A potential Swift appearance at Super Bowl LVIII alongside her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, has already prompted the MAGA right’s culture-war pugilists into a conspiracy-fueled froth about how this NFL season has been rigged to boost Biden. - Rolling Stone
"No critic since Kenneth Tynan was better able to capture in vivid, richly metaphoric language the unique brilliance of a stage performance." Charles McNulty pays tribute to his professor/colleague/friend, who was a longtime professor at Yale's School of Drama and wrote for, among others, The Village Voice. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
"Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just days after the 75-year-old New York gallerist was found dead in his apartment in Rio. … Prevez’s lawyer Greg Andrade revealed that his client had confessed and alleged the crime was masterminded by another person." - Artnet
"With her raven hair, lithe frame and smoky voice, Ms. Rivera cut a mesmerizing Broadway figure for more than six decades, her name synonymous with vitality and longevity on the musical stage. She was a reliable box-office draw, … and proved choreographically adaptable from Bob Fosse to Jerome Robbins." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"(As) editorial director of Bantam Books, … he oversaw a boom in paperback publishing beginning in the 1960s, putting out hitmakers from The Catcher in the Rye to Jaws" to rapid-turnaround books about the Entebbe hostage rescue and the Jonestown massacre to novels by Judith Krantz and Louis L'Amour. - The New York Times
"An author, literature professor and member of the Kiowa Indian tribe who became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize — for his 1968 debut novel, House Made of Dawn — (he) helped inspire a flowering of contemporary Native American literature." - The Washington Post (MSN)
As an actor from a working-class background, Lynch says, "You’ve gotta decide: am I buying eggs, or putting money on my Oyster card? And I had to make that decision many a time." - The Guardian (UK)
Shaw sang with Count Basie's big band and with Sammy Davis Jr., and moved from singing at church to jazz performances with an edge that she honed into personal, ribald stories. - The New York Times
"Skal was an author with encyclopedic knowledge of a subject not always taken seriously — movies meant to scare the bejesus out of people — whose erudition, combined with a chatty writing style, made his books lively and entertaining." - The New York Times
"A child of small-town Appalachia for whom the idea of going to New York City was like 'going to the moon,' he … danced with Martha Graham, was an early member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and led his own well-regarded troupe for 25 years." - The New York Times
In Dallas, he spearheaded the museum's move for the downtown arts district and expanded exhibition and education programs. In San Francisco, he raised money for and oversaw the repair of the Legion of Honor and rebuilding of the DeYoung after the 1989 earthquake. - The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
"(He) stripped sculpture to its essentials, paring (it) down until it existed as forms made from industrial materials that were not intended to evoke any emotions. He received praise for his art of the 1960s and ’70s, only to face ... trial for the death of his partner, the artist Ana Mendieta." - ARTnews
"A performance artist who participated as a nude performer in the 2010 Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present” has sued the New York institution, accusing it of failing to prevent sexual assaults against him by museum attendees," claims a lawsuit. - ARTnews
"In a varied career spanning more than a half-century, … (he) spent 22 years anchoring the CBS-TV staple “Sunday Morning” and decades as a radio commentator, and carved a distinct place for himself in broadcasting by occasionally presenting the news in wry doggerel." - The Washington Post (MSN)
As an activist-thinker, Diane understood the ecologies of culture. She mapped them at the intersection of aesthetics, economics, and ethics, circling versions of the question of how, in each of these ecosystems, we value what we value. - American Theatre
