They will likely not be big reflections of what will win at the Oscars - but the bittersweet Past Lives was rewarded with Best Feature and it director Celine Song with Best Director, while A Thousand and One (whose lead actor, critics say was snubbed this season) won Best First Feature. - The Hollywood Reporter
"A few attendees stepped outside to acknowledge the incident and see what was going on, but the awards show continued. Host Aidy Bryant said on stage, 'We’re at the beach and people are exercising their freedom of speech.’” - IndieWire
Before she took on roles in Italian operas at the Met, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen "soft-launched the Italian side of her voice” in recitals and with the Norwegian Opera. - The New York Times
“Some laws operate like hidden trap doors — everyone walks across the trap at one point or another, but only a handful of us actually fall through.” - The Verge
Shahani "was known for his formalist style of filmmaking and his landmark films include Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990).” He also worked hard to help India archive and restore films via the Film Heritage Foundation. - Variety
"To live as an artist in exile is among the most glorious triumphs of human will: a spiritual victory.” But the cost is tremendously high. - The New York Times
“The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, ‘Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe,’ displayed after the machine failed to launch a facial recognition application." - Ars Technica
“The institute’s decision to continue to fight the efforts by Manhattan prosecutors to retrieve its Schiele work makes it a lone holdout among the museums and collectors who received warrants from investigators telling them they possessed stolen property." - The New York Times
“With its slender vertical fuselage and long-stalled revolving restaurant, it speaks of the hopeful futurism of the 1960s, of the white heat of technology, of Minis and miniskirts and the Beatles.” - The Observer (UK)
The cast and crew took a “granular, history-flecked tour of the place where, about 60 years earlier, S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age story was written and set. Hinton, 75 and still a beloved local, was a star attraction." - The New York Times
This actor we all know so well has done something that, for him, is entirely new - at 80 years old. “Rather than the banal, De Niro’s Hale embodies what you might call the congeniality of evil.” - Slate
“Many scenes and images in The Boy and the Heron echo those from his earlier films, only this time they’re rendered in service of a story almost wholly about the profound ravages of war.” - The Atlantic
"We have to make our galleries welcoming and accessible, and to make it clear they are not just about the past and full of dead white males.” Lower prices for those younger than 25 don’t hurt either. - The Observer (UK)
In Brooklyn, “on the site of an old record shop and club, the company has built a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage, several classrooms, where improv and comedy writing are taught, and a restaurant." - NPR
