Thorington created "the auditory equivalent of an art installation" many times. "Radio art was a niche medium when Ms. Thorington started out, but she helped bring attention to the form — through her work ... and later as the founder of a project called New American Radio." - The New York Times
She says, "Everything about film-making is frightening. ... I’m scared before about making a bad movie, about not being true to the actors, to the story, to the image of the world. But on a set it’s too late. There is no time for fear." - The Guardian (UK)
"Rivers, who wrote gags at all hours, paid close attention to setups and punchlines, typing them up and cross-referencing them by categories like 'Parents hated me' or 'Las Vegas' or 'No sex appeal.' The largest subject area is 'Tramp,' which includes 1,756 jokes." - The New York Times
"Decades ago, I was offered and accepted the top post at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; then Lorin Maazel, its music director, objected, saying that a woman couldn’t do the job, and the board of directors had to withdraw the offer. I can laugh at it now, but it was painful at the time." - Playbill
"Selling more than 15 million albums worldwide, Winston became synonymous with a distinctive, highly imitated flavor of solo piano: warm, melodic and pastoral. His reputation was largely built on a series of blockbuster instrumental albums for the pioneering new age label Windham Hill Records." - NPR
"She also published graceful, incisive memoirs and poetry collections, even as she spent decades battling with those who sought to define her by the men in her life, including Picasso, her friend Henri Matisse and her second husband, American virologist Jonas Salk, who helped eradicate polio." - MSN (The Washington Post)
Michelle Ebanks, 61, replaces the theater’s longtime leader, Jonelle Procope, who announced last year that she planned to step down this summer after nearly 20 years steering the Harlem organization, which she transformed from a struggling nonprofit to the largest African American performing arts presenting organization in the country. - The New York Times
In 1959, she accompanied her husband, bossa nova star João Gilberto, and Antônio Carlos Jobim to a New York recording session with Stan Getz. The producer wanted an English-language version of the song to reach the US audience, and she was the only musician there who could sing it. - The Guardian
Maple was "a bacteriologist who took up filmmaking in the 1970s, became the first Black woman to join the camera operators union in New York and went on to direct trailblazing independent films about drug addiction, love, sisterhood and friendship." - Washington Post
Ata Aidoo, "as well as being a writer and university professor, also served as Ghana’s education minister in the early 1980s; she resigned when she could not make education free." - The Guardian (UK)
She first came to notice in contemporary classical circles in the 1980s with atmospheric modernist music which frequently incorporated electronics; she achieved stardom with the 2000 opera L'Amour de loin, once called "the first great opera of the 21st century." She had kept secret a 2021 diagnosis of brain cancer. - BBC
It certainly started as a collaboration, with the collective KIRAC making a documentary about France's reigning literary provocateur (age 67 and married, as if that mattered) going to Amsterdam to get laid. By now it's two court cases and a public appearance in a cockroach suit. - The New York Times
"The Sackler family will pay out $6 billion to fight the ongoing opioid epidemic and give up control of their company Purdue Pharma in exchange for protection from current and future civil lawsuits against its opioid business, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday." - ARTnews
"In vast installations, Kabakov took up the many failures of the Soviet Union, where he lived for decades before departing for the West. By building out the worlds of imagined characters via room-size artworks, Kabakov offered heightened versions of the reality he lived for viewers across the globe." - ARTnews
He was the youngest member of the Ames Brothers, who had a major touring career, a syndicated TV show, and 49 hits on the charts. After the group disbanded in 1963, Ed worked regularly as a stage and television actor, most famously as Mingo on the series Daniel Boone. - Variety
