“Last week a federal judge ordered Russian-born, Florida-based billionaire Igor Olenicoff to pay sculptor John Raimondi $640,000 for having unauthorized copies of his work made in China and installed at his development sites. However, US District Judge Andrew Guilford denied the artist’s request that the fakes be scrapped.” (They get labels instead.)
Author: Matthew Westphal
‘King Lear’ With A Cast Of One Man And Nine Sheep (Yes, Seriously)
Says director Heather Williams, “I wanted to use the idea of non-cooperative actors to explore the themes of King Lear itself. Because Cordelia’s an actor who refuses to act.”
Uggie, Co-Star Of Oscar-Winner ‘The Artist’, Dead At 13
“There was Toto and there was Rin Tin Tin – there was Lassie and there was Benji – but perhaps no dog in recent memory had as much impact on the history of motion pictures as Uggie.”
Philosophers Jürgen Habermas And Charles Taylor To Share $1.5 Million Prize
The John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, “inaugurated in 2003 and awarded by the Library of Congress, is intended to recognize work in disciplines not covered by the Nobel prizes. Mr. Habermas, 86, is widely recognized as one of the most important German thinkers of the past half century, a defender of the Enlightenment tradition … Mr. Taylor, 83, is the author of several influential books questioning individualism and examining the enduring religious underpinnings of morality in the modern world.”
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The Strike Is On At UK’s National Gallery
“About 200 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union began the ongoing industrial action on Tuesday. … The industrial action follows privatisation plans which the gallery said would enable it to introduce a new roster to ‘operate more flexibly and deliver an enhanced service’.”
Why This Movie Now? Planning Release Dates
“Behind every release date is a carefully calibrated, often agonized selection process that one distributor described as ‘a lot of logical thought and pure unicorn dust.'”
Bring In ‘Da Noise: We Don’t Need Theatres To Be Like Hushed Churches, Says Guardian Critic
Lyn Gardner: “Maybe – and I am just saying maybe – as people communicate differently and engage differently with the world around them, theatre may have to adapt, and not just fall back on conventions.” Exhibit A: the Edinburgh Fringe.
Unknown Tolkien Story Headed To Bookshelves
“There’s a new fantasy story from J.R.R. Tolkien set to be published later this fall: the author’s estate will be releasing The Story of Kullervo” in October, one of his earliest prose works that would eventually lead him to Middle Earth.”
What Matters Isn’t What Happened – It’s The Stories We Tell Ourselves About What Happened That Make Us Who We Are
“Though perhaps the facts of someone’s life, presented end to end, wouldn’t much resemble a narrative to the outside observer, the way people choose to tell the stories of their lives, to others and – crucially – to themselves, almost always does have a narrative arc. In telling the story of how you became who you are, and of who you’re on your way to becoming, the story itself becomes a part of who you are.”