Alta started Shameless Hussy Press in her garage. “She was having trouble getting her own brash and sensuous free-form poetry published by the mainstream companies, as were her friends, and wh...
It’s happened numerous times: famous archaeologists (or those looking for fame) claim they’ve finally found the resting place of the legendary ancient Egyptian queen. Yet they might be right...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-nefertiti-2454703#new_tab
Gina Rinehart, a mining magnate with a knack for attracting controversy and a lack of awareness of the Streisand Effect, is unhappy with her likeness in a series of portraits by Vincent Namatjir...
So strong are the associations between Munro and her origins in southwestern Ontario that for some, the area around Huron County came to be known as “Alice Munro Country.” – The Conversati...
“Within hours, Brent became the focus of a high-profile police investigation, reverberating across a horrified international art world that revered him. The murder weapon, a santoku knife, was...
Peter’s goal, per him, was to have one idea, at least, per sentence. His best mentoring, he said, came from journalists, which makes sense. His reviews have an urgent quality. Breaking news! �...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/looking-at-art-with-peter-schjeldahl
“A French court on Tuesday acquitted film director Roman Polanski of defaming British actress Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager. … She sued for defa...
Sanborn was known for luxurious saxophone melodies on songs including “Maputo,” but his sound — informed by R&B and global funk— and his legacy extended far beyond his jazz roots. Often ...
Ms. Battle was greeted with an immediate and prolonged standing ovation—the first of many—from her eager audience as she walked onstage in a black dress with a long, turquoise-colored wrap.�...
A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario. Munro had been in frail health for y...
“The Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has secretly fled Iran after he was sentenced to prison amid pressure over his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which is due to premiere at...
“Some actors avoid playing objectionable people, concerned about being pigeonholed into villainhood, or that in the audience’s impressionable minds, their character’s likability might blur...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/theater/sarah-paulson-appropriate-broadway.html
“For clearly one of the hardest workers in show business with one of the longest resumes I’ve ever seen, it’s hard to believe that rejection is still ever-present for Leguizamo. ‘They w...
Her macular degeneration might keep her from “reading” the old-fashioned way, but she still loves books of every sort. “I love being surrounded by books — they’re snapshots of the past...
Corman “specialized in fast-paced, low-budget genre movies — horror, action, science fiction, even some family fare — and his company became a work-in-training ground for a wide variety of...
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/
It’s still “newsworthy that a veteran artist — one who’s still working steadily as a stage actress and is increasingly one of the go-to directors of the Black theater canon — took on r...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/05/10/phylicia-rashad-howard-university/
What did make Beethoven stand out from the crowd was his personification of the Romantic revolution, which coincided more or less with his lifetime. In the popular imagination, Beethoven was the...
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/beethovens-250th-symphony
The 78-year-old filmmaker/artist/author’s car was struck near Baltimore by a driver running a red light. “Since it hurts when I laugh,” he said in a statement, “I will have no witty answ...
Earlier this year, the judge in the case delivered a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff because Spacey’s attorneys failed to submit their defense documents on time. An appellate justic...
Arriving at the all-time peak of American hegemony in world art, Stella was the poster prodigy of a new breed of artists: post-bohemian, university-trained, professional from the get-go. – Th...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-indestructible-art-of-frank-stella
It’s not clear that the toxins (which likely came from wine, food, and ointments) were enough to kill the composer, but they were certainly enough to explain his severe, chronic gastrointestin...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/health/beethoven-deaf-lead-hair.html#new_tab
“Budding filmmakers like Charles Burnett, Julie Dash and Haile Gerima eschewed polished scripts and linear narratives in search of an authentic Black cinematic language. They relied on actors ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/movies/barbara-o-jones-dead.html
“Bethesda Fountain was one of the first major commissioned works by a female artist . And it was built to commemorate fresh water that was brought into the city for the first time. It always ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/movies/laura-linney-wildcat.html
“He died just days before the May 1 streaming debut of the series Shardlake, on Disney+, an adaptation of his novels starring Arthur Hughes in the title role and Sean Bean as Cromwell.” – ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/books/cj-sansom-dead.html
“Stella was a dominant figure in postwar American art, a restless, relentless innovator whose explorations of color and form made him an outsize presence, endlessly discussed and constantly on...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/arts/frank-stella-dead.html
“What I didn’t do was lose consciousness. People who were there have said that I was … screaming with pain. Inside my head, I was not aware of the pain, … so there was a strange disconne...
