Bates — who said she'll retire after finishing the title role in the reboot of the TV series Matlock — was having a very rough day (and didn't cancel) when she met reporter Alexis Soloski, who wrote frankly about what she saw and the pain the beloved actress was in. - The New York Times
The disgraced film producer and convicted-then-unconvicted rapist was rushed to New York City's Bellevue Hospital from Rikers Island, where he is being held pending the retrial of his 2022 rape case, whose guilty verdict was overturned in April. - Variety
The 15 million yen (roughly $105,000) prize, intended as an arts equivalent of the Nobel prizes, go to Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires, sculptor Doris Salcedo, and conceptual artist Sophie Calle. - ArtReview
He was the longtime general manager of the Marlboro Music Festival, Vermont's great summer school for music students, and founding artistic director of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, which he developed into one of the busiest and most prestigious chamber music series in the country. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Benítez was “an American dancer and choreographer who, as the founder of a popular Spanish dance troupe, played a major role in making New Mexico a hotbed for flamenco.” - The New York Times
“By the late 1980s, Tikkun had established itself as an outlet for writers who shared his conviction that some form of Palestinian self-determination was not just morally correct but also Israel’s best way forward.” - The New York Times
Horn created performance-oriented works in the 1960s that “envisioned new possibilities for women’s bodies, outfitting her participants with appendages that caused them to seem more like animals.” Later, she created “objects made from metal, liquid, mirrors, and more that seemed not quite human yet not quite inorganic.” - ARTnews
With his group, Brasil ’66, “some of the songs were in Portuguese, some were in English, but all of them were driven along by Mr. Mendes’s piano and infectious Brazilian rhythms, with the vocals wafting like a summer breeze.” - Washington Post
Harari is to the tech CEO what David Foster Wallace once was to the Williamsburg hipster. This is a surprising role for someone who started as almost a parody of professorial obscurity. - The Atlantic (MSN)
Born in Minnesota, raised in New Mexico and trained in Madrid, she established María Benítez Teatro Flamenco in New York and Santa Fe in the 1970s; the company toured the world for three decades before she settled back in New Mexico's capital for her final years. - Santa Fe New Mexican
"Spared from prosecution in Britain on Thursday, Harvey Weinstein now faces the prospect of a new indictment in New York, where prosecutors retrying the disgraced movie mogul’s rape case are taking steps to potentially charge him with up to three additional sex assaults." - AP
"The Crown Prosecution Service said on Thursday that it decided to discontinue proceedings against Weinstein because there is 'no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.' … The CPS had previously authorized police to file the charges against Weinstein in relation to an alleged indecent assault that occurred in London in 1996." - AP
Gao Zhen, who had moved to New York and was in Beijing visiting family, is the first artist charged under the 2018 "Heroes and Martyrs Protection Law." At issue are works (including one a Florida man tried to bomb, thinking it glorified Communism) from over a decade ago satirizing Mao Zedong. - Artnet
