“As long as I’m alive, I constantly check my ballets: Do I still feel a part of myself in this work? And does it move me?”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Badger Archaeology: Animal Reveals Bronze Age Burial Ground Near Stonehenge
“Objects found in a burial mound at Netheravon, Wiltshire, include a bronze saw, an archer’s wrist guard, a copper chisel and cremated human remains.” (includes video)
Putin Doesn’t Need To Censor Books – Publishers Do It For Him
Masha Gessen: “Several [Russian] publishers have inquired about buying the rights to [my] biography of Putin that has done very well in another 20 or so languages, but each time, negotiations have ended with a vague, ‘Well, you must understand,’ often followed by an even vaguer ‘Maybe some day.'”
Belarus Free Theatre Shows Londoners What It’s Like To See Plays Under A Dictatorship
The company’s “Staging a Revolution” festival aimed to “introduce British audiences to some of the conditions their compatriots have to endure in order to see shows in Belarus. To achieve this, [the program] was divided into two weeks: during the first seven days, audiences attended shows held in secret, and in the second installment, got the chance to experience shows in a public venue in freer circumstances.”
Winter Depression And Mental Sluggishness May Not Be Real Things: Researchers
“A pair of new studies” – one of them quite large – “challenge many of the popular assumptions about the psychological effects of wintertime, suggesting that we should look at the season in a new, brighter light.”
‘He’s The Frilled Lizard Of Politics’ – Why Donald Trump Is A Conundrum For Comedians
“Mr. Trump is now a serious candidate – often a self-serious, angry one – with a serious chance. But stylistically, he works in the mode and rhythms of a stand-up. He riffs. He goads. He works blue. … Satire exposes candidates’ contradictions and absurdities. But Mr. Trump blows past those, while his supporters cheer.”
Get Inside Bosch’s ‘Garden Of Earthly Delights’ Via Virtual Reality App
“The triptych from the turn of the 16th century is too precious and fragile to leave its home, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, but now, thanks to a virtual reality experience, anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Android can ride a giant fish through the three panels of the Dutch artist’s strange world.”
These Aren’t Really Bosches? Then Send Them Back, We Cancel Our Loan, Says Prado
“The Prado museum in Madrid has rescinded the loan of two works to a major retrospective of Hieronymus Bosch [in the painter’s hometown] after researchers downgraded the attribution of the paintings to Bosch’s workshop or followers rather than to the 16th-century Dutch master himself.”
Sarasota Ballet Fires Its Managing Director
“On Tuesday the Sarasota Ballet board voted to ‘release’ [Mary Ann] Servian, who reported to Webb, after growing conflict between the two over fiscal, territorial and staff relations issues.” Servian is a former mayor of Sarasota.
BBC Considers Scrapping Channels Altogether
“Senior executives are understood to want a ‘content-first approach’ more similar to output from BBC children’s and sport divisions, rather than one based on how and where people watch or listen. While the BBC is dedicated to keeping its channels and stations on the air, executives believe that rapid changes in the way people consume BBC content means a new structure would be more appropriate as well as save money.”