Not only have promoters postponed the remainder of his current standup tour, his agent and publisher have dropped him. Perhaps even more damaging, YouTube has cut him off from income from his videos on the platform, where he has 6.6 million subscribers. - AP
McGrath, who was also nominated for his work in Spamalot, "was one of those stage actors who might rarely be recognized on the street yet worked steadily for decades, drawing good notices throughout." - The New York Times
On Saturday, in a British news investigation, "numerous women allege that they were sexually assaulted by Brand between 2006 and 2013, during which time he rose from eccentric British TV personality to debauched Hollywood star." - Los Angeles Times
Representative Boebert apologized for the behavior (mutual crotch groping with her date, apparently) that got her ejected from a performance of Beetlejuice. - The New York Times
"One hundred and fifty years ago this week, holed up at his family's farm in the Ardennes, 19-year-old Arthur Rimbaud … had reached the end of a wildly chaotic four years of dangerous excess that also encompassed one of the greatest, shortest and most precocious literary careers in history." - The New European
Botero’s paintings of Colombian governmental officials and clergy are now known the world over. He said that when he first started making them, in the 1950s, there wasn’t much other art like it in his home country, where European modernist painting was not widely seen at the time. - ARTnews
As befits a man who has been held up as an avatar of his generation’s achievements and failings, Wenner has left behind a complex legacy. But it’s one that he’s happy to defend. - The New York Times
In one, the estate accused its former gallery and an insurance company of having damaged artworks, some beyond repair. In the other, the estate was sued by a production company who claimed that a tense back-and-forth with Baldessari’s descendants ultimately led to the cancelation of a Gagosian gallery show. - ARTnews
The five recipients of the Japan Art Association's 15 million yen ($102,000) prize, conceived as a Nobel for the arts, are composer/trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, sculptor Olafur Eliasson, painter Vija Celmins, stage director Robert Wilson, and architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, winner of last year's Pritzker Prize. - Finestre sull'Arte
"His best friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, had died in a train crash, before his second wife, Gwyn, left him and took their children with her. The diary Steinbeck wrote throughout the year that followed was the most 'intense and private' journal he ever wrote." - The Observer (UK)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her 1853 book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote that the autobiography of Josiah Henson was one of her main inspirations. And who was Henson? Someone with a life story as compelling as those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. - MSN (The Atlantic)
Photographer and activist Carrie Mae Weems and George C. Wolfe, director and producer, discuss what the "responsibility to invade" institutions looks like, three years after the death of George Floyd. - The New York Times
These are the people who over roughly the last five years have gone off the deep end, as it were. “Almost everyone I talk to tells me about people they have lost ‘down the rabbit hole,’” Klein reports, “parents, siblings, best friends, as well as formerly trusted intellectuals and commentators.” - The New Republic
