Rush was “a richly emotive singer and a guitarist of great skill and imagination, … in the vanguard of a small circle of late-1950s innovators, including Buddy Guy and Magic Sam, whose music, steeped in R&B, heralded a new era for Chicago blues.”
Whiteread, the first woman to win the Turner Prize, on the Shoreditch area of London: “We couldn’t stand Shoreditch any longer. It’s just a hellhole. I know we artists contributed to making it that way [gentrified, expensive, noisy], but it had become monstrous. Everybody I know has left.”
The fall fashion gala began with all of the dancers facing the audience, and principal dancer Teresa Reichlen reading a statement that included the words, “We will not put art before common decency or allow talent to sway our moral compass.” That is, of course, because three of City Ballet’s male dancers have recently left or been fired for sexual harassment and worse. Will this statement work?
The Emmy-winning actor, who plays Queen Elizabeth on the Netflix series The Crown, says her anxiety “started as a form of self-protection. ‘It was a tool to survive, definitely. To try to hold on to everything. To try to feel safe.'”
It’s not like the museum was backed up to the cloud. “When ‘I hear people talking with extreme optimism about this issue, I cannot help but think that they don’t quite understand what was lost,’ said Marcus Guidoti, a Brazilian doctoral candidate who used the museum’s collection in his research.”
Tate Britain has launched a “last-ditch” attempt to find the painting Religion Attended by the Virtues by Kauffman, one of two women among the founders of the Royal Academy of Art. When was it last seen? Just before a massive bombing raid in Plymouth in 1941.
Elayne Boosler performed in the most elite comic clubs on both coasts, but she could never get her own sitcom or even a network special – and she saw very limited time on the Tonight Show (Johnny wasn’t into assertive women). But she was a master of the stand-up hour. “Make no mistake: Ms. Boosler was its first female star, regularly putting out hours of jokes on cable in the 1980s and early ’90s that represented a break from the past. … Her act — hard-hitting, topical and dense with punch lines — anticipated the future of comedy better than most if not all of her peers.”
The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “left intact Rule Two, the one that established that a film” — in...
