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“Kirkeby rose to notoriety during the early 1980s alongside fellow European Neo-Expressionist artists Markus Lüpertz, A. R. Penck, Jörg Immendorff, and Georg Baselitz, all of whom brought a renewed emphasis on formalism and painterly technique to an art world that had, by then, nearly given up on their medium.

Burrows and co-author Mike Wallace, both professors at the City University of New York, won a Pulitzer for the 1,148-page Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.

“Type multi-hatted Rissient’s name into online cinema database IMDb, and barely a dozen credits appear. Behind the scenes, however, Rissient was a legendary figure in the film world at home and internationally, respected for his deep knowledge of cinema, his nose for talented directors, and his ability to promote them and forge connections on their behalf. The Cannes Film Festival once described him as ‘a figure who cannot be categorised’, while Clint Eastwood, who is one of the many stars and directors whom Rissient nurtured and supported over the years, nicknamed him ‘Mister Everywhere.'”

“Bill Cosby’s fall from grace continues. In a first for the Kennedy Center, the board of trustees voted to rescind the high-profile awards” – the Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize – “it has given the comedian, who was convicted on three counts of sexual assault last month.”

“As he typically explored spiritual conflicts within families, the director Ermanno Olmi … was something of an outsider in his native Italy, where orthodox Catholics thought him too progressive and militant communists considered him too much of a reactionary Catholic. Only after his most acclaimed film, L’Albero degli Zoccoli (The Tree of Wooden Clogs, 1978) won him the Palme d’Or at Cannes did Olmi get recognition at home as well as abroad.”

From 2013 on, prominent cultural figures joined Hockney friends and family as portrait sitters at the artist’s brightly colored Hollywood Hills home and studio. There are portraits of his studio assistants, massage therapist, housekeeper and cook. Others depict Hockney’s siblings, the children and grandchildren of his friends, and art dealers such as London-based David Juda, New York-based Larry Gagosian, L.A. Louver’s Peter Goulds and the Ferus Gallery’s Irving Blum. So how did the pictures turn out? Very few sitters are smiling — it’s hard to smile for 20 hours — and Hockney says he has no idea of how they felt about their portraits.

She wasn’t just a famed concert violinist and teacher, but a freedom fighter who took a stand. “After martial law was declared in Poland in late 1981, she announced while on a concert tour of the West that she would not return to the country. She stayed away for almost a decade.”

Or rather, it’s a new vertical in his Yeezy company – called “Yeezy home,” he tweeted. “He has expressed an interest in architecture before, saying in a 2013 interview: ‘I want to do product, I am a product person. … I make music but I shouldn’t be limited to once place of creativity.”

His revised M. Butterfly closed early after getting uneven reviews, and he has a new, very ambitious musical in the works. How has the 60-year-old playwright kept powering through? Maybe part of it is to get back at certain publications: “I think it’s kind of cool I can go for 21 years without a good review in The New York Times and I can still have a career.”

In a statement, the Academy announced that the governing board had voted to remove the two disgraced stars “in accordance with the organization’s standards of conduct”. The board continued “to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity”.