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” He remained to the end a resolutely independent artist, and never wavered from his vision of colorful austerity, producing art that was resistant, yet never trivial, always clean, bold and deceptively simple.”

“Mr. Kelly was a true original, forging his art equally from the observational exactitude he gained as a youthful bird-watching enthusiast; from skills he developed as a designer of camouflage patterns while in the Army; and from exercises in automatic drawing he picked up from European surrealism.”

“A decade after Wilson’s death, the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s plays continued to tell the story of the Hill District whenever they’re performed. But the home he grew up in is in terrible shape.”

“Depending on how the crowd votes, Cards Against Humanity will either gift the work to the Art Institute of Chicago or cut it into teeny squares with a laser and send each off (unframed, presumably) to the 150,000 backers, whether or not they voted in favor of the surgery.”

“They’re watered-down femininity. Like when your mom told you to make sure when you sat down to keep your legs closed, or not mess up your hair, it’s the famous saying: ‘The well-behaved woman seldom makes history.’ … We have to ‘woman up’ and live our truths through our work and define ourselves in our terms, not the Mr Potato Head model of male desirability.”

What’s more, it’s possible you’ve heard of her and didn’t realize she was a woman. And nobody knows her real name.

“A tremendous volt of electricity went through my body, and my body said yes. In effect, it said, Yes, Sheila, you are a pervert.” Sheila Heti talks with the world’s most famous children’s singer about his life, his approach to music, and his relationship to his fans, children and grown-up.

“Inigo Montoya spent his life trying to avenge the murder of his father. He found the six-fingered man, and he killed him. But he realized that that did not bring his father back. It didn’t do any good. Inigo realized that he might have made a different choice to do something else with his life. If they ever did a sequel, you would see all the good he has done for the world.”

“Bidini’s rehearsal room at the Colburn School is a study in ambition, frailties, talent, insecurities and occasional brilliance. The room is bare except for a few chairs, a desk and two pianos that sit side by side: one for Bidini, the other for his student. The student plays, Bidini corrects. On and on it goes through scales, crescendos and silent moments between notes, just before a finger strikes a key hard or slips gently over it to evoke the longing or redemption in the composer’s mind.”

“He could bring a meticulous if somewhat dictatorial approach to rehearsal discipline, something that New York’s unruly orchestra was widely thought to need.”