“I arrived in New York at a time when the most beautiful paintings being shown in the city were on wheels,” Haring wrote. This was 1978. His infatuation with the graffiti enveloping the city...
https://www.bookforum.com/print/3004/how-keith-haring-got-his-halo-25342
When he’d auditioned for a British TV adaptation of David Copperfield, it was less out of great hope or ambition than because he’d been having a rough time at school and his parents (his fa...
“Called the ‘dean of American post-modernists’ and ‘the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,’ Auster blended history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests and self-...
https://apnews.com/article/paul-auster-author-dies-08814333f6c40a53ea5acd9c0e019c3e#new_tab
The document, carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE and deciphered using advanced imaging techniques, recounts the last evening of the philosopher’s life and reveals his burial place...
“A trial will start in October ‘for sexual assaults likely to have been committed in September 2021’ against ‘two victims, on the set of the film The Green Shutters,’ the statement sai...
Did you know that? She’s happy if you don’t. – Irish Times
She returned to her home state, Texas, and settled in a rural town not far from Austin. Yes, there have been struggles with mental illness and mobility (from a longstanding foot injury), but, at...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/style/shelley-duvall.html#new_tab
The MacArthur-like prizes, given annually to up to six artists working in contemporary dance, theater, and jazz, go this year to theater directors Chay Yew and Nataki Garrett, dance artists Sham...
“We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” said the 4-3 d...
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed29faeec862abf0c071e8bd3574c4a3#new_tab
In an era dominated by poststructuralist and politically influenced literary criticism, Ms. Vendler, who taught at Harvard for more than 30 years, adhered to the old-fashioned method of close re...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/books/helen-vendler-dead.html
“Attorneys Greg Andrade and Edna de Castro were representing Alejandro Triana Prevez, the Cuban man who has testified that he stabbed Sikkema to death (in Rio de Janeiro) as part of a murder-f...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/brazilian-lawyers-resign-brent-sikkema-case-2473612#new_tab
“(Eike Schmidt) said he felt compelled to throw his hat into the ring … after being encouraged to run for mayor by Florentines, who he said stopped him in the street to vent their frustratio...
“He fulfilled his dreams, save for being Spider-Man. He wanted to write and direct plays and movies. He wanted to do stand-up comedy. He wanted to be Roger Ebert. He just did it in one place.�...
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/movie-critic-industry-local-jobs-ithaca-bryan-vancampen/
The documentary filmmaker ” ocused her work on writing, directing and producing film and videos that centered the emotions and circumstances of Latin American, Mexican and Chicano experiences...
Davis was both chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the musical conductor of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the 1990s. In 1997, just after Princess Diana was killed in a car cra...
And New Yorkers love an actor who is moving to Broadway from Hollywood; though Molina has been nominated for three Tony Awards, it’s been 15 years since he was on a New York stage. But let him...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/theater/alfred-molina-uncle-vanya.html
The famous Holbein portrait of the king’s fourth wife portrays her as nice-looking enough. Yet Henry declared her a “Flanders Mare” and annulled the marriage, and letters from ambassadors ...
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/challenging-ugliness-anne-cleves#new_tab
Ralph Ellison. Charles Laughton (as filmmaker). Willis Alan Ramsey, the granddaddy of alt-country. Miguel Adrover, a former fashion designer who made a coat from Quentin Crisp’s old mattress. ...
“The actor had accused the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun of phone hacking, unlawful information-gathering, landline tapping, bugging his phone and burgling his flat and office. His case was due to ...
