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Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist Who Expanded and Endured
The Japanese artist’s polka-dot-covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pop Artist Known for Polka-Dot Paintings, Dies at 97 - The New York Times
"Parton knew that Fonda was being strategic by casting her in “9 to 5,” in the hopes of bringing in a Southern audience. Fonda has been even more explicit that she viewed the movie’s humor as a vehicle for delivering a strong feminist message in a palatable way. “Even if people don’t want to deal with the issues we’re raising,” Fonda told the producer of “Dolly Parton’s America,” “they’ll like the movie anyway, because it’s really funny.”"
LEONARDO SAKAMOTO
O ministro André Mendonça expôs as promíscuas conversas de Alexandre de Moraes com Daniel Vorcaro, mas esqueceu de mostrar que ele mesmo encontrou o banqueiro para discutir assuntos de interesse do Banco Master fora do STF.
Mendonça garantiu que a reunião ocorreu por iniciativa do empresário e que se limitou a ouvi-lo. É uma declaração esculpida na escola Bill Clinton. Quando o então candidato à Presidência dos Estados Unidos foi acusado de ter fumado maconha, veio, em 1992, com uma pérola que se tornou antológica: fumei, mas não traguei.
A fumaça do encontro entre Mendonça e Vorcaro, no entanto, é densa. A reunião secreta ocorreu no dia 14 de março de 2025, longe dos holofotes do Supremo Tribunal Federal. O palco foi a alameda Santos, na região da avenida Paulista, em São Paulo, mais especificamente no Instituto ITER, uma instituição de ensino fundada pelo próprio Mendonça.
As conversas vazadas revelam que a aproximação foi exaustivamente costurada pelo advogado Ciro Rocha Soares e pelo deputado federal Cezinha de Madureira (PL-SP).
Ciro, em uma demonstração de intimidade que beira o compadrio, enviou áudios a Vorcaro afirmando estar "trabalhando" por ele, relatando ter levado Mendonça a uma alfaiataria em São Paulo. "Fala, Vorcarinho, trabalhando por você! Levei o André lá no Vasco agora, pra fazer um terno", disse o advogado em áudio enviado em 8 de fevereiro de 2025.
O advogado gabou-se de que Mendonça queria receber o banqueiro e já estava ciente de "toda" a situação envolvendo o Banco Central.
A reportagem é de Paulo Motoryn e foi publicada no ICL Notícias. Ele foi um dos responsáveis pela investigação que mostrou relações promíscuas entre Flávio Bolsonaro e Vorcaro publicada no Intercept Brasil.
Pego no contrapé pelo vazamento de mensagens, Mendonça precisou admitir a reunião ao jornal O Estado de S. Paulo e em nota oficial enviada ao UOL. Tentando dissipar a névoa, o magistrado argumentou que o tema da conversa foi o pagamento de precatórios.
Afirmar que apenas emprestou seus ouvidos e não tomou atitudes ativas soa como um malabarismo retórico para tentar normalizar o cheiro ruim.
André Mendonça mandou produzir um relatório-dossiê sobre seu colega Alexandre de Moraes, com base nas mensagens em que o banqueiro Daniel Vorcaro o tratava como seu lobista e advogado particular. Há suspeitas de que crimes possam ter sido cometidos. Contudo, a PGR diz que Mendonça atropelou as regras, comparando-o praticamente ao então juiz Sergio Moro e apontando nulidade do documento.
O caos, contudo, já está instalado e pode beneficiar eleitoralmente alguém. Desconfio que, contra a intenção dos envolvidos, será Augusto Cury (Avante). Pesquisa Quaest divulgada hoje pelo jornal O Globo mostra Lula com 37%, Flávio Bolsonaro com 30% e Cury com 10%, confirmando a alta do azarão.
Se até o ministro que acusou o colega aparecer na Vorcarosfera, a eleição ganha o cenário perfeito para o escritor de autoajuda, com muita gente na mesma alfaiataria do poder.
Vale ressaltar que todos são inocentes até que se prove o contrário dentro do devido processo legal. Mas Mendonça, que se beneficiou de vazamentos, agora sente o impacto deles.
