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Rafael Vinoly, Architect Of Dramatic Glass Roofs For Cultural Centers, 78

The Uruguayn-born "Viñoly was at once a 24-7 architecture geek and a bon vivant with a penchant for French wines. ... He was also a classically trained pianist who gave recitals in a music pavilion on his property in Water Mill, N.Y., on eastern Long Island." - The New York Times

Lou Stovall, Artist And Printmaker Who Worked With Alexander Calder And Jacob Lawrence, 86

"Working with sponges, brushes, towels, squeegees, hand-cut stencils and a rich array of oil-based inks, Mr. Stovall helped demonstrate that printmaking was an art form, not just a commercial craft." - Washington Post

Pierre Apraxine, Who Transformed The Met’s Photography Collection, 88

"Born into exiled Russian nobility and numbering among his forebears an admiral who served under Peter the Great, Mr. Apraxine had trained in classical draftsmanship and art history in Brussels before essentially falling into the photography world in New York in the early 1970s." - The New York Times

How Jonathan Majors And Michael B. Jordan Fought On The Movie Set, Without Fighting Off Set

Majors, whose star is rising fast right now, was worried that Jordan - already a superstar - might not be great to work with, because of his experience with others in the industry. "The game is set up so it makes it feel like feast or famine." - The New York Times

Leonard Cohen’s Heirs Sue His Ex-Manager For Forgery

"Leonard Cohen's children and heirs, Lorca and Adam Cohen, have filed a motion accusing the legendary singer-songwriter's former manager, Robert Kory, and his legal representatives of forgery and asking the court to remove him from the role of trustee and to compel him to turn over the estate's assets." - Variety

Jazz Great Wayne Shorter, 89

His career reached across more than half a century, largely inextricable from jazz’s complex evolution during that span. His sound was brighter on soprano, an instrument on which he left an incalculable influence; he could be inquisitive, teasing or elusive, but always with a pinpoint intonation and clarity of attack. - The New York Times

Willem Dafoe Is Genuinely Addicted To His Work

"Acting is not so much a job for Dafoe as a way of being, a practice so essential he can't go without it. ... 'He wants very much to be needed,' says (director Elizabeth) LeCompte. 'And if he's needed, he'll give everything. He has to work.'" - T — The New York Times Style Magazine

Walter Mirisch, A Major Hollywood Producer (Who Was Actually A Nice Guy!), Is Dead At 101

"The Mirisch Company, which (he) founded in 1957 along with (two brothers), grew to be an industry powerhouse, greenlighting films by leading directors — including John Ford, John Huston and Billy Wilder — that were nominated for a total of 87 Academy Awards and won 28." - The New York Times

The Enduringness Of Jeff Koons

Love it all or hate it all or fall somewhere in between (Koons! has played all these years to decidedly mixed reviews), he has maintained extraordinary relevance over the decades. - GQ

Roxane Gay Has Some Thoughts About “Cancel Culture”

"(It) is the bogeyman that people have come up with to explain away bad behaviour. ... As long as we continue to, for example, listen to misogynistic music it is going to continue to be made. At what point do we make different choices?" - The Guardian

Canadian Actor Gordon Pinsent, 92

The Grand Falls, N.L., native and Canadian household name had a storied acting career spanning dozens of films and TV projects over six decades, including Due South, The Red Green Show, Babar and the Adventures of Badou, The Grand Seduction and The Shipping News. - CBC

How Did Jonathan Majors Get To Be In Every Movie, Everywhere, All At Once?

It all started when he was forced to take a theatre class after getting in trouble as a kid. - NPR

Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Has Been Banned From Making Movies Or Leaving Iran

"There's sort of a state of fear and tension and paranoia that comes with making and watching Panahi's art. And I think there is this sense of, who will talk? What will they say? Who will be a witness against me?" - NPR

Barbara Bosson, Who Took A Brief Cameo And Turned It Into A Vital Hill Street Blues Role, 83

"Bosson received five Emmy Award nominations in as many years for her supporting role, as she portrayed a character who reinvents herself to help crime victims and takes on a cheeky confidence with signature sentence-starters such as 'Hey, buster.'" - Washington Post

How Did Paul Mescal Make Ireland Really, Really Proud?  By Speaking Irish At The BAFTAs

"For a man whom the BBC had erroneously identified as British only a few weeks before, it was quite a moment. The two-minute interaction, posted on Twitter, has been viewed one million times and set off a conversation across Ireland about the state of one of Europe's most endangered languages." - The New York Times

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