With her platinum hair, raspy voice and glamorous ’50s-style dresses, Ms. Astor was a formidable presence among the music, film and art makers who gathered at the Mudd Club in TriBeCa. – Th...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/arts/patti-astor-dead.html
“‘It was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek, I’ve said like a soft-boiled egg. And blind.’ Sir Salman said losing one eye ‘upsets me every day’. … But he considers...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68739586#new_tab
Ozawa refused to live in Boston, raising his family in Tokyo and commuting when required. His English was never more than functional. Most musicians grasped what he wanted; any who protested did...
“For more than a half-century, Ms. Ringgold explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media, among them painting, sculpture, mask- and doll-making, t...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/arts/faith-ringgold-dead.html
Eleanor was “a writer and film director who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now,...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/eleanor-coppola-film-obituary-1.7172846
This inaugural list by Politics NY includes the obvious (directors of prominent institutions like the Morgan Library, Roundabout Theater, BAM, both Mets), the famous (Alan Cumming, Fran Drescher...
https://politicsny.com/power-lists/power-players-arts-and-culture-2024/#new_tab
“Lê’s early work comprised large-scale photomontages that he made by weaving together strips of photographs, deploying the method used by his aunt in creating grass mats. … Among the phot...
https://www.artforum.com/news/dinh-q-le-dies-552011/#new_tab
“(He) was the most politically literate working-class dramatist and screenwriter of our times, a scholar of Marx, Gramsci and Trotsky, who translated his passion into a series of plays and tel...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/02/trevor-griffiths-obituary#new_tab
Though Eike Schmidt describes himself as “a democrat and antifascist” and “more of an Aristotelian centrist than a representative of the right,” he is running with the backing of three r...
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/eike-schmidt-uffizi-florence-mayor-#new_tab
Benjamin “brought colorfully expansive saxophone flourishes to the Grammy-winning Robert Glasper Experiment and added rich layers of texture to recordings by Solange, A Tribe Called Quest and ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/arts/music/casey-benjamin-dead.html
“In Hollywood, taking a step back can mean audience amnesia and producer disinterest — but McAdams braved it before, at the height of her fame in 2005, when she thought things were moving to...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/theater/rachel-mcadams-broadway.html
Tynes, as a Black woman, found little work in the United States, but “with her incendiary, full-throated voice, in roles like Aida and Salomé, sang at opera houses in Vienna, Prague and Budap...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/arts/music/margaret-tynes-dead.html
Days before the actor’s body was found, Lawrence, Kansas, police said they had probable cause to arrest Brings Plenty “in response to allegations of domestic violence.” – CNN (MSN)
“Moving against the stream of rational, functional modernism in the 1960s and early 70s, Pesce experimented with materials and production methods to create furniture pieces imbued with politic...
https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/04/gaetano-pesce-obituary/#new_tab
He founded Sankai Juku, which did more than any other troupe to spread butoh in the West, in 1975 and had led it ever since. “Butoh performances are characterized by slow, intense and sometime...
“In a career spanning (over) 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown. Regarding subject and theme, he pogoed from sex to metaphysics to serial killers ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/theater/christopher-durang-dead.html#new_tab
“The playfully erudite author, whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction, … was part of a wave of...
The Guadeloupe-born writer didn’t publish her first book until age 40, and she came to international prominence in her 80s: in 2018, she won the New Academy Prize, which Sweden instituted when...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maryse-conde-daring-storyteller-explored-091135109.html#new_tab
Philbrick’s ascent paralleled a historic moment that Artnet writer Eileen Kinsella has called “the financialization of the art market.” Today, art is no longer merely displayed for admir...
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/inigo-philbrick-confessions
Here is the actor, answering readers’ questions in a way that one can practically hear. Just wait for the phone book reading section. – The Guardian (UK)
Perdomo, in a “Breakthrough Brit” video, talked about the power of art and acting. “There’s no point in just ranting at someone. … But if you can connect with them emotionally and have...