No Brasil, parte da elite financeira e das togas andam juntas, frequentam os mesmos institutos privados e dividem os mesmos alfaiates de luxo. Resta saber quem, de fato, está pagando a conta dos ternos.
UOL
My bell rang this morning, didn't know which way to go
My bell rang this morning, didn't know which way to go
I had the blues so bad, I sit right down on my floor
Ô direitista, não precisa pular a coluna. Hoje o tema te interessa.
Não vou falar dos 145 mil mortos por falta de vacina durante a pandemia. Não vou falar sobre a tentativa de golpe que quase deu certo e que, se tivesse dado certo, teria matado milhares de opositores de Bolsonaro usando as armas da República. Não vou falar do fato evidente de que os R$ 134 milhões negociados por Flávio com Vorcaro seriam recompensa pela licença que os bolsonaristas deram para Vorcaro se tornar banqueiro, bem como pelos bilhões que os governadores bolsonaristas deram de dinheiro de aposentados do Rio de Janeiro e do BRB para o Banco Master. Não vou falar da conspiração bolsonarista pelos tarifaços nem da tentativa de melar a eleição presidencial usando uma superpotência estrangeira.
Pode ficar tranquilo, vou falar do único tema que a direita discute utilizando o conceito adequado de risco: ajuste fiscal.
Ninguém no mercado acha que o risco de crise fiscal é zero até o dia em que o país quebra. Mas é assim que os ricos brasileiros medem o risco que o bolsonarismo representa para a democracia: só admitirão que a democracia corre risco quando os adversários da ditadura de direita já estiverem no pau-de-arara por pelo menos seis meses. E olhe lá.
Enfim, Flávio Bolsonaro foi ao Jornal Nacional e disse que não vai fazer os ajustes que o mercado está pedindo. Disse que vai dar aumento real para o salário mínimo, que não vai desindexar os programas sociais do salário mínimo, que não vai mexer na Previdência. Disse inclusive que vai cortar impostos, o que agravaria o desequilíbrio fiscal.
Também disse que não acredita no aquecimento global. Mas calma, já falei que só vou falar de coisas que você, direitista, acha importantes.
O fato de Flávio no JN ter contrariado sua equipe econômica, em si, não é grave: sua equipe econômica é uma porcaria.
Se alguém na Faria Lima declarar apoio a Flávio Bolsonaro, tenha certeza: é gente da série D do mercado querendo outra boquinha como a que o bolsonarismo ofereceu a Daniel Vorcaro. São patrocinadores em potencial da continuação de "Dark Horse", "The Revenge of Little Banana".
O problema, para Flávio, é que no JN ele aumentou o preço de fazer o ajuste que já prometeu à Faria Lima que fará. Os dois presidentes impichados em nossa história começaram o governo fazendo o que tinham prometido que não fariam.
A única medida de ajuste que Flávio anunciou no JN foi combate à corrupção. Pois é. O Flávio. Combatendo a corrupção. Enfim.
Mesmo se a proposta fosse séria, seria insuficiente. Pergunte para qualquer economista: não é a corrupção que explica nossa taxa de juros, a estagnação de nossa produtividade, o déficit da Previdência ou a trajetória da dívida pública.
E sim, esses assuntos deveriam ocupar uma parte maior de nosso debate público. Eu topo um ajuste fiscal equânime na distribuição de sacrifícios. Mas não contem comigo para discutir economia enquanto anistia aos golpistas, golpe no STF e submissão aos Estados Unidos estiverem sendo discutidos na sala ao lado.
Gosto de contas públicas equilibradas, mas
gosto mais de democracia e de soberania nacional. No Jornal
Nacional, Flávio não soube defender nenhum dos três. Quem sabe agora você,
leitor direitista, comece a se preocupar com os outros dois.
FOLHA
Flávio Bolsonaro deu uma nova contribuição à teoria de Darwin. Mostrou-se mais assertivo que o pai ao mentir, distorcer e renegar o que já disse. É a evolução da espécie.
Em entrevista à TV Globo, o candidato do PL fingiu desconhecer os fatos que levaram o capitão à cadeia. Descreveu como “golpe da Disney” a conspiração que destruiu as sedes dos Três Poderes e quase arrastou o país para uma nova ditadura.
