| | | Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80 | | by Alexandra Alter Jul 31, 2021 | | A Florentine by birth, he was a polymath as an author and publisher (Kafka, Verdic philosophy, Greek mythology) who reached a wide international readership.Roberto Calasso in 2000. “He was kind of a literary magician,” said Jonathan Galassi, president of Farrar Straus & Giroux, the publisher of eight of Mr. Calasso’s books. | | | | | Timothy Rub Will Step Down at Philadelphia Museum of Art | | by Zachary Small Jul 31, 2021 | | As director, he oversaw Frank Gehry’s reimagining of the historic 1928 building and dealt with reports of abusive behavior on the part of museum managers.Timothy Rub, who joined the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2009, is stepping down next year. | | | | | Chuck E. Weiss, Musician Who, in Love, Inspired a Hit Song, Dies at 76 | | by PENELOPE GREEN Jul 31, 2021 | | He and Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones were inseparable in the late ’70s, and when Mr. Weiss’s romantic life took a turn, Ms. Jones memorialized it in “Chuck E.’s in Love.”Chuck E. Weiss, right, with Tom Waits at the Tropicana Motel in Los Angeles, where they and Rickie Lee Jones lived in the 1970s. | | | | | | | Guggenheim Museum Curators Move to Join a Union | | by Colin Moynihan Jul 31, 2021 | | The curators, as well as conservators and other staff, are looking to join a local of the United Auto Workers.Conservators, curators and other staff members at the Guggenheim Museum in New York are seeking to join a union local affiliated with the United Auto Workers. | | | | | From 'Call My Agent!' to Hollywood Career | | by Nicole Sperling Jul 31, 2021 | | The French series was a pandemic hit in the United States. And now its star, Camille Cottin, is emerging to find herself in demand.“You tell me during the pandemic everybody watched ‘Call My Agent!’ I was miles away, imagining that I was buried alive,” Camille Cottin said. | | | | | New York City Awards $3 Million for Latino and Puerto Rican Theater | | by Sarah Bahr Jul 31, 2021 | | The Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater will use the funds, along with $7 million from the city over the last eight years, for an expanded South Bronx space.Members of Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater’s ensemble, in the Off Broadway world premiere of the musical "¡Guaracha!” in November 2019. The theater’s South Bronx location will expand and serve as its headquarters. | | | | | | | Repression, Obsession, Murder | | by Sarah Lyall Jul 31, 2021 | | Need a distraction? Three prickly, skin-crawling new thrillers will have you on the edge of your seat. | | | | | | | Overlooked No More: Janet Sobel, Whose Art Influenced Jackson Pollock | | by Maya Blackstone Jul 31, 2021 | | With no formal art training, working in her Brooklyn apartment, she took up the drip style of painting that Pollock later made famous.Janet Sobel in about 1944. Painting on her stomach on the floor of her Brooklyn apartment, she was “bursting with a flow of creativity that couldn’t be stopped,” her granddaughter said. | | | | | | | |
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