A libertarian legal scholar suggests a “thought experiment in which the concept of law – i.e. rights enforcement – is determined by the marketplace, and not the political process.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Ken Russell’s Final Film – A Musical Alice In Wonderland – To Be Completed
“A raunchy musical version of Alice in Wonderland, which the director had been working on at the time of his death, is expected to be made by the same team who were working with him, incorporating his ideas but with a new director.”
New York City Opera Seeks Mediator For Union Negotiations
“New York City Opera announced on Monday that it was seeking the help of a federal mediator in a deadlock with the unions representing its chorus and orchestra.”
Unknown Portrait Of Jane Austen Surfaces
“Jane Austen scholar Dr Paula Byrne claims to have discovered a lost portrait of the author which, far from depicting a grumpy spinster, shows a writer at the height of her powers and a woman comfortable in her own skin.”
Brit Journalist Gets Waterboarded In New York Theater Piece
“My wrists are tied, I’m in total darkness and a man very close to my face is shouting: ‘Get on your knees, bitch!’ I do what he says. It’s when he puts a cold, wet hood over my head, tips my head back and pours water into my face that I start hyperventilating.” (She paid $60 for her ticket.)
Turner Prize 2011 To Sculptor Martin Boyce
“With his quietly atmospheric, lyrically autumnal sculptural installation recalling a melancholy urban park with its metallic trees and scattered paper leaves, Martin Boyce has been announced as the winner of the £25,000 Turner prize.”
Paris’s Newest Public Artwork: A Mind-Bending Miniature Garden
“When you stare down at it from the steps of the City Hall in Paris, [François] Abelanet’s carefully designed garden resembles a terrestrial globe. It’s a nearly perfect sphere, with neat lines marking latitude and longitude … But move a little and its appearance changes. From any other angle, it’s an irregular crazy-quilt of shapes – a weirdly configured, Alice-In-Wonderland world.”
Twitter Is Good For Literacy, Says Margaret Atwood
“A lot of people on Twitter are dedicated readers. Twitter is like all of the other short forms that preceded it. It’s like the telegram. It’s like the smoke signal. … There is a guy out there who is writing 140-character short stories – I just followed him today … It’s sort of like haikus [and] prose,” Atwood said.
MoveTube: A Young Gelsey Kirkland Makes Giselle Her Own
Luke Jennings’s video series at the Guardian‘s website looks at one of America’s legendary ballerinas in one of her great roles.
Two Virginia History Museums Try, Tentatively, To Change Their Approach To The US Civil War
“In an institution whose approach to memory is based on relics of a Lost Cause, how is such a new vision to take shape? How are loyalties to Southern culture to be reconciled with the evils of one of its fundamental institutions?”