guardian (UK)
The actor went through a particularly fertile creative period in his golden years, receiving his first Academy Award at the age 82 for his heart-warming supporting turn as a widower who embraces his homosexuality in “Beginners.” The trophy made him the oldest-ever Oscar winner in an acting category. - Toronto Star
"Making stories was how Nichols coped with the world. The biographical question is: why was there a need to cope? The answer is not mysterious. Nichols was unusually self-aware, and he liked to talk about his life. To some extent, the Mike Nichols story is a story by Mike Nichols." - The New Yorker
On Tuesday, Serebrennikov hosted an event at the Gogol Center — which he has directed since its opening in 2012 and which has become one of the Russian capital's hottest theaters — revealing season plans for 2021. On Wednesday, the city of Moscow's culture department announced that Serebrennikov's contract would not be renewed when it expires in 3½ weeks....
In 1302, caught on the wrong side in one of Florence's perpetual factional struggles, Dante Alighieri was fined and banished on a probably trumped-up charge of corruption in political office; summoned home from Ravenna the following year, he refused to come, and his sentence was commuted to death by burning. Now Dante's great-great-many-times-great-grandson, astrophysicist Sperello di Serego Alighieri, is...
" a virtuoso vocalist whose ease of motion between opera, jazz and South African popular music made her a symbol of the country’s new social order after the end of apartheid. … Mandela famously referred to her as the country's 'first lady of song,' and the title stuck." - The New York Times
By age 32, Tarses was the first woman to head a network entertainment division — and one of the youngest execs ever to lead a Big Three — in her role as ABC Entertainment president from 1996 to 1999. During her tenure, she oversaw popular series including Aaron Sorkin’s “Sports Night,” David E. Kelley’s “The Practice,” “Dharma & Greg”...
