“The project to seek Cervantes’ bones, which lie buried somewhere in the walls or floors of a convent in central Madrid, would allow forensic archaeologists to reconstruct the face of a man only known from a picture painted by artist Juan de Jauregui some 20 years after his death.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Maintaining Monet’s Gardens For Half A Million Visitors A Year
Giverny head gardener James Priest: “Monet’s garden would not have had concrete paths, for instance. But they are a necessity today. You have to meander between the purist line and the practical one. Take the irises. They are all over his paintings. But look at them now. They are nubs. So, you need other flowers blooming to keep that Impressionist feeling along those paths.”
Listen To William Faulkner Teach And Lecture
“William Faulkner arrived at the University of Virginia’s Charlottesville campus in 1957 and served two terms as UVa’s first writer-in-residence. Many of his classes, readings, addresses, and Q&A sessions were recorded, and a treasure trove – 28 hours of tape – survived. Every invaluable minute is now available online.”
Merce Cunningham, Optimized For iPad
2wice “is a reimagining and reconfiguration of a print project in which choreography legend Merce Cunningham created a series of dance events that were recorded by some of the most talented dance photographers in the field.”
Site-Specific Interactive Theater Meets Wall Street Finance
“Call it an alternate-reality game played in primary reality. Call it avant-garde performance art. Call it whatever you want. … Red Cloud Rising is theater outside the theater. It unfolds like real life, especially in the way we deal with people these days, not just in person but through phone calls, texts and e-mails.”
Transfers To West End From UK Regional Theatre Have ‘Dried Up’, Says Alan Ayckbourn
“They used to look for their sources from Scarborough and from Willy Russell in Liverpool and so on and so on, and West End producers would zoom up the motorway and have a look at a new play in Sheffield or Leeds or Manchester or wherever. … But, normally speaking, that ready source of plays [in the regions] has dried up.”
Bayreuth Finds New Director For Wagner Bicentennial Ring
‘Film director Wim Wenders had been an inspired choice to guide that production, but contract talks broke down, partially over Wenders’ desire to produce a 3-D movie of the operas at the same time.” The new choice is Frank Castorf, longtime director of Berlin’s Volksbühne theater and a man known for stagings that are radical even by modern German standards.
Filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba The Greek) Dead At 90
“[He] was the first Greek film-maker to achieve international renown,” and he brought international exposure to great Greek actors such as Irene Papas and Melina Mercouri.
Scotland’s Oldest Theatre Saved
“Scotland’s oldest working theatre, the Theatre Royal in Dumfries built in 1792, has been saved from closure with support from the local charitable Holywood Trust.”
Is Richard Neutra House In L.A. About To Be Torn Down?
“The Kronish House, one of a handful of Beverly Hills residences designed by Modernist architect Richard Neutra, appears headed for demolition.”