The worry is that our remembrance will whittle down Jones’s vast career—spanning sixty years and encompassing more than two hundred turns in the theatre, on film, and on television—to, as with Plutarch’s nightingale picked clean, vox et praeterea nihil: a voice and nothing more. - The New Yorker
She earned money by writing and reading letters for illiterate neighbors in their village, and Pedrito noticed that what Mama said aloud didn't always match what was written in the letters — she improvised things to make the recipient happy. Years later he recognized the huge lesson she was teaching him. - The Guardian
"Prosecutors retrying Weinstein’s overturned rape conviction disclosed last week that they had begun presenting to a grand jury evidence of ... three additional allegations against Weinstein, dating as far back as the mid-2000s. … The indictment will remain under seal until Weinstein’s arraignment on the new charges, which is scheduled for Sept. 18." - AP
Carter’s appreciation for the arts began at an early age and has expanded over time. In his autobiography, Why Not The Best?, he wrote that his mother was an avid reader. So was he. “Within my memory, whenever anyone has asked me what I wanted for Christmas or my birthday present, I always replied ‘books." - ArtsATL
"(She was) known for her surreal and sensual 'art machines' incorporating musical instruments, bird feathers and mechanical engineering." - The Guardian
Bates — who said she'll retire after finishing the title role in the reboot of the TV series Matlock — was having a very rough day (and didn't cancel) when she met reporter Alexis Soloski, who wrote frankly about what she saw and the pain the beloved actress was in. - The New York Times
The disgraced film producer and convicted-then-unconvicted rapist was rushed to New York City's Bellevue Hospital from Rikers Island, where he is being held pending the retrial of his 2022 rape case, whose guilty verdict was overturned in April. - Variety
The 15 million yen (roughly $105,000) prize, intended as an arts equivalent of the Nobel prizes, go to Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires, sculptor Doris Salcedo, and conceptual artist Sophie Calle. - ArtReview
He was the longtime general manager of the Marlboro Music Festival, Vermont's great summer school for music students, and founding artistic director of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, which he developed into one of the busiest and most prestigious chamber music series in the country. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Benítez was “an American dancer and choreographer who, as the founder of a popular Spanish dance troupe, played a major role in making New Mexico a hotbed for flamenco.” - The New York Times
“By the late 1980s, Tikkun had established itself as an outlet for writers who shared his conviction that some form of Palestinian self-determination was not just morally correct but also Israel’s best way forward.” - The New York Times
Horn created performance-oriented works in the 1960s that “envisioned new possibilities for women’s bodies, outfitting her participants with appendages that caused them to seem more like animals.” Later, she created “objects made from metal, liquid, mirrors, and more that seemed not quite human yet not quite inorganic.” - ARTnews
With his group, Brasil ’66, “some of the songs were in Portuguese, some were in English, but all of them were driven along by Mr. Mendes’s piano and infectious Brazilian rhythms, with the vocals wafting like a summer breeze.” - Washington Post
Harari is to the tech CEO what David Foster Wallace once was to the Williamsburg hipster. This is a surprising role for someone who started as almost a parody of professorial obscurity. - The Atlantic (MSN)