Rohrwacher, who made the Oscar-nominated short Le Pupille, says, “Maybe my films are not perfect — maybe a machine could do that, but that’s not what I’m after. … What I’m after is m...
She oversaw the production of 9 to 5, helped produce Grace and Frankie, and got the HBO movie Recount made in 2008 – and much, much more in her life of activism for women in the industry. – ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/movies/paula-weinstein-dead.html
He was the first Black man to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar (in 1983 for playing the drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman), and won an Emmy for his role as Fiddler in the 1977 series...
https://apnews.com/article/louis-gossett-jr-dies-1e86e1441ec8b614a282f3de22490a07#new_tab
“Beginning in the late 1970s, (he) began painting the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those three buildings appear over and over throu...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/arts/robert-moskowitz-dead.html#new_tab
In 2021 he pled guilty in an enormous art-fraud case and was sentenced to seven years in prison. This past January he was released into home confinement. He’s now searching for — if not rede...
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/inigo-philbrick-confessions#new_tab
Sebastian Smee: “As an artist, he was no bully. Rather, he was a physicist. He wanted you to know, and to feel in your bones, that weight isn’t just a thing — it’s a force. It’s mass t...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/richard-serra-made-us-giddy-and-afraid/ar-BB1kAV1K#new_tab
Serra’s most celebrated works had some of the scale of ancient temples or sacred sites and the inscrutability of landmarks like Stonehenge. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/arts/richard-serra-dead.html
Joana Vicente came to Sundance from the Toronto International Film Festival and arrived as COVID had pushed the festival online for 2021 and again in 2022. – The Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sundance-institute-ceo-joana-vicente-1235858258/
A tireless advocate for contemporary music over a six-decade career, Eötvös came to international attention as a member of the Stockhausen Ensemble (1968-1976). He later served as music direct...
https://limelight-arts.com.au/news/composer-peter-eotvos-has-died/#new_tab
“Earlier this month, I accepted a buyout from the company; Friday was my last day. It’s been a great ride. … I’ve been craving some focused time for a book I intend to write about the ti...
But now, the French actor is playing Mary, Queen of Scots. “Alone on stage for 90 minutes, she performs something between a rite and an elaborate courtly dance, her stylised, repetitive moveme...
Laurent de Brunhoff took a character his mother and father invented when he was 5, and kept him going for decades. “‘Babar, c’est moi,’ Mr. de Brunhoff often said. By all accounts, artis...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/laurent-de-brunhoff-dead.html
Hejinian was “a central figure in the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and ’80s who channeled the seismic social changes and avant-garde artistic climate of the 1960s into work that was...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/lyn-hejinian-dead.html
During a flourishing international career spanning more than six decades, Mr. Pollini was steadily ranked among those rare musicians to whom other musicians paid close attention. – Washington ...
“Daniel Sikkema, the ex-husband of the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, who is embroiled in allegations that he orchestrated his former partner’s murder in Brazil earlier this year, was ar...
“With his distinctive lumbering form and droll delivery, Walsh was an ideal supporting player. A master of off-kilter comic delivery and dogged edginess, he excelled at roles that dwelled in t...
“A prolific composer with widely performed works, particularly his operas and songs, (he) was revered for his ability to fuse complex and often challenging modern music with lyrical texts. His...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/arts/music/aribert-reimann-dead.html#new_tab
For years, Mr. Janis was one of the best-known classical musicians in the world, playing major stages from Philadelphia to Paris. – Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/18/byron-janis-pianist-dead-obituary/
“Though he lacked formal training in art, he was widely respected for his exacting eye, which he used to identify promising young painters. … (Yet he was) brought low by a long series of tab...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/arts/andrew-crispo-dead.html#new_tab
In 1944, Janis became Horowitz’s first student and made his orchestral debut with conductor Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony Orchestra. At 18, he was signed by RCA Victor Records as its young...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/byron-janis-dead-pianist-1235854358/
Negishi “was in his 40s when he came up with the idea of prototyping a mass-produced, coin-operated karaoke machine, branded ‘Sparko Box,’ after a colleague at the consumer electronics ass...
