"Chilean politicians have been plundering for years. So I thought: why not explore theft almost as if it were an artistic intervention, and see what happens next? My life at the time was quite punk. I was in a rock band and interested in radical artistic ideas.” - The Guardian (UK)
"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 too fast." - The New York Times
“Festival organizers say they are still recouping losses from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns while they contend with inflation. ... 'The sponsors and the grants are not increasing at the same pace as the expenses. So there's a huge problem there. It's a basic mathematical problem.’” - CBC
Lea Salonga, on the song “The Worst Pies in London": "There are a whole lot of built-in reversals and crazy shifts. And I don’t mean vocal, but rather where she goes emotionally. It’s like this woman is the multitasking queen.” - Washington Post
They stole Yogi Berra’s World Series rings. “‘These kinds of artifacts tell people the story of who we are, and they connect us to the past in a way that really nothing else can,’ said executive director of the Berra museum. ‘And now they’re gone.’” - The New York Times
There are the bleedover emotions. There’s the tendency at a party to hide in a corner with an e-reader app open, looking like readers are scrolling Insta. And then … there’s the budget. - Book Riot
After an outcry, Facebook apologized for blocking links to the independent Kansas Reflector - then expanded the crackdown to other news sites. A spokesperson blamed “a mistaken security issue” and then “wouldn’t elaborate on how the mistake happened and said there would be no further explanation." - Kansas Reflector
"During these dark times, many people turned to art, and the Topaz Art School was born, where hundreds took classes in still-life and architectural drawing within the internment camp at Tanforan. The teachers were interned, too." - The New York Times
"Peck, who has created almost 40 works for NYCB and other ballet companies around the world, is ambitious to bring modern dance to bigger, more diverse audiences on both stage and screen,” and the speedy opening of Illinoise on Broadway is just part of that. - The Daily Beast
There is no “final score” for a series. "The modern fixation on endings is partly a creation of the TV business itself. For most of television history, the planned ending of anything was a rarity. Shows aired until the money guys decided otherwise.” - The New York Times
Myriam J.A. Chancy: "When history is a nightmare, all one can do is circumvent it, write another version, a fiction. This is what literature is for: rewriting, revising." - LitHub
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 Budapest, earning high praise on the continent." - The New York Times
The complexity and melancholy of Cloud Atlas have inspired "cosplay, reader art, fan fiction and scholarship … in great quantity. It is a response that one might expect to a bestselling fantasy series, a video game, or the unveiling of a Taylor Swift album; rarely a literary novel." - The Guardian (UK)
Linda Holmes is not just any critic, but host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and an alum of the revered sarcastic review site Television Without Pity. Holmes is also a novelist. How does she deal with reviews of her work, and, more broadly, how does a critic deal with criticism? - Slate
“Perhaps the real story here is how Marlborough managed to last nearly eight decades when so many galleries have only a decade in the sun. This confirms its business model of selling apparently timeless artists was pretty effective.” - The Guardian (UK)
