Withers was "an antidote to the cloying sweetness of Shirley Temple," and later became moderately famous as Josephine the Plumber in Comet ads. - Washington Post
Live music, of course: "By activating these spaces in ways that shed the Met’s stuffiness, the museum is broadening what performance can be." - Hyperallergic
The road through the park has been closed since the start of the pandemic - and so have the museums. But now, as museums reopen? The closure to cars "has become a flash point." - The New York Times
"Just after the sun came up on installation day, with video cameras rolling from various vantage points, Ankrom put on a hardhat and safety vest, hoisted a ladder up to the larger freeway sign apparatus, and climbed up to the plank with his work." - The LAnd Magazine
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been law since 1990, but "tribes currently undergo an expensive process overseen by the museums and universities they are petitioning. Repatriation requests are processed through guidelines created by the institutions." - The New York Times
While the music promoter Live Nation said that artists or bands themselves could set masking and vaccination requirements, some venues in places like L.A. are requiring proof of vaccination along with the county's mask mandate. - Los Angeles Times
And that's because the museum made promises about the donation of a Francis Bacon collection - promises the donor says it hasn't kept. - The Observer (UK)
Smithkin was "an orange-haired nonagenarian with matching two-inch eyelashes caught fire in the world of fashion, starring in a documentary film and joining fashion campaigns for brands like Coach, while flinging embers into many other fields as a muse for photographers, filmmakers and entertainers." - The New York Times
The producers claim they were concerned it might cost them money in post-production to digitally remove a baby bump. The British court was like, "Do you even know costumes and camera angles?" - BBC
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu changed the ending of her play Pass Over before its debut as the first show to open since Broadway closed in March of 2020. "I no longer wanted to work on a play that ended with the murder of a Black man. ... I want to focus on life." - The New York Times
Marcia Nasatir's "perseverance, loyalty, impressive track record and eagerness to help younger proteges ('Why not be nice?,' she said of her altruism. 'It doesn’t cost you anything.') paved the way for generations." But that didn't earn her the big bucks or the credit. - Washington Post
Rather hilariously, "Banksy expert Prof Paul Gough, principal and vice chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth, said he was 'pretty sure' the works were by Banksy, 'or they are very good fakes.'" - BBC
Reid created Baltimore's iconic statue of Billie Holiday, and took a case with important impacts on intellectual and creative property all the way to Justice Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court. - Baltimore Sun
