"Louise Bourgeois, ... Nancy Graves, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella all relied on Mr. Polich and his team of some 100 artisans to forge baubles as small as a hand's width and behemoths so large that even his cavernous facility could barely accommodate them." - The New York Times
"The notably petite Ms. Bourgeois did not herself forge her looming metallic arachnids. For that, she — along with many of the world’s renowned sculptors of the last 50 years — turned to a specialized foundry in the Hudson Valley and its visionary owner, Dick Polich." - The New York Times
The scholar, teacher, and language lover died at 98. She wrote scripts for the Voice of America, founded the first Asian Studies program in the U.S. in 1970 at City College of New York, and published nine books. - The New York Times
The feared Hollywood journalist's "ambitions were sometimes thwarted by a slew of factors that, depending on whom you ask, included her being too tough, too emotional, too erratic, or simply being a woman in a man’s profession." - The New York Times
"During a tour in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, one audience showered Ms. Serrano with rapturous applause during a dozen curtain calls. Another implored her to perform her solo a second time in lieu of taking a bow." - Washington Post
"Actor Alec Baldwin, who fatally shot a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie Rust in 2021, and the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors said Thursday." - CNN
"He agreed with his fellow writer Bruce Chatwin, who famously turned down the Thomas Cook Award, that the term was too limiting. … When asked why, unlike Chatwin, he accepted the Cook Award twice, he said: 'I was hungry for prizes.'" - The Guardian
"Through complex, self-reflexive work that often flouted the traditional mechanisms of the art world and borrowed from mass communication, … the Italian polymath … mapped the mind in a prolific and restless six-decade career spanning painting, sculpture, film, literature, happenings, psychoanalysis, agriculture, and radical politics." - Artforum
He was a guitarist’s guitarist who seemed to be the humble protagonist at the centre of a plethora of seminal moments in pop history. - The Conversation
Speaking on Spanish television — in shadow, voice electronically altered — a female singer alleged that, roughly two decades ago, Domingo on one occasion asked to put his hand in her rear pants pocket and on another forcibly kissed her just after lights went down and she couldn't see. - The Guardian
“In the immediate period after the war and throughout the 1950s there was one face that represented Italian beauty in the eyes of the world and it was that of Gina Lollobrigida,” wrote the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera in a tribute article. - Deadline
Schnee's "ebullient fabric designs and avant-garde home furnishings store in the heart of Detroit introduced midcentury modernism to baffled and delighted Midwesterners" - and changed the look of contemporary houses for good. - The New York Times
Emmons - her obit is in today's Boston Globe - "was furiously busy in the months leading up to her death," including publishing two novels in September, sending her final novel to her agent hours before she died, and writing a popular blog about having ALS. - Los Angeles Times
The writer "is narrating his ongoing drama but also conjuring past memories, musing about writing and art and describing the terrifying, sometimes transcendent profundity of being dependent on the love and patience of others." - The New York Times
The long-heralded "Lord of the Dance" (who retired in 2016) once had his feet insured for $30 million, at the height of the traditional Irish dance craze of the late 1990s. - Washington Post
