Thomas Gavin stashed stolen antique firearms "in his hideout — a cluttered, non-descript barn in rural Pennsylvania. Gavin's crime spree was so under the radar, no one caught on until 2018, when he tried to unload a rare, Revolutionary-era rifle to a local antiques dealer." - NPR
"By bringing this modern cultural artifact here from white neighborhoods, had I set myself up, set up the neighborhood? Was I contributing to gentrification and sending the wrong message about how I wanted the neighborhood to be?" - The New York Times
Being an intimacy director involves so much behind the scenes comes - helping actors resist producers who put "pressure on actors reluctant to shoot a scene, using the oldest trick in the book: if you don’t do it, there are plenty of others who will." - El Pais
For fine arts students, the pandemic has been rough. Colleges including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design "sent home 'care packages' tailored to different majors and rejiggered curriculums to prioritize in-person studio time for the students who needed it most." - MSN (Boston Globe)
Shenandoah saw a tree being cut down and decided to leave office work. Good decision: The singer, who died at 64, recorded many albums and sang for presidential inaugurations. She "played guitar, piano, flute, cello and other instruments, gave as many 200 concerts a year." - Washington Post
Not only artist Xxavier Carter but the curator and the fair were threatened with fines and long jail sentences. Ironically, perhaps, Carter's piece "reimagines the myth of Sisyphus to reflect on the violent legacy of colonialism." - Hyperallergic
Ron Oliver's joke tweets get calls from Hallmark executives, and his philosophy is omnipresent across streamers' and networks' Christmas fare: "Make it beautiful, make it nostalgic, make it romantic, and give ’em a little love at the end." - Los Angeles Times
Ivo van Hove's passion for movies has affected everything about his direction, from the use of video on stage to the themes he pursues. - The Guardian (UK)
No, according to Jeff Garlin, he was definitely not fired from The Goldbergs. He called the reporter to explain, well, everything "Okay. There has been an HR investigation on me the past three years. HR has come to me three years in a row for my behavior on set." - Vanity Fair
A middle-school class at NY's Special School discovered there was no Price biography aimed at children - so "this beautiful book emerged that they wrote together, 45 of them together." - NPR
The Volksbühne kept an East German spirit alive in a reunified Germany, until its longtime director was fired in 2017. Since then, there have been three other artistic directors, including one accused of sexual harassment. Can the newest AD change the trajectory? - The New York Times
Such are the questions that a global, murderous pandemic will make most of us ask. And we might wonder: "What work is actually valuable? It’s incredibly unclear." - The Atlantic
In the online iteration of 2020, no African American galleries were included. But "over the past year, Art Basel changed its admission requirements and made a concerted effort to invite previously marginalized galleries to apply." - The New York Times
"Sondheim is particularly remembered among connoisseurs of word puzzles for his role in introducing Americans to British-style cryptic crosswords. ... The crosswords that he created for New York Magazine in 1968 and 1969 were instrumental in popularizing the cryptic genre on this side of the Atlantic." - Slate
