"Famously loyal to her artists, Ms. Goodman aimed to place their work in museum collections rather than in private mansions. Her priorities could amount to a thorn in the side of collectors.” - The New York Times
Elle Fanning has had quite the year. Her “ability to hop between a thorny Norwegian drama and a high-concept alien movie is exactly the kind of exciting malleability that audiences forced to wade through modern cinema’s sea of sameness deserve.” - Salon
González, one of the foremost painters of the late 20th century, painted subjects included "the violence that permeated life in Colombia; the European ‘high culture’ that filtered its way across the Atlantic in cheap reproductions; and the in-your-face commercial aesthetic of pervasive urban advertising.” - The New York Times
“On Friday, Walker, 66, was named president and chief executive of Anonymous Content, the production and management company” which produced, among others, the Oscar-winning film Spotlight and “whose lead investor is Emerson Collective, a company steered by the entrepreneur and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs.” - The New York Times
He was once the most famous Black American in the world, and one of the most accomplished: college football and NFL star, a degree from Columbia Law School, a major career as a classical concert singer and film and stage actor. Then Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player, testified against him. - The Guardian
Leider’s career arc was an unusual one. He helped turn Artforum into a go-to source for serious, no-nonsense art criticism, serving as its editor starting in 1962. Then, in 1971, Leider left the publication — and the eye of the mainstream art world in the US, becoming a professor first at UCal-Irvine and then in Israel. - ARTnews
“In 1978, Ms. Packer founded Shakespeare & Company with Kristin Linklater, a voice teacher; Dennis Krausnick, an actor, director and writer who later became Ms. Packer’s husband; and a group of other theater artists. An actress by training, Ms. Packer was the company’s artistic director until 2009.” - The New York Times
Toward the end of his life, the versatile Bennett Cerf — believing that growth was essential — acquired rival publishing house Knopf. A few years later, he arranged for Random House to become a subsidiary of the RCA Corporation, then an electronics and communications leviathan. This move, Cerf soon recognized, was a mistake. - Washington Post
Perhaps her “most significant contributions to the repertoire were the premieres ... Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, an anti-Hitler allegory composed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp before Mr. Ullmann was murdered at Auschwitz, and Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” - The New York Times
“ gave me an outlet that I would not have had if I'd gone on a path to be what I was meant to be, which is really just to be an intellectual. … It was a sink or swim. I had to develop an emotional side.” - NPR
Underwood was “a cast member of the former Nickelodeon children’s sketch comedy series All That,” and she had other credits to her name as well. She was 33. - Los Angeles Times
“(He) often noted that the difficulties of getting gallery shows, and the disappointments that often followed, led him to open (the Blitzstein Museum of Art), which he stocked with an ever-growing hodge-podge of his surreal, imaginative, sometimes dark, often playful, paintings.” - Los Angeles Times
“How does one spend 20 years training themselves not to be afraid, only to be reminded that they should have been scared all along? How to return to normalcy after that? High-minded principles, sure — ‘If you retreat, they win,’ etc. … It wasn’t principle that got him through this latest crucible.” - The Hollywood Reporter
What did Picasso’s women have to say on passion and fame? Two left memoirs, others gave interviews, but their eyewitness testimony has been sadly neglected. - The American Scholar
