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Is Mark Wahlberg Trying To Capitalize On The Rise Of Conservative Hollywood?

He’s simply quite Christian now. “The supposed edginess of the Christian Actor stems from the idea that in godless Hollywood it’s somehow taboo to be religious, and that an openly Christian actor will face some kind of retaliation.” - Slate

Phyllis Dalton, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer For Historical Epics Doctor Zhivago And Henry V, Has Died At 99

“‘Anyone can make a smart frock,’ she said. … 'It’s much more difficult to make people from the past who are wearing ordinary clothes look real.’” - The New York Times

Patti Smith Collapses Onstage In Brazil

The 78-year-old, who had been suffering a days-long migraine, was onstage in São Paulo, reciting some of her writing during a joint performance with Berlin-based band Soundwalk Collective, when she became visibly dizzy and fell. She later returned to the stage in a wheelchair to apologize for being unable to finish. - AP

Marianne Faithful, 78

"(The) British singer-songwriter and 1960s pop star reinvented herself as a new-wave artist and smoky-voiced chanteuse, channeling her struggles with drug abuse and personal loss into songs of torment, anger, sorrow and resilience." - The Washington Post (MSN)

Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Former Music Director Of Vancouver And Syracuse Symphonies, Is Dead At 84

He spent 40 years (1964-2004) as music director of the Tokyo Symphony, assisted the young Seiji Ozawa at the Toronto Symphony in 1968-69, and served as music director of the Vancouver SO (1972-1985) and Syracuse SO (1985-1993), raising standards greatly at both orchestras. - Vancouver Sun (MSN)

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Pioneering Native American Artist, Has Died At 85

"For five decades (she) mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks. … The past few years have seen a reawakening (for) Smith’s distinct abstractions, collages, and sculptures, which unpack the historic injustices against Native American peoples, while shattering dominant cultural narratives." - Artnet

Checking In With Theaster Gates

"Why is it so often that the people with the least amount of imagination and the most concern for the bottom line – real estate developers – get to choose how to transform derelict urban areas? Why not the people who might care about those areas most: the citizens who grew up there and live there?" - The Guardian

New York’s New Superstar Cultural Philanthropist Couple

The Tangs’ increasing prominence seems due to several key capital projects simultaneously coming to fruition and the couple’s effort to counter the anti-Asian discrimination and violence that escalated during the pandemic. - The New York Times

Felicity Jones Does Not Want To See Herself In Her Movies

That is, she’ll watch them - but, she says, "When I see a blink or a laugh I recognise as my own, I think: ‘You failed.’” - The Guardian (UK)

This Actor Would Like For The Next Season Of The Traitors To Star, Well, Actors

Tamara Lawrence, star of Get Millie Black, says, "I want to be a traitor so bad." - The New York Times

A Broadway Actor On Her Rare Sunday Off

It’s the freedom to go to other people’s shows for Kara Young. “When I’m between shows, I go to town! I’ll see a matinee, or maybe even two shows, if I can find one with an evening curtain.” - The New York Times

Ten Surprising Facts About Andy Warhol

For instance, he was a gym rat when he was younger, and even after he was shot he could do 46 pushups. And he encountered, and was influenced by, both Marcel Duchamp and John Cage while he was a teenager in Pittsburgh. - Artnet

Painter Jo Baer Dead At 95

"(She was) a trailblazing painter who gained accolades as a Minimalist during the 1960s before diverging from the movement later on" in favor of "'radical figuration.' … Across more than six decades of work, Baer found innovative — and challenging — ways of exploring how the eye perceives an image." - ARTnews

David Schneiderman, Village Voice Editor and Publisher, 77

After being named editor in chief in 1978, Mr. Schneiderman elevated The Voice’s journalistic game, diversified a newsroom that was nearly all white and all male, and reckoned with an increasingly competitive landscape in which traditional newspapers and magazines imitated The Voice’s cutting-edge cultural and media coverage, as well as its insouciant tone. - The New York Times

Aaron De Groft, Director At Center Of Orlando Museum’s Fake Basquiat Scandal, Has Died At 59

"De Groft became director of the Orlando Museum of Art in 2021 and set out to bring more attention to the museum by programming exhibitions featuring big names in the art world. The museum soon was making headlines, but not in the way De Groft wanted." - Orlando Sentinel (MSN)

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