Category: people

On the news that her work is studied in college curricula: “They’re teaching that stuff? Uh-oh. Those kind of phrases like ‘gender studies’ or ‘performance art’ kind of give me the creeps. … You don’t have to be writing a book and have people ask ‘Why are you writing a book? You’re a performance artist!’ The thing is that I often start working on one medium, and it turns into a different one. I start working on an opera and it turns into a potato print.”

“I remember asking my agent in London, … ‘Can you take some time at some point to explain to me what the Academy Awards are because I feel a little guilty that I’m in this sort of strange circus and I don’t really understand what the Academy Awards are. I’ve never seen them on the television and I’ve certainly never been to one and I don’t really understand why they’re such a big deal for people who have access to them on the television’.”

“The dispute centres on whether his remains should be reinterred on the Tuscan coast close to where they have lain unmarked for 400 years, or moved and reburied in Milan alongside other renowned sons of Lombardy.” Where he originated, however, is a matter of some debate.

The award is given by the Inamori Foundation, which “honors individuals who have made ‘significant contributions to the betterment of society.’ Mr. Kentridge is best known for his animated films, which he calls ‘drawings in motion,’ about the history and social circumstances of postcolonial South Africa….”

“Michael Jackson’s estate has generated at least $1 billion in revenues since the singer died a year ago, thanks in part to a lucrative new record deal with Sony Music and the most successful concert film of all time, according to Billboard estimates.”

“According to police reports and the Monterey Herald, Kinkade, 52, was stopped by a sheriff’s deputy shortly after 9 p.m. because his 2006 Mercedes-Benz didn’t have a front license plate. The deputy detected the smell of alcohol, and requested the assistance of a California Highway Patrol officer.”

“For all of Broad’s consistent prominence on the public stage in recent years, the buildings he has helped develop make up a disparate, even contradictory group. They don’t reflect a single aesthetic vision or chart the growth of a few chosen architects over time. If the buildings have any common thread, in fact, it is disappointment.”

The Portuguese novelist José Saramago, who explored Portugal’s troubled political identity in a series of novels published over the last four decades, won the Nobel prize for literature in 1998.

Forrester was 20th-century Canada’s incarnation of the prototypical 19th-century diva. She sang incomparably, gave generously of her rare musical gifts and her worldly goods, and lived life “in the large.”

“The colourful self-publicist was found dead at his flat in central London this morning, days after a play adapted from his memoirs – Dandy in the Underworld – opened at the Soho theatre.”