As an art critic at The New York Times, O'Dougherty "championed emerging artists like Eva Hesse and established names like Mark Rothko. ... A restless spirit, Mr. O’Doherty left The Times after just three years, eager to make his own work." - The New York Times
"Lin's works continue to grab the public's attention — and, she also hopes, the public's activism. But she might never get truly used to living in the public eye." - NPR
Haggis was ordered to pay $7.5 in damages and may end up owing more in punitive damages related to the 2013 sexual assault. Five women have accused him of assault and rape, dating back to 1996. - BBC
"The jury deliberated for nearly six hours and the unanimous panel of four men and two women awarded the plaintiff, Haleigh Breest, $7.5 million in compensation and recommended punitive damages, which will be decided Monday." - Variety
“No restitution or repair can undo the damage done by those who would vandalize such a sacred and historical site as White River Narrows, but this ruling demonstrates that such crimes will not be met with a slap on the wrist.” - Hyperallergic
"The soprano with wild curls of dark hair was … an icon in the Tropicalia and Brazilian popular music movements who enjoyed a nearly six-decade career." - AP
Co-founder of Toronto firm Diamond Schmitt Architects, he was lead designer for that city's Four Seasons Centre, the Maison Symphonique in Montreal, the Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, Jerusalem's City Hall, and the gut renovation of David Geffen Hall at New York's Lincoln Center. - The Globe and Mail (Canada)
"She knows exactly what to do, loves without reservation, then must go. So she sacrifices. She always has to leave those that she loves. She's about non-attachment. Perhaps that's why she's such a powerful figure to me, because I'm far too attached to pretty much everything." - The New Yorker
Duchovny has moved fluidly between social circles, careers, and media. He was well into graduate school, preparing the fancifully titled (but never written) PhD dissertation, “Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry,” when he took an interest in playwriting. - LA Review of Books
Mary Gaitskill called Godfrey's Under the Bridge "'a remarkable piece of investigative journalism,' adding that Ms. Godfrey 'allows us to almost see what is essentially unseeable.'" - The New York Times
His director, the actor John Lithgow, said, "He was a dream to direct. ... None of us had ever worked with someone who was so happy, proud and grateful to be performing his own writing." - The New York Times
Grumbach, "in novels, essays and literary criticism explored the social and psychic hardships of women trapped in repressive families or disintegrating marriages, and ... portrayed lesbian characters and themes in a positive light that was then unusual." - The New York Times
Duncan-Jones' "Shakespeare was a thin-skinned scrooge, misogynist and unabashed social climber — 'a rather unlikable man,' she wrote," based on decades of research but still (one must ask - really? Had people seen Taming of the Shrew?) still shocking the world. - The New York Times
