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As the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens its new wing after much discussion and controversy, director Anne Hawley steps briefly into the spotlight.

“Mrs. Maas was one of the last living links to cinema’s silent era. She wrote dozens of stories, adaptations and scripts, sat with Greta Garbo at the famed long table in MGM’s commissary, and adapted to sound in the movies, and then to color. Perhaps most satisfying, Mrs. Maas outlived pretty much anybody who might have disagreed with her version of things.”

The Australian Ballet’s Artistic Director David McAllister: “Paul was one of the great dance actors, most recently returning to the stage as The Bonze in Madame Butterfly and Njegus in The Merry Widow with us last year. … He was extraordinary to watch on stage and was an inspiration to many of us.”

“Instead of feast tables or objects in the rooms of the wealthy, the still-life tableaus that first brought Ms. Groover to prominence in the late 1970s focused on the everyday implements of the kitchen, arranged in the sink … shot in such a way as to confound perspective and to transform light into a kind of object itself in the reflective surfaces.”

“This one, recorded the year of his sad and untimely death, tries very hard and does capture much of what was best loved about the great man.”

danah boyd: “Any time there’s a radical disruption, everyone rushes to reform a new power structure, to restabilize things. Some people win in this process and some people lose. Tech forces a disruption, but who gets to win?”

“We’ve always known it existed, therefore the information in it isn’t new, but anything in its original form to do with Beethoven is hugely significant. It means we can look at his handwriting, which was always untidy, because his father took him out of school very early so he could concentrate on music.”

“Among the first photographers to be embraced in the late ’70s and early ’80s by New York galleries (Sonnabend and Robert Miller) previously more disposed toward painters and sculptors, she also became in 1987 one of a handful of women to ever receive a solo show of her photographs at the Museum of Modern Art.”

The award-winning novelist “is heading a group of 38 Nigerian authors who are throwing their weight behind mass protests in the country at the government’s withdrawal of the state fuel subsidy.”

Terekhov danced with the Ballets Russes in the 1940s and 1950s and co-founded the University of Oklahoma School of Dance.