Category: people

“Her bright, boxy sculptures of people represent[ed] a range of American life – everyone from the Kennedys to a dustbowl farm family to the artist herself. The works, which combined painted and minimally carved wooden figures with found objects like shoes and doors, were funny but incisive, simple-looking but expertly made.”

“The marketing and sales techniques pioneered in the 1960s by Philip Kives, who died on Thursday at the age of 87, might seem crude and simplistic viewed from a half-century’s distance. But they remain part of the DNA of record label marketing departments today.”

“In the days after her work was proclaimed by one of the world’s most influential black female artists, Ms. [Warsan] Shire laid low. She did not promote ‘Lemonade’ or even tease its existence on social media.”

“Remo Delmo Belli was born in Mishawaka, Ind., near South Bend, on June 22, 1927. Enraptured by his uncle’s polka band, which played at a local Italian-American club, he was urged by his father to learn the accordion, but he preferred the snare drum.”

“In long and sometimes rambling prose, the poet extols the virtues of fresh air, of good footwear, of naked sunbathing and even of facial hair.”

“Stevens’s seraphic art and his plodding life … merge as sides of a coin: philosophical, in his continual grappling with implications of the death of God – a loss that he tried to remedy by making poetry stand in for religion – and psychological, in his constant compulsion to cheer himself up.”

“Gagosian himself is estimated to clear $1 billion in sales annually and is among a small group of gallery owners whose appetites are omnivorous: He works across the contemporary and modern eras, representing living artists like John Currin and Mark Grotjahn while also dealing on behalf of the estates of Alberto Giacometti, Richard Avedon and Helen Frankenthaler.”

“Oh my God, yeah. If Mother Teresa is propelled to do good works because she believes in God, I am propelled to do good works because of how bad I feel about myself. It’s the first place I go. ‘Oh, what did I do wrong?'”

“In fact, when I act I don’t think about anything. My acting depends on the staging: you know, you put the camera in front of me, and I do it.”

“The bones were discovered March 29 by Aztec Services Group employees. Archeological group Gray and Pape examined the bones and confirmed that they were human skeletal remains, they said in a press release.”