"(Eike) Schmidt, who was backed by Italy's right-wing national coalition led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, secured 39.4% of the vote, behind Social Democrat Sara Funaro with 60.6%. … Florence, a city with a population of 360,000, is seen as a left-wing bastion, and Funaro's victory had been widely predicted." - DPA (Yahoo!)
"As the music director and conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Nézet-Séguin has his back to the world’s swankiest audiences. And as the 49-year-old’s sense of style evolves … judge-y fashion tongues are a wagging. Tattooed and platinum blond, Nézet-Séguin is unbothered." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
My instructors grudgingly conceded I had some talent but were skeptical I could develop it fully. These doubts forged a quality in me that turned out to be a strength in later years. - New Criterion
Simon won four Tonys as a producer, and he balanced producing film and stage works for years as well. He said, "I’ve found that many businesspeople can handle the question of financial viability but can’t judge a good story, so as an artist I also have that area of expertise.” - The New York Times
"(The question) is a matter of wide speculation. New Criterion says they burned their correspondence when she wed. However, Morisot’s letters with her sister show their flirtation was not always a delight. …Morisot rebuffed her mother’s persistent matchmaking, but she obliged Manet’s eventual suggestion that she marry his brother." - Artnet
Across six decades, starting in the early 1960s, he appeared in nearly 200 films and television shows — some years he was in as many as half a dozen movies. - The New York Times
"'Dame Tracey' has a ring about it. It's really cool. I don't think there's ever been one before." She might not have become Dame Tracey if she hadn’t been alerted to a letter marked 'urgent' sitting unopened at her former studio. … I get the feeling she hasn’t stopped smiling since." - BBC
Kazuko Shiraishi shot to fame when she was just 20 with her “Tamago no Furu Machi” (“The Town that Rains Eggs”). A pioneer of performance poetry, she was known for her Ginsberg-esque public readings (occasionally with Ginsberg himself), sometimes accompanied by jazz, and she created Japan's Beat poetry scene singlehandedly. - AP
From early on, Radcliffe was aware of two competing drumbeats—two inevitable destinies, usually somehow intertwined, that were being predicted for him. - The Atlantic
Among her discoveries, many of whom Gladstone Gallery still represents, are Matthew Barney, Joan Jonas, Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, Wangechi Mutu, Carrie Mae Weems, Richard Prince, … - ARTnews
"Best known for her role opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant in Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman — for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress — Aimée also starred in such art house standouts as Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8½, Demy’s Lola, and Bertolucci’s Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man." - The Hollywood Reporter
"(He) was playing the roguish John Falstaff in “Player Kings,” an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s two “Henry IV” history plays, directed by Robert Icke. Theatergoers were startled when McKellen lost his footing and fell off the stage in a (fight) scene." The 85-year-old actor is expected to fully recover. - AP
Gunn’s early poetry was erudite, witty, and elegantly wrought, but it was usually coolly detached, framed in meter and rhyme. As he progressed as a poet, he experimented with free verse and syllabic friskiness, juggling tradition and innovation as he merged high and low themes. - ArtsFuse
"He was most famous for his ‘écritures,’ or written paintings, often rendered in white handwritten letters scrawled on a black background. His aphorisms included ‘Ce texte ne peut pas changer le monde’ (‘This text cannot change the world’) ‘Oublier que j’oublier.’” - The New York Times
