Lauren Pazienza, 28, acknowledged throwing 87-year-old Barbara Maier Gustern, a beloved teacher and performer, onto a Manhattan sidewalk and then walking away in March of 2022. Pazienza will spend eight years in prison, minus the time she has served since her bail was revoked in May 2022. - AP
The Wildensteins' business goes back five generations and 150 years; family members have always been secretive, even by art-world standards. But a lawsuit by a disinherited widow has uncovered what a prosecutor alleged is "the longest and most sophisticated tax fraud" in modern French history. - The New York Times Magazine
"Most confusingly, we once had distinct writerly lanes (hers being women’s bodies, sexuality, and leadership; mine being corporate assaults on democracy and climate change). But by the time Occupy happened, the once-sharp yellow line that divided those lanes had begun to go wobbly." - Vanity Fair
One of a very few Black men present from the beginning of the downtown postmodern dance scene, he danced with Merce Cunningham and reviewed for The Village Voice as well as running his own company and founding a trio of eminent older dancers called Paradigm. - The New York Times
Johaar Mosaval has died at 95. Mosaval, who had South Asian ancestry, "was prohibited from touching White dancers with his bare hands" - but progressive ballet teachers smuggled him into a Royal Ballet audition. - Washington Post
Jones might have gotten more fame on TV, but he "began his career at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love for the stage was present throughout his entire career." - Variety
Will this slow the massive project? Macron doesn't think so. The French president "lamented that 'Gen. Georgelin will never see the reopening of Notre Dame with his own eyes,' but added that when it reopens on Dec. 8, 2024, 'he will be present with us.’'"- Associated Press
The promise of SNL under Michaels’ leadership is simple: If you are loyal to the family, you will reap handsome rewards. Over almost 50 years, that promise has come to justify a legacy of alleged workplace abuses ranging from the familiar to the shocking. - LongReads
"The problem with comics is … it's not challenging anymore because I know how to do it. My life is about the search, not getting comfortable. I like the chaos. I'm not going to live another 300 years. I have to explore everything I can before dying." - Publishers Weekly
His design work on restoration of two New York landmarks, the Statue of Liberty and the Woolworth Building, first brought him renown. He went on to do the Ritz in Paris, the Getty Center in L.A., and the homes of the rich and famous from Calvin Klein to Bill Gates. - Architectural Record
"Like Callas, Ms. Scotto possessed a voice that was riveting without being traditionally beautiful. … Also like Callas, she was known for fully inhabiting her roles, bringing intense dramaticism to an art form in which singers had once been content to stand onstage and trill." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"For the editors of I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks, the answer was obvious. … 'They had an understanding that I wasn't the best choice — I was the only choice,' Mr. Herzog said. 'When you look at the text, it becomes quite self-evident.'" - The New York Times
"'She was a special person and merited a special send-off,' said Patrizia Mosca, a newly retired civil servant who said that she didn’t typically attend public funerals — 'not even for the popes.' But Ms. Murgia was different." - The New York Times
"The show had a resilience that no one back then could have predicted. It continued to run at Sullivan Street for more than 17,000 performances, finally closing in 2002." Jones also co-wrote I Do! I Do! and other musical. - The New York Times