O senador ainda chamou de petista o ex-comandante da Aeronáutica que, depois de votar em Jair Bolsonaro, recusou-se a manchar a farda para impedir a alternância de poder.
Questionado sobre o pedido de R$ 134 milhões a Daniel Vorcaro, Flávio descreveu o cambalacho como “relação privada”. “Não tem absolutamente nada de irregular”, recitou. O senador simulou esquecer que exerce cargo público e foi flagrado tomando dinheiro de um especialista em corromper autoridades.
Também fingiu não saber que parte da fortuna do banqueiro, a quem tratava como “irmão”, era subtraída de fundos de previdência geridos por seus aliados. Só o governo do Rio, sob comando do bolsonarista Cláudio Castro, enterrou mais de R$ 3 bilhões em papéis do Master.
Sem corar, Flávio definiu o filme sobre o pai, usado para justificar as transferências de Vorcaro, como uma “obra-prima” do cinema. Para quem já viu o trailer de “Dark Horse”, esta pode ter sido a maior das cascatas da noite.
O Zero Um mentiu com convicção sobre Adriano da Nóbrega. Disse ter condecorado o matador de aluguel com a Medalha Tiradentes porque o considerava um “policial exemplar”, embora estivesse preso por homicídio. Acrescentou que o homenageado teria matado um traficante — na verdade, executou um guardador de carros que havia denunciado outros milicianos.
De volta às ruas, Adriano se tornou o mais notório pistoleiro do Rio. Sua mulher e sua mãe foram empregadas no gabinete de Flávio na Alerj. As duas recebiam sem trabalhar, mostraram as investigações do esquema da rachadinha.
Instado a detalhar planos para a economia, o senador renegou as medidas impopulares que seus coordenadores de campanha têm prometido em jantares com donos de bancos e corretoras. Preferiu se refugiar em promessas vagas como “combater a roubalheira” e reduzir o número de ministérios
Ele também desconversou sobre declarações em que negou o aquecimento global e sustentou que o mundo passaria por um “resfriamento”. Por pouco não sai do estúdio correndo para abraçar uma árvore.
Numa das primeiras propagandas como presidenciável, Flávio usou inteligência artificial para encarnar o aviador de Tom Cruise em “Top Gun”. Na entrevista aos apresentadores do JN, lembrou outro personagem: Pinóquio, o boneco de madeira cujo nariz cresce a cada mentira.
Desde o fim do século XIX, pais leem a história escrita pelo italiano Carlo Collodi para ensinar aos filhos o valor da honestidade. Avesso aos livros, Jair poderia ter recorrido ao filme da Disney para educar o Zero Um e seus irmãos.
GLOBO
Quando você menos espera ela chega
Fazendo do teu coração
O que bem ela fizer
Nem venha querendo você se espantar
Não, não, não, não, não
Com sol e chuva
Você sonhava
Que ia ser melhor depois
Você queria ser o grande herói das estradas
Tudo o que você queria ser
Marcadores: aroeira, cazo, charges, lafa, miguel paiva, mor, nando motta
Amarela paixão, pegou minha mão e disse Que eu era a mais linda canção, dúvida não existe Assim com tempo para respirar Afogo teu sono de manhã, ponho os meus pés nos seus

I was lucky enough to interview Dolly Parton a dozen times, on two continents, and she began nearly every interview with some version of this: “Ask me anything you want to ask me, and I’ll tell you what I want you to hear!”
It was genuinely funny, funnier each time she said it, and she’d punctuate each punchline with a staccato giggle that’d swoop upward in pitch, ending in a glassy register that was uniquely hers.
At the time, I took this to be one of her many crowd-tested Dollyisms. Those words ring differently since I learned of her death on Tuesday, at 80 — less a quip, more a motto. A sentence that encapsulates a life.
There are two somewhat conflicting but both very Dolly ideas neatly juxtaposed in that one phrase.
The first part — “ask me anything” — says: I welcome you, I see you. And she did. Everyone felt at home at a Dolly concert. Men in trucker hats (and sometimes Confederate flags) stood next to men in drag. “Big-haired church ladies” stood next to women holding hands and little girls wearing coats of many colors, everyone shoulder to shoulder, singing “I Will Always Love You.”
