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“[His] multilayered, eye-popping works challenged conventional notions of perception, color, and light, helping to define what became known as Kinetic Art and Op Art … His work eventually leapt off the wall and into sculptures, installation, and immersive environments, [which] he called ‘Chromosaturations.'” – ARTnews

Father Lee was a scholar by training. His field was the classics. But he did not sound particularly dry or academic on the radio as an opera quiz panelist or as a commentator explicating characters’ motives, composers’ motifs and librettists’ plot twists for an international audience. – The New York Times

A grand jury indicted Daniels in Harris County District Court on July 25. Also indicted on the same charge is Daniels’ husband, William Walters, who goes by the name Scott. In Texas, sexual assault of an adult is a Class 2 felony; if convicted, Daniels and Walter could face between two and 20 years in prison. – NPR

Sam Rudy, an actual farm boy who moved to the city and made good, has created publicity for everything from the deeply bad musical Shogun to Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, and he’s going out on Hamilton, which he says is in a class of its own. – The New York Times

Russi Taylor, 75, began performing as Minnie for Disney in the mid-1980s – and then she met and married the voice of Mickey. She voiced many other roles for Disney, and also for The Simpsons. – Variety

Tyson was accused of sexual misconduct by two women, and the museum launched an investigation. It now says the investigation is closed, that Tyson will stay on as director of the Hayden Planetarium, and that it will have no further comment. One of the women, Katelyn Allers, a professor of physics and astronomy, “said she did not find the results of the museum’s investigation surprising — ‘This is kind of the way the world works,’ she said — but added that there was no good possible outcome either way.” – The New York Times

“Mr. Johnston was an unusual avant-gardist: His music was so melodically engaging, rhythmically vital and structurally transparent that listeners who were unaware of his tuning experiments and their complex theoretical underpinnings heard his works as essentially neo-Romantic.” – The New York Times

“With her soft, high voice, Ms. Yao was long referred to as one of the seven great singing stars of Shanghai, … [whose popular music] bore not only the rhythms of jazz, but also global sounds like Cuban rumba and the Hawaiian steel guitar. … She was not famous well beyond Asia, but at least two of her songs made an impact in the United States.” – The New York Times

“In a 40-year stage career, mostly with the Royal Ballet, she created roles for a host of eminent choreographers, among them Frederick Ashton, John Cranko, Robert Helpmann, Andrée Howard, Kenneth MacMillan, Léonide Massine and Ninette de Valois. … Ms. Farron also became known as an inspiring teacher at both the Royal Academy [of Dance, where she was director in the 1980s,] and the Royal Ballet School, helping to shape the careers of many future ballerinas.” – The New York Times

“[He was] a rugged Dutch actor who played Nazis, action heroes and bloodsucking vampires [in both movies and television], but who was best known as the android outlaw in the science-fiction thriller Blade Runner.” – The Washington Post