“In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches, raised by the tribe, and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years later she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and reunited with her white family.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
San Francisco Museum Sued By Former Curator
“A bit more turmoil has come to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Earlier this week a former curator”- Lynn Orr, who worked there for 29 years – “sued the institution saying she was wrongfully fired because she was a union supporter and whistleblower.”
Filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz: ‘I’m Not Proud To Be French Anymore’
The director of La Haine last year tweeted, “Bugger French cinema. Go f*** yourself with your shi**y films,” and has moved to L.A. He says it’s not because his latest movie got snubbed for César nominations.
Take Two Music For Airports And Call In The Morning: Surgeon Recommends Brian Eno to Patients
Inspired by the calming effect an Eno installation had on his utterly wired mother-in-law, orthopedic surgeon Robin Turner approached the ambient music pioneer to help create a special room at the new Montefiore Hospital on England’s south coast.
The American Radio Host Who Tells Russia How Bad Things Are in America
“Soviet-era beacons like Radio Liberty and the BBC have lost their place on Russian airwaves, and now the Kremlin is offering a fresher voice: Tim Kirby, an expatriate from the suburbs of Cleveland, who says he wants Russian citizenship and says Joseph Stalin was a better leader than he has been portrayed in history books.”
Too Many British Theatres Run By ‘Oxbridge Tossers’, Says Director
Director Mike Bradwell has criticised the ‘predominance of Oxbridge tossers’ running venues in the theatre industry, claiming the sector has been ‘annexed entirely by the middle class’ … [and] is dominated by ‘half a dozen floppy haired men’ who have no real understanding of acting.”
Half A Million’s Worth Of Rhino Heads Stolen From Ireland’s National Museum
Three masked men broke into the National Museum Archives building in north Dublin and stole four stuffed rhino heads. The heads’ horns, eight in total, are worth an estimated half a million euros on the black market, where they would be bought and used for traditional Asian medicine.
Camp As A Reason To Live (As Oscar Wilde Lived Up To His Blue China)
“From a camp point of view, the choice between living for – what, honor? work? family? – and some exquisite dabs of paint on porcelain – i.e., a nuance – is actually quite arbitrary. Honor and lovely china are, in fact, fundamentally equal reasons to go on. … And finding a way to live in the world is never silly.”
L.A. MoCA Raises $50 Million For Endowment In A Month
“Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday that they have raised more than $50 million since the middle of March for the museum’s endowment. A larger endowment is widely seen as the first step to turning around the troubled institution.”
‘I Don’t Really Call Myself A Composer,’ Says New Pulitzer Prize Winner For Music
Caroline Shaw: “Just last week, someone was like, ‘I didn’t know you write music’.” The 30-year-old composer (yes) talks about how she created her prize-winning score, Partita for Eight Voices.