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/15/1238840404/karaoke-inventor-shigeichi-negishi-dead
Hayao Miyazaki was the oldest person ever nominated for an Oscar for best animated feature – and then, in a surprise moment (Spider-Man: Into the Multiverse was tipped to win), the oldest to w...
Porter says, “The world has a difficult time understanding that fabulous and serious do coexist.” – The Guardian (UK)
“After a decade on Twitter I’d had every possible insult hurled my way. The most awful abuse you can think of. It stopped affecting me. I became desensitised. It’s hard to hurt me now –...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/16/ava-duvernay-ive-got-real-big-sister-energy
Yes, we know she was intelligent and gifted, leftist and patriotic, long-suffering physically and emotionally. She also scorned the New York elites feting Diego, had to terminate a pregnancy in ...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frida-kahlo-documentary-carla-gutierrez-2450935#new_tab
Victoria Bruzelius Benedictsson, marooned in a stifling Swedish village, began writing and publishing books and stories under the name Ernst Ahlgren, left her family for a gender-fluid life (hal...
https://aeon.co/essays/the-woman-behind-strindbergs-miss-julie-and-her-male-alter-ego#new_tab
“A year ago, Youssef wouldn’t have expected his defense of the Palestinian people to be the arc of his return to public discourse. Meanwhile, by his own admission, making a living out of bei...
“The trial is scheduled to take place on Aug. 4, 2025, following a lawsuit that accused Polanski of giving a (13-year-old girl) alcohol and raping her at his Benedict Canyon home. The complain...
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roman-polanski-trial-set-august-195533821.html#new_tab
Russian authorities apparently accessed Ksenia Karelina’s phone and discovered she had donated approximately $50 to Razom, a pro-Ukrainian charity, in 2022. – The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/09/los-angeles-ballerina-russia-treason-charges
Bill was a mentor to two generations of writers—writers of narrative reporting, primarily, but also novelists, biographers, intellectuals, essayists, and humorists. He expanded The Atlantic�...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/william-whitworth-atlantic/677710/
“As an actor, talk show guest and broadcaster, Mr. McCourt was a boisterous and entertaining counterpart to his more dour and literary-minded brother Frank, a high school English teacher whose...
He played tennis with George Gershwin, who idolized him. He delighted in the American habits of his children, who, to the alarm of other émigrés, ran all over the house. He taught at U.S.C., a...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/how-arnold-schoenberg-changed-hollywood
Roberta Smith started freelancing for The New York Times in 1986, after writing for Art in America and The Village Voice, and after a semester at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program...
Whitworth “wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker … and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor before transplanting that magazine’s pai...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/business/media/william-whitworth-dead.html
Dragon Ball got its start in 1984, and “to many fans, Son Goku’s journey from a kid who fumbles his martial arts training to a high-flying hero who can shoot bolts of electricity from his ha...
“Mathers’s stories — whose subjects included a soulful museum guard (an alligator) who falls in love with the subject in a painting (another alligator) and a warmhearted chicken named Lott...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/books/petra-mathers-dead.html
“My mind wasn’t working when I went up to receive my Oscar . You’re in a space of awe, in this surprising state of not really knowing why it’s happening. … It was the surprise of my l...
“There is hardly a space in pop culture today that hasn’t been touched by Akira Toriyama’s art. … He brought manga and anime into the global mainstream and broke down the walls that had ...
“As a solo performer and with his wife, Eydie Gormé, (he) kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era. … Steve & Eydie were known for their frequent appearances on talk shows, in night clu...
https://apnews.com/article/steve-lawrence-dead-eydie-steve-0d5716adcf8a4fd0a96f3f12854212d5#new_tab
Even as his fame grew, Haring remained dedicated to grass-roots activism: designing posters for anti-nuke rallies, anti-apartheid protests, safe sex promotions, and events for a myriad of LGBTQ ...
https://artsfuse.org/286669/book-review-the-life-and-times-of-keith-haring-an-iconic-artist/
Even though he’s not ready to surrender the staff-lined paper and pencil with which he’s written his scores, Williams, 92, is also the oldest person to be nominated for an Oscar. Ask William...