It’s no surprise that she was nicknamed St. Dolly. It’s a wonderfully layered term of endearment. A reference to her faith? Yes. An ironic nod to her sometimes raunchy sense of humor? Definitely.
But St. Dolly is also meant earnestly. She did practice a unique brand of radical acceptance. No one would ever be thrown out of the Big Dolly Tent.
The second part — “I’ll tell you what I want you to hear” — points us in a different direction: I am in control here.
I believe this is the part of Dolly people don’t focus on enough. This is a woman who created a several-hundred-million-dollar media empire mining stories of her past. She used humor and charm to control every interview. If a male talk-show host made a joke about her figure, she’d make an even better joke about it. She was always two steps ahead of you. She never allowed herself to be a part of a story of which she was not the author.
My first interview with Dolly (for what would become the nine-part podcast series “Dolly Parton’s America”) happened on Jan. 15, 2018. She steamrolled me by recounting one delightful story after another. I could barely get a question in.
“You asked one question, and I’ve talked for two hours.”
Upward swoop laugh.
The previous night I read her memoir, “Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business,” a compendium of Tennessee Mountain nostalgia from her childhood. In the interview, many of the same stories came out, rapid-fire. The time she was 6 or 7 years old and jumped over a fence, landing on a broken Mason jar that sliced some of her toes almost clean off. (Luckily, her mother sewed them back on.) How in the dead of winter she and many of her siblings would huddle together in one bed, not minding when they peed on one another because it kept them warm. She talked about June bugs and the smell of honeysuckle.
As a scrawny Arab kid growing up in a Southern Baptist universe in Nashville during the Persian Gulf war, I’ve always been suspicious of the Southern propensity to wax nostalgic about better days. Those stories typically have an alienating effect on me. Not so with Dolly. To sit with her was to watch (and then inevitably join) a person so completely inhabiting an earlier time that suddenly the air around you changed, the oxygen molecules shifted polarity. You saw the June bugs she was seeing and smelled the honeysuckle.
At the time, I asked her why she kept returning to those stories. They are my truth, she said. I believed her and yet wondered what was being left out.
The Dolly story I keep coming back to these days has to do with how she got her start.
In 1967, a 21-year-old Dolly Parton arrives on a set in Nashville to fill the role of backup singer for Porter Wagoner, the biggest name in country music television. His TV variety show reached over three million people at its peak. At first, viewers complained about Dolly and resented her for displacing a previous backup singer, Norma Jean.
Before long, though, Dolly was all anyone wanted to see. Long story short: Her relationship with Mr. Wagoner disintegrates. He disparages her in the press and sues her for $3 million when she leaves.
In one of our interviews, I opened my laptop and called up a publicity photo and inelegantly pointed out the obvious: how Mr. Wagoner in his pimp jacket has his arm around her as if he owned her. Her response surprised me.
Well, it’s more complicated than that. I mean, just think about it. He had had this hit show for years. He didn’t need me to have his hit show. He wasn’t expecting me to be all that I was, either. When he hired me as a singer, he was just hiring what he thought was a right pretty little girl. But I was a serious writer. He didn’t know that. I was a serious entertainer. He didn’t know that. He didn’t know how many dreams I had.
There it was again, Dolly’s particular gift, to present two opposing thoughts, juxtaposed.
She said it without judgment. He simply didn’t know. She held his confusion and pain while pointing out that she was separate from him and would not sacrifice her ambition for anyone.
Trailing Dolly around the world, I witnessed so many small moments in which she owned her power without the slightest hint of fight.
On Feb. 17, 2019, I interviewed Dolly in a hotel room in London, moments before the opening night of “9 to 5: The Musical” at the Savoy Theater. The interview wasn’t going well. Members of her entourage moved in and out of the room with an urgency bordering on panic, stirring the air and making it hard to concentrate. Their nerves were understandable. Outside the window, we heard angry chanting and overlapping sirens. A citywide climate protest had brought London to a standstill. As a consequence, Dolly’s manager had formulated an almost military-style minute-by-minute movement sheet for how his team would transport her from the hotel room into a car and down a sequence of carefully mapped back roads to deposit her at the red carpet precisely 14 minutes before the show started, as I recall. The movement sheet had us leaving the hotel at 6:39 p.m.
