After years of being thought of as rock 'n' roll adjacent,"it’s only now, at the improbable age of 81, that Ann-Margret is getting the chance to assert herself as a full-on rock ’n’ roll goddess — if a winking one." - The New York Times
María Mercedes Coroy may be a star of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but "the day after filming her final scene in Los Angeles, headed home to Santa María de Jesús, a Kaqchikel Maya town of about 22,000 at the base of a volcano in Guatemala." - The New York Times
"On Monday April 3rd, I performed on stage for 2000 people while having a miscarriage. I knew it was happening. … If it had been our first loss, or even our second, I likely wouldn't have been able to go on." - Yahoo!
"It's hard to find anywhere in the food universe that wasn't touched by (her) pen or panache. She helped shape modern food writing as a mix of storytelling, history and a worldly palate. Her relentlessly curious tastes were also part of a major shift in American eating." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"From a very early age Kusama has suffered from severe panic attacks and hallucinations, episodes during which pumpkins might talk to her, which is nice, or a sense that an entire universe of patterns was eliminating her, which is not." - Literary Hub
"How about this woman we create isn't me, but she had that same stuff happen to her in the past and she took a different path to me as an adult, so we get to do whatever we want." - The Guardian
"(His gift was) to elevate the formulaic celebrity profile with humor, a literary voice and the polish of a short story. That was the only way Mr. Zehme … could accept his fate performing what many writers consider one of the lowest forms of journalism." - MSN (The Washington Post)
In the early 1960s, Lynne Desroches-Noblecourt’s friendships and grit proved essential to the success of her career’s crowning achievement: the seemingly quixotic campaign to save from destruction the temples, sculptures and artifacts at Abu Simbel, near Egypt’s border with Sudan. - Washington Post
A letter posted on Twitter asked Polley to mail her Oscar back to California. "It said she could keep the award for one more week, ... but ultimately, it needed to be returned so it could go to the 'rightful' winner: All Quiet on the Western Front." - BBC
"The styles explored by Sister Guèbrou ... were so singular in sound and structure that music scholars often puzzled over the main source of her inspiration — seamlessly mixing forms such as jazz, chamber music and rhythms from her homeland." - Washington Post
Cherry died in November after performing in London. Earlier, he said, "A lot of people think your success is how much money you make. … I feel successful because I hung in there and have integrity in what I do. The stuff I do has meaning." - Oregon ArtsWatch
Sakamoto's Yellow Magic Orchestra "perfected a witty robotic pop that ... influenced the sound of everything from Nintendo video game scores to the techno genre and hip-hop." He also composed music for film scores, including for The Last Emperor. - Washington Post
Julia Voss, author of the first-ever biography of Europe's first abstract artist, talks about the influence which the 19th-century scientific revolution had on the mystical artist, how hard she tried to get shown, the appalling sexism she faced, and the voices she heard. - Artnet
Her most radical initiative was “02020,” a plan to hand over the programming, the keys to the building and the entire annual production budget to a collective of artists. The idea was to extend experimentalism into every part of the organization. - The New York Times
"From the waning years of Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration through the presidencies of 10 succeeding chief executives, Mr. Russell poked fun at the foibles and flaws of the well-known, the pompous and the powerful in monologues replete with pithy one-liners and musical ditties. He called himself 'a political cartoonist for the blind.'" - MSN (The Washington Post)
