"I've found it very, very difficult to write. I sit down to write, and nothing happens. I write, but it's a combination of blankness and junk, stuff that I write and that I delete the next day. I'm not out of that forest yet, really." - The New Yorker
About a week ago, on January 27, the spacious four-bedroom co-op was quietly listed for sale. The home—located in one of the “most prestigious residential addresses in New York City,” according to the listing agent, Sotheby’s International Realty—comes with a price tag of $7.5 million. - Artnet
The singer was 85. She nearly gained stardom in the early 1960s, and then jazz lost its popularity. She found fame again in Japan, and then in the U.S. in 2001 after a chance NYT review brought her to a new audience. - The New York Times
"The range of her poetry was vast. A 1978 collection was called The Five Stages of Grief. On the other end of the spectrum was A Dog Runs Through It (2018), poems that involved the various dogs, present and past, in her life." - The New York Times
His wife said at the time of his arrest "that his detention - several months before the ongoing anti-government protests erupted - amounted to a kidnapping." - BBC
"Who was Robert Opel, and why did he do what he did? ... Even as Opel's fifteen minutes ticked down, his quest for exposure was just getting started. The Oscars were not his first or his last brush with history, and five years later he'd be dead." - The New Yorker
"(He's) not one of the von Trapps you'd occasionally see performing 'Edelweiss' on Oprah or The View in years past. But ... when journalists wondered what the real von Trapps thought of Carrie Underwood playing Maria ..., Myles was the one who gave them a disapproving quote. This occasionally causes issues." - New York Magazine
"(The award-winning dissident filmmaker) has announced a hunger strike to protest his continued incarceration in Iran's Evin prison, even after the country's courts voided his sentence last week." - IndieWire
That's not only because he made the first life-sized male nude statue in Europe since the Romans. It's not only because of his David's boyish physique or the muscles of his Holofernes. There's a surviving piece of 15th-century gossip about Donatello, his recalcitrant boyfriend, and Cosimo de' Medici. - The Guardian
In an interview, Limmie Pulliam reflected on his 12-year break from singing and the challenges facing larger artists, who once were common in the industry but have faced pressure in recent years to slim down. - The New York Times
To anyone who grew up with the image of Miller as a lionized elder statesman of the American theatre, John Lahr’s account of Miller’s bumpy “origin story” is the most revelatory part of Arthur Miller: American Witness. - American Theatre
"A second-generation Abstract Expressionist and filmmaker, (he) turned his back on nonrepresentational art in the early 1960s to lead a revival of figurative painting." - The New York Times
A documentary filmmaker for years, she feels ambivalent about the attention her film Saint-Omer has already had - she's the first Black woman to have a film put forward as France's official Oscar contender. - The Guardian (UK)
The actor was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, but kept it quiet. "She wanted to get better so she could continue working. And honestly, she just didn’t really want to talk about it. She wanted to live her life, on her terms, and be with her family." - Los Angeles Times