“The 78-year-old billionaire … has been found guilty of money laundering and tax fraud, following a years-long saga seeking his prosecution.” He was fined €1 million in addition to the b...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-dealer-guy-wildenstein-found-guilty-2447169#new_tab
In a 65-plus-year career, he sought to create buildings that were, as he often put it, “grounded in the earth yet soaring toward the sky.” – Architectural Record
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16768-tribute-antoine-predock-19362024
Joyce Slocum was instrumental in TPR’s growth from an organization of modest size and ambition to one whose reach and influence is recognized nationwide, with a deep passion for storytelling r...
“The battle to remove censorship from the British stage was fought primarily at the Royal Court Theatre in London during the mid-1960s. The plays of Edward Bond, one of the most important Brit...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/05/edward-bond-obituary#new_tab
“A luminous singer who performed with jazz legends including Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson, Ms. Collins spent her entire career in Canada. … (Said one jazz scholar), Eleanor Collins, if...
Wolff “is the last living representative of what’s known as the New York School of composition, a group that included John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor. Their tight...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/arts/dance/composer-christian-wolff-90th-birthday.html
Apfel was “a soaring free spirit known in society and to the fashion cognoscenti for ignoring the dictates of the runway in favor of her own artfully clashing styles” whose personal show at...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/fashion/iris-apfel-dead.html
“For more than three decades Taviani and his brother Vittorio formed one of cinema’s greatest directorial duos. … (Their) film Padre Padrone won top prize at Cannes (in 1977, and in 2012 t...
“A regular performer in clubs and on late-night TV for decades, … known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes, … he re-introduced himself to a new genera...
https://apnews.com/article/richard-lewis-dead-c4f69a5ecc8f03850222f8f2145f55ce#new_tab
“In fact, he and husband Chris Turner – a photographer in his early 50s – have been living in England for nearly five years, after leaving the city he immortalised back in 2019. ‘I love ...
“(A) 53-year-old (set) decorator alleges that Depardieu grabbed her and kneaded her waist, stomach and breasts during filming for Les Volets verts, or The Green Shutters, lawyer Carine Durrieu...
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson got her acting start on The Wire after she introduced herself to actor Michael K. Williams at a nightclub, a chance that “kick-started Pearson’s reign as one of t...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/arts/television/felicia-snoop-pearson-ed-burns-wire.html
Lily Gladstone, who may win Best Actress at the Oscars, isn’t new to Hollywood, but this is a different level. “After more than two decades of acting, she has become a star, a role model, a ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/02/21/lily-gladstone-oscars-2024/
Mitchell, who was diagnosed with ALS five and a half years ago, “played three roles in three seasons on Star Trek: Discovery. The last character, Aurelio, who used a hoverchair, was created to...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/star-trek-actor-kenneth-mitchell-dies-at-49/ar-BB1iROj1
Shahani “was known for his formalist style of filmmaking and his landmark films include Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990).” He also worked hard to help India archive and re...
This actor we all know so well has done something that, for him, is entirely new – at 80 years old. “Rather than the banal, De Niro’s Hale embodies what you might call the congeniality of ...
https://slate.com/culture/2024/02/killers-of-the-flower-moon-robert-de-niro-oscars-2024.html
Paxton “helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in New York City, and … developed contact improvisation, a movement form that is now...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/arts/dance/steve-paxton-dead.html
Acocella’s attention is fixed first on the lives of her readers. She doesn’t neglect to tell us a writer’s best book and is never above saying when someone was born. She has always surveye...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/books/review/joan-acocella-the-bloodied-nightgown.html
Meet Justine Simons, Mayor Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for culture. – The Standard (London)