Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves announced that his church’s intellectual property case against Warner Bros. and Netflix for copying the organization’s iconic statue of goat-headed deity Baphomet for the set of the series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has been “amicably settled.”
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Andy Blankenbuehler Replaces Wayne McGregor As Choreographer For Movie Version Of ‘Cats’
Blankenbuehler, who won a Tony and an Olivier Award for his work on Hamilton, steps in for contemporary ballet choreographer McGregor, who withdrew because of scheduling conflicts with a work he’s creating for the Royal Ballet in London.
Peeling Back The Paint (Virtually) On Brueghel’s Paintings
“What would happen if you peeled back the layers of a masterpiece by one of art history’s greatest painters? Dead bodies might suddenly appear. Take, for example, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s large-scale festival scene, The Battle Between Carnival and Lent.”
‘It Was A Suicide Mission, And I Understood That’ — Aaron Sorkin Writes About Adapting ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ For Broadway
Sorkin describes how he approached the challenges of translating one of America’s most beloved novels into a different medium in a different century (the world has changed a lot since Mockingbird was written) and how the production’s team handled the lawsuit from Lee estate executor Tonja Carter.
Author Of Memoir About Escaping Gang Life Shot Dead After Book Launch
“[Nedim] Yasar, who was born in Turkey and arrived in Denmark at the age of four, had led the Copenhagen-based criminal gang Los Guerreros – a notorious gang with links to the drugs trade, according to police. He quit the gang in 2012” and had just published a book titled Roots: A Gangster’s Way Out. He was shot as he was leaving a launch party at a Copenhagen bookstore.
James Billington, Longtime Chief Of Library Of Congress, Dead At 89
An admired historian — his 1966 book The Icon and the Axe is perhaps the most admired book on Russian culture ever published in English — he was appointed Librarian of Congress by Ronald Reagan and remained in the post for 28 years, expanding the institution and prodigiously raising funds, though he retired amid heavy criticism in 2015.
Increasing Censorship Causing Worries For China’s Booming Art Market
Said one dealer who insisted on anonymity, “The last few years have not shown an opening in attitudes, but almost the opposite. … Every year, we have a few works rejected, but it is getting [to be] more and more — it makes me feel uncomfortable.”
EU Set To Double Its Culture Spending
“European politicians have added an extra billion Euros to the EU’s proposed culture budget for its next funding round, meaning that the current allocation would double from 2021. … The new position would take funding for the Creative Europe programme from the €1.4bn currently available to €2.8bn for the years 2021-27.”
Arts Columnist For Britain’s Daily Telegraph Found Dead At Age 33
Florence Waters had been reported missing last Monday; her body was discovered outdoors on Thursday evening. An artist in her own right, Waters had contributed articles to the Telegraph on books and film as well as visual arts, and she was previously the paper’s online arts editor.
Rethinking Plagiarism (Or At Least How We Think About It)
“I recognize that when students plagiarize they often do so not because they have some nefarious agenda but because they feel enormous pressure to succeed or are confused, uncertain, forgetful, exhausted, or pressed for time. But I am optimistic that at least some students walked away from the class feeling empowered as scholars and thinkers, that they began to see citation as a means of bringing different voices to bear on critical conversations from which they’ve been consciously or unconsciously excluded, and that they carried this knowledge to other classes and spaces where the representation of voices is not always equitable or even. Most simply, I wanted them to leave as active participants in an ongoing conversation about plagiarism and citation rather than as passive onlookers.”