His miniature woodcut series The Dance of Death is like a “16th-century Charlie Hebdo,” argues a Cambridge historian.
Author: Matthew Westphal
John Milton’s Satan Is A Superhero
Stephen Akey: “My hero is fearless, proud, resolute, farseeing, self-sacrificing, and profoundly engaged in the struggle against tyranny and oppression. He’s also several hundred feet tall (when he wants to be), [and] does celestial cartwheels when flying between the earth and sun.”
Criterion Collection Launches Streaming Service To Show The Good Stuff Netflix Doesn’t
FilmStruck, a joint venture of Criterion and the cable channel Turner Classic movies, will concentrate on foreign and independent features and documentaries as well as titles from the two partners’ libraries. “It won’t be a clearing house; the keyword here is ‘curation,’ with new titles rotated in and out each week.”
Another Arts Journalism Boundary Broken? PR Firm Launches Visual Art Journal
Adam Abdalla, principal of the firm Cultural Counsel and founder of the new online publication, called Affidavit, talks about its content (critical and personal essays rather than news), potential conflicts of interest, and the editorial team.
Where That Strange Katharine Hepburn-Old Hollywood Accent Came From, And The (Very Strict) Woman Who Spread It
“The accent we’re talking about here is among the weirdest ways of speaking in the history of the English language. … Its popularity, though, in pop culture [of its era] can be tied to one American woman, and a very strange set of books.”
Glenda Jackson, At 80, Is About To Do Eight Shows A Week As King Lear
Yes, she was legendary for her hard work and commitment on stage and screen alike, but this is her first public performance in 25 years, and she chose one of the hardest roles in the canon. Is she up to it? See what her director and her Goneril have to say.
Are College Museums Getting Too Big And Active? Are They Hogging Too Much Art?
“Public or private, rural or urban, college museums are tackling ambitious projects like never before, promoting academic curators – who were once part of a sleepier, insular art world – to be lead actors on the cultural stage. But not everyone agrees that school museums should compete with their mainstream counterparts or that students necessarily benefit more from having art of such magnitude as opposed to more modest collections.”
Here’s The Apology Letter From The Guy Who Sprinkled His Friend’s Ashes And Shut Down The Met Opera
Roger Kaiser: “If I had ever thought anything like this could happen, I would never have done it. … No one ever cautioned that I should reconsider or not do it. I think we each just got caught up in the romanticism of it all. The ugly possibilities never occurred to anyone – myself included.”
Two Are Better Than One: How An L.A. Classical Theater Company Makes Double Casting Work
The Antaeus Theatre Company, which concentrates on plays by the likes of Ibsen, Brecht, and Williams (and yes, of course, Shakespeare), sees what it calls “partner casting” as a solution to a regular L.A. theater problem: actors getting called away at short notice for better-paid short-term film and TV gigs. Kevin Delin watches the process in action as Antaeus rehearses Hedda Gabler.
Sendak Estate V. Rosenbach Museum Verdict Isn’t So Simple
The judge’s decision in the case mostly favored Sendak’s executors, but not entirely – and there’s more about the museum-library in the author’s will than we’ve seen in earlier reports. Peter Dobrin digs into the details.