At precisely 6:39 p.m., her manager — a lovely man but broad-shouldered and quite intimidating — walked into the room, looked me dead in the eye and drew his finger across his neck with such force that I leaped out of my seat. The message was clear. The interview is over. Disappear.
My position in the Dollyverse had always felt tenuous. I could kid myself and say that I’d earned the right to be there because of my decades in journalism. The truth is the only reason I was allowed in the room was nepotism. Many years ago, through a twist of fate, my dad became Dolly’s temporary doctor. Over the years, they became friends, then great friends. (He was with her in her last moments.) So this was a favor to him.
I immediately accepted my dismissal as both inevitable and proper. But Dolly smiled and quietly nodded at me to sit back down. She held up five fingers, as if to say, “We can talk for five more minutes.”
I knew that she didn’t have five more minutes. But she knew that the interview needed something more. A moment of surprise and grace.
As the city erupted outside and her manager turned white and left the room, Dolly sat calmly, determined to enjoy the final moments of our conversation. She would leave only when she was ready. And she did.
THE NEW YORK TIMES

"At 92, Lee Friedlander is a reigning master of street photography. One morning in the spring, I sat in the comfortable kitchen of his shingle-and-stone house in New City, N.Y., and flipped through the pages of “Life Still” (Aperture, 2026), the most recent book of more than 60 he has published. (The title plays off “still life” and “still alive.”) Whenever I asked what made him take a particular picture — what made his shutter click — his answers were consistent. “It’s really funny!” he would say. With the clear implication that I’d have to be dense not to see that.
A book gives Friedlander the opportunity to put pictures together so that they bounce off each other. “Books are my medium,” he said. “I’d rather be in books than on the wall. You can pick them up, put them in your pocket, take them where you want to go.” “Life Still” is composed of spreads of paired photographs that rhyme like couplets. If one picture is funny, the laugh is heightened when two are placed together and share the joke."
read the interview by ARTHUR LUBOW
and see the gallery of photographs

"Whatever its flaws, Nolan’s work indicated that he might indeed be the right person to take on Odysseus, another multifaceted hero characterized at once by admirable cleverness and dark behaviors, and the Odyssey, a text characterized by temporal disjuncts and narrative playfulness. The result, a $250 million, three-hour-long behemoth, the first movie to be shot entirely in the IMAX format, is, like Batman Begins, a darkly psychologizing updating of a classic; like Memento, it toys with themes of memory and forgetting while, like Oppenheimer, it twists a profusion of narrative and temporal arcs. And like the sack of unruly winds that Aeolus, the divine custodian of the winds, entrusts to Odysseus in book 10—only to have it opened by the hero’s suspicious crewmen, with disastrous results—it is in the end a mixed bag: at once a vehicle for the director’s virtues and, as with The Return, a case study of the weaknesses inherent in attempting to modernize a work many of whose values remain, for all its timelessness, stubbornly archaic."
read review by DANIEL MENDELSOHN

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Saw a path, it made no sense
Thought it was an accident
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"Kahn believes that Simon had the musicians’ labor rights in mind. “He wanted to have them participate, he wanted them to be credited and he wanted them to be compensated,” said Kahn, emphatically noting that Simon paid the South African musicians triple the daily rate of musicians in American unions. “Did he do it perfectly? No. But there wasn’t a set formula of how to approach this.” Simon has still faced backlash over the years about Graceland’s songwriting credits from several musicians who appeared on the album, including Los Lobos, Rockin’ Dopsie and the Zydeco Twisters, and even guitarist Ray Phiri, who helped construct the album’s title track. Against charges of cultural appropriation, Graceland advocates have suggested that Simon’s work in South Africa helped bring these bands, such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who round out the starry-eyed Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, to a larger audience."
READ REVIEW BY ETHAN BECK
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read report by JONATHAN WATTS
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In response to allegations of plagiarism, Arday, whose treatment has been described as a “racist feeding frenzy”, admitted “mistakes”, but said he had faced unacceptable cruelty."
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